Regarding your question, see belowSo this update, because it is a x.xx.5 update, will be sooner than the future 0.6, even if it is not out in january. I just looked at the progress tracker and I have to say it looks very good already. Might we expect it to be out around february's beggining?
To add to that, we don't do update estimates either. Pre-production is mostly done now and some production has started, which can be seen on the latest progress log (posted today), but pre-production takes no time in comparison to production itself.We do not currently have specific release dates, at the moment we provide release dates fairly close to the release.
If you wish, you can make use of the weekly progress logs to kinda guesstimate. Any guesses about a release date, using the progress log or otherwise, won't be confirmed nor denied. As stated we'll be sure to inform everyone once we know the release date.