blog After three beta releases in the 1.4 series, Release 1.4.0 is finally available. This is the most extensive release for SQLAlchemy in at least ten years, featuring a major rethink of the most prominent APIs in Core and ORM, vastly revised internals, and a wide range of significant new features and capabilities. SQLAlchemy 1.4 establishes itself as the starting point for the SQLAlchemy 2.0 project, which will move fully to Python 3 only as well as finalize the new APIs introduced in release 1.4.0. The topmost highlights of SQLAlchemy 1.4.0 include: The approach used to generate SELECT and other SQL statements for both Core and ORM is now