The latest news from the Xentronix crew is that Refraction is sporting some serious improvements, along with many internal bug fixes and rewriting of code.

According to Frans van Nispen, it will still be a few weeks until the new Beta 8 is released, but the endpoint for Release 1 is in sight.

Two screenshots are available on their news page, one showing the decrease in number of processes (a good thing), and the other showing off the improvements to the toolbar, layer window, and tool configurations.

Great work guys! The BeOSJournal will definately review the upcoming Refraction Beta 8 when it is released.