Hehehe. beta.1 is gonna be very interesting indeed 
According to Gitlab, we’re in about 2/3 of getting it done.
The current changelog (which I update on OpenRepos):
Features
- Creating and managing groups
- GroupsV2 compatibility
- Complete migration to UUID-based sessions.
- Device linking (Signal Desktop)
- Register without storage password, thanks to Gabriel Margiani!
- Slight cleanup of the registration page, thanks to ntninja!
- Overhaul of the UI, thanks to Mirian Margiani!
- Simple daemon functionality, thanks to Gabriel Margiani!
Translations
- We have a Weblate account now!
- Portuguese translation, thanks to Yield and Antonio Maretzek!
- Czech translation, thanks to PawelSpoon!
- Turkish translation, thanks to OÄŸuz Ersen!
- Nowegian translation, thanks to Allan Nordhøy!
- Many, many, many, MANY cleanup operations on Dutch, German, French, and Spanish, thanks to Nathan, Dryo, and J. Lavoie!
Fixes
- More stable reconnection management. Flight mode and network changes should now work as expected.
- Access contacts through the Nemo QML interface instead of raw contacts.db. This interface will probably be more stable than the raw SQLite, and keeps compatibility across 3.x and 4.x.