We’ve finally whittled down our open bugs and various user interface issues that we’re now confident to say that NGS RC2 will be released on March 21st.
We’re finishing on working on the current set of bugs for RC2 right now. Any new bugs should be added under the new NGS – Release Version in Jira.
Shortly after March 21st we will begin testing NGS on our new server hardware that we will be buying as a result of our fundraiser. This will give us some real live testing opportunities compared to testing on our puny test server.
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Woohooo. Will you guys be working to implement the NGS into Last.fm’s autocorrect system once the final release is out? If so, this may be the savior for classical music scrobbling!