From Python Insider, Python 3.10 has been released.

It contains “many new features and optimizations,” none of which hold the catastrophic and world-changing implications of the migration to Python 3 in the first place, but they still might be interesting.

Here’s the list, copied verbatim from the original post:

• PEP 623 — Deprecate and prepare for the removal of the wstr member in PyUnicodeObject.
• PEP 604 — Allow writing union types as X | Y
• PEP 612 — Parameter Specification Variables
• PEP 626 — Precise line numbers for debugging and other tools.
• PEP 618 — Add Optional Length-Checking To zip.
• bpo-12782 — Parenthesized context managers are now officially allowed.
• PEP 632 — Deprecate distutils module.
• PEP 613 — Explicit Type Aliases
• PEP 634 — Structural Pattern Matching: Specification
• PEP 635 — Structural Pattern Matching: Motivation and Rationale
• PEP 636 — Structural Pattern Matching: Tutorial
• PEP 644 — Require OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer
• PEP 624 — Remove Py_UNICODE encoder APIs
• PEP 597 — Add optional EncodingWarning