On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 2.3.5 (final). Python 2.3.5 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 bugs squished in this release. Python 2.3.5 contains an important security fix for SimpleXMLRPCServer - for more, see the announcement of PSF-2005-001 at: http://www.python.org/security/PSF-2005-001/ Python 2.3.5 is the last planned release in the Python 2.3 series, and is being released for those people who still need to run Python 2.3. Python 2.4 is a newer release, and should be preferred if possible. From here, bugfix releases are switching to the Python 2.4 branch - 2.4.1 will be the next Python release. For more information on Python 2.3.5, including download links for various platforms, release notes, and known issues, please see: http://www.python.org/2.3.5 Highlights of this new release include: - Bug fixes. According to the release notes, more than 50 bugs have been fixed, including a couple of bugs that could cause Python to crash. Highlights of the previous major Python release (2.3) are available from the Python 2.3 page, at http://www.python.org/2.3/highlights.html Enjoy the new release, Anthony Anthony Baxter anthony@python.org Python Release Manager (on behalf of the entire python-dev team)