Bump version to 2.9.0

* Bump version to 2.9.0

* Remove second blob-store-stats change

* Fix running tests on release versions

AUTHORS

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ DJRickyB
 Domenico Andreoli
 Evgenia Badiyanova
 Evgenia Badyanova
+Gareth Ellis
 Gavin Fowler
 gdmello
 Grzegorz Banasiak

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,29 @@
+### 2.9.0
+
+#### Highlights
+
+* [#1760](https://github.com/elastic/rally/pull/1760): Exclude tasks based on serverless status
+* [#1750](https://github.com/elastic/rally/pull/1750) (Breaking): Inject build_flavor in track templates
+
+#### Enhancements
+
+* [#1756](https://github.com/elastic/rally/pull/1756): Retrieve serverless build hash from nodes info API
+* [#1755](https://github.com/elastic/rally/pull/1755): Add blob-store-stats telemetry device and tests
+* [#1743](https://github.com/elastic/rally/pull/1743): Bulk action refresh param
+
+#### Bug Fixes
+
+* [#1763](https://github.com/elastic/rally/pull/1763): Fix running tracks across multiple load driver machines
+* [#1747](https://github.com/elastic/rally/pull/1747): Fix rally-annotations index creation
+
+#### Doc Changes
+
+* [#1748](https://github.com/elastic/rally/pull/1748): Document actor system
+
+#### Miscellaneous Changes
+
+* [#1759](https://github.com/elastic/rally/pull/1759): Ensure serverless.mode/operator are always set
+
 ### 2.8.0
 
 #### Highlights

esrally/_version.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "2.9.0.dev0"
+__version__ = "2.9.0"

tests/racecontrol_test.py

@@ -88,11 +88,11 @@ def test_fails_without_benchmark_only_pipeline_in_docker(running_in_docker, unit
 
     with pytest.raises(
         exceptions.SystemSetupError,
-        match=re.escape(
-            "Only the [benchmark-only] pipeline is supported by the Rally Docker image.\n"
+        match=(
+            f"Only the {re.escape('[benchmark-only]')} pipeline is supported by the Rally Docker image.\n"
             "Add --pipeline=benchmark-only in your Rally arguments and try again.\n"
             "For more details read the docs for the benchmark-only pipeline in "
-            "https://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pipelines.html#benchmark-only\n"
+            "https://esrally.readthedocs.io/en/.*/pipelines.html#benchmark-only\n"
         ),
     ):
         racecontrol.run(cfg)