What is the collective impression of MiVB release 8?
Mine is that it seems to be a fair bit buggier than releases that preceded it. I have only upgraded [or deployed new] a few systems to rel 8 and all bar one of them has had one strange problem or another.
Zero issues on new systems deployed with 8.0
Upgrades are a different story, in general we have no issues, but when we do it has a tendency to go back to old data that was never quite right to begin with.
Then there is the whole 5235 phone issue... but that is a different story.