chore: release 0.9.8

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🚀 Release ${version}

0.9.8 (2026-07-19)

Features

• controller: add InferenceService hardware-labels info metric (#1121) (#1160) (039adaa)
• controller: add llamacpp-router runtime for multi-model serving (#1152) (fae5983)
• controller: explicit vllm serve entrypoint for image-agnostic vLLM (#1164) (#1165) (3eeb580)
• controller: pass staged model directory to vLLM/SGLang for multi-file models (#1157) (#1159) (a24fa94)
• controller: ROCm/HIP runtime tier for AMD nodes (#701) (#1154) (3704d47)
• finalize: gate foreman-finalize on the Foreman verify verdict (#1150) (#1153) (5c7b2cd)
• foreman: in-executor envtest gate feedback loop (#768) (#1135) (074544a)
• foreman: provider-neutral CodeHost/WorkItems/ChangePolicy seams (#1158) (#1161) (d3a8ad6)
• observability: per-InferenceService SLO declaration via Pyrra (#415) (#1149) (4ae022c)

Bug Fixes

• bump boilerplate copyright year 2025 -> 2026 (#1162) (#1163) (30dfaf2)

Documentation

• document strict-taint model caches (#1132) (9250996)

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