HMI vector magnetic field products: the long-awaited release has come! Now what?

HMI vector magnetic field test products will be released, alongside with the corresponding documentation, soon after the submission of this abstract. These data represent a stage of the project at which the HMI vector team has a large degree of confidence in the results. However, longer-term research topics on how to improve certain aspects of the data pipeline in general -and the spectral line inversion code in particular- are being pursued as we get valuable input from the user community. I will give a brief summary of the characteristics of the released inversion data products and an update of where we stand now.