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Released: Oct. 25, 2026
This is a security release of Python 3.13 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.13.18, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.13 series. Python 3.15 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.15.x here. This is …
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Python Software Foundation: Minutes of Board of Directors Meeting (May 11, 2004) The Python Software Foundation Minutes of Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors May 11, 2004 A regular meeting of the Python Software Foundation (the "PSF") Board of Directors was held over Internet Relay Chat at 17:00 GMT. Stephan Deibel presided at the meeting. 1. Attendance The following members of the Board of Directors were present at the meeting: Tim Peters, Guido van Rossum, Martin v. Löwis, Ste...
...versions of all software components Software identifiers (like CPE and Package URLs) Download URLs for source code with checksums File names and content checksums Dependency relationships between each component CPython SBOMs satisfy the requirements listed in the NTIA Minimum Elements for a Software Bill of Materials. Software identifiers can be used for correlating software in use to vulnerability databases like the CVE database and Open Source Vulnerability database (OSV), typically done auto...
Released: April 15, 2006
We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4.3 (final), a bugfix release of Python 2.4, on March 29, 2006. Python 2.4 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. At least 50 bugs have been squashed since Python 2.4.2, including a number …
Released: April 9, 2012
Note: A newer bugfix release, 2.7.4, is currently available. Its use is recommended over previous versions of 2.7. Python 2.7.3 was released on April 9, 2012. 2.7.3 includes fixes for several reported security issues in 2.7.2: issue 13703 (oCERT-2011-003, hash collision denial of service), issue 14234 (CVE-2012-0876, …
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 …
Released: Feb. 3, 2026
This is the third maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.3 is the third maintenance release of 3.14, containing around 299 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.14.2. Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Some of the major new features and …
Released: June 10, 2026
This is the sixth maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.6 is the sixth maintenance release of 3.14, containing around 179 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.14.5. Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Some of the major new features and …
Released: Aug. 5, 2026
This is the seventh maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.7 is the seventh maintenance release of 3.14, containing around 499 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes from 86 contributors since 3.14.6. Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Some of the major …
Released: Oct. 9, 2026
This is the stable release of Python 3.15.0 Python 3.15.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimisations compared to Python 3.14, in 5,643 commits from 1,012 contributors. Major new features of the 3.15 series, compared to …
Python Success Stories Introduction Development InfoStructure (devIS) is a small consulting firm in Arlington, Virginia that is well known for its work in the eGovernment sector. This includes development of small, medium, and large-scale systems. devIS EZ Reusable Objects (EZRO) is a content management system which can be used for many different kinds of websites, including traditional information presentation sites such as http://www.devis.com/, portals like http://www.milspouse.org/, train...
...versions of Python prior to 2.4a2 would leave a broken module in sys.modules - subsequent attempts to import the failing module would silently succeed, but use the broken module object. The import machinery now removes the failing module from sys.modules if the import fails. The -m command line option - python -m modulename will find a module in the standard library, and invoke it. For example, python -m pdb is equivalent to python /usr/lib/python2.4/pdb.py New or upgraded built-ins built-...
...versions of 2.7. Python 2.7.3 was released on April 9, 2012. 2.7.3 includes fixes for several reported security issues in 2.7.2: issue 13703 (oCERT-2011-003, hash collision denial of service), issue 14234 (CVE-2012-0876, hash table collisions CPU usage DoS in the expat library), issue 14001 (CVE-2012-0845, SimpleXMLRPCServer denial of service), and issue 13885 (CVE-2011-3389, disabling of the CBC IV attack countermeasure in the _ssl module). The Python 2.7 series is scheduled to be the last majo...
...versions of such dark background images. Arc Riley has expressed an intent to design copyright unrestricted version of font similar to the one used in our wordmark logo, which would be cool if it happens. Carl Trachte consulted committee to clarify use of Python logo in examples of SVG modification tools. He added good verbiage to his blog post letting readers know that such modified versions could not be used generally without permission of Trademarks Committee, while still producing a helpful...
Released: Oct. 14, 2002
Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001 "Buffer overrun in repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4)". This fix is included in Python 2.4.4 and Python 2.5. If you need to remain with Python 2.2, there's a patch available …
Released: April 4, 2023
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, 3.12.0a7 is the seventh and final alpha release of 3.12. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to …
Python 2.2.2 Python 2.2.2 Note: See Python 2.2.3 for a patch release which supersedes 2.2.2. Important: This release is vulnerable to the problem described in security advisory PSF-2006-001 "Buffer overrun in repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4)". This fix is included in Python 2.4.4 and Python 2.5. If you need to remain with Python 2.2, there's a patch available from the security advisory page. We are pleased to announce the release...
Python 2.4.1 - Bugs The Windows installer package required VBScripts. On systems which do not have VBScript available, installer will report an error 2738. On systems which have VBScript available, but in an insufficiently old version, installer will report an error 2262 (and log a DEBUG error 2896). In either case, please install Microsoft Windows Script from http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/list/webdev.asp The Windows installer will not add correct IDLE and PyDoc entries when the Python...
Bugs in Python 2.4.2 The Windows installer package required VBScripts. On systems which do not have VBScript available, installer will report an error 2738. On systems which have VBScript available, but in an insufficiently old version, installer will report an error 2262 (and log a DEBUG error 2896). In either case, please install Microsoft Windows Script from http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/list/webdev.asp The Windows installer will not add correct IDLE and PyDoc entries when the Pytho...
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