Releasing BBSIM with all updates post gRPC merge

Change-Id: Ib0e683dd56b2f1543cc5470d067d1c11057efd04
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index b57588e..f8e233b 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.9.0-dev
+1.9.0