<span>On behalf of the CherryPy team, I'm happy to announce the release of<br>CherryPy 3.0.0 beta. It is the product of many shared ideas, submitted
<br>tickets and contributed code (most contributed by Robert Brewer, who is<br>heading up the development of CherryPy 3).<br><br></span><span>To download the release, visit <a href="http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/CherryPyDownload">
http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/CherryPyDownload</a> .</span><span><br><br>This release features numerous improvements to performance, functionality<br>and interoperability. Some highlights:<br><br> * Faster than 2.2.x (as much as 3 times in benchmarks!).
<br> * More powerful and flexible configuration.
<br> * Tools replace filters and allow for greater flexibility.<br> * Autoreload no longer spawns two instances of your web application.<br> * Logging uses the stdlib logging module.<br> * Numerous WSGI interoperability improvements.
<br> * The built in WSGI server is fully HTTP/1.1 compliant!!<br> * Built-in support for mod_python.<br> * Built-in support for object and HTTP method dispatchers.<br> * Customizable dispatcher (allows plugging in external dispatchers like Routes).
<br><br>For a detailed description of what's new, see<br></span><span><a href="http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/WhatsNewIn30?version=13">http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/WhatsNewIn30?version=13</a> .</span><span><br><br>To upgrade from CherryPy
2.2.x to 3.0.0 beta, see<br></span><span><a href="http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/UpgradeTo30?version=17">http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/UpgradeTo30?version=17</a> .</span><span><br><br>Please test out this beta release and open a ticket on any bugs you find.
<br></span><span><a href="http://www.cherrypy.org/newticket">http://www.cherrypy.org/newticket</a></span><span><br><br>Thanks for using CherryPy and helping to make it a pythonic and fun way to
<br>write web applications!<br><br>Christian Wyglendowski
<br>CherryPy Team<br></span><span><a href="http://www.cherrypy.org">http://www.cherrypy.org</a></span>