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release date: end april 2025

wanted:

numpy-2.2
Jupyterlab-4.4
numba-0.61.1+
reduce further technical debt and simplify maintainance:
- best code is simpler code that AIs won't screw up ... will obviously need another cycle
- reduced and modernize code, easier to read
continue rework to PEP-751 and signed wheels idea
- all wheels are now updated from pypi with hash256 control
- a requirements with hashtags to check (sha256) is provided, allowing "pip install -r requirement.txt --require-hashes"
- a lockfile and a WinPython variant with its "WheelHouse" is next cycle aim
- explore trusted publisher workflow, requires twine-6.1.0
local AI use ... moved to next cycle
the last Python-3.12 iteration

Experiment:

local AI packages: DeepSeek R1 still claims 32Go Ram and 256Gb disk ? Microsoft released a "1bit" version
check if free-threading is aiming 3x speed-up with 4+4 cpu, on Windows, the "interesting" bar ... 2.5x for alpha7

Direction:

Help Python Sustainability by favorising :
- latest ( = more efficient and maintained) python
- dataframe API protocol: latest numpy ... in the limit of Numba support
- browser interfaces (and WebApp): Jupyterlite includes Duckdb, Polars-0.18.0 is now possible in pyodide-0.27
WinPython sustainability:
- make code AI-maintainable to simplify maintainance
- Goal is also to reduce WinPython to:
  - a minimal quantity of readable simple code
  - a list of wheels with signatures, available also from pip, with hash check, that could be provided un-installed
  - ... the Wheel-Next initiative may help https://wheelnext.dev/summits/2025_03/slidedecks_and_resources/
  - ... also PEP 751 "common Lockfile standard" was accepted this cycle https://peps.python.org/pep-0751/
  - ... also PEP 784 "zstandard in stdlib" was accepted this cycle, giving hope for smaller Wheels for 3.14 ?

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