Whilst there hasn’t been a community newsletter so far this year, the community managers have been active on the forums so information is out there if you read their posts … you can do this by looking at the dev tracker and selecting Ignasis or Nicole to look at their posts.
The main news is, in brief:
a) the testlive version of next patch needs to be reworks and updated so more testing can happen before release to live; general estimate until how long until it is ready to go live is a couple of weeks
b) major problems on several servers across multiple platforms with inability to damage enemies, harvest nodes etc and also frequent crashing: see sticked post -
- note just now Ignasis posted on the matter:
And if you are thinking that has taken a long time, please realise that the coding team only got back to work last week not on the 2nd.