No hard dates yet. Dillon said on another thread that we should be getting a 7.10 Beta 3 pretty soon. I would say it will be here today or next week, and from what I see on Github we should be able to see the new colours in that Beta.
The 7.10 release is getting a longer process than most other releases - more betas and release candidates. I’m glad this is so - it’s abig release with lot’s of cool new stuff, it needs extra testing.
@furlong actually there is an architectural problem (inherited from SugarCRM) that currently the Theme code is too tied up with all the UI, it’s not a clean layer you can replace. So anybody doing a Theme, even if the license was better for them commercially, would face a tough uphill battle trying to keep their Theme up to date with SuiteCRM upgrades.
I guess this is part of the reason why “New UI” is on the Roadmap for 8.0… and the new REST API that’s being worked on (which can be used for external integrations, but also for internal composition of modules) is also part of this effort to improve the layer separation.
I don’t know, maybe it will have a couple more releases (Release Candidate 1, Release Candidate 2) before being finalized. So a month from now, or a month and a half perhaps?