I've made a new preview build (windows only) for the upcoming QGIS 0.8.1 release. The 0.8.1 release will be primarily a bugfix release. There are two notable new features though:

* Many GRASS modules have been added to the GRASS toolbox
* The launcher plugin has been added to the list of available plugins

There have been various other tweaks, bug fixes and improvements. Before installing I suggest you remove any previously installed copy of QGIS, or install into a separate directory. If you don't do this, you may find you get duplicated plugins and providers due to some changes that have been made in the build process.

Download is available here:

http://qgis.org/uploadfiles/testbuilds/qgis_setup0.8.1preview3.exe (~51mb)

Many thanks to those who have been actively working on getting 0.8.1 release ready - its much appreciated!

If you encounter any issues, please let us know via the bug tracker at:

https://svn.qgis.org/trac/

Please mark your bugs as Version 0.8.1 Milestone 0.8.1. Any bugs deemed by us as not critical for this release will be bumped over to milestone 0.8.2 since preview3 will (barring calamity) be the last review before 0.8.1 comes out.

Please do not email issues directly to us as its difficult to manage problem reports via email - use the bug tracker rather.

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