Python 3.10.8 Upcoming Improvements

In a matter of days the next minor release of Python will be published. The Python 3.10.8 version will continue on delivering fixes and improvements on the road to the 3.11 version.

Here is a list of the most important fixes that work is in progress that will soon improve your coding experience:

There are several important security fixes ongoing. An error on resizing the list to a size of maximum allocation size will be fixed. The script getting remote certificates won’t enable code injection. Mailcap’s findmatch won’t shell execute commands provided in filename parameter.

Also, Python core is being worked on. There will be a fix for providing X parameter. For complicated conditionals the error message will show narrowed down cause of mismatch. Strict mode will start to include optimizations to make the code faster. New limits for untrusted int to string conversion will prevent DoS attacks.

Other improvements revolve around:

• race conditions