For unavoidable reasons, we've decided to delay the release of 1.8 for up to 1 month.

The development of key functionality has had to be put on hold for a short while, and it was decided that, rather than release an incomplete implementation on time, it would be better to delay the release for a short while and release with all intended functionality.

One of the important considerations in this decision was the apparent lack of urgent requirement for the 1.8 release. If anyone disagrees with this, please contact me and we may review the decision.

We are now officially in phase 1 of the release process for 1.8. this means the features are confirmed for release, as detailed after the break, and there is a 3-4 week period during which these features will be complete (functionally).

After many months of effort from the team and community, Aqsis 1.6.0 is now available for download!

The official press release is attached, feel free to use this in any public announcements.

Further to our recent acceptance into this year's Summer of Code we have created some flyers to be distributed around campuses helping promote participation and give everyone a fair chance, given the short student application deadline (April 3).

Another year, another Google Summer of Code!

We have just submitted our application and will find-out next week (2008-03-18) if we'll be entertaining some new developers this summer.

The status of these efforts can be found/monitored on our wiki.