In a reply to a poster's comment upstairs: "This is the most underwhelming release yet. I guess devs were on vacation."
 

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk] The Start Screen was a pretty big feature that required testing and dev time. I think long term, it's going to be a huge improvement for both new customers and existing customers. As mentioned, we have some other cool features coming up that also require a bit of attention. Again, the point is to release features and fixes when they are tested and ready, not to play a numbers game that can result in issues for some customers. 

 
Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
Also to add to whats said. The development process is not as black and white or linear as many people assume. We don't just work on fixes or work on new features. Often they intersect. For example for the last couple of months I worked on recording related work while developing the infrastructure for synth recording and patch points. This process led to a major revamp (refactor in devspeak) of the recording code. That is some of the oldest and most complex code in the app. In the process I made numerous improvements to that code that should ultimately lead to better stability and *much* better maintainability. A lot of that is difficult to document as bug fixes since it would be very time consuming to detect which specific scenario was broken before. We do log cases for regression testing when its obvious. The same thing happened when I worked on Mix recall - there were scores of small fixes and even crashes that were addressed through that effort.   All in all this is completely normal in the development process. You folks are looking at a small window of a month which is not a big enough sample size to accurately represent whats going on. i.e. some months will look smaller and others may look huge since we are releasing features only after testing. Next month will have a ton of updates coming online.
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Hopkinton-is-up-m3277656-p2.aspx

So they worked on stability and people complain that they are not getting enough features?
 
Is that about the size of it?

Ewe can fleece some of fleas some of the time, but ewe can't fleece all the fleas all the time?

Today's bugs are tomorrow's features. 
 
I still remember doing a contract for Intel with a friend of mine.  We went onto one of their "farms" for a rare physical meeting and one of their programmers hooked up his laptop to the projector.  The first thing that came up was his Outlook and, before he changed the screen, we saw that he had between five and six hours of meetings scheduled every day - and he's a programmer?  We used to get a lot of compliments from the Intel guys about the amount of work we were able to get done.  Well, duh, we simply stayed out of meetings and did what developers are supposed to do! 

bapu
So they worked on stability and people complain that they are not getting enough features?
 
Is that about the size of it?

What new features? There are new features?

Mesh
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You have to say your imaginary pharmacist 

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Mesh
Am I allowed to laugh without taking any meds from my street pharmacist?

You have to say your imaginary pharmacist 

Hello, hello, hello,
Is there anybody in there?

I don't think anyone's home...

bapu
So they worked on stability and people complain that they are not getting enough features?
 
Is that about the size of it?

Wouldn't score a single blonde in California!

Am I the only one who has turned off that "Smart Screen?"