Morinn: The game was updated to v1.03 on 13/02/2015.
It may not be a huge update but many mods require this version in order to work.
Any plans to release this patch anytime soon?
Shouldn't be long now. There was word of it coming out by the end of last week, and then a pretty weird delete bug surfaced, which looks resolved now. If I had to guess, I'd expect it to come out next week the latest - but I'm only guessing. ;)
Btw, some mods, like Mmod, offer two versions, the one compatible with the last stable build, and the one compatible with the newest test version. All in all, I think most finished and updated mods aside from Extended NeoScav should be playable with v1.00, one way or another. So if I were you, I'd shop around for some different mods while waiting.