Any signs of life for the SharePoint Extensions for Visual Studio?

Has anything been released - or, in fact, talked about - since August's release of the v1.1 CTP?

Haven't done any web-part development in a while and wanted to get back in the game. I last used the v1.0 extensions, and was surprised that nothing much has changed in that field except for the CTP release, and even that can't be downloaded - I just get a broken link.