I am very up to date
The government published the long awaited statement of changes to the immigration rules on 20th July. These relate to the Supreme Court Judgement in February and mainly affect 3rd party financial support applications and those applications involving children which do not meet the minimum income requirement threshold but fall under consideration of the European Convention on Human Rights Article 8.
In the statement they commented there are 5000 applications on hold. These will be dealt with from 10th August on when the changes take effect.
I can't begin to imagine the chaos that will ensue after that date. They made no mention of how they will deal with the applications or how dealing with them will affect pending and future applications.
There are typically 55,000 settlement applications to UK processed every year. 5000 represents roughly 10% so that is at least 5 working weeks of backlog!!