bump version to 1.9.0+dev (#16615)

Preparation step for the 1.8.0 release.

Author: wesleywright

mypy/version.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # - Release versions have the form "1.2.3".
 # - Dev versions have the form "1.2.3+dev" (PLUS sign to conform to PEP 440).
 # - Before 1.0 we had the form "0.NNN".
-__version__ = "1.8.0+dev"
+__version__ = "1.9.0+dev"
 base_version = __version__
 
 mypy_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)))