Contents

• Abstract
• Release Manager and Crew
• 3.6 Lifespan
• Release Schedule
  • 3.6.0 schedule
  • 3.6.1 schedule (first bugfix release)
  • 3.6.2 schedule
  • 3.6.3 schedule
  • 3.6.4 schedule
  • 3.6.5 schedule
  • 3.6.6 schedule
  • 3.6.7 schedule
  • 3.6.8 schedule (last bugfix release)
  • 3.6.9 schedule (first security-only release)
  • 3.6.10 schedule
  • 3.6.11 schedule
  • 3.6.12 schedule
  • 3.6.13 schedule
  • 3.6.14 schedule
  • 3.6.15 schedule
  • 3.6.16 and beyond schedule
• Features for 3.6
• Copyright

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: Julien Palard, Georg Brandl

3.6 Lifespan

3.6 will receive bugfix updates approximately every 3 months for about 24 months. Sometime 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 as needed until 5 years after the release of 3.6 final, so until approximately 2021-12.

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 customization 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.