# Processing 4 Alpha 2 Release

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-alpha-2-release/23958>\
**Category:** Processing\
**Created:** [September 19, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-alpha-2-release/23958 "2020-09-19T12:27:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 12:27pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-4-alpha-2-release/23958/1 "2020-09-19T12:27:23Z")

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Hello,

Processing 4 Alpha 2 Release is available now…

Announced on Twitter:

> <https://twitter.com/ben_fry/status/1306042672684118019>

Available here:

> **[Release Processing 4.0 alpha 2 · processing/processing4](https://github.com/processing/processing4/releases/tag/processing-1271-4.0a2)**
>
> Processing 4.0 alpha 2
> Revision 1271 - 15 September 2020
> Several fixes for this round, plus working on the guts quite a bit to prepare for newer/faster/better rendering methods.
> The minimum system ...

This is an _ **alpha release** _:

> **[Software release life cycle | Alpha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Alpha)**
>
> The alpha phase of the release life cycle is the first phase of software testing (alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, used as the number 1). In this phase, developers generally test the software using white-box techniques. Additional validation is then performed using black-box or gray-box techniques, by another testing team. Moving to black-box testing inside the organization is known as alpha release.\[better source needed\]
> Alpha software is not thoroughly tested by the developer b...

_ **Stable releases** _ here:

> **[Download \\ Processing.org](https://processing.org/download/)**

`:)`