Abstract

This document describes the development and release schedule for Python 3.6. The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized items.

Release Manager and Crew

• 3.6 Release Manager: Ned Deily
• Windows installers: Steve Dower
• Mac installers: Ned Deily
• Documentation: Georg Brandl

3.6 Lifespan

3.6 will receive bugfix updates approximately every 3-6 months for approximately 18 months. After the release of 3.7.0 final, a final 3.6 bugfix update will be released. After that, it is expected that security updates (source only) will be released until 5 years after the release of 3.6 final, so until approximately December 2021.

Release Schedule

Features for 3.6

Implemented changes for 3.6 (as of 3.6.0 beta 1):

• PEP 468 , Preserving Keyword Argument Order
• PEP 487 , Simpler customisation of class creation
• PEP 495 , Local Time Disambiguation
• PEP 498 , Literal String Formatting
• PEP 506 , Adding A Secrets Module To The Standard Library
• PEP 509 , Add a private version to dict
• PEP 515 , Underscores in Numeric Literals
• PEP 519 , Adding a file system path protocol
• PEP 520 , Preserving Class Attribute Definition Order
• PEP 523 , Adding a frame evaluation API to CPython
• PEP 524 , Make os.urandom() blocking on Linux (during system startup)
• PEP 525 , Asynchronous Generators (provisional)
• PEP 526 , Syntax for Variable Annotations (provisional)
• PEP 528 , Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8 (provisional)
• PEP 529 , Change Windows filesystem encoding to UTF-8 (provisional)
• PEP 530 , Asynchronous Comprehensions

Copyright

This document has been placed in the public domain.