I'll keep this week's update short. We've recruited a few new trainees onto the dev team, some of which aren't even on the structure page yet. With this, we've been looking to increase productivity in a number of areas.
As usual, we are planning to get the next update out Soon™ ... more seriously, we're looking to have a "mini-patch" out in the near future with a lot of the ships that need currently processing. In addition to that, the Dev Team does have a semi-definite deadline by which we'd like to have more substantial changes out by, however I'd like to wait until we get a little bit closer to then before announcing that, just in case.
We're aware that not much of the progress that has been made lately is apparent to the general community, because much of it (like how far the system changes are coming along, how recruitment is going, what the weather is, etc.) isn't very announcement-worthy and would take up more time to talk about than just do. That said, do know that us developers are working at a steady pace and are getting things done.
