We have just released playtest-20140525, which is the first release candidate for our upcoming June release.

The focus of this playtest has been improving our low-level engine code, but there have been a few nice player-facing improvements, too:

• Fixed the shellmap issues that were present in the previous playtest.
• Added a “Battlefield News” indicator, so we can keep you up to date on with the latest community news.
• Further improvements to the lobby and replay interfaces.
• Significant reductions in load time.
• More balance improvements!
• More bug fixes!

The full list of changes compared with holiday release is available on our wiki.

This announcement is briefer than usual: as the final release only a couple of weeks away, we have decided to save the usual set of screenshots and details for the proper release announcement.