release date: mid-april

wanted:

• Jupyterlab-4.1.2+
• simplify WinPython core, core requirements, and icons
• python-3.12.3
• python-3.13.0a6 (a 3% boost over 3.12 ... JIT not included as not adding 5% boost yet , making final 3.13 hope at +8-10%)
• numpy-2 / Pandas-3 anticipation work: dependant packages started to appear April11th (2 ok, 11 waiting, 2 suspects, 8 not ready), numpy team follow-up is there: Ecosystem compatibility with numpy 2.0 numpy/numpy#26191

focus:

• Operation Research
• simplification of maintenance:
  • icons removed: (going from 17 down to 11)
    • IDLEX: standard IDLE provides the line numbering
    • Pyzo: dying project
    • WinPython Powershell Prompt: Terminal does the same better in Windows 11
    • Qtassistant, Qtdesigner, Qtlinguist: make room
  • icon usage change:
    • WinPython Control Panel redirects to the command line WPPM

Exploratory:

• llm, phy-2, https://webllm.mlc.ai/, onnx
• simplifying the build to fit into uv pip + hatch ... may reduce maintenance time effort per 50%.
• from what seems maximal simplification to aim (but not reachable yet):
  . WinPython launchers would point directly at a python program
  . Less WinPython launchers or associated code
  . big WinPython would just be a requirement file with Lockfiles

Direction:

• speed-debt reduction:
  • python 3.13 ideas
  • python 3.13 facts
  • python 3.13 'free-threading' progress
  • array-api-standard to speed-up numeric (near parity with others langages)
  • reducing the python adoption lag on popularity/cloud/packages currently of 3/2/0.5 years
• discussions on how python will make parallelism easy
• in-rust packages are more and more trendy and mainly "universal" binaries: use them more
• ubiquity:
  • in browser: Jupyterlite prototype (https://stonebig.github.io/my_demo_4/lab/index.html),
  • WASI: a local jupyterlite ?
  • in Excel: asks Operational Research packages
  • in Windows Store: a requirement file