In preparation for the release of the 2.9 version, 2.9 is now a separate branch and the development branch (master) is now 2.10
Users running the development version from the buildbot using "buildbot.linuxcnc.org/ buster master-rtpreempt" will start seeing the linuxcnc version reported as 2.10.
At the moment the buildbot requires some updates to begin building 2.9 debs.