Can I still start a "stable" D8 project now that D9 is stable? Trying to start a new Drupal 8 project today:

$ composer create-project --no-install drupal/recommended-project my-recommended-project


But this now installs Drupal 9.0.0 instead! :mindblown: 

So I tried to manually require 8.9:

$ composer create-project --no-install drupal/recommended-project^8.9 my-recommended-project


But:

Could not find package drupal/recommended-project^8.9 with stability stable. 


So it seems like I will need to install ^8.9@dev

But then the whole project will be ... unstable?

What do you recommend?
You are missing a :

This works:
composer create-project --no-install drupal/recommended-project:^8.9 my-recommended-project