This bug is to track outstanding issues that need to be fixed for the next revision bump for python. The python team has more than 100 bugs open and its very hard to track which bugs are on track for the next rev bump.
Python 2.4.4 was released on the 18th. http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4.4/
I've stabled 2.4.4 on Alpha, IA64 and x86 and 2.4.4-r1 is in the tree with tons of fixes waiting for archs to rekeyword it due to the massive updates I've done to it.