Hello jn, I also submitted outland application in late August. Still waiting and waiting. Some users of this forum (with August applications) have received AOR.
There is a Google Sheet (spreadsheet) provided by the sponsors of this forum to track applications and their status, for all months of 2020 (other sheets for previous years), both inland and outland. I've not found an "official" forum post about this Google Sheet but there are a number of posts that refer to it (I provided some reference myself recently, I'll have to look that up). The Google Sheet is at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LxDFjvZn-XR9uZpGbPTORYKQf0BMquSXNw0RvmqvZNU/edit#gid=2079961909.
Checking that sheet now for outland August, there are 73 persons listed (this is a small portion of the forum users, and the forum users are a small portion of all applicants). The number of AOR is 14 with latest being December 16 (the earliest being November 3).
edit to add: here's a link to some discussion about the Google Sheet
https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/august-2020-outland-spousal-sponsorship.697959/page-15#post-9014988