Does Beta means one still needs to run arctic fox to run Compose with Preview?

Android Studio & AGP have a policy that they do not ship non-stable features in stable & beta releases: https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1610028110257300?thread_ts=1610027150.255500&cid=CJLTWPH7S

Oops. Canary 8 fail for me. :-(