New codecs for UTF-32, UTF-32-LE and UTF-32-BE are in place.

EUC-KR codec now handles the cheot-ga-keut composed make-up hangul syllables.

BeOS is no longer supported (remember that AtheOS, Win9x and WinME as well will be no longer supported in Python 2.6, see PEP 11 for the details).

uuid creation is now threadsafe.