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== Current stage of development ==

The project has been discontinued abruptly by Bastioni,<ref name="CE-shutdown">https://www.blendernation.com/2018/11/26/manuelbastionilab-character-editor-shuts-down/</ref> after the release 1.6.1a, which was not compatible with Blender 2.80.{{cn}} Bart Veldhhuzien indicates Bastoni attempted unsuccessfully to raise funds and then chose move quoting Bastoni as saying: "I’m sorry, I did my best, but I cannot continue the development of the lab. I will use Blender as artist, since Blender and its community are part of my life."; and "I realized that the lab community size is not enough to support a so expensive project".<ref name="CE-shutdown"/>

Though there are substantial number of audience waiting for release 1.7 of the lab, the project has been discontinued abruptly by the author, after the release 1.6.1a. The probable reason was that the users of Lab did not contribute to the donation process for the amount of effort and time the author put in the work. The compatibility of the Lab is so far limited to Blender 2.79, and has not been ported to Blender 2.80 by the author.{{cn|date=October 2019}}

In December 2018, a new repository, based on last Bastioni's version (1.6.1a), aiming at Blender 2.80 compatibility, has been opened on GitHub with project name MB-Lab.<ref name="Fork1">{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/animate1978/MB-Lab|title=MB-Lab GitHub clone|website=github.com|access-date=2019-01-31}}</ref>