Any ETA of v5 Stable Release?

[mannok]

Hi, thanks for the great library. Me and my colleague love it a lot. We are excited to know if there is any ETA of the stable release of v5 so that we can get approval to introduce it to our firm?

[louthy]

For context, I'm now concentrating on final-pass optimisations, unit-tests, stability, and interface consistency, etc. So, I'm on the final leg.

I won't commit to a date, I am however hoping for Q1 this year; but if something comes up that I think should keep the library in a beta status for longer, then I'll do that. That has happened in the past week with my performance refactoring of Foldable (due for release in a few days). The interface has fundamentally changed and every foldable type has been refactored to support laziness and 'to the metal' performance improvements. This has necessarily had a knock on effect to any RTM date, probably by two weeks.

The whole library is built as a 'functional framework', not stand-alone components, so changing some key interface can have a large knock-on effect throughout the ecosystem, and I'd rather be tweaking and refining interfaces in beta.

I was hoping to get v5 out of the door by Q4 last year, which was derailed by a couple of new feature requests and some performance prototyping and optimisation. So take my "Q1" with a pinch of salt. I do however feel like I'm on the last leg of what has been a mammoth library refresh.