The release for v9.8.0

Pre-Release ToDos

• Create new Release Checklist issue
• Check for mergeable PRs/dependency updates
  • Dependency Dashboard
• Create Release PR via GitHub Actions
  • Link Release PR with this issue
• Push any manual changes to the release branch/PR
• Mark PR as ready for review

Release ToDos

• Merge Release PR
• Publish Release on GitHub
• Wait for Netlify production branch deploy to complete
• Re-crawl with Algolia crawler
• Test release version with playground(s) (no pnpm.overrides)
  • https://github.com/faker-js/playground
  • stackblitz

Post-Release ToDos (1 week later)

• Set stable npm dist-tag