This week, beta testers saw a significant upgrade to HM2 – the next major iteration of the poker analytics package Hold’em Manager – with significant interface changes and a long list of bug fixes, performance improvements and software tweaks.
Originally slated for a September release, the Hold’em Manager development team is now aiming for a release in the second half of October. The update pushed out to beta testers last weekend is hoped to be the last major change prior to official launch, with the focus now on resolving “all non-critical bugs.”
This update saw the debut of the new dark theme, a design more inline with the tones of the original Hold’em Manager. The light theme can be switched on in the options.
Also touted in the latest upgrade are significant performance increases, apparent in both software load times and report generation. Perhaps to allow for this, there have also been large-scale interface changes: gone are the docked windows – for the replayer, hand history grid and graphs – and in their place are additional floating windows.
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The team is quick to inform customers that the final release does not mean development on the HM2 project comes to an end.
“Yes, there is more functionality to be added to HM2 even after it goes on sale,” writes an HM2 customer rep. “Build-Your-Own-Stats, powerful new exception-based reporting in the HUD and a free version of HM Vision,” are some of the features that hope to debut after the first public release is out of the door.
