[Python-Dev] 2.5.2 release coming up (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Jan 23 05:47:02 CET 2008

While the exact release schedule for 2.5.2 is still up in the air, I expect that it will be within a few weeks. This means that we need to make sure that anything that should go into 2.5.2 goes in ASAP, preferably this week. It also means that we should be very careful what goes in though -- and we should be paying particular attention to stability on all platforms! Fortunately it looks like quite a few 2.5 buildbots are green: http://python.org/dev/buildbot/2.5/

I propose that anything that ought to go into 2.5.2 (or should be reviewed for suitability to go into it) should be marked "urgent" in the tracker, and have its version set to (or include) "Python 2.5".

Also, nothing should go into the 2.4 branch any more except important security patches. If we're doing a security release, it'll most likely be a source-only release, and it will differ from 2.4.4 only in that it will have some new security patches defined.

A reminder: 2.5.2 should only get bugfixes, new features.

-- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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