they always have been very consistent these past years with .5 and primary releases in the october - December window. I thought i’d stop upgrading for a while with cubase 8 but they always managed to sneak in a few features that I really wanted cubase to have, not to mention the performance improvements I had since 9. Where I have like 1/3d increase in performance headroom for the tracks that I made on this 10 year old pc. The streamlining of the interface itself in 10 was also a good move.