Weld 2.2.9.Final is now released. This is a bug-fixing release plus some performance improvements this time around construction of bean instances.
Special thanks to our community members contributing to this release: Yann Diorcet, Otávio Santana and Stefan Großmann
Release notes: https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310891&version=12326294
Download: http://weld.cdi-spec.org/download/