2026

Following tradition, a surprise rc3!

Security updates across Python 3.10–3.14, the final maintenance release of 3.13, and a farewell to Python 3.10.

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 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.

Michael J. Sullivan presents PEP 827 and discusses a key design decision: how to store type annotations?

Tobias Wrigstad, Fridtjof Stoldt, and Donghee Na propose a safe and performant, high-level concurrency model for free-threaded Python

Petr Viktorin gives an update on the Developer-in-Residence role and asks Python core developers for projects to prioritize

Kushal Das shows off Spicycrab, a Python-to-Rust transpiler for Python users who need performance without learning Rust or leaving Python

David Hewitt shares a status update, first module, and potential acceptance criteria for the Rust for CPython project

Hood Chatham proposes memory snapshots and an initialization phase for speedier Python startups

Nathan Goldbaum proposes safe concurrent access through buffer leases and custom data types for the Python Buffer Protocol.

Mark Shannon proposes a future garbage collection strategy for Python following the revert of the incremental garbage collector in Python 3.14

Ned Deily weighs whether Python should continue shipping macOS installers

Pablo Galindo Salgado proposes a top-level `std` namespace for the Python standard library to prevent module shadowing and free up module names.

You can now read the Python documentation online in German!

Last chance to test before the big day!

I’m happy to announce that RISC-V platforms are now officially supported by CPython. 🎉 🚀

Announcing the 17 nominees for the inaugural Python Packaging Council election, and how to vote in the election.

Python Releases Eclipse Your Security! New security releases for 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12 are now available.

A pair of bug fix releases await your upgrade.

Get those wheels rolling!

The inaugural Python Packaging Council election nomination period opens on Tuesday, July 28th, 2:00 pm UTC and closes on Tuesday, August 11th, 2:00 pm UTC.

The final 3.15 beta is out!

A new Python Packaging Council (PPC) is being established, with their election of the inaugural PPC will be held in parallel to the 2026 PSF Board election.

Vulnerability mitigated in python.org with follow-up third-party audit from Trail of Bits

The penultimate 3.15 beta is out!

A pair of bug fix releases await your upgrade.

The antepenultimate 3.15 beta is out!

A special release with a new (old) garbage collector.

The propreantepenultimate 3.15 beta is out!

A special release candidate with a new (old) garbage collector.

Rust for CPython project status update April 2026

A final alpha and two bug fixes are awaiting your upgrade.

A look at Python's JIT in 3.15a7.

The penultimate 3.15 alpha is out!

An analysis of the growth of CPython's codebase from its first commits to the present day

Python Releases For Your Security! New security releases for 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12 are now available.

Python Insider now lives at blog.python.org, backed by a Git repository. All 307 posts from the Blogger era have been migrated, and old URLs redirect automatically.

The Python Security Response Team now has an approved public governance document (PEP 811) and is welcoming new members.

This is an early developer preview of Python 3.15 www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3150a6/ Major new features of the 3.15 series, compared to 3.14 Pyt...

Python 3.14.3 is now available! This is third maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.3 is the third maintenance release of 3.14, containing around ...

Note: 3.15.0a4 was accidentally built against from 2025-12-23 instead of 2026-01-13, so this 3.15.0a5 is an extra release correctly built against 2026-01-14...

Edit: This 3.15.0a4 was accidentally built against \ from 2025-12-23 instead of 2026-01-13, so 3.15.0a5 is an extra release correctly built against 2026-01-1...