From 7191329a9f5100d220a3770733fd8d9cc66f532a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: link2xt <link2xt@testrun.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:49:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(release): prepare for 1.9.0

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 CHANGELOG.md | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 # Changelog for chatmail deployment 
 
+## 1.9.0 2025-12-18
+
+### Documentation
+
+- Add RELEASE.md and CONTRIBUTING.md
+- README update, mention Chatmail Cookbook project
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+- Expire messages also from IMAP subfolders
+- Use absolute path instead of relative path in message expiration script
+- Restart Postfix and Dovecot automatically on failure
+- acmetool: Use a fixed name and `reconcile` instead of `want`
+
+### Features
+
+- Report DKIM error code in SMTP response
+- Remove development notice from the web pages
+
+### Miscellaneous Tasks
+
+- Update the heading in the CHANGELOG.md
+- Setup git-cliff
+- Run tests against ci-chatmail.testrun.org instead of nine.testrun.org
+- Cleanup remaining echobot code, remove echobot user from deployment and passthrough recipients
+
 ## 1.8.0 2025-12-12
 
 - Add imap_compress option to chatmail.ini