I would like to make 1 request to Daz, but I am posting it here because it could be deemed as disruptive if posted in Daz Carrara forum.

I am a bit skeptical now about using Carrara's 8.5 release. The almost 3 years it took to complete it means that the software changes it has gone through must have been steep, almost a complete rewrite, actually even a complete rewrite wouldn't have taken that long.

So it's legitimate to assume that there are tons and tons of new as-of-yet undiscovered problems in the 8.5 release.

The 8.1.1.12 release on the other hand  has been remarkably stable and bug-free, as far as I can tell.

So my request to Daz is: Can we have a final 8.1.x.x release that contains just the new light icons and the improvements to the timeline and graph editor?

I don't want any bug fixes that may have been done in 8.5, no fast mipmap and no Genesis. Just the 2 features I mentioned above.

This shouldn't be very hard to implement, at most 2 or 3 days of work for 1 developer.

After that the 8.1 release can be put to rest and considered as final.

Please Daz, make this one user happy.