In-case yesterday's mail got flagged as spam due to being sent from Google
Forms directly to the mailing list (which made it show up marked
"suspicious" even on my end):
I sent out an attendance survey for the CPython Core Dev Sprint this
October 3-7, 2022: https://forms.gle/j5baU9GTQtXpQE578
Please be sure to reply if you haven't already.
-gps
Python 3.11.0 is almost ready. This release, 3.11.0rc1, is the penultimate
release preview. You can get it here:
## This is the first release candidate of Python 3.11
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3110rc1/
This release, **3.11.0rc1**, is the penultimate release preview. 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
second candidate and the last planned release preview is currently planned
for Monday, 2022-09-05 while the official release is planned for Monday,
2022-10-03.
There will be no ABI changes from this point forward in the 3.11 series and
the goal is that there will be as few code changes as possible.
## Call to action
#### Core developers: all eyes on the docs now
* Are all your changes properly documented?
* Did you notice other changes you know of to have insufficient
documentation?
#### Community members
We strongly encourage maintainers of third-party Python projects to prepare
their projects for 3.11 compatibilities during this phase. As always,
report any issues to [the Python bug tracker ](https://github.com/issues).
Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and its use is **not**
recommended for production environments.
# Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10
Some of the new major new features and changes in Python 3.11 are:
## General changes
* [PEP 657](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0657/) -- Include
Fine-Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks
* [PEP 654](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0654/) -- Exception Groups
and `except*`
* [PEP 680](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0680/) -- tomllib: Support
for Parsing TOML in the Standard Library
* [gh-90908](https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/90908) -- Introduce
task groups to asyncio
* [gh-34627](https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/34627/) -- Atomic
grouping (`(?>...)`) and possessive quantifiers (`*+, ++, ?+, {m,n}+`) are
now supported in regular expressions.
* The [Faster CPython Project](https://github.com/faster-cpython/) is
already yielding some exciting results. Python 3.11 is up to 10-60% faster
than Python 3.10. On average, we measured a 1.22x speedup on the standard
benchmark suite. See [Faster CPython](
https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html#faster-cpython) for details.
## Typing and typing language changes
* [PEP 673](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0673/) -- Self Type
* [PEP 646](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0646/) -- Variadic Generics
* [PEP 675](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0675/) -- Arbitrary Literal
String Type
* [PEP 655](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0655/) -- Marking
individual TypedDict items as required or potentially-missing
* [PEP 681](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0681/) -- Data Class
Transforms
<small>(Hey, **fellow core developer,** if a feature you find important is
missing from this list, [let Pablo know](mailto:pablogsal@python.org
).)</small>
The next pre-release of Python 3.11 will be 3.11.0rc2, currently scheduled
for Monday, 2022-09-05.
# More resources
* [Online Documentation](https://docs.python.org/3.11/)
* [PEP 664](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0664/), 3.11 Release
Schedule
* Report bugs at [
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues](https://github.com/python/cpython…
.
* [Help fund Python and its community](/psf/donations/).
# And now for something completely different
A quark star is a hypothetical type of compact, exotic star, where
extremely high core temperature and pressure have forced nuclear particles
to form quark matter, a continuous state of matter consisting of free
quarks.
Some massive stars collapse to form neutron stars at the end of their life
cycle, as has been both observed and explained theoretically. Under the
extreme temperatures and pressures inside neutron stars, the neutrons are
normally kept apart by degeneracy pressure, stabilizing the star and
hindering further gravitational collapse. However, it is hypothesized that
under even more extreme temperature and pressure, the degeneracy pressure
of the neutrons is overcome, and the neutrons are forced to merge and
dissolve into their constituent quarks, creating an ultra-dense phase of
quark matter based on densely packed quarks. In this state, a new
equilibrium is supposed to emerge, as a new degeneracy pressure between the
quarks, as well as repulsive electromagnetic forces, will occur and hinder
total gravitational collapse.
If these ideas are correct, quark stars might occur, and be observable,
somewhere in the universe. Theoretically, such a scenario is seen as
scientifically plausible, but it has been impossible to prove both
observationally and experimentally because the very extreme conditions
needed for stabilizing quark matter cannot be created in any laboratory nor
observed directly in nature. The stability of quark matter, and hence the
existence of quark stars, is for these reasons among the unsolved problems
in physics.
# We hope you enjoy the new releases!
Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and
these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by
volunteering yourself or through organization contributions to the Python
Software Foundation.
https://www.python.org/psf/
If you have any questions, please reach out to me or another member of the
release team :)
Your friendly release team,
Ned Deily @nad https://discuss.python.org/u/nad
Steve Dower @steve.dower https://discuss.python.org/u/steve.dower
Pablo Galindo Salgado @pablogsal https://discuss.python.org/u/pablogsal
Here you have a nice package of 200 commits of bugfixes and documentation
improvements freshly made for Python 3.10. Go and download it when is still
hot:
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3106/
## This is the sixth maintenance release of Python 3.10
Python 3.10.6 is the newest major release of the Python programming
language, and it contains many new features and optimizations.
# Major new features of the 3.10 series, compared to 3.9
Among the new major new features and changes so far:
* [PEP 623](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0623/) -- Deprecate and
prepare for the removal of the wstr member in PyUnicodeObject.
* [PEP 604](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0604/) -- Allow writing
union types as X | Y
* [PEP 612](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0612/) -- Parameter
Specification Variables
* [PEP 626](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0626/) -- Precise line
numbers for debugging and other tools.
* [PEP 618 ](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0618/) -- Add Optional
Length-Checking To zip.
* [bpo-12782](https://bugs.python.org/issue12782): Parenthesized context
managers are now officially allowed.
* [PEP 632 ](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0632/) -- Deprecate
distutils module.
* [PEP 613 ](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0613/) -- Explicit Type
Aliases
* [PEP 634 ](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0634/) -- Structural
Pattern Matching: Specification
* [PEP 635 ](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0635/) -- Structural
Pattern Matching: Motivation and Rationale
* [PEP 636 ](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0636/) -- Structural
Pattern Matching: Tutorial
* [PEP 644 ](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0644/) -- Require OpenSSL
1.1.1 or newer
* [PEP 624 ](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0624/) -- Remove
Py_UNICODE encoder APIs
* [PEP 597 ](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0597/) -- Add optional
EncodingWarning
[bpo-38605](https://bugs.python.org/issue38605): `from __future__ import
annotations` ([PEP 563](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0563/)) used to
be on this list
in previous pre-releases but it has been postponed to Python 3.11 due to
some compatibility concerns. You can read the Steering Council
communication about it [here](
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/thread/CLVXXPQ2…)
to learn more.
# More resources
* [Changelog](https://docs.python.org/3.10/whatsnew/changelog.html#changelog
)
* [Online Documentation](https://docs.python.org/3.10/)
* [PEP 619](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0619/), 3.10 Release
Schedule
* Report bugs at [https://bugs.python.org](https://bugs.python.org).
* [Help fund Python and its community](/psf/donations/).
# And now for something completely different
A pentaquark is a human-made subatomic particle, consisting of four quarks
and one antiquark bound together; they are not known to occur naturally or
exist outside of experiments to create them. As quarks have a baryon number
of (+1/3), and antiquarks of (−1/3), the pentaquark would have a total
baryon number of 1 and thus would be a baryon. Further, because it has five
quarks instead of the usual three found in regular baryons (a.k.a.
'triquarks'), it is classified as an exotic baryon. The name pentaquark was
coined by Claude Gignoux et al. (1987) and Harry J. Lipkin in 1987;
however, the possibility of five-quark particles was identified as early as
1964 when Murray Gell-Mann first postulated the existence of quarks.
Although predicted for decades, pentaquarks proved surprisingly tricky to
discover and some physicists were beginning to suspect that an unknown law
of nature prevented their production.
# We hope you enjoy the new releases!
Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and
these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by
volunteering yourself or through organization contributions to the Python
Software Foundation.
https://www.python.org/psf/
Your friendly release team,
Ned Deily @nad https://discuss.python.org/u/nad
Steve Dower @steve.dower https://discuss.python.org/u/steve.dower
Pablo Galindo Salgado @pablogsal https://discuss.python.org/u/pablogsal