What's cooking for 3.0?

Below are the current plans for 3.0, i.e. my current ideas for enhancement?

MLA 2.5 final version is now ready for download. This new version represents some more hard work to make MLA user friendly, and more useful to the Abalone community. The engine has also been enhanced, and is stronger than ever.

MLA's 3.0 engine

New opening settings
Opening book
Specific enhancement for ejection escape moves
Singular extensions for marble ejections

Solve problems

Ask the engine to solve a problem with brute force with a specific goal like "eject one stone, eject two stones, win, occupy this field"
Display problem solution in the variation tree

Abalone Arena

Creation of dedicated serial numbers for programmers with the related features.
Allow the use of former versions of the MLA engine in the arena.

MLA player

Allow variation choice and browsing
Mark variations in color like in MLA 2.5 (build 2.5.5).

MLA's time management

Creates levels for 1 minute per game, or 10 minutes per game.
Set-up the engine as critical process for more efficiency.

Documentation and web pages

Release of the scientific articles used to build MLA (bibliography and PDF files).
Opening the programming section explaining how an Abalone program can be written.
Publishing of dedicated articles making the inside of MLA available to the public (not the source code).