<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px">On behalf of the IronPython team, I'm happy to announce the <a href="https://ironpython.codeplex.com/releases/view/106471">first alpha release of IronPython 2.7.4</a>. This release includes everything from IronPython </span><a href="https://ironpython.codeplex.com/releases/view/81726" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(46,139,204);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19.015625px">2.7.3</a><span style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px"> and earlier. Like all IronPython 2.7-series releases, .NET 4 is required to install it. Installing this release will replace any existing IronPython 2.7-series installation.</span><br style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px">
<br style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px"><span style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px">Improvements in IronPython 2.7.4 are mainly </span><a href="https://ironpython.codeplex.com/workitem/list/advanced?keyword=&status=Fixed&type=All&priority=All&release=2.7.4&assignedTo=All&component=All&sortField=Votes&sortDirection=Descending&page=0" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(46,139,204);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19.015625px">a collection of bug fixes</a><span style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px">, many of which are directed at getting </span><a href="http://ipython.org/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(46,139,204);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19.015625px">IPython</a><span style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px"> working, although it's not there yet.</span><br style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px">
<br style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px"><span style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px">Android and Silverlight 4 assemblies have been dropped from this version. The Android assemblies need some more work to be usable with Xamarin.Android, ans Silverlight 4 is just plain dead.</span><br style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px">
<br style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px"><span style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px">For Visual Studio integration, check out </span><a href="http://pytools.codeplex.com/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(46,139,204);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19.015625px">Python Tools for Visual Studio</a><span style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px"> which has support for IronPython as well as CPython, and many other fantastic features.</span><br style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px">
<br style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px"><span style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px">IronPython 2.7.3 is also available for embedding via </span><a href="http://nuget.org/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(46,139,204);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:19.015625px">NuGet</a><span style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px">. The main package is </span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:Consolas,'Courier New',Courier,monospace;color:rgb(37,51,64);line-height:19.015625px">IronPython</span><span style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px">, and the standard library is in</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:Consolas,'Courier New',Courier,monospace;color:rgb(37,51,64);line-height:19.015625px">IronPython.StdLib</span><span style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px">. Because this is a prerelease package, you must use </span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:Consolas,'Courier New',Courier,monospace;color:rgb(37,51,64);line-height:19.015625px">-IncludePrerelease</span><span style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px"> on the command line or select "Include Prerelease" from the package drop-down menu.</span><br style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px">
<br style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px"><span style="color:rgb(37,51,64);font-family:'Segoe UI',Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19.015625px">A huge thanks goes out to Pawel Jasinski, Michael van der Kolff, and Aleksander Heintz, who contributed most of the packages for this release.</span><br>
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