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+## 1.9.0 (Unreleased)
+
+BREAKING CHANGES:
+
+* heartbeats: clients older than 1.6.0 will fail heartbeats to 1.9.0+ servers [[GH-23838](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/23838)]
+* jobspec: Removed support for HCLv1 [[GH-23912](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/23912)]
+* services: Clients older than 1.5.0 will fail to read Nomad native services via template blocks [[GH-23910](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/23910)]
+* tls: Removed deprecated `tls.prefer_server_cipher_suites` field from agent configuration [[GH-23712](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/23712)]
+
+IMPROVEMENTS:
+
+* cli: Added redaction options to operator snapshot commands [[GH-24023](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24023)]
+* cli: Increase default log level and duration when capturing logs with `operator debug` [[GH-23850](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/23850)]
+* deps: Upgraded yamux to v0.1.2 to fix a bug where RPC connections could deadlock [[GH-24058](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24058)]
+* docker: Use official docker SDK instead of a 3rd party client [[GH-23966](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/23966)]
+* identity: Added filepath parameter to identity block for persisting workload identities [[GH-24038](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24038)]
+* keyring: Stored wrapped data encryption keys in Raft [[GH-23977](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/23977)]
+* networking: Added an option to ignore static port collisions when scheduling, for programs that use the SO_REUSEPORT unix socket option [[GH-23956](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/23956)]
+* networking: IPv6 can now be enabled on the Nomad bridge network mode [[GH-23882](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/23882)]
+* quotas (Enterprise): Added the possibility to set device count limits [[GH-23894](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/23894)]
+* raft: Bump raft to v1.7.1 which includes pre-vote. This should make servers more stable after network partitions [[GH-24029](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24029)]
+
+BUG FIXES:
+
+* cli: Fixed a bug in job status command where -t would act as though -json was also set [[GH-24054](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24054)]
+* task: adds node.pool attribute to interpretable values in task env [[GH-24052](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24052)]
+* template: Fixed a panic on client restart when using change_mode=script [[GH-24057](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24057)]
+
 ## 1.8.4 (September 17, 2024)
 
 BREAKING CHANGES: