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PEP: 429
Title: Python 3.4 Release Schedule
Version: $Revision$
Last-Modified: $Date$
Author: Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org>
Status: Active
Type: Informational
Content-Type: text/x-rst
Created: 17-Oct-2012
Python-Version: 3.4
Abstract
========
This document describes the development and release schedule for
Python 3.4. 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 March 2014.
Release Manager and Crew
========================
- 3.4 Release Manager: Larry Hastings
- Windows installers: Martin v. Löwis
- Mac installers: Ned Deily
- Documentation: Georg Brandl
Release Schedule
================
The releases:
- 3.4.0 alpha 1: August 3, 2013
- 3.4.0 alpha 2: September 9, 2013
- 3.4.0 alpha 3: September 29, 2013
- 3.4.0 alpha 4: October 20, 2013
- 3.4.0 beta 1: November 24, 2013
- 3.4.0 beta 2: January 5, 2014
- 3.4.0 beta 3: January 26, 2014
- 3.4.0 candidate 1: February 10, 2014
- 3.4.0 candidate 2: February 23, 2014
- 3.4.0 candidate 3: March 9, 2014
- 3.4.0 final: March 16, 2014
(Beta 1 was also "feature freeze"--no new features beyond this point.)
3.4.1 schedule
--------------
- 3.4.1 candidate 1: May 5, 2014
- 3.4.1 final: May 18, 2014
3.4.2 schedule
--------------
- 3.4.2 candidate 1: September 22, 2014
- 3.4.2 final: October 6, 2014
3.4.3 schedule
--------------
- 3.4.3 candidate 1: February 8, 2015
- 3.4.3 final: February 25, 2015
Features for 3.4
================
Implemented / Final PEPs:
* PEP 428, a "pathlib" module providing object-oriented filesystem paths
* PEP 435, a standardized "enum" module
* PEP 436, a build enhancement that will help generate introspection information for builtins
* PEP 442, improved semantics for object finalization
* PEP 443, adding single-dispatch generic functions to the standard library
* PEP 445, a new C API for implementing custom memory allocators
* PEP 446, changing file descriptors to not be inherited by default in subprocesses
* PEP 450, a new "statistics" module
* PEP 451, standardizing module metadata for Python's module import system
* PEP 453, a bundled installer for the *pip* package manager
* PEP 454, a new "tracemalloc" module for tracing Python memory allocations
* PEP 456, a new hash algorithm for Python strings and binary data
* PEP 3154, a new and improved protocol for pickled objects
* PEP 3156, a new "asyncio" module, a new framework for asynchronous I/O
Deferred to post-3.4:
* PEP 431, improved support for time zone databases
* PEP 441, improved Python zip application support
* PEP 447, support for __locallookup__ metaclass method
* PEP 448, additional unpacking generalizations
* PEP 455, key transforming dictionary
Copyright
=========
This document has been placed in the public domain.
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