The 1.8 prerelease is sure acting like a prerelease of a beta version would act. It likes to crash alot, especially when Travis plays, who knows maybe hes cursed. Anywho, the actual release (with rumored to be less bugs) is supposed to be on its way very soon. In fact it was supposed to be out today, the version we are currently playing (once again rumored) is supposed to be the version shown at PAX.
Tomorrow, regardless of official update or not, I am going to put up the old map, in the last official version of minecraft, which is 1.7 something or other. This is mostly due to stability and that when I put a copy of the old map on the prerelease it got really wiggy and buggy.
After that I will update the server as usual when new official versions are released.
This was a fun and interesting detour though, but I guess tomorrow its back to business.