[ANN] Python 2.4.6 and 2.5.3 (final)

["Martin v. Löwis"]

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm
happy to announce the release of Python 2.4.6 and 2.5.3 (final).

2.5.3 is the last bug fix release of Python 2.5. Future 2.5.x releases
will only include security fixes. According to the release notes, about
80 bugs and patches have been addressed since Python 2.5.2, many of
them improving the stability of the interpreter, and improving its
portability.

Since the release candidate, the only change was an update to the
Macintosh packaging procedure.

2.4.6 includes only a small number of security fixes. Python 2.6 is
the latest version of Python, we're making this release for people who
are still running Python 2.4.

See the release notes at the website (also available as Misc/NEWS in
the source distribution) for details of bugs fixed; most of them prevent
interpreter crashes (and now cause proper Python exceptions in cases
where the interpreter may have crashed before).

For more information on Python 2.4.6 and 2.5.3, including download
links for various platforms, release notes, and known issues, please
see:

http://www.python.org/2.4.6
http://www.python.org/2.5.3

Highlights of the previous major Python releases are available
from the Python 2.5 page, at

http://www.python.org/2.4/highlights.html
http://www.python.org/2.5/highlights.html

Enjoy this release,
Martin

Martin v. Loewis
mar...@v.loewis.de
Python Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)