PEP: 537 Title: Python 3.7 Release Schedule Version: $Revision$ Last-Modified: $Date$ Author: Ned Deily Status: Active Type: Informational Content-Type: text/x-rst Created: 23-Dec-2016 Python-Version: 3.7 Abstract ======== This document describes the development and release schedule for Python 3.7. The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized items. .. Small features may be added up to the first beta release. Bugs may be fixed until the final release, which is planned for 2018-06. Release Manager and Crew ======================== - 3.7 Release Manager: Ned Deily - Windows installers: Steve Dower - Mac installers: Ned Deily - Documentation: Julien Palard 3.7 Lifespan ============ 3.7 will receive `bugfix updates `_ approximately every 3 months for about 24 months. Sometime after the release of 3.8.0 final, a final 3.7 bugfix update will be released. After that, it is expected that `security updates `_ (source only) will be released as needed until 5 years after the release of 3.7 final, so until approximately 2023-06. Release Schedule ================ 3.7.0 schedule -------------- - 3.7 development begins: 2016-09-12 - 3.7.0 alpha 1: 2017-09-19 - 3.7.0 alpha 2: 2017-10-17 - 3.7.0 alpha 3: 2017-12-05 - 3.7.0 alpha 4: 2018-01-09 - 3.7.0 beta 1: 2018-01-31 (No new features beyond this point.) - 3.7.0 beta 2: 2018-02-27 - 3.7.0 beta 3: 2018-03-29 - 3.7.0 beta 4: 2018-05-02 - 3.7.0 beta 5: 2018-05-30 - 3.7.0 candidate 1: 2018-06-12 - 3.7.0 final: 2018-06-27 3.7.1 schedule (first bugfix release) ------------------------------------- - 3.7.1 candidate 1: 2018-09-26 - 3.7.1 candidate 2: 2018-10-13 - 3.7.1 final: 2018-10-20 3.7.2 schedule -------------- - 3.7.2 candidate 1: 2018-12-11 - 3.7.2 final: 2018-12-24 3.7.3 schedule -------------- - 3.7.3 candidate 1: 2019-03-12 - 3.7.3 final: 2019-03-25 3.7.4 schedule -------------- - 3.7.4 candidate 1: 2019-06-18 - 3.7.4 candidate 2: 2019-07-02 - 3.7.4 final: 2019-07-08 3.7.5 schedule -------------- - 3.7.5 candidate 1: 2019-10-02 - 3.7.5 final: 2019-10-15 3.7.6 schedule -------------- - 3.7.6 candidate 1: 2019-12-11 - 3.7.6 final: 2019-12-18 3.7.7 schedule -------------- - 3.7.7 candidate 1: 2020-03-04 - 3.7.7 final: 2020-03-10 3.7.8 schedule (last bugfix release) ------------------------------------ Last planned release of binaries - 3.7.8 candidate 1: 2020-06-15 - 3.7.8 final: 2020-06-27 3.7.9 schedule (security/binary release) ---------------------------------------- Security fixes plus updated binary installers to address 3.7.8 issues; no further binary releases are planned. - 3.7.9 final: 2020-08-17 3.7.10 schedule --------------- - 3.7.10 final: 2021-02-15 3.7.11 schedule --------------- - 3.7.11 final: 2021-06-28 3.7.12 schedule --------------- - 3.7.12 final: 2021-09-04 3.7.13 and beyond schedule -------------------------- Security fixes only, as needed, until 2023-06 - TBD Features for 3.7 ================ Implemented PEPs for 3.7 (as of 3.7.0 beta 1): * :pep:`538`, Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 based locale * :pep:`539`, A New C-API for Thread-Local Storage in CPython * :pep:`540`, ``UTF-8`` mode * :pep:`552`, Deterministic ``pyc`` * :pep:`553`, Built-in breakpoint() * :pep:`557`, Data Classes * :pep:`560`, Core support for typing module and generic types * :pep:`562`, Module ``__getattr__`` and ``__dir__`` * :pep:`563`, Postponed Evaluation of Annotations * :pep:`564`, Time functions with nanosecond resolution * :pep:`565`, Show DeprecationWarning in __main__ * :pep:`567`, Context Variables Copyright ========= This document has been placed in the public domain. .. Local Variables: mode: indented-text indent-tabs-mode: nil sentence-end-double-space: t fill-column: 70 coding: utf-8 End: