Great news, but the future is still fairly uncertain. Not holding my breath for T2 to say anything, but at least we have some sort of date to find a solution if the forums are to be closed.
If I'm not mistaken, development on ksp1 was stopped some time ago. Everything from now on is going to be a community-made mod, unless T2 wants to go back to developing a 10+ year old game (probably not).