diff --git a/ci.hocon b/ci.hocon
index 2aa53342af5120594f401a63d98559424197098a..f50713f267251d23654d97f5da0c96142a88a9f7 100644
--- a/ci.hocon
+++ b/ci.hocon
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # java 7 is needed by Truffle (for now)
 java7 : {name : oraclejdk, version : "7",    platformspecific: true}
 # java 8 must be a jvmci enabled variant
-java8 : {name : labsjdk, version : "8u141-jvmci-0.34", platformspecific: true}
+java8 : {name : labsjdk, version : "8-jvmci-latest", platformspecific: true}
 java9 : {name : labsjdk, version : "9-ea+168", platformspecific: true}
 
 java8Downloads : {
diff --git a/mx.fastr/.project b/mx.fastr/.project
deleted file mode 100644
index fe3b6176414a7da129d3245e68fb3199bf260926..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/mx.fastr/.project
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<projectDescription>
-	<name>mx.fastr</name>
-	<comment></comment>
-	<projects>
-		<project>mx</project>
-		<project>mx.graal</project>
-		<project>mx.jvmci</project>
-	</projects>
-	<buildSpec>
-		<buildCommand>
-			<name>org.python.pydev.PyDevBuilder</name>
-			<arguments>
-			</arguments>
-		</buildCommand>
-	</buildSpec>
-	<natures>
-		<nature>org.python.pydev.pythonNature</nature>
-	</natures>
-</projectDescription>
diff --git a/mx.fastr/.pydevproject b/mx.fastr/.pydevproject
deleted file mode 100644
index 40ff9468f96521d4de2d769d72a438ffbe425aba..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/mx.fastr/.pydevproject
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
-<?eclipse-pydev version="1.0"?>
-
-<pydev_project>
-<pydev_property name="org.python.pydev.PYTHON_PROJECT_INTERPRETER">Default</pydev_property>
-<pydev_property name="org.python.pydev.PYTHON_PROJECT_VERSION">python 2.7</pydev_property>
-<pydev_pathproperty name="org.python.pydev.PROJECT_SOURCE_PATH">
-<path>/mx.fastr</path>
-</pydev_pathproperty>
-<pydev_pathproperty name="org.python.pydev.PROJECT_SOURCE_PATH">
-<path>/mx</path>
-</pydev_pathproperty>
-
-</pydev_project>
diff --git a/mx.fastr/suite.py b/mx.fastr/suite.py
index efdf2afa85f4ec3caa520350a887817ef76494a9..ad161de72d77355a4285279ab4636e5fc601f4f9 100644
--- a/mx.fastr/suite.py
+++ b/mx.fastr/suite.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ suite = {
             {
                "name" : "truffle",
                "subdir" : True,
-               "version" : "73196584fec60b58ff8d70fd1c3d29cc2634d557",
+               "version" : "91fb53bf8827298be8541caca3f22b096bbad0ea",
                "urls" : [
                     {"url" : "https://github.com/graalvm/graal", "kind" : "git"},
                     {"url" : "https://curio.ssw.jku.at/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots", "kind" : "binary"},