[ANN] Python 2.5.6 Release Candidate 1

[Martin v. Löwis]

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm
happy to announce the release candidate 1 of Python 2.5.6.

This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. The
last full bug-fix release of Python 2.5 was Python 2.5.4. Users are
encouraged to upgrade to the latest release of Python 2.7 (which is
2.7.1 at this point).

This releases fixes issues with the urllib, urllib2, SimpleHTTPServer,
and audiop modules. See the release notes at the website (also
available as Misc/NEWS in the source distribution) for details of bugs
fixed.

For more information on Python 2.5.6, including download links for
various platforms, release notes, and known issues, please see:

http://www.python.org/2.5.6

Highlights of the previous major Python releases are available from
the Python 2.5 page, at

http://www.python.org/2.5/highlights.html

Enjoy this release,
Martin

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

 

[Paul Rubin]

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm
happy to announce the release candidate 1 of Python 2.5.6.

This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes.

Thanks Martin, I'm glad these older releases are still getting important
fixes.

I notice http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.6/NEWS.txt says the
release date was 17 Apr 2010. Presumably that should have said 2011.

 

[Martin v. Loewis]

Thanks Martin, I'm glad these older releases are still getting important

fixes.

I notice http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.6/NEWS.txt says the
release date was 17 Apr 2010. Presumably that should have said 2011.

Thanks for pointing it out. I fixed it in the repository, so it should
be fine in the final release.

Regards,
Martin