PEP: 478
Title: Python 3.5 Release Schedule
Author: Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org>
Status: Final
Type: Informational
Topic: Release
Created: 22-Sep-2014
Python-Version: 3.5


Abstract
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This document describes the development and release schedule for
Python 3.5.  The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized
items.

.. Small features may be added up to the first beta
   release.  Bugs may be fixed until the final release,
   which is planned for September 2015.


Release Manager and Crew
========================

- 3.5 Release Manager: Larry Hastings
- Windows installers: Steve Dower
- Mac installers: Ned Deily
- Documentation: Georg Brandl


Release Schedule
================

Python 3.5 has now reached its end-of-life and has been retired.
No more releases will be made.

These are all the historical releases of Python 3.5,
including their release dates.

- 3.5.0 alpha 1: February 8, 2015
- 3.5.0 alpha 2: March 9, 2015
- 3.5.0 alpha 3: March 29, 2015
- 3.5.0 alpha 4: April 19, 2015
- 3.5.0 beta 1: May 24, 2015
  (Beta 1 is also "feature freeze"--no new features beyond this point.)
- 3.5.0 beta 2: May 31, 2015
- 3.5.0 beta 3: July 5, 2015
- 3.5.0 beta 4: July 26, 2015
- 3.5.0 release candidate 1: August 10, 2015
- 3.5.0 release candidate 2: August 25, 2015
- 3.5.0 release candidate 3: September 7, 2015
- 3.5.0 final: September 13, 2015
- 3.5.1 release candidate 1: November 22, 2015
- 3.5.1 final: December 6, 2015
- 3.5.2 release candidate 1: Sunday, June 12, 2016
- 3.5.2 final: Sunday, June 26, 2016
- 3.5.3 candidate 1: January 2, 2017
- 3.5.3 final: January 17, 2017
- 3.5.4 candidate 1: July 25, 2017
- 3.5.4 final: August 8, 2017
- 3.5.5 candidate 1: January 23, 2018
- 3.5.5 final: February 4, 2018
- 3.5.6 candidate 1: July 19, 2018
- 3.5.6 final: August 2, 2018
- 3.5.7 candidate 1: March 4, 2019
- 3.5.7 final: March 18, 2019
- 3.5.8 candidate 1: September 9, 2019
- 3.5.8 candidate 2: October 12, 2019
- 3.5.8 final: October 29, 2019
- 3.5.9 final: November 1, 2019
- 3.5.10 rc1: August 21, 2020
- 3.5.10 final: September 5, 2020




Features for 3.5
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* :pep:`441`, improved Python zip application support
* :pep:`448`, additional unpacking generalizations
* :pep:`461`, "%-formatting" for bytes and bytearray objects
* :pep:`465`, a new operator ("@") for matrix multiplication
* :pep:`471`, os.scandir(), a fast new directory traversal function
* :pep:`475`, adding support for automatic retries of interrupted system calls
* :pep:`479`, change StopIteration handling inside generators
* :pep:`484`, the typing module, a new standard for type annotations
* :pep:`485`, math.isclose(), a function for testing approximate equality
* :pep:`486`, making the Windows Python launcher aware of virtual environments
* :pep:`488`, eliminating .pyo files
* :pep:`489`, a new and improved mechanism for loading extension modules
* :pep:`492`, coroutines with async and await syntax


Copyright
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
