Rebus 2 has been in development for about 1,5 years now, and it has been used in production for at least one year by myself and many others… and by “Rebus 2”, I mean Rebus versions >= 0.90.0 🙂
Sorry about the confusion
First off, I would like to apologize for the confusion about the versions. For historical reasons the versions less than and including 0.84.0 are known as “Rebus 1”, and versions greater than and including 0.90.0 are known as “Rebus 2”. If you are interested, you can see the original announcement in this blog post.
Fixing the versioning
In order to “fix the versioning”, Rebus will soon become a real version 2.0.0.
In semantic versioning this marks as big step, as versions < 1.0.0 are allowed to make breaking changes for every single release, and thus are inherently unstable. Therefore, when Rebus becomes 2.0.0, it means that patch increments are for bugfixes and small improvements, minor increments are for backwards compatible feature additions, and then the major version number is incremented whenever a change is made which is NOT readily compatible with existing code.
When is this going to happen?
A few things need to be done before this is going to happen, where the main thing is that the ground must be laid for how the Rebus code repository should be split into separate repositories in the future.
It does not mean that 2.0.0 will necessarily wait for all of the libraries to have been moved, it just means that a few libraries must have been moved to prove that the code structure and everything surrounding the code works to support the new way.
If you are interested, you can follow the progress here on GitHub – for now, the due date for the milestone is set to the October 1, 2016.
Summary
If all goes well, Rebus 2.0.0 will be published on October 1, 2016 🙂