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| author |   Matti Picus <matti.picus@gmail.com> | 2019-03-11 14:12:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Matti Picus <matti.picus@gmail.com> | 2019-03-11 14:12:19 +0200 |
| commit | f0cccdff4e6ec6084814d84fa13c9e61a92387ef (patch) | |
| tree | f854790a740dab025d4c7e42d038f16ff6c30da7 | |
| parent | start release note (diff) | |
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diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-v7.1.0.rst b/pypy/doc/release-v7.1.0.rst index 961bf39d5d..0a87b80370 100644 --- a/pypy/doc/release-v7.1.0.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/release-v7.1.0.rst @@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ two different interpreters: The interpreters are based on much the same codebase, thus the double release. +This release, coming fast on the heels of 7.0 in February, finally merges the +internal refactoring of unicode representation as UTF-8. Removing the +conversions from strings to unicode internally lead to a nice speed bump. + +We also improved the ability to use the buffer protocol with ctype structures +and arrays. + Until we can work with downstream providers to distribute builds with PyPy, we have made packages for some common packages `available as wheels`_. |