You'll remember that over the last year or so, I've helped champion the HX series of custom firmwares for the Samsung i8910 HD, stepping into the shoes of Samsung, who effectively abandoned their own device. All good things come to an end though and HyperX himself, the guy who assembled these firmware has announced that he's moving on and that there definitely won't be another release. Of note here is that the final HX-V11 firmware (which had been 'temporarily' withdrawn) is now back up for download, along with all its associated goodies. Download 'em while you can, folks!

From Andy's final blog post:

If we look back…. i ….. and we can remember some good times…. It was the Samsung i8910 bought me and this site alive. It was the (bad) software/firmware from Samsung itself which forced us all or even some of us to work together to put the modding level in the Symbian world a little bit higher.

I can remember times when this site has been visted over 10 000 times /day, People where excited about a the new HX-VXX …. also people are fighting against me crying about bugs or whining about things that has been discussed thousends of times.
But all these things are what i am missing now….. It was more then just my hobby, it was somthing that has changed me/ or my optinion to many things in my live.

To coincide with the reappearance of the official download for HX-V11 firmware, there's also now apparently a new version of the integrated HX-Patcher utility, with which you can adjust a myriad of system components and settings in the i8910 HD. Also of note is that HX-V11 is Swype-compatible, as shown below:

You can find the full release details, changelog, more screenshots and various goodies over at the HX-V11 download page.