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2009-05-11 PSF Board Meeting Minutes The Python Software Foundation Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors May 11, 2009 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation ("PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat beginning at 16:01 UTC, 11 May 2009. Steve Holden presided at the meeting. Pat Campbell and David Goodger prepared these minutes. All votes are reported in the form "Y-N-A" (in favor – opposed – abstentions; e.g. "5-1-...
...Manager, provided a summary of his work. He said: The project is lead by Marc-André Lemburg who is in contact with the people behind the Plone brochure created by the German Zope User Group (DZUG): Jan Ulrich Hasecke and Armin Stroß-Radschinski. We started working on the concept a few weeks after World Plone Day in April 2010 and had several meetings and conference calls to take the idea forward. For more details, please see the brochure support site at: http://brochure.getpython.info/learn-mo...
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Released: March 18, 2010
Python 2.6.5 was a maintenance release for Python 2.6.4, fixing dozens of issues in the core, builtin modules, libraries, and documentation. Python 2.6.5 final was released on March 19, 2010. Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. The NEWS file …
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Released: Oct. 2, 2009
Python 2.6.3 was released on October 2, 2009. Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. Somewhere near 100 bugs have been fixed since the release of Python 2.6.2. The NEWS file lists every change in each alpha, beta, and release candidate …
Released: Jan. 31, 2010
This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. The last full bug-fix release of Python 2.5 was Python 2.5.4. User are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release of Python 2.7 (which is 2.7.2 …
Released: Oct. 26, 2009
Python 2.6.4 was a critical bug fix for Python 2.6.3, which had regressions in the logging package and in setuptools compatibility. Python 2.6.4 was released on 25-Oct-2009. Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. The NEWS file lists every change …
Released: April 28, 2020
This is an early developer preview of Python 3.9 Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0a6 is the last out of six planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the …
Released: Jan. 14, 2022
This is the second maintenance release of Python 3.10 Python 3.10.2 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. This is a special bugfix release ahead of schedule to address a memory leak that was happening on certain function calls …
Released: April 5, 2023
This is the eleventh maintenance release of Python 3.10 Python 3.10.10 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Major new features of the 3.10 series, compared to 3.9 Among the new major new features and changes so far: PEP …
...Manager. Please mention that you are reporting a bug in 2.4, and note that you must have a SourceForge account and be logged in to submit a bug report or patch (we require this in case we need more information from you).
...managers. 6. Voting procedures There was a long discussion about valid ways for the members to vote. Action Item: Greg Stein will determine how to vote in new members under the Bylaws. The Board reach a basic consensus that it wanted to enable some kind of email or electronic voting, provided that it is legally allowed. The Board expressed an intent to change the Bylaws at its next meeting, when the text of the necessary changes will be provided. Action Item: Paul Everitt will...
Released: May 7, 2025
Only one day late, welcome to the first beta! This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b1, is the first of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features …
Released: July 8, 2025
It's the final 3.14 beta! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b4/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b4, is the last of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes …
Released: Aug. 14, 2025
It's the final 🪄 penultimate 🪄 3.14 release candidate! Note: rc2 was originally planned for 2025-08-26, but we fixed a bug that required bumping the magic number stored in Python bytecode (.pyc) files. This means .pyc files created for rc1 cannot be used for rc2, and they'll be …
Released: Sept. 18, 2025
It's 🪄 finally 🪄 the final 3.14 release candidate! Note: It's another magic release. We fixed another bug that required bumping the magic number stored in Python bytecode (.pyc) files. This means file .pyc files created for rc2 cannot be used for rc3, and they'll be recompiled. The …
Released: March 17, 2014
Python 3.4.0 Python 3.4 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.4.10, the final release of the 3.4 series, is available here. Python 3.4.0 was released on March 16th, 2014. Major new features of the 3.4 series, compared to 3.3 Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, including hundreds …
Released: Dec. 4, 2008
Python 2.6.1 was released on December 4th, 2008. This is the first bugfix release of Python 2.6. Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. Dozens of bugs that were reported since the release of 2.6 final have been fixed. See the …
Released: July 29, 2003
This is a patch release which supersedes earlier releases of 2.3. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001 "Buffer overrun in repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4)". This fix is included in Python 2.4.4 and Python 2.5. If you need …
Released: Oct. 2, 2008
Python 2.6 (final) was released on October 1st, 2008. There are a huge number of new features, modules, improvements and bug fixes. For information on what's changed, see: Andrew Kuchling's guide to What's New in Python 2.6. NEWS file contains a …
Released: June 22, 2001
We're releasing Python 2.0.1 - the final bugfix release for Python 2.0. Why would we come with a bugfix release now (June 2001), when Python 2.0 was released in October 2000 and Python 2.1 has been released for months (April 2001)? Two very good …
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