<div>pip-1.4rc2 and virtualenv-1.10rc3 are available for testing from github.</div><div><br></div><div>A few highlights:</div><div> - pip added support for installing and building wheel archives. </div><div>   (<a href="http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/cookbook.html#building-and-installing-wheels">http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/cookbook.html#building-and-installing-wheels</a>)</div>
<div> - virtualenv is now using the new merged setuptools, and no longer supports distribute.</div>
<div> - pip now only installs stable versions by default, and offers a new --pre option to also find pre-releases.</div><div> - Dropped support for Python 2.5.</div><div><br></div><div>Changelogs:</div><div> pip: <a href="http://www.pip-installer.org/en/release-1.4/news.html" target="_blank">http://www.pip-installer.org/en/release-1.4/news.html</a></div>

<div> virtualenv: <a href="http://www.virtualenv.org/en/release-1.10/news.html" target="_blank">http://www.virtualenv.org/en/release-1.10/news.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Download Links:</div><div> pip:</div><div>  gz: <a href="https://github.com/pypa/pip/archive/1.4rc2.tar.gz" target="_blank">https://github.com/pypa/pip/archive/1.4rc2.tar.gz</a></div>

<div>    md5=0426430fc8a261c83bcd083fb03fb7d6</div><div>  zip: <a href="https://github.com/pypa/pip/archive/1.4rc2.zip" target="_blank">https://github.com/pypa/pip/archive/1.4rc2.zip</a></div><div>    md5=c86dc0d94ed787eadba6dceb06f1676f</div>

<div> virtualenv:</div><div>  gz: <a href="https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/archive/1.10rc3.tar.gz" target="_blank">https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/archive/1.10rc3.tar.gz</a></div><div>    md5=b24cdf59b561acf26ae3f639098d5a34</div>
<div>
  zip: <a href="https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/archive/1.10rc3.zip" target="_blank">https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/archive/1.10rc3.zip</a></div><div>    md5=a6ee1a1570a751aa50f95833d9898649</div><div><br></div><div>
Installation:</div>
<div> The easiest way to try them both and *not* affect your current system, is like so:</div><div> e.g. on Linux:</div><div>  $ curl -L -O <a href="https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/archive/1.10rc3.tar.gz" target="_blank">https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/archive/1.10rc3.tar.gz</a></div>

<div>  $ echo "b24cdf59b561acf26ae3f639098d5a34  1.10rc3.tar.gz" | md5sum -c</div><div>  1.10rc3.tar.gz: OK</div><div>  $ tar zxf 1.10rc3.tar.gz</div><div>  $ python virtualenv-1.10rc3/virtualenv.py myVE</div><div>

  $ myVE/bin/pip --version</div><div>   pip 1.4rc2</div><div><br></div><div>   *Note*: If instead, you choose to upgrade an existing pip (and setuptools), know this:</div><div>    1) pip's wheel support requires setuptools>=0.8b2 (this will become final before pip is released final)</div>

<div>    2) setuptools-0.8bx is not on pypi and can be found here: <a href="https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/downloads" target="_blank">https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/downloads</a></div><div>    3) Older pip's can not currently upgrade distribute to setuptools (until distribute-0.7.3 is released on ~July-7th)</div>

<div>         (for more upgrade details: <a href="http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html#requirements" target="_blank">http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html#requirements</a>)</div><div><br>
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