Greetings from Pycon 2008! Neal Norwitz and I have worked out the schedule for Python 2.6 and 3.0, which will be released in lockstep. We will be following a monthly release schedule, with releases to occur on the first Wednesday of the month. We'll move to a 2 week schedule for the release candidates. Executive summary: Python 2.6 and 3.0 finals are planned for September 3, 2008. PEP 361 contains all the gory details; from the PEP: Feb 29 2008: Python 2.6a1 and 3.0a3 are released Apr 02 2008: Python 2.6a2 and 3.0a4 planned May 07 2008: Python 2.6a3 and 3.0a5 planned Jun 04 2008: Python 2.6b1 and 3.0b1 planned Jul 02 2008: Python 2.6b2 and 3.0b2 planned Aug 06 2008: Python 2.6rc1 and 3.0rc1 planned Aug 20 2008: Python 2.6rc2 and 3.0rc2 planned Sep 03 2008: Python 2.6 and 3.0 final http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/ This schedule gives everybody plenty of advanced notice, so you should be able to get your code in on time. Please be very careful about not breaking the branches. Neal and I will be cracking the whip of public shame when your commit turns the buildbots red. Embarrassing Pycon pictures of you will be posted if such broken revisions cause us to slip a release, and remember, we know how to use GIMP. On behalf of everyone, here's to an awesome release! -Barry Python 2.6/3.0 release manager