Thanks Ronald! Congratulations! Definitely been looking forward to this one.
> On Jan 14, 2025, at 12:50 PM, Ronald Oussoren via Pythonmac-SIG
> <pythonmac-sig@python.org> wrote:
>
> I'm happy to announce the 11.0 release of PyObjC, slightly delayed from the
> normal major release in October.
>
> This release has two major features:
>
> Support for the macOS 15.2 SDK, including new bindings for the frameworks
> MediaExtension and DeviceDiscoveryExtension
>
> Experimental support for GIL-less operation in the free-threaded build of
> Python 3.13
>
> The latter feature is an important reason for the delay: Supporting GIL-less
> operation required reworking parts of the internals of PyObjC, both to rely
> on other locks than the GIL and to avoid CPython APIs that are known to be
> problematic when the GIL isn't present ("borrowed references" for anyone
> familiar with the CPython API).
>
> Free-threaded support is experimental at this point in time and has seen only
> limited testing for multi-threading. I've also focussed on getting the basics
> right, and have not worked at optimizing free-threading support. Expect
> improvements in future releases.
>
> With PyObjC 11 I'm dropping support for Python 3.8, given that that's gone
> out of support by the CPython team.
>
> Finally, there's a number of bug fixes and smaller features mentioned in the
> changelog at https://pyobjc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html
>
> Ronald
>
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