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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2017-06-15 00:16:38 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-06-15 00:16:38 (GMT)
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bpo-29591: Upgrade Modules/expat to libexpat 2.2 (#2164) (#2201)
* bpo-29591: Upgrade Modules/expat to libexpat 2.2 * bpo-29591: Restore Python changes on expat * bpo-29591: Remove expat config of unsupported platforms Remove the configuration (Modules/expat/*config.h) of unsupported platforms: * Amiga * MacOS Classic on PPC32 * Open Watcom * bpo-29591: Remove useless XML_HAS_SET_HASH_SALT The XML_HAS_SET_HASH_SALT define of Modules/expat/expat.h became useless since our local expat copy was upgrade to expat 2.1 (it's now expat 2.2.0). (cherry picked from commit 23ec4b57e1359f9c539b8defc317542173ae087e)
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Library
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+- [Security] bpo-29591: Update expat copy from 2.1.1 to 2.2.0 to get fixes
+ of CVE-2016-0718 and CVE-2016-4472. See
+ https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/bugs/537/ for more information.
+
- bpo-24484: Avoid race condition in multiprocessing cleanup.
- bpo-28994: The traceback no longer displayed for SystemExit raised in