On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that Jython 2.7.1 beta1 is released! Thanks to Amobee for sponsoring my work on Jython, and thanks to the many contributors to Jython! Details are here: http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2015/09/on-behalf-of-jython-development-team-im.html -Frank