The release of llm‑anthropic 0.27 updates the Anthropic plugin for LLM to be compatible with the newly released anthropic v1.0.0 Python library, which has switched from httpx to httpx2. This mirrors a similar change made by OpenAI in their v3.0.0 release two weeks prior. The update includes a migration guide and a pull request that ensures tests pass after upgrading to anthropic>=1.
EVE Online is beginning its transition to Python 3, a move that will involve using the futurize script on 2.4 million lines of code and a manual review of about 20,000 differences between Python 2 and Python 3. The company has historically run on Stackless Python since 2003, with the last major upgrade in 2010 to Stackless Python 2.7. While the announcement does not detail how Stackless will be replaced, the team previously showcased a shift away from Stackless in their Carbon engine for EVE Frontier, leveraging the open‑source carbonengine/scheduler library.
Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.
The release of llm-gemini 0.34 introduces the new Gemini 3.8‑Flash model, available in low, medium, and high thinking levels, and fixes an issue where async responses failed to record the resolved model version. The update also notes that Google has released Gemini 3.8‑Flash (and a restricted 3.8 Flash Cyber version) today, with example outputs (pelicans) demonstrating the model’s performance across the different thinking levels. The author highlights Gemini Flash’s speed, low cost, and competence in generating HTML, JavaScript, and Markdown‑SVG content, citing a 13‑second, 1.8‑cent example of an HTML output.
Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 has been released, marking the final release candidate for the upcoming 3.15 release scheduled for October. Hugo van Kemenade, the release manager, notes that only clear bug‑fix changes are allowed between this candidate and the final release, and urges third‑party maintainers to prepare wheels on PyPI and test their projects during this phase. The new RC is not yet available for GitHub Actions, but users can add it to their testing matrix using the allow‑prereleases and check‑latest flags to automatically test against the latest RC and then the stable release.
Farid Zakaria’s trynix.dev lets users run any Nix package from the past 13 years inside a browser‑based x86_64 Linux VM powered by QEMU‑WASM. By providing URL‑addressable packages, a user can simply navigate to a link such as https://trynix.dev/?pkg=python3%403.6.2, click "Load," and obtain an interactive shell running that specific package. The platform is also integrated with GitHub Actions, enabling pull‑request reviews that launch the PR’s build directly in the browser via trynix-preview.
Release: llm 0. 32.
Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available After a two year preview, Cloudflare's support for running Python code in their server-side Workers platform is now stable: "Python is now a first-class, fully supported language on the Cloudflare Developer Platform". A neat thing about this is how it works.
Mojo🔥 is now open source The Mojo programming language has been promising an open source release since May 2023 . Last week they shipped their 1.
Research: A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1. 4's new Bun.
Release: llm-gemini 0. 33 It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release.
GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message: GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable as part of a scheduled retirement brownout. That message is already stale, because the retirement has been completed.