Hello,
pygame 1.8.1rc2 was marked in subversion.
What's new can be found here: http://pygame.org/whatsnew.shtml
http://rene.f0o.com/~rene/stuff/pygame-1.8.1rc2.zip 1.7MB
93bec2814c823c5339ce66bf0b495160
http://rene.f0o.com/~rene/stuff/pygame-1.8.1rc2.tar.gz 1.5MB
96c4028346d3f485018e28a814c6ef4e
You can get automated builds for win/mac from here:
http://thorbrian.com/pygame/builds.php
I think this is it for 1.8.1.
Unless there are patches for bugs with unittests, or a really bad bug
is found, this will be 1.8.1 to be released this weekend.
This will likely become 1.8.1 with hopefully no changes.