This comment by @dirvine from a couple off days ago answers the OP:
(Scroll down a couple of comments to see it. I don’t know why the forum software points to @polpolrene 's comment above it.)
The summary is:
For the folks wondering about releases we are moving towards Alpha and this will be the MVP. It will iterate though a few Alpha versions till we are happy to call it Beta. At Beta we will add messaging and test-safecoin. Then release and safecoin. I hope that describes the process we are following. MVP is a huge milestone and it’s around the corner as anyone can see and we can demonstrate. Just as soon as we squash this message processing issue we spotted this afternoon.
I’m reminded of a quote from a mass murderer, but, despite the unworthy source, it seems to paraphrase the words of the (rightly) esteemed @dirvine -
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.