Release 2.9

I don't believe I can "merge" tags with you. You're going to have to delete the old 2.8 and 2.9 tags, and tag these releases on these two branches.

It's not the prettiest, but I think it's the only solution.

To delete the tags from the command line:

git push origin :2.9
git push origin :2.8

You're going to want to tag the two commits at the end of the branches I created to 2.8 and 2.9 respectively. I've tested this, and it works.