PEP: 537 Title: Python 3.7 Release Schedule Version: $Revision$ Last-Modified: $Date$ Author: Ned Deily Status: Active Type: Informational Content-Type: text/x-rst Created: 23-Dec-2016 Python-Version: 3.7 Abstract ======== This document describes the development and release schedule for Python 3.7. 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 2018-06. Release Manager and Crew ======================== - 3.7 Release Manager: Ned Deily - Windows installers: Steve Dower - Mac installers: Ned Deily - Documentation: Georg Brandl 3.7 Lifespan ============ 3.7 will receive bugfix updates approximately every 3-6 months for approximately 18 months. After the release of 3.8.0 final, a final 3.7 bugfix update will be released. After that, it is expected that security updates (source only) will be released until 5 years after the release of 3.7 final, so until approximately 2023-06. Release Schedule ================ 3.7.0 schedule -------------- Actual: - 3.7 development begins: 2016-09-12 - 3.7.0 alpha 1: 2017-09-19 - 3.7.0 alpha 2: 2017-10-17 Expected: - 3.7.0 alpha 3: 2017-11-27 (was 2017-11-13) - 3.7.0 alpha 4: 2018-01-08 (was 2017-12-18) - 3.7.0 beta 1: 2018-01-29 (No new features beyond this point.) - 3.7.0 beta 2: 2018-02-26 - 3.7.0 beta 3: 2018-03-26 - 3.7.0 beta 4: 2018-04-30 - 3.7.0 candidate 1: 2018-05-21 - 3.7.0 candidate 2: 2018-06-04 (if necessary) - 3.7.0 final: 2018-06-15 Features for 3.7 ================ Implemented changes for 3.7 (as of 3.7.0 alpha 2): * :pep:`538`, Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 based locale * :pep:`539`, A New C-API for Thread-Local Storage in CPython * :pep:`553`, Built-in breakpoint() 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: