Editing Jython (section)

==Status and roadmap==
The most recent release is Jython 2.7.4. It was released on August 18, 2024 and is compatible with Python 2.7.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jython.org/news.html|title=News|website=Jython|language=en-US|access-date=April 19, 2020}}</ref>

Python 3 compatible changes are planned in Jython 3 Roadmap.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jython.org/jython-3-roadmap.html|website=Jython|title=Jython 3 Roadmap|language=en-US|access-date=October 14, 2022}}</ref> 

Although Jython implements the Python language specification, it has some differences and incompatibilities with [[CPython]], which is the [[reference implementation]] of Python.<ref>{{cite web
| url=https://wiki.python.org/jython/JythonFaq/GeneralInfo#IsJythonthesamelanguageasPython.3F
| title=JythonFaq
|publisher=Jython's project
| access-date=July 5, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| url=http://jython.sourceforge.net/archive/21/docs/differences.html
| title=Differences between CPython and Jython
| publisher=Jython's project
| access-date=July 5, 2009
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231007235503/https://jython.sourceforge.net/archive/21/docs/differences.html 
| archive-date=2023-10-07}}</ref>