As part of our Enterprise offering, ActiveState continues to be the only commercial vendor that maintains a current version of Python 2. The latest release, 2.7.18.9 is now available as both a maintenance and feature release.
Features include:
- Support for Mac OS X v11
- Support for Tkinter/Tcl on Windows
Maintenance for issues that affect Python Core (Cpython) v2.7.18.8 and prior include:
- Fix for CVE-2022-45061 High Severity
- Fix for CVE-2022-48560 High Severity
- Fix for CVE-2017-18207 Medium Severity
- Fix for CVE-2022-48566 Medium Severity
Known issues:
- Scipy support has been removed from this release for Windows, Mac and Linux.
- ActivePython 2.7 always ships with dormant pip/setuptools by default. These can be replaced post-installation by running
python -m ensurepip, but if a specific pip or setuptools version is desired that should be added to the configuration.