Does "after 2.0 final comes out" mean that 2.0 final will have a different format, or that the future releases beyond 2.0 will have a different format?

2.0final will have the same format, unless some sudden and desparate bug requires that we change it, which is very unlikely. The format isn't in an emptool source release, but it shouldn't be too hard to work out, at least for reading. There isn't even a CRC.

Peter