has the new forum been released?
Officially, not yet. They are still working on the server side of it. If you have a discord profile, you can check out the Epochtalk server
https://discord.gg/9f2YA4fs (please note that this invite link expires in 7 days)
I believe once they are done with most of the testing, admin will let us know but as of now, we really don't know the ETA.