<h2>Current Releases</h2>
<p>
-The current stable release is 1.0.1, released 7 September 2008.
+The current stable release is 1.3.0, released 23 March 2010.
</p>
<p>
-The latest release is 1.0.1, released 7 September 2008.
+The latest release is 1.3.0, released 23 March 2010.
</p>
<h2>Upcoming Releases</h2>
but they may be adjusted without notice.
</p>
-<table>
+<!--
+
+DO NOT EDIT THE FOLLOWING TABLE DIRECTLY.
+
+Edit the "schedule" file and replace it with the output from
+running "gen_sched_table.py".
+
+-->
+
+<table width="100%">
<tr>
- <th>Date</th>
+ <th>Estimated date</th>
<th>Type</th>
- <th>Name</th>
<th>Comments</th>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>15-Sep-2008</td>
- <td>checkpoint</td>
- <td>1.0.1.d20080915</td>
- <td>Beta for 1.1. Prioritization of work items and checkins for 1.1 are occuring now.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>27-Sep-2008</td>
- <td>candidate</td>
- <td>1.0.1.d20080927</td>
- <td>Release candidate for 1.1.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>4-Oct-2008</td>
- <td>release</td>
- <td>1.1</td>
- <td>First minor release of 1.0.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>11-Oct-2008</td>
- <td>checkpoint</td>
- <td>1.1.d20081011</td>
- <td>Beta for testing new features.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>25-Oct-2008</td>
- <td>checkpoint</td>
- <td>1.1.d20081025</td>
- <td>Beta for testing new features.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>8-Nov-2008</td>
- <td>checkpoint</td>
- <td>1.1.d20081108</td>
- <td>Beta for testing new features.</td>
+ <td>April 2009</td>
+ <td>Ckpt</td>
+ <td>Beta for 2.0; breaks backward compatibility</td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>15-Nov-2008</td>
- <td>candidate</td>
- <td>1.1.d20081115</td>
- <td>Release candidate for 1.2.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>22-Nov-2008</td>
- <td>release</td>
- <td>1.2</td>
- <td>Second minor release of 1.0.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>29-Nov-2008</td>
- <td>checkpoint</td>
- <td>1.2.d20081129</td>
- <td>Beta for testing new features.</td>
+ <td>May 2009</td>
+ <td>RC</td>
+ <td>Release candidate for 2.0.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>13-Dec-2008</td>
- <td>checkpoint</td>
- <td>1.2.d20081213</td>
- <td>Beta for testing new features.</td>
+ <td>May 2009</td>
+ <td>2.0</td>
+ <td>Public release that breaks backward compatibility and drops deprecated features</td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>27-Dec-2008</td>
- <td>checkpoint</td>
- <td>1.2.d20081227</td>
+ <td>June 2009</td>
+ <td>Ckpt</td>
<td>Beta for testing new features.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>3-Jan-2009</td>
- <td>candidate</td>
- <td>1.2.d20090103</td>
- <td>Release candidate for 1.3.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>10-Jan-2009</td>
- <td>release</td>
- <td>1.3</td>
- <td>Third minor release of 1.0.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>17-Jan-2009</td>
- <td>checkpoint</td>
- <td>1.3.d20090117</td>
- <td>Beta for testing new featurea; breaks backward compatibility with Python 1.5.2.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>24-Jan-2009</td>
- <td>checkpoint</td>
- <td>1.3.d20090124</td>
+ <td>July 2009</td>
+ <td>Ckpt</td>
<td>Beta for testing new features.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>31-Jan-2009</td>
- <td>candidate</td>
- <td>1.3.d20090131</td>
- <td>Release candidate for 2.0.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>7-Feb-2009</td>
- <td>candidate</td>
- <td>1.3.d20090207</td>
- <td>Release candidate for 2.0, if needed.</td>
+ <td>Aug 2009</td>
+ <td>RC</td>
+ <td>Release candidate for 2.1.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>14-Feb-2009</td>
- <td>release</td>
- <td>2.0</td>
- <td>Public release that breaks backward compatibility</td>
+ <td>Sept 2009</td>
+ <td>2.1</td>
+ <td>First minor release of v2</td>
</tr>
</table>
Revision numbers are appended and/or incremented
whenever a critical bug fix is necessary
for a major or minor release.
-Bedause most new functionality and bug fixes
+Because most new functionality and bug fixes
will be delivered in minor releases,
-we expect that there will be few of these--at most
+we expect that there will be few of these—at most
one per minor release.
</p>
</li>
<li>
-<strong>Release candidates (x.y.z.dyyyymmdd )</strong>
+<strong>Release candidates (x.y.z.dyyyymmdd)</strong>
<p>
A release candidates is a special form of checkpoint
(see below)
</p>
</li>
<li>
-<strong>Checkpoints (x.y.z.dyyyymmdd )</strong>
+<strong>Checkpoints (x.y.z.dyyyymmdd)</strong>
<p>
A checkpoint has a 'd<i>yyymmdd</i>' suffix
and is made every couple of weeks between major or minor releases.