20250712

Distribution changes

• Restore the SQLite "fts4", "fts5", "rtree", and "geopoly" extensions on Mac/Linux platforms, and add regression tests. These were unintentionally dropped in an upgrade, likely due to SQLite changing their build system and its default configuration. (#694)

Build system changes

• Fix local (non-CI) builds which were failing due to a missing Makefile dependency (#692)

Full Changelog: 2025071...2025071

(Please note the release process for the 20250711 tag failed in CI. I have left the Git tag alone for the sake of downstream systems that might have picked it up automatically, but I have deleted the GitHub release and you should not use the tag/release.)

20250708

Upgrades

• SQLite 3.49.1.0
• CPython 3.14.0b4

Distribution changes

• Include zstd module on Python 3.14+ on Unix
• Remove .sha256 files: these artifacts are no longer published to GitHub Releases; unfortunately, they put us above the newly enforced 1000 file limit for GitHub Release artifacts. A single SHA256SUMS file with all of the checksums is still published.

Build system changes

• Add support for building zstd on Unix

Full Changelog: 2025070...2025070

20250702

Build system changes

• Enable native builds on Linux aarch64

Distribution changes

• The aarch64-unknown-linux builds no longer include noopt and lto variants in favor of a pgo+lto variant.

Full Changelog: 2025063...2025070

20250630

Distribution changes

• Add ARM64 Windows builds for Python 3.11+

Full Changelog: 2025062...2025063

20250626

Upgrades

• CPython 3.14.0b3

Distribution changes

• Patch libedit to stop re-broadcasting signals to the parent

Build system changes

• Use the latest patch for the CFLAGS JIT configuration
• Use Depot runners for Windows builds in CI

Full Changelog: 2025061...2025062

20250612

Upgrades

• setuptools 80.9.0
• CPython 3.13.5

Full Changelog: 2025061...2025061

20250610

Upgrades

• CPython 3.14.0b2

Distribution changes

• Add patch for stable uuid.getnode on 3.13

Full Changelog: 2025060...2025061

20250604

Upgrades

• CPython 3.14.0b1, 3.13.4, 3.12.11, 3.11.13, 3.10.18 and 3.9.23

Full Changelog: 2025052...2025060

20250529

Distribution changes

• Fix the implementation of the workaround mentioned in the previous release notes for third-party packages that incorrectly assume the interpreter is statically linking libpython (#623)
• Disable an unsafe optimization that started applying to the statically-linked interpreter which made e.g. subclasses of str misbehave (#622, see also astral-sh/uv#13610)
• Update the "quirks" documentation page (#625)

Upgrades

• xcb-proto 1.14.1 -> 1.17.0 (#627)

Build system changes

• Remove build support for Linux x86 builds (#626). Note that Linux x86 builds have not actually been done since 2023.
• Remove the need for thexcb Docker image as part of #627
• Remove build support for sccache, which was also unused (#629)

Full Changelog: 2025052...2025052

20250521

Build changes

• Remove various older X11 packages and expand use of xorgproto (#609)

Distribution changes

• Allow the experimental JIT to be enabled at runtime on Python 3.13 and 3.14 on macOS on aarch64 aka Apple Silicon (#544). Linux was added previously in #538 and #543; our macOS compatibility baseline is too old for x86_64 to enable it at the moment.
• Work around third-party packages that (incorrectly) assume the interpreter is dynamically linking libpython (#621). As with the 20250517 release, we are still statically linking libpython into the interpreter for performance and compatibility, and still shipping a dynamic libpython for compatibility with various tools/workflows that expect it, but we have now tweaked the build to increase the compatibility of this configuration.

Full Changelog: 2025051...2025052