- Assignment expressions (PEP-572)
- Positional-only parameters (PEP-570)
- Parallel filesystem cache for compiled bytecode files
(PYTHONPYCACHEPREFIX variable)
- Debug build uses the same ABI as release build
- f-strings support = for self-documenting expressions
and debugging
- Python Runtime Audit Hooks (PEP-578)
- Python Initialization Configuration (PEP-587)
- Vectorcall: a fast calling protocol for CPython (PEP-590)
- Pickle protocol 5 with out-of-band data buffers (PEP-574)
- Many other smaller bug fixes
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:languages:python:Factory/python38?expand=0&rev=16
