It is my privilege to announce the first release candidate of 2.7.10, the next bugfix release in the 2.7 series. Downloads are at https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2710rc1/ The full changelog is at https://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/80ccce248ba2/Misc/NEWS Please consider testing 2.7.10rc1 with your application and reporting bugs to https://bugs.python.org Regards, Benjamin