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The Python Software Foundation announced 17 candidates for the first Python Packaging Council election on August 13, with voting scheduled for September 1-15.

Python 3.15.0rc1 shipped August 4 with the feature set frozen and no further ABI changes allowed, as the release team targets an October 1 final.

Rust cracked the TIOBE Index top 10 for the first time in July 2026, climbing from 18th to 10th place as the 25-year-old index marks its anniversary.

Python's core developers filed PEP 836, setting performance and compatibility bars for CPython's JIT compiler after the Steering Council gave the project six months to justify staying in the codebase.

Pyrefly 1.0.0 ships on May 12, 2026 as Meta's production-grade Python type checker, checking 1.8 million lines per second and powering Instagram's codebase.

R hit #8 in the TIOBE Index — matching its all-time high — as Python and R emerge as the two survivors in a rapidly consolidating statistical language market, while Go fell to #16 and Zig crept toward the top 30.

Python's fifth 3.14 maintenance release, shipped May 10, restores the generational garbage collector from 3.13 after operators saw memory regressions up to 5x; the revert also reaches into Python 3.15.

Release manager Hugo van Kemenade postponed Python 3.15.0 beta 1 by two days to May 7, 2026, marking the feature freeze for one of the language's largest releases in years.

PEP 772 was accepted on April 16, 2026, establishing an elected five-member Python Packaging Council with authority over standards covering pip, setuptools, and PyPI.

An unauthenticated WebSocket flaw in the popular Marimo notebook (CVE-2026-39987, CVSS 9.3) was weaponized within 9 hours 41 minutes of disclosure, with credential theft completed in under three minutes. CISA has since added the bug to its KEV catalog with a May 7 federal deadline.

The Rust for CPython project has achieved cross-platform builds in CI and shifted its target from Python 3.15 to 3.16, setting a July deadline to submit a formal Python Enhancement Proposal that would make Rust a build-time dependency of the reference interpreter.

Security researchers disclose a critical deserialization flaw and two high-severity bugs in the most widely downloaded AI framework on PyPI, with patches now available.