I really hope to be able to reproduce the high levels of cooperation found throughout the Cacti user community when testing this release in the future. Larry and I wrote up a letter that expresses our gratitude which I think everyone should take a few moments to read:
http://www.cacti.net/thanks_0_8_6.php
Below is the complete (lengthy) changelog:
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bug#0000051: HTTP header caching problems (0.8.5).
bug#0000121: It is no longer possible to add the same graph twice to a single graph tree branch.
bug#0000123: Several UI fixes on the tree item edit page (0.8.5).
bug#0000124: Select all check boxes would actually invert the selection.
bug#0000128: Graph template item corruption issues (0.8.5a).
bug#0000139: Graph tree deletion corruption issue (0.8.5a).
bug#0000140: Replaced the 'None' option in several host drop downs with 'Any' and redefined 'None' to mean host = 0 (0.8.5a).
bug#0000144: Possible corruption issues when deleting tree items from the root of the tree.
bug#0000149: Error using the 'total' type for 95th percentile or bandwidth summation.
bug#0000151: Added the ability to duplicate a host template.
bug#0000160: A change in Mozilla 1.5+ caused extra vertical space to appear on many table rows throughout the console.
bug#0000164: HostMIB scripts do not respect SNMP port and timeout parameters.
bug#0000173: Increase the number of characters dedicated to each tier from 2 to 3 which increases the item per tier/branch limit to 999.
bug#0000174: Broken thumbnail graphs that contained a 95th percentile HRULE item.
bug#0000175: Strip quotes from SNMP output to prevent UI escaping issues.
bug#0000176: Added the '-P' argument to 'df' to prevent multi-line output for the query_unix_partitions.pl script.
bug#0000179: Updated ADODB to version 4.23 which enabled Cacti work with PHP 5.
bug#0000198: Strip greater and less than characters from SNMP output to prevent UI escaping issues.
bug#0000214: Rename 'Utilities' to 'System Utilities' and move it under the 'Utilities' menu heading.
bug#0000235: Limit the number of pages displayed for graph management, data sources, and devices.
bug#0000244: Prevent PHP errors from being displayed during summation/95th percentile calculation when the .rrd file does not exist.
bug#0000253: Fixed recursive CDEFs.
bug#0000254: CDEF dropdown list in adding another CDEF is not sorted.
bug#0000265: Removed "CANNOT FIND GUEST USER" error message.
bug#0000273: Fixed 'rrdtool fetch' parsing for RRDTool 1.0.49.
bug: A hash was not being generated for duplicated graph and data templates which would cause import/export for those templates to fail.
bug: A user's graph permissions may fail to delete properly after removing that user.
bug: The "Export Every x Times" feature did not work correctly.
bug: Work correctly with PHP's get_magic_quotes_gpc() turned off.
bug: Eliminated potential password injection attack in auth_login.php.
bug: Eliminated popen issues in cactid win32 with threads > 1.
feature/bug#0000118: Data source screen UI enhancements (0.8.5).
feature/bug#0000120: Deleting a tree header should delete all child items (0.8.4).
feature/bug#0000125: A forced sort type can be specified for data query indexes which will be used to sort data query results in the UI.
feature/bug#0000152: Added filter/search/pagination capabilities to the Devices page.
feature/bug#0000155: Allow hosts on the graph tree to be grouped by data query index (ie. switch port, partition, etc) instead of only graph template.
feature/bug#0000156: Added the ability to sort a graph tree branch alphabetically or numerically.
feature/bug#0000161: Removing a graph now gives the user the option to remove all associated data sources.
feature/bug#0000172: Added the ability to control which graph viewing areas should display thumbnail graphs and which ones should display full sized graphs.
feature/bug#0000185: Deleting a device gives the user the option of deleting all associated graphs and data sources.
feature/bug#0000187: Add host availability and device enabled/disable controls to the main devices page.
feature/bug#0000189: Add a system-wide defaults for SNMP community, version, port, timeout and retries configurable under 'Cacti Settings'.
feature/bug#0000192: Add the ability to log poller runtime statistics to the log.
feature/bug#0000194: Add host availability capability which allows Cacti to track of downed devices as well as a device's uptime history.
feature/bug#0000200: Implement three different auto re-index methods which allow Cacti to automatically 'refresh' a data query when an indexes changes.
feature/bug#0000213: Add a 'Clear' button to all filter forms which resets the form to its default state.
feature/bug#0000240: Add moonman's SIMILAR_DATA_SOURCES_NODUPS CDEF patch.
feature/bug#0000250: Allow host/graph tree items to change parents.
feature: Data query index types are now automatically selected which eliminates the need to prompt the user for this information at graph creation time.
feature: Better message handling on the "New Graphs" page.
feature: Get rid of the "Data Input Method" box from the data query edit screen as this data can be automatically derived.
feature: Customizable log levels.
feature: Ability to log to syslog (Unix) and event log (Windows) in addition to the log file.
feature: UDP/ICMP/SNMP ping support used to determine a host's availability status.
feature: A PHP script server which enables PHP script to be interpreted by the poller without spawning a separate PHP process for each item. See the manual for more details.
feature: Ability to choose the type of poller (cmd.php, cactid) and number of threads (cactid only) from the UI.
feature: Ability to spawn multiple simultaneous cmd.php/cactid processes to speed up the polling process.
feature: Allow data templates and data sources that use SNMP to override host fields (hostname, snmp port, etc) in the poller cache.
feature: Added Eric Steffen's Bonsai patch which enables users to zoom a graph by dragging a box around the area of interest.
feature: Added branix's graph export enhancements patch which adds many more graph export configuration options including remote FTP support.
feature: Ability to view/clear the log file from the console.
feature: Use a single RRDTool stdin pipe for all update, create, and graph export actions.
feature: Advanced timespan selector which provides a large number of presets and a calendar control for custom timespans.
feature: Better support for SNMP v2 from UI. Speed up some UI queries.
feature: Enable/Disable Poller from UI.
feature: Added ifOperStatus to Graph Creation page to show either Up or Down.
feature: Rearchitected poller subsystem to prepare for multiple poller architecture in future releases.
feature: Added validation logic in the pollers to prevent system and log anomalies.
feature: Removed SNMP v3 options until SNMP v3 is supported.
in favor of the new one. 
