thanx boonex for providing us with the power of dolphin7

secondly i have a doubt. i am new in this industry.i was planning to start my social networking site with dolphin 6.1.4 just then i got to know about dolphin7.My qustion is that will i would be able to upgrade my site to dolphin7 in future from 6.1.4 without losing my database? are you going to provide any update patch to dolphin7 ? or i should wait for the release of dolphin7.Also tell me the expected release date. thanx