<headius>
Yeah we will have to conditionally use the new alternatives to finalizers on 9 and higher at some point. 9.4 is probably the last release that will support Java 8 through 10 so if we get the change into 9.4 we'll be ready to drop all finalizers in the following release
<headius>
I can have a look at the PR tomorrow and we'll get it finalized (ha ha) and landed