[Python-3000] RELEASED Python 2.6a3 and 3.0a5

Fri May 9 01:50:06 CEST 2008

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On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I 
am happy to announce the third alpha release of Python 2.6, and the 
fifth alpha release of Python 3.0.
Please note that these are alpha releases, and as such are not 
suitable for production environments. We continue to strive for a 
high degree of quality, but there are still some known problems and 
the feature sets have not been finalized. These alphas are being 
released to solicit feedback and hopefully discover bugs, as well as 
allowing you to determine how changes in 2.6 and 3.0 might impact
you. If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit a bug 
report at
 http://bugs.python.org
For more information and downloadable distributions, see the Python
2.6 website:
 http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/
and the Python 3.0 web site:
 http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/
These are the last planned alphas for both versions. If all goes 
well, next month will see the first beta releases of both, which will 
also signal feature freeze. Two beta releases are planned, with the 
final releases scheduled for September 3, 2008.
See PEP 361 for release details:
 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/
Enjoy,
- -Barry
Barry Warsaw
barry at python.org
Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)
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