According to the web blurb 7.1 is out Monday (11th).
I will never know why they went for the new licensing, I downloaded the 6.9 beta to run as freeware and it just point blank refused to install the freeware license.
Version 7.0 did actually manage to install the freeware license, but now they are moving it back, it just seems like a lot of faff for not a lot of benefit.
They should concentrate on new features, I can't really see any feature benefit from V6.0 to V7.0 apart from the hierarchy. They are effectively charging people for bug fixes, even Microsoft doesn't do this, they release service packs for free.