From b42e574a33dc647205dc3852913ef5e33e085a2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: team-modern-deployments-bot
 <124109055+team-modern-deployments-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:08:27 +1000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] chore(main): release 2.23.9

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 8 ++++++++
 version.txt  | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index aac17ea7..5f3f8d49 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## [2.23.9](https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/cli/compare/v2.23.8...v2.23.9) (2026-08-11)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* always write a nuspec into generated NuGet packages ([5f2aeef](https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/cli/commit/5f2aeefc38a67d400e2b69bd582aa02cb29e0f7c))
+* XML-escape values written into the nuspec ([e5a6f89](https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/cli/commit/e5a6f89795dc54c9663f08862ef46b8ba5b41a8b))
+
 ## [2.23.8](https://github.com/OctopusDeploy/cli/compare/v2.23.7...v2.23.8) (2026-08-07)
 
 
diff --git a/version.txt b/version.txt
index 5687d243..eb43aa2c 100644
--- a/version.txt
+++ b/version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.23.8
+2.23.9

From 88962c8bc09754ea0b692cb8f09800222a58ecf5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: team-integrations-fnm-bot <integrationsfnmbot@octopus.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:08:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] chore: update install script version

---
 scripts/install.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/install.sh b/scripts/install.sh
index ff533bd6..d21a5b93 100644
--- a/scripts/install.sh
+++ b/scripts/install.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ fi
 
 log "Selecting version..."
 
-version=${VERSION:-v2.23.8}
+version=${VERSION:-v2.23.9}
 
 if [ ! $version ]; then
     log "${YELLOW}"