Hi everyone,

An update on this. Unfortunately, we are still blocked. Some of the blockers have been fixed (thanks to everyone involved) but the following are still pending:

This issue has a PR being reviewed but the fix is still not merged.

* https://bugs.python.org/issue46006

Victor made a revert of his PR but unfortunately, we cannot easily backport it to 3.10 as it affects the ABI. It affects the interpreter state structure that although is not on the stable ABI, changing it can affect some projects so we need to discuss how we want to proceed as a project here.

* https://bugs.python.org/issue46263

One of the FreeBSD issues has been fixed (thanks Christian) but another issue has been unveiled (some problem in test_capi) and the other one still lingers (test_embed failing due to freezing modules).

Thanks for all your help,

Kind regards from cloudy London,

Pablo Galindo Salgado

On Tue, 4 Jan 2022 at 23:12, Pablo Galindo Salgado <pablogsal@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am writing this to notify you that unfortunately the release of 3.11.0a4 is blocked as there are a bunch of release blockers
(some of them affect Python 3.10):

https://bugs.python.org/issue46263
https://bugs.python.org/issue46208
https://bugs.python.org/issue46006
https://bugs.python.org/issue43683

If this was a single release blocker I would think about moving forward but unfortunately, there are several of them and one of
them is that Python fails to compile FreeBSD, so I am halting the release until these are fixed.

Regards from rainy London,
Pablo Galindo Salgado