Why not some testing first? A week of at least half a dozen people
actually using the release candidate would be a good idea, especially
because the hope is that 0.8.23 will be usable for many months. This
testing should be done from the .tar.gz, not from CVS, to help make
sure that what will go to the world will be okay.
With the recent bug day, I and a few others did some testing, and found a few bugs which have been sorted. Overall, the release is now playable.
Anyway, I have some crashing bugs that need to be filed in the bug
tracker and checked out. Please give me some time to do so.
Your memory bug is one I do not experience. It may be something to do with your OS?
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