Apologies for our silence and delays are naturally in order but we hope that recent announcements and developments can at least offer some justification and explanation. Your involvement and contributions with bug reports has been overwhelming and much appreciated. We have worked through all of them as thoroughly and diligently as possible and now feel we are confident for this public release. With your help, we believe that we have now drastically improved the overall stability of the kernel, and are nearing a "final" 2.0 release. The only reason we are not deeming this revision "2.0 final" is that we still have a few kinks to work out with some of our newer features. As we wanted this release to be as rock-solid as possible, those features are currently still disabled. Once we get the last few bugs worked out of these components, we will release "RC1," and if no major issues are reported, will deem the image "Final".

A quick word about where we'll be going from here: When 2.0 "Final" is released, it will actually be released as XeniumOS 2.0.0 as we will be moving to a new method of versioning. From there, when we release minor updates, bugfixes, and small feature changes, we will increase the subminor version number. So, the first release after 2.0.0 will be 2.0.1, and will be primarily minor changes. When we release a new version with several new, major features, we will increase the minor version number, going to 2.1.0. When drastic changes have occurred to the OS, we will increase the major version number, bringing us to 3.0.0. We believe that this new system will help to drive more frequent revisions, and create a clear distinction between minor and major version changes. We hope that you will realize how serious we now are in acheiving targeted goals and in responding to consumer reports quickly.

Changelog for Beta 2:
+ Preliminary Quickboot support (press button AFTER power-on)
+ Added remote gamepad emulation via telnet
+ Added "Restore Factory Defaults"
* Improved organization of settings menus
* Reduced flash space consumption
* Changed backdrop
- Fixed problem with HDD Upgrade Wizard not copying some Live information properly
- Fixed a rare race condition which could lead to OS corruption during flashing
- Resolved several Kernel Panics related to saving configuration to flash
- Fixed a bug in the directory enumerator that would cause problems with some filenames
- Several additional updates to filesystem and IDE/ATAPI drivers
- Improved Flash/Ram Filesystem Performance
- Fixed some protocol handling problems with FTP server
- Fixed improper handling of corrupted system date/time
- Resolved several memory leaks

Legend:
+ Addition
- Bug fix
* Change