A small update that should fix the most annoying bugs at present, including:
wrong teamcolor used when rendering,
broken (small) rendering of build menu and other things when using in particular minimap widgets or 'tab view'.
Credits go to Kloot, Auswaschbar and hoijui for investigating and fixing these issues. Also I'd like to thank anyone else that was in one way or another involved with the changes that ended up in this release
the Linux repositories are managed by different persons. as you can imagine, it is only really possible to maintain a repository if you are using the OS, otherwise, it would be too much hassle -> it is not done by engine devs, with a few exceptions. we do have volunteers for many OS, also for Ubuntu, but usually they run the latest versions only, and therefore also update only these, or if you are lucky, latest-1. This is the case for Ubuntu too. So .. you could volunteer to be a repository maintainer for Ubuntu 8.10, or try to find one. though... i have to say this makes little sense, as 8.04 is the LTS release, and now it will be 10.04 (or "is" already). I also remember 8.04 as being more reliable then 8.10.
In short: chances are really low you will find anyone maintaining the spring repo for 8.10. As additionally, it is also usually more time intensive, as you will have more missing dependencies in older OS versions for new spring engine releases.