Announcing Sapphire 9 Release

On behalf of all who contributed, I am very proud to announce the availability of the Sapphire 9 release. This release includes various API improvements, including integration with Java 7 and 8 language features (AutoCloseable and repeatable annotations). Additionally, reference properties now support transparent reference setting, meaning the target of the reference can be assigned to the property, but the model will still store just the id. This release is part of Mars.