[Cython] Cython 0.29 rc 1 - Re: Cython 0.29 beta 1 released

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi again!

Here's a release candidate. Please give it some final testing.

https://github.com/cython/cython/tree/0.29rc1

Download:
https://github.com/cython/cython/archive/cf7b60ff6814ce8faf7fab2990c423452faa2f0a.zip

Updated changelog:

https://github.com/cython/cython/blob/0.29rc1/CHANGES.rst

Stefan



Stefan Behnel schrieb am 16.09.2018 um 17:48:
> Hi all,
> 
> after half a year of development, many community pull requests and a lot of
> feedback and good ideas in online discussions and at conferences, I'm proud
> to release the first beta of Cython 0.29. This is a major feature release
> that comes with many great improvements and several important bug fixes.
> See the long list of changes below.
> 
> Please give it some testing to help us quickly advance to the final release.
> 
> Download:
> https://github.com/cython/cython/releases/tag/0.29b1
> 
> Changelog:
> https://github.com/cython/cython/blob/0dcb5d1930e573caa8494fe838c4c2cd4e2041f2/CHANGES.rst
> 
> 
> Foresight:
> Given that Cython has been in critical production use all over the world
> for several years, but never found the perfect time for a 1.0 version bump,
> we designate this to become the last 0.x release of the project and decided
> to skip the 1.0 release which the 0.x series has long represented anyway.
> 
> Planning has already started [1] for the next major release, titled "3.0".
> It will finally switch the default Cython language level from Py2 to Py3,
> to match what users expect from a Python compiler these days without
> additional options or configuration.  Cython 2 code will continue to be
> supported as before with the directive "language_level=2", although there
> are ideas how to help with the modernisation. We're happy to hear your
> feedback.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/cython/cython/milestone/58
> 
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Stefan