On behalf of the IronPython team, I'm very happy to announce the release of IronPython 3.4.1. The runtime targets are .NET Framework 4.6.2, .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 6. The baseline for IronPython 3.4 is Python 3.4.
Changes include UTF-8 mode, a backport of the typing module in the standard library, a newer version of pip (18.1), as well as a number of bug fixes and improvements.
UTF-8 mode can be enabled via the cli using -X utf8 or by using the Utf8Mode option when creating the engine.
Thanks to @arontsang, @BCSharp and @frawst for the contributions!
Full Changelog: v3.4.0...v3.4.1