@ BikerBob,
There is nothing like we kept others in dark or some thing, it was just a thank you note with the updates happened so far because with out the Kickstarter backers help the Almond+ project would have never succeeded. Kickstarter backers got their unit with very old firmware with very basic functionality of Home Automation, so we just wanted to update them. We would also share one more note with some updates for everyone soon.