Not critical - but I note a difference between Python3 3.6.7 and 3.7.1 - no support for the configure option --with-openssl. On AIX I was able to run both configure and "make install" without incident. I also ran the "make test" command. v3.7.1: 9 tests failed again:     test_ctypes test_distutils test_httpservers test_importlib     test_site test_socket test_time  test_utf8_mode test_venv   There are, for most of above, a PR for these waiting final review and merge. test_utf8_mode: I thought this was already merged. Will research. test_venv, test_site: new test failures (I am not familiar with). Will need more research. v3.6.1: 16 tests failed:     test_asyncio test_ctypes test_distutils test_ftplib test_httplib     test_httpservers test_importlib test_locale     test_multiprocessing_fork test_multiprocessing_forkserver     test_multiprocessing_spawn test_socket test_ssl test_strptime     test_time test_tools FYI: again, there are PR for many of these, but, for now, I'll assume they will not be considered for backport. FYI only. On 9/27/2018 4:21 AM, Ned Deily wrote:

Assuming no critical problems are found prior to 2018-10-06, no code changes are planned between these release candidates and the final releases. These release candidates are intended to give you the opportunity to test the new security and bug fixes in 3.7.1 and 3.6.7. We strongly encourage you to test your projects and report issues found to bugs.python.org as soon as possible.