I was developing a program in python, and I ran into a problem that made me waste a few days, just because of a bug in python 2.4.3 (and because 2.4.3 is the latest stable version in portage, so that's what I was using). The bug was fixed in 2.4.4, along with lots of other bugs. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1494314&group_id=5470&atid=105470
I've stabled 2.4.4 on Alpha, IA64 and x86. I'll let the other archs follow suit as they like but will ask them to stable 2.4.4-r1 about a month from now. Closing this bug for now.