I was thinking of waiting for Joshua to finish the heavy work on the integrated terminal strip manager that he started to push 0.9-beta, release candidate version, but:
I just saw that Debian is getting ready to freeze unstable depot aka Sid soon, so it will always be impossible to send a new version as long as it can last, sometimes years...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-12-Tentative-Dates
Do you know that Debian work is used for many other Linux distributions, like Ubuntu, Mint, etc. and I don't want version 0.8 to be frozen on the official repositories for several years, like Ubuntu LTS, or Debian Stable.
BTW, you have my Debian repository backport, my PPA, AppImage, Snap, and my also Flatpak repository if you want using latest devel improvement, but it's a pain for Linux noobs for install it, or for entreprises who only use official distribution support.
I get a lot of emails from guys who have a lot of issues with 0.8 that are resolved in 0.9-dev version which was better robust than 0.8 release.
Pushing the 0.8.1 bug fix wouldn't make any sense, as 0.9-dev is faster, brings new languages, better translation for some important languages due to lack of translators, new tools like new DXF converter support , the heavy work done on the official collection of elements, etc.
What do you think?