Python 3.15 and free-threading's second act
The GIL-free build is officially supported and the ecosystem work is the actual story. A progress report.
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from March 14, 2025 to May 11, 2026.
Pattern matching arrives everywhere at once
Java, Python, C#, and JavaScript are all converging on the same feature from ML languages, thirty years late.
Python 3.14 makes free-threading official
The GIL-free build graduates from experimental, template strings land, and annotations finally get lazy evaluation.
PEP 750 lands: Python gets template strings
A new t prefix produces a Template object instead of a string. It's f-strings without the injection vulnerability.