Has anyone heard about when these are supposed to be released?  Last I heard was later this year 2021, but seeing they are having issues with the AK74 has anyone heard any update?

There's a few threads on it on the PSA forum and in the industry section.
It's the normal stuff from PSA. I love PSA and manufacturing is difficult, especially keeping up with demand but I can't imagine a krink would be that difficult to get released. They have a 74, the amount of different parts seems to be minimal compared to some of the other things they got going on. Everyone seems to want a krink....well they did before FJB did the russian ammo ban. So at this point who knows.

thank you so much, I can't wait for it to come out and hopefully some learnings / fixes from the PSA AK-74.

While i know this might be sacrilegious to say this, I hope they release a version in 5.56 as well. An not some bastard version that takes AR mags, but proper 5.56 Ak mag variant. I love the 5.45, it is my favorite Ak caliber, but that stuff is gonna be hard to get for a while. I wouldnt even mind a 300blk version just to be able to use the short barrel to its fullest.

Flame suit on.