# Freethreading builds for official Python container images

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/freethreading-builds-for-official-python-container-images/108708>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [August 23, 2026, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/freethreading-builds-for-official-python-container-images/108708 "2026-08-23T12:06:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Chaz6](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/chaz6/32/22304_2.png) [@Chaz6](https://discuss.python.org/u/Chaz6)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 12:06pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/freethreading-builds-for-official-python-container-images/108708/1 "2026-08-23T12:06:01Z")

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To promote usage of no-GIL it would be great to have official freethreading container images. The latest python tag is `3.14.7`. I suggest also tagging `3.14.7-freethreading` (and associated images, e.g. `3.14.7-freethreading-trixie`.

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**Author:** ![tiran](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/tiran/32/48_2.png) [@tiran](https://discuss.python.org/u/tiran)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2026, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/freethreading-builds-for-official-python-container-images/108708/2 "2026-08-24T09:08:09Z")

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Are you referring to the images on Docker Hub? The Docker “official images” for Python are maintained by the Docker community. They are not affiliated with Python community, PSF, or Python core in any sort or form.

You can reach out to the maintainers on [GitHub - docker-library/python: Docker Official Image packaging for Python · GitHub](https://github.com/docker-library/python). You might be interested in the upstream ticket [Provide 3.13t & 3.14t images · Issue #1082 · docker-library/python · GitHub](https://github.com/docker-library/python/issues/1082), too.