I do understand your frustration, it is taking a lot longer than anticipated, which isn’t something we’re particularly pleased about either.
These are estimates, We’d rather delay the release than ship something that isn’t ready if we find something wrong with it. We try to make this clear whenever we suggest a release schedule, they’re not fixed, we often decide to put back a release either to include more features or to add more fixes and improvements, any indication of timescale we give is the best indication we have at the time which we give it.
Whilst for the most part we have continued development throughout the pandemic, some work which requires physical access to hardware for testing and evaluation has been slow which has added significant time once the release slipped into 2020.
We’re currently expecting to release 1.9 before the end of the year, but I must stress as we always try to. This is just an ETA, it may move again. Some of the beta builds are looking exciting, there are some really cool new features, some of them have just taken a lot longer to develop than anticipated.
