33 Debian LTS Advisories fixing 216 CVEs for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors in January 2026. These include notable security updates for python 3.9, django 2.2.28, php 7.4, apache2, ceph, Linux 6.1 kernel and more.

A study into the security status report of p7zip, which is unmaintained upstream, was also done last month in addition to updates contributed for recent releases of Debian 12, Debian 13 and to Debian unstable.

Read the full report at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-01/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This work is funded through Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Consider sponsoring Debian LTS (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social) to support this effort and benefit from it: https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/details#benefits

#python39 #php74 #django #apache2 #ceph #p7zip

Did you remember to finally drop Python 3.9 support from your Python package? 🐍

Five years in tech is basically a whole lifetime and when Python 3.9 came out in 2020, most of us were still debating whether 5G was actually a thing 😄

Time to give your package a refresh and let 3.9 retire with dignity! ♻️

#Python #Python39 #Packaging

https://peps.python.org/pep-0596/#lifespan

Just released! 🚀

🪑 PrettyTable 3.17.0

https://github.com/prettytable/prettytable/releases/tag/3.17.0

Add support for Python 3.15, drop 3.9, test 3.13t-3.15t
Set dicts with column-specific config for all column-specific attrs
Update type hints
Replace pre-commit with prek
& more!

#Python #release #PrettyTable #Python315 #Python39

Just released! 🚀

🎨 termcolor 3.2.0

https://github.com/termcolor/termcolor/releases/tag/3.2.0

🟣 Expose `can_colorize` as public API
🟢 Add support for Python 3.15 (🥉 at https://pyreadiness.org/3.15/)
🔴 Drop support for EOLish Python 3.9

#Python #release #termcolor #Python315 #Python39

Pillow 12.0.0 is out!

🎨 Support for Python 3.14!
🎨 Dropped EOL 3.9!
🎨 New ImageText.Text API!
🎨 Removed deprecations!
🎨 New deprecations!

📜 And more: https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/releasenotes/12.0.0.html

📜📜📜 And much more: https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/releases/tag/12.0.0

#Python #Pillow #PythonPillow #release #Python314 #Python39

Just released! 🚀

flake8-implicit-str-concat 0.6.0

A Flake8 plugin to identify those unjoined strings that a first Black run leaves behind:
"111111111111111111111" "222222222222222222222"

I hear there's another big release tomorrow? This release adds support for Python 3.14 and for once code changes were needed due to AST deprecation removals.

Also drop support for almost-very-nearly-EOL Python 3.9.

https://github.com/flake8-implicit-str-concat/flake8-implicit-str-concat/releases/tag/0.6.0
#Python #flake8 #release #Python314 #Python39

Just released! 🚀

🎶 pylast 6.0.0

🎤 A Python interface to Last.fm and Libre.fm

📯 Restore proxy support (potential breaking change: proxies are now always stored as a dict, before it was a str or dict)

🪇 Drop support for almost-EOL Python 3.9

https://github.com/pylast/pylast/releases/tag/6.0.0

#Python #pylast #LastFM #LibreFM #release #Python39

🐍2️⃣🚀 The **final** release candidate of Python 3.13 is out!

➡️ Library maintainers, please upload wheels to PyPI **now**, especially if you have compiled extensions (there are no more ABI changes), so everything is in place for the big 3.13.0 release in 3 weeks!

🔒 Also! Security releases have been made for the full set of Python 3.8 - 3.12. Please upgrade!

ℹ️ https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-13-0rc2-3-12-6-3-11-10-3-10-15-3-9-20-and-3-8-20-are-now-available/63161?u=hugovk

🧪 https://dev.to/hugovk/help-test-python-313-14j1

#Python #Python313 #RC #RC2 #Python312 #Python311 #Python310 #Python39 #Python38

@nobodyinperson Python 3.9 added str.removeprefix for this sort of thing: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.removesuffix #Python #Python39

Oh dear. I own a 13-year old iMac. Installing anything on it and hoping it works is a bit of a prayer. Managed to get #python39 installed, with #JupyterNotebook, #pandas, and #numpy, so I could show my spouse how easy it is to record and replay #dataAnalytics data transformations. Can't upgrade the Mac to that version of #python: that would break the operating system. So I got to install it side-by-side. Thank you, python distribution maintainers, for backwards compatibility!