github astral-sh/python-build-standalone 20260325

7 days ago

The prior two releases (20250323 and 20260324) failed to publish correctly due to issues uploading to our mirror. All of their GitHub assets are correct, but they will remain marked as pre-releases. The changes below reflect the changes since the 20260320 release.

Distribution changes

  • Test extensions are built as shared libraries
  • _testcapi is built and included as a shared library in the full archives
  • Test extensions are no longer included in install-only archives
  • Add install_only distributions for free-threaded assets
  • Allow RHEL/Fedora OpenSSL specific configuration instead of failing

Build system changes

  • PGO runs in parallel

Full Changelog: 2026032...2026032

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