Hi Art,
Out of interest what OS are you on/how are you installing OLA?
Yes, there's likely to be a 0.10.9 release coming relatively soon (although I didn't realise it's already been five months since 0.10.8 came out), although it might wait a bit longer to get some other features in it too. I'm not keen to rush it out hugely quickly given that and a few other little bugs slipped through in the last release due to a lack of functional testing by people so there's nothing much to say the next thing won't have the same problem. I was hoping Python 3 support for the RDM tests would get into 0.10.9, but the way things are going that might be delayed for a future release unfortunately.
The following changes have already been committed and will definitely be in 0.10.9 (including the Python array thing you mentioned):
Also these Pull Requests will most likely end up in it too (unless something goes very wrong):
There's also a chance some of these issues may be fixed too (or they might get pushed back to a future release):
Does that sort of answer your question?