Hi Mark, Apologies, I forgot to update the numbers in the text :(
I will update them in all places where I can edit the text (download page and discourse). Thanks for pointing that out! Cheers from sunny London, Pablo On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, 15:13 Mark Shannon, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pablo, > > On 03/02/2022 11:27 pm, Pablo Galindo Salgado wrote: > > We needed to tame some angry buildbots, but after a small fight, we won > with just some scratches! Here you have a shiny new alpha release: Python > 3.11.0a5. > > > > https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3110a5/ < > https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3110a5/> > > > > **This is an early developer preview of Python 3.11** > > > > # Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10 > > > > Python 3.11 is still in development. This release, 3.11.0a5 is the > fifth of seven planned alpha releases. > > > > Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state > of new features and bug fixes and to test the release process. > > > > During the alpha phase, features may be added up until the start of the > beta phase (2022-05-06) and, if necessary, may be modified or deleted up > until the release candidate phase (2022-08-01). Please keep in mind that > this is a preview release and its use is **not** recommended for production > environments. > > > > Many new features for Python 3.11 are still being planned and written. > Among the new major new features and changes so far: > > > > * [PEP 657](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0657/ < > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0657/>) -- Include Fine-Grained Error > Locations in Tracebacks > > * [PEP 654](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0654/ < > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0654/>) -- Exception Groups and > except* > > * [PEP 673](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0673/ < > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0673/>) -- Self Type > > * [PEP 646](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0646/) < > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0646/)>-- Variadic Generics > > * The [Faster Cpython Project](https://github.com/faster-cpython < > https://github.com/faster-cpython>) is already yielding some exciting > results: this version of CPython 3.11 is ~12% faster on the geometric mean > of the [PyPerformance benchmarks](speed.python.org < > http://speed.python.org/>), compared to 3.10.0. > > Only 12%? Did you measure this on the same machine as usual? > My measurements show a geometric mean of ~19%, although the range is -2% > to +71%. > I would just say "about 20%". 19% (or 12%) suggests rather more precision > than is justifiable. > > Cheers, > Mark. >
_______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-committers.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/SV5U76UCTO6HL7L4P7NTP535VKMAPBS5/ Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
