has verium been in development for a year? From what I see development is only to new versions of roadmap?

Yes, huge mining overhaul, most of work done without commits because it was being pieced together (wouldn't compile, would crash etc), after initial code development push of changes was done on branch 1.1, now 1.1 is master and commits are being pushed there.
https://github.com/VeriumReserve/verium/commits/masterAll OSes and architecture wallet builds for 1.1 are now being prepared, including the addition of windows 64bit