Is there an update on the IB connection?

I'm not sure of the exact reason but anyone using the backfill with IB has issues populating any amount of historic data and times out, eg) Amibroker and Quantshare have this issue if memory serves me correct. Ninja and Multicharts have no issue extracting historic data. Now why one can and the other can't I'm not sure of, but that backfill process is a pain in the ass.