[Python-Dev] [RELEASE] Python 2.7.7

I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Python 2.7.7. Python 2.7.7 is a regularly scheduled bugfix release for the Python 2.7 series. This release includes months of accumulated bugfixes. All the changes in Python 2.7.7 are described in detail in the Misc/NEWS file of the source tarball. You can view it online at http://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/f89216059edf/Misc/NEWS The 2.7.7 release also contains fixes for two severe, if arcane, potential security vulnerabilities. The first was the possibility of reading arbitrary process memory using JSONDecoder.raw_decode. [1] (No other json APIs are affected.) The second security issue is an integer overflow in the strop module. [2] (You actually have no reason whatsoever to use the strop module.) Another security note for 2.7.7 is that the release includes a backport from Python 3 of hmac.compare_digest. This begins the implementation of PEP 466, Network Security Enhancements for Python 2.7.x. Downloads are at https://python.org/download/releases/2.7.7/ This is a production release. As always, please report bugs to http://bugs.python.org/ Build great things, Benjamin Peterson 2.7 Release Manager (on behalf of all of Python's contributors) [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue21529 [2] http://bugs.python.org/issue21530