Free-threaded builds are fully supported in the first Python 3.14 release candidate, and that’s not all. Get the rundown of what’s new and shiny in RC1, and more, in this week’s report.

Python 3.13 introduced the first public, if experimental, “free-threaded” or “no-GIL” builds of the language, which we’ll call “3.13t.” 3.13t allows CPU-bound Python threads to run ...