A new beta of Refraction will be available to its customers in the nearby future. This has been announced on the website of Xentronix.

The forthcoming version, beta 7, will be another vast improvement in the progress of Refraction. This time not only because of the dedicated work by Frans van Nispen, but also thanks to submissions to the quite recently opened Bugs and Features bugtracker. Of the 52 bugs submitted over the last period of time, only 11 have not yet been resolved.

The reason why it took some time for Refraction to reach the beta 7 status was that Frans wanted to have dealt with several issues before he felt the new version of Refraction to be good enough for release. Because of the progress of late, he has announced that beta 7 will be the last version available under the Early Bird Licence discount. After that, Refraction will cost EUR 79.95 in stead of the current bargain of EUR 39.95, and won't be having the free update from Refraction R1 to R1.5. Bear in mind that Refraction will get scanner support for Zeta soon, and that there will also be a Refraction Lite edition available for purchase that is a better and more professional frontend than Sanity.