Releasing Fez 1.3 has been a difficult process because we can always keep finding and fixing more and more bugs and while we're focusing on that, there are heaps of new features that people are looking for too. Many bugs that are coming up now are just annoyances that are not going to affect people too much where as others require big architecture changes such as the problem of having two images like basename.jpg and basename.gif getting jumbled in the derived datastreams (as fez will generate a thumbnail_basename.jpg that is shared by both images and depends on the order in which they are processed as to which image gets a thumbnail). However, I don't think this problems has actually affected anyone.

Then there are a few things that we only wrote a basic skeleton for and now need to rewrite such as the searching.

We have acquired a new programmer, Lachlan who started last week and is finding his way into the system by getting it running on windows.

So i think we will be releasing Fez 1.3 RC4 later in the week and it will very likely become Fez 1.3 final.

In the meantime, more sites have been cropping up around the place where Fez is being trialled. The latest is MatDL. It's always interesting to get an email out of the blue on the fez-users list (or sometimes direct) with a signature from a university or organisation whom we had no idea were using Fez.