On behalf of the Twisted contributors I announce the release candidate of Twisted 25.5.0. The main reason for this release is the added support to WebSocket via the wsproto[1]. Thanks Glyph for this great feature. The release and NEWS file is available for review at https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/12449 Release candidate documentation is available at https://twisted--12449.org.readthedocs.build/en/12449/ Wheels for the release candidate are available on PyPI python -m pip install Twisted==25.05.0rc1 Please test it and report any issues here on GitHub PR If nothing comes up in the next few days, 25.05.0 will be released based on the latest release candidate. I would like to use this opportunity and thank https://thinkst.com/ and https://www.sftpplus.com/ for the ongoing financial support. Regards [1] https://github.com/python-hyper/wsproto/ -- Adi Roiban