Brython-3.8.6

This is the same as 3.8.5 except that it fixes a regression for Web Workers.

Brython-3.8.5

Apart from a few bug fixes, this release is published to solve the problem reported in issue #1262 : the CPython brython package required CPython 3.8. It should now be usable with older versions of Python3.

Brython-3.8.4

As reported in issue #1260, pip install brython was broken in version 3.8.1... After two unsuccessful tries (3.8.2 and 3.8.3) I am releasing this version only to fix this critical issue.

Brython-3.8.1

This is mostly a bugfix version, with a few internal improvements and no significant new feature for users.

Brython-3.8.0

Brython-3.8.0 is the first version synchronized with the same CPython version. It implements the new features in CPython, notably the "walrus operator" := for assignment expressions, the definition of positional-only function
parameters, and a new f-string specifier f"{x=}" for debugging purposes.

Brython-3.7.5

The main change in this release is the new way of distributing Brython packages : see this post for more information.

It also introduces 2 backwards-incompatible changes:
. the API of browser.webcomponent has changed (cf issue #1163)
. the keyword argument async in functions get(), post() and the like in the browser.ajax module has been replaced by blocking. async is now a Python keyword and can't be used as a variable name. blocking means the opposite of async

Brython-3.7.4

This is mostly a bugfix version. The main new feature is the implementation
and documentation of Web Components, a standard technology to define custom
HTML tags, in a dedicated module browser.webcomponent.

Brython-3.7.3

This release is the same as 3.7.2, except for the critical bug reported in issue #1118 by Andy Lewis.

Brython-3.7.2

The main new feature in this release in a new implementation of the interface
to Web Workers, a standard web technology to run tasks in a separate thread to
keep the main program responsive. It is implemented in a new module,
browser.worker, which replaces the previous implementation in
browser.webworker.

Brython-3.7.1

The main change in this version is the support of asynchronous programming. The keywords async (in async def, async for and async while) and await are supported.

To run asynchronous programs, a new module, browser.aio, has been introduced as a replacement for the CPython asyncio module, which can't be ported in a browser context (no blocking functions, no user-defined
event loop).