Python 1.6 -- Any hope for new threading core?

[Brent Fulgham]

With the 1.6 Alpha release, I was wondering if
any changes had been made to the implementation's
threading core.  While 1.5 is a definite improvement
over 1.4, it's still necessary to grab the global
interpreter lock, etc., when writing code for a
multi-threaded C extension.

Just curious if any of this behavior is changed 
with 1.6?

Thanks,

-Brent