[briar-devel] Briar is in public beta

[Michael R. <mi...@br...>]

Hi everyone,

After extensive private beta testing, I'm pleased to announce the first
public beta release of Briar for Android. You can download it from
Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.briarproject.briar.beta

If you prefer not to use Google Play, the manual has instructions for
downloading the app from our website:

https://briarproject.org/manual

This release includes private messaging, forums, blogs and RSS import.
We'd love to hear your feedback on these features, as well as any others
you'd like to see. Please feel free to send your feedback to this list,
or privately to co...@br..., or anonymously via the app.

The beta will expire on 21 October. When it expires, your contacts and
messages will be lost. The expiry period is designed to limit the impact
of any security issues and allow us to make incompatible changes before
the 1.0 release.

If you'd like to help publicise this release, please consider sharing
this link:

https://briarproject.org/news/2017-beta-released-security-audit.html

It's been a long road. Thanks for your patience, and I hope you enjoy
testing Briar!

Cheers,
Michael