Hi Bill.
I've made a new beta build which for your consideration. If no problems are found, this build will become the next stable release. Please download, build, test, make binary packages, etc. As always, please report back with any problems (or successes, too!)
FYI: Nettle 2.5 was released yesterday. Pike 7.9 built without complaint against Nettle 2.5-pre2 (from the day before yesterday), so it might be a good idea to test that Pike 7.8 works with it (probable), and if so update the bundled Nettle.
/grubba