Any updates on 1.8 is it in active development now?

Well we have
From the forum post also Kal posted a suspected annA tease on X

But it is unclear if this will really be implemented into the game or not.
The only real development update that was provided recently was that Kal was actively working on an update patch for the original ROUNDSCAPE ADOREVIA. But this was just released on Steam today
EDIT - Scrap that I cannot read years correctly it seems .....
Yeah I got no idea....
and not sure if work now begins on Starmaker 1.8?