According to a post by Soft Byte Ltd on its Facebook page, it has released version 9 of the DesignAKnit charting software (DAK9).

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🎉HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT 🎉
DesignaKnit 9 is here and on sale NOW!!!!!
We are SO excited to bring you DK9! Lots of improvements have been made within the program and also the help and manuals have been re-written along with our website.
As usual, discounted upgrades are available. If you purchased DK8 or a DK8 upgrade since 1st June 2019, you will receive a further discount.
See our website for all the information about ordering and upgrading www.softbyte.co.uk
Email us on info@softbyte.co.uk for any questions or queries you have.
Upgrade features can be found here: https://softbyte.co.uk/DK9UpgradeForms/DK9_upgrade_features_F.pdf
More information will be coming on our Facebook and Instagram (@softbyteltd) over the next few days, weeks, months, so make sure you’re following us.
Please understand that the next few weeks are going to be rather busy, so please bear with us if orders and emails take slightly longer than usual, however we will try to be as efficient as normal.
We hope you are all as excited as us about this! It is an accumulation of lots of hard work from a lot of people over a lot of years and we hope you enjoy the new DK9!
*****IT SHOULD BE NOTED**** that every day, more small bugs are found (its such a huge program, and some bugs only happen when you do things in a certain order, we are literally dealing with bugs as we speak), so if you get your DK9, and you find something which doesn’t seem quite right, LET US KNOW ASAP PLEASE, AS WE MAY NOT HAVE NOTICED IT. Also, make sure that for the first few weeks you regularly update DK9 as we will fix bugs as we go

feeling excited.