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levenshtein

What changed in levenshtein 0.27, from its official release notes, upgrade guides and advisories. Sources checked 2026-10-26.

4 breaking3 security1 tooling4 fixes and other

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levenshtein 0.2712 changes

Breaking changes 4

Removes support for Python 3.10.
0.27.5release notes
Experimental Python 3.13 freethreading wheels were removed.
0.27.4release notes
Wheels for ppc64le are dropped because they are virtually unused and require extremely long builds under emulation.
0.27.3release notes
Wheels for s390x are dropped because they are virtually unused and require extremely long builds under emulation.
0.27.3release notes

Security 3

Fixed a potential out-of-bounds write.
0.27.4release notes
Fixed an out-of-bounds read for empty strings.
0.27.4release notes
Fixed an out-of-bounds read for empty sequences.
0.27.4release notes

Tooling 1

Type hints were added for StringMatcher.
0.27.4release notes

Fixes and other changes 4

Avoids unnecessary len calls on iterables, preventing a crash when an iterable changes size after the len call.
0.27.5release notes
Adds support for Python 3.15.
0.27.5release notes
Missing freethreaded Linux wheels are now provided.
0.27.3release notes
Missing PyPy wheels are now provided.
0.27.3release notes