<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div><span class="highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none;">Hello,</span></span></span></span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div>I have posted this to the users' list, but apparently, this is the right place to go (thanks for pointing that out, <span class="highlight" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><span class="colour" style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"><span class="font" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none;">Nicolas.<span> </span></span></span></span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have noticed that QGIS 3.18 for Windows has shipped with Python 3.9, after having updated to 3.8 just a couple of versions ago.<br></div><div><br></div><div>As a plugin developer, it becomes very difficult to track things and make sure plugins are up-to-date in the face of changing Python versions, especially when the move is to a bleeding-edge version such as 3.9 right now.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I also perused GitHub and this mailing list and saw that Python 3.7 is the minimum version for *nix systems, so I am a little at loss with this move to Python 3.9 with QGIS for Windows. <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/197" target="_blank">Aggressive Dependency Bump for 3.18 · Issue #197 · qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals (github.com)</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>What channels should I be plugged into to learn about these changes and offer input as a plugin developer? Is there such a channel?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Pedro<br></div></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>