Since feature freeze is done for Birt 1.8.x in JBT 4.3.1.Beta2, we have two choices for what to include in JBT 4.3.1.CR1 and .Final:

a) since nothing important has happened in the 4.3.x branch [1] of jbosstools-birt, we could re-use the 1.8.0.Final bits, which I've just rebuilt [2] from the 4.3.0.Final tag, and published [3].

b) or we could upversion the 1.8.1.Beta2 bits to 1.8.1.CR1 (and then later to 1.8.1.Final) even though there's functionally nothing new in there beyond what was released in 1.8.0.Final on Sept 24.

[1] https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-birt/commits/jbosstools-4.3.x
[2] http://jenkins.mw.lab.eng.bos.redhat.com/hudson/job/jbosstools-birt_4.3.mars.0/lastBuild/console
[3] http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/mars/stable/updates/core/birt/1.8.0.Final/

I'm inclined to go with the rebuilt 1.8.0 instead of the needlessly upversioned 1.8.1.

WDYT?