Custom reports - what's the latest word?

[Jeff Smith]

It seems that in my current installation (v 1.8.9) there is no way to 
save my changes to the defaults for the various reports, and no way to 
add my own reports. (Or have I missed some trick somewhere?)

If I understand correctly, I can add custom reports if I write them in 
the scripting language and then build my own executable from source 
every time I have a new report to add or change.

I can live with that (coding don't scare me none) but if I do that, is 
there a more recent version in the CVS tree that I should consider 
upgrading to? Any new features that might address any of these issues 
for me? Otherwise, I'd be tempted to stick with the stable 1.8.9 release.
-- 
Jeff Smith
Computer Science Dept.
University of Saskatchewan
http://jefficus.usask.ca