[RELEASE] The second Python 3.11 beta (3.11.0b2) is available

[Pablo Galindo Salgado]

Does anyone want bug fixes? Because we have 164 new commits fixing
different things, from code to documentation. If you have reported some
issue after 3.11.0b1, you should check if is fixed and if not, make sure
you tell us so we can take a look. We still have two more betas to go so
help us to make sure we don't miss anything so everything is ready for the
final release!!

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3110b2/

## This is a beta preview of Python  3.11

Python 3.11 is still in development. 3.11.0b2 is the second of four planned
beta release previews. 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.

We **strongly encourage** maintainers of third-party Python projects to
**test with 3.11** during the beta phase and report issues found to [the
Python bug tracker](https://github.com/python/cpython/issues) 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 (Monday,
2021-08-02).  Our goal is to have no ABI changes after beta 4 and as few
code changes as possible after 3.11.0rc1, the first release candidate.  To
achieve that, it will be **extremely important** to get as much exposure
for 3.11 as possible during the beta phase.

Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and its use is **not**
recommended for production environments.

# Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10

Many new features for Python 3.11 are still being planned and written.
Among the new major new features and changes so far:

* [PEP 657](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0657/) -- Include
Fine-Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks
* [PEP 654](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0654/) -- Exception Groups
and except*
* [PEP 673](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0673/)  -- Self Type
* [PEP 646](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0646/)-- Variadic Generics
* [PEP 680](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0680/)-- tomllib: Support
for Parsing TOML in the Standard Library
* [PEP 675](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0675/)-- Arbitrary Literal
String Type
* [PEP 655](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0655/)-- Marking individual
TypedDict items as required or potentially-missing
* [PEP 681](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0681/)-- Data Class
Transforms
* [bpo-46752](https://bugs.python.org/issue46752)-- Introduce task groups
to asyncio
* [bpo-433030](https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/34627/) -- Atomic
grouping ((?>...)) and possessive quantifiers (`*+, ++, ?+, {m,n}+`) are
now supported in regular expressions.
* The [Faster Cpython Project](https://github.com/faster-cpython/) is
already yielding some exciting results. Python 3.11 is up to 10-60% faster
than Python 3.10. On average, we measured a 1.22x speedup on the standard
benchmark suite. See [Faster CPython](
https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html#faster-cpython) for details.
* <small>(Hey, **fellow core developer,** if a feature you find important
is missing from this list, [let Pablo know](mailto:pablogsal at python.org
).)</small>

The next pre-release of Python 3.11 will be 3.11.0b3, currently scheduled
for Thursday, 2022-06-16.

# More resources

* [Online Documentation](https://docs.python.org/3.11/)
* [PEP 664](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0664/), 3.11 Release
Schedule
* Report bugs at [https://bugs.python.org](https://bugs.python.org).
* [Help fund Python and its community](/psf/donations/).

# And now for something completely different

The Planck time is the time required for light to travel a distance of 1
Planck length in a vacuum, which is a time interval of approximately
`5.39*10^(−44)` s. No current physical theory can describe timescales
shorter than the Planck time, such as the earliest events after the Big
Bang, and it is conjectured that the structure of time breaks down on
intervals comparable to the Planck time. While there is currently no known
way to measure time intervals on the scale of the Planck time, researchers
in 2020 found that the accuracy of an atomic clock is constrained by
quantum effects on the order of the Planck time, and for the most precise
atomic clocks thus far they calculated that such effects have been ruled
out to around `10^−33` s, or 10 orders of magnitude above the Planck scale.

# We hope you 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.

https://www.python.org/psf/

Regards from sunny London,
Pablo Galindo Salgado