Upgrades

• CPython 3.15.0a5 -> 3.15.0a6
• pip 26.0 -> 26.0.1

Distribution changes

• Python 3.15 on Windows is built with tail-calling for improved performance.
• multiprocessing.Queue.qsize is now implemented on cross-compiled Linux distributions.

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Upgrades

• CPython 3.14.2 -> 3.14.3
• CPython 3.13.11 -> 3.13.12
• pip 25.3 -> 26.0

Build system changes

• Action added to allow publishing version metadata to another repository for future use inuv.

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Upgrades

• OpenSSL 3.5.4 -> 3.5.5

Distribution changes

• Fix int types in_tkinter for Python 3.10 (likely no user-visible change)

Build system changes

• Add the ability to run the build process with Visual Studio 2026
• Add the ability to run the build process with Python 3.14+ (remove dangling symlinks in the internal archive of bzip2)

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Upgrades

• CPython 3.15.0a4 -> 3.15.0a5

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Upgrades

• CPython 3.15.0a3 -> 3.15.0a4
• Tcl/Tk 8.6.14 -> 9.0.3

Note: the change to the Tcl/Tk version also includes a changes to the name of the dynamic libraries included in the distribution, e.g. libtcl8.6.so -> libtcl9.0.so.

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Upgrades

• CPython 3.15.0a2 -> 3.15.0a3

Build system changes

• The script used to start the build is now namedbuild.py use,uv run build.py ... to start a build on all platforms.
• LLVM 21 is used to build all distribution, including those which target musl.

Distribution changes

• The startup logic (getpath) to better locate the install when invoked with an incorrect argv[0] was expanded to Python 3.11+

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Distribution changes

• Correctly setinstall_name for macOSlibpython
• Fix dropped tcl/tk patch on Python 3.14+

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Upgrades

• CPython 3.13.10 -> 3.13.11
• CPython 3.14.1 -> 3.14.2

Distribution changes

• Patch Python startup logic (getpath) to better locate the install when invoked through a symlink or incorrect argv[0] (#896)

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Upgrades

• CPython 3.13.9 -> 3.13.10
• CPython 3.14.0 -> 3.14.1

Build system changes

• Linux aarch64 targets can be built on macOS using Docker
• uv can be used to bootstrap the build using ./build-uv.py. Existing pip-based bootstrapping will be removed in a future release.

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Upgrades

• xz 5.2.12 -> 5.8.1
• CPython 3.15.0a1 -> 3.15.0a2

Note that this is the first release that does not include Python 3.9 as it hasreached end of life.

Distribution changes

• Dependencies are built with compiler optimization for improved performance.
• MSCV runtime DLLs are no longer stripped on windows.

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