release notes for 0.8.9 (bugfix release)

diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
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@@ -490,3 +490,14 @@ other bug fixes:
 - tgammal was wrongly setting global signgam
 - crash in wordfree with uninitialized we_offs
 - fix wordexp not null-initializing the we_offs initial slots
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+0.8.9 release notes
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+bug fixes:
+- major breakage in strtol and family: failure to accept leading spaces
+- incorrect name for MATH_ERREXCEPT in math.h
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+compatibility:
+- prototypes for a few additional nonstandard functions