I think Wolfram just really wants to sell the annual model instead of single never-expiring never-updating licenses. Renting software is definitely en vogue these days...

Also a working Wolfram Workbench and Lightweight Grid manager for version 10.x would be great to have.

It appears that an annual license for the Home Edition is the better deal. Too bad this is not made clear on the website -- that there are likely to be multiple upgrades in a given year. Before version 10, upgrades (requiring an upgrade fee) were between a year an 18 months or so, making the difference in price between buying outright and an annual 'rental' much smaller. Personally, I prefer having software that doesn't become non-functional if you don't keep paying a fee. However, aside for the 'classic' Desktop Mathematica, there seems to be a trend towards a subscription model.

Customer service might be able to help. Since this is a new problem -- only with version 10 and beyond, there may be a different policy.

I looked into giving up my Premier service in favor of the home edition when I retired, and I am glad that I did not. Once you get over the hump of buying the initial license (a big hump, and fortunately well in the past for me), the annual Premier service is a bargain.

My point wasn't so much about announcing the 10.2 release as such but its pricing and update path. For example, although I'm very glad these quite substantial point releases are happening, when I purchased MMA Home Edition (10.0.1, I believe), I did not know this change to a system of point releases was happening, nor that I would need to pay for them, nor what the updates would cost. AFAIK, this information was not publicized anywhere at that time. Then, when 10.1 was released, I don't recall (I may be wrong) receiving an email or seeing a blog post or a support article about the new pricing model either.

Now that we've gone from 10.1 to 10.2 another issue comes into play. Since there were no dot releases between 10.1 and 10.2, if you don't purchase an annual plan, does this mean that you effectively don't get any bug fixes either? Or will these continue to be handled via paclets? Or just for some bugs? Well, perhaps there will be a 10.2.1 or 10.3.1 as well, but who knows?

I also don't know how many more 10.x releases to expect (even roughly). Will I be paying for three more, four more? Each one will cost 95 dollars (I can only assume). And if I skip one, do I then pay $190 to go from from e.g. 10.2 to 10.4? Or, if 10.x releases are really free for Home Edition users who have purchased an upgrade in the last 30 days, perhaps I should wait and only upgrade just before every second update. Save myself half the price. This, surely, is not intended, so I wonder if the 30 day offer will really hold.

These are the kinds of questions which should really be answered in an FAQ somewhere but AFAIK are not.

When will it be available for Premier Service customers?

I agree, it would be great to have such a list.

I can confirm that the EntityValue[] problem has been fixed.

Cheers,

Marco

Great stuff. It would be nice to have a list somewhere of the bugs fixed, especially those discussed in this community, such as EntityValue[]. I am sure that there are others.

Great stuff ! I guess Stephen tweeting about it is quite publicizing ;-)