Elena, now a member of the Python Steering Council (she had been elected in December, a decision she still questioned at 3 AM), cast the deciding vote.
But November 2025 was when the community chose. Chose to believe that a thirty-five-year-old language (Guido had started in 1989, after all) could still reinvent itself. Could still shed the skin of its single-core past and slither into the multi-core, heterogeneous, JIT-compiled future. python 3.13.1 released november 2025
The announcement landed on the PSF blog at 09:00 UTC on November 18, 2025. The headline was deceptively simple: Elena, now a member of the Python Steering
That evening, Elena didn’t go home. She brewed a pot of over-strong coffee, fired up a fresh Ubuntu 26.04 VM, and typed the sacred incantation: and typed the sacred incantation: