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+# November 2024: Flashy winter
+
+This month we will discuss
+
+## Highlights
+
+- New Website
+- Merged
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+## New website
+
+We secretly soft launched our new website during Halloween.
+
+https://retrodeck.net/ 
+
+Check it out and give feedback on the Discord on Lemmy. 
+
+Thanks Adam Iannazzone for all his hard work on contributing his free time to the RetroDECK project and the new website. 
+
+## 3DS Emulation - status
+
+We had secret plans to include Lime3DS into the release of 0.9b. 
+
+But the big Citra forks are merging into one,  it feels better to wait until they have sorted everything out and get the best release into RetroDECK proper. 
+
+## Xenia - status
+
+Instead of pulling in all of Wine into RetroDECK and configure it. We are looking into utilizing [UMU launcher](https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher) for Xenia instead and other Wine based systems in the future.
+
+This feels like a better approach that can give more synergies.
+
+We are waiting for the Open Wine Components Team (Heroic Game Launcher, Lutris, Bottles, Lutris, Proton-GE) to finish up their flatpak version firstly. 
+
+
+## Merged Cooker
+
+Several of the big feature branches are now merged into Cooker proper.
+
+
+But the current cooker now features:
+
+- SRM (Add to Steam)
+- Godot Configurator
+- Updated Emulators
+- PortMaster
+- Lighter Manifest
+
+But having one big cooker now will make it easier to test everything in one go. 
+
+NOTE: That not everything is working at the moment (including some systems). 
+
+There is still  plenty of work to do.
+
+## Development is a bit slower 
+
+Please note that this is a big release with several features that requires coordination of several people that spends their free time doing this. 
+
+It is a huge endeavor and we can't give any ETA's on when 0.9b will be released and done.
+
+Everyone in FOSS have to always balance their commitment to free software and still do everything life entails.
+
+We are looking into when the cooker is a bit more fleshed out and stable too maybe utilize the flathub-beta remote to facilitate easy testing.
+
+## That is all for now
+
+There are more things we are working on, but you will see them in future blog updates!
+
+Thanks everyone!
+
+//The RetroDECK Team
+
+### Links
+
+[Discord](https://discord.gg/WDc5C9YWMx)
+
+[Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#retrodeck:matrix.org)
+
+[Github](https://github.com/XargonWan/RetroDECK)
+
+[Wiki](https://github.com/XargonWan/RetroDECK/wiki)
+
+[Donations](https://retrodeck.readthedocs.io/en/latest/wiki_about/donations-licenses/)
+
+[Lemmy](https://lemmy.zip/c/retrodeck)