PEP: 398 Title: Python 3.3 Release Schedule Version: $Revision$ Last-Modified: $Date$ Author: Georg Brandl Status: Active Type: Informational Content-Type: text/x-rst Created: 23-Mar-2011 Python-Version: 3.3 Abstract ======== This document describes the development and release schedule for Python 3.3. 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, which is planned for August 2012. Release Manager and Crew ======================== - 3.3 Release Manager: Georg Brandl - Windows installers: Martin v. Löwis - Mac installers: Ronald Oussoren/Ned Deily - Documentation: Georg Brandl Release Schedule ================ The current schedule is: - 3.3.0 alpha 1: March 3, 2012 - 3.3.0 alpha 2: April 1, 2012 - 3.3.0 alpha 3: May 1, 2012 - 3.3.0 alpha 4: May 26, 2012 - 3.3.0 beta 1: June 23, 2012 (No new features beyond this point.) - 3.3.0 beta 2: July 14, 2012 - 3.3.0 candidate 1: July 28, 2012 - 3.3.0 candidate 2: August 11, 2012 - 3.3.0 final: August 25, 2012 .. don't forget to update final date above as well Every release day listed here is the prospective day of tagging the release; the actual availability of the release for download on python.org will depend on the schedules of the crew. Features for 3.3 ================ Implemented / Final PEPs: * PEP 380: Syntax for Delegating to a Subgenerator * PEP 393: Flexible String Representation * PEP 399: Pure Python/C Accelerator Module Compatibility Requirements * PEP 409: Suppressing exception context * PEP 412: Key-Sharing Dictionary * PEP 414: Explicit Unicode Literal for Python 3.3 * PEP 417: Including mock in the Standard Library * PEP 418: Add monotonic time, performance counter, and process time functions * PEP 3118: Revising the buffer protocol (protocol semantics finalised) * PEP 3151: Reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy * PEP 3155: Qualified name for classes and functions Other final large-scale changes: * Addition of the "packaging" module, deprecating "distutils" * Addition of the "faulthandler" module * Addition of the "lzma" module, and lzma/xz support in tarfile * Implementing ``__import__`` using importlib * Addition of the C decimal implementation Candidate PEPs: * PEP 362: Function Signature Object * PEP 397: Python launcher for Windows * PEP 405: Python Virtual Environments * PEP 415: Implementing PEP 409 differently * PEP 420: Implicit Namespace Packages * PEP 421: Adding sys.implementation * PEP 3143: Standard daemon process library * PEP 3144: IP Address manipulation library * PEP 3154: Pickle protocol version 4 (Note that these are not accepted yet and even if they are, they might not be finished in time for Python 3.3.) Other planned large-scale changes: * Addition of the "regex" module * Email version 6 * A standard event-loop interface (PEP by Jim Fulton pending) * Switch of Windows build toolchain to VS 2010 or 2012 (depending on availability and platform support) Deferred to post-3.3: * PEP 395: Qualified Names for Modules * Breaking out standard library and docs in separate repos 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: