The Cycles integration in Poser was one mans job. One single man who had the tech and knowledge to do that.

He got laid of with the rest of the team in November 2016.

Of course Cycles was not updated in the SR's because the single guy with the knowledge to do so was fired.

Blender moved on with Cycles and Eevee and is on the verge of releasing 2.8, but who has the capabilities to bring it over?

This is a question only Rendersity/Bondware can find an answer for.

Right now, it is months too soon to even start speculating what the "next" render engine will look like.

Finding the right people for the job is the hardest part. Remember, the original team had the know-how, but we are 3 years down the road of the initial cut-offs.

The same goes for beta testers. Wait too long to appoint a "fresh beta tester team", and most of the internal knowledge will be forgotten too.

For all companies, during all take overs, the knowledge transfer is the single most important fact.

And, that became close to impossible, since the only team that "knew" the code is already gone 3 years.

They tried a team in Portugal, recovered and brought the app back home, and now it is sold.

3 Years are lost and gone.

The WORST case scenario would be to appoint "friends" to become programmers and appoint "friends" to become the new beta-testers.

Friends are to have a BBQ with.

If you want the job done as it should?

You find the tech guys, and they can NOT be vendors because they HAVE to stay NEUTRAL, and they can never be "friends", because they will find and report your errors, whether you like it or not.

Appoint "friends" or vendors as beta testers, and they will agree and accept everything you make, and you will not advance a single coding line, and never fix a bug.

All I can say is : I hope Rendersity/Bondware can "recover" the tech guys, preferable the original team members, or they are going to see dark times.

Poser is my hobby, Poser is my passion, has been for the past 25 years, and I really hope that they can recover.