bzr 1.8rc1 released

[David Ingamells]

the only mention of this release in the lists seems to be Alexander's 
reply to it.
What happened to the original?

Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> Martin Pool ??????????:
>
>   
>> bzr 1.8rc1 2008-10-07
>> ---------------------
>>
>> Bazaar 1.8 includes several fixes that improve working tree performance,
>> display of revision logs, and merges.  We've also fixed, and the bzr
>> testsuite now passes on OS X and Python 2.6, and almost completely passes
>> on Windows.  The smartserver code has gained several bug fixes and
>> performance improvements, and can now run server-side hooks within an http
>> server.
>>
>>   CHANGES:
>>
>>     
> [...]
>   
>>     * ``bzrlib._dirstate_helpers_c.pyx`` does not compile correctly with
>>       Pyrex 0.9.4.1 (it generates C code which causes segfaults). We
>>       explicitly blacklist that version of the compiler for that
>>       extension. Packaged versions will include .c files created with
>>       pyrex >= 0.9.6 so it doesn't effect releases, only users running
>>       from the source tree. (John Arbash Meinel, #276868)
>>     
>
> ``bzrlib._dirstate_helpers_c.pyx`` cannot be compiled with MSVC even with newer Pyrex:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/277484
>
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