The original development plan remains the same,  that is when Bitcoin 0.8.7 is released (now called version 0.9.2) then it will be a month to upgrade the codebase that includes ColoredCoin functionality.

That has not changed.

However, I would like to add a new set of capabilities in the interim that may be very interesting.

There is a coin called CounterParty that works of the Bitcoin blockchain.

This plan is to port CounterParty to iXcoin.   There will be no-need to change the 0.8.6 client.  This is additional software to enable  iXcoin with the following additional capabilities:

https://www.counterparty.co/

These allows iXcoin to also work with 'exchange like' capabilities.

Let me know if there is any intersest in this project?

I am seeking 50,000 IXC for this to CounterParty port to be created.