BalackSix's reply means that luthier did not talk to him about any update before his post appeared. Logically this means that there is no big landmark reached yet. This means that any update will not bring sufficient news to make majority happy. This means that the update will not make any difference and logically there is no point in making one.
This is the update from me
I can make it every Friday if you want
Seriously, it is not reasonable to ask for news. News appear only if any so called news-making events happen. Just imagine calling a news agency every 10 minutes and asking "do you have an update for us?" As soon as there are news you will get news. There is no point in just "sucking them out of a finger" as we say.
As far as I can see the updates policy is not to post every Friday useless "We are still working on this, that and that but small issues with that and this prevent us from issuing a patch yet. We do hope that these small issues would not cause any major disaster when pieces of code are assembled and tested together. As the tests are not 100% complete unfortunately we can not give you any ETA ATM because s**t usually happens in the very last moment as anyone working in the industry knows." It goes without saying if you think about it for a minute (maybe more).
It is reasonable that if there is no news there is no update. Luthier was too optimistic bringing some premature news too early in the past IIRC and probably learned some lessons. This is a good sign to me.
As wise men say "No news is good news."