Articles are quite vague regarding CME, where some articles were saying that CME didn't even filled anything, and a while later they were waiting for authorative approval, so it's a mixture of faulty information.

Important is that now they officially have set a date for a launch of their futures market, it with a high probability means that they have been approved. If not, then why bother putting up a launch date?

It's a massive player in the financial world that isn't here to fool around with people. Let's be happy with how we have seen this industry move forwards in such a short period of time. It's not likely that we get to experience a similar year again.