Any idea on a release date?

[Howitzer]

Looking for a tentative release date for CPG1.6 which I understand will support PHP 7 and mysqli.

I don't have Coppermine installed currently and I don't want to install 1.5.46 (which would require me to downgrade PHP first in order to run it) only to upgrade in a month or two...

[ron4mac]

Please see:
https://github.com/coppermine-gallery/cpg1.6.x/releases
and http://coppermine-gallery.com/forum/index.php/topic,79013.0.html

[Howitzer]

Thanks. I had searched the forums and read that post. I am asking about an official release, not a developer pre-release.

[phill104]

We cannot say. We have such a small team it is hard for us to get all the work done. I will say that the 1.6 release is very stable and has so far worked very well. If you decide to use it you must first make sure that any plugins you are using are compatible before you upgrade a live site.