pandas 3.0 Lands Breaking Changes and Other Python News for February 2026
Last month brought exciting performance news for Python! The Python 3.15 alphas showed JIT compiler speed gains of up to 7–8% on some platforms, while pandas released version 3.0, delivering the most significant performance improvements in years. The Python Software Foundation also received considerable investments in Python security and launched the 2026 Python Developers Survey, and PyTorch 2.10 deprecated TorchScript.
Time to dive into the biggest Python news from the past month!
Python Releases and PEP Highlights
Last month brought two Python 3.15 alpha releases in quick succession, with notable JIT compiler improvements showing promising performance gains. Several PEPs also emerged, including one proposing a cleaner way to write