diff --git a/packages/python/build.sh b/packages/python/build.sh
index c36bff5e5..ae49951b3 100644
--- a/packages/python/build.sh
+++ b/packages/python/build.sh
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://python.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Python 3 programming language intended to enable clear programs"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="PythonPL"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-_MAJOR_VERSION=3.9
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.7
+_MAJOR_VERSION=3.10
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.0
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/Python-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=f8145616e68c00041d1a6399b76387390388f8359581abc24432bb969b5e3c57
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=5a99f8e7a6a11a7b98b4e75e0d1303d3832cada5534068f69c7b6222a7b1b002
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="gdbm, libandroid-support, libbz2, libcrypt, libffi, liblzma, libsqlite, ncurses, ncurses-ui-libs, openssl, readline, zlib"
 TERMUX_PKG_RECOMMENDS="clang, make, pkg-config"
 TERMUX_PKG_SUGGESTS="python-tkinter"