The phrase "a preliminary release" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an initial version of a product, software, or document that is made available for testing or feedback before the final version is completed.
Example: "The developers have issued a preliminary release of the software to gather user feedback before the official launch."
Alternatives: "an initial release" or "a beta version".
In a preliminary release, the agency said consumer price inflation in August in the 16 countries that use the euro was negative, for the third month.
Consumer prices in the euro zone rose 1 percent in January from a year earlier, Eurostat said in a preliminary release.
In this paper we use a large data-set obtained from Source Forgenet to estimate the relationship between a series of different characteristics of OS projects and the probability of evolution of the source code from a preliminary release to a mature version.net
Wonderland was revealed as the album's name in September, and a preliminary release date of 30 November was forwarded.
Availability and implementation: The capability for SHAPE directed RNA folding is part of the upcoming release of the ViennaRNA Package 2.2, for which a preliminary release is already freely available at http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/RNA.ac.at/RNA
As soon as possible after the onset of an eruption: preliminary release of a brief forecast of the quantity of ash fall, areas to be affected, and the likelihood of lapilli fall.
Publishers get a list of preliminary release dates of other companies' books far in advance, and pay attention.
The company had a net loss of 10 to 11 cents a share in the last quarter, it said in a preliminary earnings release distributed by Business Wire.
In a preliminary earnings release, Bayerische Motor Werke said that it had suffered from write-downs related to the reduced value of leased cars and bad debts.
Catching Fire had a preliminary hardcover release date of September 8, 2009, which was moved up to September 1 in response to requests by retailers to move the release to before Labor Day and the start of school for many readers.
