What is the status for seven man end game table bases? There are complete (or nearly complete) six man end game table bases available for download, and even online.

What is the status of seven man table bases? Is there still active development in this area? How much progress has been made? Is there any estimated time for when it will be completed, or at least complete enough to cover all the common seven man positions that occur in real games?
Seven man end game table bases are already available online:

http://chessok.com/?p=28049

By the end of 2013 they should be available off line as well. The size is 140 000 gigabytes so there is an obvious problem with copying them. They did not compute 6 white pieces versus 1 king since they decided it was pointless.

Interesting fact- the longest forced checkmate is 549 moves!