This week I started on a project that's both important and overdue, but it's going to take some time and a lot of frustration to sort out. I'll have more details for you when it's closer to being done, but in the meantime... ugh, it's been a week.

Apart from that however I've been pushing dutifully forward on both fixes for 515 and buttoning up the new 516 stuff for another alpha. I released 515.1640 earlier in the week with a couple of important fixes. 516's latest alpha went out yesterday, and it contains the goodies I've been working on up to this point.

Now here's the tricky part: Although I think 516 is nearly ready for beta, the other thing I've gotten into is going to interfere with that timetable badly. I don't have an ETA for when that will be resolved. Too much is up in the air right now. All I can say is that 516 is going into beta as soon as possible, but in the next couple of weeks I might be able to squeeze in more surprises.

The last alpha also included breaking changes to icon positioning and especially to render_source, so projects are going to have to be on the lookout for that. render_source no longer centers on the icon it's replacing, but anchors to the lower left like it should have all along. (Centering was a bonehead move on my part.) When the render_source is a plane master, it should anchor to a screen_loc of "1,1", or whatever the lower left tile of your HUD is if it extends beyond the normal map.

Big thanks to everyone who's been kicking in to the fundometer lately, as well as the other donation platforms. It's hugely appreciated and means I can keep this crazy train rolling.

Coming up: More rain, apparently. And finding a different program to read PDFs.