docs: Update changelog with changes since 8.x.

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@ -11,6 +11,116 @@ This section is an incomplete draft of the release notes for the next
 major release, and is only updated occasionally. See the [commit
 log][commit-log] for an up-to-date list of all changes.
 #### Highlights
 - Added support for Ubuntu 24.04. Dropped support for Ubuntu 20.04.
 - Added a configurable "Zulip updates" system that sends automated
  messages describing changes to Zulip that are relevant to end
  users. See the upgrade notes for details.
 - Streams have been renamed to Channels. The functionality remains
  exactly the same, and bots do not need to be updated.
 - The All messages view has been renamed to Combined feed, and
  its internals have been reworked, fixing many subtle bugs.
 - When you paste content into the compose box, Zulip will now do its
  best to preserve the formatting, including links, bulleted lists,
  bold, italics, and more. Pasting as plain text remains an
  alternative option.
 - To quote and reply to part of a message, you can now select the part
  that you want to quote.
 - The right sidebar has been redesigned to highlight users in the
  current channel or direct message conversation. You can also now
  hide the user list in the right sidebar to reduce distraction.
 - When you start composing, the most recently edited draft for the
  conversation you are composing to now automatically appears in the
  compose box. You can always save a draft and start a new message
  using the send options menu next to the Send button.
 - If you'd prefer not to see notifications when others type, you can
  now disable them.
 - Topics and messages now load much faster when you open the web or
  desktop app.
 - Zulip's new-user and new-organization onboarding experiences have
  been completely reworked.
 - Redesigned most popovers with a more modern visual style and
  improved accessibility for screen readers.
 #### Full feature changelog
 - The back button now preserves scroll position in previous views,
  as well as whether a stream's full topic list is expanded.
 - Added new `Alt+P` keyboard shortcut to toggle the Markdown preview
  in the compose box.
 - Added new `Shift+V` keyboard shortcut to view read receipts.
 - The `Shift+M` keyboard shortcut for muting now works in the recent
  conversations and inbox views.
 - Redesigned the users panel in organization settings, with a new role filter.
 - Redesigned the invite users modal.
 - Redesigned the message edit history view as a modal.
 - Redesigned the TODO widget.
 - Improved compose typeahead sorting algorithms significantly.
 - Improved compose box design, including how overly long messages are
  indicated, how drafts are displayed, etc.
 - Added mark-as-unread option to topic popover menus.
 - Added warnings for several dangerous actions, like merging topics.
 - Added support for directly linking to a user's profile.
 - Added descriptions in message view header area for global views, and
  stream views now prompt administrators to add a description.
 - Added a tooltip to let you see the name of a status emoji.
 - Added new option to disable seeing typing notifications, distinct
  from the existing options to disable sending typing notifications.
 - Added support for requiring unique names in an organization.
 - Added support for marking a custom profile field as required.
 - Added controls whether users should be subscribed to the
  organization's default streams in invitations and the SCIM
  integration.
 - Added a confirmation notice when moving a single message, linking to
  its new location.
 - Creating a stream now immediately navigates you to the new stream.
 - Renamed "Full name" input fields to "Name".
 - Renamed the "more topics" widget to "show all topics" to better hint
  what it does.
 - Improved stream settings overlay to show additional metadata, like
  the stream creator and creation date.
 - Improved navigation in the stream and group settings overlays.
 - Improved how desktop notifications display quoted content.
 - Improved filtering options for the GitHub integration.
 - Improved dozens of Help Center articles.
 - Improved wording in various automated notices.
 - Improved new-organization defaults for various permissions settings.
 - Improved how users are displayed in settings to use clickable user
  pills.
 - Improved the efficiency of Zulip's internal statistics system, both
  in terms of CPU and storage usage.
 - Improved tooltips to better clarify how drafts work.
 - The left sidebar now displays the current conversation even when it
  contains no messages.
 - Improved performance/scalability of the Zulip server, including more
  efficient algorithms for fetching message history and presence.
 - New incoming webhooks for Patreon and GitHub Sponsors.
 - Simplified the process for configuring integrations with custom
  filtering of events.
 - Added a great deal of API documentation, covering more common
  concepts as well as several previously undocumented API endpoints,
  like setting a user's status.
 - Added new API endpoint to fetch an individual user's status.
 - Added support for showing the beta Flutter app in statistics.
 - Greatly improved the experience restarting a Zulip server under heavy load.
 - Fixed timeout/slowness issues rendering messages with dozens of
  LaTeX blocks.
 - Fixed several subtle bugs involving message feed scroll position.
 - Fixed several subtle scrolling, flickering, and live-update bugs in
  the recent conversations view.
 - Fixed several bugs involving uploading files while editing messages.
 - Fixed several subtle layout bugs in the web app.
 - Fixed several bugs involving the compose box, its banners, and tooltips.
 - Fixed several race condition bugs affecting the server and web app.
 - Fixed local echo of message editing.
 - Removed the Gitter data import tool, since Gitter removed the data
  export API that enabled it.
 - Removed multiple queue workers, reducing memory usage.
 - Upgraded dependencies, including Django 5.0.
 - The great majority of the Zulip web application has been converted
  to TypeScript, fixing many subtle bugs.
 #### Upgrade notes for 9.0
 - This release introduces a new [Zulip updates](https://zulip.com/help/configure-automated-notices#zulip-update-announcements) feature, which
@ -22,6 +132,7 @@ log][commit-log] for an up-to-date list of all changes.
  to give time to potentially reconfigure which stream to use. You can
  override the delay by running `./manage.py send_zulip_update_announcements --skip-delay`
  once you've done any necessary configuration updates.
 - Advertise LaTeX option.
 ## Zulip Server 8.x series