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.

Python 3.14, named after a famous irrational constant, has arrived in preview. Plus new goodness in Cython 3.1, using Python’s structural pattern matching, querying the NanoCube, and more.