ANN: IronPython 2.0 Beta 1

2008-03-14 Thread Dave Fugate
Hello Python Community, I'm pleased to announce IronPython 2.0 Beta 1. This particular release contains almost one hundred bug fixes of which the majority were reported on www.codeplex.com/IronPython (118 votes)! 2.0 Beta 1 includes the following improvements over the Alphas: * PEP

Announcing IronPython 2.0 Beta 2

2008-05-03 Thread Dave Fugate
We're pleased to announce the release of IronPython 2.0 Beta 2. In addition to the usual bug fixes (~25 reported on CodePlex and ~50 reported internally), this release has been partially focused on improving the performance of IronPython, in particular startup perf. Another focus of this

Announcing IronPython 2.0

2008-12-10 Thread Dave Fugate
Hello Python Community, The IronPython and Dynamic Language Runtime teams are proud to announce the release of IronPython 2.0 final. IronPython 2.0 is the culmination of nearly two years worth of work resulting in a CPython 2.5 compatible release on .NET 2.0 SP1. By far, the biggest change

Announcing IronPython 2.0.1

2009-02-13 Thread Dave Fugate
Hello Python Community, I’m pleased to announce the release of IronPython 2.0.1. IronPython 2.0.1 is a minor update to IronPython 2.0 which in turn is a CPython 2.5 compatible release running under the .NET platform. Our top priority for this release was improving upon performance while

Announcing IronPython 2.6 Alpha 1

2009-03-27 Thread Dave Fugate
Hello Python Community, We're pleased to announce the release of IronPython 2.6 Alpha 1. As you might imagine, this release is all about supporting new CPython 2.6 features such as the 'bytes' and 'bytearray' types (PEP 3112), decorators for classes (PEP 3129), advanced string formatting (PEP

Announcing IronPython 2.6 CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 1

2009-05-20 Thread Dave Fugate
Hello Python Community, We're quite pleased to announce the release of IronPython 2.6 CTP for .NET 4.0 Beta 1. This is our second preview of IronPython running under the Dynamic Language Runtime that is built directly into a .NET 4.0 release! As before, this release allows you to use

[ANN]: IronPython 2.6 Beta 2

2009-07-24 Thread Dave Fugate
We're pleased to announce the release of IronPython 2.6 Beta 2 which can be freely downloaded at http://ironpython.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=27350. At this point we are essentially feature complete from a CPython 2.6 perspective, and look forward to making available

[ANN]: IronPython 2.6 Release Candidate 1

2009-09-22 Thread Dave Fugate
Hello Python Community, We're pleased to announce the release of IronPython 2.6 Release Candidate 1 which can be freely downloaded at http://ironpython.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=30315. Over the development span of IronPython 2.6, exactly 417 bugs have been fixed.

[ANN]: IronPython 2.6 Release Candidate 2

2009-10-28 Thread Dave Fugate
Hello Python Community, We're pleased to announce the release of IronPython 2.6 Release Candidate 2 which can be freely downloaded at http://ironpython.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=34451. Since the public availability of Release Candidate 1, we've addressed the