A small release day today! That is to say the releases are relatively small; the day itself was of average size, as most days are.

Python 3.13.2

Python 3.13’s second maintenance release. About 250 changes went into this update, and can be yours for free if you just upgrade now.

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3132/

Python 3.12.9

Python 3.12’s ninth maintenance release already. Just 180 changes for 3.12, but it’s still worth upgrading.

Enjoy the new releases

Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through organization contributions to the Python Software Foundation.

Regards from your tireless, tireless release team,
Thomas Wouters
Ned Deily
Steve Dower
Łukasz Langa

Hello, three dot fourteen dot zero alpha four!

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140a4/

This is an early developer preview of Python 3.14

Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13

Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0a4, is the fourth 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 (2025-05-06) and, if necessary, may be modified or deleted up until the release candidate phase (2025-07-22). Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and its use is not recommended for production environments.

Many new features for Python 3.14 are still being planned and written. Among the new major new features and changes so far:

PEP 649: deferred evaluation of annotations
PEP 741: Python configuration C API
PEP 761: Python 3.14 and onwards no longer provides PGP signatures for release artifacts. Instead, Sigstore is recommended for verifiers.
Improved error messages
Many removals of deprecated classes, functions, methods and parameters in various standard library modules.
New deprecations, many of which are scheduled for removal from Python 3.16
C API removals and deprecations
(Hey, fellow core developer, if a feature you find important is missing from this list, let Hugo know.)

The next pre-release of Python 3.14 will be 3.14.0a5, currently scheduled for 2025-02-11.

More resources

Online documentation
PEP 745, 3.14 Release Schedule
Report bugs at https://github.com/python/cpython/issues
Help fund Python and its community

And now for something completely different

In Python, you can use Greek letters as constants. For example:

from math import pi as π

def circumference(radius: float) -> float:
    return 2 * π * radius

print(circumference(6378.137))  # 40075.016685578485

Enjoy the new release

Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through organisation contributions to the Python Software Foundation.

Regards from a slushy, slippery Helsinki,

Your release team,
Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk
Ned Deily @nad
Steve Dower @steve.dower
Łukasz Langa @ambv

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Python 3.13.2 and 3.12.9 now available!