doc: Bump version 8 > 9

[ryanofsky]

Increase version number after bitcoin core update bitcoin/bitcoin#34422. Also update version history and documentation.

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• "requiring clients to explicitly" -> "requiring clients to explicitly include overloads needed for C++ ↔️ Cap'n Proto type conversions." [the added line is an incomplete sentence fragment and lacks the continuation that makes its meaning clear]
• "installing cmake package files so clients do not" -> "installing cmake package files so clients do not need to use pkgconfig." [the added line is an incomplete sentence fragment and omits the final clause that completes the thought]
• "now requiring include and" -> "now requiring include and includeTypes annotations." [the added line is an incomplete sentence fragment and misses the second item completing the requirement]

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[ryanofsky]

Updated 70ebe77 -> 060464c (pr/v9.1 -> pr/v9.2, compare) adding v7.0 note about introducing version.h

Updated 060464c -> 90bc323 (pr/v9.2 -> pr/v9.3, compare) with more tweaks

Updated 90bc323 -> afa3c91 (pr/v9.3 -> pr/v9.4, compare) with more tweaks

Updated afa3c91 -> b1638ac (pr/v9.4 -> pr/v9.5, compare) with more tweaks

[Sjors]

Maybe use this: v7.0...v8.0

[ryanofsky]

re: v0.0...v8.0

Maybe use this: v7.0...v8.0

It's a good idea and I actually had that initially, but the problem is when there are a lot of commits between versions, github shows the older commits and cuts off the newer ones so you can't see latest changes in the tag. The current links make it a lot easier to find the date and PR number of the most recent change in the tag, which is the thing you usually need to check compatibility.

[Sjors]

ACK b1638ac

I didn't study the older version changes.