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Work on beats has now moved to git at https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/release-notes. If you have changes or additions, please contact the docs team via #fedora-docs, docs@lists.fedoraproject.org, or with the release-notes BZ component.

Python Upgrade to 3.5

• Python 3.5 will be the default Python environment. This is an upgrade from 3.4 which was included in Fedora 23.
• New Syntax Features
• New library modules like typing and zipapp
• New built in features like memoryview that supports tuple indexing
• CPython improvements
• Standard library improvements
• Security Updates - Improvements
• Improvements in Windows, such as: a new Windows installer and Windows builds use Microsoft Visual C++ 14.0

This information was found at https://docs.python.org/3.6/whatsnew/3.5.html. For more information please visit the Python 3.5 upstream notes page

Mono 4.2.1

The version of Mono in Fedora 24 is 4.2.1, noteable changes are:

• More integration of Microsoft Open Source Code
• PPDB Debugging support
• New Implementation of threadpool
• Bugfixes, and runtime optimizations

This information and additional details were found at: the Mono upstream notes page

Ruby 2.3

Ruby will be upgraded to 2.3 in Fedora 24.

• A safe navigation operator also known as a lonely operator
• The did_you_mean gem is bundled in Ruby 2.3
• RubyVM::InstructionSequence#to_binary and .load_from_binary are introduced as experimental features
• Multiple performance enhancements

This information was mostly directly taken from the Ruby 2.3 upstream notes page. Please visit the the Ruby 2.3 upstream notes page for more detailed information.