Historical clue formulations

• Phase in which users help catch bugs — 2026-08-03
• Submissive sort, informally — 2026-06-13
• Weak, submissive person, in modern slang — 2025-12-02
• Onetime alternative to VHS — 2025-07-09
• Software version designed to reveal bugs — 2025-04-01
• Early stage — 2024-08-09
• Letter after alpha — 2024-06-24
• Stage often filled with bugs — 2024-05-09
• Letter after alpha — 2024-03-04
• Test version — 2023-11-01
• ___ blockers (heart rate meds) — 2023-04-30
• Possibly glitchy software release — 2023-03-21
• Letter after alpha — 2023-01-30
• Software prototype — 2023-01-11
• Often-buggy software stage — 2022-12-13
• Buggy app version, maybe — 2022-02-03
• Prerelease, in Silicon Valley — 2021-08-05
• Stage that may have bugs — 2020-10-13
• Early stage for some bugs? — 2020-10-02
• Testing stage — 2020-04-26
• Version before a stable release — 2019-10-11
• With 49-Down, early tryout — 2019-06-21
• Testing stage — 2019-03-24
• What bugs are found in — 2019-02-13
• ___ testing — 2018-11-16
• Not final — 2018-10-26
• Software version for testing — 2018-10-08
• A new computer program may be in it — 2017-07-01
• What bugs are found in — 2017-02-04
• Testing stage — 2016-11-23
• Testing stage — 2016-03-23
• See 22-Across — 2015-09-16
• Un-debugged software version, perhaps — 2015-06-10
• Letter after alpha — 2015-03-09
• Test letter? — 2015-01-03
• Alpha, ___, gamma ... — 2014-11-24
• Not the final version — 2014-08-10
• Old VHS rival — 2013-03-04
• Kind of test — 2012-07-01
• Software prototype — 2012-03-07
• ___ decay — 2012-01-29
• Alpha-gamma connector — 2012-01-17
• Software prototype — 2011-06-01
• Test software release — 2011-03-08
• What bugs are often found in — 2011-01-08
• Not fully tested — 2010-02-13
• Early software version — 2009-09-01
• Gamma preceder — 2009-07-13
• Kind of blocker — 2009-06-25
• Software test version — 2009-04-21