chore(main): release 7.9.0

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7.9.0 (2026-07-04)

Features

• add bidirectionalLabelMatch option and deprecate exactMatch (#5031) (4ccbde6)
• runners: tag EC2 fleets (#5197) (7c0b62b)
• support dedicated host ec2 overrides (#5191) (37fa3a8)
• support per-runner-flavor SQS batch size and window in multi_runner_config (#5108) (ecfdfdb)
• tag runners with github labels (#5185) (d3097b4)
• webhook: configurable queue selection for matching runners (#5190) (5f69910)

Bug Fixes

• deps: bump step-security/harden-runner from 2.17.0 to 2.19.4 (#5200) (c00d4c2)
• deps: bump the github group with 4 updates (#5198) (43d77fe)
• deps: bump zizmorcore/zizmor-action from 0.5.6 to 0.5.7 (#5199) (521efb7)
• examples: disable background apt services in multi-runner user-data (#5141) (b738b86)
• lambda: bump form-data from 2.5.5 to 2.5.6 in /lambdas (#5196) (a487f7d)
• pool: clamp pool top-up to runners_maximum_count (#5187) (a4ecd11)
• prevent EC2 termination when GitHub runner de-registration fails (#5061) (8068fa6)
• remove unused aws-lambda package to eliminate aws-sdk v2 dependency (#5088) (56f9ae8)
• runner: handle long prefixes in pool scheduler and IAM resource names (#5139) (76a572a)
• scale-down: respect bypass-removal tag for orphaned runners (#5194) (5c9f9b4)

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