Release Date: April 18th 2021 (rc)

Wanted:

• Infrastructure:
  • pip-21.1.dev reduces by 50% of WinPython hard-to-understand build issues
  • last Python-3.8 big version,
• improve jupyterlab-3:
  • jupyter_bokeh-3.0.0
  • nbdime-3.0.0, jupyterlab-git
  • rise alternative for Jupyterlab-3 not there, roll-back the launcher to jupyter 'normal' notebook
• Python updates:
  • Python-3.8.9
  • Python-3.9.4

Added:

• Spyder-5.0.1

Postponed: (due to earlier release date)

• a big WinPython-3.10 beta1 to help adoption of PEP 654 Exception Groups (that may be postponed to python-3.11)
• Jupyterlab-3.1
• improve Qt flexibility:
  • a better life in non-Qt world: WinPython pip gui without Qt
  • a better life in Qt-6.1 world : compatibility check for WinPython, QtConsole, PyQtGraph, miss: Matplotlib, Spyder

Focus:

• reduce legacy ipython-notebook infrastructure. (but keep it: VSCode and Rise use it)
• pip new resolver improvement
• web technology: OpenAPI, WASM
• Data Engineering
• Integrated ML: windows integrated ML / Pytorch Fastai

Hopes/Wishes for 2021:

• PEP 654 makes it for Python-3.10 rather than 3.11
• pypy becomes very helpful: supports Windows 64 bit, reduces lag with python-current, and grows the HPY interface
• a solution to create launcher icons without NSIS (shimmy didn't arrive there).