In order to avoid future problems with mismatches between Emplode and the player, I reckon it's better to wait.

True, but in case you didn't know, Emplode will have its own versioning in the future, totally having no relation with the versioning of player.
What I actually meant was to install the newest player on the empeg to play with but don't use emplode (any version) yet, until proven (hopefully today) the newest version is stable enough to release. Furthermore, in this way the load on the empeg webserver is spread out over a larger timeframe. First everybody starts downloading the .upgrade files, since they aren't expected to be altered anyway. Then when emplode is ready, get that chunk. So Rob, what are you waiting for! Plz hand it over to us!

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Edwin de Vaan