We're sorry that we weren't able to keep the hinted at deadline of releasing an alpha version late this year.
One reason is that the season into account I have to admit. The past two weeks providing out-or-order updates on Tuesdays with fewer working days between them, we didn't make the database change to have updates for both versions available yet.
A second one is the ongoing improper competition by Kaspersky, McAfee and Trend Micro. We don't want to have our new on-access scanner being misused as an invented argument for forcing uninstallation of our new version as well by those, and enforcing once rights by the law is something that just takes time.
With no idea on how long the second issue will take, we'll probably hurry to get an alpha release out as soon as the weeks are not interrupted by all these holidays any more, with the on-access part excluded or just to a few selected users; all the other new stuff should cause enough reasons for a lot of feedback anyway
A happy new year to everyone!