RELEASED Python 2.6rc2 and 3.0rc1

[Barry Warsaw]

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On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I  
am happy to announce the second and final planned release candidate  
for Python 2.6, as well as the first release candidate for Python 3.0.

These are release candidates, so while they are not suitable for  
production environments, we strongly encourage you to download and  
test them on your software.  We expect only critical bugs to be fixed  
between now and the final releases.  Currently Python 2.6 is scheduled  
for October 1st, 2008.  Python 3.0 release candidate 2 is planned for  
October 1st, with the final release planned for October 15, 2008.

If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit bug reports at

     http://bugs.python.org

For more information and downloadable distributions, see the Python  
2.6 website:

     http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

and the Python 3.0 web site:

     http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

See PEP 361 for release schedule details:

     http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/

Enjoy,
- -Barry

Barry Warsaw
barry at python.org
Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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