[ANN] Python 2.3.7 and 2.4.5, release candidate 1

[Martin v. Löwis]

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm
happy to announce the release candidates of Python 2.4.5 and 2.4.5.

Both releases include only security fixes. Python 2.5 is the latest
version of Python, we're making this release for people who are still
running Python 2.3 or 2.4.

See the release notes at the website (also available as Misc/NEWS in
the source distribution) for details of bugs fixed; most of them prevent
interpreter crashes (and now cause proper Python exceptions in cases
where the interprerter may have crashed before).

Assuming no major problems crop up, a final release of Python 2.4.4 will
follow in about a week's time.

For more information on Python 2.3.7 and 2.4.5, including download
links for various platforms, release notes, and known issues, please
see:

http://www.python.org/2.3.7
http://www.python.org/2.4.5

Highlights of the previous major Python releases are available
from the Python 2.4 page, at

http://www.python.org/2.3/highlights.html
http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html

Enjoy this release,
Martin

Martin v. Loewis
(e-mail address removed)
Python Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)