Earlier today I created the 0.9.8 release in JIRA, and moved most of the open issues from 0.9.7 to 0.9.8.
There's one open issue against 0.9.7 - OpenJPA-179 and I'll submit a fix for that later tonight (or move it to 0.9.8). Marc just committed the fix for OpenJPA-196, if there are any other issues that we need to include please move them back to 0.9.7. Besides the issues mentioned above I think we'll need to add a change log, building.txt (for the source archive) and a release notes file (I thought we had one, but I didn't see it - maybe I'm blind). I'll take a crack at those tonight as well. Assuming there aren't any other major issues, I'll go ahead and create the tags etc. tomorrow. Thanks, -- -Michael Dick