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*Prefect 2.8.4 has been released!*

We are excited to celebrate many first-time contributors in this release :tada::
• <https://github.com/samdyzon|@samdyzon> upgraded the Azure filesystem block in <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/pull/7513|#7513> :clap:
• <https://github.com/jcorrado76|@jcorrado76> added to the deployment CLI in <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/pull/8603|#8603> :partying_face:
• <https://github.com/mjschock|@mjschock> added a docs fix in <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/pull/8660|#8660> :raised_hands:
• <https://github.com/scharlottej13|@scharlottej13> updated Dask's logo in <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/pull/8669|#8669> :confetti_ball:
Thank you for your contributions and we look forward to your continued involvement in the Prefect community! :muscle:

Additionally, this release brings several other exciting changes, including added support for YAML config strings to `KubernetesClusterConfig`, graceful SIGTERM handling in Prefect Server, and much more.

See the <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/blob/main/RELEASE-NOTES.md#release-284|release notes> for a complete list of changes and bug fixes.

And for Google Cloud users, we also released a new version of the <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect-gcp/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#030|prefect-gcp collection>!