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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941553907430899163</id><updated>2020-05-19T05:47:16.594-04:00</updated><category term="releases" /><category term="pypi" /><category term="3" /><category term="buildbot" /><category term="contributors" /><category term="docs" /><category term="ironpython" /><category term="mercurial" /><category term="pip" /><category term="platforms" /><title type="text">Python Insider</title><subtitle type="html">Python core development news and information.</subtitle><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3941553907430899163/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false" /><author><name>Doug Hellmann</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01892352754222143463</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="32" height="32" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_--Fv8pzwveE/TUqnh9CVaTI/AAAAAAAAAWs/Z5gcLDnoegA/s220/book-smaller.jpg" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>168</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/PythonInsider" /><feedburner:info uri="pythoninsider" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>PythonInsider</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>https://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941553907430899163.post-9084563987603721936</id><published>2020-05-19T05:46:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2020-05-19T05:47:16.458-04:00</updated><title type="text">Python 3.9.0b1 is now available for testing</title><content type="html">On behalf of the entire Python development community, and the currently 
serving Python release team in particular, I’m pleased to announce the 
release of Python 3.9.0b1. Get it here:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390b1/"&gt;https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390b1/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;
This is a beta preview of Python 3.9&lt;/h2&gt;
Python 3.9 is still in development.  This release, 3.9.0b1, is the first of four planned beta release previews.&lt;br /&gt;
Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the 
opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their 
projects to support the new feature release.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;
Call to action&lt;/h2&gt;
We &lt;b&gt;strongly encourage&lt;/b&gt; maintainers of third-party Python projects to &lt;b&gt;test with 3.9&lt;/b&gt; during the beta phase and report issues found to &lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/"&gt;the Python bug tracker&lt;/a&gt;
 as soon as possible.  While the release is planned to be feature 
complete entering the beta phase, it is possible that features may be 
modified or, in rare cases, deleted up until the start of the release 
candidate phase (2020-08-10).  Our goal is have no ABI changes after 
beta 4 and as few code changes as possible after 3.9.0rc1, the first 
release candidate.  To achieve that, it will be extremely important to 
get as much exposure for 3.9 as possible during the beta phase.&lt;br /&gt;
Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and its use is &lt;b&gt;not&lt;/b&gt; recommended for production environments.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;
Major new features of the 3.9 series, compared to 3.8&lt;/h2&gt;
Some of the new major new features and changes in Python 3.9 are:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0584/"&gt;PEP 584&lt;/a&gt;, Union Operators in &lt;code&gt;dict&lt;/code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0585/"&gt;PEP 585&lt;/a&gt;, Type Hinting Generics In Standard Collections&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0593/"&gt;PEP 593&lt;/a&gt;, Flexible function and variable annotations&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0602/"&gt;PEP 602&lt;/a&gt;, Python adopts a stable annual release cadence&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0616/"&gt;PEP 616&lt;/a&gt;, String methods to remove prefixes and suffixes&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0617/"&gt;PEP 617&lt;/a&gt;, New PEG parser for CPython&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue38379"&gt;BPO 38379&lt;/a&gt;, garbage collection does not block on resurrected objects;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue38692"&gt;BPO 38692&lt;/a&gt;, os.pidfd_open added that allows process management without races and signals;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue39926"&gt;BPO 39926&lt;/a&gt;, Unicode support updated to version 13.0.0;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue1635741"&gt;BPO 1635741&lt;/a&gt;, when Python is initialized multiple times in the same process, it does not leak memory anymore;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
A number of Python builtins (range, tuple, set, frozenset, list, dict) are now sped up using &lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0590"&gt;PEP 590&lt;/a&gt; vectorcall;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
A number of Python modules (_abc, audioop, _bz2, _codecs, 
_contextvars, _crypt, _functools, _json, _locale, operator, resource, 
time, _weakref) now use multiphase initialization as defined by &lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0489/"&gt;PEP 489&lt;/a&gt;;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
A number of standard library modules (audioop, ast, grp, _hashlib, 
pwd, _posixsubprocess, random, select, struct, termios, zlib) are now 
using the stable ABI defined by &lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0384/"&gt;PEP 384&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;small&gt;(Hey, &lt;b&gt;fellow core developer,&lt;/b&gt; if a feature you find important is missing from this list, &lt;a href="mailto:lukasz@python.org"&gt;let Łukasz know&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
The next pre-release, the second beta release of Python 3.9, will be 3.9.0b2. It is currently scheduled for 2020-06-08.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;
More resources&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.python.org/3.9/"&gt;Online Documentation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0596/"&gt;PEP 596&lt;/a&gt;, 3.9 Release Schedule&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Report bugs at &lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/"&gt;https://bugs.python.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="https://discuss.python.org/psf/donations/"&gt;Help fund Python and its community&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
Your friendly release team,&lt;br /&gt;
Ned Deily &lt;a class="mention" href="https://discuss.python.org/u/nad"&gt;@nad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Steve Dower &lt;a class="mention" href="https://discuss.python.org/u/steve.dower"&gt;@steve.dower&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Łukasz Langa &lt;a class="mention" href="https://discuss.python.org/u/ambv"&gt;@ambv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-383/"&gt;https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-383/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
It contains two months worth of bug fixes. Detailed information about all changes made in 3.8.3 can be found in&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.python.org/release/3.8.3/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-8-3-final"&gt;its change log&lt;/a&gt;. Note that compared to 3.8.2, version 3.8.3 also contains the changes introduced in 3.8.3rc1.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
The Python 3.8 series is the newest feature release of the Python language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. See the “&lt;a href="https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html"&gt;What’s New in Python 3.8&lt;/a&gt;” document for more information about features included in the 3.8 series.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
Maintenance releases for the 3.8 series will continue at regular bi-monthly intervals, with 3.8.4 planned for mid-July 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;
One more thing&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
Unless blocked on any critical issue, Monday May 18th will be the release date of Python 3.9.0 beta 1. It’s a special release because this is when we lock the feature set for Python 3.9. If you can help testing the current available alpha release, that would be very helpful:&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390a6/"&gt;https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390a6/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;
We hope you enjoy the new Python release!&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
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.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/psf/"&gt;https://www.python.org/psf/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
Your friendly release team,&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
Ned Deily&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="mention" href="https://discuss.python.org/u/nad"&gt;@nad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
Steve Dower&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="mention" href="https://discuss.python.org/u/steve.dower"&gt;@steve.dower&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
Łukasz Langa&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="mention" href="https://discuss.python.org/u/ambv"&gt;@ambv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
To install pip 20.1, you can run:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;blockquote class="tr_bq"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;, Courier, monospace;"&gt;python -m pip install --upgrade pip&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
The highlights for this release are:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Significant speedups when building local directories, by changing behavior to perform
in-place builds, instead of copying to temporary directories.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Significant speedups in &lt;code&gt;pip list --outdated&lt;/code&gt;, by parallelizing network
access. This is the first instance of parallel code within pip's codebase.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A new &lt;code&gt;pip cache&lt;/code&gt; command, which makes it possible to introspect and manage
pip's cache directory.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Better &lt;code&gt;pip freeze&lt;/code&gt; for packages installed from direct URLs, enabled by the
implementation of PEP 610.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;

This release also contains an alpha version of pip's next generation resolver. It is
&lt;strong&gt;off by default&lt;/strong&gt; because it is &lt;strong&gt;unstable and not ready for everyday
use&lt;/strong&gt;. If you're curious about this, please visit &lt;a href="https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8099"&gt;this GitHub issue about the resolver, what doesn't work yet, and what kind of testing would help us out&lt;/a&gt;. We &lt;a href="https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2020/03/new-pip-resolver-to-roll-out-this-year.html"&gt;plan to release a version of pip that includes a beta of the new resolver in May&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;

The &lt;a href="https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/news/"&gt;full changelog&lt;/a&gt; is available.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;

As with all pip releases, a significant amount of the work was contributed by pip's
user community. Huge thanks to all who have contributed, whether through code,
documentation, issue reports and/or discussion. Your help keeps pip improving, and is
hugely appreciated.&lt;br /&gt;

&lt;br /&gt;
Thank you to the pip and PyPA maintainers, and to all the contributors and volunteers who work on or use Python packaging tools.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
And thank you to &lt;a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/moss/"&gt;Mozilla (through its Mozilla Open Source Support Awards)&lt;/a&gt; and to &lt;a href="https://chanzuckerberg.com/eoss/"&gt;the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative&lt;/a&gt; DAF, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, for funding enabling work on the new resolver, and thanks to the PSF and the Packaging 
WG for obtaining and administering that funding.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PythonInsider/~4/6Lb4AOXLqx4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/&gt;</content><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3941553907430899163/posts/default/4034362051050539136" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3941553907430899163/posts/default/4034362051050539136" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonInsider/~3/6Lb4AOXLqx4/pip-20-1-released.html" title="Pip 20.1 has been released" /><author><name>Sumana Harihareswara</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08002085909817689325</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="16" height="16" src="https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif" /></author><feedburner:origLink>https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2020/04/pip-20-1-released.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941553907430899163.post-4627979429508718619</id><published>2020-04-28T11:53:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2020-04-28T11:54:13.371-04:00</updated><title type="text">Python 3.9.0a6 is now available for testing</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;On behalf of the entire Python development community, and the currently serving Python release team in particular, I’m pleased to announce the release of Python 3.9.0a6.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Get it here:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;
This is an early developer preview of Python 3.9&lt;/h2&gt;
Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0a6, is the last out 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 (2020-05-18) and, if necessary, may be modified or deleted up until the release candidate phase (2020-08-10). Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and its use is&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;not&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;recommended for production environments.&lt;br /&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h2 style="font-size: 16px;"&gt;
Major new features of the 3.9 series, compared to 3.8&lt;/h2&gt;
Many new features for Python 3.9 are still being planned and written. Among the new major new features and changes so far:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0584/"&gt;PEP 584&lt;/a&gt;, Union Operators in&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;code&gt;dict&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0585/"&gt;PEP 585&lt;/a&gt;, Type Hinting Generics In Standard Collections&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0593/"&gt;PEP 593&lt;/a&gt;, Flexible function and variable annotations&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0602/"&gt;PEP 602&lt;/a&gt;, Python adopts a stable annual release cadence&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0616/"&gt;PEP 616&lt;/a&gt;, String methods to remove prefixes and suffixes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0617/"&gt;PEP 617&lt;/a&gt;, New PEG parser for CPython&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue38379"&gt;BPO 38379&lt;/a&gt;, garbage collection does not block on resurrected objects;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue38692"&gt;BPO 38692&lt;/a&gt;, os.pidfd_open added that allows process management without races and signals;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue39926"&gt;BPO 39926&lt;/a&gt;, Unicode support updated to version 13.0.0&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue1635741"&gt;BPO 1635741&lt;/a&gt;, when Python is initialized multiple times in the same process, it does not leak memory anymore&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A number of Python builtins (range, tuple, set, frozenset, list) are now sped up using&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0590"&gt;PEP 590&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;vectorcall&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A number of standard library modules (audioop, ast, grp, _hashlib, pwd, _posixsubprocess, random, select, struct, termios, zlib) are now using the stable ABI defined by&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0384/"&gt;PEP 384&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;(Hey,&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;fellow core developer,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;if a feature you find important is missing from this list,&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:lukasz@python.org"&gt;let Łukasz know&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
The next pre-release, the first beta release of Python 3.9, will be 3.9.0b1. It is currently scheduled for 2020-05-18.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Your friendly release team,&lt;br /&gt;
Ned Deily&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="mention" href="https://discuss.python.org/u/nad"&gt;@nad&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Steve Dower&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="mention" href="https://discuss.python.org/u/steve.dower"&gt;@steve.dower&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Łukasz Langa&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="mention" href="https://discuss.python.org/u/ambv"&gt;@ambv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Python 2.7.18 is the last Python 2.7 release and therefore the last Python 2 release. It's time for the CPython community to say a fond but firm farewell to Python 2.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Download this unique, commemorative Python release on &lt;a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2718/"&gt;python.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Python 2.7 has been under active development since the release of Python 2.6, more than 11 years ago. Over all those years, CPython's core developers and contributors sedulously applied bug fixes to the 2.7 branch, no small task as the Python 2 and 3 branches diverged. There were large changes midway through Python 2.7's life such as PEP 466's feature backports to the ssl module and hash randomization. Traditionally, these features would never have been added to a branch in maintenance mode, but exceptions were made to keep Python 2 users secure. Thank you to CPython's community for such dedication.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Python 2.7 was lucky to have the services of two generations of binary builders and operating system experts, Martin von Löwis and Steve Dower for Windows, and Ronald Oussoren and Ned Deily for macOS. The reason we provided binary Python 2.7 releases for macOS 10.9, an operating system obsoleted by Apple 4 years ago, or why the "Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7" exists is the dedication of these individuals.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Python 3 would be nowhere without the dedication of the wider community. Library maintainers followed CPython by maintaining Python 2 support for many years but also threw their weight behind the &lt;a href="https://python3statement.org/"&gt;Python 3 statement&lt;/a&gt;. Linux distributors chased Python 2 out of their archives. Users migrated hundreds of millions of lines of code, developed porting guides, and kept Python 2 in their brain while Python 3 gained 10 years of improvements.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Finally, thank you to GvR for creating Python 0.9, 1, 2, and 3.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Long live Python 3+!&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390a5/"&gt;https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390a5/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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This is an early developer preview of Python 3.9&lt;/h3&gt;
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Python 3.9 is still in development. This releasee, 3.9.0a5 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 (2020-05-18) and, if necessary, may be modified or deleted up until the release candidate phase (2020-08-10). Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and its use is not recommended for production environments.&lt;br /&gt;
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Major new features of the 3.9 series, compared to 3.8&lt;/h3&gt;
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Many new features for Python 3.9 are still being planned and written. Among the new major new features and changes so far:&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0584/"&gt;PEP 584&lt;/a&gt;, Union Operators in&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;code&gt;dict&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0593/"&gt;PEP 593&lt;/a&gt;, Flexible function and variable annotations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0602/"&gt;PEP 602&lt;/a&gt;, Python adopts a stable annual release cadence&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue38379"&gt;BPO 38379&lt;/a&gt;, garbage collection does not block on resurrected objects;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue38692"&gt;BPO 38692&lt;/a&gt;, os.pidfd_open added that allows process management without races and signals;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue39926"&gt;BPO 39926&lt;/a&gt;, Unicode support updated to version 13.0.0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue1635741"&gt;BPO 1635741&lt;/a&gt;, when Python is initialized multiple times in the same process, it does not leak memory anymore&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A number of Python builtins (range, tuple, set, frozenset, list) are now sped up using&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0590"&gt;PEP 590&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;vectorcall&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A number of standard library modules (audioop, ast, grp, _hashlib, pwd, _posixsubprocess, random, select, struct, termios, zlib) are now using the stable ABI defined by&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0384/"&gt;PEP 384&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;(Hey,&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;fellow core developer,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;if a feature you find important is missing from this list,&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:lukasz@python.org"&gt;let Łukasz know&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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The next pre-release, the last alpha release of Python 3.9, will be 3.9.0a6. It is currently scheduled for 2020-04-22. Until then, stay safe!&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-377/"&gt;https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-377/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Note that &lt;b&gt;Python 3.8&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. You should consider upgrading to it. Get the latest release of 3.8.x &lt;a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. We plan to continue regular&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;bugfix releases&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;of Python 3.7.x through&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;mid-year 2020&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;and provide&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;security fixes&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;for it until&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;mid-year 2023&lt;/b&gt;. &amp;nbsp;More details are available in&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0537/" target="_blank"&gt;PEP 537&lt;/a&gt;, the Python 3.7 Release Schedule.&lt;/div&gt;
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Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! &amp;nbsp;Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through organization contributions to the Python Software Foundation.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Python 3.8.2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Python 3.8.2 is the second maintenance release of Python 3.8 and contains two months worth of bug fixes. Detailed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;information about all changes made in 3.8.2 can be found in&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="" href="https://docs.python.org/release/3.8.2/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-8-2-final" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;its change log&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;. Note that compared to 3.8.1, version 3.8.2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;also contains the changes introduced in 3.8.2rc1 and 3.8.2rc2.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;The Python 3.8 series is the newest feature release of the Python language, and it contains many new features and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;optimizations. You can find Python 3.8.2 here:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a class="" href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-382/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-382/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;See the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;“&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="" href="https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;What’s New in Python 3.8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;document for more information about features included in the 3.8 series.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Maintenance releases for the 3.8 series will continue at regular bi-monthly intervals, with 3.8.3 planned for April 2020&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;(at the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class="" href="https://us.pycon.org/2020/events/sprints/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;PyCon US sprints&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Python 3.9.0a4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;An early developer preview of Python 3.9 is also ready:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a class="" href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390a4/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390a4/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Python 3.9 is still in development. This releasee, 3.9.0a4 is the fourth of six planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the release process.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;During the alpha phase, features may be added up until the start of the beta phase (2020-05-18) and, if necessary,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;may be modified or deleted up until the release candidate phase (2020-08-10). Please keep in mind that this is a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;preview release and its use is not recommended for production environments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: small; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;We hope you enjoy both!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! Please&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through organization contributions to the Python Software&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica&amp;quot;; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;Foundation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Python 3.8.2rc2 is the second release candidate of the second maintenance release of Python 3.8. Go get it here:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-382rc2/"&gt;https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-382rc2/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Why a second release candidate?&lt;/h3&gt;
The major reason for RC2 is that&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/16839"&gt;GH-16839&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;has been reverted.&lt;br /&gt;
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The original change was supposed to fix for some edge cases in urlparse (numeric paths, recognizing netlocs without //; details in&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue27657"&gt;BPO-27657&lt;/a&gt;). Unfortunately it broke third parties relying on the pre-existing undefined behavior.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sadly, the reverted fix has already been released as part of 3.8.1 (and 3.7.6 where it’s also reverted now). As such, even though the revert is itself a bug fix, it is incompatible with the behavior of 3.8.1.&lt;br /&gt;
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Please test.&lt;br /&gt;
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Timeline&lt;/h3&gt;
Assuming no critical problems are found prior to&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;2020-02-24&lt;/b&gt;, the currently scheduled release date for&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;3.8.2&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;(as well as&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;3.9.0 alpha 4&lt;/b&gt;!), no code changes are planned between this release candidate and the final release.&lt;br /&gt;
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That being said, please keep in mind that this is a pre-release of 3.8.2 and as such its main purpose is testing.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Maintenance releases for the 3.8 series will continue at regular bi-monthly intervals, with&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;3.8.3&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;planned for April 2020 (during sprints at PyCon US).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;
What’s new?&lt;/h3&gt;
The Python 3.8 series is the newest feature release of the Python language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. See the “&lt;a href="https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html"&gt;What’s New in Python 3.8&lt;/a&gt;” document for more information about features included in the 3.8 series.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Detailed information about all changes made in version 3.8.2 specifically can be found in&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.python.org/release/3.8.2rc2/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-8-2-release-candidate-2"&gt;its change log&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;h3&gt;
We hope you enjoy Python 3.8!&lt;/h3&gt;
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.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/psf/"&gt;https://www.python.org/psf/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Go get it here: &lt;a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390a3/"&gt;https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390a3/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;
This is an early developer preview of Python 3.9&lt;/h2&gt;
Python 3.9 is still in development. This releasee, 3.9.0a3 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 phase, features may be 
added up until the start of the beta phase (2020-05-18) and, if 
necessary, may be modified or deleted up until the release candidate 
phase (2020-08-10). Please keep in mind that this is a preview release 
and its use is &lt;b&gt;not&lt;/b&gt; recommended for production environments.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;
Major new features of the 3.9 series, compared to 3.8&lt;/h2&gt;
Many new features for Python 3.9 are still being planned and written. Among the new major new features and changes so far:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0602/"&gt;PEP 602&lt;/a&gt;, Python adopts a stable annual release cadence&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue38379"&gt;BPO 38379&lt;/a&gt;, garbage collection does not block on resurrected objects;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="https://bugs.python.org/issue38692"&gt;BPO 38692&lt;/a&gt;, os.pidfd_open added that allows process management without races and signals;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A number of standard library modules (audioop, ast, grp, _hashlib, 
pwd, _posixsubprocess, random, select, struct, termios, zlib) are now 
using the stable ABI defined by &lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0384/"&gt;PEP 384&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;(Hey, &lt;b&gt;fellow core developer,&lt;/b&gt; if a feature you find important is missing from this list, &lt;a href="mailto:lukasz@python.org"&gt;let Łukasz know&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The next pre-release of Python 3.9 will be 3.9.0a4, currently scheduled for 2020-02-17.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span class="" style="font-family: &amp;quot;courier new&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;"&gt;from locale import seasons_greetings&lt;br class="" /&gt;seasons_greetings()&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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On behalf of the entire Python development community, and the currently serving Python release team in particular, I'm pleased to announce the unprecedented combined release of no less than four versions of Python. Let's dig in!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br class="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b class=""&gt;Python 3.8.1&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Python 3.8.1 is the first maintenance release of Python 3.8. The Python 3.8 series is the newest feature release of the Python language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. You can find Python 3.8.1 here:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a class="" href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-381/"&gt;https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-381/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
See the “&lt;a class="" href="https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html"&gt;What’s New in Python 3.8&lt;/a&gt;” document for more information about features included in the 3.8 series. Detailed information about all changes made in 3.8.1 can be found in its&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class="" href="https://docs.python.org/release/3.8.1/whatsnew/changelog.html#changelog"&gt;change log&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
Maintenance releases for the 3.8 series will continue at regular bi-monthly intervals, with 3.8.2 planned for February 2020.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br class="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;b class=""&gt;Python 3.7.6&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Python 3.7.6, the next bugfix release of Python 3.7, is also available. You can find the release files, a link to the change log, and more information here:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a class="" href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-376/"&gt;https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-376/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br class="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b class=""&gt;Python 3.9.0a2&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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An early developer preview of Python 3.9 is also ready:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a class="" href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390a2/"&gt;https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390a2/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br class="" /&gt;
Python 3.9 is still in development. This releasee, 3.9.0a2 is the second of six planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are&amp;nbsp;intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the release process.&amp;nbsp;During the alpha phase, features may be added up until the start of the beta phase (2020-05-18) and, if necessary,&amp;nbsp;may be modified or deleted up until the release candidate phase (2020-08-10). Please keep in mind that this is a&amp;nbsp;preview release and its use is&amp;nbsp;not&amp;nbsp;recommended for production environments.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br class="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;
&lt;b class=""&gt;Python 3.6.10&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"&gt;
And, one more thing: Python 3.6.10, the next security fix release of Python 3.6, is also available:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a class="" href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3610/"&gt;https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3610/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br class="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b class=""&gt;We hope you enjoy all those!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Your friendly release team,&lt;/div&gt;
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Ned Deily&lt;/div&gt;
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Python 3.8.1rc1 is the release candidate of the first maintenance release of Python 3.8.&lt;/div&gt;
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The Python 3.8 series is the newest feature release of the Python language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. You can find Python 3.8.1rc1 here:&lt;/div&gt;
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Assuming no critical problems are found prior to&amp;nbsp;&lt;b class=""&gt;2019-12-16&lt;/b&gt;, the scheduled release date for&amp;nbsp;&lt;b class=""&gt;3.8.1&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;&amp;nbsp;as well as&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=""&gt;Ned Deily's birthday&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, no code changes are planned between this release candidate and the final release.&lt;/div&gt;
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That being said, please keep in mind that this is a pre-release of 3.8.1 and as such its main purpose is testing.&lt;/div&gt;
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See the “&lt;a class="" href="https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;What’s New in Python 3.8&lt;/a&gt;” document for more information about features included in the 3.8 series. Detailed information about all changes made in 3.8.0 can be found in its change log.&lt;/div&gt;
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Maintenance releases for the 3.8 series will continue at regular bi-monthly intervals, with&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class=""&gt;3.8.2&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-converted-space"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;planned for February 2020.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;We hope you enjoy Python 3.8!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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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.&lt;/div&gt;
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problem, which resulted in some users downloading a prerelease version 
of the 3.5.8 .xz source tarball. Apart from the version number, 3.5.9 is
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Python &lt;a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-375/" target="_blank"&gt;3.7.5&lt;/a&gt; is now available, the next maintenance release of Python 3.7. &amp;nbsp;You can find the release files, a link to the changelog, and more information here:&lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-375/"&gt;https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-375/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Note that the next feature release of Python 3, Python &lt;a href="https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-380/" target="_blank"&gt;3.8.0&lt;/a&gt;, is also now available. &amp;nbsp;Python 3.8 contains many new features and optimizations. You should consider upgrading to it. We plan to continue regular &lt;b&gt;bugfix releases&lt;/b&gt; of Python 3.7.x through &lt;b&gt;mid-year 2020&lt;/b&gt; and provide &lt;b&gt;security fixes&lt;/b&gt; for it until &lt;b&gt;mid-year 2023&lt;/b&gt;. &amp;nbsp;More details are available in &lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0537/" target="_blank"&gt;PEP 537&lt;/a&gt;, the Python 3.7 Release Schedule (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0537/).&lt;/div&gt;
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Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! &amp;nbsp;Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through organization contributions to the Python Software Foundation.&lt;/div&gt;
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On behalf of the Python development community and the Python 3.8 release team, I’m pleased to announce &lt;strong&gt;the availability of Python 3.8.0&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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Python 3.8.0 is the newest feature release of the Python language, 
and it contains many new features and optimizations. You can find Python
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Most third-party distributors of Python should be making 3.8.0 packages available soon.&lt;br /&gt;
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See the “&lt;a href="https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;What’s New in Python 3.8&lt;span class="badge badge-notification clicks" title="10 clicks"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;”
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Maintenance releases for the 3.8 series will follow at regular bi-monthly intervals starting in December of 2019.&lt;br /&gt;
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We hope you enjoy Python 3.8!&lt;/h3&gt;
Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Python 3.8.0 is &lt;b&gt;almost&lt;/b&gt; ready. After a rather tumultuous few days, we are very happy to announce the availability of the release candidate: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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This release, &lt;strong&gt;3.8.0rc1&lt;/strong&gt;, is the final planned release preview.  Assuming no critical problems are found prior to &lt;strong&gt;2019-10-14&lt;/strong&gt;, the scheduled release date for 3.8.0, no code changes are planned between this release candidate and the final release.&lt;br /&gt;
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Please keep in mind that this is not the gold release yet and as such its use is &lt;strong&gt;not&lt;/strong&gt; recommended for production environments&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Major new features of the 3.8 series, compared to 3.7&lt;/h2&gt;
Some of the new major new features and changes in Python 3.8 are:&lt;br /&gt;

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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/"&gt;PEP 572&lt;/a&gt;, Assignment expressions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0570/"&gt;PEP 570&lt;/a&gt;, Positional-only arguments&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0587/"&gt;PEP 587&lt;/a&gt;, Python Initialization Configuration (improved embedding)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0590/"&gt;PEP 590&lt;/a&gt;, Vectorcall: a fast calling protocol for CPython&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0578"&gt;PEP 578&lt;/a&gt;, Runtime audit hooks&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0574"&gt;PEP 574&lt;/a&gt;, Pickle protocol 5 with out-of-band data&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Typing-related: &lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0591"&gt;PEP 591&lt;/a&gt; (Final qualifier), &lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0586"&gt;PEP 586&lt;/a&gt; (Literal types), and &lt;a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0589"&gt;PEP 589&lt;/a&gt; (TypedDict)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Parallel filesystem cache for compiled bytecode&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Debug builds share ABI as release builds&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;f-strings support a handy &lt;code&gt;=&lt;/code&gt; specifier for debugging&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;continue&lt;/code&gt; is now legal in &lt;code&gt;finally:&lt;/code&gt; blocks&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;on Windows, the default &lt;code&gt;asyncio&lt;/code&gt; event loop is now &lt;code&gt;ProactorEventLoop&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;on macOS, the &lt;em&gt;spawn&lt;/em&gt; start method is now used by default in &lt;code&gt;multiprocessing&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;multiprocessing&lt;/code&gt; can now use shared memory segments to avoid pickling costs between processes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;typed_ast&lt;/code&gt; is merged back to CPython&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;LOAD_GLOBAL&lt;/code&gt; is now 40% faster&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;code&gt;pickle&lt;/code&gt; now uses Protocol 4 by default, improving performance&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;small&gt;(Hey, &lt;strong&gt;fellow core developer,&lt;/strong&gt; if a feature you find important is missing from this list, &lt;a href="mailto:lukasz@python.org"&gt;let Łukasz know&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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