[RELEASE] Python 3.9.1 is now available, together with 3.10.0a3 and 3.8.7rc1

[Terry Reedy]

On 12/7/2020 8:33 PM, Pablo Galindo Salgado wrote:
> It's starting to get very cold (at least on the Northern hemisphere) so we
> have been carefully packaging a total of three new Python releases to keep
> you warm these days!
> 
> Python 3.9.1 is the first maintenance release of Python 3.9, and also the
> first version of Python to support macOS 11 Big Sur natively on Apple
> Silicon. Go get it here:
> 
> https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-391/

On my Windows 10 machine, only test_locale failed.
https://bugs.python.org/issue37945
has not come to a conclusion yet.

> Maintenance releases for the 3.9 series will continue at regular bi-monthly
> intervals, with **3.9.2** planned for Monday, 2021-02-08.
> 
> Python 3.10a3 is the third alpha release of Python 3.10. You can get it
> here:
> 
> https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3100a3/

test_os test_pydoc test_webbrowser also fail for me

> Python 3.10a3 is the release preview of the next maintenance release of

This should be 3.8.7rc1 ...

> Python 3.8. You can get it here:
> 
> https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-387rc1/

test_compileall also fails for me

> Assuming no critical problems are found prior to **2020-12-21** , the
> currently scheduled release date for **3.8.7** , no code changes are
> planned between this release candidate and the final release. That being
> said, please keep in mind that this is a pre-release of 3.8.7 and as such
> its main purpose is testing
-- 
Terry Jan Reedy