bumping version to v1.9.9

client/README.md

@@ -712,10 +712,9 @@ server.start()
 
 Note that it's basically mirroring the arg-parsing behavior in CLI, so everything in that `.parse_args([])` list should be string, e.g. `['-port', '5555']` not `['-port', 5555]`.
 
-To shutdown the server, you may call the static method in `BertServer` class via with args:
+To shutdown the server, you may call the static method in `BertServer` class via:
 ```python
-shut_args = get_shutdown_parser().parse_args(['-ip','localhost','-port','5555','-timeout','5000'])
-BertServer.shutdown(shutdown_args)
+BertServer.shutdown(port=5555)
 ```
 
 Or via shell CLI:

client/bert_serving/client/__init__.py

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 __all__ = ['__version__', 'BertClient', 'ConcurrentBertClient']
 
 # in the future client version must match with server version
-__version__ = '1.9.8'
+__version__ = '1.9.9'
 
 if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
     from ._py3_var import *

server/bert_serving/server/__init__.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 from .zmq_decor import multi_socket
 
 __all__ = ['__version__', 'BertServer']
-__version__ = '1.9.8'
+__version__ = '1.9.9'
 
 _tf_ver_ = check_tf_version()