Back at the end of July, the Python steering council announced
its intention to approve the proposal to make the global interpreter lock
(GIL) optional over the next few Python releases. The details of that
acceptance are still being decided on, but work on the feature is
proceeding—in discussion form at least. Beyond that, though, there are
efforts underway to solve that hardest of problems in computer
science, naming, for the no-GIL version.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Progress on no-GIL CPython