Resetting main for development (6.9.0.dev0)

[blnicho]

Summary/Motivation:

Reset main for development following the 6.8.1 release.

(Preemptively marking this as 6.9.0.dev0 since we know the next release will be a minor version with the removal of Python 3.8 support)

Changes proposed in this PR:

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