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Mercurial 6.2 (to be released) and newer only has support for Python 3.5+. Mercurial 5.2 and newer has support for Python 3.5 and newer. Mercurial 4.3 and newer require at least Python 2.7. Python must include the following standard library components: Mercurial 6.2 (to be released) and newer only has support for Python 3.6+. Mercurial 5.2 and newer has support for Python 2.7 and Python 3.5 and newer. Mercurial 4.3 and newer require at least Python 2.7. Python must include the following standard library components:
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Python 3.5 support is being dropped in Mercurial 6.2.

Supported Python Versions

The versions of Python supported by Mercurial.

Contents

  1. Current support
  2. Past support
  3. Future support plan

1. Current support

Mercurial 6.2 (to be released) and newer only has support for Python 3.6+. Mercurial 5.2 and newer has support for Python 2.7 and Python 3.5 and newer. Mercurial 4.3 and newer require at least Python 2.7. Python must include the following standard library components:

  • sha/hashlib
  • gzip
  • ssl
  • bz2 (needed for bundles)
  • ctypes (only on Windows)

2. Past support

Python 3.5 support is being dropped in Mercurial 6.2. Python 2 support is being dropped in Mercurial 6.2.

Python 2.6 support was dropped in Mercurial 4.3. As work towards porting to Python 3 progressed, continuing to support Python 2.6 was a hindrance to porting efforts.

Python 2.4 and 2.5 support was dropped in Mercurial 3.5 as it was becoming a barrier to Python 3.x support. As our primary users of these Python versions are enterprise Linux users of RHEL 5 and Centos 5, we've started packaging RPMs for these systems with a private copy of a recent Python.

Python 2.3 support was dropped in Mercurial 1.3.

Some versions of Python may have difficulty with some particular features. For instance, Python before 2.5 cannot properly verify SSL certificates.

Mercurial never supported Python 3.0 to 3.4 because of missing support for the % operator on bytestrings (bytes in Python 3).

3. Future support plan

We may drop support for older versions of Python 3 in the future.

SupportedPythonVersions (last edited 2022-03-04 01:04:18 by GregorySzorc)