The top level Makefile in the monolithic tree still has RELEASE = "Release 6.8". So when building it says: xc # make World Building Release 6.8. I hope you checked the configuration parameters in ./config/cf to see if you need to pass BOOTSTRAPCFLAGS. This is a cvs snapshot from an hour ago.
Created attachment 3196 [details] [review] Patch
Yes, we haven't bumped the version numbers yet in a number of places.
Fixed for the final 6.9 release candidate.
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