Thanks for clearing this up, guys.
Paul: I had noticed it before that it happened while I was not on WiFi, and also that it usually takes a large amount of time.
I cannot confirm that it only happens on open networks, as I don’t study my phone 24/7.
Thom
I only use wifi and it looks for updates all the time when connecting to another wifi network. But that is the only opportunity for the phone to do so 
Any news or any hint of release date?
I’m part of the beta test and we’re still doing some testing. There are a couple of options been decided on over how FP make this release available as they have hopefully cracked the updating process but for it to work properly they need to update the updater app first! Tricky.
Anyway, hopefully soon is the answer! 
Hi everybody,
what aboutthe 1.8 update ?Is it ready? I didn’t receive an email to notify it. (In France)
Thank you!
Cheers
If you look at the answer from @Chris_R it seems like it’s coming out soon, but we still don’t know when
Oh yes! I didn’t read it! Thank you Lovisan
In your case, it will probably be notifying you becaus e v1.6 is classed as the latest update and this isn’t installed.
ahsan
Hello Marco,
when can i expect the fixes for the 1.8 update. For me it seems a little bit weak, that we have to wait so long. The bugs are present for 4-5 months now. Every time i reboot the FP some icons disappear from my home screen. OK. It is not a really heavy problem, but it disturbs a lot.
Thanks for infos…
greets from germany,
Burkhard
Ihr Lieben,
ich kann mich meinem Vorredner nur anschließen und darum bitten, uns über den aktuellen Stand der Entwicklung des neuen Updates zu informieren.
Beste Grüße, Andreas
Hope the 1.8 update comes really soon.
Greets from USA
We are waiting 
Greets from Germany
It’s a shame how this is handled here. At least we deserve occasional updates on the matter but nothing happens. This is not “fair”.
Do you want a weekly newsletter saying “we don’t have anything new”?
Oh okay you want to make fun of this. Surely you can say “we don’t have anything new” if you don’t do anything. So carry on with… uhm… making fun and doing nothing. Or you could just inform us on the progress. Your decision.
Please don’t get angry. Try to realize @Stefan is not a FP employee and this forum is no direct link between you and the FP team (use customer support for that, or send an email)
I think it’s rather normal not to get “occasional updates”. The new update is in beta testing, so what would they update you about? We never had these kind of updates before, so it really doesn’t bother me they aren’t here now.
Claiming the FP team isn’t doing something, arguing not getting updates is not “fair” is not really going to help, I guess.
Hi Jose!
We put an update on our support site last month about the current state of the new update. Also - as you probably already know - we’ve a beta program running testing the latest update, which of course you can join if you want. We currently have around 40 participants giving us valuable feedback.
Apart from this, we will release information very soon about the new Kola Nut update. The software update is in its final stages and we are currently testing the release process. So sit tight!
Hope this “update” is “fair” to you
Have a great day!
Cheers,
Rick
Thanks everybody for the calm replies. I myself got a bit “unfair” The answer from rick was what i was hoping for. Didn’t realize there was a support site. Have a nive day everybody!
I want to apologize for this one because I tend to forget that the community moderators are seen as employees (which we are not). Still I should have provided a more objective answer rather than seeing it the funny way.