Folk,

I know I have not provided a lot of update here recently, and I apologize. The reason is simple, I didn't have any news worth reporting.
I am now confident the release is imminent (a couple of more evenings) although I will scale it out slowly to ensure the infrastructure and miners are working properly.

The current status is this:

* Almost done with the infrastructure
* Testing various positive and negative infrastructure conditions such as server down, not found, license not found, etc.
* Licenses can be upgraded on the fly and clients will "magically" pick up the updates (have a license for 2, need 4, can do it on the fly, no need to change firmware)
* the dev fee version will be updated along with this one and will bring them to feature parity.
* and more...

I still have a reasonable amount of work to do, but the hard parts are behind me (I think....). I'm still in the process of updating the webUI with support for providing a messages to the user (for example "upgrade available") in the dashboard, displaying the licensing information and current counts,

per hashboard feature: This will be enabled in all next releases, both paid and developer fee supported.

For dev-fee users, I am working with a couple of the pools to optimize how the underlying aspects work -- the benefit there is that I will be able to greatly reduce the impact of a dev-fee on hash rate (should be close to 0 when all is said and done). It may be that this functionality will be pool specific in the near-term; I'll provide more detail here as it is available.

NiceHash: I've generated the traces requested by nicehash and submitted them for analysis. My eye does not see anything obvious as to the failure reasons, so I am reliant on them to provide information in order to try to add in support.

Fan Control: Hardware aspects like fan/voltage are the next items on my list. I've done a lot of pre-work on this and honestly things don't look great, but I am not out of ideas just yet.
Voltage Control: see fan control.

Mini: This will follow on the footsteps of the next release. I've been testing. I will likely have a lower dev fee rate for the mini.

Dev-fee: I am strongly considering lowering the dev-fee over time; I will be able to handle this with the infrastucture I've been building. What this means is the longer a node runs, the lower the dev-fee goes to some minimum amount.

Other: I'm sure I'm forgetting something(s)... more soon.

Thank you for your patience and support,

Jason