You said about 7 months ago a new release of arc including a bunch of changes to news.arc would happen sometime soon http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833010. I know your busy. Can we still expect that release?
Eventually, I hope, but I wouldn't want to make any promises.
Are you not doing much programming day to day lately?
I get to hack maybe once a week now. YC takes up all my time.