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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Farewell, Python 3.4









It's with a note of sadness that I announce the final retirement
of Python 3.4.  The final release was back in March, but I didn't
get around to actually closing and deleting the 3.4 branch until
this morning.




Python 3.4 introduced many features we all enjoy in modern
Python--the asyncio, ensurepip, and enum packages, just to name
three.  It's a release I hope we all remember fondly.






My eternal thanks to all the members of the release team that
worked on Python 3.4:



Georg Brandl


Julien Palard




Martin von Löwis




Ned Deily


Steve Dower


Terry Reedy




and all the engineers of the Python infrastructure team.





Special thanks to Benjamin Peterson and Ned Deily, who frequently
scurried around behind the scenes cleaning up the messes I
cluelessly left in my wake.






Having closed 3.4, I am now retired as Python 3.4 Release
Manager.  I regret to inform all of you that you're still stuck
with me as Python 3.5 Release Manager until sometime next year.

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