Release: Elastic Beanstalk Amazon Linux AMI platform update for Python on April 19, 2021 - AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Release: Elastic Beanstalk Amazon Linux AMI platform update for Python on April 19, 2021

This release provides a new version for the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Python platform based on Amazon Linux AMI. The release includes security updates. It also includes a component update on the Python platform.

Release date: April 19, 2021

Changes

Today we're releasing an update for the Python platform based on Amazon Linux AMI, to fix an emergent issue. We will follow with an update for the rest of the Amazon Linux AMI platforms at a later date.

The following table lists the changes included in this release.

Note

Be aware that at the time these release notes are published, the new platform versions might not yet be available in all the AWS Regions that Elastic Beanstalk supports. It might take a few hours for the release to complete.

Category Description

Security updates

Applied all security updates published in the Amazon Linux Security Center on or before April 7, 2021 to the released platform.

Platform-specific updates

Made these platform-specific updates:

Platform Update

Python

Updated setuptools to setuptools 56.0.0. The previous version included in the platform didn't support SNI, and this started to impact customers due to the deprecation of non-SNI compatible clients.

New platform versions

Note

The following tables list all supported platform branches for each platform. Only Amazon Linux AMI platform branches are updated.

These platforms are updated:

Python

Platform Version and Solution Stack Name

AMI

Language

Package Manager

Packager

meld3

AWS X‑Ray

Proxy Server

Python 3.8 AL2 version 3.2.1

64bit Amazon Linux 2 v3.2.1 running Python 3.8

2.0.20210326

Python 3.8.5

pipenv 2020.8.13

3.2.0

nginx 1.18.0 (default), Apache 2.4.46

Python 3.7 AL2 version 3.2.1

64bit Amazon Linux 2 v3.2.1 running Python 3.7

2.0.20210326

Python 3.7.9

pipenv 2020.8.13

3.2.0

nginx 1.18.0 (default), Apache 2.4.46

Python 3.6 version 2.10.0

64bit Amazon Linux 2018.03 v2.10.0 running Python 3.6

2018.03.0

Python 3.6.12

pip 9.0.3

setuptools 56.0.0

meld3 1.0.2

3.1.0

Apache 2.4.46 with mod_wsgi 3.5