Well, not exactly a vacation, but some personal/medical issues are happening soon and I'll be out of commission for a bit. So development on 8.0 is going to be pushed off a bit more unfortunately. I had been working on the hosted server-side app, and some progress has been made there, however the current VDJ won't interface with it (actually the new one doesn't yet either -- haven't written that code yet).
Anyway, I did put out a minor update, 7.5.0, which fixes an irritating issue where if an error message box came up while VDJ was loading, it would be *behind* the splash screen and therefore unreadable. So the program just looked frozen. This has been fixed, along with a few very minor code tweaks but nothing you'll likely notice otherwise.
Please bear with me, and have a happy holiday season. I'll be back at it as soon as I can.