

Please see the Disclosure Library for more information. Cryptocurrencies are not stocks and yourĬryptocurrency investments are not protected by either FDIC or SIPC. Technology and servicesĬryptocurrency services are made available by Alpaca Crypto LLC ("AlpacaĬrypto"), a FinCEN registered money services business (NMLS # 2160858),Īnd a wholly-owned subsidiary of AlpacaDB, Inc. Securities brokerage services are provided by Alpaca Securities LLCįINRA/ SIPC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AlpacaDB, Inc. © 2023 Alpaca Crypto LLC All rights reserved. © 2023 Alpaca Securities LLC All rights reserved. Current versions of our packages will continue to work with Python 3.6, but future versions may break. We will remove Python 3.6 support from our continuous integration checks on Wednesday December 22nd 2021. You will be able to update your project to our future releases. If you are already using Python 3.7+ in your projects, this change will not affect you in any way. For future releases you might see issues and the need to upgrade your projects if you want to receive the latest updates. Your existing Python 3.6 projects will continue working with Alpaca’s current python releases. Python developers will not be receiving any further updates and support for Python 3.6 in future releases of our Python packages. Until then, we’ll continue to support and maintain our packages for all Python versions 3.7 and above. Looking ahead, Python 3.7’s end of life is on June 27 2023. You’ll need to keep track of SDK dependencies, such as numpy and pandas, on your own in order to support Python 3.6. However, bugs may appear if you decide to upgrade your package versions, due to lack of Python 3.6 support in newer releases. This doesn’t mean you can’t continue to use Python 3.6 with our Python packages. Alpaca will follow accordingly by removing support for Python 3.6 from our Python SDKs, including alpaca-trade-api-python, alpaca-backtrader, and pylivetrader.

There will not be any new updates to Python 3.6 after that date, including any bug fixes or security patches. On December 23rd 2021, Python 3.6 will reach its end of life and it will stop being maintained.
