http://massivelyop.com/2017/08/22/the-repopulation-struggles-to-get-content-patch-ready-for-release/

The faithful and hopeful fans waiting for the next stage of The Repopulation’s development might have a glimmer of hope to hang on to today. The devs announced on the forum that they had overcome “a major hurdle to deployment” of the long-awaited patch and were optimistic that the process might go a bit more smoothly from here on out.

“The changes in [the hybrid patching system] over the last 16 months has given us some of that challenge we mentioned above,” the team said, “but we believe we have finished the changes needed to push The Repopulation. Please note that once we get past the cleanup and can update The Repopulation to the latest version of HE, it will be easier and quicker.”

Ever the teases, the devs posted a few pictures of rocks, hinting that these assets are going to be part and parcel of the content update when it arrives.