At the end of the message, the developer addressed the fans:
Thank you all for allowing this bad student to stay up all night. P.S. Yes, I'm still working on version 1.1.
This is the first official confirmation of the update's progress since September 2025, when LocalThunk announced that it was postponing the release to 2026 due to burnout after the launch of the mobile version.
The developer emphasized that he prefers to work slowly but regularly, rather than in crunch mode. For accurate balancing, LocalThunk completed Balatro to 100% on the maximum difficulty level and is designing the update content based on this. There is no exact release date for version 1.1 yet: "it will be released when it's ready."