Core Dispatch #2 Welcome back to Core Dispatch! This edition covers April 4–16, 2026, and there's a lot going on. As expected, new releases are out for 3.13, 3.14, and 3.15.…

The SC accepted a PEP that establishes a new Packaging Council, the incremental GC is being reverted, Łukasz Langa is stepping down as Developer in Residence, Rust for CPython has a new progress update, four new PEPs — all this and more in this edition of Core Dispatch.

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Correction: April 7th is a TUESDAY! Releases on Tuesday!

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New releases are slated to drop on Monday: 3.13.13, 3.14.4, and 3.15.0a8.

PEP 803 got accepted, so free-threaded builds will have a stable ABI.

Ken Jin also wrote up what's going on with the JIT in 3.15.

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