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From the Virus mailing list...

Originally Posted by Marc Schlaile

dear list,

I thought I give you a little status update on version 1.1 for the Virus TI.

for a while we found ourselves in a fairly tricky situation. it was
expressed so many times (not by us though) that 1.1 will be _the_ problem
saver for everybody and everything and for obvious reasons that puts extra
pressure on us. "extra" in the respect that it is harder to put out a OS
release which would be "good enough" to satisfy.

in software development, there is always room for fixing and improving
things - and things often takes more time than expected.

OS1.1 was planned to be _just another_ feature update but turned into
something more. if we would have released 1.1 as it was planned back in
december we would have easily made it in february.

the good news is: right now, we are wrapping things up. by the end of the
week we plan to issue a "release candidates" to our testers. a release
candidate is another beta version but from this point onwards to the release
version there will be no further additions.

there has been reworks on many core parts of the virus control, drivers and
the virus TIOS. we have tripled our beta tester base and to be honest, we
have learned a lot.

I think there is a good chance that we will release 1.1 within 2-4 weeks
from now on - obviously just in case nothing unpredictable will happen from
now on. from the release onward we hope to put out versions more frequently
again in order to present you with an improved version quicker.

we have considered releasing a public beta but decided against it. a public
beta which is supposed to fix important problems doesn't help much - unless
you can truly say that it will fix those things. it's still a beta and there
is still a reason why it's not a release build.

with regards

marc
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