does the ready-api-maven-plugin have to match the readyAPI version for correct execution of tests

So we have jenkins running our tests and we use the ready-api-maven-plugin and the version we currently is using is 1.6.
We would like to change this but have not been able due to regressions and bugs in readyAPI. We now have a release that do work and that is the maintence release of 1.9.

However when updating the ready-api-maven-plugin to 1.9 we notice that the test cases that were original failing when run manually with readyAPI 1.9 and which was fixed with the readyAPI 1.9.0-m release are still failing on the jenkins server.

Does this mean that to be able to move up to and start using readyAPI 1.9 then we either need a plugin release that is designed to utilize the 1.9.0-m release of readyAPI or wait until next official release of readyAPI is released?

Regards
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