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# Happy New Year 2016
- URL: https://blogs.remobjects.com/2016/01/01/happy-new-year-2016/
- Published: 2016-01-01T22:02:02.000Z
- Updated: 2018-08-22T06:17:38.000Z
- Author: marc hoffman
- Tags: #Import 2026-08-17 20:17

Hello everyone, and a Happy New Year of 2016!

We're hitting the ground running this year, and have already, on January 1, shipped brand new alpha/beta builds of our next upcoming major updates.

The latest Elements 8.3 beta build (.1911) is out, adding some pretty cool new stuff, including full-fledged support for [custom attributes on the Cocoa platform](http://talk.remobjects.com/t/can-i-use-in-ios-something-like-annotations-android-attribites-net/5624/25?ref=blogs.remobjects.com).

We have also been hard at work on improving the Swift Base Library, which is not in this build yet (for build-technical reasons — it needs the latest compiler to compile, and we haven't updated our build machines between the holidays) but is [available on GitHub](https://www.github.com/remobjects/SwiftBaseLibrary?ref=blogs.remobjects.com). Speaking of which, as part of this effort, the team has made countless improvements and bug-fixes to the Swift compiler based on issues we found working on this, many of which *are* in this beta (and many more to come, including vastly improved support for Swift-style protocol don't-call-them-generics and extensions).

New betas of RO9 and DA9 are out as well, build .1203\. RO9 is coming together well and getting close to being finished; we're shooting for an RTM within a month or two.

Elements 8.3 RTM is a *little* bit further away (we're thinking probably around March/April), but also something to look forward to. And we have great things planned for the remainder of 2016 that we think you'll love – both for RemObjects/DA 9.1 as well as Elements 8.4, and beyond. Stay tuned!

Yours,  
marc