1.9.0

What's Changed

• Add instructions for Maintainers to create/publish a release by @ericwb in #1275
• Bump sigstore/cosign-installer from 3.9.1 to 3.9.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #1289
• Bump docker/login-action from 3.4.0 to 3.5.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1290
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1291
• Bump actions/checkout from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in #1292
• Replace deprecated datetime.datetime.utcnow() by @purplezimmermann in #1295
• Bump actions/setup-python from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in #1296
• Bump sigstore/cosign-installer from 3.9.2 to 3.10.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1298
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1303
• Fix typos by @Shortfinga in #1305
• Bump docker/login-action from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1306
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1315
• Bump sigstore/cosign-installer from 3.10.0 to 4.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1317
• Support of Python 3.14 by @ericwb in #1323
• Drop support of end-of-life Python 3.9 by @ericwb in #1325
• [pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci[bot] in #1324

New Contributors

• @purplezimmermann made their first contribution in #1295
• @Shortfinga made their first contribution in #1305

Full Changelog: 1.8.6...1.9.0