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GeezerVison is showing www.python.org — Python Release Python 2.6.1

Warning: Python 2.6.1 reached end-of-life on 2013-10-29. It is no longer supported and does not receive security updates. We recommend upgrading to the latest Python release.

Release date: Dec. 4, 2008

Python 2.6.1 was released on December 4th, 2008.

This is the first bugfix release of Python 2.6. Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. Dozens of bugs that were reported since the release of 2.6 final have been fixed.

See the detailed release notes for more details.

  • Andrew Kuchling's guide to What's New in Python 2.6.
  • NEWS file contains a listing of everything that's new in each alpha, beta, and release candidate of Python 2.6.
  • PEP 361.

Please report bugs at http://bugs.python.org

See also the license.

Python 2.6.1 Released: 04-Dec-2008

Download

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

  • Gzipped source tar ball (2.6.1) (sig)
  • Bzipped source tar ball (2.6.1) (sig)
  • Windows x86 MSI Installer (2.6.1) (sig)
  • Windows X86-64 MSI Installer (2.6.1) [1] (sig)
  • Mac Installer disk image (2.6.1) (sig)

MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files:

52b3d421f42bacfdcaf55f56c0ff9be4  13046455  Python-2.6.1.tgz
e81c2f0953aa60f8062c05a4673f2be0  10960385  Python-2.6.1.tar.bz2
9ed57add157ce069c0f8584f11b77991  14481408  python-2.6.1.msi
ece88acad43e854587a46aaa8a070c9c  14803456  python-2.6.1.amd64.msi
ea72cc669a33d266c34aa9ef5d660933  23986137  python-2.6.1-macosx2008-12-06.dmg

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 EA5BBD71. The Windows installers were signed by Martin von Löwis' public key which has a key id of 7D9DC8D2. The signature on the Mac disk image was signed by Benjamin Peterson's public key which has a key id of A4135B38.

Documentation

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

[1]The binaries for AMD64 will also work on processors that implement the Intel 64 architecture (formerly EM64T), i.e. the architecture that Microsoft calls x64, and AMD called x86-64 before calling it AMD64. They will not work on Intel Itanium Processors (formerly IA-64).

Full Changelog

Version Operating system Description File size GPG MD5 checksum
Gzipped source tarball Source release 54.4 MB SIG e45fa12c1ab2c23532741ad34a947c75
bzip2 compressed source tarball Source release 10.5 MB SIG e81c2f0953aa60f8062c05a4673f2be0
Mac OS X installer macOS 22.9 MB SIG ea72cc669a33d266c34aa9ef5d660933
Windows x86 MSI installer Windows 13.8 MB SIG 9ed57add157ce069c0f8584f11b77991
Windows x86-64 MSI installer Windows for AMD64/EM64T/x64 14.1 MB SIG ece88acad43e854587a46aaa8a070c9c
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