Bump to 3.6.2rc1 development.

2 files changed, 51 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index 54a9ab6..a658e9f 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	0
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION      	"3.6.1"
+#define PY_VERSION      	"3.6.1+"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4807bd0..bb37f04 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,56 @@
 Python News
 +++++++++++
 
+What's New in Python 3.6.2 release candidate 1?
+===============================================
+
+*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- bpo-29859: Show correct error messages when any of the pthread_* calls in
+  thread_pthread.h fails.
+
+- bpo-28876: ``bool(range)`` works even if ``len(range)``
+  raises :exc:`OverflowError`.
+
+- bpo-29600: Fix wrapping coroutine return values in StopIteration.
+
+- bpo-28856: Fix an oversight that %b format for bytes should support objects
+  follow the buffer protocol.
+
+- bpo-29714: Fix a regression that bytes format may fail when containing zero
+  bytes inside.
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- bpo-25455: Fixed crashes in repr of recursive buffered file-like objects.
+
+- bpo-29800: Fix crashes in partial.__repr__ if the keys of partial.keywords
+  are not strings.  Patch by Michael Seifert.
+
+- bpo-29742: get_extra_info() raises exception if get called on closed ssl transport.
+  Patch by Nikolay Kim.
+
+- bpo-8256: Fixed possible failing or crashing input() if attributes "encoding"
+  or "errors" of sys.stdin or sys.stdout are not set or are not strings.
+
+- bpo-28298: Fix a bug that prevented array 'Q', 'L' and 'I' from accepting big
+  intables (objects that have __int__) as elements.  Patch by Oren Milman.
+
+- bpo-28231: The zipfile module now accepts path-like objects for external
+  paths.
+
+- bpo-26915: index() and count() methods of collections.abc.Sequence now
+  check identity before checking equality when do comparisons.
+
+- bpo-29615: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher no longer chains KeyError (or any other
+  exception) to exception(s) raised in the dispatched methods.
+  Patch by Petr Motejlek.
+
+
 What's New in Python 3.6.1?
 ===========================