<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">On behalf of the IronPython team, I'm happy to announce the </span><a href="https://ironpython.codeplex.com/releases/view/106471" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">first beta release of IronPython 2.7.4</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">. This release includes everything from IronPython </span><a href="https://ironpython.codeplex.com/releases/view/81726" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">2.7.3</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> 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="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><br></span><div><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">Improvements in IronPython 2.7.4 are mainly </span><a href="https://ironpython.codeplex.com/workitem/list/advanced?keyword=&status=Resolved&type=All&priority=All&release=2.7.4&assignedTo=All&component=All&reasonClosed=All&sortField=Votes&sortDirection=Descending&page=0" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">a collection of bug fixes</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">, many of which are directed at getting IPython working. </span><br style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<br style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">Android and Silverlight 4 assemblies have been dropped from this version. The Android assemblies need some more work to be usable with Xamarin.Android, and Silverlight 4 is just plain dead. </span><br style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<br style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">For Visual Studio integration, check out </span><a href="http://pytools.codeplex.com/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">Python Tools for Visual Studio</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> which has support for IronPython as well as CPython, and many other fantastic features. </span><br style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<br style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">IronPython 2.7.4 is also available for embedding via </span><a href="http://nuget.org/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">NuGet</a><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">. The main package is IronPython, and the standard library is in IronPython.StdLib. Because this is a prerelease package, you must use</span><tt style="font-size:13px;line-height:18px">-IncludePrerelease</tt><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"> on the command line or select "Include Prerelease" from the package drop-down menu. </span><br style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
<br style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">A huge thanks goes out to Pawel Jasinski, Michael van der Kolff, and Aleksander Heintz, who contributed most of the changes for this release. </span><br>
<div><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">- Jeff</span></div>
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