Python 3.11 is a big release and brings about a 25% performance improvement . But recently, Python core developer Pablo announced in an email that the stable version of Python 3.11, expected to be released at the end of October, may be delayed until December due to some important performance bugs and crashes.
Python 3.11 Beta 4 is already three weeks behind schedule due to the following " bunch of unresolved, release-impacting issues ". The worst part is that this is a new issue that only appeared after the team fixed a lot of bugs that "prevent the release of Beta 4", some of which were discovered after the last update, which means that the release time of Python 3.11 Beta 4 is not Delay with bug fixes.
As such, after discussions with the steering committee, the Python core team is considering delaying the final release of 3.11 until December to allow for two more beta releases.
- If the issues in the organization's release in the image above are not fixed by the end of the week, Python 3.11 will have two more beta releases (1 month each), and the final Python 11 release will definitely be pushed back to December.
- If these release blocking procedures are fixed by the end of the week, Python 3.11.0 Beta 4 will be released next Monday, which may speed up the release of Python 11.
However, the team does not seem to have any certainty about whether Python 3.11 will be released before December. This is Pablo's original words:
I understand that delaying the release until December complicates things for some Linux distributions and affects both end users and redistributors of the original.
But as a release team, we need to make sure that the final release is stable enough. Unfortunately, given the current state of the release, we're not confident at this time .
When I say "things get complicated for Linux distributions," I mean that some Linux distributions plan to adopt Python 3.11 in a new version, such as Fedora 37, which is expected to be released at the end of October.
But now it seems that if Fedora 37 is not going to follow Python, it can only choose to fall back to Python 3.10.