Python Enhancement Proposals

PEP 537 – Python 3.7 Release Schedule

PEP
537
Title
Python 3.7 Release Schedule
Author
Ned Deily <nad at python.org>
Status
Active
Type
Informational
Created
23-Dec-2016
Python-Version
3.7
Contents

Abstract

This document describes the development and release schedule for Python 3.7. The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sized items.

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 schedule

  • 3.7.13 final: 2022-03-16

3.7.14 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

Source: https://github.com/python-discord/peps/blob/main/pep-0537.txt

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