Jython Migrates to Mercurial

The Jython's source code repository has moved from Subversion to Mercurial

Jython 2.5.2 Released!

Jython 2.5.2 has been released, get it while it's hot!

This release includes a whole lot of bug fixes but also some new features, such as:

• Performance improvements, particularly around method invocation
• The socket module now includes ipv6 and Internationalized Domain Names (RFC 3490) support
• Improved startup time

Jython 2.5.2 now runs the richards benchmark 3x faster than Jython 2.5.1. It's also about 20% faster than 2.5.1 at running pybench.

Admittedly richards and pystone aren't the greatest Python benchmarking suites out there, but they're what we've historically kept close eyes on. We're aiming to monitor more, better benchmarks (i.e. those @ http://speed.pypy.org ) in the future.