Oh ye of little faith, Tobycat... Have you lost hope already?
They say it is always darkest before dawn, right? I have faith. I, like you, have no idea when it will be released but the delay in moving the status bar up can mean a hundred bazillion, gazillion things and not ALL of them are bad.
Maybe if we all stand in a circle and hold hands and put forth our best positive energy, we can get the status bar to move.