devserver doesn't stop with devserver_stop in Windows about appengine-maven-plugin HOT 10 CLOSED

I am also getting this issue with Windows.

Just want to add...with the GAE instance running in the background after 
devserver_start, I tried devserver_stop and the GAE instance still lives on 
despite the success message that I received. I then did exactly what the Maven 
goal does (send empty POST to /_ah/admin/quit) manually through the browser and 
that successfully shuts off the Java process for the background GAE instance. 
Hopefully this gets fixed soon. Any acknowledgement of this bug from Google?

Same with me. I'm able to quit through the URL as well via Fiddler

I cannot really see how, but could stopDevAppServer() be platform dependent? 
See 
https://code.google.com/p/appengine-maven-plugin/source/browse/src/main/java/com
/google/appengine/devappserver/AbstractDevAppServerMojo.java#200

I think this patch fixes it:

Is there anyway that this change can be applied as some sort of pull request? 
Or is that just Github terminology?

I can confirm this behavior is still present in 1.8.9

Same issue with 1.9.4.  Please resolve this.

Fix will be in 1.9.7
For now, you can 
$ git clone https://code.google.com/p/appengine-maven-plugin/
$ cd appengine-maven-plugin
$ mvn install

and use the version 1.9.7-SNAPSHOT in the plugin version as a workaround until 
1.9.7 is pushed

Still seeing this issue with appengine-maven-plugin:1.9.7 - the devserver won't 
stop under Windows 7. Did the changes make it in?