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On September 11th, 2018 the OpenSSL team released a Long Term Support (LTS) version (1.1.1) of OpenSSL which will be supported by the community and the core team for the next five years.  This LTS release includes many new features such as TLS 1.3, ABI version compatibility, new cryptography algorithms, and an overhaul in many areas to the random number generators included in OpenSSL.

This year at WWDC Apple announced a new feature called Siri Shortcuts.  Siri Shortcuts now allows users to create custom voice commands to trigger Siri to perform actions on a device.  The announcement of Siri Shortcuts is big news for both end users and developers as configuring a custom voice command is as easy as setting up a new statement on the Shortcuts dashboard or providing a new Intent via the Intent API.

Python just received a minor version update to Python 3.7 with many new performance enhancements, added features, and module improvements to the language.   One of the existing Python modules in 3.7 that received some nice new enhancements is the ssl module.

Python is about to get a nice new update with many new feature enhancement, performance improvements, and redesigned modules with the release of Python 3.7.  At the time of writing this article a release candidate is available today by visiting CPython's github page and checking out branch 3.7. In this two part series I am writing about two updates to Python 3.7 that I feel will benefit the language in regards to networking.

As you may have heard Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference was last week in San Jose, California showcasing all of the latest updates across all of the Apple platforms.  Since Apple and Unix technologies are something I am heavily invested in I thought I would take a few minutes and provide an overview of the Siri and Networking updates that came out of WWDC 2018 that I found interesting.