The sale has begun! When will version 2023 be released?

I'm so eager to get 2023 versions of Painter & Designer that i constantly double check these forums every single day XD help me! Judging from what the dev said on January 4th in one of the topics, today the couple of weeks have passed (like it's been said) and 2023 versions should be released. By the way, if i start the trial of 30 days from the Adobe website, will i get the same identical version i would get here on Steam? This way i would be able to start working already with the softwares in order to be...

For some reason SP is exporting height textures as normal maps on in a single texture set. All other exportable texture sets that have the same settings as the first one export as blank normal maps with no detail. What's the issue here?

The Steam Store page says the sale will end Dec. 1st, but that is just for this August Sale. Will the loyalty discount continue past that?

I bought a perpetual license in 2021 and it seems that the two years update support just recently ran out and I missed that cool path tool update. Is there way to purchase or renew update license without repurchase Painter on Adobe website?