Yeah, I consider myself quite lucky, and I know a lot of others didn't had that luxury. Still, we don't know what patreon is up too, and I can very well get hit in the following days.
As for the public release, we're close to it but not yet. Obviously this whole mess slowed things down a bit. I would have wanted to have something ready for the new year, but I don't think it will be ready for that, so a conservative estimate would be a couple more month. The next public release will be a quite polished one so I want to make sure things are done well.