Here goes RC9 few more fixes, the major things seems pretty solid now and most of the fixes handle small noncritical bugs so I'd say we're are no more then 1-2 weeks away from the final release.
ChangeLog:
Some CSS fixes pertaining to default colors.
Fixed last_post_id calculation for the forum.
BIG optimization in consistency checker for users of MySQL 4.0.4+.
New & improved pseudo-random sequence ID generation coupled with a shorter lifetime of each sequence key.
Fixed poll view results links.
Opera & Konqueror workarounds for 'change focus to message' code.
Fixed a bug that prevented clearing of the image field in the user profile.
Fixed possible query failure with the RDF code.
Fixed pager in private messages.
A number of fixes for the import/dump process.
Make custom tags be ordered by name.
Fixed admin toggle & moderation manager.
Prepend http:// to URLs inside [url] tag if it's missing.