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• Release – Python 3.9.0b4

  Version: None

  Released: July 3, 2020

  This is a beta preview of Python 3.9 Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0b4, is the fourth of five 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 …

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• Release – Python 3.9.0b5

  Version: None

  Released: July 20, 2020

  This is a beta preview of Python 3.9 Python 3.9 is still in development. This release, 3.9.0b5, is the last of five 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 …

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• Release – Python 3.9.0rc2

  Version: None

  Released: Sept. 17, 2020

  This is the second release candidate of Python 3.9 This release, 3.9.0rc2, is the last preview before the final release of Python 3.9.0 on 2020-10-05. In the mean time, we strongly encourage maintainers of third-party Python projects to prepare their projects for 3.9 compatibility during this phase. As always, …

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• Release – Python 3.8.9

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  Released: April 2, 2021

  This is the ninth maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.9, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. 3.8.9 is an expedited …

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• Release – Python 3.12.12

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  Released: Oct. 9, 2025

  This is a security release of Python 3.12 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.12.12, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.12 series. Python 3.14 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.14.x here. Security content in this …

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• Python 2.7.0 Release

  ...module Automatic numbering of fields in the str.format() method Float repr improvements backported from 3.x Tile support for Tkinter A backport of the memoryview object from 3.x Set literals Set and dictionary comprehensions Dictionary views New syntax for nested with statements The sysconfig module See these resources for further information: What's new in 2.7? Change log for this release. Online Documentation Report bugs at http://bugs.python.org. Help fund Python and its community. Downl...

• Python Software Foundation: Press Release 27-Dec-2004

  ...modules May be compiled to Java byte code for use in any JVM String and regular expression processing Extensive XML and web services support HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, NNTP, telnet, and other IP protocols HTML, MIME, base64, binhex, uuencode, and other internet data handling GUI development and multimedia services Unit testing, profiling, and documentation generation Available third party modules for database access, scientific computation, visualization, 3D modeling, image p...

• Release – Python 2.4.0

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  Released: Nov. 30, 2004

  We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4, final on November 30, 2004. This is a final, stable release, and we can recommend that Python users upgrade to this version. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in …

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• Release – Python 3.14.0b3

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  Released: June 17, 2025

  It's 3.14 beta 3! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b3/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b3, is the third of four planned beta releases. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and …

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• Release – Python 3.14.0

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  Released: Oct. 7, 2025

  This is the stable release of Python 3.14.0 Python 3.14.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimisations compared to Python 3.13. Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Some of the major new features and changes …

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• Release – Python 3.14.2

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  Released: Dec. 5, 2025

  This is the second maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.2 is the second maintenance release of 3.14, containing 18 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.14.1. This is an expedited release to fix the following regressions: gh-142206: Exceptions in multiprocessing in running programs while upgrading Python. gh-142214 …

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• Python 2.4

  ...modules, function decorators, generator expressions, a number of new modules (including subprocess, decimal and cookielib) and a host of bug fixes and other improvements. See the (subjective) highlights or the detailed release notes for more, or consult Andrew Kuchling's What's New In Python for a detailed view of some of the new features of Python 2.4. Please see the separate bugs page for known issues and the bug reporting procedure. Download the release Starting with the Python 2.4 releases...

• Release – Python 3.10.17

  Version: None

  Released: April 8, 2025

  This is a security release of Python 3.10 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.10.17, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.10 series. Python 3.13 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.13.x here. Security content in this …

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• Release – Python 3.11.12

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  Released: April 8, 2025

  This is a security release of Python 3.11 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.11.12, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.11 series. Python 3.13 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.13.x here. Security content in this …

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• Release – Python 3.12.0a2

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  Released: Nov. 15, 2022

  This is an early developer preview of Python 3.12. Major new features of the 3.12 series, compared to 3.11 Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0a2 is the second of seven planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state …

• Release – Python 3.14.0rc1

  Version: None

  Released: July 22, 2025

  It's the first 3.14 release candidate! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140rc1/ This is the first release candidate of Python 3.14 This release, 3.14.0rc1, is the penultimate release preview. Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between this release candidate and the final release. The …

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• Python Success Stories

  ...modules. These proved invaluable and were easy to use. The threading library turned out to be very important in scaling ForecastWatch.com's coverage to over 800 cities. Grabbing web pages is a very I/O bound process, and requesting a single page at a time for roughly 5000 web pages a day would have been prohibitively time-consuming. Using Python's threading library, the web page retrieval loop simply calls thread.start_new() for each request, passing in the necessary class instance method that r...

• Release – Python 3.5.4rc1

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  Released: July 25, 2017

  Python 3.5.4rc1 Python 3.5 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.5.10, the final release of the 3.5 series, is available here. Python 3.5.4rc1 was released on July 25th, 2017. Python 3.5.4 will be the last "bugfixes" release of 3.5. After 3.5.4 final is released, 3.5 will enter "security fixes only" mode, and …

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• Release – Python 3.5.4

  Version: None

  Released: Aug. 8, 2017

  Python 3.5.4 Python 3.5 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.5.10, the final release of the 3.5 series, is available here. Python 3.5.4 was released on August 8th, 2017. Python 3.5.4 is the last "bugfix" release of 3.5. The Python 3.5 branch has now entered "security fixes only" mode; going forward, the …

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• Release – Python 3.5.5rc1

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  Released: Jan. 23, 2018

  Python 3.5.5rc1 Python 3.5 has reached end-of-life. Python 3.5.10, the final release of the 3.5 series, is available here. Python 3.5.5rc1 was released on January 23rd, 2018. Python 3.5 has now entered "security fixes only" mode, and as such the only improvements between Python 3.5.4 and Python 3.5.5rc1 are security …

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