New Features & Upgrades

• Upgrade to Python 3.1.1 (release notes)
• Fix a crash in expat when the wrong kind of input is passed

Internal Build Changes

• [AIX] Fix compile error in the cmath extension
• [AIX] Add powerpc 64-bit support

New Features & Upgrades

• Upgrade to Python 3.1 final (release notes)

Internal Build Changes

• [Windows] Appropriate Merge Modules are included in WiX (bug 82899)

New Features & Upgrades

• Upgrade to Python 3.1b1 (release notes)
• Upgrade to Tcl/Tk 8.5.7 and Tix 8.4.3
• [Windows] Upgrade to PyWin32 211+ (CVS sources as of 2008-06-24)
• [Windows] x64 build available
• Security upgrade to openssl-0.9.8k

New Features & Upgrades

• Upgrade to Python 2.6.2 (release notes)
• Upgrade to Tcl/Tk 8.5.7 and Tix 8.4.3
• [Windows] Upgrade to PyWin32 211+ (CVS sources as of 2008-06-24)
• [Windows] x64 build available
• Security upgrade to openssl-0.9.8k

New Features & Upgrades

• Upgrade to Tcl/Tk 8.5.7 and Tix 8.4.3
• [Windows] Upgrade to PyWin32 211+ (CVS sources as of 2008-06-24)
• [Windows] x64 build available
• Security upgrade to openssl-0.9.8k

New Features & Upgrades

• Upgrade to Python 3.0.1 (release notes)

New Features & Upgrades

• Upgrade to Python 3 (release notes)

New Features & Upgrades

• Upgrade to Python 2.6.1 (release notes)

New Features & Upgrades

• Upgrade to Python 2.6 (release notes)

New Features & Upgrades

• Upgrade to Python 2.5.2 (release notes)

Internal Build Changes

• [macosx, embedding] Add support to Mac OS X python stub to use the PYTHONEXECUTABLE envvar for the python to exec. This is used by Komodo to run the Python executable in the Komodo.app bundle.
• [linux] Drop old linux-glibc2.1-x86 build. All modern Linuxes have moved well beyond this.

New Features & Upgrades

• Upgrade to Python 2.4.5 (release notes)

Internal Build Changes

• [macosx, embedding] Add support to Mac OS X python stub to use the PYTHONEXECUTABLE envvar for the python to exec. This is used by Komodo to run the Python executable in the Komodo.app bundle.
• [linux] Drop old linux-glibc2.1-x86 build. All modern Linuxes have moved well beyond this.

New Features & Upgrades

• Upgrade core to Python 2.5.1.

Noteworty Changes & Bug Fixes

• [windows] Fix instructions in pydoc.py so can get help(KEYWORD) easily working (bug 46059).
• [windows] Fix pydoc.py so python -m pydoc ... works (bug 43711).
• [windows] Fix documentation registry keys used by Pythonwin and Komodo and possibly others. (bug 68406, change 277273)
• Fix some 404s in "What's New in Python X.Y?" docs on ASPN (bug 68224).
• Fix compiler key of version_info dict in activestate.py distro marker to not be None most of the time.

Internal Build Changes

• [un*x] Move to more reliable and available install-dir relocation system (relocate_python() in activestate.py).
• [macosx, embedding] Add support to Mac OS X python stub to use a relative path to the main Python executable in the Python.app bundle. This allows an install image to be runnable without being in "/Library/Frameworks/...".

New Features & Upgrades

• [windows] Install a python25.exe beside python.exe. This is akin to the "python2.5" setup on all other platforms. You can have multiple Python versions installed and on your PATH and call specific ones.
• [macosx] Switch to a universal build.
• Add full OpenSSL support.
• [windows] PyWin32 update to build 209.2 (actually to a CVS snapshot just before the PyWin32 build 210 release).
• Tcl/Tk 8.4.14 and Tix 8.4.2 upgrades.
• Added all the new core extensions in Python 2.5: ctypes, SQLite (sqlite3), ElementTree (xml.etree).
• Updated extra docs to the latest: Python FAQs, Python HOWTOs, PEPs snapshot.

Noteworty Changes & Bug Fixes

• [linux] Drop the separate "libcppN" builds. The "libcpp" indicated the system libstdc++.so with which the given ActivePython was compatible. However, the dependence on "libstdc++" was only accidental and only in the main python executable. The only significant system library dependence of the ActivePython linux build is now libc.so.6. The old "linux2.2-x86" build (which is built against libc.so.5) may be dropped: libc 5 is ancient.
• [macosx] Improved the uninstall procedure. An uninstall script is included in the package receipt (instead of the old pydistro.py). This script is more reliable and knows how to restore an older existing Python framework as the default.

Internal Build Changes

• [windows] Switched to use Wix for the installer
• Switching to new makelib and configurelib based build sys. Otherwise very similar to old system.

Noteworthy Bug Fixes

• [windows] Fix bug that results in .pyo and .pyc being placed on the PATHEXT environment variable before .py for clean installs - bug 33311. This can cause surprises for command-line usage for Python scripts when not specifying the .py extension. The new installer will fix PATHEXT on machines that hit this bug.

New Features & Upgrades

• [Windows] Update to recent PyWin32 (build 208.1+)
• Update to bzip2 1.0.3 (from 1.0.2) [bug 45239]
• Update to Python 2.4.3

Noteworthy Bug Fixes

• [windows, docs] Fix bug 44765: no PyWin32 docs in CHM TOC
• [macosx] Fix errors in the build number in the Python.framework Info.plist and version.plist (change 252117).

Noteworthy Bug Fixes

• Fix Mac OS X/PowerPC bug where the Python "bz2" and "curses" extensions unintentionally depended on one having Fink installed. (Bug 44165)

Internal Build Changes

• Drop 3-digit ActivePython build numbers in favour of simply counting from zero (0). The 3-digit build numbers attempted to encode the major.minor core Python version number as part of the build. However, the result was a limit of ten ActivePython builds for one core Python X.Y stream and the encoding did not hold enough value. (Note: Build "9" was an internal build that was not released publicly.)
• Change the Windows "debug libraries" package to allow installation into a non-ActivePython Python installation of the same version as discussed on python-dev here and here.
• Change the name used for the Intel 32-bit architecture from "ix86" to "x86" in platform names. This changes the package names for some ActivePython builds.