Release date: Oct. 21, 2026

This is a the ninth maintenance release of Python 3.14

Python 3.14.9 is an expedited security release and the ninth maintenance release of 3.14, containing around 168 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes from 74 contributors since 3.15.0.

Security content in this release

This release upgrades the bundled pip to version 26.2.2, which includes certifi 2026.10.19 to address the eMudhra / emSign CA certificate security incident.

See the Discourse announcement for more information.

For all existing virtual environments on your system, please upgrade pip and uv to the latest versions.

To upgrade pip securely within a virtualenv:

python -m pip install "pip @ https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3f/06/3e4420302363fbb71be3c7f35ce042f54bfca330e3e66b3a2e3c4cca579f/pip-26.2.2-py3-none-any.whl#sha256=fd7f4dfa8190e014013b9f08f3e973f4e4c26ffd179a204895533a7254813a70"

If you cannot immediately upgrade to this release, you can upgrade certificates for a macOS installation and pip itself via:

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.14/bin/python3.14 -m pip install "pip @ https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3f/06/3e4420302363fbb71be3c7f35ce042f54bfca330e3e66b3a2e3c4cca579f/pip-26.2.2-py3-none-any.whl#sha256=fd7f4dfa8190e014013b9f08f3e973f4e4c26ffd179a204895533a7254813a70"

/Library/Frameworks/PythonT.framework/Versions/3.14/bin/python3.14t -m pip install "pip @ https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/3f/06/3e4420302363fbb71be3c7f35ce042f54bfca330e3e66b3a2e3c4cca579f/pip-26.2.2-py3-none-any.whl#sha256=fd7f4dfa8190e014013b9f08f3e973f4e4c26ffd179a204895533a7254813a70"

Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13

Some of the major new features and changes in Python 3.14 are:

New features

• PEP 779: Free-threaded Python is officially supported
• PEP 649: The evaluation of annotations is now deferred, improving the semantics of using annotations.
• PEP 750: Template string literals (t-strings) for custom string processing, using the familiar syntax of f-strings.
• PEP 734: Multiple interpreters in the stdlib.
• PEP 784: A new module compression.zstd providing support for the Zstandard compression algorithm.
• PEP 758: except and except* expressions may now omit the brackets.
• Syntax highlighting in PyREPL, and support for color in unittest, argparse, json and calendar CLIs.
• PEP 768: A zero-overhead external debugger interface for CPython.
• UUID versions 6-8 are now supported by the uuid module, and generation of versions 3-5 are up to 40% faster.
• PEP 765: Disallow return/break/continue that exit a finally block.
• PEP 741: An improved C API for configuring Python.
• A new type of interpreter. For certain newer compilers, this interpreter provides significantly better performance. Opt-in for now, requires building from source.
• Improved error messages.
• Builtin implementation of HMAC with formally verified code from the HACL* project.
• A new command-line interface to inspect running Python processes using asynchronous tasks.
• The pdb module now supports remote attaching to a running Python process.

For more details on the changes to Python 3.14, see What’s new in Python 3.14.

Build changes

• PEP 761: Python 3.14 and onwards no longer provides PGP signatures for release artifacts. Instead, Sigstore is recommended for verifiers.
• Official macOS and Windows release binaries include an experimental JIT compiler.
• Official Android binary releases are now available.

Incompatible changes, removals and new deprecations

• Incompatible changes
• Python removals and deprecations
• C API removals and deprecations
• Overview of all pending deprecations

Python install manager

The installer we offer for Windows is being replaced by our new install manager, which can be installed from the Windows Store or from its download page. See our documentation for more information. The JSON file available for download contains the list of all the installable packages available as part of this release, including file URLs and hashes, but is not required to install the latest release. The traditional installer will remain available throughout the 3.14 and 3.15 releases.

macOS 27.0 IDLE and tkinter

The macOS installer for this release is built with a pre-release of Tk, fixing a possible hang on macOS 27.0 in applications using tkinter, like IDLE, in older releases.

More resources

• Online documentation
• PEP 745, 3.14 Release Schedule
• Report bugs at github.com/python/cpython/issues
• Help fund Python directly (or via GitHub Sponsors) and support the Python community

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.

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