v9.8.0

9.8.0 (2026-08-07)

Features

• dream: STEP 9 cross-repo promotion candidates (#3296) (b6e6524)

Bug Fixes

• hooks: read the permission mode key CC actually sends (#3294) (6b14358)
• pre-push: replace mapfile so the hook runs on macOS bash 3.2 (#3287) (5c98332)
• release: let release-please own the lockfile version (#3293) (e9c217d)
• repair two reported bugs and make 26 blind security tests able to fail (#3288) (1f4cf61)
• security: close the interpreter-pipe path bypass (#3292) (a64613c)
• security: close the line-continuation bypass of the command blocker (#3289) (9839bf8)
• verify: stop waiting forever on a background task that never ran (#3297) (6fd73ff)

Miscellaneous

• cc: adopt 2.1.221 and 2.1.222, bump cc-support latest_known (#3284) (a28e2b3)
• community: add code of conduct and user-facing issue templates (#3300) (e0edf17)