[2018] No alpha 8 release? Directly 9?

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You may missed "something" - but Alpha 8,x got release to public stable branch at 17 of july
Current Public stable client is on 8.7.x , if you didn't switched experimental and still using it your now using 9.x experimental client i asume. 9 is not released to public stable branch yet,

gl & hf

nevermind :) good we could lighten you up