It’s all action in the ant hill and we should have new releases of the client and Dave (GUI front end) ready next week. The former will allow for streaming uploads and partial streaming of downloads (we’re not 100% there on streaming downloads yet). We also merged a fix merged for the long-running Pointer and Scratchpad splits issue.
We’re still testing reachability but once that’s done - along with a few other code updates around streaming downloads – we’ll put out a new node release.
Bye bye beta
We’re officially sunsetting the Beta Rewards programme. The final reward window will close on October 29th exactly one year after Autonomi went live. October 29th is the last day to provide your information for any remaining rewards. As long as you’ve communicated with @rusty.spork in by that date, you’ll still be eligible to receive your rewards, even if the final payout happens after October 29th.
Bright ideas
Huge shout to @zettawatt for his idea to create a Autonomi developer startup/co-op. This is a really encouraging step off the back of Impossible Futures and the team are really excited by the prospect of where it might go next.
General progress
@rusty.spork continues to update the docs, including most recently a troubleshooting guide for Launchpad crashes for Linux users.
@anselme investigated memory usage differences between download streaming and uploads as well as taking a look at data types and how to best handle them with streaming.
@bzee continued researching bindings for Go, Kotlin and Swift. They all require quite different approaches and so will need to be handled thoughtfully.
@mick.vandijke has been working on Dave (our in house GUI for the node) enabling single file uploads without archives, ensuring compatibility of saved data access with the ant CLI user data folder along with various small fixes and UI changes.
@chriso continued preparing the release candidate as well as looking at optimising our releases and deployments. In the spirit of optimisation he also looked at whether we still need the alpha network or if we can now safely take it down. This will depend on whether community devs are still using it. Please shout if you are.
@jimcollinson has been setting up monitoring of social media platforms, and working on a new podcast. 
Ermine has integrated Docker containers for backend, API, and frontend, with successful communications. Still a bit more to do on getting reliable connections to the network though.
@qi_ma improved streaming download coverage raising a PR for testing streaming downloads of a 4GB non-archive file from mainnet, another PR to expand file upload/download tests for stream usage checks during CI, and a third to make required changes to the API. He also finalised a code reorganisation to avoid inconsistent behaviour between Pointer and ScratchPad.
And @roland worked on the deployer and launchpad apps to make them mote reliable and to prepare them for the new reachability functionality that’s in the wings
for a week 
If its comparable, I’d probably just use the core library (just because its already there), but I like the tarchive stuff and everything else you’ve built. Need to spend some time sorting through all of it. It isn’t clear to me if streaming downloads in the core library means I can grab specific sections of data. That’s the key feature I’m looking to get for data compaction.