Release Notes for release 2.5

Python 2.5 uses ASCII internally, so as a result more modules are supported (such as expat, elementree...)

The database is still EBCDIC, but the data is converted to latin1 or unicode when it is read.
This conversion does take more resources, however.

Otherwise the general speedup from 2.3 to 2.5 is about 20 to 40% (probably due to the use of 8 byte pointers).

Threading is not supported.

Unicode is UCS2 not UTF16

Enjoy!