New 7.8 release candidate: 7.8.696

[Henrik Grubbstr�m (Lysator) @ Pike (-) developers forum]

>Hello all,

Hi Bill.

>I've prepared a new stable release candidate (beta) for everyone's 
>building pleasure. 7.8.696 may be downloaded from:
>
>http://pike.ida.liu.se/download/pub/pike/beta/7.8.696/

Great. I've now added a corresponding ebuild to the pike overlay for Gentoo.