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I haven't come across or neither heard about java9 as of yet. Still on v8

I thought that sticking with the latest version was your thing...?  

Yes for sure but, since you've mentioned the latest, it all depends if java9 is out or so. (Haven't personally checked.)

Java 9 has been out for almost a year. "Java 10" and even "Java 11" are also already released (the versioning and releasing scheme by Oracle has changed after Java 9).