You may not hurry, we (Debian) don't much need a new release because of just two patches. In any case, I asked Andreas (who usually uploads my packages) to use 3.8.1 tarball if it's available and my distro-patches otherwise.
In any case, I asked Andreas (who usually uploads my packages) to use 3.8.1 tarball if it's available and my distro-patches otherwise.