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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2014-09-19 21:23:21 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2014-09-19 21:23:21 (GMT) |
| commit | ce30237493766aa5419768f3113651b169486513 (patch) | |
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whatsnew for pep 466 ssl backport
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst index a622496..da0fdb6 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst @@ -2565,6 +2565,17 @@ with the first of those changes appearing in the Python 2.7.7 release. on python.org (contributed by Zachary Ware in :issue:`21671` for CVE-2014-0224) +:pep:`466` related features added in Python 2.7.9: + +* Most of Python 3.4's :mod:`ssl` module was backported. This means :mod:`ssl` + now supports Server Name Indication, TLS1.x settings, access to the platform + certificate store, the :class:`~ssl.SSLContext` class, and other + features. (Contributed by Alex Gaynor and David Reid in :issue:`21308`.) + +* :func:`os.urandomn` was changed to cache a file descriptor to ``/dev/urandom`` + instead of reopening ``/dev/urandom`` on every call. (Contributed by Alex + Gaynor in :issue:`21305`.) + .. ====================================================================== |