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PyPy v7.3.21: release of python 2.7, 3.11, released 2026-03-13
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  updated to 996ebee08886ee13f

The PyPy team is proud to release version 7.3.21 of PyPy after the previous
release on July 4, 2025. This is a bug-fix release that also updates to Python
3.11.15.

The release includes two different interpreters:

- PyPy2.7, which is an interpreter supporting the syntax and the features of
  Python 2.7 including the stdlib for CPython 2.7.18+ (the ``+`` is for
  backported security updates)

- PyPy3.11, which is an interpreter supporting the syntax and the features of
  Python 3.11, including the stdlib for CPython 3.11.15.

The interpreters are based on much the same codebase, thus the double
release. This is a micro release, all APIs are compatible with the other 7.3
releases.

We recommend updating. You can find links to download the releases here:

    https://pypy.org/download.html

We would like to thank our donors for the continued support of the PyPy
project. If PyPy is not quite good enough for your needs, we are available for
`direct consulting`_ work. If PyPy is helping you out, we would love to hear
about it and encourage submissions to our blog_ via a pull request
to https://github.com/pypy/pypy.org

We would also like to thank our contributors and encourage new people to join
the project. PyPy has many layers and we need help with all of them: bug fixes,
`PyPy`_ and `RPython`_ documentation improvements, or general `help`_ with
making RPython's JIT even better.

If you are a python library maintainer and use C-extensions, please consider
making a HPy_ / CFFI_ / cppyy_ version of your library that would be performant
on PyPy. In any case, `cibuildwheel`_ supports building wheels for PyPy.

.. _`PyPy`: https://doc.pypy.org/
.. _`RPython`: https://rpython.readthedocs.org
.. _`help`: https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/project-ideas.html
.. _CFFI: https://cffi.readthedocs.io
.. _cppyy: https://cppyy.readthedocs.io
.. _`cibuildwheel`: https://github.com/joerick/cibuildwheel
.. _blog: https://pypy.org/blog
.. _HPy: https://hpyproject.org/
.. _direct consulting: https://www.pypy.org/pypy-sponsors.html


What is PyPy?
=============

PyPy is a Python interpreter, a drop-in replacement for CPython
It's fast (`PyPy and CPython`_ performance
comparison) due to its integrated tracing JIT compiler.

We also welcome developers of other `dynamic languages`_ to see what RPython
can do for them.

We provide binary builds for:

* **x86** machines on most common operating systems
  (Linux 32/64 bits, Mac OS 64 bits, Windows 64 bits)

* 64-bit **ARM** machines running Linux (``aarch64``) and macos (``macos_arm64``).

PyPy supports Windows 32-bit, Linux PPC64 big- and little-endian, Linux ARM
32 bit, RISC-V RV64IMAFD Linux, and s390x Linux but does not release binaries.
Please reach out to us if you wish to sponsor binary releases for those
platforms. Downstream packagers provide binary builds for debian, Fedora,
conda, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Gentoo, and more.

.. _`PyPy and CPython`: https://speed.pypy.org
.. _`dynamic languages`: https://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html

Changelog
=========

For all versions
----------------

- Update to pycparser v2.23
- Bundle ``libz`` and ``libbz2`` into portable builds, for systems without them.

Bugfixes
~~~~~~~~

- Fix a bug in instance dictionaries that could lead to segmentation faults of
  the interpreter. This could happen for instances that stored unboxed integer
  values in their attributes and used with different code paths in the
  ``__init__``-method that added the attributes in different orders or that
  deleted some attributes (:issue:`5377`).

Speedups and enhancements
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Speed up ``int.bit_length`` (:issue:`5314`)
- Refactor the register allocator in the Jit backends to store longevity
  without using a dict. This make the JIT backend quite a bit faster (roughly
  50%) by using a lot fewer dictionary lookups.
- Const-fold ``x == x`` and ``x != x`` in RPython's ``backendopt``
- Remove impossible code in ``_bitcount64``
- Use one less instruction for regex character set membership testing
- Make ``map`` on pypy2 faster
- Add ``or``/``xor`` constant reassociation and ``and/or`` combination jit
  peephole rewrite rules
- ``storesink`` and ``jtransform`` need to deal with invalid ``cast_pointer`` on
  constants, which happens when optimizing unreachable code.

Python 3.11
-----------

- Update vendored ``libexpat`` to 2.7.4
- Update ``stdlib`` and version to 3.11.15
- Update to pycparser v3.0.0, which does not support python2

Bugfixes including missing compatibility with CPython 3.11
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Percolate unicode locale numeric separators int formatting (:issue:`5311`)
- Add newline to end of generated headers (:issue:`5312`)
- Allow ``'%lli'`` formatting code in ``PyUnicode_FromFormat*`` (:issue:`5313`)
- Set ``__new__`` to disallow instantiation when
  ``Py_TPFLAGS_DISALLOW_INSTANTIATION`` is set
- Fix ``ht_qualname`` on ``TypeFromSpec`` (:issue:`5319`)
- Add macros needed for compilation of ``pytime.c`` in ``module/time`` on macOS
- Allow str subclasses as argument of ``bytes/bytearray.fromhex`` (:issue:`5327`)
- Fix for ``def func(): if a: f() or g()`` which crashed the bytecode compiler (:issue:`5328`)
- Change ``self.write_buffer`` to accept bytes in ``_overlapped`` (:issue:`5335`)
- Add license header to ``_lzma.py`` and ``_lzma_build.py`` (:issue:`5337`)
- Require ``vsnprintf`` in ``pyerrors.h`` (:issue:`5343`) following
  (:issue:`python/cpython#20899`)
- Add ``Py_RETURN_RICHCOMPARE`` macro (:issue:`5350`)
- Make ``str`` methods ``split``, ``rsplit`` use the current unicode db version
  (:issue:`5370`)
- Add ``_varname_from_oparg`` method to code objects
- Set ``save_err=rffi.RFFI_SAVE_ERRNO`` for ``c_memfd_create()``.

Speedups and enhancements
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

- Restore the JIT inlining ``TextIOWrapper.write``, disabled by mistake in a
  refactor (:issue:`5375`)
