News.com is stating that Flash 8 will be announced on August the 8th. Now all that date stuff meants they could be sticking to the "8" moniker, as the official vote for the acquisition by Adobe isn't until August the 24th the software will still be most likely be released as Macromedia Flash 8 or Flash MX2005 (and not Adobe Flash CS2, hoom). Official release is expected "a few weeks later". Would have been cooler if they waited for 2008.