20241205

This release includes a regression for free-threaded Python 3.13 on Windows. No other distribution versions are affected. The regression is resolved in 20241206 See #405 for details.

Breaking

• Drop support for Python 3.8: The 20241008 release was the last release with Python 3.8 distributions. Support has now been removed from the build process.
• Rename python3.13t.exe to python.exe in Windows free-threaded distributions: This matches the other Windows distributions. See astral-sh/uv#8298 for discussion.

Upgrades

• CPython 3.9.20 -> 3.9.21
• CPython 3.10.15 -> 3.10.16
• CPython 3.11.10 -> 3.11.11
• CPython 3.12.7 -> 3.12.8
• CPython 3.13.0 -> 3.13.1
• binutils 2.42 -> 2.43
• jom-windows-bin 1.1.3 -> 1.1.4
• mpdecimal 2.5.1 -> 4.0.0
• pip 24.1.2 -> 24.3.1
• setuptools 70.3.0 -> 75.6.0
• SQLite 3.46.0 -> 3.47.1
• strawberryperl 5.28.1.1 -> 5.38.2.2
• x11-util-macros 1.20.0 -> 1.20.1

Fixes

• Use relocatable shebang with space-in-path robustness
• Enable support for dbstat virtual tables in SQLite via SQLITE_ENABLE_DBSTAT_VTAB
• Ensure that Hacl_Hash_SHA2 does not appear as a library to link to

Other

• Build with Visual Studio 2022 instead of 2019

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