On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 4:52 PM Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]> wrote: > > Many users still use 3.6 or 3.7. Jumping from 3.7 to 3.11 could break > extensions in bad way (crash, truncated data, leaked sensitive > information, execution of arbitrary code). Also, deprecation warnings in > 3.8 and 3.9 can be easily ignored. > > I propose to wait until both of conditions became true: > > * 3.7 no longer maintained > * 3.10 reaches security-only mode. >
Makes sense. Python 3.7 will get security fix until 2023-06. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0537/#and-beyond-schedule Python 3.12 will be released at 2023-10. So we can change PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN by default from 3.12. Regards, -- Inada Naoki <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/QZSSHINMXXZ4I3ODPDFPGFC7MBSKIOVB/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/