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It’s the final 3.15 release candidate!
python.org/downloads/release/python-3150rc2
This is a candidate preview of Python 3.15
This release, 3.15.0rc2, is the final planned release candidate, containing around 144 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes from 76 contributors since 3.15.0rc1. Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between this release candidate and the final release.
The next release of Python 3.15 will be 3.15.0 final, scheduled for 2026-10-01.
There will be no ABI changes from this point forward in the 3.15 series, and the goal is that there will be as few code changes as possible.
Call to action
We strongly encourage maintainers of third-party Python projects to prepare their projects for 3.15 during this phase, and publish Python 3.15 wheels on PyPI to be ready for the final release of 3.15.0, and to help other projects do their own testing. Any binary wheels built against Python 3.15.0 release candidates will work with future versions of Python 3.15. As always, report any issues to
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Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and while it’s as close to the final release as we can get it, its use is not recommended for production environments.
Core team: time to work on documentation now
Are all your changes properly documented?
Are they mentioned in
?
Did you notice other changes with insufficient documentation?
Major new features of the 3.15 series, compared to 3.14
Some of the major new features and changes in Python 3.15 are:
: Explicit lazy imports for faster startup times
: Add frozendict built-in type
: Add sentinel built-in type
: A dedicated profiling package for organizing Python profiling tools
: Tachyon: High frequency statistical sampling profiler
: Frame pointers are enabled by default for improved system-level observability
: Unpacking in comprehensions
: Python now uses UTF-8 as the default encoding
: Package startup configuration files
: TypedDict with typed extra items
: Annotating type forms with TypeForm
: Disjoint bases in the type system
: A new PyBytesWriter C API to create a Python bytes object
: Stable ABI for free-threaded builds and related C API
The
has been significantly upgraded, with 8-9% geometric mean performance improvement on x86-64 Linux over the standard interpreter, and 12-13% speedup on AArch64 macOS over the tail-calling interpreter
The official Windows 64-bit binaries now
use the tail-calling interpreter
The official macOS binaries now install free-threading support by default
(Hey, fellow core team member, if a feature you find important is missing from this list, let Hugo know.)
For more details on the changes to Python 3.15, see
.
More resources
, 3.15 release schedule
Report bugs at
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues
(or via
) and support
And now for something completely different
“When they reached Circe’s house they found it built of cut stones, on a site that could be seen from far, in the middle of the forest. There were wild mountain wolves and lions prowling all round it—poor bewitched creatures whom she had tamed by her enchantments and drugged into subjection. They did not attack my men, but wagged their great tails, fawned upon them, and rubbed their noses lovingly against them. As hounds crowd round their master when they see him coming from dinner—for they know he will bring them something—even so did these wolves and lions with their great claws fawn upon my men, but the men were terribly frightened at seeing such strange creatures.
“Presently they reached the gates of the goddess’s house, and as they stood there they could hear Circe within, singing most beautifully as she worked at her loom, making a web so fine, so soft, and of such dazzling colours as no one but a goddess could weave. On this Polites, whom I valued and trusted more than any other of my men, said, ‘There is some one inside working at a loom and singing most beautifully; the whole place resounds with it, let us call her and see whether she is woman or goddess.’”
Enjoy the new release
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Regards from Helsinki, looking forward to Aveiro and
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Your release team,
Hugo van Kemenade
Ned Deily
Steve Dower
Łukasz Langa