We are planning the release of 2.5.2 for next week. Unless there are serious bugs, please hold off making big changes to the 2.5 branch until after 2.5.2 final is released. Anthony gets cranky when things break and he scares me...a lot. :-) Doc/test fixes as always are still fine. The plan is cut the release candidate around Tuesday/Wednesday next week (Oct 16/17). If all goes well, 2.5.2 final will follow a week later. Please test the 2.5 branch now and let us know if there are any serious problems. If there are serious bugs that you think should be addressed, let us know. Bugs are here: http://bugs.python.org/ I see the bugs below as possibly needing attention. Any comments on these? http://bugs.python.org/issue1692335 Fix exception pickling: Move initial args assignment to BaseException.__new__ http://bugs.python.org/issue815646 thread unsafe file objects cause crash http://bugs.python.org/issue1179 Integer overflow in imageop module I think Anthony might have a patch for 1179. Cheers, n