Lots of Python releases for Cybersecurity Awareness Month

This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, I made seven Python releases, when two were originally planned for October.

Altogether, we made 16 Python releases, when five were originally planned. Of the extra releases, only 3.15.0rc3 was not a security release.

The releases #

• 3.16.0a1
• 3.15.2
• 3.15.1
• 3.15.0
• 3.15.0rc3
• 3.14.10
• 3.14.9
• 3.14.8
• 3.13.18
• 3.13.17
• 3.13.16
• 3.12.16
• 3.12.15
• 3.11.18
• 3.11.17
• 3.10.22

Announcements #

• 1 October: Python 3.10.22, 3.11.17, 3.12.15, 3.13.16 and 3.14.8 are now available!
• 2 October: Python 3.15.0 candidate 3 is here!
• 9 October: Python 3.15.0 (final) is here!
• 13 October: Python 3.16.0 alpha 1 is now available
• 21 October: Python 3.15.1, 3.14.9 and 3.13.17 are out
• 26 October: Python 3.15.2, 3.14.10, 3.13.18, 3.12.16 and 3.11.18 are out

Thanks #

Huge thanks to the Sovereign Tech Agency’s Fellowship for supporting my work on all these releases.

Also thanks to the other release managers Savannah Ostrowski (3.16), Thomas Wouters (3.12 and 3.13) and Pablo Galindo Salgado (3.10 and 3.11), to Ned Deily for the all macOS builds, and to Seth Larson for helping coordinate all this security.

Header image: Computer Security Awareness Day, 1990, from the National Library of Medicine, no known copyright restrictions.