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@@ -1,7 +1,133 @@
+.. bpo: 28893
+.. date: 9892
+.. nonce: WTKnpj
+.. release date: 2017-03-04
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Set correct __cause__ for errors about invalid awaitables returned from
+__aiter__ and __anext__.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29683
+.. date: 9891
+.. nonce: G5iS-P
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixes to memory allocation in _PyCode_SetExtra. Patch by Brian Coleman.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29684
+.. date: 9890
+.. nonce: wTgEoh
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix minor regression of PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords. It should raise
+TypeError when kwargs is not a dict. But it might cause segv when args=NULL
+and kwargs is not a dict.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28598
+.. date: 9889
+.. nonce: QxbzQn
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Support __rmod__ for subclasses of str being called before str.__mod__.
+Patch by Martijn Pieters.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29607
+.. date: 9888
+.. nonce: 7NvBA1
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix stack_effect computation for CALL_FUNCTION_EX. Patch by Matthieu
+Dartiailh.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29602
+.. date: 9887
+.. nonce: qyyskC
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix incorrect handling of signed zeros in complex constructor for complex
+subclasses and for inputs having a __complex__ method. Patch by Serhiy
+Storchaka.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29347
+.. date: 9886
+.. nonce: 1RPPGN
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed possibly dereferencing undefined pointers when creating weakref
+objects.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29438
+.. date: 9885
+.. nonce: IKxD6I
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed use-after-free problem in key sharing dict.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29319
+.. date: 9884
+.. nonce: KLDUZf
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Prevent RunMainFromImporter overwriting sys.path[0].
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29337
+.. date: 9883
+.. nonce: bjX8AE
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed possible BytesWarning when compare the code objects. Warnings could be
+emitted at compile time.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29327
+.. date: 9882
+.. nonce: XXQarW
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed a crash when pass the iterable keyword argument to sorted().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29034
+.. date: 9881
+.. nonce: 7-uEDT
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix memory leak and use-after-free in os module (path_converter).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29159
+.. date: 9880
+.. nonce: gEn_kP
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix regression in bytes(x) when x.__index__() raises Exception.
+
+..
+
.. bpo: 28932
-.. date: 9529
+.. date: 9879
.. nonce: QnLx8A
-.. release date: XXXX-XX-XX
.. section: Core and Builtins
Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist.
@@ -9,7 +135,7 @@ Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist.
..
.. bpo: 25677
-.. date: 9528
+.. date: 9878
.. nonce: RWhZrb
.. section: Core and Builtins
@@ -19,7 +145,7 @@ Based on patch by Michael Layzell.
..
.. bpo: 29000
-.. date: 9527
+.. date: 9877
.. nonce: K6wQ-3
.. section: Core and Builtins
@@ -28,7 +154,7 @@ Fixed bytes formatting of octals with zero padding in alternate form.
..
.. bpo: 26919
-.. date: 9526
+.. date: 9876
.. nonce: Cm7MSa
.. section: Core and Builtins
@@ -39,7 +165,7 @@ os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() which are already using UTF-8.
..
.. bpo: 28991
-.. date: 9525
+.. date: 9875
.. nonce: lGA0FK
.. section: Core and Builtins
@@ -49,7 +175,7 @@ triggerable by a monkey-patched len() function.
..
.. bpo: 28739
-.. date: 9524
+.. date: 9874
.. nonce: w1fvhk
.. section: Core and Builtins
@@ -59,7 +185,7 @@ ast.literal_eval() even if they do not include expressions.
..
.. bpo: 28512
-.. date: 9523
+.. date: 9873
.. nonce: i-pv6d
.. section: Core and Builtins
@@ -69,7 +195,7 @@ PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx() and PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject().
..
.. bpo: 28918
-.. date: 9522
+.. date: 9872
.. nonce: SFVuPz
.. section: Core and Builtins
@@ -79,7 +205,7 @@ Py_DEBUG defined.
..
.. bpo: 28731
-.. date: 9521
+.. date: 9871
.. nonce: oNF59u
.. section: Core and Builtins
@@ -88,8 +214,285 @@ dict literal with constant keys up to 30%.
..
+.. bpo: 29169
+.. date: 9870
+.. nonce: 8ypApm
+.. section: Library
+
+Update zlib to 1.2.11.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29623
+.. date: 9869
+.. nonce: D3-NP2
+.. section: Library
+
+Allow use of path-like object as a single argument in ConfigParser.read().
+Patch by David Ellis.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28963
+.. date: 9868
+.. nonce: tPl8dq
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix out of bound iteration in asyncio.Future.remove_done_callback
+implemented in C.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29704
+.. date: 9867
+.. nonce: r-kWqv
+.. section: Library
+
+asyncio.subprocess.SubprocessStreamProtocol no longer closes before all
+pipes are closed.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29271
+.. date: 9866
+.. nonce: y8Vj2v
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix Task.current_task and Task.all_tasks implemented in C to accept None
+argument as their pure Python implementation.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29703
+.. date: 9865
+.. nonce: ZdsPCR
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix asyncio to support instantiation of new event loops in child processes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29376
+.. date: 9864
+.. nonce: rrJhJy
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix assertion error in threading._DummyThread.is_alive().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28624
+.. date: 9863
+.. nonce: 43TJib
+.. section: Library
+
+Add a test that checks that cwd parameter of Popen() accepts PathLike
+objects. Patch by Sayan Chowdhury.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28518
+.. date: 9862
+.. nonce: o-Q2Nw
+.. section: Library
+
+Start a transaction implicitly before a DML statement. Patch by Aviv
+Palivoda.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29532
+.. date: 9861
+.. nonce: YCwVQn
+.. section: Library
+
+Altering a kwarg dictionary passed to functools.partial() no longer affects
+a partial object after creation.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29110
+.. date: 9860
+.. nonce: wmE-_T
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix file object leak in aifc.open() when file is given as a filesystem path
+and is not in valid AIFF format. Patch by Anthony Zhang.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28556
+.. date: 9859
+.. nonce: p6967e
+.. section: Library
+
+Various updates to typing module: typing.Counter, typing.ChainMap, improved
+ABC caching, etc. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra, Ivan Levkivskyi, Manuel
+Krebber, and Ɓukasz Langa.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29100
+.. date: 9858
+.. nonce: LAAERS
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix datetime.fromtimestamp() regression introduced in Python 3.6.0: check
+minimum and maximum years.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29519
+.. date: 9857
+.. nonce: oGGgZ4
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix weakref spewing exceptions during interpreter shutdown when used with a
+rare combination of multiprocessing and custom codecs.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29416
+.. date: 9856
+.. nonce: KJGyI_
+.. section: Library
+
+Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.Path.mkdir
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29444
+.. date: 9855
+.. nonce: cEwgmk
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed out-of-bounds buffer access in the group() method of the match object.
+Based on patch by WGH.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29335
+.. date: 9854
+.. nonce: _KC7IK
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix subprocess.Popen.wait() when the child process has exited to a stopped
+instead of terminated state (ex: when under ptrace).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29290
+.. date: 9853
+.. nonce: XBqptF
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix a regression in argparse that help messages would wrap at non-breaking
+spaces.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28735
+.. date: 9852
+.. nonce: admHLO
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed the comparison of mock.MagickMock with mock.ANY.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29316
+.. date: 9851
+.. nonce: OeOQw5
+.. section: Library
+
+Restore the provisional status of typing module, add corresponding note to
+documentation. Patch by Ivan L.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29219
+.. date: 9850
+.. nonce: kxui7t
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of uninitialized ctypes.CDLL instances.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29011
+.. date: 9849
+.. nonce: MI5f2R
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix an important omission by adding Deque to the typing module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28969
+.. date: 9848
+.. nonce: j3HJYO
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed race condition in C implementation of functools.lru_cache. KeyError
+could be raised when cached function with full cache was simultaneously
+called from differen threads with the same uncached arguments.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29142
+.. date: 9847
+.. nonce: xo6kAv
+.. section: Library
+
+In urllib.request, suffixes in no_proxy environment variable with leading
+dots could match related hostnames again (e.g. .b.c matches a.b.c). Patch by
+Milan Oberkirch.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28961
+.. date: 9846
+.. nonce: Rt93vg
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix unittest.mock._Call helper: don't ignore the name parameter anymore.
+Patch written by Jiajun Huang.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29203
+.. date: 9845
+.. nonce: kN5S6v
+.. section: Library
+
+functools.lru_cache() now respects PEP 468 and preserves the order of
+keyword arguments. f(a=1, b=2) is now cached separately from f(b=2, a=1)
+since both calls could potentially give different results.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 15812
+.. date: 9844
+.. nonce: R1U-Ec
+.. section: Library
+
+inspect.getframeinfo() now correctly shows the first line of a context.
+Patch by Sam Breese.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29094
+.. date: 9843
+.. nonce: 460ZQo
+.. section: Library
+
+Offsets in a ZIP file created with extern file object and modes "w" and "x"
+now are relative to the start of the file.
+
+..
+
.. bpo: 29085
-.. date: 9520
+.. date: 9842
.. nonce: bm3gkx
.. section: Library
@@ -98,8 +501,66 @@ pid and time.
..
+.. bpo: 29061
+.. date: 9841
+.. nonce: YKq0Ba
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed bug in secrets.randbelow() which would hang when given a negative
+input. Patch by Brendan Donegan.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29079
+.. date: 9840
+.. nonce: g4YLix
+.. section: Library
+
+Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.resolve() on Windows
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 13051
+.. date: 9839
+.. nonce: YzC1Te
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed recursion errors in large or resized curses.textpad.Textbox. Based on
+patch by Tycho Andersen.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29119
+.. date: 9838
+.. nonce: Ov69fr
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix weakrefs in the pure python version of collections.OrderedDict
+move_to_end() method. Contributed by Andra Bogildea.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 9770
+.. date: 9837
+.. nonce: WJJnwP
+.. section: Library
+
+curses.ascii predicates now work correctly with negative integers.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28427
+.. date: 9836
+.. nonce: vUd-va
+.. section: Library
+
+old keys should not remove new values from WeakValueDictionary when
+collecting from another thread.
+
+..
+
.. bpo: 28923
-.. date: 9519
+.. date: 9835
.. nonce: naVULD
.. section: Library
@@ -108,7 +569,7 @@ Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
..
.. bpo: 29055
-.. date: 9518
+.. date: 9834
.. nonce: -r_9jc
.. section: Library
@@ -118,7 +579,7 @@ upstream exception.
..
.. bpo: 28871
-.. date: 9517
+.. date: 9833
.. nonce: cPMXCJ
.. section: Library
@@ -127,7 +588,7 @@ Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.
..
.. bpo: 19542
-.. date: 9516
+.. date: 9832
.. nonce: 5tCkaK
.. section: Library
@@ -137,7 +598,7 @@ when a GC collection happens in another thread.
..
.. bpo: 20191
-.. date: 9515
+.. date: 9831
.. nonce: Q7uZCS
.. section: Library
@@ -147,7 +608,7 @@ its elements as limits.
..
.. bpo: 28779
-.. date: 9514
+.. date: 9830
.. nonce: t-mjED
.. section: Library
@@ -158,7 +619,7 @@ locks.
..
.. bpo: 28847
-.. date: 9513
+.. date: 9829
.. nonce: J7d3nG
.. section: Library
@@ -168,7 +629,7 @@ file when it is not changed.
..
.. bpo: 26937
-.. date: 9512
+.. date: 9828
.. nonce: c9kgiA
.. section: Library
@@ -177,8 +638,36 @@ grp module cannot be imported, as for example on Android platforms.
..
+.. bpo: 29071
+.. date: 9827
+.. nonce: FCOpJn
+.. section: IDLE
+
+IDLE colors f-string prefixes (but not invalid ur prefixes).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28572
+.. date: 9826
+.. nonce: 1_duKY
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Add 10% to coverage of IDLE's test_configdialog. Update and augment
+description of the configuration system.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29579
+.. date: 9825
+.. nonce: Ih-G2Q
+.. section: Windows
+
+Removes readme.txt from the installer
+
+..
+
.. bpo: 29326
-.. date: 9511
+.. date: 9824
.. nonce: 4qDQzs
.. section: Windows
@@ -187,7 +676,7 @@ Ignores blank lines in ._pth files (Patch by Alexey Izbyshev)
..
.. bpo: 28164
-.. date: 9510
+.. date: 9823
.. nonce: h4CFX8
.. section: Windows
@@ -196,7 +685,7 @@ Correctly handle special console filenames (patch by Eryk Sun)
..
.. bpo: 29409
-.. date: 9509
+.. date: 9822
.. nonce: bhvrJ2
.. section: Windows
@@ -205,7 +694,7 @@ Implement PEP 529 for io.FileIO (Patch by Eryk Sun)
..
.. bpo: 29392
-.. date: 9508
+.. date: 9821
.. nonce: OtqS5t
.. section: Windows
@@ -214,7 +703,7 @@ Prevent crash when passing invalid arguments into msvcrt module.
..
.. bpo: 25778
-.. date: 9507
+.. date: 9820
.. nonce: 8uKJ82
.. section: Windows
@@ -223,7 +712,7 @@ winreg does not truncate string correctly (Patch by Eryk Sun)
..
.. bpo: 28896
-.. date: 9506
+.. date: 9819
.. nonce: VMi9w0
.. section: Windows
@@ -231,8 +720,72 @@ Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder and disable it by default.
..
+.. bpo: 27867
+.. date: 9818
+.. nonce: UC5ohc
+.. section: C API
+
+Function PySlice_GetIndicesEx() is replaced with a macro if Py_LIMITED_API
+is not set or set to the value between 0x03050400 and 0x03060000 (not
+including) or 0x03060100 or higher.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29083
+.. date: 9817
+.. nonce: tGTjr_
+.. section: C API
+
+Fixed the declaration of some public API functions. PyArg_VaParse() and
+PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords() were not available in limited API.
+PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments(), PyArg_UnpackTuple() and Py_BuildValue()
+were not available in limited API of version < 3.3 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is
+defined.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29058
+.. date: 9816
+.. nonce: 0wNVP8
+.. section: C API
+
+All stable API extensions added after Python 3.2 are now available only when
+Py_LIMITED_API is set to the PY_VERSION_HEX value of the minimum Python
+version supporting this API.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28929
+.. date: 9815
+.. nonce: Md7kb0
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Link the documentation to its source file on GitHub.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 25008
+.. date: 9814
+.. nonce: CeIzyU
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Document smtpd.py as effectively deprecated and add a pointer to aiosmtpd, a
+third-party asyncio-based replacement.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 26355
+.. date: 9813
+.. nonce: SDq_8Y
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Add canonical header link on each page to corresponding major version of the
+documentation. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.
+
+..
+
.. bpo: 29349
-.. date: 9505
+.. date: 9812
.. nonce: PjSo-t
.. section: Documentation
@@ -240,8 +793,31 @@ Fix Python 2 syntax in code for building the documentation.
..
+.. bpo: 28087
+.. date: 9811
+.. nonce: m8dc4R
+.. section: Tests
+
+Skip test_asyncore and test_eintr poll failures on macOS. Skip some tests of
+select.poll when running on macOS due to unresolved issues with the
+underlying system poll function on some macOS versions.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29571
+.. date: 9810
+.. nonce: r6Dixr
+.. section: Tests
+
+to match the behaviour of the ``re.LOCALE`` flag, test_re.test_locale_flag
+now uses ``locale.getpreferredencoding(False)`` to determine the candidate
+encoding for the test regex (allowing it to correctly skip the test when the
+default locale encoding is a multi-byte encoding)
+
+..
+
.. bpo: 28950
-.. date: 9504
+.. date: 9809
.. nonce: 1W8Glo
.. section: Tests
@@ -250,7 +826,7 @@ Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l in regrtest command line arguments.
..
.. bpo: 28683
-.. date: 9503
+.. date: 9808
.. nonce: Fp-Hdq
.. section: Tests
@@ -260,7 +836,7 @@ for a non-root user.
..
.. bpo: 26939
-.. date: 9502
+.. date: 9807
.. nonce: 7j_W5R
.. section: Tests
@@ -269,8 +845,64 @@ on the Android armv7 qemu emulator.
..
+.. bpo: 27593
+.. date: 9806
+.. nonce: v87xEr
+.. section: Build
+
+sys.version and the platform module python_build(), python_branch(), and
+python_revision() functions now use git information rather than hg when
+building from a repo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29572
+.. date: 9805
+.. nonce: iZ1XKK
+.. section: Build
+
+Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2k.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 26851
+.. date: 9804
+.. nonce: R5243g
+.. section: Build
+
+Set Android compilation and link flags.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28768
+.. date: 9803
+.. nonce: b9_a6E
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix implicit declaration of function _setmode. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29080
+.. date: 9802
+.. nonce: b3qLQT
+.. section: Build
+
+Removes hard dependency on hg.exe from PCBuild/build.bat
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 23903
+.. date: 9801
+.. nonce: JXJ889
+.. section: Build
+
+Added missed names to PC/python3.def.
+
+..
+
.. bpo: 28762
-.. date: 9501
+.. date: 9800
.. nonce: Ru0YN_
.. section: Build
@@ -280,7 +912,7 @@ defined in android-ndk-r13.
..
.. bpo: 28538
-.. date: 9500
+.. date: 9799
.. nonce: FqtN7v
.. section: Build
@@ -290,7 +922,7 @@ Android API level 24, but the if_nameindex structure is not defined.
..
.. bpo: 20211
-.. date: 9499
+.. date: 9798
.. nonce: gpNptI
.. section: Build
@@ -301,7 +933,7 @@ Original patch by Thomas Petazzoni.
..
.. bpo: 28849
-.. date: 9498
+.. date: 9797
.. nonce: AzRRF5
.. section: Build