Frank Wierzbicki: Jython 2.7.1 beta1 released!

On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce that the first beta of Jython 2.7.1 is available! This is a bugfix release. Bug fixes include:

• Import systems fixes for relative imports and some circular imports.
• -m command now executes scripts from inside a jar file.
• bytearray matches cpython's behavior better.

Please see the NEWS file for detailed release notes. This release of Jython requires JDK 7 or above.

This release is being hosted at maven central. There are three main distributions. In order of popularity:

• Most likely, you want the traditional installer. NOTE: the installer automatically installs pip and setuptools (unless you uncheck that option), but you must unset JYTHON_HOME if you have it set. See the installation instructions for using the installer.
• A pre-built standalone version. See the installation instructions for details about standalone mode.
• A source only distribution.

To see all of the files available including checksums, go to the maven query for Jython and navigate to the appropriate distribution and version.