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Core Dispatch
Correction: April 7th is a TUESDAY! Releases on Tuesday!
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Core Dispatch
Core Dispatch #2 is in the works!
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📰 Core Dispatch #3 is out!
It was a busy two weeks for PEPs, leading up to beta 1 next week. 5 PEPs accepted, 2 rejected, an early 3.14.5 to land the incremental GC revert, and 3.15 beta 1 next Tuesday!
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📨 Core Dispatch #5 is out!
3.15 beta 2 just dropped 🎉, Python published an official security policy, and the EuroPython Language Summit lineup has been announced 👀.
All this, and more, in the edition!
coredispatch.xyz/editions/5 🐍
The SC accepted a PEP that establishes a new Packaging Council, the incremental GC is being reverted, Łukasz Langa is stepping down as Developer in Residence, Rust for CPython has a new progress update, four new PEPs — all this and more in this edition of Core Dispatch.
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Core Dispatch #1
New releases are slated to drop on Monday: 3.13.13, 3.14.4, and 3.15.0a8.
PEP 803 got accepted, so free-threaded builds will have a stable ABI.
Ken Jin also wrote up what's going on with the JIT in 3.15.
coredispatch.xyz/editions/1
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📰 Now that we're on the tail end of #PyConUS, Core Dispatch #4 is out!
3.15.0 beta 1 shipped, the main branch is open for 3.16, PEP 788 landed, free-threaded builds picked up thread-safe iterator support, and more.
Catch up on the last two weeks in CPython 👇
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Core Dispatch
Welcome back to Core Dispatch! This edition covers April 16–30, 2026.
Python 3.15.0 beta 1 is just around the corner (that's next week...but
who's counting?).…
Welcome back to Core Dispatch! This edition covers May 18 through June 4, 2026.
As promised, Python 3.15.0 beta 2 landed on June 2. Two more
milestones are…
Welcome back to Core Dispatch! This edition covers April 30 through May 18, 2026.
Python 3.15.0 beta 1 is officially here, which means CPython's `main` branch…
Core Dispatch #1
New releases are slated to drop on Monday: 3.13.13, 3.14.4, and 3.15.0a8.
PEP 803 got accepted, so free-threaded builds will have a stable ABI.
Ken Jin also wrote up what's going on with the JIT in 3.15.
coredispatch.xyz/editions/1
Core Dispatch
Got a cool Python core-related link, tool, talk, or quote? Submit it for the next edition of Core Dispatch.
Welcome back to Core Dispatch! This edition covers April 4–16, 2026,
and there's a lot going on. As expected, new releases are out
for 3.13, 3.14, and 3.15.…
