From: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:01:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Commit version 1.02 (CVS revision 1.59) of whatsnew22.tex, which
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.3c1~240
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Commit version 1.02 (CVS revision 1.59) of whatsnew22.tex, which
   fixes various small errors and adds mention of the 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 releases.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex
index 5bc3de08310d..6075821ac6d4 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew22.tex
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 % $Id$
 
 \title{What's New in Python 2.2}
-\release{1.00}
+\release{1.02}
 \author{A.M. Kuchling}
 \authoraddress{\email{akuchlin@mems-exchange.org}}
 \begin{document}
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@
 
 \section{Introduction}
 
-This article explains the new features in Python 2.2, released on
-December 21, 2001.
+This article explains the new features in Python 2.2.2, released on
+October 14, 2002.  Python 2.2.2 is a bugfix release of Python 2.2,
+originally released on December 21, 2001.
 
 Python 2.2 can be thought of as the "cleanup release".  There are some
 features such as generators and iterators that are completely new, but
@@ -124,7 +125,7 @@ So how do you define a new-style class?  You do it by subclassing an
 existing new-style class.  Most of Python's built-in types, such as
 integers, lists, dictionaries, and even files, are new-style classes
 now.  A new-style class named \class{object}, the base class for all
-built-in types, has been also been added so if no built-in type is
+built-in types, has also been added so if no built-in type is
 suitable, you can just subclass \class{object}:
 
 \begin{verbatim}
@@ -1063,7 +1064,7 @@ Jeremy Hylton.}
 \begin{itemize}
 
   \item The \module{xmlrpclib} module was contributed to the standard
-  library by Fredrik Lundh, provding support for writing XML-RPC
+  library by Fredrik Lundh, providing support for writing XML-RPC
   clients.  XML-RPC is a simple remote procedure call protocol built on
   top of HTTP and XML. For example, the following snippet retrieves a
   list of RSS channels from the O'Reilly Network, and then 
@@ -1113,7 +1114,7 @@ more information about XML-RPC.
    The original patch for this feature was contributed by Nick Mathewson.
 
   \item The Python profiler has been extensively reworked and various
-  errors in its output have been corrected.  (Contributed by Fred
+  errors in its output have been corrected.  (Contributed by
   Fred~L. Drake, Jr. and Tim Peters.)
  
   \item The \module{socket} module can be compiled to support IPv6;
@@ -1157,7 +1158,6 @@ more information about XML-RPC.
   in \rfc{2342}, SORT, GETACL and SETACL.  (Contributed by Anthony
   Baxter and Michel Pelletier.)
 
-  % XXX should the 'email' module get a section of its own?
   \item The \module{rfc822} module's parsing of email addresses is now
   compliant with \rfc{2822}, an update to \rfc{822}.  (The module's
   name is \emph{not} going to be changed to \samp{rfc2822}.)  A new
@@ -1276,9 +1276,12 @@ affect you very much.
 
 As usual there were a bunch of other improvements and bugfixes
 scattered throughout the source tree.  A search through the CVS change
-logs finds there were 527 patches applied, and 683 bugs fixed; both
-figures are likely to be underestimates.  Some of the more notable
-changes are:
+logs finds there were 527 patches applied and 683 bugs fixed between
+Python 2.1 and 2.2; 2.2.1 applied 139 patches and fixed 143 bugs;
+2.2.2 applied 106 patches and fixed 82 bugs.  These figures are likely
+to be underestimates.
+
+Some of the more notable changes are:
 
 \begin{itemize}
 
@@ -1428,7 +1431,7 @@ article: Fred Bremmer, Keith Briggs, Andrew Dalke, Fred~L. Drake, Jr.,
 Carel Fellinger, David Goodger, Mark Hammond, Stephen Hansen, Michael
 Hudson, Jack Jansen, Marc-Andr\'e Lemburg, Martin von L\"owis, Fredrik
 Lundh, Michael McLay, Nick Mathewson, Paul Moore, Gustavo Niemeyer,
-Don O'Donnell, Tim Peters, Jens Quade, Tom Reinhardt, Neil
-Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum, Greg Ward.
+Don O'Donnell, Joonas Paalasma, Tim Peters, Jens Quade, Tom Reinhardt, Neil
+Schemenauer, Guido van Rossum, Greg Ward, Edward Welbourne.
 
 \end{document}