Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.006 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'fixes': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'jan': 0.12; '2.7': 0.14; 'ends,': 0.16; 'feb.': 0.16; 'merged': 0.16; 'patches': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'subject:versions': 0.16; 'x.y': 0.16; 'subject:python': 0.16; 'alpha': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'feb': 0.22; 'python?': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'case.': 0.24; 'initial': 0.24; 'versions': 0.24; 'developers': 0.25; 'supported': 0.26; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'included': 0.31; 'yes.': 0.31; 'yesterday.': 0.31; 'bugs': 0.33; 'older': 0.33; 'period': 0.33; 'candidate': 0.34; 'core': 0.34; 'done.': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; '2.6': 0.36; 'done': 0.36; '2008': 0.38; 'branch': 0.38; 'work?': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'release': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'even': 0.60; 'ago.': 0.61; 'new': 0.61; 'received:173': 0.61; 'forward': 0.65; 'special': 0.74; 'applicable.': 0.84; 'believe,': 0.84; 'received:fios.verizon.net': 0.84; '2015.': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Terry Reedy Subject: Re: Confusion about python versions Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 17:29:50 -0400 References: <3e74a873-cb48-4bb5-aff2-cee5f4919f66@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-59-117-133.phlapa.fios.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0.1 In-Reply-To: <3e74a873-cb48-4bb5-aff2-cee5f4919f66@googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 41 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1382909413 news.xs4all.nl 15935 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:44906 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:57765 On 10/27/2013 2:13 PM, Aseem Bansal wrote: > Python 2.7.6 release candidate 1 and 3.3.3 release candidate 1 was > released yesterday. Also Python 3.4.0 alpha 4 was released a week > ago. > > I thought as Python 3.4.0 alpha was released 3.3 branch was done. Normal 3.3 bugfixes are not done until 3.4.0 (final) is released. There will be a 3.3.4 at that time. > 3.3.3 release candidate fixes many bugs as per the changelog so would > they be included in 3.4.0? Yes. 3.3 patches are merged forward unless not applicable. > How long do the older versions get supported in case of Python? After normal maintenance ends, code-only, security-fix-only releases of x.y continue after that until 5 years after x.y.0. 3.3.0 was released 2012 Feb so security releases will continue until about 2017 Feb. The initial 2.6 release was about 2008 Sept, I believe, so this is 5 years later. > Do bugfix releases for older versions keeps on happening even when > new branch is released? > Isn't that a lot of work to manage so many versions? Yes. Core developers will be very happy when normal maintenance of 2.7 ends. > How do the Python versions work? For how long is Python 2 going to be > supported? 2.7, released about 2010 July, is a special case. It is already past the normal maintenance period of 2 years and will get occasional releases until 2015. Security fixes after that are not decided. -- Terry Jan Reedy