# Python 3.14.5 is out!

DevFeed: [Python 3.14.5 is out!](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/python-3-14-5-is-out-2398.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.python.org/2026/05/python-3145-is-out/>)

Author: Hugo van Kemenade

Published: 2026-05-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Python Insider](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/python-insider.md>)

Topics: [Python 3.14](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python-3-14.md>), [Python](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/python.md>), [Compression](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compression.md>), [JIT](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jit.md>), [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [macOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/macos.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>)

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## AI overview

Python 3.14.5 is the fifth maintenance release in the Python 3.14 series, with approximately 154 bug fixes, build improvements, and documentation changes. It reverts the incremental garbage collector to the generational collector used in Python 3.13 because of reported production memory pressure. The release also updates Tcl/Tk on macOS and documents major Python 3.14 features, including free-threaded support, deferred annotation evaluation, template string literals, multiple interpreters, Zstandard support, debugging interfaces, an experimental JIT, and Android binaries.

## Source excerpt

A special release with a new (old) garbage collector.