Hi Omid,
Your first quote is almost word for word what I got told when I enquired well over 5 months ago. So looks like those well laid plans have been well and truly stuffed
This is were I though it might have been in version 1.5.
Well, that quote comes after 1.51, but I've been hearing that even more than one year ago too... (Some of MBAM developers are against that, because they say it's not safe! and will cause many problems!)
Yes, they are certainly dragging their feet on this one contrary to their comments they are working on it. It surely can't be beyond the collective intelligence for the developers to make incremental updates safe, in the same way as avast has, by validating the downloaded packets.