• CPython 3.8 upgraded from 3.8.10 to 3.8.11.
• CPython 3.9 upgraded from 3.9.5 to 3.9.6.
• LLVM/Clang upgraded from 12.0.0 to 12.0.1.
• libedit upgraded from 20210216-3.1 to 20210714-3.1.
• LibreSSL upgraded from 3.2.5 to 3.3.3.
• pip upgraded from 21.1.1 to 21.1.3.
• setuptools upgraded from 56.1.0 to 57.4.0.
• SQLite upgraded from 3.35.5 to 3.36.0.
• Shebangs in scripts have been rewritten so they should now pick up the Python distribution in the archive. This means pip3 and other Python scripts should now work correctly.
• CoreFoundation is properly listed as a tkinter dependency in macOS distributions.
• ELF binaries in Linux distributions have a / in DT_NEEDED to force relative path loading.
• macOS distributions now reference /private/etc/ssl as the OpenSSL directory.
• macOS distributions no longer build libedit and ncurses and instead use the system installed libraries.
• There are now various *-install_only-*.tar.gz release artifacts containing a gzipped tar archive of just the Python installation. These artifacts can be more readily consumed by tools just wanting to run a Python interpreter.