<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;line-height:25.6000003814697px;margin-top:0px!important">On behalf of the IronPython team, I'm happy to announce the <a href="https://ironpython.codeplex.com/releases/view/115611" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">third and final beta release</a> of IronPython 2.7.5. This release includes everything from IronPython <a href="https://ironpython.codeplex.com/releases/view/90087" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">2.7.4</a> 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. Assemblies for embedding are provided for .NET 3.5, .NET 4, .NET 4.5, and Silverlight 5.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;line-height:25.6000003814697px">IronPython 2.7.5 Beta 3 is primarily <a href="http://bit.ly/ipy275b3fixed" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;background:transparent">a collection of bug fixes</a> which smooths off many of the remaining rough edges. The <a href="https://github.com/IronLanguages/main/compare/ipy-2.7.4...ipy-2.7.5-b3" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;background:transparent">complete list of changes</a> is also available.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;line-height:25.6000003814697px"><b>Note:</b> <i>The assembly version of IronPython has changed to 2.7.5.0.</i> All previous 2.7 versions had the same version (2.7.0.40) which caused issues when different versions were installed. Publisher policy files are used to so that applications don't have to be recompiled, but recompiling is strongly recommended.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;line-height:25.6000003814697px">A huge thanks goes out to <a href="https://github.com/paweljasinski" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;background:transparent">Pawel Jasinski</a>, who contributed most of the changes in this release. Thanks is also due to <a href="https://github.com/sopelt" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;background:transparent">Simon Opelt</a>, <a href="https://github.com/slide" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;background:transparent">Alex Earl</a>, <a href="https://github.com/jbester" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;background:transparent">Jeffrey Bester</a>, <a href="https://github.com/yYHernan" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;background:transparent">yngipy hernan</a>, <a href="https://github.com/akoeplinger" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;background:transparent">Alexander Köplinger</a>,<a href="https://github.com/vincentducros" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;background:transparent">Vincent Ducros</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/fdanny" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;background:transparent">fdanny</a>.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;line-height:25.6000003814697px">For Visual Studio integration, check out <a href="http://pytools.codeplex.com/" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;background:transparent">Python Tools for Visual Studio</a> which has support for IronPython as well as CPython, and many other fantastic features.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;line-height:25.6000003814697px;margin-bottom:0px!important">IronPython 2.7.5 Beta 3 is also available for embedding via <a href="http://nuget.org/" style="color:rgb(65,131,196);text-decoration:none;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;background-repeat:initial">NuGet</a>. The main package is <tt style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157)">IronPython</tt>, and the standard library is in <tt style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Consolas,'Liberation Mono',Menlo,Courier,monospace;padding:0.2em 0px;margin:0px;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.0392157)">IronPython.StdLib</tt>.</p><p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;line-height:25.6000003814697px;margin-bottom:0px!important"><br></p><p style="margin-top:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Segoe UI',Arial,freesans,sans-serif;line-height:25.6000003814697px;margin-bottom:0px!important">- Jeff</p></div>