Robot Framework 3.0 beta 1 is the last planned preview release before release candidates and the final 3.0 release. The biggest enhancements in Robot Framework 3.0 are Python 3 support and a new listener interface that allows modifying executed tests as well as execution results. Also start-up scripts have been enhanced and it is now possible to run tests with robot command and like python -m robot. See the full release notes for more information about new features, bug fixes, backwards incompatible changes and deprecated features in Robot Framework 3.0.
Source distribution is available at PyPI and pip users can simply run pip install --upgrade --pre robotframework to install or upgrade to the latest release or pip install robotframework==3.0b1 to install exactly this version.
Separate Windows installers are not created and the plan is not to create them even for final releases in the future (#2218). The standalone jar distribution can be created and added here if there are requests, but we only upload final releases to the Maven central.
Robot Framework 3.0 beta 1 was released on Wednesday December 23, 2015.