Prepare 2.9.0 release (#642)

Author: rly

Legal.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-“nwb-schema” Copyright (c) 2017-2024, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
+“nwb-schema” Copyright (c) 2017-2025, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
 
 If you have questions about your rights to use or distribute this software, please contact Berkeley Lab's Innovation & Partnerships Office at [email protected].
 

README.rst

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ NWB Schema Format
 
 A format specification schema for the Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) data format.
 
-To get started using NWB, please go to the `NWB overview website <https://nwb-overview.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>`_.
+To get started using NWB, please go to `nwb.org <https://nwb.org>`_.
 
 This repo contains:
 
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The NWB 1.0 format and API are archived in the `NeurodataWithoutBorders/api-pyth
 License
 ========================
 
-“nwb-schema” Copyright (c) 2017-2024, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
+“nwb-schema” Copyright (c) 2017-2025, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
 
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ You are under no obligation whatsoever to provide any bug fixes, patches, or upg
 Copyright
 ========================
 
-“nwb-schema” Copyright (c) 2017-2024, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
+“nwb-schema” Copyright (c) 2017-2025, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
 
 If you have questions about your rights to use or distribute this software, please contact Berkeley Lab's Innovation & Partnerships Office at [email protected].
 

core/nwb.file.yaml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ groups:
   attributes:
   - name: nwb_version
     dtype: text
-    value: "2.9.0-alpha"
+    value: "2.9.0"
     doc: File version string. Use semantic versioning, e.g. 1.2.1. This will be the
       name of the format with trailing major, minor and patch numbers.
   datasets:

core/nwb.namespace.yaml

@@ -57,4 +57,4 @@ namespaces:
   - doc: This source module contains neurodata_type for retinotopy data.
     source: nwb.retinotopy.yaml
     title: Retinotopy
-  version: "2.9.0-alpha"
+  version: "2.9.0"

docs/format/Readme.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ The NWB specification documentation uses Sphinx [https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/s
 
 **Prerequisites**
 
-```pip install hdmf-docutils```
+```pip install ../../requirements-doc.txt```
 
 **Rebuilding All**
 

docs/format/source/conf.py

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ def setup(app):
 
 # General information about the project.
 project = u'NWB Format Specification'
-copyright = u'2017-2024, Neurodata Without Borders'
+copyright = u'2017-2025, Neurodata Without Borders'
 
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ def setup(app):
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '2.9.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '2.9.0-alpha'
+release = '2.9.0'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.

docs/format/source/format_release_notes.rst

@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 Release Notes
 =============
 
-2.9.0 (Upcoming)
-------------------------
+2.9.0 (June 26, 2025)
+---------------------
 
 Major changes
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

license.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-“nwb-schema” Copyright (c) 2017-2024, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
+“nwb-schema” Copyright (c) 2017-2025, The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy).  All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: