Or even
1.0.
Remember, Mojang reset the version counter when they switched from alpha to beta, and I expect they'll reset the version counter to 1.0 proper once out of beta. After all, we're currently at version beta 1.9, not 1.9.
That said, me too. We have just a few more weeks (so they say) before they feature freeze and just a few more weeks later before the we're out of beta.