Abstract

This document describes the development and release schedule forPython 3.7. The schedule primarily concerns itself with PEP-sizeditems.

Release Manager and Crew

• 3.7 Release Manager: Ned Deily
• Windows installers: Steve Dower
• Mac installers: Ned Deily
• Documentation: Julien Palard

3.7 Lifespan

3.7 will receivebugfix updatesapproximately every 3 months for about 24 months. Sometime after the release of3.8.0 final, a final 3.7 bugfix update will be released.After that, it is expected thatsecurity updates(source only) will be released as needed until 5 years afterthe release of 3.7 final, so until approximately 2023-06.

As of 2023-06-27, 3.7 has reached theend-of-life phaseof its release cycle. 3.7.17 was the final security release. The code base for3.7 is now frozen and no further updates will be provided nor issues of anykind will be accepted on the bug tracker.

Release Schedule

Features for 3.7

Implemented PEPs for 3.7 (as of 3.7.0 beta 1):

• PEP 538, Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 based locale
• PEP 539, A New C-API for Thread-Local Storage in CPython
• PEP 540,UTF-8 mode
• PEP 552, Deterministicpyc
• PEP 553, Built-in breakpoint()
• PEP 557, Data Classes
• PEP 560, Core support for typing module and generic types
• PEP 562, Module__getattr__ and__dir__
• PEP 563, Postponed Evaluation of Annotations
• PEP 564, Time functions with nanosecond resolution
• PEP 565, Show DeprecationWarning in __main__
• PEP 567, Context Variables

Copyright

This document has been placed in the public domain.