The next update (which is _not_ alpha, by the way) is still a ways off. Every time I feel like I'm closing in, something else crops up that I have to do before it will be done. Remember, I thought I could release it in January once.
To top it off, it looks like my wife will be going in for brain surgery again and that will crimp my time a bit.
I'm hoping I can at least hit the "one year since the last release" mark. Life may have other plans. At any rate, work progresses. I no longer worry if it will be an upgrade over the last release or not... because that is certain. When I was redoing stuff in Nov/Dec that was not certain as I was originally just targeting being "at least the same but better organized".