Initialize the release process

kakkoyun · kakkoyun · commit c7bbfa4f852b · 2025-03-07T14:56:16.000+01:00
Signed-off-by: Kemal Akkoyun &lt;kemal.akkoyun@datadoghq.com&gt;
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 ## Unreleased
 
+## 1.22.0 / 2025-03-05
+
+TBD
+
 ## 1.21.1 / 2025-03-04
 
 * [BUGFIX] prometheus: Revert of `Inc`, `Add` and `Observe` cumulative metric CAS optimizations (#1661), causing regressions on low contention cases.
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.21.1
+1.22.0-rc.0
