[Jython-users] Need for one more release candidate for Jython 2.7.1

[Jim Baker]

So it looks like we will need a RC3 for Jython 2.7.1, given the following
two bugs:

- http://bugs.jython.org/issue2596 - Linebreaks in exceptions are wrong
- PENDING
- http://bugs.jython.org/issue2593 - file.write(obj) if obj is not a str
or buffer raises j.l.NullPointerException - OPEN

#2596, now fixed in master, is just the sort of bug that may scramble
existing user tests (although multi-line messages are relatively rare).
#2593 has an easy path to raising a NullPointerException that can come up
in common Python code. But it should be very straightforward to guard
against, so we should have a fix for it momentarily I would assume.

And that is it. There are exactly 301 other bugs that are open, as I write
this email, so clearly we have plenty of work to consider in the future.
But in my judgment, we are about there for a final release.

But it's still not too late to submit a bug against RC2! Please test
against the download links on Frank's blog post:
http://fwierzbicki.blogspot.com/2017/06/jython-271-rc2-released.html

- Jim