Python latest stable version? (2024)

FAQs

Is Python 3.12 stable? ›

Python 3.12 is the latest stable release of the Python programming language, with a mix of changes to the language and the standard library.

The official latest stable is 3.12, but I've experienced in the past that the library devs sometimes struggle to keep up with the published latest.

Python 3.12.4, documentation released on 6 June 2024. Python 3.12.3, documentation released on 9 April 2024. Python 3.12.2, documentation released on 6 February 2024. Python 3.12.1, documentation released on 8 December 2023.

Python 3.11 Release Date

The final, stable release will come out on October 3, 2022, after three more beta versions and two candidate versions in the meantime.

Removals and deprecations

As of Python 3.10, distutils was marked as deprecated — in accordance to PEP 632 — and Python 3.12 will remove the module once and for all. Note that no backwards compatibility is offered, meaning that any import from distutils will result into an error.

Conda treats Python the same as any other package, so it is easy to manage and update multiple installations. Conda supports Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12.

Python version 3.10. 4 is the current stable release, the fourth maintenance release of Python 3.10, published on March 24, 2024.

Unlike Linux, though, Python offers one, gold-standard, “official” edition you can always fall back on: CPython, the version provided by the Python Software Foundation at Python.org. This is the safest and most broadly compatible distribution, the one nobody gets fired for using.

Python 3 was released as an upgrade to Python 2 in 2008 and the two versions co-existed for around a decade. Today, Python 3 is used by 95% of Python developers. If you're in the market for Python developers, you might favor Python 3 over Python 2.

Python 3.11 was published on October 24, 2022. This latest version of Python is faster and more user-friendly. After seventeen months of development, it's now ready for production.

Will Python 4 happen? ›

Don't get too excited about Python 4.0; according to Guido van Rossum, the popular programming language's creator, it is unlikely to ever be released.

In conclusion, Python 3.11 is a significant release with several new features and improvements. Overall, it is faster than Python 3.10 on most benchmarks, uses less memory, and starts up faster.

You can upgrade Python installed with the Python installer by downloading the latest version from the Python website. You can download and install any version with the installer application. I recommend using Rye instead of the Python installer.

Python 3.12 Readiness

Python 3.12 is a currently supported version of Python. This site shows Python 3.12 support for the 360 most downloaded packages on PyPI: 221 green packages (61.4%) support Python 3.12; 139 white packages (38.6%) don't explicitly support Python 3.12 yet.

Python 3.12 introduces fantastic improvements to f-strings, providing greater flexibility and expressiveness in string formatting. These enhancements are formalized in PEP 701, which brings syntactic changes to f-strings, removing previous limitations and making f-strings even more powerful.

The NumPy 1.26. 0 release is a continuation of the 1.25. x release cycle with the addition of Python 3.12. 0 support.