We should be more active again in the forums and IRC in the next few days. A lot of people have been visiting with family and celebrating the holiday season. I myself had a lot of family in town at my home and so wasn't nearly as active as usual. 0.1.9 is currently in limited testing with some of the IRC crowd as well as our internal team. It will be in open testing soon. Our process kind of works like this:
1. Internal testing by Boris and Pavel.
2. Internal testing by our test team.
3. All of the above + IRC regulars.
4. Open test.
5. Release.
So as you can see we are on phase 3 of testing right now for 0.1.9. We will be announcing the start of open testing soon on the blog and usual methods. I think everyone who has been here a while and has used multiple versions will immediately notice the difference. All aspects of the client have been optimized and improved drastically. We are very happy with the performance increases.
Also, on a side note. We are already working on DPOS (0.2.0) and Boris has been interviewing new candidates for our 3rd dev slot. We will make an announcement when another developer is hired.