PEP: 478
Title: Python 3.5 Release Schedule
Version: $Revision$
Last-Modified: $Date$
Author: Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org>
Status: Active
Type: Informational
Content-Type: text/x-rst
Created: 22-Sep-2014
Python-Version: 3.5


Abstract
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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
- Documentation: Georg Brandl


Release Schedule
================

The releases so far:

- 3.5.0 alpha 1: February 8, 2015
- 3.5.0 alpha 2: March 9, 2015
- 3.5.0 alpha 3: March 29, 2015
- 3.5.0 alpha 4: April 19, 2015
- 3.5.0 beta 1: May 24, 2015
  (Beta 1 is also "feature freeze"--no new features beyond this point.)
- 3.5.0 beta 2: May 31, 2015
- 3.5.0 beta 3: July 5, 2015
- 3.5.0 beta 4: July 26, 2015
- 3.5.0 release candidate 1: August 10, 2015
- 3.5.0 release candidate 2: August 25, 2015
- 3.5.0 release candidate 3: September 7, 2015

Planned future release dates:

- 3.5.0 final: September 13, 2015


Features for 3.5
================

* PEP 441, improved Python zip application support
* PEP 448, additional unpacking generalizations
* PEP 461, "%-formatting" for bytes and bytearray objects
* PEP 465, a new operator ("@") for matrix multiplication
* PEP 471, os.scandir(), a fast new directory traversal function
* PEP 475, adding support for automatic retries of interrupted system calls
* PEP 479, change StopIteration handling inside generators
* PEP 484, the typing module, a new standard for type annotations
* PEP 485, math.isclose(), a function for testing approximate equality
* PEP 486, making the Windows Python launcher aware of virtual environments
* PEP 488, eliminating .pyo files
* PEP 489, a new and improved mechanism for loading extension modules
* PEP 492, coroutines with async and await syntax


Copyright
=========

This document has been placed in the public domain.



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