Python 3.16.0 alpha 2 is now available
The second developer preview of Python 3.16 is ready for testing.
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350 posts from the Python core development team
Python 3.15.2, 3.14.10, 3.13.18, 3.12.16 and 3.11.18 are out
Five expedited security releases to distrust the compromised eMudhra intermediate CA keys.
Python 3.15.1, 3.14.9 and 3.13.17 are out
Three certified security releases for 3.15, 3.14 and 3.13.
Python 3.16.0 alpha 1 is now available
The first developer preview of Python 3.16 is ready for testing.
Python 3.10.22, 3.11.17, 3.12.15, 3.13.16 and 3.14.8 are now available!
Security updates across Python 3.10–3.14, the final maintenance release of 3.13, and a farewell to Python 3.10.
Python Language Summit 2026
The 2026 Python Language Summit was hosted in Kraków, Poland as part of EuroPython 2026. There were 15 talks covering free-threading, Rust, garbage collection, type annotations, and more.
Lightning Talks (Python Language Summit 2026)
Lightning talks on a one-time ABI break, safer interruptions, EktuPy (Scratch but Python), an AGENTS.md file for CPython, and a call to read PEP 836.
PEP 827: Type Manipulation (Python Language Summit 2026)
Michael J. Sullivan presents PEP 827 and discusses a key design decision: how to store type annotations?
Free-Threaded Python Post-Era (Python Language Summit 2026)
Tobias Wrigstad, Fridtjof Stoldt, and Donghee Na propose a safe and performant, high-level concurrency model for free-threaded Python
Developer-in-Residence Update & Future (Python Language Summit 2026)
Petr Viktorin gives an update on the Developer-in-Residence role and asks Python core developers for projects to prioritize
Spicycrab (Python Language Summit 2026)
Kushal Das shows off Spicycrab, a Python-to-Rust transpiler for Python users who need performance without learning Rust or leaving Python
Rust for CPython (Python Language Summit 2026)
David Hewitt shares a status update, first module, and potential acceptance criteria for the Rust for CPython project
Memory Snapshots for CPython (Python Language Summit 2026)
Hood Chatham proposes memory snapshots and an initialization phase for speedier Python startups
Memory Buffer Protocol (Python Language Summit 2026)
Nathan Goldbaum proposes safe concurrent access through buffer leases and custom data types for the Python Buffer Protocol.
Garbage Collection: Generational? Incremental? Both! (Python Language Summit 2026)
Mark Shannon proposes a future garbage collection strategy for Python following the revert of the incremental garbage collector in Python 3.14
macOS and Python (Python Language Summit 2026)
Ned Deily weighs whether Python should continue shipping macOS installers
One namespace to namespace them all (Python Language Summit 2026)
Pablo Galindo Salgado proposes a top-level `std` namespace for the Python standard library to prevent module shadowing and free up module names.
The Python documentation is now available in German
You can now read the Python documentation online in German!