- Refactor all code by category
- Continue Python 3.9 support testing
- Finalize Python 3.8 support
- Remove support for python < 3.8
- Python 3.8 features driving the deprecation of Python < 3.8
- Parallel filesystem cache for compiled bytecode
- f-strings support a handy = specifier for debugging
- multiprocessing can now use shared memory segments
- Typing-related: PEP 591 (Final qualifier)
- PEP 586 (Literal types)
- PEP 589 (TypedDict)
- and, yes, just a few (PEP 572) assignment expressions