Ah, don't be sad. He gets asked around half a dozen times a day anyway, so we're probably gonna get it next year at the very least!
Even that pales in comparison of what forum users did to even obtain the fabled 0.95a patch notes. One mad lad supposedly took Alex's let bear (?) hostage, demanding them in return. We do not know if the altercation even occurred or how it really turned out, but the prophetic lines of new features and balancing appeared on the sacred Announcements board a few days later.