release(v4.8.9): tests no longer take the checkout's loop lock - archive the review reports and bump the lockstep version

Merge-workspace review loop (--all-reviewer): round 1 (@a93c9bf) 4/4
PASS. Full suite at a93c9bf on macOS / Python 3.9 / herdr 0.9.3 with
WORKSPACE_ROOT set to an empty sentinel: 1752 passed / 0 failed / 38
skipped; the sentinel stayed empty, the review worktree had no .mam, and
the main checkout's shim was not touched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VCgu9Fa9iT7TbJUSzdq4Ff

README.md

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 An advanced, high-reliability **Multi-Agent Orchestration & Messaging Backplane** framework built on Herdr and MQTT. It is designed to coordinate, isolate, and audit long-running agent tasks (such as code generation, refactoring, and security reviews) across multiple LLM backend clients (`claude`, `agy`, `hermes`, `grok`, `opencode`, `codex`).
 
-[![Version: v4.8.8](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-v4.8.8-blue.svg)](VERSIONS.md)
+[![Version: v4.8.9](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-v4.8.9-blue.svg)](VERSIONS.md)
 
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