A great deal of time has been spent working on the User Interface for this next version. The driving factor being consistency and dependability. It’s come along nicely and we think you will be happy with the end product.
Chat still has some work to be done before it will be ready for release. We want it to be rock solid when it goes out and it has a few performance issues at the moment. Namely long wait times when opening the chat roster for accounts with many (a few thousand) friends. We’ll get it sped up before release.