On behalf of the IronPython team, I'm happy to announce the first release candidate of IronPython 2.7.5. This release includes everything from IronPython 2.7.4 and earlier. Like all IronPython 2.7-series releases, .NET 4 is required to install it. Installing this release will replace any existing IronPython 2.7-series installation. Assemblies for embedding are provided for .NET 3.5, .NET 4, .NET 4.5, and Silverlight 5.

IronPython 2.7.5 is primarily a collection of bug fixes which smooths off many of the remaining rough edges. Thecomplete list of changes is also available.

Note: The assembly version of IronPython has changed to 2.7.5.0. All previous 2.7 versions had the same version (2.7.0.40) which caused issues when different versions were installed. Publisher policy files are used to so that applications don't have to be recompiled, but recompiling is strongly recommended.

A huge thanks goes out to Pawel Jasinski, who contributed most of the changes in this release. Thanks is also due to Simon Opelt, Alex Earl, Jeffrey Bester, yngipy hernan, Alexander Köplinger, Vincent Ducros, and fdanny.

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IronPython 2.7.5 RC 1 is also available for embedding via NuGet. The main package is IronPython, and the standard library is in IronPython.StdLib.