PEP 478 – Python 3.5 Release Schedule

PEP

478

Title

Python 3.5 Release Schedule

Version

$Revision$

Last-Modified

$Date$

Author

Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org>

Status

Active

Type

Informational

Content-Type

text/x-rst

Created

22-Sep-2014

Python-Version

3.5

Abstract

This document describes the development and release schedule for Python 3.5. The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized items.

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

  • 3.5.0 final: September 13, 2015

  • 3.5.1 release candidate 1: November 22, 2015

  • 3.5.1 final: December 6, 2015

  • 3.5.2 release candidate 1: Sunday, June 12, 2016

  • 3.5.2 final: Sunday, June 26, 2016

  • 3.5.3 candidate 1: January 2, 2017

  • 3.5.3 final: January 17, 2017

  • 3.5.4 candidate 1: July 25, 2017

  • 3.5.4 final: August 8, 2017

  • 3.5.5 candidate 1: January 23, 2018

  • 3.5.5 final: February 4, 2018

  • 3.5.6 candidate 1: July 19, 2018

  • 3.5.6 final: August 2, 2018

  • 3.5.7 candidate 1: March 4, 2019

  • 3.5.7 final: March 18, 2019

  • 3.5.8 candidate 1: September 9, 2019

  • 3.5.8 candidate 2: October 12, 2019

  • 3.5.8 final: October 29, 2019

  • 3.5.9 final: November 1, 2019

There are no specific plans for the next release of Python 3.5.

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