Over the past couple of years releases of new official parts have been
less frequent than in the past. LDraw.org would like to apologise or these
delays and explain the reason why.

About two years ago LDraw.org decided to move to a new license scheme
(the Contributor Agreement) for the parts library. This new system has
numerous advantages, perhaps most importantly the fact that most parts
will now be distributable without having to include Complete.exe
and ldraw027.exe (a problem for many new users) and can be included
with other software without a separate parts installation.

It has been a huge undertaking tracking down old part authors and asking
them to agree to these new terms and a lot of people have put a huge
amount of work into making this happen. The process is slowly reaching a
conclusion now with the number of authors (and parts by those authors)
nearing zero. Here is the list of files in the official library, whose original
author has not affirmed the CA and and therefore need to be re-written by
CA-authors. If anyone would like to re-write these from scratch - without
copying the original author's work, then please do so and send to the LDraw
admins (parts@ldraw*no-spam-please*.org) for submission to the Parts Tracker.

Currently the PT admins are converting the old part headers to the new
format. With almost 3000 parts to be converted one can glimpse the size of
the task. Once the entire library is under the new agreement, the rate of
release of updates will increase again.

We thank you for not complaining about this and hope that in the mean
time you will download parts from the Parts Tracker to fill any gaps
you may have.

The LDraw.org Team