diff --git a/Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py b/Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py
index bff4eae..8e2e104 100755
--- a/Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py
+++ b/Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py
@@ -1,30 +1,39 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 """
-This script is used to build "official" universal installers on Mac OS X.
-It requires at least Mac OS X 10.5, Xcode 3, and the 10.4u SDK for
-32-bit builds.  64-bit or four-way universal builds require at least
-OS X 10.5 and the 10.5 SDK.
+This script is used to build "official" universal installers on macOS.
+
+NEW for 3.7.0:
+- support Intel 64-bit-only () and 32-bit-only installer builds
+- use external Tcl/Tk 8.6 for 10.9+ builds
+- deprecate use of explicit SDK (--sdk-path=) since all but the oldest
+  versions of Xcode support implicit setting of an SDK via environment
+  variables (SDKROOT and friends, see the xcrun man page for more info).
+  The SDK stuff was primarily needed for building universal installers
+  for 10.4; so as of 3.7.0, building installers for 10.4 is no longer
+  supported with build-installer.
+- use generic "gcc" as compiler (CC env var) rather than "gcc-4.2"
+
+TODO:
+- support SDKROOT and DEVELOPER_DIR xcrun env variables
+- test with 10.5 and 10.4 and determine support status
 
 Please ensure that this script keeps working with Python 2.5, to avoid
-bootstrap issues (/usr/bin/python is Python 2.5 on OSX 10.5).  Sphinx,
-which is used to build the documentation, currently requires at least
-Python 2.4.  However, as of Python 3.4.1, Doc builds require an external
-sphinx-build and the current versions of Sphinx now require at least
-Python 2.6.
+bootstrap issues (/usr/bin/python is Python 2.5 on OSX 10.5).  Doc builds
+use current versions of Sphinx and require a reasonably current python3.
+Sphinx and dependencies are installed into a venv using the python3's pip
+so will fetch them from PyPI if necessary.  Since python3 is now used for
+Sphinx, build-installer.py should also be converted to use python3!
 
-In addition to what is supplied with OS X 10.5+ and Xcode 3+, the script
-requires an installed third-party version of
-Tcl/Tk 8.4 (for OS X 10.4 and 10.5 deployment targets) or Tcl/TK 8.5
-(for 10.6 or later) installed in /Library/Frameworks.  When installed,
+build-installer currently requires an installed third-party version of
+Tcl/Tk 8.4 (for OS X 10.4 and 10.5 deployment targets), Tcl/TK 8.5
+(for 10.6 or later), or Tcl/TK 8.6 (for 10.9 or later)
+installed in /Library/Frameworks.  When installed,
 the Python built by this script will attempt to dynamically link first to
 Tcl and Tk frameworks in /Library/Frameworks if available otherwise fall
 back to the ones in /System/Library/Framework.  For the build, we recommend
-installing the most recent ActiveTcl 8.4 or 8.5 version.
-
-32-bit-only installer builds are still possible on OS X 10.4 with Xcode 2.5
-and the installation of additional components, such as a newer Python
-(2.5 is needed for Python parser updates) and for the documentation
-build either svn (pre-3.4.1) or sphinx-build (3.4.1 and later).
+installing the most recent ActiveTcl 8.6. 8.5, or 8.4 version, depending
+on the deployment target.  The actual version linked to depends on the
+path of /Library/Frameworks/{Tcl,Tk}.framework/Versions/Current.
 
 Usage: see USAGE variable in the script.
 """
@@ -111,32 +120,19 @@
 DEPSRC = os.path.join(WORKDIR, 'third-party')
 DEPSRC = os.path.expanduser('~/Universal/other-sources')
 
-# Location of the preferred SDK
-
-### There are some issues with the SDK selection below here,
-### The resulting binary doesn't work on all platforms that
-### it should. Always default to the 10.4u SDK until that
-### issue is resolved.
-###
-##if int(os.uname()[2].split('.')[0]) == 8:
-##    # Explicitly use the 10.4u (universal) SDK when
-##    # building on 10.4, the system headers are not
-##    # useable for a universal build
-##    SDKPATH = "/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk"
-##else:
-##    SDKPATH = "/"
-
-SDKPATH = "/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk"
-
 universal_opts_map = { '32-bit': ('i386', 'ppc',),
                        '64-bit': ('x86_64', 'ppc64',),
                        'intel':  ('i386', 'x86_64'),
+                       'intel-32':  ('i386',),
+                       'intel-64':  ('x86_64',),
                        '3-way':  ('ppc', 'i386', 'x86_64'),
                        'all':    ('i386', 'ppc', 'x86_64', 'ppc64',) }
 default_target_map = {
         '64-bit': '10.5',
         '3-way': '10.5',
         'intel': '10.5',
+        'intel-32': '10.4',
+        'intel-64': '10.5',
         'all': '10.5',
 }
 
@@ -154,19 +150,18 @@
         ))))
 
 # $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET -> minimum OS X level
-DEPTARGET = '10.3'
+DEPTARGET = '10.5'
 
 def getDeptargetTuple():
     return tuple([int(n) for n in DEPTARGET.split('.')[0:2]])
 
 def getTargetCompilers():
     target_cc_map = {
-        '10.3': ('gcc-4.0', 'g++-4.0'),
         '10.4': ('gcc-4.0', 'g++-4.0'),
-        '10.5': ('gcc-4.2', 'g++-4.2'),
-        '10.6': ('gcc-4.2', 'g++-4.2'),
+        '10.5': ('gcc', 'g++'),
+        '10.6': ('gcc', 'g++'),
     }
-    return target_cc_map.get(DEPTARGET, ('clang', 'clang++') )
+    return target_cc_map.get(DEPTARGET, ('gcc', 'gcc++') )
 
 CC, CXX = getTargetCompilers()
 
@@ -180,9 +175,9 @@
     -b DIR
     --build-dir=DIR:     Create build here (default: %(WORKDIR)r)
     --third-party=DIR:   Store third-party sources here (default: %(DEPSRC)r)
-    --sdk-path=DIR:      Location of the SDK (default: %(SDKPATH)r)
+    --sdk-path=DIR:      Location of the SDK (deprecated, use SDKROOT env variable)
     --src-dir=DIR:       Location of the Python sources (default: %(SRCDIR)r)
-    --dep-target=10.n    OS X deployment target (default: %(DEPTARGET)r)
+    --dep-target=10.n    macOS deployment target (default: %(DEPTARGET)r)
     --universal-archs=x  universal architectures (options: %(UNIVERSALOPTS)r, default: %(UNIVERSALARCHS)r)
 """)% globals()
 
@@ -213,12 +208,9 @@
 
     result.extend([
           dict(
-              name="OpenSSL 1.0.2m",
-              url="https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.2m.tar.gz",
-              checksum='10e9e37f492094b9ef296f68f24a7666',
-              patches=[
-                  "openssl_sdk_makedepend.patch",
-                   ],
+              name="OpenSSL 1.1.0g",
+              url="https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.0g.tar.gz",
+              checksum='ba5f1b8b835b88cadbce9b35ed9531a6',
               buildrecipe=build_universal_openssl,
               configure=None,
               install=None,
@@ -315,9 +307,9 @@
                   ),
           ),
           dict(
-              name="SQLite 3.21.0",
-              url="https://www.sqlite.org/2017/sqlite-autoconf-3210000.tar.gz",
-              checksum='7913de4c3126ba3c24689cb7a199ea31',
+              name="SQLite 3.22.0",
+              url="https://www.sqlite.org/2018/sqlite-autoconf-3220000.tar.gz",
+              checksum='96b5648d542e8afa6ab7ffb8db8ddc3d',
               extra_cflags=('-Os '
                             '-DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS5 '
                             '-DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS4 '
@@ -343,11 +335,10 @@
               url="http://bzip.org/1.0.6/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz",
               checksum='00b516f4704d4a7cb50a1d97e6e8e15b',
               configure=None,
-              install='make install CC=%s CXX=%s, PREFIX=%s/usr/local/ CFLAGS="-arch %s -isysroot %s"'%(
+              install='make install CC=%s CXX=%s, PREFIX=%s/usr/local/ CFLAGS="-arch %s"'%(
                   CC, CXX,
                   shellQuote(os.path.join(WORKDIR, 'libraries')),
                   ' -arch '.join(ARCHLIST),
-                  SDKPATH,
               ),
           ),
           dict(
@@ -355,11 +346,10 @@
               url="http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib-1.2.3.tar.gz",
               checksum='debc62758716a169df9f62e6ab2bc634',
               configure=None,
-              install='make install CC=%s CXX=%s, prefix=%s/usr/local/ CFLAGS="-arch %s -isysroot %s"'%(
+              install='make install CC=%s CXX=%s, prefix=%s/usr/local/ CFLAGS="-arch %s"'%(
                   CC, CXX,
                   shellQuote(os.path.join(WORKDIR, 'libraries')),
                   ' -arch '.join(ARCHLIST),
-                  SDKPATH,
               ),
           ),
           dict(
@@ -406,8 +396,7 @@
             source="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework",
             readme="""\
                 This package installs Python.framework, that is the python
-                interpreter and the standard library. This also includes Python
-                wrappers for lots of Mac OS X API's.
+                interpreter and the standard library.
             """,
             postflight="scripts/postflight.framework",
             selected='selected',
@@ -484,24 +473,6 @@
         ),
     ]
 
-    if getDeptargetTuple() < (10, 4) and not PYTHON_3:
-        result.append(
-            dict(
-                name="PythonSystemFixes",
-                long_name="Fix system Python",
-                readme="""\
-                    This package updates the system python installation on
-                    Mac OS X 10.3 to ensure that you can build new python extensions
-                    using that copy of python after installing this version.
-                    """,
-                postflight="../Tools/fixapplepython23.py",
-                topdir="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework",
-                source="/empty-dir",
-                required=False,
-                selected=unselected_for_python3,
-            )
-        )
-
     return result
 
 def fatal(msg):
@@ -566,41 +537,33 @@
     Check that we're running on a supported system.
     """
 
-    if sys.version_info[0:2] < (2, 4):
-        fatal("This script must be run with Python 2.4 or later")
+    if sys.version_info[0:2] < (2, 5):
+        fatal("This script must be run with Python 2.5 (or later)")
 
     if platform.system() != 'Darwin':
-        fatal("This script should be run on a Mac OS X 10.4 (or later) system")
+        fatal("This script should be run on a macOS 10.5 (or later) system")
 
     if int(platform.release().split('.')[0]) < 8:
-        fatal("This script should be run on a Mac OS X 10.4 (or later) system")
-
-    if not os.path.exists(SDKPATH):
-        fatal("Please install the latest version of Xcode and the %s SDK"%(
-            os.path.basename(SDKPATH[:-4])))
+        fatal("This script should be run on a macOS 10.5 (or later) system")
 
     # Because we only support dynamic load of only one major/minor version of
     # Tcl/Tk, ensure:
-    # 1. there are no user-installed frameworks of Tcl/Tk with version
-    #       higher than the Apple-supplied system version in
-    #       SDKROOT/System/Library/Frameworks
-    # 2. there is a user-installed framework (usually ActiveTcl) in (or linked
-    #       in) SDKROOT/Library/Frameworks with the same version as the system
-    #       version. This allows users to choose to install a newer patch level.
+    # 1. there is a user-installed framework (usually ActiveTcl) in (or linked
+    #       in) SDKROOT/Library/Frameworks.  As of Python 3.7.0, we no longer
+    #       enforce that the version of the user-installed framework also
+    #       exists in the system-supplied Tcl/Tk frameworks.  Time to support
+    #       Tcl/Tk 8.6 even if Apple does not.
 
     frameworks = {}
     for framework in ['Tcl', 'Tk']:
         fwpth = 'Library/Frameworks/%s.framework/Versions/Current' % framework
-        sysfw = os.path.join(SDKPATH, 'System', fwpth)
-        libfw = os.path.join(SDKPATH, fwpth)
+        libfw = os.path.join('/', fwpth)
         usrfw = os.path.join(os.getenv('HOME'), fwpth)
-        frameworks[framework] = os.readlink(sysfw)
+        frameworks[framework] = os.readlink(libfw)
         if not os.path.exists(libfw):
             fatal("Please install a link to a current %s %s as %s so "
                     "the user can override the system framework."
                     % (framework, frameworks[framework], libfw))
-        if os.readlink(libfw) != os.readlink(sysfw):
-            fatal("Version of %s must match %s" % (libfw, sysfw) )
         if os.path.exists(usrfw):
             fatal("Please rename %s to avoid possible dynamic load issues."
                     % usrfw)
@@ -608,6 +571,10 @@
     if frameworks['Tcl'] != frameworks['Tk']:
         fatal("The Tcl and Tk frameworks are not the same version.")
 
+    print(" -- Building with Tcl/Tk %s frameworks"
+                % frameworks['Tk'])
+    print("")
+
     # add files to check after build
     EXPECTED_SHARED_LIBS['_tkinter.so'] = [
             "/Library/Frameworks/Tcl.framework/Versions/%s/Tcl"
@@ -644,7 +611,7 @@
     """
     Parse arguments and update global settings.
     """
-    global WORKDIR, DEPSRC, SDKPATH, SRCDIR, DEPTARGET
+    global WORKDIR, DEPSRC, SRCDIR, DEPTARGET
     global UNIVERSALOPTS, UNIVERSALARCHS, ARCHLIST, CC, CXX
     global FW_VERSION_PREFIX
     global FW_SSL_DIRECTORY
@@ -677,7 +644,7 @@
             DEPSRC=v
 
         elif k in ('--sdk-path',):
-            SDKPATH=v
+            print(" WARNING: --sdk-path is no longer supported")
 
         elif k in ('--src-dir',):
             SRCDIR=v
@@ -693,7 +660,7 @@
                 if deptarget is None:
                     # Select alternate default deployment
                     # target
-                    DEPTARGET = default_target_map.get(v, '10.3')
+                    DEPTARGET = default_target_map.get(v, '10.5')
             else:
                 raise NotImplementedError(v)
 
@@ -702,7 +669,6 @@
 
     SRCDIR=os.path.abspath(SRCDIR)
     WORKDIR=os.path.abspath(WORKDIR)
-    SDKPATH=os.path.abspath(SDKPATH)
     DEPSRC=os.path.abspath(DEPSRC)
 
     CC, CXX = getTargetCompilers()
@@ -713,7 +679,6 @@
     print("-- Settings:")
     print("   * Source directory:    %s" % SRCDIR)
     print("   * Build directory:     %s" % WORKDIR)
-    print("   * SDK location:        %s" % SDKPATH)
     print("   * Third-party source:  %s" % DEPSRC)
     print("   * Deployment target:   %s" % DEPTARGET)
     print("   * Universal archs:     %s" % str(ARCHLIST))
@@ -837,17 +802,13 @@
             "ppc64": ["darwin64-ppc-cc"],
         }
         configure_opts = [
-            "no-krb5",
             "no-idea",
             "no-mdc2",
             "no-rc5",
             "no-zlib",
-            "enable-tlsext",
-            "no-ssl2",
             "no-ssl3",
             # "enable-unit-test",
             "shared",
-            "--install_prefix=%s"%shellQuote(archbase),
             "--prefix=%s"%os.path.join("/", *FW_VERSION_PREFIX),
             "--openssldir=%s"%os.path.join("/", *FW_SSL_DIRECTORY),
         ]
@@ -855,9 +816,9 @@
             configure_opts.append("no-asm")
         runCommand(" ".join(["perl", "Configure"]
                         + arch_opts[arch] + configure_opts))
-        runCommand("make depend OSX_SDK=%s" % SDKPATH)
-        runCommand("make all OSX_SDK=%s" % SDKPATH)
-        runCommand("make install_sw OSX_SDK=%s" % SDKPATH)
+        runCommand("make depend")
+        runCommand("make all")
+        runCommand("make install_sw DESTDIR=%s"%shellQuote(archbase))
         # runCommand("make test")
         return
 
@@ -1016,27 +977,24 @@
 
         if recipe.get('useLDFlags', 1):
             configure_args.extend([
-                "CFLAGS=%s-mmacosx-version-min=%s -arch %s -isysroot %s "
+                "CFLAGS=%s-mmacosx-version-min=%s -arch %s "
                             "-I%s/usr/local/include"%(
                         recipe.get('extra_cflags', ''),
                         DEPTARGET,
                         ' -arch '.join(archList),
-                        shellQuote(SDKPATH)[1:-1],
                         shellQuote(basedir)[1:-1],),
-                "LDFLAGS=-mmacosx-version-min=%s -isysroot %s -L%s/usr/local/lib -arch %s"%(
+                "LDFLAGS=-mmacosx-version-min=%s -L%s/usr/local/lib -arch %s"%(
                     DEPTARGET,
-                    shellQuote(SDKPATH)[1:-1],
                     shellQuote(basedir)[1:-1],
                     ' -arch '.join(archList)),
             ])
         else:
             configure_args.extend([
-                "CFLAGS=%s-mmacosx-version-min=%s -arch %s -isysroot %s "
+                "CFLAGS=%s-mmacosx-version-min=%s -arch %s "
                             "-I%s/usr/local/include"%(
                         recipe.get('extra_cflags', ''),
                         DEPTARGET,
                         ' -arch '.join(archList),
-                        shellQuote(SDKPATH)[1:-1],
                         shellQuote(basedir)[1:-1],),
             ])
 
@@ -1114,10 +1072,6 @@
     curdir = os.getcwd()
     os.chdir(buildDir)
 
-    # Not sure if this is still needed, the original build script
-    # claims that parts of the install assume python.exe exists.
-    os.symlink('python', os.path.join(buildDir, 'python.exe'))
-
     # Extract the version from the configure file, needed to calculate
     # several paths.
     version = getVersion()
@@ -1128,13 +1082,13 @@
     os.environ['DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH'] = os.path.join(WORKDIR,
                                         'libraries', 'usr', 'local', 'lib')
     print("Running configure...")
-    runCommand("%s -C --enable-framework --enable-universalsdk=%s "
+    runCommand("%s -C --enable-framework --enable-universalsdk=/ "
                "--with-universal-archs=%s "
                "%s "
                "%s "
                "LDFLAGS='-g -L%s/libraries/usr/local/lib' "
                "CFLAGS='-g -I%s/libraries/usr/local/include' 2>&1"%(
-        shellQuote(os.path.join(SRCDIR, 'configure')), shellQuote(SDKPATH),
+        shellQuote(os.path.join(SRCDIR, 'configure')),
         UNIVERSALARCHS,
         (' ', '--with-computed-gotos ')[PYTHON_3],
         (' ', '--without-ensurepip ')[PYTHON_3],
diff --git a/Mac/BuildScript/openssl_sdk_makedepend.patch b/Mac/BuildScript/openssl_sdk_makedepend.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 0caac0a..0000000
--- a/Mac/BuildScript/openssl_sdk_makedepend.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-# HG changeset patch
-#
-# 	using openssl 1.0.2k
-#
-# - support building with an OS X SDK
-
-diff Configure
-
-diff --git a/Configure b/Configure
---- a/Configure
-+++ b/Configure
-@@ -642,12 +642,12 @@
- 
- ##### MacOS X (a.k.a. Rhapsody or Darwin) setup
- "rhapsody-ppc-cc","cc:-O3 -DB_ENDIAN::(unknown):MACOSX_RHAPSODY::BN_LLONG RC4_CHAR RC4_CHUNK DES_UNROLL BF_PTR:${no_asm}::",
--"darwin-ppc-cc","cc:-arch ppc -O3 -DB_ENDIAN -Wa,-force_cpusubtype_ALL::-D_REENTRANT:MACOSX:-Wl,-search_paths_first%:BN_LLONG RC4_CHAR RC4_CHUNK DES_UNROLL BF_PTR:${ppc32_asm}:osx32:dlfcn:darwin-shared:-fPIC -fno-common:-arch ppc -dynamiclib:.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR).dylib",
--"darwin64-ppc-cc","cc:-arch ppc64 -O3 -DB_ENDIAN::-D_REENTRANT:MACOSX:-Wl,-search_paths_first%:SIXTY_FOUR_BIT_LONG RC4_CHAR RC4_CHUNK DES_UNROLL BF_PTR:${ppc64_asm}:osx64:dlfcn:darwin-shared:-fPIC -fno-common:-arch ppc64 -dynamiclib:.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR).dylib",
--"darwin-i386-cc","cc:-arch i386 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -DL_ENDIAN::-D_REENTRANT:MACOSX:-Wl,-search_paths_first%:BN_LLONG RC4_INT RC4_CHUNK DES_UNROLL BF_PTR:".eval{my $asm=$x86_asm;$asm=~s/cast\-586\.o//;$asm}.":macosx:dlfcn:darwin-shared:-fPIC -fno-common:-arch i386 -dynamiclib:.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR).dylib",
--"debug-darwin-i386-cc","cc:-arch i386 -g3 -DL_ENDIAN::-D_REENTRANT:MACOSX:-Wl,-search_paths_first%:BN_LLONG RC4_INT RC4_CHUNK DES_UNROLL BF_PTR:${x86_asm}:macosx:dlfcn:darwin-shared:-fPIC -fno-common:-arch i386 -dynamiclib:.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR).dylib",
--"darwin64-x86_64-cc","cc:-arch x86_64 -O3 -DL_ENDIAN -Wall::-D_REENTRANT:MACOSX:-Wl,-search_paths_first%:SIXTY_FOUR_BIT_LONG RC4_CHUNK DES_INT DES_UNROLL:".eval{my $asm=$x86_64_asm;$asm=~s/rc4\-[^:]+//;$asm}.":macosx:dlfcn:darwin-shared:-fPIC -fno-common:-arch x86_64 -dynamiclib:.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR).dylib",
--"debug-darwin64-x86_64-cc","cc:-arch x86_64 -ggdb -g2 -O0 -DL_ENDIAN -Wall::-D_REENTRANT:MACOSX:-Wl,-search_paths_first%:SIXTY_FOUR_BIT_LONG RC4_CHUNK DES_INT DES_UNROLL:".eval{my $asm=$x86_64_asm;$asm=~s/rc4\-[^:]+//;$asm}.":macosx:dlfcn:darwin-shared:-fPIC -fno-common:-arch x86_64 -dynamiclib:.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR).dylib",
-+"darwin-ppc-cc","cc:-arch ppc -isysroot \$(OSX_SDK) -O3 -DB_ENDIAN -Wa,-force_cpusubtype_ALL::-D_REENTRANT:MACOSX:-Wl,-search_paths_first%:BN_LLONG RC4_CHAR RC4_CHUNK DES_UNROLL BF_PTR:${ppc32_asm}:osx32:dlfcn:darwin-shared:-fPIC -fno-common:-arch ppc -dynamiclib:.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR).dylib",
-+"darwin64-ppc-cc","cc:-arch ppc64 -isysroot \$(OSX_SDK) -O3 -DB_ENDIAN::-D_REENTRANT:MACOSX:-Wl,-search_paths_first%:SIXTY_FOUR_BIT_LONG RC4_CHAR RC4_CHUNK DES_UNROLL BF_PTR:${ppc64_asm}:osx64:dlfcn:darwin-shared:-fPIC -fno-common:-arch ppc64 -dynamiclib:.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR).dylib",
-+"darwin-i386-cc","cc:-arch i386 -isysroot \$(OSX_SDK) -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -DL_ENDIAN::-D_REENTRANT:MACOSX:-Wl,-search_paths_first%:BN_LLONG RC4_INT RC4_CHUNK DES_UNROLL BF_PTR:".eval{my $asm=$x86_asm;$asm=~s/cast\-586\.o//;$asm}.":macosx:dlfcn:darwin-shared:-fPIC -fno-common:-arch i386 -dynamiclib:.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR).dylib",
-+"debug-darwin-i386-cc","cc:-arch i386 -isysroot \$(OSX_SDK) -g3 -DL_ENDIAN::-D_REENTRANT:MACOSX:-Wl,-search_paths_first%:BN_LLONG RC4_INT RC4_CHUNK DES_UNROLL BF_PTR:${x86_asm}:macosx:dlfcn:darwin-shared:-fPIC -fno-common:-arch i386 -dynamiclib:.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR).dylib",
-+"darwin64-x86_64-cc","cc:-arch x86_64 -isysroot \$(OSX_SDK) -O3 -DL_ENDIAN -Wall::-D_REENTRANT:MACOSX:-Wl,-search_paths_first%:SIXTY_FOUR_BIT_LONG RC4_CHUNK DES_INT DES_UNROLL:".eval{my $asm=$x86_64_asm;$asm=~s/rc4\-[^:]+//;$asm}.":macosx:dlfcn:darwin-shared:-fPIC -fno-common:-arch x86_64 -dynamiclib:.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR).dylib",
-+"debug-darwin64-x86_64-cc","cc:-arch x86_64 -isysroot \$(OSX_SDK) -ggdb -g2 -O0 -DL_ENDIAN -Wall::-D_REENTRANT:MACOSX:-Wl,-search_paths_first%:SIXTY_FOUR_BIT_LONG RC4_CHUNK DES_INT DES_UNROLL:".eval{my $asm=$x86_64_asm;$asm=~s/rc4\-[^:]+//;$asm}.":macosx:dlfcn:darwin-shared:-fPIC -fno-common:-arch x86_64 -dynamiclib:.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR).dylib",
- "debug-darwin-ppc-cc","cc:-DBN_DEBUG -DREF_CHECK -DCONF_DEBUG -DCRYPTO_MDEBUG -DB_ENDIAN -g -Wall -O::-D_REENTRANT:MACOSX::BN_LLONG RC4_CHAR RC4_CHUNK DES_UNROLL BF_PTR:${ppc32_asm}:osx32:dlfcn:darwin-shared:-fPIC:-dynamiclib:.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR).dylib",
- # iPhoneOS/iOS
- "iphoneos-cross","llvm-gcc:-O3 -isysroot \$(CROSS_TOP)/SDKs/\$(CROSS_SDK) -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-common::-D_REENTRANT:iOS:-Wl,-search_paths_first%:BN_LLONG RC4_CHAR RC4_CHUNK DES_UNROLL BF_PTR:${no_asm}:dlfcn:darwin-shared:-fPIC -fno-common:-dynamiclib:.\$(SHLIB_MAJOR).\$(SHLIB_MINOR).dylib",
-@@ -1728,8 +1728,7 @@
- 		s/^AR=\s*ar/AR= $ar/;
- 		s/^RANLIB=.*/RANLIB= $ranlib/;
- 		s/^RC=.*/RC= $windres/;
--		s/^MAKEDEPPROG=.*$/MAKEDEPPROG= $cc/ if $cc eq "gcc";
--		s/^MAKEDEPPROG=.*$/MAKEDEPPROG= $cc/ if $ecc eq "gcc" || $ecc eq "clang";
-+		s/^MAKEDEPPROG=.*$/MAKEDEPPROG= $cc/;
- 		}
- 	s/^CFLAG=.*$/CFLAG= $cflags/;
- 	s/^DEPFLAG=.*$/DEPFLAG=$depflags/;
diff --git a/Mac/BuildScript/resources/ReadMe.rtf b/Mac/BuildScript/resources/ReadMe.rtf
index dba96b6..1eea1e2 100644
--- a/Mac/BuildScript/resources/ReadMe.rtf
+++ b/Mac/BuildScript/resources/ReadMe.rtf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf1504\cocoasubrtf830
+{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf1561\cocoasubrtf200
 {\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;\f1\fmodern\fcharset0 CourierNewPSMT;}
 {\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;}
 {\*\expandedcolortbl;;}
@@ -10,21 +10,37 @@
 \pard\tx720\tx1440\tx2160\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\partightenfactor0
 
 \b \cf0 NOTE:
-\b0   This is an early developer preview of the next feature release of Python 3.  Many features are yet to be added and existing features may change substantially or be deleted prior to the feature code freeze.\
+\b0   This is a beta preview of the next feature release of Python 3.  Existing features may change or be deleted prior to the release code freeze.\
 \pard\tx720\tx1440\tx2160\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\pardirnatural\partightenfactor0
 \cf0 \
 \pard\tx720\tx1440\tx2160\tx2880\tx3600\tx4320\tx5040\tx5760\tx6480\tx7200\tx7920\tx8640\pardirnatural\partightenfactor0
 
-\b \cf0 \ul \ulc0 Certificate verification and OpenSSL\
+\b \cf0 \ul \ulc0 Which installer variant should I use? [CHANGED in 3.7.0b1]
+\b0 \ulnone \
+\
+For Python.3.7, python.org currently provides two installer variants for download: one that installs a 
+\i 64-bit/32-bit Intel
+\i0  Python capable of running on 
+\i macOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
+\i0  or later; and one that installs a 
+\i 64-bit-only 
+\i0 Python capable of running on 
+\i macOS 10.9 (Mavericks)
+\i0  or later.  This ReadMe was installed with the 
+\i $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
+\i0  variant.  Use the 10.6 variant if you are running on macOS 10.6 through 10.8 or if you want to produce standalone applications that can run on systems from 10.6.  If you are running on macOS 10.9 or later and if you have no need for compatibility with older systems, use the 10.9 variant.  The Pythons installed by these installers are built with private copies of some third-party libraries not included with or newer than those in macOS itself.  The list of these libraries varies by installer variant and is included at the end of the License.rtf file.
+\b \ul \
+\
+Certificate verification and OpenSSL \{UPDATED in 3.7.0b1]\
 
 \b0 \ulnone \
-This variant of Python 3.7 includes its own private copy of OpenSSL 1.0.2.  The deprecated Apple-supplied OpenSSL libraries are no longer used.  This means that the trust certificates in system and user keychains managed by the 
+This variant of Python 3.7 includes its own private copy of OpenSSL 1.1.0.  The deprecated Apple-supplied OpenSSL libraries are no longer used.  This means that the trust certificates in system and user keychains managed by the 
 \i Keychain Access 
 \i0 application and the 
 \i security
 \i0  command line utility are no longer used as defaults by the Python 
 \f1 ssl
-\f0  module.  For this preview release, a sample command script is included in 
+\f0  module.  For this beta release, a sample command script is included in 
 \f1 /Applications/Python 3.7
 \f0  to install a curated bundle of default root certificates from the third-party 
 \f1 certifi
@@ -37,14 +53,14 @@
 \f0  included with this installer has its own default certificate store for verifying download connections.\
 \
 
-\b \ul Update your version of Tcl/Tk to use IDLE or other Tk applications
+\b \ul Update your version of Tcl/Tk to use IDLE or other Tk applications [CHANGED in 3.7.0b1] 
 \b0 \ulnone \
 \
 To use IDLE or other programs that use the Tkinter graphical user interface toolkit, you need to install a newer third-party version of the 
 \i Tcl/Tk
 \i0  frameworks.  Visit {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/"}}{\fldrslt https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/}} for current information about supported and recommended versions of 
 \i Tcl/Tk
-\i0  for this version of Python and of Mac OS X.  For this developer preview, the installer is still linked with Tcl/Tk 8.5.\
+\i0  for this version of Python and of Mac OS X.  For 3.7.0b1, the 10.9 installer variant is linked with Tcl/Tk 8.6 which you must install separately.   The 10.6 installer links /with Tcl/Tk 8.5 which you should also download and install.\
 
 \b \ul \
 Other changes\
diff --git a/Mac/BuildScript/resources/Welcome.rtf b/Mac/BuildScript/resources/Welcome.rtf
index 528e251..18f3290 100644
--- a/Mac/BuildScript/resources/Welcome.rtf
+++ b/Mac/BuildScript/resources/Welcome.rtf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf1504\cocoasubrtf830
+{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf1561\cocoasubrtf200
 \cocoascreenfonts1{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;}
 {\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;}
 {\*\expandedcolortbl;;}
@@ -19,7 +19,11 @@
 \
 
 \b NOTE:
-\b0   This is an early developer preview of the next feature release of Python 3.  Many features are yet to be added and existing features may change substantially or be deleted prior to the feature code freeze.\
+\b0   This is an beta preview of the next feature release of Python 3.  New features may change substantially or be deleted prior to the final code freeze.\
+\
+
+\b NEW in 3.7.0b1: 
+\b0 two installer variants (10.9+ 64-bit-only, 10.6+ 64-/32-bit), Tcl/Tk 8.6 support in the 10.9+ variant, OpenSSL 1.1.0g, and more!\
 \
 
 \b IMPORTANT: