(Made this a placeholder page, most of this has become obsolete. Convert to RST ASAP!)
2.6.x
2.6.0
- Upgrade to Python 2.6 language and builtins, along with a substantial subset of the stdlib
Redesign PySystemState, ThreadState API
- Mark true-public APIs with a suitable annotation; deprecate and/or remove obsolete APIs
Remove all user-visible singletons in org.python.core, especially any static public fields (like those in PySystemState)
- Performance!
2.6.? (TBD)
- unicodedata
- Import Python from the classpath
- Performance improvements
Future?
- Translate summer of code compiler to Java *Incorporated, except for pyc support