Bump version for the release

Author: fossfreedom

NEWS

@@ -1,3 +1,44 @@
+Version 1.9.0
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Released: 2025-02-10
+
+Notes:
+ * Stepping Stone
+
+Features:
+Primarily this release is a preparation for the v10.10.x release of budgie-desktop on wayland.
+
+The following updates for this release applies to both X11 and wayland desktops
+
+1. Latest translations thanks to our fantastic translation team
+2. Applications-menu supports displaying some terminal based apps such as htop via a applet settings options - thanks to  Sarah Leibbrand https://github.com/Azania
+
+The following updates applies to the X11 applets:
+
+1.  Fix crash in budgie-weather applet due to invalid icons sent via openweather
+2.  Make Showtime correctly display on all monitors - thanks to Danny  Trunk https://github.com/dtrunk90
+3.  Weathershow no longer includes hard-coded runtime and compile paths
+
+The following applets are available (via a meson_option) to be run on wayland:
+
+ - budgie-applauncher
+ - budgie-brightness-controller
+ - budgie-applications-menu
+ - budgie-clockworks
+ - budgie-fuzzy-clock
+ - budgie-kangaroo
+ - budgie-network-manager
+ - budgie-quicknote
+ - budgie-recently-used
+ - budgie-wallstreet
+
+More details here: https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/budgie-extras/issues/474
+
+Other third-party applets that we (at the time of this release) recognise can be made wayland compatible 
+
+ - budgie-indicator-applet
+ - https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/budgie-extras/issues/476
+ 
 Version 1.8.0
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Released: 2024-02-08

meson.build

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project('budgie-extras',
 	['vala', 'c'],
-	version: '1.8.0',
+	version: '1.9.0',
 	meson_version: '>= 0.40.0'
 )
 

mkrelease.sh

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ set -e
 git submodule init
 git submodule update
 
-VERSION="1.8.0"
+VERSION="1.9.0"
 NAME="budgie-extras"
 git-archive-all.sh --format tar --prefix ${NAME}-${VERSION}/ --verbose -t HEAD ${NAME}-${VERSION}.tar
 xz -9 "${NAME}-${VERSION}.tar"