We've done some tests with non-empty blocks functionality, but in some cases the node does not show the demanded results in rounds syncronization, especially while running under not stable network conditions. We permanently fix the known and new found issues and think to obtain the version for public testnet till the end of the week.
According to yesterday's Q&A session: we resume the tests of the evm version of node to finish the testnet build much earlier than the public version will be finished. This will allow community to test it and try their own contracts, dapps and tokens to create some infrastructure in advance.