It was supposed to happen this week, but they decided to delay, maybe in one more week. Statement by Dean Hall:

Public Build and Contributions delayed again, review next week

The disappointment, especially for the Ahwoo team, is palpable. But its essentially the best reason for a delay: opportunity. We really want to get the Kitten pipeline into the first build and allow more time hardening startup crashes and input issues. We feel that the startup crashes and input issues can present some issues with achieving what we want in those first builds. Additionally, having the Kitten actually controllable in game in EVA, allows us to directly tackle one of the more challenging aspects of the project for people to wrap their heads around. The overall discussion from the team agrees the build is "fine" for an initial pre-alpha, but another week might well allow us to progress so much further.

I mentioned last week the project is somewhat a victim of its own success, and this is more evidence of that. We have the opportunity to push updated rendering and animation pipelines into the first build. In my opinion, the end result of this will do more than anything to convince people that we are making the right decisions with character compromises. I should stress this is not about getting the build perfect and there will be, obviously, a lot that is missing. It's going to be very much a pre-alpha, and short of flying around missing all that we want such as vehicle building. But we are going to give the build another week. That does not mean, for certain, the build comes out next week. We will, again, review for "go or no-go" on Tuesday our time. If the answer is "go", then it won't come out immediately, it would be later that week.

The currently remaining priority work includes:

• Kitten EVA in game
• Investigation of crash-on-boot (especially certain AMD cards)
• Fixing of input issues (selection of non-controlled vehicle orbits making burn node creation difficult/impossible for some vessels)
• Default vessel will be old "Rocket", with lunar aligned orbits

Secondary work may include:

• DearIMGUI upgrade (might fix a variety of viewport issues, or enable future fixes)
• Maybe some Jupiter cloud work (to be confirmed, unknown status)
• Situation selection on boot menu
• Additional optimization and bugfixing