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Python 3.4.0 has been released today. Python 3.4 includes a range of improvements of the 3.x series, including hundreds of small improvements and bug fixes. ...

A new bugfix release, Python 3.3.5, has been issued to repair some regressions in Python 3.3.4.

The third release candidate for Python 3.4 has been released. You can also retrieve the source code using Mercurial from the http://hg.python.org/releasing/3...

The first release candidate for Python 3.4, Python 3.4.0rc1, has been issued on February 10 2014. This is a preview release of the next major release of Pyth...

A new maintenance release, Python 3.3.4, was released on February 9 2014. This release fully supports OS X 10.9 Mavericks. In particular, this release fixes ...

A new maintenance release, Python 3.3.3, has been released on November 13 2013.

A new maintenance release, Python 2.7.6, has been released on November 10 2013. This is a 2.7 series bugfix release resolving an issue that caused the intera...

The final release of Python 2.6.9 is now available, released on October 29 2013. This is a source-only release for Python 2.6.8, fixing several reported secu...

We're happy to announce the new way to file a contributor agreement: on the web at http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/. Through the use of Adobe'...

The following post was created on behalf of CPython contributor Christian Heimes using a subset of details found here. Christian Heimes announces the release...

Thanks to the Python Software Foundation, a PandaBoard arrived on Trent Nelson’s desk just in time for the holidays! Santa dropped off the present for python...

If you have joined the community of developers contributing to CPython since January 2010, I hope you can find a few spare minutes to participate in a survey...

This Saturday, you have the opportunity of participating to the Python Bug Day. How would you like to be one of the contributors of Python? If you have ideas...

If you haven't already noticed, several months ago we updated the Sphinx theme for documentation of versions Python 3.2 and beyond on docs.python.org. It's a...

Release manager Georg Brandl announced on August 12 that the second beta of CPython 3.3 was released, complete with installers for both Mac and Windows. This...

Long-time friends of the Python community, Atlassian (makers of Bitbucket) recently made available a mirror of http://hg.python.org, synchronized hourly, for...

Yesterday, May 31, brought the fourth alpha release in the Python 3.3 development schedule. It's an exciting release as it introduces a number of long awaite...

The Windows build of Python 3.3 has recently seen changes that could use a look from the community throughout our alpha and beta cycle. The first change is t...

This year's Language Summit took place on Wednesday March 7 in Santa Clara, CA before the start of PyCon 2012. As with previous years, in attendance were mem...

This post is part of the "Meet the Team" series of posts, which is meant to give a brief introduction to the Python core development team.