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News 1.4 will be out, when Hervé releases it. I don't know about the time frame, but I do know that he has made a great number of bugfixes and improvements.
Regarding the x2t template set, you still haven't quite got the point: It contains templates for the old News module and therefore those (or that specific) template(s) is outdated.
it is not News, which has the problem, it is your x2t template set's template for the news index which is outdated.