I would like to release 3.8.1 soon, such as on 22nd May. Provisionally with the following changes:
- Fix project name lookup with missing metadata. Fixes #6453 by tfmorris · Pull Request #6474 · OpenRefine/OpenRefine · GitHub
- Fix encoding guesser for non-UTF-8 BOM-based files. Fixes #6595 by tfmorris · Pull Request #6596 · OpenRefine/OpenRefine · GitHub
- recon: Add back missing 'search for match' button by wetneb · Pull Request #6600 · OpenRefine/OpenRefine · GitHub
Let me know if anything else should go into this patch release.