Getting ready for release 2.2.9

Author: FrancescAlted

ANNOUNCE.rst

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-Announcing Python-Blosc2 2.2.8
+Announcing Python-Blosc2 2.2.9
 ==============================
 
-This is a maintenance release, where we are providing binary wheels
-for Python 3.12 (yay!).  We have also upgraded to latest C-Blosc2 2.10.4.
+This is a maintenance release, where we are introducing support for
+Python 3.8 and adding support for specifying (plugable) tuner parameters
+in cparams.  There have been some minor fixes too.
 
 For more info, you can have a look at the release notes in:
 

RELEASE_NOTES.md

@@ -2,7 +2,15 @@
 
 ## Changes from 2.2.8 to 2.2.9
 
-XXX version-specific blurb XXX
+* Support for specifying (plugable) tuner parameters in cparams. Thanks to
+  Marta Iborra.
+
+* Re-add support for Python 3.8.  Although we don't provide wheels for it,
+  support for is there.
+
+* Avoid duplicate iteration over the same dict.  Thanks to Dimitri Papadopoulos.
+
+* Fix different issues with f-strings. Thanks to Dimitri Papadopoulos.
 
 ## Changes from 2.2.7 to 2.2.8
 

VERSION

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.2.9.dev0
+2.2.9

pyproject.toml

@@ -25,12 +25,13 @@ classifiers = [
     "Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows",
     "Operating System :: Unix",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
 ]
-requires-python = ">=3.9, <4"
+requires-python = ">=3.8, <4"
 dependencies = [
     "numpy>=1.20.3",
     "ndindex>=1.4",