Thanks, Benjamin -- that's great! This may not be a python-dev question exactly. But on Windows, is it safe to update to 2.7.5 on top of 2.7.4 (at C:\Python27) using the .msi installer? In other words, will it update/add/remove all the files correctly? What if python.exe is running?
-Ben On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org>wrote: > It is my greatest pleasure to announce the release of Python 2.7.5. > > 2.7.5 is the latest maintenance release in the Python 2.7 series. You may > be > surprised to hear from me so soon, as Python 2.7.4 was released slightly > more > than a month ago. As it turns out, 2.7.4 had several regressions and > incompatibilities with 2.7.3. Among them were regressions in the zipfile, > gzip, > and logging modules. 2.7.5 fixes these. In addition, a data file for > testing in > the 2.7.4 tarballs and binaries aroused the suspicion of some virus > checkers. The 2.7.5 release removes this file to resolve that issue. > > For details, see the Misc/NEWS file in the distribution or view it at > > http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/ab05e7dd2788/Misc/NEWS > > Downloads are at > > http://python.org/download/releases/2.7.5/ > > As always, please report bugs to > > http://bugs.python.org/ > > (Thank you to those who reported these bugs in 2.7.4.) > > This is a production release. > > Happy May, > Benjamin Peterson > 2.7 Release Manager > (on behalf of all of Python 2.7's contributors) > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/benhoyt%40gmail.com >
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