# Random links

### Future news
*The official stance is "first we weed out the bugs, then we do an English release", use the Russian community as beta testers. The news roundup is NOT a good place to announce a release. That's why it's zero publicity until the 3.0 bug-free release.*

* A new INSTEAD 2.5-alpha release is open for testing. After the successful test it would become the 3.0 release. You can download the Windows, Caanoo, WinCE, Symbian and Linux packages from [here](http://instead.syscall.ru/instead/2.5.0/) and the Android version is [here.](http://nlbproject.com/dist/instead-ng-alpha.apk) The 3.0 version will have a new Lua stack and a tiny core for blind-accessible interpreters (`instead-tiny`, also see [Plainstead](https://github.com/instead-hub/plainstead) project). The English documentation is planned for 3.0 release.
* [INSTEAD-JS](https://github.com/instead-hub/instead-js) was updated, too. Now it has INSTEAD 3 support and can play games from ZIP archives (user-provided or online-hosted). Some features (for example, custom fonts, OGG sounds) are not supported in IE.

### Things to watch
* [Sugarcube tags](https://bitbucket.org/tmedwards/sugarcube/downloads/?tab=tags) - don't miss the new versions
* [Twine tags](https://bitbucket.org/klembot/twinejs/downloads/?tab=tags) - same here
* [Mise-en.cene](https://github.com/rocketnia/mise-en.cene) by *rocketnia* is a new project demonstrating a parser and compiler for conversations in the visual novel style. (NOT READY YET)