It’s almost ready. I’m still trying to work on the prettyPhoto code in the portfolio, its been holding everything up. If I don’t figure out how to add the feature I’m wanting to do then I’ll just release the other updates and add it in the future.
Genesis Child themes don’t have WP Dashboard update notifications. Usually when there is an update, I’ll announce it on twitter – http://twitter.com/wesstraham. I will also be adding updates to the theme’s changelog pages as well. I don’t currently have an email subscribe program for the updates just yet, but hopefully I can find a good one for people to subscribe to when they want to be notified.