On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I am happy
to announce the third and last planned beta releases of Python 2.6 and Python
3.0.

Please note that these are beta releases, and as such are not suitable for
production environments.  We continue to strive for a high degree of quality,
and these releases are intended to freeze the feature set for Python 2.6 and
3.0.

As these are the last planned beta releases, we strongly urge you to download
these releases and test them against your code.  Once we reach release
candidates (currently planned for 03-Sep-2008), only highly critical bugs will
be fixed before the final release.

If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit bug reports at

     http://bugs.python.org

For more information and downloadable distributions, see the Python  
2.6 website:

     http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

and the Python 3.0 web site:

     http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

See PEP 361 for release schedule details:

     http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/

Enjoy,
- -Barry

Barry Warsaw
ba...@python.org
Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)
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