On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 2.4.3 (release candidate 1). Python 2.4.3 is a bug-fix release. See the release notes at the website (also available as Misc/NEWS in the source distribution) for details of the more than 50 bugs squished in this release, including a number found by the Coverity Scan project. Assuming no major problems crop up, a final release of Python 2.4.3 will follow in about a week's time. For more information on Python 2.4.3, including download links for various platforms, release notes, and known issues, please see: http://www.python.org/2.4.3/ Highlights of this new release include: - Bug fixes. According to the release notes, at least 50 have been fixed since 2.4.2. Highlights of the previous major Python release (2.4) are available from the Python 2.4 page, at http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html On a personal note, according to my records this is the 25th release of Python I've made as release manager. So enjoy this silver anniversary release, Anthony Anthony Baxter anthony@python.org Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team)