In November it will be 4 years since Episode 4 came out. To put it into perspective, in a four year span, we got KQ5, 6 and 7 (1990-1994). Is there any chance of it being finished this year? I'm not asking for a release date, or "when exactly will it come out", merely if there is any chance that it will come out at some point this year given the level of progress? I do not think a minor update on the progress after almost 4 years is asking too much...Like, "Yes, we're far enough into development that it is quite conceivable Ep 5 could come out sometime this year. This is not a promise or a guarantee and nothing is set in stone, but we have progressed enough since 2011 that this is a possibility." or "Given our level of progress currently and the pace at which we are working, the release of Ep 5 this year doesn't seem a likely possibility."
Releasing TSL Ep5 this year isn't out of the realm of possibility but it's hard to make a prediction of when it will be done with current progress being as slow as it is.
I will probably be personally working on it more this next month but past that I couldn't say.