v1.26.9

What's Changed

• Add MkDocs Material docs site for myvector.online by @askdba in #102
• fix(component): complete install/uninstall SQL + CI lifecycle verification by @askdba in #105
• Add MySQL 26.7 Innovation support + component Docker publishing pipeline by @askdba in #104
• fix(component): keep component intact when UNINSTALL is refused (ERROR 3538) by @askdba in #107
• docs(release): prepare v1.26.9-rc1 by @askdba in #106
• docs(release): record v1.26.9-rc1 results by @askdba in #108
• fix(hnsw): honour type=hnsw comments and stop HNSW index builds crashing mysqld by @askdba in #117
• fix(scripts): remove test containers with -v to stop leaking Docker volumes by @askdba in #120
• test(lifecycle): make 3.3 prove the persisted index is reloaded from disk by @askdba in #121
• ci(release): dispatch the Docker publish from the release workflow by @askdba in #122
• fix(bench): configure the plugin and fail loudly when the index build fails by @askdba in #123
• ci: run the pre-release gate on PRs and main (non-blocking) by @askdba in #125
• fix(component): make the deinit rollback exact and cover the binlog-stop failure by @askdba in #126
• docs(release): prepare v1.26.9-rc2 by @askdba in #127
• docs(release): record v1.26.9-rc2 results by @askdba in #128
• fix(scripts): repair the stress, Stanford smoke and online-updates test scripts by @askdba in #129
• docs: add a Known limitations page by @askdba in #134
• fix(scripts): build-docker-local.sh targets arm64 on Linux aarch64 by @askdba in #135
• docs(release): prepare v1.26.9-rc3 by @askdba in #136
• fix(hnsw): surface index save/checkpoint failures instead of losing them silently by @askdba in #139
• docs(release): prepare v1.26.9 final release by @askdba in #140

Full Changelog: v1.26.5.2...v1.26.9