PEP: 375 Title: Python 3.1 Release Schedule Version: $Revision$ Last-Modified: $Date$ Author: Benjamin Peterson Status: Active Type: Informational Content-Type: text/x-rst Created: 8-Feb-2009 Python-Version: 3.1 Abstract ======== This document describes the development and release schedule for Python 3.1. The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized items. Small features may be added up to and including the first beta release. Bugs may be fixed until the final release. Release Manager and Crew ======================== =================== ================== Position Name =================== ================== 3.1 Release Manager Benjamin Peterson Windows installers Martin v. Loewis Mac installers Ronald Oussoren =================== ================== Release Schedule ================ - 3.1a1 March 7, 2009 - 3.1a2 April 4, 2009 - 3.1b1 May 2, 2009 - 3.1rc1 May 30, 2009 - 3.1rc2 June 13, 2009 - 3.1 final June 27, 2009 Features for 3.1 ================ - importlib - io in C - A reworked email package - Adding an IP Address library to the stdlib [#iplib]_. - Update simplejson to the latest external version [#simplejson]_. - Ordered dictionary for collections [#ordered]_. - Fixing contextlib.nested() [#contextlib]_. - auto-numbered replacement fields in str.format() strings [#strformat]_ - Upgrading xml.etree to the latest external version [#etree]_ Footnotes ========= .. [#iplib] http://bugs.python.org/issue3959 .. [#simplejson] http://bugs.python.org/issue4136 .. [#ordered] PEP 372 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0372/ .. [#contextlib] http://bugs.python.org/issue5251 .. [#strformat] http://bugs.python.org/issue5237 .. [#etree] http://bugs.python.org/issue1143 Copyright ========= This document has been placed in the public domain. .. Local Variables: mode: indented-text indent-tabs-mode: nil sentence-end-double-space: t fill-column: 70 coding: utf-8 End: