OpenBSD 7.9 was already on the 6.18.y longterm support version, Jonathan Gray (jsg@) completed the update back in March of this year, sponsored by the OpenBSD Foundation.

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=177310343311915&w=2

I just wanted to highlight his continued efforts in my hype post for the upcoming 8.0 release.