I just saw the
ColdFusion 8 public beta download numbers for the first week since it went up on Labs. I can't share actual numbers, but I can tell you that in that first week we had more downloads than what we had expected overall for the entire public beta period! Awesome!
Mark Drew has posted
CF8 syntax dictionaries for CFEclipse, giving Eclipse awareness of and support for the CFML changes and enhancements in CF8.