initial release for the istanbul release

Issue-ID: SO-3652

Signed-off-by: seshukm <seshu.kumar.m@huawei.com>
Change-Id: I085ceb957876e37ef46ae9fdd5a928934f2f21eb
diff --git a/version.properties b/version.properties
index b3f28cd..0986d1f 100644
--- a/version.properties
+++ b/version.properties
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 # because they are used in Jenkins, whose plug-in doesn't support
 
 major=1
-minor=8
-patch=1
+minor=9
+patch=0
 
 base_version=${major}.${minor}.${patch}