Python 3.16.0 alpha 1 is now available

A brand new Python here for you to enjoy!

Following tradition, a surprise rc3!

Security updates across Python 3.10–3.14, the final maintenance release of 3.13, and a farewell to Python 3.10.

The 2026 Python Language Summit was hosted in Kraków, Poland as part of EuroPython 2026. There were 15 talks covering free-threading, Rust, garbage collection, type annotations, and more.

Lightning talks on a one-time ABI break, safer interruptions, EktuPy (Scratch but Python), an AGENTS.md file for CPython, and a call to read PEP 836.

Michael J. Sullivan presents PEP 827 and discusses a key design decision: how to store type annotations?

Tobias Wrigstad, Fridtjof Stoldt, and Donghee Na propose a safe and performant, high-level concurrency model for free-threaded Python

Petr Viktorin gives an update on the Developer-in-Residence role and asks Python core developers for projects to prioritize