What Administrators and Publishers should know

The March 2022 RStudio Connect release removes support for Python 2 and updates the minimum version supported to Python 3.5.

Why now?

Python 2.7 has reached end of life (EOL) maintenance status. On January 1, 2020, the Python language governing body ended support for this version, and they are no longer providing security patches. RStudio Connect continued to support Python 2.7 beyond its EOL status announcement, but several factors …