I have currently just finished my Quadartism campaign on 0.74 and I was wondering if it was worth starting another one - would I have time to finish it before 0.8 is released?

How far away is 0.8 anyway? I am starting to get impatient... I desperately want to find out what faction X will be, I want to play as barbarians (I have Gold patched down to 1.2) and I want to meet the new units.