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After a lot of work (helped by the fact that my summer vacation have been mostly rainy here), I have completed LOTRoster 1.1.0 and RosterMaster 4.1.4, and made both of them available for download.

Most of the changes in RMSA are actually features that I have written for LOTRoster and then ported back to its parent.  While nothing really major in appearance, I believe that some of them like the vBulletin integration will be appreciated by quite a few people.

On the LOTRoster front however, there's been a lot of work since 1.0.0.  The changelog might not be that long, but some of these (like all the new artwork support, tribes support, etc...) involved a good amount of work.   When I first released 1.0.0, I was pretty much in the dark as for how popular this would prove to be with the LOTRO crowd, not having the slightest idea of how many LOTRO guild websites were out there, how much importance those guilds put into their member rosters, etc...  The popularity quickly outgrew all my initial expectations as the word started to spread out there.  Every time someone downloaded LOTRoster Beta 1, God I killed a kitten bug. 

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And while on the topic of the development drive, I do not want to sound cliché, but special thanks are in order for two members of your community:

Aruen (Landroval).  She's the one who first contacted me a few months ago about porting Rostermaster to LOTRO.  She was my liaison with the LOTRO community, relaying my questions to Turbine's Bracket when I had any.  She was also my reference for LOTRO things as I knew next to nothing about the game, what all those stats meant, and so on.

Chivalry (Gladden).  He's the one responsible for providing all the artwork that made it into 1.1.0, provided a lot of suggestions, and also helped spreading the word about LOTRoster, also acting as my liaison with the community.

I know a lot of people downloaded the beta.  I strongly encourage you to upgrade to this new finalized version, as quite a few additional bug fixes made it into this release.  As always, feedback, questions or even plain "Thank you"s are welcome, be it through this website or through Email (if you require support).  Chivalry also created a thread on the LOTRO forums (right here).  I encourage the community to use this thread for discussions about LOTRoster.  I cannot post on the LOTRO forums, but I can still read them, so I'll always be keeping a close eye to this thread.