I know this may sound silly, but due to the delayed and popular reaction of the last release (12/2, noticed by 12/29 and late january) i'm heading towards the
0.7.0 release. The main lead artist focus is currently on player characters and trust me, those are important for populated online games

There's no deadline and it won't be "forever". The pace of cranking these out is already increasing.
but yeah, that buffer overflow bug from earlier is quite nasty.