(Also known as the '圆4' architecture, and formerly known as both 'EM64T' and 'x86-64'.)

The binaries for AMD64 will also work on processors that implement the Intel 64 architecture.

There are many other interesting changes, please consult the 'What's New' page in the documentation for a full list.

pickle now uses Protocol 4 by default, improving performance.

multiprocessing can now use shared memory segments to avoid pickling costs between processes.

on macOS, the spawn start method is now used by default in multiprocessing.

on Windows, the default asyncio event loop is now ProactorEventLoop.

continue is now legal in finally: blocks.

f-strings support a handy = specifier for debugging.

Debug builds share ABI as release builds.

Parallel filesystem cache for compiled bytecode.

Typing-related: PEP 591 (Final qualifier), PEP 586 (Literal types), and PEP 589 (TypedDict).

PEP 574, Pickle protocol 5 with out-of-band data.

PEP 590, Vectorcall: a fast calling protocol for CPython.

PEP 587, Python Initialization Configuration (improved embedding).

Major new features of the 3.8 series, compared to 3.7 Take a look at the change log for details. This work would not have been possible without the effort of Ronald Oussoren, Ned Deily, Maxime Bélanger, and Lawrence D’Anna from Apple. But there's a bunch of important updates here regardless, the biggest being Big Sur and Apple Silicon build support. Version 3.7.8, the final regular bugfix release of Python 3.7, included 187 commits. Starting now, the 3.8 branch will only accept security fixes and releases of those will be made in source-only form until October 2024.Ĭompared to the 3.7 series, this last regular bugfix release is relatively dormant at 92 commits since 3.8.9. Get the latest release of 3.11.x here.Īccording to the release calendar specified in PEP 569, Python 3.8.10 is the final regular maintenance release. Python 3.11 is now the latest feature release series of Python 3.

Note: The release you're looking at is Python 3.8.10, a bugfix release for the legacy 3.8 series.

Release Date: This is the tenth and final regular maintenance release of Python 3.8

Win7 release date