I have no reason to expect a serious bug-fixing effort. In my expectation what they are going to do is release a 6 with some new eye candy -- possibly some very interesting eye candy (normal mapping? Dynamic cloth?) -- but it will contain many of the bugs that have been in Carrara since version 4. What is actually pretty interesting is wondering in what directions they mean to take it. The developers have been very close-mouthed. The only hint out there is the activity on the bug tracker -- lots of concentration on things that have to do with render improvements and integration with Poser, essentially no movement on anything else. Is this a useful indicator? Does it mean even more integration with Poser, or merely a smoother integration? Being as this is DAZ now, will it import DAZ Studio content as smoothly as it currently does Poser content? Even more intriguing is some of the internal naming structures floating around. "Future DAZ product" is named....does that mean Carrara and DAZ Studio might merge? If so, it certainly makes sense they are keeping THAT one under their hats for the moment. I'd certainly wait until Poser 7 shipped, too, if I was in their shoes! I have some faint hope that they might put more tools into Carrara for the reverse operation; for getting Carrara-built content exported into Poser (or DAZ Studio). These could be very exciting tools to have for a content creator. A modeling engine with built-in cr2-builder would be the only one of its kind out there....even if the market for such a thing might not be that large. Still, it really does feel as if the modeling tools are tacked-on to a software now positioned for different tasks. Carrara 5 pro was basically a couple of Hexagon hand-me-downs crammed into the old framework. They worked remarkably well, but the framework is getting a little creaky. I don't expect much good in that direction in the future, however. It makes too much sense to put all the dedicated modeler functionality into Hexagon. Even if the current state of that program is rather less than could be desired in terms of stability and friendliness. Fun to muse on this, but ultimately pointless. DAZ will do whatever it is they do, and us end-users will pay them even if they ship a piece of garbage. We both survive, and with luck even grow a little.