Python 3.11 or newer

[dgw]

I spoke a little more in-depth on this in the post linked below, but to summarize:

• Python 3.8 is now Unsupported as of this week, with the stable release of 3.13
• Netlify’s only available Python versions are 3.8 and 2.7 (unsupported since January 2020)
• There is no current Python version available for use in Netlify builds

Since early last year, I’ve been pretty spoiled by always automatically having the latest Python available when I create a new development container at Gitpod. It’s always a shock to check the runtime.txt file for our FOSS project and remember that it’s still using what was until recently the oldest maintained release of Python (and is now, to repeat, unmaintained).

The current Python version (3.8) is very old

As of this week, Python 3.13 is stable and Python 3.8 is officially Unsupported. Problems with getting Python tools to work on Netlify are only going to get worse from here, if the only supported versions on this platform remain 2.7 (unsupported since January 2020) and 3.8—which they are, according to Available software at build time | Netlify Docs. It’s been over a year since the last official response in this thread (July 2023). Has anything changed regarding whether upgrading the availab…