Downloading Cheetah
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The most recent stable release of Cheetah **v2.4.2** which was released on
Feb 8th, 2010.

Download v2.4.2
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* You can download a tarball of Cheetah v2.4.2 from the `Python Package Index <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cheetah/2.4.2>`_

You can keep up to date with release candidates or other downloads of Cheetah by 
visiting the `cheetahtemplate GitHub page <http://github.com/cheetahtemplate/cheetah/downloads>`_

**Note to Windows users:** You should install the compiled version of Cheetah's 
NameMapper. It is dramatically faster than the pure Python version, in the source
tree you can find compiled versions for Python 2.4: namemapper.pyd2.4, 
Python 2.5: namemapper.pyd2.5. Install it wherever your system puts 
Cheetah/NameMapper.py. Strip the version numbers off the filename.