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Two weeks until Python 3.15.0 final!
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September 17, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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One week until Python 3.15.0 final!!
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What are you most looking forward to?
docs.python.org/3.15/whatsne...

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September 22, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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Nice use of @pablogsal.com & co's new statistical profiler in Python 3.15!

#Python #Python315 #Tachyon
henryiii.bsky.social Henry Schreiner @henryiii.bsky.social · Jan 9
On behalf of the packaging maintainers, I’d like to announce packaging 26.0rc1 is out! Please try it out, as it's a huge release. If you'd like to read about the performance work making this the fastest version of packaging ever, see my post:
iscinumpy.dev/post/packagi...
How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster
Along with a pip (and now packaging) maintainer, Damian Shaw, I have been working on making packaging, the library behind almost all packaging related tools, faster at reading versions and specifiers,...
iscinumpy.dev
January 9, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Forget about Python 3.14* and 3.15†, Python 3.16 is here‡!

* Please don't, please upgrade
† Please don't, please test
‡ Open for new features in just two months

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February 23, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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🐍📰 Python 3.15 Preview: Upgraded JIT Compiler realpython.com/python315-ji...
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July 1, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Here's how to join the cool testers' club! 😎

hugovk.dev/blog/2026/he...

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September 1, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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The Steering Council has accepted PEP 810 (explicit lazy imports) for Python 3.15!

discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-ex...

#Python #PEP810 #LazyImports #lazy #Python315
PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports
Dear PEP 810 authors. The Steering Council is happy to unanimously[1] accept “PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports”. Congratulations! We appreciate the way you were able to build on and improve the previ...
discuss.python.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Python 3.14.5 release candidate is out now! Please test!

blog.python.org/2026/05/pyth...

Next up, 3.15 beta 1 tomorrow.

#Python #Python314 #Python315 #release
Python 3.14.5 release candidate | Python Insider
A special release candidate with a new (old) garbage collector.
blog.python.org
May 4, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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🐍📰 Python 3.15 Preview: frozendict realpython.com/python315-fr...
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September 21, 2026 at 2:14 PM
hugovk.dev
Just as importantly!

After two years, it's now time to ceremoniously hand over the `main` branch to @savannah.dev!

`main` is now accepting new features for Python 3.16, and I bet it's going to be even better than 3.15.

peps.python.org/pep-0826/
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May 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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New post on the Python Insider blog from Ken Jin:

"Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track"

blog.python.org/2026/03/jit-...
#Python #JIT #performance #python315
Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track | Python Insider
A look at Python's JIT in 3.15a7.
blog.python.org
March 23, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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Less than one week to:

🥧 Python 3.14 beta! The feature freeze marks 5 months of stabilisation. Please test!

peps.python.org/pep-0745/

🕒 Forget 3.14 (please don't, please test), Python 3.15 development begins! Check out the new release PEP:

peps.python.org/pep-0790/

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PEP 790 – Python 3.15 Release Schedule | peps.python.org
This document describes the development and release schedule for Python 3.15.
peps.python.org
April 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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New releases!

🐍 Python 3.15.0a8!
🐍 Python 3.14.4!
🐍 Python 3.13.3!
🖼️ Pillow 12.2.0!

blog.python.org/2026/04/pyth...
pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/re...

⚠️ This is the final 3.15 alpha: only 4 weeks until the feature freeze! 🧊

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Python 3.15.0a8, 3.14.4 and 3.13.13 are out! | Python Insider
A final alpha and two bug fixes are awaiting your upgrade.
blog.python.org
April 8, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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🗞️ We're going to revert the incremental garbage collector in Python 3.14 and 3.15. See here for details: discuss.python.org/t/reverting-...
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Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15
Python 3.14 shipped with a new incremental garbage collector. However, we’ve had a number of reports of significant memory pressure in production environments. We’ve decided to revert it in both…
discuss.python.org
April 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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Coming soon to Python 3.15: frozendict

The Steering Council has just accepted @vstinner.bsky.social and @corona10.bsky.social's PEP 814 "Add frozendict built-in type".

discuss.python.org/t/pep-814-ad...

peps.python.org/pep-0814/

#Python #PEP814 #frozendict #Python315
PEP 814: Add frozendict built-in type
After careful deliberation, the Python Steering Council is pleased to accept PEP 814 – Add frozendict built-in type. The absence of an immutable dict counterpart has been a long-standing gap in Pytho...
discuss.python.org
February 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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🐍🚀 Out now: Python 3.15 beta 1!

🧊 This is the feature freeze, and now it's *your* turn to test out all the amazing things we've been baking for the past 12 months!

discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...

Please report bugs, we'll fix before the big October release.

#Python #Python315 #release
discuss.python.org
May 7, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Who would like Rust in CPython 3.15?

@emmatyping.dev and Kirill Podoprigora propose:

"Rust will initially only be allowed for writing optional extension modules, but eventually will become a required dependency of CPython..."

discuss.python.org/t/pre-pep-ru...

#Python #Python315 #CPython #Rust
Pre-PEP: Rust for CPython
Introduction We (@emmatyping, @eclips4) propose introducing the Rust programming language to CPython. Rust will initially only be allowed for writing optional extension modules, but eventually will be...
discuss.python.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
hugovk.dev
Using the new Tachyon profiler coming to Python 3.15 I profiled a one-liner to find a bottleneck, and sped up some 26-year-old code in @pillow.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy!

hugovk.dev/blog/2026/fa...

#Python #python315 #Tachyon #Pillow #PythonPillow #performance
Speeding up Pillow's open and save
hugovk.dev
January 28, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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3️⃣ Three weeks until Python 3.15 feature freeze!

hugovk.dev/next-release/

Get yer PEPs'n'PRs in!

discuss.python.org/t/three-week...
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April 14, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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🐍🚀 Out now: final Python 3.15 release candidate!

😎 It's your last chance to help before the big day on 1st Oct!

How?

💡 Try out new features
💡 Test your project
💡 Add 3.15 to your CI
💡 Library maintainer? Upload wheels
🐞 Report bugs!

discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...

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Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here!
It’s the final 3.15 release candidate! This is a candidate preview of Python 3.15 This release, 3.15.0rc2, is the final planned candidate release, containing around 144 bugfixes, build improvement...
discuss.python.org
September 1, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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🐍📰 Python 3.15 Preview: UTF-8 by Default realpython.com/python315-ut...
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September 2, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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The Steering Council accepted @pablogsal.com's PEP 799!

New `profiling` module:

* `tracing`: deterministic function-call tracing (moved from cProfile)
* `sampling`: new statistical sampling profiler

Old `profile` deprecated

discuss.python.org/t/pep-799-a-...
#Python #profiling #PEP799 #Python315
PEP 799 – A dedicated profilers package for organizing Python profiling tool
Hi everyone, This is a straightforward structural proposal: PEP 799 introduces a new profilers standard library module to house Python’s built-in profilers under a single, coherent namespace. It: ...
discuss.python.org
August 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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🧊 One ~~eek~~ week until 3.15 feature freeze! 🧊

hugovk.dev/next-release/

At least 1 PEP still being implemented, 4 needing docs, and 5 awaiting a Steering Council decision.

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April 28, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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Forget* about Python 3.14, the cool kids are on 3.15.0a1! 🚀

🔬 Dedicated profiling package for Python profiling tools
💬 UTF-8 as default encoding
🌊 New C API to create bytes object
⚠️ Better error messages

discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...

* Don't forget about 3.14

#Python #Python315 #release
Python 3.15 alpha 1
This is an early developer preview of Python 3.15 Major new features of the 3.15 series, compared to 3.14 Python 3.15 is still in development. This release, 3.15.0a1, is the first of seven planned ...
discuss.python.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Do you know your regular expressions in Python? Do you know the unusual thing re.match() does? Or what soft deprecation is? I've written about the changes coming up in Python 3.15 to help clear things up a bit.

hugovk.dev/blog/2026/so...

#Python #python315 #SoftDeprecation #regex
Soft-deprecating re.match()
hugovk.dev
September 10, 2026 at 4:36 PM