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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2007-08-30 20:18:10 (GMT)
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Version 3.0a1 - Release Date 31-Aug-2007
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-- SSL support is disabled. This causes a test_ssl to be skipped.
+* SSL support is disabled. This causes test_ssl to be skipped.
The new SSL support in the 2.6 trunk (with server-side support and
certificate verification) will be ported for 3.0a2.
-- Platform support is reduced. We've mostly tested on Linux, OSX,
+* If you don't have openssl, hashlib is non-functional, which
+ means there is no way to compute MD5 checksums. This breaks some
+ modules.
+
+* Platform support is reduced. We've mostly tested on Linux, OSX,
and Windows.
-- There are still some open issues on Windows.
+* There are still some open issues on Windows.
-- Some new features are very fresh, and probably contain bugs: the new
+* Some new features are very fresh, and probably contain bugs: the new
format() method on strings (PEP 3101), the strict separation of
bytes and strings, the new buffer API (PEP 3118).
-- IDLE still has some open issues. If you can't run it at all, try
+* IDLE still has some open issues. If you can't run it at all, try
"idle -n" which disables the separate subprocess for the
interpreter.