-Many underused classes now gain a free spell level in their lowest level main attack spell every time they level up (until level 7).
-Added many late game unique creatures.
-Fixed some typos.
-You no longer steal spells from someone using Dweomer Thief if he has less than minus one times the typical number of incantations for that spell of incantations.
-Balanced elemental spheres a bit.
-Summon Giant Spider, Mind Decay and Charm are now poison spells.
-Vaporize is now a water spell.
-Manipulate Device is now an earth spell.
-Swirling Stars is now a life spell.
-Eye of the Damned is now a death spell.
-Disintegration damage can now cause permanent health loss. Arcane Sanctum makes you immune to this effect.
-Added 20 new unique monsters.
-Added a new creature, the Faddeev-Popov ghost.
-Fixed several item suffixes which incorrectly increased spell damage instead of decreasing it.
-Added almost one hundred new unique items including unique socket gems and wands of wishing!
-Ingame help now also states (correctly) that Arcane Sanctum makes you immune to Turn Undead.
-Added Yearning Shrine.
-Items made by shrines now list that in their description.
-Stoning's typical incantations increased to 75 (was 60).
-Prismatic Sphere now contains at least a single spell level.
-Added a new random special level, the LHC.
-Mind Flayers now deal hypnotic damage.
-Unseen Ones are now also invisible on F2 Tactics screen.
-Made late game resistance powerups more rarer in favor of items.
-Using Vampiric Drain on an infected creature is now also dangerous as was already the case with a poisoned creature.
-Updated the handling of players who have been ghoul-a-fied.
-It is now possible to regain spell regeneration ability lost when turning into a ghoul via a wish.
-Using F12 you can now toggle between varies ways of ordering the spell book.
http://trianglewizard.webs.com/Far meatier than the mini-update that was R 8.02...lots of nice stuff like that Yearning Shrine that apparently brings Wishing into the game!