As far as CB 1.0 future, I would like to have a 1.0 stable released in January 2006. It looks like JoomlaJoe (aka Mambojoe) has some spare time and will join forces with Beat. This will give the project a huge boost and also more reliability. Along with 1.0 stable the team will probably release the CB Profile Book plugin, a very nice plugin that adds guestbook type features to a CB profile. The code - as all JoomlaJoe code - is a very nice learning case for potential plugin developers. I have been studying it and its a very nice tutorial in itself. As far as 1.0 stable goes no real new features will be added - only reproducable artifacts will be addressed.