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Alpha and Beta Releases
Managing Projects the Open Source Way suggests that you memorize the phrase, “Alpha is not Beta. Beta is not Release”
- alpha releases
alpha software is feature-complete but sometimes only partially functional
- beta releases
beta software is feature-complete and functional, but is in the testing cycle and still has a few bugs left to be ironed out
- development releases
the term is used to describe releases that are not even alpha or beta