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Howdy howdy. I know nobody's excited by the prospect of 3.4 and 3.5
releases--I mean, fer gosh sakes, neither of those versions even has
f-strings! But we're about due. I prefer to release roughly every
six months, and the current releases came out in early August.<br>
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Here's my proposed schedule:<br>
<blockquote>Sun Jan 21 2017 - release 3.4.8rc1 and 3.5.5rc1<br>
Sun Feb 04 2017 - release 3.4.8 final and 3.5.5 final<br>
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Unless I'm presented with good reasons to change it, that'll be the
schedule. I'll update the PEPs with the final release dates in
about a week.<br>
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Just for fun, I'll remind everybody here that 3.4 and 3.5 are both
in security-fixes-only mode. This means two things:<br>
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<li>These will be source-code-only releases; the Python core dev
team won't release any more binary installers for 3.4 or 3.5.</li>
<li>I'm the only person permitted to accept PRs for 3.4 and 3.5.
If you have security fixes for either of those versions, please
add me as a reviewer.<br>
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Happy holidays to you and yours,<br>
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<i>/arry</i><br>
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