[Biopython-announce] Biopython 1.69 released

[Peter Cock]

Dear Biopythoneers,

Source distributions and Windows installers for Biopython 1.69 are now
available from the downloads page on the official Biopython website,
and the release is also on the Python Package Index (PyPI).

This release of Biopython supports Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6
(we have now dropped support for Python 2.6). It has also been tested
on PyPy v5.7, PyPy3.5 v5.7 beta, and Jython 2.7.

We have started to dual-license Biopython under both our original
liberal “Biopython License Agreement”, and the very similar but more
commonly used “3-Clause BSD License”. In this release a small number
of the Python files are explicitly available under either license, but
most of the code remains under the “Biopython License Agreement” only.
See the LICENSE.rst file for more details.

We now expect and take advantage of NumPy under PyPy, and compile most
of the Biopython C code modules as well.

For further details please see the NEWS.rst file, or the announcement blog post:

https://github.com/biopython/biopython/blob/master/NEWS.rst
https://news.open-bio.org/2017/04/07/biopython-1-69-released/

Many thanks to the Biopython developers and community for making this
release possible, especially the following contributors:

- Aaron Rosenfeld
- Adam Kurkiewicz (first contribution)
- Adam Novak (first contribution)
- Adrian Altenhoff (first contribution)
- Allis Tauri (first contribution)
- Andrew Dalke
- Andrew Guy (first contribution)
- Andrew Sczesnak (first contribution)
- Ben Fulton
- Bernhard Thiel (first contribution)
- Bertrand Néron
- Blaise Li (first contribution)
- Brandon Carter (first contribution)
- Brandon Invergo
- Carlos Pena
- Carlos Ríos
- Chris Warth
- Emmanuel Noutahi
- Foen Peng (first contribution)
- Francesco Gastaldello (first contribution)
- Francisco Pina-Martins (first contribution)
- Hector Martinez (first contribution)
- Jacek Śmietański
- Jack Twilley (first contribution)
- Jeroen Van Goey (first contribution)
- Joshua Meyers (first contribution)
- Kurt Graff (first contribution)
- Lenna Peterson
- Leonhard Heizinger (first contribution)
- Marcin Magnus (first contribution)
- Markus Piotrowski
- Maximilian Greil (first contribution)
- Michał J. Gajda (first contribution)
- Michiel de Hoon
- Milind Luthra (first contribution)
- Oscar G. Garcia (first contribution)
- Owen Solberg
- Peter Cock
- Richard Neher (first contribution)
- Sebastian Bassi
- Sourav Singh (first contribution)
- Spencer Bliven (first contribution)
- Stefans Mezulis
- Steve Bond
- Steve Marshall (first contribution)
- Uri Laserson
- Veronika Berman (first contribution)
- Vincent Davis
- Wibowo 'Bow' Arindrarto

Thank you all.

P.S. You can follow @Biopython on Twitter

Checksums:

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32-bit Windows installers for Python 3.5 and 3.6 to follow later.