Notable changes in version 8:

• associate contact URIs with notifications to fix starred contacts bypassing Do Not Disturb
• respect “Incoming messages” notification settings when creating notification channels for conversations
• prevent conversation deleted toast spam
• update Guava library to 33.4.8
• update AndroidX RecyclerView library to 1.4.0
• update Android Gradle plugin to 8.10.1
• update Gradle to 8.14.1
• update Kotlin to 2.1.21
• update Android build tools to 36.0.0
• migrate to AndroidX Nullable annotations

A full list of changes from the previous release (version 8) is available through the Git commit log between the releases.