If you are like me and you've been wanting to get an OLPC for your child (or more likely you are a hardware geek and you want one for you -- hopefully my daughter will let me play with it too), your chance has come.
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A release candidate for Jython 2.2.1, a bugfix release of 2.2, is available for download. See installation instructions. I think this is an important release in that it shows that Jython continues to move forward even after the release of 2.2.
The biggest change in this release is that file reading and writing will no longer be run through the current JVM's default charset. In the 2.2 release, the bytes read in from a file opened in text mode would be decoded by the default charset and then when written out, bytes would be encoded using the same default charset. In 2.2.1rc1, read returns unadulterated bytes and write doesn't automatically encode the bytes it is writing.
A full list of changes is available in the NEWS file.
If no new problems are found in this candidate, 2.2.1 will be released a week from now.
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A couple of weeks ago I worked on Django on Jython for a Jython sprint. I found some places where Jython could use some improvement, and I've been poking around with that. In the meantime, Leo Soto M. took Jython on Django further than I did and there was a nice discussion on the Django list about all of this. It looks like the Django folks are as excited to get their framework working on Jython as I am, which is great because it will go so much faster that way.0
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