Patchou delayed the release, as posted in the Announcements section, partly because WLM 8.1 is so buggy and he did not want to be held responsible by users for WLM 8.1 crashing (it does that itself
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Originally posted by Patchou
The beta version of Windows Live Messenger 8.1 has been made available to private beta testers for about a week now and more and more people are asking for a compatible version of Messenger Plus!. I can happily say that Messenger Plus! Live 4.10 (previously labelled 4.02) is currently in the work and will be entirely compatible with the new Messenger, however, I do not plan to release this version before at least another two weeks. The main reason for that delay is very simple: the current beta of Messenger 8.1 is extremely unstable and brings nothing really new to its users. I encourage all of you to stick with version 8.0 for now, you'll feel much better without a Messenger that can crash every 5 minutes during a chat 
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