PEP: 478 Title: Python 3.5 Release Schedule Version: $Revision$ Last-Modified: $Date$ Author: Larry Hastings Status: Active Type: Informational Content-Type: text/x-rst Created: 22-Sep-2014 Python-Version: 3.5 Abstract ======== This document describes the development and release schedule for Python 3.5. The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized items. .. Small features may be added up to the first beta release. Bugs may be fixed until the final release, which is planned for September 2015. Release Manager and Crew ======================== - 3.5 Release Manager: Larry Hastings - Windows installers: Steve Dower - Mac installers: Ned Deily / Ronald Oussoren - Documentation: Georg Brandl Release Schedule ================ The releases: - 3.5.0 alpha 1: February 1, 2015 - 3.5.0 alpha 2: March 8, 2015 - 3.5.0 alpha 3: March 28, 2015 - 3.5.0 alpha 4: April 19, 2015 - 3.5.0 beta 1: May 24, 2015 - 3.5.0 beta 2: July 5, 2015 - 3.5.0 beta 3: July 26, 2015 - 3.5.0 candidate 1: August 9, 2015 - 3.5.0 candidate 2: August 23, 2015 - 3.5.0 candidate 3: September 6, 2015 - 3.5.0 final: September 13, 2015 (Beta 1 is also "feature freeze"--no new features beyond this point.) Features for 3.5 ================ Implemented / Final PEPs: * PEP 465, a new matrix multiplication operator Accepted PEPs: * PEP 461, %-formatting for binary strings * PEP 471, os.scandir() Proposed changes for 3.5: * PEP 431, improved support for time zone databases * PEP 432, simplifying Python's startup sequence * PEP 436, a build tool generating boilerplate for extension modules * PEP 441, improved Python zip application support * PEP 447, support for __locallookup__ metaclass method * PEP 448, additional unpacking generalizations * PEP 455, key transforming dictionary * PEP 475, retrying system calls that fail with EINTR 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: