[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.4.0 release candidate 1

[Victor Stinner]

Hi,

It would be nice to give also the link to the whole changelog in your
emails and on the website:
http://docs.python.org/3.4/whatsnew/changelog.html

Congrats for your RC1 release :-) It's always hard to make developers
stop addings "new minor" changes before the final version :-)

Victor

2014-02-11 8:43 GMT+01:00 Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org>:
>
> On behalf of the Python development team, I'm delighted to announce
> the first release candidate of Python 3.4.
>
> This is a preview release, and its use is not recommended for
> production settings.
>
> Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, including
> hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes.  Major new features and
> changes in the 3.4 release series include:
>
> * PEP 428, a "pathlib" module providing object-oriented filesystem paths
> * PEP 435, a standardized "enum" module
> * PEP 436, a build enhancement that will help generate introspection
>            information for builtins
> * PEP 442, improved semantics for object finalization
> * PEP 443, adding single-dispatch generic functions to the standard library
> * PEP 445, a new C API for implementing custom memory allocators
> * PEP 446, changing file descriptors to not be inherited by default
>            in subprocesses
> * PEP 450, a new "statistics" module
> * PEP 451, standardizing module metadata for Python's module import system
> * PEP 453, a bundled installer for the *pip* package manager
> * PEP 454, a new "tracemalloc" module for tracing Python memory allocations
> * PEP 456, a new hash algorithm for Python strings and binary data
> * PEP 3154, a new and improved protocol for pickled objects
> * PEP 3156, a new "asyncio" module, a new framework for asynchronous I/O
>
> Python 3.4 is now in "feature freeze", meaning that no new features will be
> added.  The final release is projected for mid-March 2014.
>
>
> To download Python 3.4.0rc1 visit:
>
>     http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.4.0/
>
>
> Please consider trying Python 3.4.0rc1 with your code and reporting any
> new issues you notice to:
>
>      http://bugs.python.org/
>
>
> Enjoy!
>
> --
> Larry Hastings, Release Manager
> larry at hastings.org
> (on behalf of the entire python-dev team and 3.4's contributors)
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