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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-10-19 05:37:56 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2012-10-19 05:37:56 (GMT)
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- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-- Issue #15676: Now "mmap" check for empty files before doing the
- offset check. Patch by Steven Willis.
-
-- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
- of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
-
-- Issue #15000: Support the "unique" x32 architecture in _posixsubprocess.c.
-
-- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
- ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
- case of overflow has been fixed.
-
-- Issue #14212: The re module didn't retain a reference to buffers it was
- scanning, resulting in segfaults.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #15304: Fix warning message when os.chdir() fails inside
- test.support.temp_cwd(). Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-
-- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in TestMaildir.test_create_tmp. Patch
- by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
- UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected
- tests in test_posix.py to account for this.
-
-- Issue #15285: Refactor the approach for testing connect timeouts using
- two external hosts that have been configured specifically for this type
- of test.
-
-- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the json module's handling of invalid
- input data. Patch by Kushal Das.
-
-- Issue #15496: Add directory removal helpers for tests on Windows.
- Patch by Jeremy Kloth.
-
-- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support.
- Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15320: Make iterating the list of tests thread-safe when running
- tests in multiprocess mode. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-
-- Issue #15230: Adopted a more systematic approach in the runpy tests
-
-- Issue #15300: Ensure the temporary test working directories are in the same
- parent folder when running tests in multiprocess mode from a Python build.
- Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-
-- test_nntplib now tolerates being run from behind NNTP gateways that add
- "X-Antivirus" headers to articles
-
-- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
- block loading of the gdb hooks
-
-- Issue #14026: In test_cmd_line_script, check that sys.argv is populated
- correctly for the various invocation approaches (Patch by Jason Yeo)
-
-- Issue #14032: Fix incorrect variable name in test_cmd_line_script debugging
- message (Patch by Jason Yeo)
-
-- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
- a test failure in test_ssl.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #15923: fix a mistake in asdl_c.py that resulted in a TypeError after
- 2801bf875a24 (see #15801).
-
-- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development
- tools (dpkg-dev) installed.
-
-- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly
- source directory. (Somewhat related to Issue #9860.)
-
-- Issue #15822: Ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed.
-
-- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK.
-
-- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
-
-- Issue #14197: For OS X framework builds, ensure links to the shared
- library are created with the proper ABI suffix.
-
-- Issue #14472: Update .gitignore. Patch by Matej Cepl.
-
-- The Windows build now uses OpenSSL 1.0.0j and bzip2 1.0.6.
-
-- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
-
-- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
-
-- Issue #14387: Do not include accu.h from Python.h.
-
-- Issue #14359: Only use O_CLOEXEC in _posixmodule.c if it is defined.
- Based on patch from Hervé Coatanhay.
-
-- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #16115: Improve subprocess.Popen() documentation around args, shell,
- and executable arguments.
-
-- Issue #13498: Clarify docs of os.makedirs()'s exist_ok argument. Done with
- great native-speaker help from R. David Murray.
-
-- Issue #15533: Clarify docs and add tests for subprocess.Popen()'s cwd
- argument.
-
-- Issue #15979: Improve timeit documentation.
-
-- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in int()'s signature and
- arguments.
-
-- Issue #15935: Clarification of argparse docs, re: add_argument() type and
- default arguments. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
-
-- Issue #11964: Document a change in v3.2 to the behavior of the indent
- parameter of json encoding operations.
-
-- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance.
- Patch by Chris Rebert.
-
-- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by
- Daniel Ellis.
-
-- Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names. Patch
- by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue 15482: Properly document the default 'level' value for __import__()
- while warning about using negative values.
-
-- Issue #15230: Clearly document some of the limitations of the runpy
- module and nudge readers towards importlib when appropriate.
-
-- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
- execfile().
-
-- Issue #8799: Fix and improve the threading.Condition documentation.
-
-- Issue #14943: Correct a default argument value for winreg.OpenKey
- and correctly list the argument names in the function's explanation.
-
-- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
-
-- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
- contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
-
-- Issue #15378: Fix Tools/unicode/comparecodecs.py. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #14695: Fix missing support for starred assignments in
- Tools/parser/unparse.py.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.2.3?
-===========================
-
-*Release date: 10-Apr-2012*
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #14387: Work around a problem building extension modules under Windows
- by undefining ``small`` before use in the Python headers.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.2.3 release candidate 2?
-===============================================
-
-*Release date: 18-Mar-2012*
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
- on Windows.
-
-Extension Modules
------------------
-
-- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
- table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
- denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some
- modifications by the expat project.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.2.3 release candidate 1?
-===============================================
-
-*Release date: 24-Feb-2012*
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED
- environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of
- service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch
- by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.
-
-- Issue #14084: Fix a file descriptor leak when importing a module with a
- bad encoding.
-
-- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
- fails. Patch by Suman Saha.
-
-- Issue #13908: Ready types returned from PyType_FromSpec.
-
-- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
- modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.
-
-- Fix the builtin module initialization code to store the init function for
- future reinitialization.
-
-- Issue #8052: The posix subprocess module would take a long time closing
- all possible file descriptors in the child process rather than just open
- file descriptors. It now closes only the open fds if possible for the
- default close_fds=True behavior.
-
-- Issue #13629: Renumber the tokens in token.h so that they match the indexes
- into _PyParser_TokenNames.
-
-- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
- effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for
- noticing.
-
-- Issue #13505: Pickle bytes objects in a way that is compatible with
- Python 2 when using protocols <= 2.
-
-- Issue #11147: Fix an unused argument in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER. (Fix
- given by Campbell Barton).
-
-- Issue #7111: Python can now be run without a stdin, stdout or stderr
- stream. It was already the case with Python 2. However, the corresponding
- sys module entries are now set to None (instead of an unusable file object).
-
-- Issue #13436: Fix a bogus error message when an AST object was passed
- an invalid integer value.
-
-- Issue #13338: Handle all enumerations in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER
- to allow compiling extension modules with -Wswitch-enum on gcc.
- Initial patch by Floris Bruynooghe.
-
-- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
- already accepts them).
-
-- Issue #13342: input() used to ignore sys.stdin's and sys.stdout's unicode
- error handler in interactive mode (when calling into PyOS_Readline()).
-
-- Issue #13343: Fix a SystemError when a lambda expression uses a global
- variable in the default value of a keyword-only argument:
- (lambda *, arg=GLOBAL_NAME: None)
-
-- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
- setobject.c.
-
-- Issue #10363: Deallocate global locks in Py_Finalize().
-
-- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
- Patch by Suman Saha.
-
-- Issue #1294232: In a few cases involving metaclass inheritance, the
- interpreter would sometimes invoke the wrong metaclass when building a new
- class object. These cases now behave correctly. Patch by Daniel Urban.
-
-- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
- warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.
-
-- Issue #13188: When called without an explicit traceback argument,
- generator.throw() now gets the traceback from the passed exception's
- ``__traceback__`` attribute. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
-
-- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
- longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
- embedded situations.
-
-- Issue #13063: the Windows error ERROR_NO_DATA (numbered 232 and described
- as "The pipe is being closed") is now mapped to POSIX errno EPIPE
- (previously EINVAL).
-
-- Issue #12911: Fix memory consumption when calculating the repr() of huge
- tuples or lists.
-
-- Issue #7732: Don't open a directory as a file anymore while importing a
- module. Ignore the direcotry if its name matchs the module name (e.g.
- "__init__.py") and raise a ImportError instead.
-
-- Issue #13021: Missing decref on an error path. Thanks to Suman Saha for
- finding the bug and providing a patch.
-
-- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that relied on undefined behaviour in
- list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These bugs
- caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.
-
-- Issue #12802: the Windows error ERROR_DIRECTORY (numbered 267) is now
- mapped to POSIX errno ENOTDIR (previously EINVAL).
-
-- Issue #9200: The str.is* methods now work with strings that contain non-BMP
- characters even in narrow Unicode builds.
-
-- Issue #12791: Break reference cycles early when a generator exits with
- an exception.
-
-- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
- titlecased and cased non-letter characters.
-
-Library
--------
-
- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.
- Issue #13641: Decoding functions in the base64 module now accept ASCII-only