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.

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...