Python 3.13 Support Tracker

[nexy7574]

To avoid the mayhem involved in the lack of python 3.12 release support, 3.13 support will be tracked here.

Timeline

• 2024-05-08 - Python 3.13.0 beta 1 was released
• 2024-05-28 - Tested installing nio-bot locally on beta0, Failed to build wheels for blurhash-python, because building a wheel for cffi failed.
• 2024-08-04 - Python 3.13.0rc1 installs successfully when the pre-release of cffi is explicitly requested at install (pip install --pre nio-bot cffi)

Python release timeline

3.13 development begins: Monday, 2023-05-22
3.13.0 alpha 1: Friday, 2023-10-13
3.13.0 alpha 2: Wednesday, 2023-11-22
3.13.0 alpha 3: Wednesday, 2024-01-17
3.13.0 alpha 4: Thursday, 2024-02-15
3.13.0 alpha 5: Tuesday, 2024-03-12
3.13.0 alpha 6: Tuesday, 2024-04-09
3.13.0 beta 1: Wednesday, 2024-05-08 (No new features beyond this point.)
3.13.0 beta 2: Wednesday, 2024-06-05
3.13.0 beta 3: Tuesday, 2024-06-25
3.13.0 beta 4: Tuesday, 2024-07-16
3.13.0 candidate 1: Tuesday, 2024-07-30
3.13.0 candidate 2: Tuesday, 2024-09-03
3.13.0 final: Tuesday, 2024-10-01

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Python 3.13.0 will be released 2024-10-1 - If dependency issues are not resolved before release, alternative dependencies will be sought out, or dependencies (and consequently features) will be omitted from the python 3.13 release version of nio-bot until they catch up.

[nexy7574]

Eagerly watching https://github.com/python-cffi/cffi/issues/105, as far as I know, cffi is the only dependency we've got that isn't 3.13 ready (wheels might not exist for some dependencies for a while, but that's not really an issue)

[nexy7574]

nio-bot==1.2.0a1 installs successfully on Python 3.13.0rc1 using pip install --pre nio-bot cffi

[nexy7574]

Python 3.13.0rc1 now installs nio-bot just fine without any --pre flag. 3.13 support will be released in v1.2.0a2, and consequently 1.2.0! 🎉