whatsnew: sqlite3 uri parm, unittest.main defaultTest, ftplib.Netrc deprecation

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index aa42ee3..fe19ae7 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -915,6 +915,15 @@ using the new :mod:`enum` module.  This allows meaningful names to be printed
 during debugging, instead of integer "magic numbers".
 
 
+sqlite3
+-------
+
+A new boolean parameter, *uri*, to the :func:`~sqlite3.connect` function can
+be used to indicate that the *database* parameter is a ``uri`` (see
+the `SQLite URI documentation <http://www.sqlite.org/uri.html>`_).
+(Contributed by poq in :issue:`13773`.)
+
+
 ssl
 ---
 
@@ -998,6 +1007,10 @@ Support for easy dynamically-generated subtests using the
 :meth:`~unittest.TestCase.subTest` context manager.
 (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`16997`.)
 
+:func:`unittest.main` now also accepts an iterable of test names for
+*defaultTest*, where previously it only accepted a single test name as a
+string.  (Contributed by Jyrki Pulliainen in :issue:`15132`.)
+
 
 venv
 ----
@@ -1246,6 +1259,10 @@ Deprecated Python Modules, Functions and Methods
 * MD5 as default digestmod for :mod:`hmac` is deprecated. Python 3.6 will
   require an explicit digest name or constructor as *digestmod* argument.
 
+* The internal ``Netrc`` class in the :mod:`ftplib` module has been documented
+  as deprecated in its docstring for quite some time.  It now emits a
+  :exc:`DeprecationWarning` and will be removed completely in Python 3.5.
+
 
 Deprecated Functions and Types in the C API
 -------------------------------------------