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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2007-12-10 19:25:42 (GMT)
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Version 3.0a2 - Release Date 07-Dec-2007
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-* SSL support is back! However, the SSL code appears to be leaking
- quite a bit.
+* The AMD64 Windows installer doesn't contain Tcl/Tk, and hence IDLE
+ won't work. This is because Tcl doesn't compile at all on this
+ platform.
-* On Windows Python can't be run from a directory with non ASCII chars
- in its path name (bug #1342).
+* The 32bit build for the Win32/x86 platform is optimized with PGO
+ (profile guided optimization). Please read Microsoft's docs for
+ `PGO
+ <http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e7k32f4k(VS.90).aspx>`_
+ if you are interested in details. Preliminary benchmarks have shown
+ a speedup of about 10% in PyBench. Real world applications may gain
+ more or less speedup.
-* The current releases of MinGW and Cygwin can't build Python extensions
- since they don't support msvcr90.dll. The necessary bits and pieces are
- already in Python and cygwin cvs.
+* The Tools directory contains a copy of the 2to3 conversion tool.
+ Note that 2to3 itself must be run with Python 2.5!
+
+* SSL support is back! However, while the tests pass, the SSL code
+ appears to be leaking quite a bit, and there are still bugs.
+ We'll be working on this for the next release.
+
+* On Windows, Python can't be run from a directory with non ASCII chars
+ in its path name (`bug #1342 <http://bugs.python.org/issue1342>`_).
+
+* On Windows, the module doc server (pydocgui.pyw) is crashing.
+
+* On Windows, the menus in IDLE are broken.
+
+* The current releases of Cygwin and MinGW can't create extensions for
+ the official Python 3.0 binary. The necessary modifications to
+ Cygwin are already in its CVS. Look out for a new Cygwin release!
+
+* Otherwise, the 3.0a1 release notes below still apply, except hashlib
+ no longer requires openssl, and IDLE now seems fine (except on Windows).
-* Otherwise, the 3.0a1 release notes still apply, except hashlib no
- longer requires openssl.
Version 3.0a1 - Release Date 31-Aug-2007
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