RELEASED Python 2.6b2 and 3.0b2

On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I  
am happy to announce the second beta releases of Python 2.6 and Python  
3.0.

Please note that these are beta releases, and as such are not suitable  
for production environments.  We continue to strive for a high degree  
of quality, and these releases are intended to freeze the feature set  
for Python 2.6 and 3.0.

 From now until the planned final releases in October 2008, we will be  
fixing known problems and stabilizing these new Python versions.  You  
can help by downloading and testing them, providing feedback and  
hopefully helping to fix bugs.  You can also use these releases to  
determine how changes in 2.6 and 3.0 might impact you.

ONLY ONE MORE BETA RELEASE IS PLANNED, so now is a great time to  
download the releases and try them with your code.  If you find things  
broken or incorrect, please submit bug reports at

     http://bugs.python.org

For more information and downloadable distributions, see the Python  
2.6 website:

     http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

and the Python 3.0 web site:

     http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

See PEP 361 for release schedule details:

     http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/

Enjoy,
-Barry

Barry Warsaw
barry <at> python.org
Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)