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PEP: 664
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Title: Python 3.11 Release Schedule
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Author: Pablo Galindo Salgado <pablogsal@python.org>
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Status: Active
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Type: Informational
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Topic: Release
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Created: 12-Jul-2021
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Python-Version: 3.11
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Abstract
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========
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This document describes the development and release schedule for
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Python 3.11. The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized
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items.
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.. Small features may be added up to the first beta
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release. Bugs may be fixed until the final release,
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which is planned for October 2022.
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Release Manager and Crew
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========================
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- 3.11 Release Manager: Pablo Galindo Salgado
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- Windows installers: Steve Dower
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- Mac installers: Ned Deily
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- Documentation: Julien Palard
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Release Schedule
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================
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3.11.0 schedule
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---------------
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Note: the dates below use a 17-month development period that results
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in a 12-month release cadence between feature versions, as defined by
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:pep:`602`.
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Actual:
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- 3.11 development begins: Monday, 2021-05-03
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- 3.11.0 alpha 1: Tuesday, 2021-10-05
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- 3.11.0 alpha 2: Tuesday, 2021-11-02
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- 3.11.0 alpha 3: Wednesday, 2021-12-08
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- 3.11.0 alpha 4: Friday, 2022-01-14
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- 3.11.0 alpha 5: Thursday, 2022-02-03
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- 3.11.0 alpha 6: Monday, 2022-03-07
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- 3.11.0 alpha 7: Tuesday, 2022-04-05
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- 3.11.0 beta 1: Sunday, 2022-05-08
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(No new features beyond this point.)
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- 3.11.0 beta 2: Tuesday, 2022-05-31
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- 3.11.0 beta 3: Wednesday, 2022-06-01
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- 3.11.0 beta 4: Monday, 2022-07-11
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- 3.11.0 beta 5: Tuesday, 2022-07-26
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- 3.11.0 candidate 1: Monday, 2022-08-08
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- 3.11.0 candidate 2: Monday, 2022-09-12
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- 3.11.0 final: Monday, 2022-10-24
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Bugfix releases
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---------------
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Actual:
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- 3.11.1: Tuesday, 2022-12-06
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- 3.11.2: Wednesday, 2023-02-08
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- 3.11.3: Wednesday, 2023-04-05
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- 3.11.4: Tuesday, 2023-06-06
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- 3.11.5: Thursday, 2023-08-24
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- 3.11.6: Monday, 2023-10-02
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- 3.11.7: Monday, 2023-12-04
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- 3.11.8: Tuesday, 2024-02-06
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- 3.11.9: Tuesday, 2024-04-02 (final regular bugfix release with binary
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installers)
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Source-only security fix releases
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Provided irregularly on an "as-needed" basis until October 2027.
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- 3.11.10: Saturday, 2024-09-07
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3.11 Lifespan
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3.11 will receive bugfix updates approximately every 2 months for
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approximately 18 months. Some time after the release of 3.12.0 final,
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the ninth and final 3.11 bugfix update will be released. After that,
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it is expected that security updates (source only) will be released
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until 5 years after the release of 3.11.0 final, so until approximately
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October 2027.
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Features for 3.11
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=================
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Some of the notable features of Python 3.11 include:
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* :pep:`654`, Exception Groups and ``except*``.
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* :pep:`657`, Enhanced error locations in tracebacks.
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* :pep:`680`, Support for parsing TOML in the standard library
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* Python 3.11 is up to 10-60% faster than Python 3.10. On average, we measured
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a 1.25x speedup on the standard benchmark suite. See `Faster CPython
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<https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html#faster-cpython>`__ for
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details.
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Typing features:
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* :pep:`646`, Variadic generics.
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* :pep:`655`, Marking individual TypedDict items as required or potentially-missing.
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* :pep:`673`, Self type.
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* :pep:`675`, Arbitrary literal string type.
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* :pep:`681`, Dataclass transforms
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Copyright
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=========
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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