I wanted to know what is the expected release date for the v9, i want to customize the alerts and can’t do it on v8, i want to customize messages sent on slack.
Also if i want to integrate with victorOps when an alert is triggered, how can this be done.

We’re not sharing one publicly at this time.

victorOps is not supported. From what I’ve seen it hasn’t been requested before. But we would certainly review a pull request for that functionality. You can use an existing alert destination as a guide for configuring it.