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authorR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2016-08-19 01:45:12 (GMT)
committerR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2016-08-19 01:45:12 (GMT)
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Rewrap long lines in Misc/NEWS.
Also moved news item for #2466 to the correct place.
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS68
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index dc73485..bcc8087 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- Issue #2466: posixpath.ismount now correctly recognizes mount points which
+ the user does not have permission to access.
+
- Issue #9998: On Linux, ctypes.util.find_library now looks in LD_LIBRARY_PATH
for shared libraries.
@@ -43,7 +46,8 @@ Core and Builtins
- Issue #27574: Decreased an overhead of parsing keyword arguments in functions
implemented with using Argument Clinic.
-- Issue #22557: Now importing already imported modules is up to 2.5 times faster.
+- Issue #22557: Now importing already imported modules is up to 2.5 times
+ faster.
- Issue #17596: Include <wincrypt.h> to help with Min GW building.
@@ -76,9 +80,6 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
-- Issue #2466: posixpath.ismount now correctly recognizes mount points which
- the user does not have permission to access.
-
- Issue #25958: Support "anti-registration" of special methods from
various ABCs, like __hash__, __iter__ or __len__. All these (and
several more) can be set to None in an implementation class and the
@@ -94,8 +95,8 @@ Library
to ref count problem introduced in code for Issue #27038 in 3.6.0a3.
Patch by Xiang Zhang.
-- Issue #25628: The *verbose* and *rename* parameters for collections.namedtuple
- are now keyword-only.
+- Issue #25628: The *verbose* and *rename* parameters for
+ collections.namedtuple are now keyword-only.
- Issue #12345: Add mathemathical constant tau to math and cmath. See also
PEP 628.
@@ -114,7 +115,8 @@ Library
- Issue #6422: Add autorange method to timeit.Timer objects.
-- Issue #27773: Correct some memory management errors server_hostname in _ssl.wrap_socket().
+- Issue #27773: Correct some memory management errors server_hostname in
+ _ssl.wrap_socket().
- Issue #26750: unittest.mock.create_autospec() now works properly for
subclasses of property() and other data descriptors. Removes the never
@@ -131,14 +133,15 @@ Library
- In the curses module, raise an error if window.getstr() or window.instr() is
passed a negative value.
-- Issue #27783: Fix possible usage of uninitialized memory in operator.methodcaller.
+- Issue #27783: Fix possible usage of uninitialized memory in
+ operator.methodcaller.
- Issue #27774: Fix possible Py_DECREF on unowned object in _sre.
- Issue #27760: Fix possible integer overflow in binascii.b2a_qp.
-- Issue #27758: Fix possible integer overflow in the _csv module for large record
- lengths.
+- Issue #27758: Fix possible integer overflow in the _csv module for large
+ record lengths.
- Issue #27568: Prevent HTTPoxy attack (CVE-2016-1000110). Ignore the
HTTP_PROXY variable when REQUEST_METHOD environment is set, which indicates
@@ -319,9 +322,9 @@ Library
when exiting, let the new chained one through. This avoids the PEP 479
bug described in issue25782.
-- [Security] Issue #27278: Fix os.urandom() implementation using getrandom() on Linux.
- Truncate size to INT_MAX and loop until we collected enough random bytes,
- instead of casting a directly Py_ssize_t to int.
+- [Security] Issue #27278: Fix os.urandom() implementation using getrandom() on
+ Linux. Truncate size to INT_MAX and loop until we collected enough random
+ bytes, instead of casting a directly Py_ssize_t to int.
- Issue #16864: sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid now supports REPLACE statement.
Initial patch by Alex LordThorsen.
@@ -371,9 +374,9 @@ IDLE
Previously, when IDLE was started from a console or by import, a cascade
of warnings was emitted. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #24137: Run IDLE, test_idle, and htest with tkinter default root disabled.
- Fix code and tests that fail with this restriction.
- Fix htests to not create a second and redundant root and mainloop.
+- Issue #24137: Run IDLE, test_idle, and htest with tkinter default root
+ disabled. Fix code and tests that fail with this restriction. Fix htests to
+ not create a second and redundant root and mainloop.
- Issue #27310: Fix IDLE.app failure to launch on OS X due to vestigial import.
@@ -486,8 +489,8 @@ Library
- [Security] Issue #26556: Update expat to 2.1.1, fixes CVE-2015-1283.
-- [Security] Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smtplib, CVE-2016-0772. Reported by Team
- Oststrom
+- [Security] Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smtplib, CVE-2016-0772.
+ Reported by Team Oststrom.
- Issue #21386: Implement missing IPv4Address.is_global property. It was
documented since 07a5610bae9d. Initial patch by Roger Luethi.
@@ -529,9 +532,10 @@ Library
- Issue #21313: Fix the "platform" module to tolerate when sys.version
contains truncated build information.
-- [Security] Issue #26839: On Linux, :func:`os.urandom` now calls ``getrandom()`` with
- ``GRND_NONBLOCK`` to fall back on reading ``/dev/urandom`` if the urandom
- entropy pool is not initialized yet. Patch written by Colm Buckley.
+- [Security] Issue #26839: On Linux, :func:`os.urandom` now calls
+ ``getrandom()`` with ``GRND_NONBLOCK`` to fall back on reading
+ ``/dev/urandom`` if the urandom entropy pool is not initialized yet. Patch
+ written by Colm Buckley.
- Issue #23883: Added missing APIs to __all__ to match the documented APIs
for the following modules: cgi, mailbox, mimetypes, plistlib and smtpd.
@@ -893,7 +897,8 @@ Core and Builtins
This allows sys.getsize() to work correctly with their subclasses with
__slots__ defined.
-- Issue #25709: Fixed problem with in-place string concatenation and utf-8 cache.
+- Issue #25709: Fixed problem with in-place string concatenation and utf-8
+ cache.
- Issue #5319: New Py_FinalizeEx() API allowing Python to set an exit status
of 120 on failure to flush buffered streams.
@@ -1124,9 +1129,9 @@ Library
- Issue #24838: tarfile's ustar and gnu formats now correctly calculate name
and link field limits for multibyte character encodings like utf-8.
-- [Security] Issue #26657: Fix directory traversal vulnerability with http.server on
- Windows. This fixes a regression that was introduced in 3.3.4rc1 and
- 3.4.0rc1. Based on patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
+- [Security] Issue #26657: Fix directory traversal vulnerability with
+ http.server on Windows. This fixes a regression that was introduced in
+ 3.3.4rc1 and 3.4.0rc1. Based on patch by Philipp Hagemeister.
- Issue #26717: Stop encoding Latin-1-ized WSGI paths with UTF-8. Patch by
Anthony Sottile.
@@ -1230,8 +1235,8 @@ Library
:class:`warnings.WarningMessage`. Add warnings._showwarnmsg() which uses
tracemalloc to get the traceback where source object was allocated.
-- [Security] Issue #26313: ssl.py _load_windows_store_certs fails if windows cert store
- is empty. Patch by Baji.
+- [Security] Issue #26313: ssl.py _load_windows_store_certs fails if windows
+ cert store is empty. Patch by Baji.
- Issue #26569: Fix :func:`pyclbr.readmodule` and :func:`pyclbr.readmodule_ex`
to support importing packages.
@@ -1266,7 +1271,8 @@ Library
isoformat() method to choose the precision of the time component.
- Issue #2202: Fix UnboundLocalError in
- AbstractDigestAuthHandler.get_algorithm_impls. Initial patch by Mathieu Dupuy.
+ AbstractDigestAuthHandler.get_algorithm_impls. Initial patch by Mathieu
+ Dupuy.
- Issue #26167: Minimized overhead in copy.copy() and copy.deepcopy().
Optimized copying and deepcopying bytearrays, NotImplemented, slices,
@@ -1313,7 +1319,8 @@ Library
trigger the handle_error() method, and will now to stop a single-threaded
server.
-- [Security] Issue #25939: On Windows open the cert store readonly in ssl.enum_certificates.
+- [Security] Issue #25939: On Windows open the cert store readonly in
+ ssl.enum_certificates.
- Issue #25995: os.walk() no longer uses FDs proportional to the tree depth.
@@ -1629,7 +1636,8 @@ Library
- Issue #25011: rlcompleter now omits private and special attribute names unless
the prefix starts with underscores.
-- Issue #25209: rlcompleter now can add a space or a colon after completed keyword.
+- Issue #25209: rlcompleter now can add a space or a colon after completed
+ keyword.
- Issue #22241: timezone.utc name is now plain 'UTC', not 'UTC-00:00'.