SIGs/Python/features history

History of Python Changes

Added in Fedora 33

• Python 3.9
• Deprecate python-pytoml
• No more automagic Python bytecompilation (phase 3)
• Automatic RPM dependencies on Python Extras
• Make the unversioned %{__python} macro error by default
• Retire python26
• Retire python34

Added in Fedora 32

• Python3.8
• Retire Python 2
• Deprecate python-nose
• Django 3
• Build Python with -fno-semantic-interposition for better performance

Added in Fedora 31

• F31 Mass Python 2 Package Removal
• Python means Python 3
• Update Sphinx to version 2 and drop Python 2 support from Sphinx
• Move test.support module to python3-test subpackage

Added in Fedora 30

• Enabling Python Generators by default
• Mass Python 2 Package Removal
• Make ambiguous python shebangs error
• No more automagic Python bytecompilation (phase 2)
• Avoid Fedora-specific build flags in non-RPM Python extensions

Added in Fedora 29

• Move /usr/bin/python into a separate package
• Python 3.7
• No more automagic Python bytecompilation
• Update comps to use python3

Added in Fedora 28

• Enabling Python Generators
• Django 2.0
• Avoid /usr/bin/python in RPM build

Added in Fedora 27

• Making sudo pip Safe (Again)

Added in Fedora 26

• Update of the Python3 stack to 3.6
• Python Classroom Lab
• Python 3 C.UTF-8 locale

Added in Fedora 25

• Automatic Provides for Python RPM Packages (completed during F26)

Added in Fedora 24

• Update the Python 3 stack to Python 3.5
• Separate parts of the Python 3 stdlib to the system-python- packages (replaced with Platform Python in F27)

Added in Fedora 23

• Python 3 as the Default Implementation

Added in Fedora 22

• wxPython 3 packaged into Fedora
• python-dateutil 2.x
• Django updated to 1.8

Added in Fedora 21

• Update the Python 3 stack to Python 3.4
• Remove python-setuptools-devel

Added in Fedora 20

• python-setuptools update to 0.7.x and greater

Added in Fedora 19

• Replace PIL (python-imaging) with Pillow

Added in Fedora 18

• upgrade of the Python 3 stack to 3.3

Added in Fedora 17

• further work on static analysis of refcounting

Added in Fedora 16

• GCC plugin embedding Python, for writing GCC extensions in Python
• Static analysis tool to detect common mistakes made in Python extension modules written in C

Added in Fedora 15

• upgrade of the Python 3 stack to 3.2

Added in Fedora 14

• upgrade of the Python 2 stack to 2.7
• pypy was packaged, available prebuilt via rpm

Added in Fedora 13

• parallel-installable Python 3 stack
• gdb hooks to make it easier to debug Python and extension modules
• Systemtap probe points for tracing Python function calls

Added in Fedora 11

• upgrade of the Python 2 stack to 2.6

Added in Fedora 10

• created and packaged bindings for the FIPS-validated NSS cryptographic library

Never finished features (obsoleted, deferred, canceled)

• Features/SystemPythonExecutablesUseSystemPython (obsoleted by other system python, platform python and sudo pip changes)
• port anaconda and yum to python 3 (anaconda ported, yum replaced by dnf)
• debug versions of Python 2 and Python 3 in addition to the traditional optimized builds (builds exists, no stacks)
• add PyPy to Fedora, possibly with a stack of extensions (pypy added, no stack)
• add a stack of extensions to Jython, in RPM form (jython exists, no stack)
• Rename python packages to reflect python implementation in the name (replaced with Finalizing Fedora's Switch to Python 3)
• Platform Python Stack (reverted, bad idea)