Details and Discussion in the Forum Thread
It took a bit longer than expected, but release 0.9 is no officially released! There's a lot of stuff that was added and a lot that's changed, but despite it all there shouldn't be any problems bringing your 0.8 saves forward to this version if you want to.
As always, you can see the full feature list in the forum thread announcement, but I'll give you a taste right here and now:
And there's some other stuff too - this is just the highlights, as I see them.
We've been holding off on a lot of major changes recently to make sure this branch is super-stable - but that means that the Experimental, for those riding the edge, is going to be a lot LESS stable for a while, as it sees a rapid introduction of all the bits and pieces that were put off until after release.
And with that, I wish you all a good night. Enjoy, Cataclysm fans!
Side note: For everyone who's bugged me about wanting to financially support the game post-Kickstarter, you are now able to do that! Huzzah!