| Guido van Rossum | 4405cf3 | 2007-08-30 17:16:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Python 3000 Release Notes |
| 2 | ========================= |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Release notes describe unfinished work in particular releases. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Please report bugs to http://bugs.python.org/. |
| 7 | |
| Guido van Rossum | 99533a9 | 2007-12-06 05:07:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | Version 3.0a2 - Release Date 07-Dec-2007 |
| 9 | ---------------------------------------- |
| 10 | |
| 11 | * SSL support is back! However, the SSL code appears to be leaking |
| 12 | quite a bit. |
| 13 | |
| Guido van Rossum | da3673e | 2007-12-06 18:25:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 14 | * On Windows Python can't be run from a directory with non ASCII chars |
| 15 | in its path name (bug #1342). |
| 16 | |
| 17 | * The current releases of MinGW and Cygwin can't build Python extensions |
| 18 | since they don't support msvcr90.dll. The necessary bits and pieces are |
| 19 | already in Python and cygwin cvs. |
| 20 | |
| Guido van Rossum | 99533a9 | 2007-12-06 05:07:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | * Otherwise, the 3.0a1 release notes still apply, except hashlib no |
| 22 | longer requires openssl. |
| 23 | |
| Guido van Rossum | 4405cf3 | 2007-08-30 17:16:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | Version 3.0a1 - Release Date 31-Aug-2007 |
| 25 | ---------------------------------------- |
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| Guido van Rossum | e5e8eff | 2007-08-30 20:18:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | * SSL support is disabled. This causes test_ssl to be skipped. |
| Guido van Rossum | 4405cf3 | 2007-08-30 17:16:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | The new SSL support in the 2.6 trunk (with server-side support and |
| 29 | certificate verification) will be ported for 3.0a2. |
| 30 | |
| Guido van Rossum | 7576583 | 2007-08-31 00:38:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | * If you don't have `openssl <http://www.openssl.org>`_ installed, or |
| 32 | a version older than 0.9.7, hashlib is non-functional, which means |
| 33 | there is no way to compute MD5 checksums. This breaks some modules. |
| Guido van Rossum | e5e8eff | 2007-08-30 20:18:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | |
| 35 | * Platform support is reduced. We've mostly tested on Linux, OSX, |
| Guido van Rossum | 7576583 | 2007-08-31 00:38:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | and Windows. Solaris is also supported (somewhat). |
| 37 | |
| 38 | * There may be additional issues on 64-bit architectures. |
| Guido van Rossum | 4405cf3 | 2007-08-30 17:16:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | |
| Guido van Rossum | e5e8eff | 2007-08-30 20:18:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | * There are still some open issues on Windows. |
| Guido van Rossum | 4405cf3 | 2007-08-30 17:16:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | |
| Guido van Rossum | e5e8eff | 2007-08-30 20:18:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | * Some new features are very fresh, and probably contain bugs: the new |
| Guido van Rossum | 4405cf3 | 2007-08-30 17:16:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | format() method on strings (PEP 3101), the strict separation of |
| 44 | bytes and strings, the new buffer API (PEP 3118). |
| Guido van Rossum | 845702c | 2007-08-30 18:44:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 45 | |
| Guido van Rossum | e5e8eff | 2007-08-30 20:18:10 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | * IDLE still has some open issues. If you can't run it at all, try |
| Guido van Rossum | 845702c | 2007-08-30 18:44:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | "idle -n" which disables the separate subprocess for the |
| 48 | interpreter. |