Bumping to 2.6.6 rc 1

Include/patchlevel.h

@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@
 /*--start constants--*/
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION	2
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION	6
-#define PY_MICRO_VERSION	5
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	0
+#define PY_MICRO_VERSION	6
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_GAMMA
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	1
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION      	"2.6.5+"
+#define PY_VERSION      	"2.6.6rc1"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Subversion Revision number of this file (not of the repository) */

Lib/distutils/__init__.py

@@ -22,5 +22,5 @@ __revision__ = "$Id$"
 #
 
 #--start constants--
-__version__ = "2.6.5"
+__version__ = "2.6.6rc1"
 #--end constants--

Lib/idlelib/idlever.py

-IDLE_VERSION = "2.6.5"
+IDLE_VERSION = "2.6.6rc1"

Misc/NEWS

@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ Python News
 
 (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
 
-What's New in Python 2.6.6 alpha 1?
-===================================
+What's New in Python 2.6.6 rc 1?
+================================
 
-*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
+*Release date: 2010-08-03*
 
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ Core and Builtins
   small arguments were treated this way; larger arguments (those whose
   __int__ was outside the range of a C long) would produce a TypeError.
 
-- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
-  passed to bytearray.
+- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize
+  is passed to bytearray.
 
 - Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
   changed.

Misc/RPM/python-2.6.spec

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 
 %define name python
 #--start constants--
-%define version 2.6.5
+%define version 2.6.6rc1
 %define libver 2.6
 #--end constants--
 %define release 1pydotorg

README

-This is Python version 2.6.5
-============================
+This is Python version 2.6.6 release candidate 1
+================================================
 
 Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
 Python Software Foundation.