VOL-3978 - update to go 1.16.3

Change-Id: I3bc24ba662517badac4ddb238930550624c408a6
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 1817afe..c8e38b6 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.8.2
+2.9.0