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I planned on waiting until version 0.9 was released to post this, but I thought it deserved it’s own article.

Unfortunately, this will be the last major revision of HSR until sometime between February and May. There will still be some minor revisions to fix bugs that we may have missed or to grab features that we didn’t have time for in 0.9, but 1.0 won’t be released until late-winter to early-spring.

There are a couple of big reasons for this delay:

1. The next release will be version 1.0 and I have big exceptions for it. I’m thinking total redesign of the backend, a couple of solid looking themes that ship “in the box”, and some monster features that I’m keeping quiet for now.
2. I’m starting college in the fall and I don’t want to promise a release in December and then not be able to deliver. I’m going to take everything as it comes and I don’t want to set a bunch of deadlines for 12/24 and have to decide what to finish.

Another, more minor thing, that went into this decision was that fact that it wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense to release 1.0 in the middle of the school year, when many schools wouldn’t be willing or have time to update the software, in addition to the fact that early spring would be a perfect time to get the new software rolling out so that it is installed in time for alumnus to start planning their reunions.

This really isn’t any different from what happened last year with the software. There was the initial release in the fall, and then it took me until the spring to release the next version (0.8). I just wanted to notify everybody of the plan because of the accelerated development schedule as of late.

HSR 0.9 is due out in under 2 weeks and it looks like we’re going to make it in time. The newest version will include moderate visual changes well as some user feature requests. We are also implementing some features which will make development run a lot quicker and smoother.

Check back on Saturday, August 22 for the new download link.