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The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized items. Small features may be added up to and including the first beta release. Bugs may be fixed until the final release.</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> <table class="docutils align-default"> <thead> <tr class="row-odd"><th class="head">Position</th> <th class="head">Name</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr class="row-even"><td>3.1 Release Manager</td> <td>Benjamin Peterson</td> </tr> <tr class="row-odd"><td>Windows installers</td> <td>Martin v. Loewis</td> </tr> <tr class="row-even"><td>Mac installers</td> <td>Ronald Oussoren</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </section> <section id="release-schedule"> <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#release-schedule" role="doc-backlink">Release Schedule</a></h2> <ul class="simple"> <li>3.1a1 March 7, 2009</li> <li>3.1a2 April 4, 2009</li> <li>3.1b1 May 6, 2009</li> <li>3.1rc1 May 30, 2009</li> <li>3.1rc2 June 13, 2009</li> <li>3.1 final June 27, 2009</li> </ul> </section> <section id="maintenance-releases"> <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#maintenance-releases" role="doc-backlink">Maintenance Releases</a></h2> <p>3.1 is no longer maintained. 3.1 received security fixes until June 2012.</p> <p>Previous maintenance releases are:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>v3.1.1rc1 2009-08-13</li> <li>v3.1.1 2009-08-16</li> <li>v3.1.2rc1 2010-03-06</li> <li>v3.1.2 2010-03-20</li> <li>v3.1.3rc1 2010-11-13</li> <li>v3.1.3 2010-11-27</li> <li>v3.1.4rc1 2011-05-29</li> <li>v3.1.4 2011-06-11</li> <li>v3.1.5rc1 2012-02-23</li> <li>v3.1.5rc2 2012-03-15</li> <li>v3.1.5 2012-04-06</li> </ul> </section> <section id="features-for-3-1"> <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#features-for-3-1" role="doc-backlink">Features for 3.1</a></h2> <ul class="simple"> <li>importlib</li> <li>io in C</li> <li>Update simplejson to the latest external version <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#simplejson" id="id1">[1]</a>.</li> <li>Ordered dictionary for collections (<a class="pep reference internal" href="../pep-0372/" title="PEP 372 – Adding an ordered dictionary to collections">PEP 372</a>).</li> <li>auto-numbered replacement fields in str.format() strings <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#strformat" id="id2">[2]</a></li> <li>Nested with-statements in one with statement</li> </ul> </section> <section id="footnotes"> <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#footnotes" role="doc-backlink">Footnotes</a></h2> <aside class="footnote-list brackets"> <aside class="footnote brackets" id="simplejson" role="doc-footnote"> <dt class="label" id="simplejson">[<a href="#id1">1</a>]</dt> <dd><a class="reference external" href="http://bugs.python.org/issue4136">http://bugs.python.org/issue4136</a></aside> <aside class="footnote brackets" id="strformat" role="doc-footnote"> <dt class="label" id="strformat">[<a href="#id2">2</a>]</dt> <dd><a class="reference external" href="http://bugs.python.org/issue5237">http://bugs.python.org/issue5237</a></aside> </aside> </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-0375.rst">https://github.com/python/peps/blob/main/peps/pep-0375.rst</a></p> <p>Last modified: <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/peps/commits/main/peps/pep-0375.rst">2025-02-01 08:59:27 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 Schedule</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#maintenance-releases">Maintenance Releases</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#features-for-3-1">Features for 3.1</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#footnotes">Footnotes</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#copyright">Copyright</a></li> </ul> <br> <a id="source" href="https://github.com/python/peps/blob/main/peps/pep-0375.rst">Page Source (GitHub)</a> </nav> </section> <script src="../_static/colour_scheme.js"></script> <script src="../_static/wrap_tables.js"></script> <script src="../_static/sticky_banner.js"></script> </body> </html>