Get ready for releasing 3.0a2.
(Next: update the whatsnew docs.)
diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index 53554aa..8987445 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@
#define PY_MINOR_VERSION 0
#define PY_MICRO_VERSION 0
#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_ALPHA
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL 1
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL 2
/* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION "3.0a1+"
+#define PY_VERSION "3.0a2"
/* Subversion Revision number of this file (not of the repository) */
#define PY_PATCHLEVEL_REVISION "$Revision$"
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c041d10..b3905c6 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
What's New in Python 3.0a2?
-*Unreleased*
+*Release date: 07-Dec-2007*
+
+(Note: this list is incomplete.)
Core and Builtins
-----------------
diff --git a/README b/README
index 0f37235..6aec2a4 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is Python version 3.0 alpha 1
+This is Python version 3.0 alpha 2
==================================
For notes specific to this release, see RELNOTES in this directory.
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
finally been removed.
This is an ongoing project; the cleanup isn't expected to be complete
-until 2008. In particular there are plans to reorganize the standard
-library namespace.
+until some time in 2008. In particular there are plans to reorganize
+the standard library namespace.
Release Schedule
@@ -55,6 +55,19 @@
"What's New in Python 3.0" document. Please help write it!
+What's New Since 3.0a1
+----------------------
+
+Undoubtedly the biggest change is in the bytes type: 'bytes' is now
+immutable, and there is a new mutable bytes type 'bytearray'. These
+two types are interoperable in every way. For more info on this
+issue, read PEP 3137.
+
+For a more detailed change log, read Misc/NEWS (though this file, too,
+is incomplete, and also doesn't list anything merged in from the 2.6
+release under development).
+
+
Converting From Python 2.x to 3.0
---------------------------------
diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES
index c23f820..2526bc5 100644
--- a/RELNOTES
+++ b/RELNOTES
@@ -5,6 +5,15 @@
Please report bugs to http://bugs.python.org/.
+Version 3.0a2 - Release Date 07-Dec-2007
+----------------------------------------
+
+* SSL support is back! However, the SSL code appears to be leaking
+ quite a bit.
+
+* Otherwise, the 3.0a1 release notes still apply, except hashlib no
+ longer requires openssl.
+
Version 3.0a1 - Release Date 31-Aug-2007
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