CHANGELOG.md

4 April 2026

• Add 3.13.13 and 3.14.4.

3 March 2026

• Add 3.10.20, 3.11.15, and 3.12.13.

22 December 2025

• Fix Python 3.10 Launcher error on Windows Vista if more than one Python version is installed.
• Rebuild 3.9-3.14 to stop using global variables in patches. The global variables held the risk of introducing race conditions with subinterpreters in multithreaded environments.
• Add 3.13.11 and 3.14.2.

2 December 2025

• Add 3.13.10 and 3.14.1.

14 October 2025

• Add 3.13.9.

10 October 2025

• Add 3.9.24, 3.10.19, 3.11.14, and 3.12.12.

7 October 2025

• Add 3.13.8.
• Replace 3.14.0rc3 with 3.14.0.

25 September 2025

• Rebuild all packages to support Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2.
• Add 3.8, which does not officially support Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2.
• Rename the repository from PythonWin7 to PythonVista.
• Fix an error installing the Universal C Runtime (python/cpython#138896) for versions that are affected by the bug.
• Clean up the enable-win7-install patch files by splitting them into build-full-installer and restore-vista-handling patch files.
• Replace 3.14.0rc2 with 3.14.0rc3.

4 September 2025

• Rebuild all packages to correct the version of Visual Studio required to use the debug symbols and debug binaries.
• Remove index line from patch files. These are unnecessary.
• Update README.md and Notes.md to stop labeling the free-threaded build as experimental for Python 3.14.

20 August 2025

• Remove note to build from a path that does not contain spaces due to an error when executing gendef. This is no longer required in Python 3.9+ due to https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f5690925df897cf45818bf944b28d13f37b9f8ca.

19 August 2025

• Rebuild all packages to use https://github.com/adang1345/api-ms-win-core-path instead of https://github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK. Use the Visual Studio 2022 toolset for all builds.
• Add 3.13.7.
• Replace 3.14.0rc1 with 3.14.0rc2.

Previous

• Project was first published on 6 September 2022 due to a request at adang1345/PythonWindows#8. This project's history was not recorded until 19 August 2025.