It's time to start planning the next 3.5 release, 3.5.4. Note that
this will be the last 3.5 "bugfix" release; after 3.5.4, the 3.5
branch will only be open for security fixes. 3.5.4 will also be the
last release of 3.5 with binary installers.
I propose to tag and release 3.5.4 on these dates:
3.5.4rc1
tag Sat July 22 2017
release Sun July 23 2017
3.5.4 final
tag Sun Aug 6 2017
release Mon Aug 7 2017
Thus rc1 would be tagged in just over four weeks.
As for 3.4--
Lately I've been releasing new versions of 3.5 and 3.4 at the same
time. But I'm not sure it's worth the effort to release another 3.4
right now. There have only been two (2) checkins into the 3.4
branch since 3.4.6 was released back in January:
f37b0cb230069481609b0bb06891b5dd26320504
bpo-25008: Deprecate smtpd and point to aiosmtpd
fa53dbdec818b0f2a0e22ca12a49d83ec948fc91
Issues #27850 and #27766: Remove 3DES from ssl
default cipher list and add ChaCha20 Poly1305.
The first was a documentation-only change which is already live on
docs.python.org. The second changes the _DEFAULT_CIPHERS and
_RESTRICTED_SERVER_CIPHERS constants in Lib/ssl.py. A reasonable
change, but minor. I'm not convinced it's worth spending the time
of many people in the community at large to update 3.4 just for
this.
If you have any feedback / concerns about this schedule, or if you
think it's important that I release 3.4.7 with these minor changes,
please reply here. If I don't hear anything back in a day or two
I'll go ahead and make this the official schedule.
Your friendly neighborhood release manager,
/arry