PEP: 478
Title: Python 3.5 Release Schedule
Version: $Revision$
Last-Modified: $Date$
Author: Larry Hastings <[email protected]>
Status: Final
Type: Informational
Topic: Release
Content-Type: text/x-rst
Created: 22-Sep-2014
Python-Version: 3.5


Abstract
========

This document describes the development and release schedule for
Python 3.5.  The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized
items.

. Small features may be added up to the first beta
  release.  Bugs may be fixed until the final release,
  which is planned for September 2015.


Release Manager and Crew
========================

- 3.5 Release Manager: Larry Hastings
- Windows installers: Steve Dower
- Mac installers: Ned Deily
- Documentation: Georg Brandl


Release Schedule
================

Python 3.5 has now reached its end-of-life and has been retired.
No more releases will be made.

These are all the historical releases of Python 3.5,
including their release dates.

- 3.5.0 alpha 1: February 8, 2015
- 3.5.0 alpha 2: March 9, 2015
- 3.5.0 alpha 3: March 29, 2015
- 3.5.0 alpha 4: April 19, 2015
- 3.5.0 beta 1: May 24, 2015
 (Beta 1 is also "feature freeze"--no new features beyond this point.)
- 3.5.0 beta 2: May 31, 2015
- 3.5.0 beta 3: July 5, 2015
- 3.5.0 beta 4: July 26, 2015
- 3.5.0 release candidate 1: August 10, 2015
- 3.5.0 release candidate 2: August 25, 2015
- 3.5.0 release candidate 3: September 7, 2015
- 3.5.0 final: September 13, 2015
- 3.5.1 release candidate 1: November 22, 2015
- 3.5.1 final: December 6, 2015
- 3.5.2 release candidate 1: Sunday, June 12, 2016
- 3.5.2 final: Sunday, June 26, 2016
- 3.5.3 candidate 1: January 2, 2017
- 3.5.3 final: January 17, 2017
- 3.5.4 candidate 1: July 25, 2017
- 3.5.4 final: August 8, 2017
- 3.5.5 candidate 1: January 23, 2018
- 3.5.5 final: February 4, 2018
- 3.5.6 candidate 1: July 19, 2018
- 3.5.6 final: August 2, 2018
- 3.5.7 candidate 1: March 4, 2019
- 3.5.7 final: March 18, 2019
- 3.5.8 candidate 1: September 9, 2019
- 3.5.8 candidate 2: October 12, 2019
- 3.5.8 final: October 29, 2019
- 3.5.9 final: November 1, 2019
- 3.5.10 rc1: August 21, 2020
- 3.5.10 final: September 5, 2020




Features for 3.5
================

* :pep:`441`, improved Python zip application support
* :pep:`448`, additional unpacking generalizations
* :pep:`461`, "%-formatting" for bytes and bytearray objects
* :pep:`465`, a new operator ("@") for matrix multiplication
* :pep:`471`, os.scandir(), a fast new directory traversal function
* :pep:`475`, adding support for automatic retries of interrupted system calls
* :pep:`479`, change StopIteration handling inside generators
* :pep:`484`, the typing module, a new standard for type annotations
* :pep:`485`, math.isclose(), a function for testing approximate equality
* :pep:`486`, making the Windows Python launcher aware of virtual environments
* :pep:`488`, eliminating .pyo files
* :pep:`489`, a new and improved mechanism for loading extension modules
* :pep:`492`, coroutines with async and await syntax


Copyright
=========

This document has been placed in the public domain.



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