Hi Bill.
It's been about 2 weeks since I cut a new 7.8 release candidate and I haven't heard much feedback, good or bad. Since there weren't many problems with the previous release, I'm going to assume that everything is okay. However, if anyone has any feedback, please let me know, as I plan to mark it as an "official release" build.
There are a few recent fixes to 7.8 that I'd like to have in the next dist:
5be769c: Really fixed the masking bug for multisets. 8de64e8: Image.JPEG: Fix integer underflow.