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 gRPC-Web provides a Javascript client library that enables browser clients to
 access a gRPC server.
 
-The current release is a Pre-Alpha release, mainly for early adopters to provide
+The current release is an Alpha release, mainly for early adopters to provide
 feedback on the JS API (both gRPC and Protobuf). The JS client library has been
-used by Google (Alphabet) projects with Closure compiler and its TypeScript
-generator (not yet open-sourced). The use of Closure compiler may or may not fit
-your JS development environment.
+used by Google (and Alphabet) projects with [Closure compiler](https://github.com/google/closure-compiler)
+and its TypeScript generator (not yet open-sourced).
 
 The gateway that connects the client to the server uses Nginx. However, Nginx
-still doesn't support HTTP/2 (to backends) as of Q2/2017, and therefore the
+still doesn't support HTTP/2 (to backends) as of Q3/2017, and therefore the
 gateway can't be used as a reverse proxy (for load balancing). We have also
 added the gRPC-Web support to [Envoy](https://github.com/lyft/envoy). In future,
-we expect gRPC-Web to be supported in language-specific Web frameworks, such as
+we expect gRPC-Web to be supported in language-specific Web frameworks too, such as
 Go, Java, Node, which will eliminate the need to deploy a gateway.
 
-We expect to ship an alpha version in Q3/2017. Stay tuned! [Sign-up form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15iRDHoP-VBenc4hWgKn7bk7IirJLgs0uh88nw1vi_Hc/viewform?edit_requested=true).
-
-For questions, please file an issue or contact varuntalwar@google.com.
-
 ## Generate and use the client library
 
 Please check the end-to-end echo example in [net/grpc/gateway/examples/echo](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web/tree/master/net/grpc/gateway/examples/echo).