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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: [ANN] Python 2.5.6 Release Candidate 1
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 01:45:59 -0700
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"Martin v. Löwis" <martin@v.loewis.de> writes:
> On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm
> happy to announce the release candidate 1 of Python 2.5.6.
>
> This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. 

Thanks Martin, I'm glad these older releases are still getting important
fixes. 

I notice http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.6/NEWS.txt says the
release date was 17 Apr 2010.  Presumably that should have said 2011.