Hugo van Kemenade

Heard the first blackbird of spring this morning!
https://luontoportti.com/en/t/554/blackbird

I made a thing: here's the upcoming Python releases.
https://hugovk.github.io/next-release/
Oh, look, there's one today! I hope that's out soon...
#Python #dashboard #next #release

Interesting post from @stanfromireland@mastodon.social with an annotated chart showing the growth CPython's source code over the decades:
https://blog.python.org/2026/03/cpython-codebase-growth/
#Python #CPython #history

Please welcome the newest member to the CPython core team, Itamar Oren!

https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-itamar-oren/106078

https://hugovk.github.io/python-core-team/by-year.html

#Python #CPython #CoreTeam

I’m happy to announce that the Steering Council has approved my proposal to hold the next Language Summit at @europython@fosstodon.org 2026 and then alternate with @pycon@fosstodon.org US!

The EuroPython Society plan to announce the location and date in the new year, stay tuned.

https://discuss.python.org/t/language-summit-at-europython-2026/105355

https://ep2026.europython.eu

#Python #LanguageSummit #EuroPython

Congratulations to the new Python Steering Council!

🗳️ Barry Warsaw @pumpichank@mastodon.social (6th term)
🗳️ Donghee Na @dongheena@fosstodon.org (2nd)
🗳️ Pablo Galindo Salgado (6th)
🗳️ Savannah Ostrowski @savannah@fosstodon.org (1st)
🗳️ Thomas Wouters @Yhg1s@social.coop (6th)

https://discuss.python.org/t/steering-council-election-results-2026-term/105296

Welcome @savannah@fosstodon.org for the first time and thank you to @gpshead@infosec.exchange and Emily Morehouse for your 4 and 3 years' service each!

Fun fact: four members have been or are release managers 🚀

https://hugovk.dev/blog/2025/steering-council-election/

#Python #SteeringCouncil #PythonSteeringCouncil

Who would like Rust in CPython 3.15?

@emmatyping@hachyderm.io and Kirill Podoprigora "propose introducing the Rust programming language to CPython. Rust will initially only be allowed for writing optional extension modules, but eventually will become a required dependency of CPython and allowed to be used throughout the CPython code base."

https://discuss.python.org/t/pre-pep-rust-for-cpython/104906

#Python #Python315 #CPython #Rust

Let's all give a shout out (and a follow) to the new @ThePSF@fosstodon.org Fellows!

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/announcing-python-software-foundation.html

Thank you for all you do for us! 🥂

🎉 Abhijeet Mote

🎉 Abigail Afi Gbadago

🎉 Becky Smith @rebkwok@mastodon.scot

🎉 Christopher Bailey @digiglean@fosstodon.org

🎉 Dawn Wages @BajoranEngineer@mastodon.online

🎉 Leah Wasser @leahawasser@fosstodon.org

🎉 Maaya Ishida

🎉 Mason Egger @masonegger@fosstodon.org

🎉 Miguel Grinberg @miguelgrinberg@mstdn.social

🎉 William Vincent @wsvincent@fosstodon.org

@ThePSF@fosstodon.org

#Python #PSF #PSFFellows

Watching the #Python documentary under the stars in Athens! Thank you #PyConGreece and #CultRepo!

Python 3.14:

We'll make the next release candidate (rc2) this Thursday, two weeks early, and add a rc3 on 2025-09-16.

We fixed a code generation bug that required the "magic number" to be increased for rc2. This means .pyc files compiled by rc1 can't be used in rc2 and will be recompiled.

The ABI isn't changing, and wheels built for rc1 should still work for rc2, rc3 and 3.14.x, but it's better to get this out for testing sooner.

https://discuss.python.org/t/early-3-14-0-rc2-and-extra-rc3/102151

#Python #CPython #Python314 #release

🐍 The nominations are in for the 2025 Python steering council!

🗳️ Barry Warsaw @pumpichank@mastodon.social
🗳️ Donghee Na @dongheena@fosstodon.org
🗳️ Emily Morehouse
🗳️ Ethan Furman
🗳️ Gregory P. Smith @gpshead@infosec.exchange
🗳️ Mariatta @mariatta@fosstodon.org
🗳️ Pablo Galindo Salgado
🗳️ Thomas Wouters @Yhg1s@social.coop

Read their statements at https://peps.python.org/pep-8106/

And we have a record 99 eligible voters this time, the previous max was 96 for the first SC election in 2019. Voting opens on Monday for two weeks.

#Python #CPython #SteeringCouncil #PEP8106 #election

Thanks to @Monorepo@fosstodon.org, there's now an RSS feed of recent Python releases:

https://www.python.org/downloads/feed.rss

#Python #RSS #releases #feed

🚀🧵🐍 Big thanks to @lysnikolaou@fosstodon.org of Quansight Labs for helping us get @pillow@fosstodon.org ready for free-threaded Python 3.13 (we did some work at the @europython@fosstodon.org sprints).

See https://labs.quansight.org/blog/free-threaded-python-rollout and https://py-free-threading.github.io to learn more.

We also upload nightly free-threaded (cp313t) wheels to help the community test:
https://anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/pillow/

And we'll upload them to PyPI as part of the Q3 release in October.

#Python #Python313 #PEP703 #FreeThreaded #EuroPython #EuroPython2024