GNOME 3.8 released

Ignoring some bits and the sarcasm:
There are some big problems in the memory usage of GNOME shell (3.6). That is partly fixed in 3.8, but can only be really addressed in 3.10. Reason behind it was: 1) bug in bindings (clutter references weren't freed), 2) mozilla/gjs/something making it impossible to regularly run auto garbage collection (which was done in earlier versions) 3) mozilla/gjs/something causing #1, which had is now worked around (in 3.8).

Also in 3.6 some stuff was done in process which should've been done out of process (was not enough time).

I'm sort of surprised that not more people picked up on this though. The huge memory usage in 3.6 is quite noticeable. Though maybe some distributions added custom patches to deal with it.

Note that I'm not a dev and might have gotten some details above wrong.