# API Changes for 3.9.2

## Development

### Windows wheel runtime bundling made static

In 3.7.0, the MSVC runtime DLL was bundled in wheels to enable importing
Matplotlib on systems that do not have it installed. However, this could
cause inconsistencies with other wheels that did the same, and trigger
random crashes depending on import order. See [this
issue](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/28551) for
further details.

Since 3.9.2, wheels now bundle the MSVC runtime DLL statically to avoid
such issues.