I’ve been using it since the initial release when it wasn’t even its own tool, and it’s come a long way since then. There was a release that basically flipped a reliability switch and it was night and day in terms of responsiveness, stability, availability of completions, etc. Definitely update!
All third party libs are custom built from source, but right now I do not remember which version of clang we use; it might be older than 9. It is a big code base,