I wish you all Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! (Patreon)

Another year is nearly behind us, Hans Gruber fell off the Nakatomi Tower earlier this week and this means it's officially holiday season 🎄

2018 was a somewhat intense year for me, and I have to admit that I'm glad it'll soon be over and I can face a fresh one 😅 Looking back all-in-all I'm happy with what I accomplished. With regards to OctoPrint that means four stable releases and all-in-all 12 release candidates, finally some usage tracking (I'm still so unbelievable happy about finally having *numbers* 😍), the printer safety plugin doing its part to alerting users about unsafe printers (and vendors actually appearing to reacting to this and fixing their firmwares, hah!), the new community forums as a one-stop-shop for all things OctoPrint launching and seeing people help each other there, a ton of launched improvements and fixes... there was a lot of good stuff happening. I'm still not where I'd like to be with regards to progress on 1.4.0 thanks to the incredibly increased maintenance and support overhead, but that's something I'm sure I'll also find a solution for down the road.

For now it's time to drop the hammer for the year and take a breather, spend some time with friends and family, tinker with electronics, maybe even print something from my huge backlog 😂 and recharge the batteries - mine, not those of the electronics 😋. I'll be back in the second week of January, hopefully with a lot of fresh energy 😊 Which - let's face it - will then of course quickly be spent on working through the ton of mails and tickets and whatnot that will greet me on my return, but I guess it is as it is 😏

Until then I want to wish all of you Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year, and also want to thank you again for supporting my work. This all wouldn't be possible without you, and I'm inexpressibly grateful for your continued support! 💕 

~ Gina

PS:  December 25th will be OctoPrint's six birthday already - wow 😲!