I hope, I haven't screwed up things too much (besides the double
 increment of the VERSION number).  Give them a whirl and let me know
 if you encountered any problems. 
Here's something I noticed (just upgraded my packages via PUI, which
went fine otherwise):
The package-index* files now contain only the updated packages, whereas
they used to (and should still) contain all the packages.  Simply
merging from the stable package-index* the ones that aren't in
pre-release should be the way to go AFAIK.
This manifests itself with only the pre-release ones being listed in PUI
if one updates the listings from the pre-release area.
-- 
\/ille Skyttä
scop at 
xemacs.org