RELEASED Python 2.4.3, release candidate 1

[Anthony Baxter]

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python 
community, I'm happy to announce the release of Python 2.4.3 
(release candidate 1).

Python 2.4.3 is a bug-fix release. See the release notes at 
the website (also available as Misc/NEWS in the source 
distribution) for details of the more than 50 bugs squished 
in this release, including a number found by the Coverity 
Scan project.

Assuming no major problems crop up, a final release of 
Python 2.4.3 will follow in about a week's time.

For more information on Python 2.4.3, including download 
links for various platforms, release notes, and known issues, 
please see:

    http://www.python.org/2.4.3/

Highlights of this new release include:

  - Bug fixes. According to the release notes, at least 50 
    have been fixed since 2.4.2.

Highlights of the previous major Python release (2.4) are 
available from the Python 2.4 page, at

    http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html

On a personal note, according to my records this is the 25th 
release of Python I've made as release manager.

So enjoy this silver anniversary release,
Anthony

Anthony Baxter
anthony at python.org
Python Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)