The alpha team get a release for a few days before you get it, assuming it works out OK. We want a few focussed reports and discussions of bugs in a new drop, not 3000 people all jumping in at once. They also have direct access to the bug database, which is not about to become available to the world at large.

The team may also get to play with features that we have no intention of releasing widely yet. They're under NDA, you're not

In practice the team haven't had anything since Beta 13 - until tonight.

Rob