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• Python 2.3

  Python 2.3 Python 2.3 Note: See Python 2.3.5 for a patch release release which supersedes earlier releases of 2.3. 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 2.3, there's a patch available from the security advisory page. Important: 2.3....

• Release – Python 3.13.1

  Version: None

  Released: Dec. 3, 2024

  This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.1 is the latest maintenance release, containing almost 400 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since …

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• Release – Python 3.14.3

  Version: None

  Released: Feb. 3, 2026

  This is 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 changes …

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• Release – Python 3.14.4

  Version: None

  Released: April 7, 2026

  This is fourth maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.4 is the fourth maintenance release of 3.14, containing around 337 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.14.3. 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 3.14.1

  Version: None

  Released: Dec. 2, 2025

  This is the first maintenance release of Python 3.14 Python 3.14.1 is the first maintenance release of 3.14, containing around 558 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.14.0. Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13 Some of the major new features and …

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• Release – Python 2.4.6

  Version: None

  Released: Dec. 19, 2008

  This release includes just a small number of fixes, primarily preventing crashes of the interpreter in certain boundary cases. This is the last planned release in the Python 2.4 series. We have decided not to include binaries for Windows or OS X in this release, nor to update …

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• Release – Python 3.8.2rc1

  Version: None

  Released: Feb. 10, 2020

  This is the release candidate of Python 3.8.2, the second maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.2rc1, 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 …

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• Release – Python 3.8.3

  Version: None

  Released: May 13, 2020

  This is the third maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.3, 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. Major new …

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• Release – Python 3.8.4rc1

  Version: None

  Released: June 30, 2020

  This is the release candidate of the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.4rc1, 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 …

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• Release – Python 3.8.6

  Version: None

  Released: Sept. 24, 2020

  This is the sixth maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.6, 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. Major new …

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• Release – Python 3.8.8

  Version: None

  Released: Feb. 19, 2021

  This is the eight maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.8, 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. 3.8.8 introduces …

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• Release – Python 3.13.0

  Version: None

  Released: Oct. 7, 2024

  This is the stable release of Python 3.13.0 Python 3.13.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. (Compared to the last release candidate, 3.13.0rc3, 3.13.0 contains two small bug fixes and some documentation and …

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• Bugs in Python 2.3.3

  ...build"><h4>Build bugs</h4></a> <p>Some platforms require some tinkering to get a clean build of Python. These bugs were all discovered at a point where it was too late to fit them into 2.3.2. They should hopefully be fixed in a 2.3.3 release. <ul> <li>Some sort of weird dynamic linker error causes dbmmodule to fail on OSF/1 5.1, at least on the HP test machines. <li>It has been reported that untarring the source tarball using Solaris tar or HP/U...

• Python 2.4.6 Release

  ...build your own binaries from the sources, or (better) upgrade to a more recent Python release for which we still do provide binaries and documentation updates. See the detailed release notes for more details. For the previous release (2.4.5), we received various reports that the this release may fail to build on current operating systems, in particular on OS X. We have made no attempt to fix these problems, as the release is targeted for systems that were current at the time Python 2.4 was origi...

• Job - AI/ML Systems Engineer (1 month contract)

  Location: Remote, NY USA

  Telecommuting: Yes

  OPF is hiring a contract engineer to run the data collection phase of an emissions measurement study comparing edge versus cloud LLM inference across multi-modal AI workloads. The methodology is being designed by external advisors with prior published work on AI carbon measurement; the engineer's role is to implement that …

• Release – Python 3.14.2

  Version: None

  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 …

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• Release – Python 3.14.5

  Version: None

  Released: May 10, 2026

  Python 3.14.5 final is the fifth maintenance release of 3.14, containing around 154 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.14.4. Garbage collector Notably, the garbage collector (GC) has changed in Python 3.14.5. The incremental garbage collector shipped in Python 3.14.0-3.14.4 has been reverted back to the …

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• Python Success Stories

  ...building J2EE applications. While Java is a great language for building a large web presence with persistent data, many aspects of our development would quickly become unmanageable and prohibitively expensive using Java alone. Python and Jython are used instead for many of the day to day integration tasks and the large amount of data "cleaning" that are required to provide customers with a user-friendly interface. Green Screens The travel industry is much like the financial industry ...

• Release – Python 2.4.5

  Version: None

  Released: March 11, 2008

  Python 2.4 is now in security-fix-only mode. No new features are being added, and bugs are not fixed anymore unless they affect the stability and security of the interpreter, or of Python applications. This release includes just a small number of fixes, primarily preventing crashes of the interpreter in …

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• Release – Python 3.8.2rc2

  Version: None

  Released: Feb. 17, 2020

  This is the second release candidate of Python 3.8.2, the second maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.2rc2, 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 …

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