Abstract

This document describes the development and release schedule for Python 3.5. The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized items.

Release Manager and Crew

• 3.5 Release Manager: Larry Hastings
• Windows installers: Steve Dower
• Mac installers: Ned Deily
• Documentation: Georg Brandl

Release Schedule

The releases so far:

• 3.5.0 alpha 1: February 8, 2015
• 3.5.0 alpha 2: March 9, 2015
• 3.5.0 alpha 3: March 29, 2015
• 3.5.0 alpha 4: April 19, 2015
• 3.5.0 beta 1: May 24, 2015 (Beta 1 is also "feature freeze"--no new features beyond this point.)
• 3.5.0 beta 2: May 31, 2015
• 3.5.0 beta 3: July 5, 2015
• 3.5.0 beta 4: July 26, 2015
• 3.5.0 release candidate 1: August 10, 2015
• 3.5.0 release candidate 2: August 25, 2015
• 3.5.0 release candidate 3: September 7, 2015
• 3.5.0 final: September 13, 2015
• 3.5.1 release candidate 1: November 22, 2015
• 3.5.1 final: December 6, 2015

• 3.5.2 release candidate 1: Sunday, June 12, 2016
• 3.5.2 final: Sunday, June 26, 2016

Features for 3.5

• PEP 441, improved Python zip application support
• PEP 448, additional unpacking generalizations
• PEP 461, "%-formatting" for bytes and bytearray objects
• PEP 465, a new operator ("@") for matrix multiplication
• PEP 471, os.scandir(), a fast new directory traversal function
• PEP 475, adding support for automatic retries of interrupted system calls
• PEP 479, change StopIteration handling inside generators
• PEP 484, the typing module, a new standard for type annotations
• PEP 485, math.isclose(), a function for testing approximate equality
• PEP 486, making the Windows Python launcher aware of virtual environments
• PEP 488, eliminating .pyo files
• PEP 489, a new and improved mechanism for loading extension modules
• PEP 492, coroutines with async and await syntax

Copyright

This document has been placed in the public domain.