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Well, every six months for a core DB engine seems OK. I don't know if I'd describe that as glacial, but the problem is, how would anyone know that without serious investigation? There's a 7.0 release that isn't marked as beta or anything, yet, the release notes can only be found in git under a directory named "sphinx". It's very ambiguous whether this is released or not, which is weird, and doesn't send positive signals about the overall organization and focus of the project. The message it sends is that Apple have no interest in increasing FDB usage outside of Apple, basically, which from an end user's perspective increases risk. What if Apple decide it's time to move on, or close development again? A community of users and devs helps, but that's not going to emerge unless the community is a priority. Maintaining the website/blog would be step one in that process, I'd think.