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 This is a quickstart guide, you can find the full documentation on the author's site.
 
+**22 May 2019: I am happy to announce that osync 1.3-beta2 passed it's tests on all target platforms.
+In order to speed up a osync 1.3 final release, please consider testing this beta.**
+
 About
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 osync provides the following capabilities