From 31a06101ef832bac32968df5e94607a51630b895 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Manfred Riem <15701806+mnriem@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 17:53:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] chore: release 0.8.9, begin 0.8.10.dev0 development (#2532)

* chore: bump version to 0.8.9

* chore: begin 0.8.10.dev0 development

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 CHANGELOG.md   | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 pyproject.toml |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8756ff244..eb7c3e84f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,23 @@
 
 <!-- insert new changelog below this comment -->
 
+## [0.8.9] - 2026-05-12
+
+### Changed
+
+- docs: revamp landing page with four-pillar card layout (#2531)
+- feat(extensions): update governance ecosystem extensions to latest versions (#2514)
+- Add changelog extension (#2177)
+- Add install directory to docfx.json file references (#2522)
+- feat(catalog): add BrownKit (brownkit) community extension (#2510) (#2520)
+- fix(kiro-cli): replace literal $ARGUMENTS with prose fallback (#2482)
+- Preset: Add game-narrative-writing  preset to community catalog (#2454)
+- docs: clarify CLI upgrade discovery (#2519)
+- fix: make template metadata line breaks markdownlint-safe (#2505)
+- refactor(catalogs): extract integration catalog config loading (#2497)
+- test(presets): silence expected UserWarnings in self-test composition… (#2373)
+- chore: release 0.8.8, begin 0.8.9.dev0 development (#2516)
+
 ## [0.8.8] - 2026-05-11
 
 ### Changed
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 13be17cd7..92735f3e9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "specify-cli"
-version = "0.8.9.dev0"
+version = "0.8.10.dev0"
 description = "Specify CLI, part of GitHub Spec Kit. A tool to bootstrap your projects for Spec-Driven Development (SDD)."
 requires-python = ">=3.11"
 dependencies = [