[Cython] Cython 0.17 beta 4 released - final release candidate

[Stefan Behnel]

Hello everyone,

on behalf of the Cython project team, I'm proud to announce the release of
our fourth beta of Cython 0.17. Unless something truly unforseen happens,
this will become our final release. So please give it another test run
against your code.

Cython 0.17 is another major step forward in the development of the
language that will make life easier for a lot of users, rounds up some
rough edges of the compiler and adds (preliminary) support for CPython 3.3
and PyPy.

Download: http://cython.org/release/Cython-0.17b4.tar.gz

Release notes: http://wiki.cython.org/ReleaseNotes-0.17

Documentation: http://docs.cython.org/


Major features of this release include:

* vastly improved integration with the C++ STL containers

  http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/wrapping_CPlusPlus.html#standard-library

  http://docs.cython.org/src/tutorial/strings.html#c-strings

* "yield from" delegation between generators (PEP 380)

  http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0380/

* alpha quality support for PyPy (via cpyext)

  http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/pypy.html


Several other features and improvements are listed in the release notes:

  http://wiki.cython.org/ReleaseNotes-0.17


Have fun,

Stefan