hugovk
August 13, 2019, 8:29pm
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Everyone is encouraged to test their code against the beta to help find possible problems before 3.8.0 final is released in October.
This time without delays, I present you Python 3.8.0b3:
This release is the third of four planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to support the new feature release. The next pre-release of Python 3.8 will be 3.8.0b4, the last beta release, currently scheduled for 2019-08-26.
Call to action
We strongly encourage maintainers of third-party Python projects to…
On Travis CI, 3.8-dev currently uses Python 3.8.0b3+. This is a great way to test third-party code against the beta, please add it to your project today!
See also How to use your project & Travis to help test Python itself which was about 3.6-dev and more-or-less also applies to 3.8-dev
Python 3.7 and up need Xenial or Bionic on Travis, see Building a Python Project - Travis CI
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hugovk
August 31, 2019, 6:12am
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The last planned beta, Python 3.8.0b4, is out and 3.8-dev on Travis CI is now Python 3.8.0b4+.
Maintainers, please add 3.8-dev to your .travis.yml!
It’s time for the last beta release of Python 3.8. Go find it at:
This release is the last of four planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to support the new feature release. The next pre-release of Python 3.8 will be 3.8.0rc1, the first release candidate, currently scheduled for 2019-09-30.
Call to action
We strongly encourage maintainers of third-party …
