The official blog for the Python core team — mostly release announcements.

Built with Astro and Keystatic CMS. Content is plain Markdown, built statically at deploy time.

Bun — the JavaScript runtime used for this project.

# macOS
brew install oven-sh/bun/bun

# Linux / WSL
curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash

# Windows — use WSL, then the Linux command above

See bun.sh/docs/installation for other methods.

prek (optional) — runs pre-commit hooks locally. Only needed if you want to run linting/spellcheck before pushing. CI will catch these regardless.

# macOS
brew install prefix-dev/prek/prek

# Linux / Windows (standalone installer)
curl -fsSL https://prek.j178.dev/install.sh | bash

# Or via cargo / pip / other methods
cargo install prek

See prek.j178.dev/installation for all installation options.

git clone https://github.com/python/python-insider-blog.git
cd python-insider-blog
make install   # installs node_modules + git hooks
make dev       # starts dev server at http://127.0.0.1:4321

make install runs bun install (dependencies) and prek install (git hooks). If you don't have prek installed, the hook setup will fail but everything else still works — you can write and preview posts without it.

1. Run make dev
2. Open http://127.0.0.1:4321/keystatic in your browser
3. Create or edit a post with the visual editor
4. Commit and open a pull request

Create a new directory under content/posts/ named after your post slug, with an index.md inside:

content/posts/python-31213-31115-31020/
└── index.md

Frontmatter fields:

---
title: "Python 3.12.13, 3.11.15, and 3.10.20 are now available"
description: "Security fix release for Python 3.12, 3.11, and 3.10"
authors:
  - thomas-wouters
tags:
  - "3.12"
  - "3.11"
  - "3.10"
pubDate: 2026-03-03
draft: false
previousBloggerUrl: ""
---

Then write the body in standard Markdown. Open a PR when done.

Author profiles live in content/authors/{id}.json. If you're writing your first post, create one (or use the Make target):

make content-new-author ID=your-name NAME="Your Name"

Then edit the JSON to add your GitHub handle, avatar URL, etc.

Run make help for the complete list.

content/
  authors/       # Author profiles (JSON)
  posts/         # Blog posts (Markdown + images)
src/
  components/    # Astro/React components
  layouts/       # Page layouts
  pages/         # Astro routes
  plugins/       # Remark plugins (reference badges, etc.)
  assets/        # Styles, fonts