On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that Jython 2.7 alpha1 is available for download. See the installation instructions.

I'd like to thank Adconion Media Group for sponsoring my work on Jython 2.7. I'd also like to thank the many contributors to Jython. Jython 2.7 alpha1 implements much of the functionality introduced by CPython 2.6 and 2.7. There are still some missing features, in particular bytearray and the io system are currently incomplete.
Please report any bugs that you find. Thanks!
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  1. Anonymous8:15 AM

    That's great news, I can't wait for a beta to switch.

    Thanks for doing this.
    - Milosz

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  2. This is the news of the year! Thanks for great job!

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  3. Anonymous9:15 AM

    Great job!

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  4. I think you should have jumped ahead to Python 3. Jython's native unicode support and Python 3's unicode-friendly library system would have worked very well together.

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  5. Seun Osewe: Python 3 is definitely in the plans - if you look at the PEPs and updates in 2.7 they are almost all 3.x features - so we needed to do this stuff anyway. On top of that, now no one will ask for 2.x updates anymore and we can concentrate on 3 :)

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  6. Milosz, Jakub, Anonymous: Thanks! My plan is to put betas out by mid June and finalize by mid July.

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  7. KevinWoo6:54 PM

    Great work Frank, keep it up!

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  8. Awesome work, Frank!

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  10. Great job, Frank. You are a man of your word!

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  11. Olympian2012: ha I try - though I have certainly failed at the estimating game in the past. Things seem to be working this time around (maybe I'm getting better at it, or maybe I'm just lucky this time - probably a bit of both)

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  12. This is marvelous! Thank you for your efforts! Out of curiosity, is bytearray a beta-expected feature or later?

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  13. news file seems empty

    http://hg.python.org/jython/file/2dd71d4bda11/NEWS

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  14. Anonymous8:31 AM

    You have no idea the happiness this piece of news are bringing to me, and the community here. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!
    I am switching immediately to Alpha version, can't wait!

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  15. Will: we won't release a beta without a reasonable bytearray. There are parts that depend on memoryview and buffer() -- which for now are considered out of scope for 2.7 -- but otherwise bytearray will be there for a beta.

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  16. Haitham El-Ghareeb: great! be careful - it is an alpha :)

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  17. Unknown: that link doesn't go to an empty file for me - mostly it's bug fixes and mostly in the 2.5 area, but definitely not empty...

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  18. Filip3:56 PM

    Great news, thank you for wonderful job!

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  19. Anonymous5:48 AM

    GREAT work , please keep it up ..

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Jeff Allen's Jython 2.7.2 release announcement:

On behalf of the Jython development team, I am pleased to announce that

Jython 2.7.2 has been released.

Notable additions include:

* much improved support for locale, but as a backward-incompatible

change, it is provided as an opt-in.

* a main program that behaves more like CPython in many small ways,

including -i and -E support.

* a JAR and POM that may be cited as a dependency by other projects

using Gradle or Maven (experimental).

* a great many bug-fixes.

For the details see: https://www.jython.org/news and the NEWS link

there. Convenient download links are at https://www.jython.org/download .

Thanks are due to the many contributors to Jython for making this possible.

On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that the second beta release of Jython 2.7.2 is available! This is a bugfix release.

Please see the NEWS file for detailed release notes. This release of Jython requires JDK 8 or above.

This release is being hosted at maven central. There are four main distributions (including a new "slim" version). In order of popularity:

Most likely, you want the traditional installer.
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On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that the final release of Jython 2.7.1 is available! We thought 2017-07-01 was a perfect time to release version 2.7.1 :) This is a bugfix release. Bug fixes include improvements in ssl and pip support along with lots of improvements in CPython compatibility.

Please see the NEWS file for detailed release notes. This release of Jython requires JDK 7 or above.

This release is being hosted at maven central.

On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that the third release candidate of Jython 2.7.1 is available! This is a bugfix release. Bug fixes include improvements in ssl and pip support.

Please see the NEWS file for detailed release notes. This release of Jython requires JDK 7 or above.

This release is being hosted at maven central. There are three main distributions. In order of popularity:

Most likely, you want the traditional installer.

On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that the second release candidate of Jython 2.7.1 is available! This is a bugfix release. Bug fixes include improvements in ssl and pip support.

Please see the NEWS file for detailed release notes. This release of Jython requires JDK 7 or above.

This release is being hosted at maven central. There are three main distributions. In order of popularity:

Most likely, you want the traditional installer.

On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that the third beta of Jython 2.7.1 is available! This is a bugfix release. Bug fixes include improvements in zlib and pip support.

Please see the NEWS file for detailed release notes. This release of Jython requires JDK 7 or above.

This release is being hosted at maven central. There are three main distributions. In order of popularity:

Most likely, you want the traditional installer.

On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that the second beta of Jython 2.7.1 is available! This is a bugfix release. Bug fixes include better unit testing under windows and the restoration of os.getpid() function.

Please see the NEWS file for detailed release notes. This release of Jython requires JDK 7 or above.

This release is being hosted at maven central. There are three main distributions. In order of popularity:

Most likely, you want the traditional installer.

On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that the first beta of Jython 2.7.1 is available! This is a bugfix release. Bug fixes include:

Import systems fixes for relative imports and some circular imports. -m command now executes scripts from inside a jar file. bytearray matches cpython's behavior better. Please see the NEWS file for detailed release notes. This release of Jython requires JDK 7 or above.

This release is being hosted at maven central.

On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that the final release of Jython 2.7.0 is available! It's been a long road to get to 2.7, and it's finally here! I'd like to thank Amobee for sponsoring my work on Jython. I'd also like to thank the many contributors to Jython, including - but not limited to - bug reports, patches, pull requests, documentation changes, support emails, and fantastic conversation on Freenode at #jython.

On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that the third release candidate of Jython 2.7 is available! I'd like to thank Amobee for sponsoring my work on Jython. I'd also like to thank the many contributors to Jython.

Please see the NEWS file for detailed release notes. This release of Jython requires JDK 7 or above.

This release is being hosted at maven central. There are three main distributions.
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