Python Release Python 3.8.9

Release date: April 2, 2021

This is the ninth maintenance release of Python 3.8 Note: The version you are looking at

is Python

3.8.9, a bug fix release for the legacy 3.8 series. Python 3.11 is now the latest series of Python 3 releases. Get the latest version of 3.11.x here.

3.8.9 is an accelerated release that includes a number of security fixes and is recommended to all users

: bpo-43631: CVE-2021-3449 and CVE-2021-3450

• high severity released for OpenSSL, updated to 1.1.1k in macOS and Windows CIs and installers. bpo-42988: CVE-2021-3426
• : Remove the getfile feature of the pydoc module that could be used to read arbitrary files on disk (directory crossing vulnerability). In addition, even the source code of Python modules can contain sensitive data such as passwords. Vulnerability reported by David Schwörer.
• bpo-43285: ftplib no longer trusts the IP address value returned by the server in response to the PASV command by default. This prevents a malicious FTP server from using the response to poll IPv4 address and port combinations on the client network. Code that requires the above vulnerable behavior can set a trust_server_pasv_ipv4_address attribute on your ftplib. FTP instances to True to re-enable it.
• bpo-43439: Add audit bindings for gc.get_objects(), gc.get_referrers(), and gc.get_referents(). Pablo Galindo patch.

Key new features in the 3.8 series, compared to 3.7

PEP 572, PEP 570 mapping

expressions, Position-only arguments PEP
• 587, Python initialization settings (improved embedding)

PEP

• 590, Vectorcall: a quick call protocol for CPython

PEP 578, Runtime audit links PEP

• 574, Pickle protocol 5 with out-of-band data Related to

typing: PEP 591 (Final Qualifier),

• PEP
• 586 (Literal types), and PEP 589 (TypedDict)
• Parallel file system cache for compiled bytecode
• Debug builds share ABIs as versions
• Strings f support a handy = specifier for debugging

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• legal in finally: blocks in

Windows, the

• default asynchronous event loop is now ProactorEventLoop

on

• macOS, spawn start method is now used by default in multiprocessing multiprocessing
• can now use shared memory segments to avoid pickling costs between processes
• typed_ast merges back with CPython
• LOAD_GLOBAL is now 40% faster
• pickle now uses Protocol 4 by default, Improving performance

There are many other interesting changes, see the “What’s New” page in the documentation for a complete list

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More resources

• Online documentation
• PEP 569, 3.8 Release Schedule
• Error reporting in https://bugs.python.org

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• Help fund Python and its community.

Windows Users

• The binaries for AMD64 will also work on processors implementing Intel 64 architecture. (Also known as the “x64” architecture, and formerly known as “EM64T” and “x86-64”.)
• There are now “web-based” installers for Windows platforms; the installer will download the necessary software components at installation time.
• There are redistributable zip files that contain Windows builds, making it easy to redistribute Python as part of another software package. See the documentation for embedded distribution for more information.

macOS

users

• For Python 3.8, we provide an installer – 64-bit only that works on macOS 10.9 (Mavericks) and later systems.
• Read the “Important Information” displayed during installation for information on validating SSL/TLS certificates and running the “Install Certificates.command”.

Full changelog

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