Good news and bad news. Bad news first. I really haven't had the time to finish off the update project. Good news: there may be an intermediate step that also fixes other stuff and lets me bring improvements quicker. ZTE posted KitKat source code for the V811 that still contains, at least at first glance, everything needed by our phone. I'm working on generating a patch between the two kernels. What this means: I can unofficially get us to ZTE's KitKat source code.
*edit* it just gets better, they actually left the configs in here for becky, coeus, nestor, nex (that's us!), stormer, and warplte. When they provided the original NEX source I had to pull the config off of the phone.