I am delighted to report that initial testing of the universal binary for Intel Macs was a success! We were unable to test the voice chat (no microphones), but otherwise everything looked operational. If you have access to an Intel Mac and can help us test voice chat, we are still offering a free BitWise Plus membership in exchange for your testing. This means that the next release of BitWise for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) will be a universal binary! We will be updating the download page with the new universal binary graphic once it is released.
As previously announced, the next version of BitWise will be 1.7.1, a bug fix release. We are aiming to release a beta early next week and then hopefully make the release on February 28th. As with most release dates, this date is rather arbitrary and is certainly flexible if we need additional time for testing.
Stay tuned, and start those testing engines!