[Cython] Cython 0.17 beta 1 released

[Stefan Behnel]

Hello everyone,

on behalf of the Cython project team, I'm proud to announce the release of
our first beta of Cython 0.17. This is another major step forward in the
development of the language that will make life easier for a lot of users,
rounds up some rough edges of the compiler and adds (preliminary) support
for CPython 3.3 and PyPy.

Download: http://cython.org/release/Cython-0.17.beta1.tar.gz

Release notes: http://wiki.cython.org/ReleaseNotes-0.17

Documentation: http://docs.cython.org/


Major features of this release include:

* vastly improved integration with the C++ STL containers

  http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/wrapping_CPlusPlus.html#standard-library

  http://docs.cython.org/src/tutorial/strings.html#c-strings

* "yield from" delegation between generators (PEP 380)

  http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0380/

* alpha quality support for PyPy (via cpyext)

  http://docs.cython.org/src/tutorial/pypy.html


Several other features and improvements are listed in the release notes:

  http://wiki.cython.org/ReleaseNotes-0.17


I'm expecting at least one release candidate to follow on this beta
version, and a final release in early August. Please give this beta release
as much testing as you can, so that we can quickly advance towards the
final release.


Have fun,

Stefan