Official support for free-threaded Python, an experimental JIT, and a smarter installation manager for Windows are among the goodies in Python 3.14. Now in a release candidate.

Long in development, the new major release of the Python-to-C compiler sheds legacy Python support and readies Cython developers for big changes in Python.

Python implementation Pyston aims to speed up the programming language's code for web applications. Creator Kevin Modzelewski tells TechRepublic where the project is heading next.