The last release of Land Desktop will be C3D Land Desktop Companion 2009.

Word on the street (civil3d.com) indicates that while this is the last official release it will be available from the subscription center as an extension in with the release of Civil 3D 2010.  I haven’t heard the fate of Civil Design or Survey.

This is surprising as Civil 3D isn’t to the point to replace LD completely and that there are a lot of firms out there still utilizing Land Desktop.  On the other hand it will be available as an extension so not a lot has changed.

I understand Autodesk not wanting to spend the resources on updating LD to the latest version of autocad.  However if your user base wants it I would expect they would keep releasing LD as a companion to C3D for many years to come.

It will be interesting to see the industry response to this news.