diff --git a/openedx/core/release.py b/openedx/core/release.py
index ce30df8cc543..78d5ae0904c5 100644
--- a/openedx/core/release.py
+++ b/openedx/core/release.py
@@ -2,13 +2,12 @@
 Information about the release line of this Open edX code.
 """
 
-
 import unittest
 
 # The release line: an Open edX release name ("ficus"), or "master".
 # This should always be "master" on the master branch, and will be changed
 # manually when we start release-line branches, like open-release/ficus.master.
-RELEASE_LINE = "master"
+RELEASE_LINE = "verawood"
 
 
 def doc_version():
diff --git a/requirements/edx-sandbox/releases/verawood.txt b/requirements/edx-sandbox/releases/verawood.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d3582beab566
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements/edx-sandbox/releases/verawood.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+#
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.12
+# by the following command:
+#
+#    make upgrade
+#
+cffi==2.0.0
+    # via cryptography
+chem==2.0.0
+    # via -r requirements/edx-sandbox/base.in
+click==8.3.3
+    # via nltk
+codejail-includes==2.0.0
+    # via -r requirements/edx-sandbox/base.in
+contourpy==1.3.3
+    # via matplotlib
+cryptography==47.0.0
+    # via -r requirements/edx-sandbox/base.in
+cycler==0.12.1
+    # via matplotlib
+fonttools==4.62.1
+    # via matplotlib
+joblib==1.5.3
+    # via nltk
+kiwisolver==1.5.0
+    # via matplotlib
+lxml[html-clean]==5.3.2
+    # via
+    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
+    #   -r requirements/edx-sandbox/base.in
+    #   lxml-html-clean
+    #   openedx-calc
+lxml-html-clean==0.4.4
+    # via lxml
+markupsafe==3.0.3
+    # via
+    #   chem
+    #   openedx-calc
+matplotlib==3.10.9
+    # via -r requirements/edx-sandbox/base.in
+mpmath==1.3.0
+    # via sympy
+networkx==3.6.1
+    # via -r requirements/edx-sandbox/base.in
+nltk==3.9.4
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/edx-sandbox/base.in
+    #   chem
+numpy==1.26.4
+    # via
+    #   -c requirements/constraints.txt
+    #   chem
+    #   contourpy
+    #   matplotlib
+    #   openedx-calc
+    #   scipy
+openedx-calc==5.0.0
+    # via -r requirements/edx-sandbox/base.in
+packaging==26.2
+    # via matplotlib
+pillow==12.2.0
+    # via matplotlib
+pycparser==3.0
+    # via cffi
+pyparsing==3.3.2
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/edx-sandbox/base.in
+    #   chem
+    #   matplotlib
+    #   openedx-calc
+python-dateutil==2.9.0.post0
+    # via matplotlib
+random2==1.0.2
+    # via -r requirements/edx-sandbox/base.in
+regex==2026.4.4
+    # via nltk
+scipy==1.17.1
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/edx-sandbox/base.in
+    #   chem
+six==1.17.0
+    # via python-dateutil
+sympy==1.14.0
+    # via
+    #   -r requirements/edx-sandbox/base.in
+    #   openedx-calc
+tqdm==4.67.3
+    # via nltk