[Python-Dev] RELEASED Python 2.6 final

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Oct 2 05:59:02 CEST 2008


Congratulations, Barry!!!

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
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> On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am
> happy to announce the release of Python 2.6 final.  This is the
> production-ready version of the latest in the Python 2 series.
>
> There are many new features and modules, improvements, bug fixes, and other
> changes in Python 2.6.  Please see the "What's new" page for details
>
>    http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.6.html
>
> as well as PEP 361
>
>    http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/
>
> While Python 2.6 is backward compatible with earlier versions of Python, 2.6
> has many tools and features that will help you migrate to Python 3.
>  Wherever possible, Python 3.0 features have been added without affecting
> existing code.  In other cases, the new features can be enabled through the
> use of __future__ imports and command line switches.
>
> Python 3.0 is currently in release candidate and will be available later
> this year.  Both Python 2 and Python 3 will be supported for the foreseeable
> future.
>
> Source tarballs, Windows installers, and Mac disk images can be downloaded
> from the Python 2.6 page:
>
>    http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/
>
> (Please note that due to quirks in the earth's time zones, the Windows
> installers will be available shortly.)

Can someone who's still up fix add this note to the website? It looks
a little dodgy just linking to a 404 error... :-(

> Bugs can be reported in the Python bug tracker:
>
>    http://bugs.python.org
>
> 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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