the next update is in its final stretch. VN authors are usually normal people, often with real jobs and mental health problems and shit. places like itch are slow to be updated, gotta check their discords or patreons and so on for more regular commentary from them. In any case, weve still got a good month+ of rendering to go and I dunno what bits of the process would need to happen after that, so while the next update has been slow coming, it IS on the horizon.