I'm not dead, and haven't gone anywhere. Was just buried deep in my coding cave, working on FoG(U).
A new build (latest beta release was bRC6u04 v1.8.12.824, the current developer build is v1.8.15.872) will be ready soon (soon as in like any day now, definitely until the end of this week, before i'll have to go for a couple of days from Bucharest). It contains a lot of things: new rendering system (with significant performance improvements of around 50%), GUI polishing, new MP PBEM2 server, new MP communication compression protocol, new MP game flow, new MP games info, new SP/MP games options, scenario/map preview, SP/MP DAG themed armies and so on (I can't even remember all the features we've added from the last beta, as you can see, we've advanced the tertiary version from 12 to 15 and had 50 builds in-between). The iOS and Android versions are also up to date and working fine too.
So, see you soon..

dan