# Python 3.12.2 and 3.11.8 released
**URL:** https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-12-2-and-3-11-8-released/45268
**Category:** Committers
**Tags:** release
**Created:** [February 7, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-12-2-and-3-11-8-released/45268 "2024-02-07T13:31:31Z")
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### Author:  [@thomas](https://discuss.python.org/u/thomas)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-12-2-and-3-11-8-released/45268/1 "2024-02-07T13:31:31Z")
# Python 3.12.2 and 3.11.8 are here\[1\]!
In addition to all the usual bugfixes, these releases contain a small security fix: [hidden .pth files are no longer automatically read and executed](https://docs.python.org/release/3.12.2/whatsnew/changelog.html#security) as part of Python startup. (New releases of 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10 containing the same fix are expected next week.)
# Python 3.12.2
> **[Python Release Python 3.12.2](https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3122/)**
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> The official home of the Python Programming Language
Python 3.12’s second bugfix release. In addition to the mentioned security fix and the usual slew of bug fixes, build changes and documentation updates (more than 350 commits), this is also the first release to include a [Software Bill-of-Materials for the source packages](https://discuss.python.org/t/create-and-distribute-software-bill-of-materials-sbom-for-python-artifacts/39293) (Python-3.12.2.tgz and Python-3.12.2.tar.xz). [Full changelog](https://docs.python.org/release/3.12.2/whatsnew/changelog.html).
# Python 3.11.8
> **[Python Release Python 3.11.8](https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3118/)**
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> The official home of the Python Programming Language
More than 300 commits of bug fixes, build changes and documentation updates. [Full changelog](https://docs.python.org/release/3.11.8/whatsnew/changelog.html).
# We hope you enjoy the new releases!
Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself, or through contributions to [the Python Software Foundation](https://www.python.org/psf-landing/) or [CPython itself](https://github.com/sponsors/python).
Thomas Wouters @thomas
on behalf of your release team,
Ned Deily @nad
Steve Dower @steve.dower
Pablo Galindo Salgado @pablogsal
Łukasz Langa @ambv
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1. Actually they’ve been here since last night, but we decided to get some sleep before sending the announcements.
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### Author:  [@brettcannon](https://discuss.python.org/u/brettcannon)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2024, 10:40pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-12-2-and-3-11-8-released/45268/2 "2024-02-07T22:40:29Z")
WASI releases at [Releases · brettcannon/cpython-wasi-build · GitHub](https://github.com/brettcannon/cpython-wasi-build/releases) .
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### Author:  [@barry](https://discuss.python.org/u/barry)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-12-2-and-3-11-8-released/45268/3 "2024-02-07T23:45:29Z")
CI container releases at [[Files · main · python-devs / ci-images · GitLab](https://gitlab.com/python-devs/ci-images/-/tree/main)].
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### Author:  [@sethmlarson](https://discuss.python.org/u/sethmlarson)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-12-2-and-3-11-8-released/45268/4 "2024-02-08T18:39:29Z")
Python 3.12.2 is the first release to have [Software Bill-of-Materials documents available for source releases](https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2024/02/software-bill-of-materials-now-available-for-cpython.html)! 🥳
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### Author:  [@vstinner](https://discuss.python.org/u/vstinner)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2024, 10:28pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-12-2-and-3-11-8-released/45268/5 "2024-02-08T22:28:44Z")
> [@sethmlarson](#):
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> Python 3.12.2 is the first release to have [Software Bill-of-Materials documents available for source releases](https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2024/02/software-bill-of-materials-now-available-for-cpython.html)! 🥳
Congratulations!
Note! “Congrats!” is too short for Discourse, haha.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.python.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-12-2-and-3-11-8-released/45268/6 "2025-02-06T13:32:38Z")
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