Merge pull request #289 from scrapy/relnotes-1.9.0

Release notes for 1.9.0.

Author: wRAR

NEWS

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+1.9.0 (YYYY-MM-DD)
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+
+* Now requires ``cssselect >= 1.2.0`` (this minimum version was required since
+  1.8.0 but that wasn't properly recorded)
+* Removed support for Python 3.7
+* Added support for Python 3.12 and PyPy 3.10
+* Fixed an exception when calling ``__str__`` or `__repr__`` on some JSON
+  selectors
+* Code formatted with ``black``
+* CI fixes and improvements
+
 1.8.1 (2023-04-18)
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