0.8 Beta

[David Edmundson]

Only a thousand years late.. I think we are ready to release the 0.8 beta.
Unless there any objections I will tag and make tarballs this weekend.

Could everyone please test and make sure everything is working OK.

Final release will be 2 weeks after I tag.

We are now feature and string frozen. Please make sure any new strings
are not merged into master - features branches are fine and we can
start on 0.9 features.

David