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 Dates and release notes for all production releases of the Briar Android app. For the Desktop program see [its respective changelog](https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar-desktop/-/wikis/Changelog).
 
-### [1.5.9 (alpha release)](https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/commits/alpha-1.5.9)
+### [1.5.9 (beta release)](https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/commits/beta-1.5.9)
 
 2024-01-17