Python 3.14.0 beta 3 is here!

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 and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to support the new feature release.

We strongly encourage maintainers of third-party Python projects to test with 3.14 during the beta phase and report issues found to the Python bug tracker as soon as possible. While the release is planned to be feature-complete entering the beta phase, it is possible that features may be modified or, in rare cases, deleted up until the start of the release candidate phase (Tuesday 2025-07-22). Our goal is to have no ABI changes after beta 4 and as few code changes as possible after the first release candidate. To achieve that, it will be extremely important to get as much exposure for 3.14 as possible during the beta phase.

This includes creating pre-release wheels for 3.14, as it helps other projects to do their own testing. However, we recommend that your regular production releases wait until 3.14.0rc1, to avoid the risk of ABI breaks.

Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and its use is not recommended for production environments.

Major new features of the 3.14 series, compared to 3.13

Some of the major new features and changes in Python 3.14 are:

New features

Note that PEPs 734 and 779 are exceptionally new in beta 3!

• PEP 779: Free-threaded Python is officially supported
• PEP 649: The evaluation of type annotations is now deferred, improving the semantics of using annotations.
• PEP 750: Template string literals (t-strings) for custom string processing, using the familiar syntax of f-strings.
• PEP 734: Multiple interpreters in the stdlib.
• PEP 784: A new module compression.zstd providing support for the Zstandard compression algorithm.
• PEP 758: except and except* expressions may now omit the brackets.
• Syntax highlighting in PyREPL, and support for color in unittest, argparse, json and calendar CLIs.
• PEP 768: A zero-overhead external debugger interface for CPython.
• UUID versions 6-8 are now supported by the uuid module, and generation of versions 3-5 and 8 are up to 40% faster.
• PEP 765: Disallow return/break/continue that exit a finally block.
• PEP 741: An improved C API for configuring Python.
• A new type of interpreter. For certain newer compilers, this interpreter provides significantly better performance. Opt-in for now, requires building from source.
• Improved error messages.
• Builtin implementation of HMAC with formally verified code from the HACL* project.
• A new command-line interface to inspect running Python processes using asynchronous tasks.
• The pdb module now supports remote attaching to a running Python process.

(Hey, fellow core developer, if a feature you find important is missing from this list, let Hugo know.)

For more details on the changes to Python 3.14, see What’s new in Python 3.14. The next pre-release of Python 3.14 will be the final beta, 3.14.0b4, scheduled for 2025-07-08.

Build changes

• PEP 761: Python 3.14 and onwards no longer provides PGP signatures for release artifacts. Instead, Sigstore is recommended for verifiers.
• Official macOS and Windows release binaries include an experimental JIT compiler.

Incompatible changes, removals and new deprecations

• Incompatible changes
• Python removals and deprecations
• C API removals and deprecations
• Overview of all pending deprecations

Python install manager

The installer we offer for Windows is being replaced by our new install manager, which can be installed from the Windows Store or our FTP page. See our documentation for more information. The JSON file available for download below contains the list of all the installable packages available as part of this release, including file URLs and hashes, but is not required to install the latest release. The traditional installer will remain available throughout the 3.14 and 3.15 releases.

More resources

• Online documentation
• PEP 745, 3.14 Release Schedule
• Report bugs at github.com/python/cpython/issues
• Help fund Python and its community

And now for something completely different

If you’re heading out to sea, remember the Maritime Approximation:

π mph = e knots

Enjoy the new release

Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through organisation contributions to the Python Software Foundation.

Regards from sunny Helsinki with 19 hours of daylight,

Your release team,
Hugo van Kemenade
Ned Deily
Steve Dower
Łukasz Langa

Python 3.13.5 is now available!

When I was younger we would call this a brown paper bag release, but actually, we shouldn’t hide from our mistakes. We’re only human. So, please enjoy:

Python 3.13.5

 

 https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3135/

 

This is the fifth 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. 3.13.5 is the fifth maintenance release of 3.13.

3.13.5 is an expedited release to fix a couple of significant issues with the 3.13.4 release:

• gh-135151: Building extension modules on Windows for the regular (non-free-threaded) build failed.
• gh-135171: Generator expressions stopped raising TypeError (when iterating over non-iterable objects) at creation time, delaying it to first use.
• gh-135326: Passing int-like objects (like numpy.int64) to random.getrandbits() failed, when it worked before.

Several other bug fixes (which would otherwise have waited until the next release) are also included. Special thanks to everyone who worked hard the last couple of days to fix these issues as quickly as possible.

Full Changelog

More resources

• Online Documentation
• PEP 719, 3.13 Release Schedule (not that you’ll find this release on there yet.)
• Report bugs via GitHub.
• Help fund Python directly (or via GitHub Sponsors), and support the Python community.

 

Stay safe and upgrade!

As always, upgrading is highly recommended to all users of 3.13.

 

Enjoy the new releases

Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through organization contributions to the Python Software Foundation.

Regards from hey, it’s us again, your release team,
Thomas Wouters
Ned Deily
Steve Dower
Łukasz Langa

Python 3.13.4, 3.12.11, 3.11.13, 3.10.18 and 3.9.23 are now available

 

Python Release Party

It was only meant to be release day for 3.13.4 today, but poor number 13 looked so lonely… And hey, we had a couple of tarfile CVEs that we had to fix. So most of the Release Managers and all the Developers-in-Residence (including Security Developer-in-Residence Seth Michael Larson) came together to make it a full release party.

Security content in these releases

• gh-135034: Fixes multiple issues that allowed tarfile extraction filters (filter="data" and filter="tar") to be bypassed using crafted symlinks and hard links.Addresses CVE 2024-12718, CVE 2025-4138, CVE 2025-4330, and CVE 2025-4517.
• gh-133767: Fix use-after-free in the “unicode-escape” decoder with a non-“strict” error handler.
• gh-128840: Short-circuit the processing of long IPv6 addresses early in ipaddress to prevent excessive memory consumption and a minor denial-of-service.

In addition to the security fixed mentioned above, a few additional changes to the ipaddress were backported to make the security fixes feasible. (See the full changelogs for each release for more details.)

Python 3.13.4

In addition to the security fixes, the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.13 contains more than 300 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes.

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3134/

Python 3.12.11

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-31211/

Python 3.11.13

 https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-31113/

Python 3.10.18

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-31018/

 

Python 3.9.23

Additional security content in this release (already fixed in older releases for the other versions):

• gh-80222: Fix bug in the folding of quoted strings when flattening an email message using a modern email policy. Previously when a quoted string was folded so that it spanned more than one line, the surrounding quotes and internal escapes would be omitted. This could theoretically be used to spoof header lines using a carefully constructed quoted string if the resulting rendered email was transmitted or re-parsed.

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3923

Stay safe and upgrade!

As always, upgrading is highly recommended to all users of affected versions.

Enjoy the new releases

Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through organization contributions to the Python Software Foundation.

Regards from your very tired tireless release team,
Thomas Wouters
Pablo Galindo Salgado
Łukasz Langa
Ned Deily
Steve Dower