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Sublime Text, the cross-platform code editor, has upgraded its embedded Python runtime to version 3.14, keeping the plugin API current with the latest language release. The editor remains a lightweight alternative to full IDEs, offering a single license for use across Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.
PyPy has shipped v8.0.0, updating its Linux build infrastructure to manylinux_2_28 images based on AlmaLinux 8, glibc 2.28, and gcc14, replacing the older gcc5 toolchain. The release also lays groundwork for supporting cp312-abi3 wheels by restructuring how PyPy's internal PyObject extension field is stored and by no longer renaming exported limited-API function names.
CCP Games has started transitioning EVE Online's server codebase from Python 2.7, unchanged since 2010, to Python 3. Initial changes were already tested on the Singularity test server and have now been deployed to the live game as the first phase of a longer migration.