diff --git a/general/prog/python.xml b/general/prog/python.xml
index 0d06f51d8a..0071c04add 100644
--- a/general/prog/python.xml
+++ b/general/prog/python.xml
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 
   <!ENTITY python-download-http "http://www.python.org/ftp/python/&Python-version;/Python-&Python-version;.tar.bz2">
   <!ENTITY python-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/&Python-version;/Python-&Python-version;.tar.bz2">
-  <!ENTITY python-md5sum        "98db1465629693fc434d4dc52db93838">
-  <!ENTITY python-size          "7.5 MB">
-  <!ENTITY python-buildsize     "115 MB">
+  <!ENTITY python-md5sum        "141c683447d5e76be1d2bd4829574f02">
+  <!ENTITY python-size          "7.6 MB">
+  <!ENTITY python-buildsize     "116 MB">
   <!ENTITY python-time          "0.9 SBU (additional 2.2 SBU to run the test suite)">
 ]>
 
@@ -66,10 +66,6 @@
         <para>Required patch: <ulink
         url="&patch-root;/Python-&Python-version;-gdbm-1.patch"/></para>
       </listitem>
-      <listitem>
-        <para>Required patch: <ulink
-        url="&patch-root;/Python-&Python-version;-db44-1.patch"/></para>
-      </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Python Dependencies</bridgehead>
@@ -92,7 +88,6 @@
     commands:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../Python-&Python-version;-gdbm-1.patch &amp;&amp;
-patch -Np1 -i ../Python-&Python-version;-db44-1.patch &amp;&amp;
 ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared &amp;&amp;
 make</userinput></screen>
 
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 7c93c2af60..db8ab9e623 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,8 +41,11 @@
 
 -->
     <listitem>
-      <para>April 19th, 2006</para>
+      <para>April 20th, 2006</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[dnicholson] - Updated to Python-2.4.3.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to glib-2.10.2.</para>
         </listitem>