The APB Reloaded team has announced some BIG plans for the upcoming week in the latest developer blog. If all goes well, v1.5 will hit servers this week with a character wipe. In addition, once v1.5 goes live, all players who applied for closed beta testing will be invited to help test out the new version which will ultimately be the open beta client.

Q -Why will you not invite me before 1.5?

A - because we have ALREADY tortured and abused 25,000 people (or more exactly the 20,399 people who properly activated their closed beta characters) and now we REALLY want people to experience (and TEST) version 1.5 more than anything else, since that version is so different (and improved) from 1.4.x versions. So no point in having more people in 1.4.x, when we REALLY need you in 1.5. The priority is to get everyone else who completed the beta app in to 1.5 while it's in Closed Beta, and after that, open up the Open Beta and invite the full original 150,000 who registered an interest, and after that slowly open this up to the world.

Read more on the APB Reloaded blog.