There's a rather nasty bug in the TCP buffering code of giFT 0.11.8. Please don't use or package this version; use the newly-released 0.11.8.1 instead, which has the bug fixed.
The only other change from 0.11.8 is that greycat's build patch has been applied.
As usual, it's available at:
http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34618&package_id=26748