I did not know it was released till I came home Sunday evening and it was too late thanks to my ISP blocking Freenom's DNS so my version watcher wasn't getting to connect to the various projects.
8.40 wasn't hard to build, you just had to know what was wrong with the cmakelist.txt file to fix it. I figured it out by diffing with 8.39 which I built with at first till I figured out the OFF CACHE BOOL was incorrect for OPTION.