Release 2021-03 Follow-up #953

Release Date: june 2021

Wanted:

• Infrastructure:
  • include SHA3-256, as SQlite uses it, and it's there since Python-3.6
  • Python-3.9.5, Python-3.10beta3
  • Python-3.7+ PyPy 64 bit beta variant (belief: PyPy3 problems of now are also cPython-3.11 speed problems)
  • Jupyterlab-3.0.16
• Spyder-5.0.3 for Qt able versions
• Improve Dashboarding experience: (seeing this)
  • integration with Jupyterlab-3 and VSCode,
  • ship an example for each (Panel, Voila, ...)
• a big WinPython-3.10 (with cPython-3.10 beta3)

Focus:

• pushing a PyPy3 variant to see if it can run ahead of the others)
• Web Technology: Dashboarding, Web API, WASM
• Data Engineering: dagster, dagster-dask, dbt, prefect, meltano, SQLite
• Machine Learning: Integrated Windows ML, Fastai

Postponed:

• Jupyterlab-3.1 moved to next release (seems for late july)
• improved Qt flexibility:
  • a better life in non-Qt world: wppm WinPython can work without Qt
  • Qt-6.1 compatibility: compatibility for WinPython, QtConsole, PyQtGraph, when Matplotlib support is there is the missing basic , Qt-6.1 requires Matplotlib-3.5.0

Hopes/Wishes for 2021:

• Q3 2021 PyPy:
  • gets more care from python package owners,
  • get 3.8 compatibility (alpha this september),
  • a PEP for Hpy interface is written for a convergence point with cPython-3.11 or 3.12
• a solution to create launcher icons without NSIS (shimmy didn't arrive there).