Hi;

IPS has just gotten its first 1.0.0 version number. This is for now a
development version which I'm working on internally to fix the last few
bugs. I expect it to be made available as a 1.0.0 (Beta) in about one
week if nothing bad happens. Then it would need to prove itself as
non-beta quality for some time while I work on updating documentation
and such. Any bugs that should surface during this period will of
course be attempted fixed. Then when documentation is up to date there
will be a release candidate which also needs to prove itself for some
time before a final release is done. Then, after years of work IPS will
finally see its first non-beta marked release ever.