Guys, please realise that:

- We have perfectly good 1.03 stable release; we can choose between that and 2.0 betas (with more features, but less stability).
- Empeg guys have a small team of user alpha testers who do first-cut testing of new releases; this is different development style from, say, Mark's, but I think is equaly valid; apparently, alpha team found that beta8 was not good enough to be released.
- Our toy is EOL'ed; empeg guys work on other projects, too (or mostly on other projects), they don't have their full time for empeg SW; however, I think that new features are coming out nicely (if much slower than in 0.xxx betas), and new ones get hinted at.

That said, I too am very impatient

P.S. '...when it will be ready' is a kind of long standing internal (that is, internal to this BBS) joke; translate it as 'errr, we still have an embarassing number of bugs in it'