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Version 0.1 of the Wayback project has been released:
Wayback is an X11 compatibility layer that allows for running full X11-only desktop environments using Wayland. It is essentially an X11 server backed by Wayland, leveraging wlroots and Xwayland. Our goal is for Wayback to eventually be a completely drop-in replacement to the Xorg binary, thus reducing maintenance burden for distro maintainers.
Ever since Wayback was announced on June 28, we have been making lots of progress to get it as stable and functional as possible, and while this is a preview release it is already daily-driveable by users with simple requirements, as long as they don't mind bugs.
The release is considered alpha-quality and is missing a number of features, including multi-monitor support and DPMS, but adventurous users can find the code here.
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It’s the first 3.14 release candidate!
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140rc1/
This is the first release candidate of Python 3.14
This release, 3.14.0rc1, is the penultimate release preview. Entering the release candidate phase, only reviewed code changes which are clear bug fixes are allowed between this release candidate and the final release. The second candidate (and the last planned release preview) is scheduled for Tuesday, 2025-08-26, while the official release of 3.14.0 is scheduled for Tuesday, 2025-10-07.
There will be no ABI changes from this point forward in the 3.14 series, and the goal is that there will be as few code changes as possible.
We strongly encourage maintainers of third-party Python projects to prepare their projects for 3.14 during this phase, and where necessary publish Python 3.14 wheels on PyPI to be ready for the final release of 3.14.0, and to help other projects do their own testing. Any binary wheels built against Python 3.14.0rc1 will work with future versions of Python 3.14. As always, report any issues to the Python bug tracker.
Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and while it’s as close to the final release as we can get it, its use is not recommended for production environments.
Some of the major new features and changes in Python 3.14 are:
compression.zstd providing support
for the Zstandard compression algorithm.except and except* expressions may
now omit the brackets.uuid module, and
generation of versions 3-5 are up to 40% faster.return/break/continue that exit a
finally block.(Hey, fellow core developer, if a feature you find important is missing from this list, let Hugo know.)
For more details on the changes to Python 3.14, see What’s new in Python 3.14. The next pre-release of Python 3.14 will be the final release candidate, 3.14.0rc2, scheduled for 2025-08-26.
The installer we offer for Windows is being replaced by our new install manager, which can be installed from the Windows Store or from its download page. See our documentation for more information. The JSON file available for download below contains the list of all the installable packages available as part of this release, including file URLs and hashes, but is not required to install the latest release. The traditional installer will remain available throughout the 3.14 and 3.15 releases.
Today, 22nd July, is Pi Approximation Day, because 22/7 is a common approximation of π and closer to π than 3.14.
22/7 is a Diophantine approximation, named after Diophantus of Alexandria (3rd century CE), which is a way of estimating a real number as a ratio of two integers. 22/7 has been known since antiquity; Archimedes (3rd century BCE) wrote the first known proof that 22/7 overestimates π by comparing 96-sided polygons to the circle it circumscribes.
Another approximation is 355/113. In Chinese mathematics, 22/7 and 355/113 are respectively known as Yuelü (约率; yuēlǜ; “approximate ratio”) and Milü (密率; mìlǜ; “close ratio”).
Happy Pi Approximation Day!
Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through organisation contributions to the Python Software Foundation.
Regards from a Helsinki heatwave after an excellent EuroPython,
Your release team,
Hugo van Kemenade
Ned Deily
Steve Dower
Łukasz Langa