As far as I am concerned, it is time to do the 2008.1 release.
So please, if you have a bit of time, proceed. Make it 2008.1 in about box, but name the file "rc1".
If everything goes well, we will just rename the file to have the "final".
Also, this time I believe the primary source should be "svn" type of release. So start with that, perhaps create "raw" source package (without makefile) and let others to build from that.