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The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized items.</p> </section> <section id="release-manager-and-crew"> <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#release-manager-and-crew" role="doc-backlink">Release Manager and Crew</a></h2> <ul class="simple"> <li>3.5 Release Manager: Larry Hastings</li> <li>Windows installers: Steve Dower</li> <li>Mac installers: Ned Deily</li> <li>Documentation: Georg Brandl</li> </ul> </section> <section id="release-schedule"> <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#release-schedule" role="doc-backlink">Release Schedule</a></h2> <p>Python 3.5 has now reached its end-of-life and has been retired. No more releases will be made.</p> <p>These are all the historical releases of Python 3.5, including their release dates.</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>3.5.0 alpha 1: February 8, 2015</li> <li>3.5.0 alpha 2: March 9, 2015</li> <li>3.5.0 alpha 3: March 29, 2015</li> <li>3.5.0 alpha 4: April 19, 2015</li> <li>3.5.0 beta 1: May 24, 2015 (Beta 1 is also “feature freeze”–no new features beyond this point.)</li> <li>3.5.0 beta 2: May 31, 2015</li> <li>3.5.0 beta 3: July 5, 2015</li> <li>3.5.0 beta 4: July 26, 2015</li> <li>3.5.0 release candidate 1: August 10, 2015</li> <li>3.5.0 release candidate 2: August 25, 2015</li> <li>3.5.0 release candidate 3: September 7, 2015</li> <li>3.5.0 final: September 13, 2015</li> <li>3.5.1 release candidate 1: November 22, 2015</li> <li>3.5.1 final: December 6, 2015</li> <li>3.5.2 release candidate 1: Sunday, June 12, 2016</li> <li>3.5.2 final: Sunday, June 26, 2016</li> <li>3.5.3 candidate 1: January 2, 2017</li> <li>3.5.3 final: January 17, 2017</li> <li>3.5.4 candidate 1: July 25, 2017</li> <li>3.5.4 final: August 8, 2017</li> <li>3.5.5 candidate 1: January 23, 2018</li> <li>3.5.5 final: February 4, 2018</li> <li>3.5.6 candidate 1: July 19, 2018</li> <li>3.5.6 final: August 2, 2018</li> <li>3.5.7 candidate 1: March 4, 2019</li> <li>3.5.7 final: March 18, 2019</li> <li>3.5.8 candidate 1: September 9, 2019</li> <li>3.5.8 candidate 2: October 12, 2019</li> <li>3.5.8 final: October 29, 2019</li> <li>3.5.9 final: November 1, 2019</li> <li>3.5.10 rc1: August 21, 2020</li> <li>3.5.10 final: September 5, 2020</li> </ul> </section> <section id="features-for-3-5"> <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#features-for-3-5" role="doc-backlink">Features for 3.5</a></h2> <ul class="simple"> <li><a class="pep reference internal" href="../pep-0441/" title="PEP 441 – Improving Python ZIP Application Support">PEP 441</a>, improved Python zip application support</li> <li><a class="pep reference internal" href="../pep-0448/" title="PEP 448 – Additional Unpacking Generalizations">PEP 448</a>, additional unpacking generalizations</li> <li><a class="pep reference internal" href="../pep-0461/" title="PEP 461 – Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray">PEP 461</a>, “%-formatting” for bytes and bytearray objects</li> <li><a class="pep reference internal" href="../pep-0465/" title="PEP 465 – A dedicated infix operator for matrix multiplication">PEP 465</a>, a new operator (“@”) for matrix multiplication</li> <li><a class="pep reference internal" href="../pep-0471/" title="PEP 471 – os.scandir() function – a better and faster directory iterator">PEP 471</a>, os.scandir(), a fast new directory traversal function</li> <li><a class="pep reference internal" href="../pep-0475/" title="PEP 475 – Retry system calls failing with EINTR">PEP 475</a>, adding support for automatic retries of interrupted system calls</li> <li><a class="pep reference internal" href="../pep-0479/" title="PEP 479 – Change StopIteration handling inside generators">PEP 479</a>, change StopIteration handling inside generators</li> <li><a class="pep reference internal" href="../pep-0484/" title="PEP 484 – Type Hints">PEP 484</a>, the typing module, a new standard for type annotations</li> <li><a class="pep reference internal" href="../pep-0485/" title="PEP 485 – A Function for testing approximate equality">PEP 485</a>, math.isclose(), a function for testing approximate equality</li> <li><a class="pep reference internal" href="../pep-0486/" title="PEP 486 – Make the Python Launcher aware of virtual environments">PEP 486</a>, making the Windows Python launcher aware of virtual environments</li> <li><a class="pep reference internal" href="../pep-0488/" title="PEP 488 – Elimination of PYO files">PEP 488</a>, eliminating .pyo files</li> <li><a class="pep reference internal" href="../pep-0489/" title="PEP 489 – Multi-phase extension module initialization">PEP 489</a>, a new and improved mechanism for loading extension modules</li> <li><a class="pep reference internal" href="../pep-0492/" title="PEP 492 – Coroutines with async and await syntax">PEP 492</a>, coroutines with async and await syntax</li> </ul> </section> <section id="copyright"> <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#copyright" role="doc-backlink">Copyright</a></h2> <p>This document has been placed in the public domain.</p> </section> </section> <hr class="docutils" /> <p>Source: <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/peps/blob/main/peps/pep-0478.rst">https://github.com/python/peps/blob/main/peps/pep-0478.rst</a></p> <p>Last modified: <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/peps/commits/main/peps/pep-0478.rst">2023-09-09 17:39:29 GMT</a></p> </article> <nav id="pep-sidebar"> <h2>Contents</h2> <ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#abstract">Abstract</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#release-manager-and-crew">Release Manager and Crew</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#release-schedule">Release 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