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PyPI beta announcement

[This page is a draft and not to be used/publicized until we close out the "publicize beta" milestone. That'll probably be by March 25, 2018.]

The new Python Package Index is now in beta at https://pypi.org/. We predict the full switch will happen in April 2018 (roadmap), so here's a heads-up about why we're switching, what's changed, and what to expect. To get an email when the new site replaces the old one, please sign up for the low-traffic PyPI announcements email list.

Context

The legacy PyPI site https://pypi.python.org started in the early 2000s. Users face outages, malicious packages, and spam attacks, and the legacy codebase has made it hard to maintain and even harder to develop new features.

The new PyPI http://pypi.org/ (codebase: Warehouse) has a far more modern look, and is up-to-date under the hood too; a proper web framework (Pyramid), 100% backend test coverage, and a Docker-based development environment make it easier for current and new developers to maintain it and add features.

Thanks to Mozilla's Open Source Support funding, developers have added many new features, overhauled infrastructure, and worked towards redirecting traffic to the new site and shutting down the old one. The full switch will include redirecting browser and pip install traffic from the old site; then, sometime in late April or early May, the legacy site will be entirely shut down.

Migrating

You may not need to change anything right away. Thanks to redirects, your sites, services, and tools will probably be able to seamlessly switch to the new site. We have a migration guide for package users and maintainers and a migration guide for API users. If you're affected by one of the deprecations below, you should adapt and migrate by early April 2018. Sign up for the low-traffic PyPI announcements email list to get a heads-up when we have a more precise date.

New PyPI Features

Deprecations

Things that already have gone away (sometimes for policy or spam-fighting reasons) include:

Things that will go away once legacy PyPI shuts down:

Further in the future:

Future

For updates, please sign up for the low-traffic PyPI announcements email list.

Security

If you find any potential security vulnerabilities, please follow our published security policy. Please don't report security issues in Warehouse via GitHub, IRC, or mailing lists. Instead, please directly email one or more of our maintainers.

Contact us

Security issues: email security @ python dot org

GitHub for all other bug reports & feature requests:https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/new

IRC: #pypa-dev on Freenode (someone's usually there 10am-5pm Central Time on weekdays)

Email: pypa-dev mailing list

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