The next update of the project is not known exactly. If you believe the roadmap, published on the site icco.digitalnote.org/roadmap.html, the next promised update was announced for the Q2 2018.
Whatever the code of the current version - a student or a professor - it works stably for many weeks without shutdowns. All functions that were declared by the developer when the latest version is released are executed by the program without errors. What "big updates" are so urgently needed?
If you want to try some new services with the participation of XDN, then try FreeWallet.org. There even a built-in exchanger is declared. The union of the XDN with their service was also announced in the roadmap. Done.