The just bumped to a new version in the newest betas. After Microsoft bought Xamarin those licensing issues appear to have gone, which makes sense given MS's strategy.

That's awesome news!

I'm still not sure why Microsoft hasn't just bought out Unity. Unity is almost like DirectX was for the 1990s for the 2010s.

Microsoft had XNA. That didn't turn out too well for them.

XNA died due to internal Microsoft politics, nothing to do with technology.

Window Phone 8 redesign was a consequence of WinDev, led by Synofsky winning their usual disputes against DevTools.

Nowadays they even support MonoGame on XBox and already apologized the process didn't went out as it should have been in first place.

EDIT:

Here they welcome MonoGame into XBox program

http://news.xbox.com/2016/03/14/letter-chris-charla-idxbox-u...

And here Unity is listed as one of the official Windows 10 game middleware

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/uwp

For some reason they decided to scuttle that in the Balmer/Sinofsky/Nadella shakeups.

It's actually a pretty nifty API to use, and has some continuation as MonoGame. Notably, Stardew Valley is an XNA/Monogame product.

not anymore, new stuff coming now that MS owns xamarin