Because 3.6 will have reached End of Life (EOL), it will no longer receive bug fixes, even if they are critical. To resolve that, you must upgrade to the latest version of Python. If you see 3.6 or earlier, by the end of December 2021, you’ll no longer receive updates or bug fixes. Want to know what version of Python you’re using? Issue the command: And that’s knowing this version of Python was about to reach end of life. 16, 2021, at least 17.39% of packages that were downloaded from PyPI were based on Python 3.6. No, that doesn’t directly involve Python, but it makes a very loud and painful case for always staying up to date. This is especially so with the recent discovery of the Log4j vulnerability. Trust me when I say you do not want that. What does that mean? It means if you’re using Python 3.6 past this month, you do so at your own risk. Why? Because it will no longer receive either bug or security fixes. Please see What’s New In Python 3.6 for more information.As of this month, Python 3.6 is dead to me. PEP 529, Change Windows filesystem encoding to UTF-8.PEP 528, Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8.PEP 526, Syntax for Variable Annotations (provisional).PEP 525, Asynchronous Generators (provisional).PEP 524, Make os.urandom() blocking on Linux (during system startup).PEP 523, Adding a frame evaluation API to CPython.PEP 520, Preserving Class Attribute Definition Order.PEP 519, Adding a file system path protocol.PEP 515, Underscores in Numeric Literals.PEP 506, Adding A Secrets Module To The Standard Library.PEP 487, Simpler customization of class creation.PEP 468, Preserving Keyword Argument Order.The final source-only security fix release for 3.6 was 3.6.15 and the final bugfix release was 3.6.8.Īmong the new major new features in Python 3.6 were: See the downloads page for currently supported versions of Python. Note: The release you are looking at is Python 3.6.9, a security bugfix release for the legacy 3.6 series which has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported.