Author: Armin Rigo <[email protected]> Branch: Changeset: r64376:75ca8e0c9c51 Date: 2013-05-21 10:25 +0200 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/75ca8e0c9c51/
Log: Add release announcement. diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-2.0.2.rst b/pypy/doc/release-2.0.2.rst new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/pypy/doc/release-2.0.2.rst @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +========================= +PyPy 2.0.2 - Fermi Panini +========================= + +We're pleased to announce PyPy 2.0.2. This is a stable bugfix release +over `2.0`_ and `2.0.1`_. You can download it here: + + http://pypy.org/download.html + +It fixes a crash in the JIT when calling external C functions (with +ctypes/cffi) in a multithreaded context. + +.. _2.0: release-2.0.0.html +.. _2.0.1: release-2.0.1.html + +What is PyPy? +============= + +PyPy is a very compliant Python interpreter, almost a drop-in replacement for +CPython 2.7. It's fast (`pypy 2.0 and cpython 2.7.3`_ performance comparison) +due to its integrated tracing JIT compiler. + +This release supports x86 machines running Linux 32/64, Mac OS X 64 or +Windows 32. Support for ARM is progressing but not bug-free yet. + +.. _`pypy 2.0 and cpython 2.7.3`: http://speed.pypy.org + +Highlights +========== + +This release contains only the fix described above. A crash used to +occur if all these conditions were true: + +- your program is multithreaded; + +- it runs on a single-core machine or a heavily-loaded multi-core one; + +- it uses ctypes or cffi to issue external calls to C functions. + +Cheers, +arigo et. al. for the PyPy team _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
