Was there a year without maintenance, as well?
If I remember, V8 had the most.
Autodesk usually releases before Q2…
Windows now has build 1804…
Mac 1014…
Everything changes…but time
Good point!
If santa normally droped down my chimney in November… I’d be concerned for his welfare!!!
The yearly major cycle started with Trimble. I started using SketchUp, in my previous job, right after SketchUp 6 had come out. First Google version. During those six years there was three major SketchUp releases; 6, 7, 8. SketchUp 8 had a final maintenance release in 2012 to rebrand it under Trimble. The releases under the Google era was of no predictability.
That being said… I wasn’t using SketchUp during @last, but that era lasted 6 years as well. And you had version one to five. So I guess it was almost a yearly release cycle back then as well. But it illustrates quite well Google’s investment in SketchUp vs Trimble’s.
It also strikes me, while writing this, that this is the first 6 year era where SketchUp haven’t been bought up at the end of it. 
The spell has been broken!
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Excellent summary - does this exist on the SU website? - could be an interesting addition.
Some of this is explained on the Wikipedia page for SketchUp. Perhaps not with as much detail.
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I must have read that previously.
As for the SU website, I was imagining slideshow presentation on the history of SU which could help as a marketing tool, sharing SU’s interesting history.
Thanks for clearing that up.
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P.s thanks for all you’ve done in that time… appreciated!
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I found all that reading very encouraging. (I was very worry at first) I’m gonna sleep tight tonight. cheers!
Have some faith people, I am sure there is good reason for the delay.
Even if SU 2019 were not to release until the new year I don’t see the reason to be alarmed.
Good things come to those who wait.
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I bought Affinity photo and it’s pretty close to being what CC is right now. And most of the tools and keystrokes are compatible (or can be made so with the shortcut editor).
Also has live filters, and can pull in and edit, say an .svg file into your photo editor and edit some stuff too(!)
Definitely worth the small investment.
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You say a lot without saying anything. Good for you. All people want to know is if their investment, both dollars and time, will be lost based on the (lack of?) future plans of Trimble.
You’ve already stated you cannot comment, so why do you still comment? Curious.
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Most likely due to the number of people who keep asking despite being told that we cannot answer 
Marc is doing his best to help out without getting himself into trouble with his employer. While we would love to share everything we are doing, we are not allowed to. Marc is sharing his sentiment, which is the best he can do, right now.
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Asking this kind of information from an employee is somewhat pretty unmeaningless atmost;
Surely, if they are alowed, they would say it is true and if they are not alowed, you would hear nothing at all!
As with all business, ‘A man’s life depends on a mere scrap of information around these parts’
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But the question is ‘why’ can’t you say anything? (especially when Trimble have dissapointed their customers by not sticking to the conventional and accepted release schedule)…Who/what dictates you can’t say anything? It defies logic to not talk to your paying customers and get them on side. It’s like some crazy throwback to the arcane business practices of the 80’s. The world’s moved on, so, should a business’ attitudes towards the people who pay the bills.
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Alas, neither Marc nor I are lawyers and we both enjoy being employed. When told by our employer, “Don’t talk about future releases,” then we don’t do that. As @MikeWayzovski eluded to, like it or not, there’s just not a lot we can do.
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Hello All in reading this I dont see how Maintaning your Support Contract means you will get a new yearly version. When you are entitled to them when they become availiable. It says Renew your Maintenance & Support for a one year period, any new version is like sprinkles …
You dont have to and if you are happy with what you have so be it. It will be your`s and stay that way till you stop recieving your personal updates!! You GET Maintenance and Technical Support
by renewing “Your SketchUp Pro Maintenance & Support agreement for the license/s below is going to expire on 2018/11/30 (YYYY/MM/DD).” and “will entitle customers to the following benefits: Upgrades to new major versions of SketchUp Pro when they become available” New Versions are benifits not manditory or included on a yearly basis… thats what I see written…??
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We all totally get that. Our (my) comments are not aimed at any of you good soles at the coal face but more specifically at the old grey suits upstairs who make inexplicable decisions. Maybe they need to read this thread or this forum a little more…BTW, it’s Christmas, you should be nowhere near this place. Put down your laptop.
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I still don’t think there was any reason to think sketchup would be discontinued in the first place, and this whole discussion seems a bit pointless considering that. In my opinion.
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