F# 1.1.11.8 is being finalized. This is mostly a bug-fix release, with lots of small but important improvements (ever noticed how that "caret" often appears just off the edge of the screen in Visual F# Interactive? Well, no more!) That said, we may squeeze in an early prototype of a new feature called "active patterns". We may also have a new installer/uninstaller (we'll keep the ZIP distribution).
F# is being used an awful lot at Microsoft Research in Cambridge (home grown users!), so we're often busy collecting feature requests from them. But why stop there? If anybody has small feature requests for this or a future version please email them to me or place them on the wiki. I'm not guaranteeing we'll get to them, but we'd love to hear your suggestions.
Don