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+.. bpo: 28128
+.. date: 9445
+.. nonce: Lc2sFu
+.. release date: 2016-10-31
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Deprecation warning for invalid str and byte escape sequences now prints
+better information about where the error occurs. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka
+and Eric Smith.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28509
+.. date: 9444
+.. nonce: _Fa4Uq
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+dict.update() no longer allocate unnecessary large memory.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28426
+.. date: 9443
+.. nonce: E_quyK
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed potential crash in PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject() in debug build.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28517
+.. date: 9442
+.. nonce: ExPkm9
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed of-by-one error in the peephole optimizer that caused keeping
+unreachable code.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28214
+.. date: 9441
+.. nonce: 6ECJox
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Improved exception reporting for problematic __set_name__ attributes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 23782
+.. date: 9440
+.. nonce: lonDzj
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed possible memory leak in _PyTraceback_Add() and exception loss in
+PyTraceBack_Here().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28471
+.. date: 9439
+.. nonce: Vd5pv7
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix "Python memory allocator called without holding the GIL" crash in
+socket.setblocking.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 26128
+.. date: 9438
+.. nonce: IEF1cf
+.. section: Library
+
+Added keyword-only arguments support for subprocess.STARTUPINFO
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 27517
+.. date: 9437
+.. nonce: 1CYM8A
+.. section: Library
+
+LZMA compressor and decompressor no longer raise exceptions if given empty
+data twice. Patch by Benjamin Fogle.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28549
+.. date: 9436
+.. nonce: ShnM2y
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed segfault in curses's addch() with ncurses6.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28449
+.. date: 9435
+.. nonce: 5JK6ES
+.. section: Library
+
+tarfile.open() with mode "r" or "r:" now tries to open a tar file with
+compression before trying to open it without compression. Otherwise it had
+50% chance failed with ignore_zeros=True.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 23262
+.. date: 9434
+.. nonce: 6EVB7N
+.. section: Library
+
+The webbrowser module now supports Firefox 36+ and derived browsers. Based
+on patch by Oleg Broytman.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 27939
+.. date: 9433
+.. nonce: mTfADV
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed bugs in tkinter.ttk.LabeledScale and tkinter.Scale caused by
+representing the scale as float value internally in Tk. tkinter.IntVar now
+works if float value is set to underlying Tk variable.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 18844
+.. date: 9432
+.. nonce: oif1-H
+.. section: Library
+
+The various ways of specifying weights for random.choices() now produce the
+same result sequences.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28255
+.. date: 9431
+.. nonce: _ZH4wm
+.. section: Library
+
+calendar.TextCalendar().prmonth() no longer prints a space at the start of
+new line after printing a month's calendar. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 20491
+.. date: 9430
+.. nonce: ObgnQ2
+.. section: Library
+
+The textwrap.TextWrapper class now honors non-breaking spaces. Based on
+patch by Kaarle Ritvanen.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28353
+.. date: 9429
+.. nonce: sKGbLL
+.. section: Library
+
+os.fwalk() no longer fails on broken links.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28430
+.. date: 9428
+.. nonce: 4MiEYT
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix iterator of C implemented asyncio.Future doesn't accept non-None value
+is passed to it.send(val).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 27025
+.. date: 9427
+.. nonce: foAViS
+.. section: Library
+
+Generated names for Tkinter widgets now start by the "!" prefix for
+readability.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 25464
+.. date: 9426
+.. nonce: HDUTCu
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by addin a workaround to
+Tix library bug.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28488
+.. date: 9425
+.. nonce: TgO112
+.. section: Library
+
+shutil.make_archive() no longer adds entry "./" to ZIP archive.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 25953
+.. date: 9424
+.. nonce: EKKJAQ
+.. section: Library
+
+re.sub() now raises an error for invalid numerical group reference in
+replacement template even if the pattern is not found in the string. Error
+message for invalid group reference now includes the group index and the
+position of the reference. Based on patch by SilentGhost.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 18219
+.. date: 9423
+.. nonce: 1ANQN1
+.. section: Library
+
+Optimize csv.DictWriter for large number of columns. Patch by Mariatta
+Wijaya.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28448
+.. date: 9422
+.. nonce: 5bduWe
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix C implemented asyncio.Future didn't work on Windows.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28480
+.. date: 9421
+.. nonce: 9lHw6m
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix error building socket module when multithreading is disabled.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 24452
+.. date: 9420
+.. nonce: m9Kyg3
+.. section: Library
+
+Make webbrowser support Chrome on Mac OS X.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 20766
+.. date: 9419
+.. nonce: 4kvCzx
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix references leaked by pdb in the handling of SIGINT handlers.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28492
+.. date: 9418
+.. nonce: pFRLQE
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix how StopIteration exception is raised in _asyncio.Future.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28500
+.. date: 9417
+.. nonce: NINKzZ
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix asyncio to handle async gens GC from another thread.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 26923
+.. date: 9416
+.. nonce: 8dh3AV
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix asyncio.Gather to refuse being cancelled once all children are done.
+Patch by Johannes Ebke.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 26796
+.. date: 9415
+.. nonce: TZyAfJ
+.. section: Library
+
+Don't configure the number of workers for default threadpool executor.
+Initial patch by Hans Lawrenz.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28544
+.. date: 9414
+.. nonce: KD1oFP
+.. section: Library
+
+Implement asyncio.Task in C.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28522
+.. date: 9413
+.. nonce: XHMQa7
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fixes mishandled buffer reallocation in getpathp.c
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28444
+.. date: 9412
+.. nonce: zkc9nT
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix missing extensions modules when cross compiling.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28208
+.. date: 9411
+.. nonce: DtoP1i
+.. section: Build
+
+Update Windows build and OS X installers to use SQLite 3.14.2.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28248
+.. date: 9410
+.. nonce: KY_-en
+.. section: Build
+
+Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2j.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 26944
+.. date: 9409
+.. nonce: ChZ_BO
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix test_posix for Android where 'id -G' is entirely wrong or missing the
+effective gid.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28409
+.. date: 9408
+.. nonce: Q2IlxJ
+.. section: Tests
+
+regrtest: fix the parser of command line arguments.