[Bitcoin-development] 0.8.0rc1 status

[grarpamp]

> Linux builds of 0.8.0rc1 are in good shape; easily gitian-reproduceable.
> Windows builds are varying with every compile, and I think I finally
> The OSX build is in pretty good shape, but needs
> So: I think the path forward is to announce 0.8.0rc1 with the binaries
> we've got, to get more testing.

With this new minor bump, I'd like to encourage the project to perform
a build check on FreeBSD 8.3 (gcc), and 9.1 (should be clang/llvm).
I'll try to get to 8.x but may not be able to in time.