We are approaching the end of the second calendar quarter of 2017 and, 
according to PEP 494, it's time to start producing the second maintenance 
release for the 3.6 series.  The schedule calls for the release candidate to be 
produced on Monday 2017-06-12 UTC.  As was the case with previous 3.6.x 
releases, the plan is for the release candidate to be the same as the final 
release, that is, no additional changes go in after the release candidate 
except for any showstopper critical problems that might be discovered with rc1. 
 So please plan to get any security fixes, bug fixes, and documentation changes 
you think should be in 3.6.2 merged in ASAP.  The 3.6.2 final is planned for 
two weeks following rc1, that is, on 2017-06-26.  The next 3.6 maintenance 
release (3.6.3) is planned to follow about 3 months later, so most likely in 
2017-09.

A reminder that the 3.6 branch will remain open for checkins throughout the 
3.6.2rc and final cycle.  Once 3.6.2rc1 is tagged, new commits to the 3.6 
branch will release with 3.6.3.  As always, if you find any problem in 3.6.2rc1 
that you may believe should be corrected in 3.6.2, please ensure the problem is 
documented in a new or existing open issue on bugs.python.org, ensure that the 
Priority field of the issue is set to "release blocker", and that "Python 3.6" 
is included in the selected Versions.  Comments or tags on github Pull Requests 
are NOT sufficient!

Thanks again for all of your efforts in bringing 3.6 into the world and for 
helping now to make it even better!

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0494/
http://cpython-devguide.readthedocs.io

--
  Ned Deily
  n...@python.org -- []

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