First of all great work and good decision to do further testings to make Alphas as stable as possible.
What confuses me though is
“We have found an issue that we could not reproduce” … “The code is written and we are preparing the patch”
Were you able to pinpoint the bug without reproducing it? Or are you just hoping to fix it with the patch?
Also, if the bug occoured only after thousands of iterations, wouldn’t it be better to get it out in front of as many people as possible in form of a test net? Or is a release too much overhead / effort?
Would be interesting to hear your thoughts about this.