1) Partially fixed the issue with inserting characters at the end of the line by setting 'Underline query at cursor?' to false by default.

2) Update release note.

docs/en_US/release_notes_8_8.rst

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Version 8.8
 ***********
 
-Release date: 2024-06-27
+Release date: 2024-06-06
 
 This release contains a number of bug fixes and new features since the release of pgAdmin 4 v8.7.
 
@@ -30,4 +30,6 @@ Bug fixes
 
   | `Issue #5785 <https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/5785>`_ -  Fix an issue where user authentication fails with special characters in password.
   | `Issue #7480 <https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7480>`_ -  Fixed an issue where canceling a query without privilege does not display any message on query tool.
-  | `Issue #7524 <https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7524>`_ -  Fixed an issue where the size displayed as 'NaN B' for all databases in the statistics tab.
+  | `Issue #7520 <https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7520>`_ -  Fix the issue where docker with SSL v8.7 fails to start.
+  | `Issue #7524 <https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7524>`_ -  Fixed an issue where the size displayed as 'NaN B' for all databases in the statistics tab.
+  | `Issue #7526 <https://github.com/pgadmin-org/pgadmin4/issues/7526>`_ -  Fixed an issue where backup and restore operations failed with the error 'This build does not support compression with gzip'.

web/pgadmin/tools/sqleditor/utils/query_tool_preferences.py

@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ def register_query_tool_preferences(self):
     self.underline_query_cursor = self.preference.register(
         'Options', 'underline_query_cursor',
         gettext("Underline query at cursor?"),
-        'boolean', True,
+        'boolean', False,
         category_label=PREF_LABEL_OPTIONS,
         help_str=gettext(
             'If set to True, query tool will parse and underline '