Python 2.6.8
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Python 2.6 is now in security-fix-only mode; no new features are being added, and no new bug fix releases are planned. We intend to provide source-only security fixes for the Python 2.6 series until October 2013 (five years after the 2.6 final release). 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.
- What's New in Python 2.6.
- Report bugs at http://bugs.python.org.
- Read the Python license.
- PEP 361 set out the development schedule for 2.6.
Help fund Python and its community by donating to the Python Software Foundation.
Download
This is a final release; we currently support these formats:
MD5 checksums and sizes of the released files:
f6c1781f5d73ab7dfa5181f43ea065f6 13282574 Python-2.6.8.tgz c6e0420a21d8b23dee8b0195c9b9a125 11127915 Python-2.6.8.tar.bz2
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. The version of Python 2.6 in Ubuntu itself has been appropriately patched, so the Ubuntu source package should build just fine.
Documentation
The documentation has also been updated. You can browse the HTML on-line or download the HTML.
Files
| Version | Operating System | Description | MD5 Sum | File Size | GPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gzipped source tarball | Source release | c10862ed0fa13344252bb4ed37139177 | 56.5 MB | SIG | |
| bzip2 compressed source tarball | Source release | c6e0420a21d8b23dee8b0195c9b9a125 | 10.6 MB | SIG |