Although it’s not announced on the main site yet, most mirrors already have it: RC5 of PostgreSQL 8. With the release being planned late this week, and RC4 claimed to be the last RC before release, RC5 is a surprise. But the changelog from RC4 to RC5 lists quite a few changes/fixes, so my prediciton will be that late this week will change into early next week.
Choose one of the mirrors to download the software. It’s in the beta directory.
The Windows-installer version can also be found here.
If you like Object Pascal (Delphi), but for some reason you like the VS.NET IDE more than Borland’s IDE, then you might have a look at Chrome. It is a innovated version of Object Pascal, suited for .NET. Currently, the commandlinecompiler is released as a preview (beta) version, for the .NET framework and for Mono.
I liked Borland’s IDE more, because it has early databinding, so you can see data from a database at design time. It makes the designing easier, since you can see earlier if data needs more of less space in a datacomponent. With the new Delphi, it turns out that this is only the case with BPD.NET and not if you only use non-Borland components. Taken that into account, I think VS.NET IDE is better. It’s faster to load, and more stable on my system. Furthermore, as I blogged earlier, VS.NET is much cheaper.