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News, updates, and resources from the Astral ecosystem.
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Latest announcements, engineering writeups, and product updates from Astral.
April 8, 2026
Open source security at Astral
Insights and guidance from our engineering team on how Astral secures its tools.
March 19, 2026
Astral to join OpenAI
Astral has entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team.
February 3, 2026
Ruff v0.15.0
The next stable version of Ruff is out now.
December 16, 2025
ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server
ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust, and designed as an alternative to mypy, Pyright, and Pylance.
October 7, 2025
Python 3.14
Python 3.14 is out today along with updates for Ruff and uv.
September 10, 2025
Ruff v0.13.0
The next stable version of Ruff is out now.
August 28, 2025
Astral OSS Fund: One Year Later
One year later: Astral donated $70,000 to open source projects and is pledging another $44,000 for year two.
August 13, 2025
pyx: a Python-native package registry
The first piece of the Astral platform, now in Beta.
August 13, 2025
A variant-enabled build of uv
In collaboration with PyTorch, NVIDIA, and Quansight, we've released an experimental build of uv with support for wheel variants.
August 7, 2025
uv security advisory: ZIP payload obfuscation
We're releasing a security advisory for uv due to ZIP parsing differentials which allow an attacker to bypass common Python security scanners.
June 12, 2025
Ruff v0.12.0
The next stable version of Ruff is out now.
March 13, 2025
Ruff v0.10.0
The next stable version of Ruff is out now.
January 9, 2025
Ruff v0.9.0
The new 2025 formatter style guide, rule stabilizations, and more
December 3, 2024
A new home for python-build-standalone
Astral is taking stewardship of python-build-standalone, Gregory Szorc's foundational project for installing portable Python distributions.
November 21, 2024
Ruff v0.8.0
The next stable version of Ruff is out now.
October 17, 2024
Ruff v0.7.0
The next stable version of Ruff is out now.
August 20, 2024
uv: Unified Python packaging
Manage entire Python projects and even Python itself with a single unified tool.
August 15, 2024
Ruff v0.6.0
The next stable version of Ruff is out now.
July 18, 2024
Announcing the Astral OSS Fund
Astral is creating a fund to support open source projects and maintainers.
June 27, 2024
Ruff v0.5.0
The next stable version of Ruff is out now.
May 22, 2024
Ruff v0.4.5
Ruff's integrated language server is now in Beta.
April 18, 2024
Ruff v0.4.0
Ruff migrates to a hand-written recursive descent parser: >2x faster, with error recovery capabilities.
February 29, 2024
Ruff v0.3.0
The next stable version of Ruff is out now.
February 15, 2024
uv: fast Python packaging in Rust
uv is an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, designed as a drop-in alternative to pip and pip-tools.
February 1, 2024
Ruff v0.2.0
The next stable version of Ruff is out now.
December 13, 2023
Ruff v0.1.8
Ruff adds support for formatting code snippets in docstrings and auto-quoting type annotations.
November 9, 2023
Ruff v0.1.5
Ruff adds editor support for Jupyter Notebooks, support for `flake8-trio`, and more.
October 24, 2023
The Ruff Formatter
Ruff's formatter is over 30x faster than existing tools, while maintaining >99.9% compatibility with Black.
October 12, 2023
Ruff v0.1.0
Ruff adds a versioning policy, fix safety levels, and a preview mode for unstable features.
October 5, 2023
Ruff v0.0.292
Ruff adds support for Python 3.12, plus new rules, bug fixes, and more.
