So even though the dev doesn't post here like ever here are the PMs I've received from him in relation to development (I did PM and ask him but he didn't reply back obviously so I just assume its fine to share this stuff).
May 20:
"About current development status,
Core wallet that being tested contains all patches and many important bug fixes to match latest commits (May 9, 2016) of Shadow Project (see
https://github.com/shadowproject/shadow/commits/master)
Block number for requires hardfork of new protocol is currently planned for block 1,000,000 but could be postpone if needed.
Security wise, our 2FA is being hardening in some areas.
Bittorrent implementation is still in CLI phrase, nothing like pretty UI yet but I will try to provide you some screenshot or screencast showing what I am working on hopefully within next month.
Regards,
vTorrent"
July 26:
"Hello,
Please do not worry about that as all of the client running 0.8.1 are getting over 6 connections most of the time.
There are some problems in building Windows client since version 0.8.1, it is compiled with 0 errors but still get dozen of linker issues.
Once we get that problem solved with no other issue, 0.8.1 will be officially release to public.
Regards,
vTorrent"
As a side note I have paid for 3 months of premium at cryptoguru for the block explorer
http://cryptoguru.tk/CurrencyInfo/index.php?Currency=VTRAs a disclaimer: I don't have any direct relationship to the dev, I'm just a long time investor in this project so would like to see it succeed eventually. The one shining quality about this project seems to be the complete lack of communication, I suppose if the dev really wanted to he could've pumped and dumped this shit like a thousand times over with bullshit announcements etc, but he hasn't. It's already been about 2 years of waiting for me, so I will remain patient and optimistic.