chore: release v0.8.9

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Stable release. Merging this PR publishes — the workflow checks out the merge SHA, verifies it, creates the v0.8.9 tag there, publishes the npm packages, and cuts the GitHub release using releases/v0.8.9.md as its body.

I stopped at opening the PR deliberately: the publish is the irreversible step and the process puts it behind a human merge.

What ships

Seven commits since v0.8.8, all already reviewed and merged to main.

	Change
Feature	#3418 — renders no longer finish with the drawElement self-check silently switched off
Fix	#3413 — the timeline effects preset list stays on screen and scrolls
Fix	#3414 — the timeline's popovers can no longer be painted behind other chrome
Fix	#3415 — the audio group row's expand arrow matches the panel's again
Fix	#3416 — the voiceover carve command runs against a published install, and records the voice group
Fix	#3387 — a missing-manifest error lists every path it tried
Docs	#3420 — the audio effects system is documented

Release notes are rewritten for users rather than left as commit subjects, per docs/contributing/changelog-process.mdx. releases/v0.8.9.md and the docs/changelog.mdx <Update> entry are in sync.

Version

0.8.9, a patch bump, consistent with v0.8.8 — which also carried a Features section. Say so and I will redo it as 0.9.0 if the psnr preflight is considered feature-weight enough to deserve a minor.

Checks run locally

• bun run verify:packed-manifests — 122 packed exports resolved, 117 executed, clean packed-consumer install, Node execution, TypeScript/Vite resolution, and CLI startup all verified.
• validate-release-channel simulated with the merged-PR inputs (VERSION=0.8.9 DIST_TAG=latest EVENT_NAME=pull_request PR_HEAD_REF=release/v0.8.9) — validated for latest.
• mint validate and mint broken-links — the new changelog entry renders and its links to the new audio pages resolve.
• All 14 publishable packages plus the three plugin manifests are at 0.8.9.
• Local v0.8.9 tag was not pushed.

One thing to decide, separately from this release

The release commit needed HF_MAX_NONLFS_KB=600 to get past the largefiles pre-commit hook. docs/changelog.mdx has grown to 502 KB and the guard's default limit is 500 KB, so every future release trips this.

The guard is explicitly aimed at binaries — its own header names ONNX models and MP4s — and changelog.mdx is text that Mintlify has to read, so routing it through LFS would break the docs site. It needs one of: archiving older entries to a second page, exempting that path in the hook, or raising the default. That is a maintenance decision rather than something to slip into a release commit, so I have left it and am flagging it here.

Not in this release: #3421, which is open and unreviewed.

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