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Released: March 19, 2024
This is a security release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.19, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.12 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.12.x here. Security content in this …
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This is a security release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.19, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.12 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.12.x here. Security content in this …
Released: June 3, 2011
Python 2.6 is now in security-fix-only mode; no new features are being added, …
This is a security release of Python 3.10 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.10.14, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.10 series. Python 3.12 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.12.x here. Security content in this …
Released: Dec. 6, 2022
This is a security release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.16, a security 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. Security content in this …
...Python 3 will be the only major version of CPython that is actively maintained for bugs and security issues. Users are urged to migrate to a supported version of Python 3 in order to benefit from its many improvements, as well as to avoid potential security vulnerabilities in Python 2.x after April 2020. For the current status of Python 3 versions, see https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches. Users of commercial Python distributions and commercial applications that embed a Pytho...
Python 2.6.7 Release Python 2.6.7 Python 2.6.7 has been replaced by a newer security-fix only source release of Python. Please download Python 2.6.8 instead. Python 2.6.7 is a security-fix only source release for Python 2.6.6, fixing several reported security issues. Python 2.6.7 was released on June 3, 2011. The last binary release of Python 2.6 was 2.6.6. Python 2.6 is now in security-fix-only mode; no new features are being added, and no new bug fix releases are planned. We intend to ...
Released: Sept. 6, 2022
Note: The release you are looking at is a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.7 series which has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. See the downloads page for currently supported versions of Python. The final source-only security fix release for 3.7 was 3.7.17. Please see …
...Python 2.4.1 will be released later this month containing the same fix. Patches for Python 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 are also immediately available:</p> <ul> <li> <a href="/files/news/security/PSF-2005-001/patch-2.2.txt" >http://python.org/files/news/security/PSF-2005-001/patch-2.2.txt</a> (Python 2.2) <li> <a href="/files/news/security/PSF-2005-001/patch.txt" >http://python.org/files/news/security/PSF-2005-001/patch.txt</a> (Python 2.3...
...python.org/issue27266) [9]Application level vs library level design decisions (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/security-sig/2016-June/000057.html) [10]Does the HAVE_GETRANDOM_SYSCALL config setting make sense? (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/security-sig/2016-June/000060.html) [11]Take a decision for os.urandom() in Python 3.6 (https://mail.python.org/pipermail/security-sig/2016-August/000084.htm) For additional background details beyond those captured in this PEP and Victo...
This is a security release of Python 3.9 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.9.16, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.9 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here. Security content in this …
Released: Oct. 11, 2022
...security issue PEP 456: Secure and interchangeable hash algorithm Importing the random module creates an instance of random.Random: random._inst. On Python 3.5, random.Random constructor reads 2500 bytes from os.urandom() to seed a Mersenne Twister RNG (random number generator). Other platforms may be affected by this bug, but in practice, only Linux systems use Python scripts to initialize the system. Status in Python 3.5.2 Python 3.5.2 behaves like Python 2.7 and Python 3.4. If the system u...
Released: April 10, 2012
Released: Aug. 17, 2020
Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.7.9, the final bugfix/security release with binary installers for the legacy 3.7 series which has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported. See the downloads page for currently supported versions of Python. The final source-only security fix release for …
Python 2.6.8 Release Python 2.6.8 Python 2.6.8 has been replaced by a newer security-fix source-only release. Please download Python 2.6.9 instead. Python 2.6.8 is a security-fix source-only release for Python 2.6.7, fixing several reported security issues: issue 13703 (oCERT-2011-003, CVE-2012-1150, hash collision denial of service), issue 14234 (CVE-2012-0876, pyexpat hash randomization), issue 14001 (CVE-2012-0845, SimpleXMLRPCServer denial of service), and issue 13885 (CVE-2011-3389, di...
Python 2.3.6 Release Python 2.3.6 We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.3.6 (FINAL), a bugfix release of Python 2.3, on November 1, 2006. Important: 2.3.6 includes a security fix (PSF-2006-001) for the repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4) Python 2.3 is now well and truly in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added, and only security critical bugs have been fixed. There are 3 bugs fixed in this release - a problem with the email package's handling of...
Released: Dec. 11, 2019
Note Python 3.8 is now released and is the latest feature release of Python 3. Get the latest release of 3.8.x here. Python 3.6.10rc1 is the release candidate preview of the next security fix release of Python 3.6. Python 3.6.8 was the final bugfix release for 3.6. Python 3.6 …
Released: Nov. 1, 2006
Python 2.3 is now well and truly in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added, and only security critical bugs have been fixed. There are 3 bugs fixed in this release - a problem with the …
...Security Considerations Feature: environment based configuration Feature detection Specification Example implementation Security Considerations Interaction with Python virtual environments Reference Implementation Backporting this PEP to earlier Python versions Feature detection Specification Example implementation Security Considerations Interaction with Python virtual environments Backporting PEP 476 to earlier Python versions Feature detection Recommended modifications to the Python sta...