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PEP 494 – Python 3.6 Release Schedule
PEP 494 – Python 3.6 Release Schedule
Author
:
Ned Deily <nad at python.org>
Status
:
Final
Type
:
Informational
Topic
:
Release
Created
:
30-May-2015
Python-Version
:
3.6
Table of Contents
This document describes the development and release schedule for
Python 3.6. The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized
items.
- 3.6 Release Manager: Ned Deily
- Windows installers: Steve Dower
- Mac installers: Ned Deily
- Documentation: Julien Palard, Georg Brandl
3.6 will receive bugfix updates
approximately every 3 months for about 24 months. Sometime after the release of
3.7.0 final, a final 3.6 bugfix update will be released.
After that, it is expected that
security updates
(source only) will be released as needed until 5 years after
the release of 3.6 final, so until approximately 2021-12.
As of 2021-12-23, 3.6 has reached the
end-of-life phase
of its release cycle. 3.6.15 was the final security release. The code base for
3.6 is now frozen and no further updates will be provided nor issues of any
kind will be accepted on the bug tracker.
- 3.6 development begins: 2015-05-24
- 3.6.0 alpha 1: 2016-05-17
- 3.6.0 alpha 2: 2016-06-13
- 3.6.0 alpha 3: 2016-07-11
- 3.6.0 alpha 4: 2016-08-15
- 3.6.0 beta 1: 2016-09-12
(No new features beyond this point.)
- 3.6.0 beta 2: 2016-10-10
- 3.6.0 beta 3: 2016-10-31
- 3.6.0 beta 4: 2016-11-21
- 3.6.0 candidate 1: 2016-12-06
- 3.6.0 candidate 2: 2016-12-16
- 3.6.0 final: 2016-12-23
- 3.6.1 candidate: 2017-03-05
- 3.6.1 final: 2017-03-21
- 3.6.2 candidate 1: 2017-06-17
- 3.6.2 candidate 2: 2017-07-07
- 3.6.2 final: 2017-07-17
- 3.6.3 candidate: 2017-09-19
- 3.6.3 final: 2017-10-03
- 3.6.4 candidate: 2017-12-05
- 3.6.4 final: 2017-12-19
- 3.6.5 candidate: 2018-03-13
- 3.6.5 final: 2018-03-28
- 3.6.6 candidate: 2018-06-12
- 3.6.6 final: 2018-06-27
- 3.6.7 candidate: 2018-09-26
- 3.6.7 candidate 2: 2018-10-13
- 3.6.7 final: 2018-10-20
Last binary releases
- 3.6.8 candidate: 2018-12-11
- 3.6.8 final: 2018-12-24
Source only
- 3.6.9 candidate 1: 2019-06-18
- 3.6.9 final: 2019-07-02
- 3.6.10 candidate 1: 2019-12-11
- 3.6.10 final: 2019-12-18
- 3.6.11 candidate 1: 2020-06-15
- 3.6.11 final: 2020-06-27
Implemented changes for 3.6 (as of 3.6.0 beta 1):
- PEP 468, Preserving Keyword Argument Order
- PEP 487, Simpler customization of class creation
- PEP 495, Local Time Disambiguation
- PEP 498, Literal String Formatting
- PEP 506, Adding A Secrets Module To The Standard Library
- PEP 509, Add a private version to dict
- PEP 515, Underscores in Numeric Literals
- PEP 519, Adding a file system path protocol
- PEP 520, Preserving Class Attribute Definition Order
- PEP 523, Adding a frame evaluation API to CPython
- PEP 524, Make os.urandom() blocking on Linux (during system startup)
- PEP 525, Asynchronous Generators (provisional)
- PEP 526, Syntax for Variable Annotations (provisional)
- PEP 528, Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8 (provisional)
- PEP 529, Change Windows filesystem encoding to UTF-8 (provisional)
- PEP 530, Asynchronous Comprehensions
This document has been placed in the public domain.
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