the following is an official notice from Freedomscientific "You may have noticed that we no longer offer a public beta for JAWS. In the past, when we introduced major new features once a year, the annual public beta gave users the chance to test those big releases ahead of time.Today, we deliver new functionality continuously throughout the year rather than in a single large release. Because of this change, we have decided to discontinue the annual public beta. Instead, we now provide more frequent, incremental updates and also offer features via our Early Adopter Program, which gives interested users an opportunity to try out new features before they are broadly released. This approach ensures that everyone can benefit from the latest improvements as they become available."