The first release candidate for jQuery UI 1.8 is out and is live on http://jqueryui.com/demos/. You can download it here:

Download

File Downloads

• Development Bundle: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/files/jquery-ui-1.8rc1.zip

Svn

• Tag: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.8rc1/

Changelog

See the 1.8rc1 Changelog for full details on what’s included in this release.
Barring any catastrophic problems this code will become jQuery UI 1.8.

How to report issues

If you find any issues in this release, please do not put them in comments on this post, but instead head over to the Developing jQuery UI Forum. Thank you.

Thanks

A big thanks to all that have worked on all the bug fixes and other improvements that have gone into this release.