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PEP: 537
Title: Python 3.7 Release Schedule
Version: $Revision$
Last-Modified: $Date$
Author: Ned Deily <nad@python.org>
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
- 3.7.0 alpha 3: 2017-12-05
Expected:
- 3.7.0 alpha 4: 2018-01-08
- 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 3):
* :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()
* :pep:`557`, Data Classes
* :pep:`564`, Time functions with nanosecond resolution
Copyright
=========
This document has been placed in the public domain.
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