Funilly the same persons that are requesting dates are also bashing when we don't meet the dates that we are trying to guess.

CB isn't a small component . Paid subscriptions is a big plugin. If we tell you the new features (not yet announced) that it brings, you will get even more impatient....that's the main reason we are not disclosing them yet (no, it's not cooking coffee, but does some things which are very demanded).

We are as eager as you to get this out asap, but also eager to have it working up to expectations when it gets out.

Current status is as follows (facts only):

- CB beta 7 got released to CB testteam on 3rd May 2008.
- Paid subscriptions CB plugin beta 7 got released to paid subs testteam on Saturday (leading to already 3 new bugs found in CB beta 7).

- first days only about 10 bugs got identified by CB testteam, and about 10 by us. We based our 4-10 days estimate based on those findings.
- then CB testteam found more (more than we expected as margin), and we too, totaling to 60 bugs found.

- around 40 CB beta 7 bugs got already fixed, 20 remaining to fix.

- of the 60 bugs, 3 were very hard to evaluate the time to fix them. We took priority to fix properly those 3 to be able to predict our own time a little bit better. 2 are completely fixed and tested, the last one is fixed at about 75%.

So we are left with 20 bugs to fix with on CB before releasing RC.

Obviously, with 20 bugs, we could have gone directly from beta 7 to RC, but with 60 bugs, once fixed, we need to go through another final beta 8 round to check that we don't have gross regressions due to bug-fixes.

Now on your question: How much more time will this take ?

Fixing the remaining annoying bugs will take at least 2 days, then doing a beta 8 testing-fixing round takes at least 2 days. Thus Nick's estimate by next week-end, if nothing else major comes in-between.

Thanks to the doc subscriptions and very few co-sponsoring of features (special thanks goes here to joomlapolitan Rover and his company Rovermedia for helping financing the development of the multi-criteria users-lists searches), we are able to work full+free time on CB these weeks. Many Thanks to all doc subscribers and contributors.

CB 1.2 is huge step forward for CB. Almost half of CB has been rewritten in the last months, while keeping compatibility, and adding lots of flexibility and features, cleaning up lots of older code, while also becoming cross-platforms native, and hugely extending its extensibility with plugins and the new fields API. And now we are almost done. Exciting times.

With a part of 140'000 joomlapolitans waiting for this big release, some of which are under commercial customers pressures, we understand and feel very well the (positive) pressure and work as hard as we can to make CB 1.2 RC a live-site quality release candidate. Thanks for having understanding in these last days and for your encouragements

Now back to work on CB 1.2

Next news when we reach beta 8, ok ?