User blog comment:Lapo90/Ship just got real - From the initial announcement, to the leaking, to the actual release./@comment-5482343-20141105152431

From the 10/06/2014 Update above:

"...the Leader of the winning guild will receive an exclusive, early-access release package via email from me on Oct. 17th...For everyone else, we will begin widespread distribution of the Naval content approximately two weeks later."

We are now more than two weeks pas Oct. 17th, so it looks like we are due for a software update that gives us all naval features, correct?