Python 3000 Release Notes ========================= Release notes describe unfinished work in particular releases. Please report bugs to http://bugs.python.org/. Version 3.0a2 - Release Date 07-Dec-2007 ---------------------------------------- * SSL support is back! However, while the tests pass, the SSL code appears to be leaking quite a bit, and there are still bugs. We'll be working on this for the next release. * On Windows Python can't be run from a directory with non ASCII chars in its path name (bug #1342). * The current releases of MinGW and Cygwin can't build Python extensions since they don't support msvcr90.dll. The necessary bits and pieces are already in Python and cygwin cvs. * Otherwise, the 3.0a1 release notes still apply, except hashlib no longer requires openssl. Version 3.0a1 - Release Date 31-Aug-2007 ---------------------------------------- * SSL support is disabled. This causes test_ssl to be skipped. The new SSL support in the 2.6 trunk (with server-side support and certificate verification) will be ported for 3.0a2. * If you don't have `openssl `_ installed, or a version older than 0.9.7, hashlib is non-functional, which means there is no way to compute MD5 checksums. This breaks some modules. * Platform support is reduced. We've mostly tested on Linux, OSX, and Windows. Solaris is also supported (somewhat). * There may be additional issues on 64-bit architectures. * There are still some open issues on Windows. * Some new features are very fresh, and probably contain bugs: the new format() method on strings (PEP 3101), the strict separation of bytes and strings, the new buffer API (PEP 3118). * IDLE still has some open issues. If you can't run it at all, try "idle -n" which disables the separate subprocess for the interpreter.