It’s time to eclipse the Python 3.11.9 release with two releases, one of which is the very last alpha release of Python 3.13:   Python 3.12.3 300+ of the finest commits went into this latest maintenance release of the latest Python version, the most stablest, securest, bugfreeest we could make it. https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3123/   Python 3.13.0a6 What’s that? The last alpha release? Just one more month until feature freeze! Get your features done, get your bugs fixed, let’s get 3.13.0 ready for people to actually use! Until then, let’s test with alpha 6. The hi ..read more

    This is the last bug fix release of Python 3.11  This is the ninth maintenance release of Python 3.11 Python 3.11.9 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Get it here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3119/ Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10 Among the new major new features and changes so far: PEP 657 – Include Fine-Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks PEP 654 – Exception Groups and except* PEP 673 – Self Type PEP 646 – Variadic Gene ..read more

Howdy! Those are the boring security releases that aren’t supposed to bring anything new. But not this time! We do have a bit of news, actually. But first things first: go update your systems! Python 3.10.14 Get it here: Python Release Python 3.10.14 26 commits since the last release. Python 3.9.19 Get it here: Python Release Python 3.9.19 26 commits since the last release. Python 3.8.19 Get it here: Python Release Python 3.8.19 28 commits since the last release. Security content in this release gh-115399 & gh-115398: bundled libexpat was updated to 2.6.0 to address CVE-2023-52425, an ..read more

  Python 3.13.0 alpha 5 is now available: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3130a5/ This is an early developer preview of Python 3.13 Major new features of the 3.13 series, compared to 3.12 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0a5, is the fifth of six planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the release process. During the alpha phase, features may be added up until the start of the beta phase (2024-05-07) and, if necessary, may be modified or deleted up until ..read more

  Python 3.13.0 alpha 4 is now available: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3130a4/ This is an early developer preview of Python 3.13 Major new features of the 3.13 series, compared to 3.12 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0a4, is the fourth of six planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the release process. During the alpha phase, features may be added up until the start of the beta phase (2024-05-07) and, if necessary, may be modified or deleted up until ..read more

Python 3.12.2 and 3.11.8 are now available. In addition to all the usual bugfixes, these releases contain a small security fix: hidden .pth files are no longer automatically read and executed as part of Python startup. (New releases of 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10 containing the same fix are expected next week.)   Python 3.12.2 https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3122/ Python 3.12’s second bugfix release. In addition to the mentioned security fix and the usual slew of bug fixes, build changes and documentation updates (more than 350 commits), this is also the first release to include a ..read more

We silently skipped releasing in December (it was too close to the holidays, a lot of people were away) so by date you may have been expecting alpha 4, but instead it’s alpha 3: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3130a3/ This is an early developer preview of Python 3.13 Major new features of the 3.13 series, compared to 3.12 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0a3, is the third of six planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the release process. During the alpha pha ..read more

   This is the sixth maintenance release of Python 3.11 Python 3.11.7 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. Get it here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3117/ Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10 Among the new major new features and changes so far: PEP 657 – Include Fine-Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks PEP 654 – Exception Groups and except* PEP 673 – Self Type PEP 646 – Variadic Generics PEP 680 – tomllib: Support for Parsing TOML in the ..read more

Well, well, well, it’s time for Python 3.13.0 alpha 2! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3130a2/ This is an early developer preview of Python 3.13   Major new features of the 3.13 series, compared to 3.12   Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0a2 is the second of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the release process. During the alpha phase, features may be added up until the start of the beta phase (2024-05-07) and, if necessary, may be mod ..read more

  It’s not a very exciting release (yet), but it’s time for the first alpha of Python 3.13 anyway! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3130a1/ This is an early developer preview of Python 3.13   Major new features of the 3.13 series, compared to 3.12 Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0a1 is the first of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the release process. During the alpha phase, features may be added up until the start of the beta phase (20 ..read more