As far as I know, there is no release date for iC9. But if I could wish for one thing: Motion Layers are actually displayed in a hierarchical manner, instead of just color-coded. Would improve readability GREATLY!
Also, if you could stack two motions and deactivate certain Bones. So I could keep the lower-body motion of clip 1 and the upper-body motion of clip 2, resulting in a single animation of these clips.
Just my 50c to this tho.