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Python 2.6.9 release candidate 1

Python 2.6.9 is a security-fix source-only release for Python 2.6.8, fixing several reported security issues: issue 16037, issue 16038, issue 16039, issue 16040, issue 16041, and issue 16042 (CVE-2013-1752, long lines consuming too much memory), as well as issue 14984 (security enforcement on $HOME/.netrc files), issue 16248 (code execution vulnerability in tkinter), and issue 18709 (CVE-2013-4238, SSL module handling of NULL bytes inside subjectAltName). Python 2.6.9rc1 was released on September 30, 2013.

The last binary release of Python 2.6 was 2.6.6.

Python 2.6 is now in security-fix-only mode; no new features are being added, and no new bug fix releases are planned. Python 2.6.9 is the last scheduled release of the Python 2.6 series; with its final release in October 2013 (five years after the original 2.6 release), all official maintenance for Python 2.6 will end, and the series will be retired. For ongoing maintenance releases, please see the Python 2.7 series. The NEWS file lists every change in each alpha, beta, and release candidate of Python 2.6.

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This is a testing release; we currently support these formats:

MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files:

0efc2d0930fa33c3a837ea32d8d8e3a0  Python-2.6.9rc1.tar.bz2
ca9e2e871839de1bfec323b3e43c1023  Python-2.6.9rc1.tar.xz
73feb6e9fcbbd0d1618c458de2fc00bf  Python-2.6.9rc1.tgz

The signatures for the source tarballs above were generated with GnuPG using release manager Barry Warsaw's public key which has a key id of A74B06BF.

Notes

Developers on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) or later may experience problems when building Python 2.6 from source, due to the adoption of multiarch support. See issue 9762 for additional details and workarounds.

Documentation

The documentation has also been updated. You can browse the HTML on-line or download the HTML.