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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2002-03-14 19:06:01 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2002-03-14 19:06:01 (GMT)
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News about zlib-1.1.4.
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@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ Core and builtins
Extension modules
+- A security hole ("double free") was found in zlib-1.1.3, a popular
+ third party compression library used by some Python modules. The
+ hole was quickly plugged in zlib-1.1.4, and the Windows build of
+ Python now ships with zlib-1.1.4.
+
- pwd and grp return enhanced tuples now, with symbolic field names.
- array.array is now a type object. A new format character