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| author | Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org> | 2017-07-24 02:18:13 (GMT) |
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| committer | Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org> | 2017-07-24 02:18:13 (GMT) |
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Update 3.5 to use blurb!
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS deleted file mode 100644 index 966a011..0000000 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,9670 +0,0 @@ -+++++++++++ -Python News -+++++++++++ - -What's New in Python 3.5.4 release candidate 1? -=============================================== - -Release date: XXXX-XX-XX - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- bpo-27945: Fixed various segfaults with dict when input collections are - mutated during searching, inserting or comparing. Based on patches by - Duane Griffin and Tim Mitchell. - -- bpo-25794: Fixed type.__setattr__() and type.__delattr__() for - non-interned attribute names. Based on patch by Eryk Sun. - -- bpo-29935: Fixed error messages in the index() method of tuple, list and deque - when pass indices of wrong type. - -- bpo-28876: ``bool(range)`` works even if ``len(range)`` - raises :exc:`OverflowError`. - -- bpo-29600: Fix wrapping coroutine return values in StopIteration. - -- Issue #29537: Restore runtime compatibility with bytecode files generated by - CPython 3.5.0 to 3.5.2, and adjust the eval loop to avoid the problems that - could be caused by the malformed variant of the BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL - opcode that they may contain. Patch by Petr Viktorin, Serhiy Storchaka, - and Nick Coghlan. - -- Issue #28598: Support __rmod__ for subclasses of str being called before - str.__mod__. Patch by Martijn Pieters. - -- bpo-29602: 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: Fixed possibly dereferencing undefined pointers - when creating weakref objects. - -- bpo-29438: Fixed use-after-free problem in key sharing dict. - -- Issue #29319: Prevent RunMainFromImporter overwriting sys.path[0]. - -- Issue #29337: Fixed possible BytesWarning when compare the code objects. - Warnings could be emitted at compile time. - -- bpo-29478: If max_line_length=None is specified while using the Compat32 policy, - it is no longer ignored. Patch by Mircea Cosbuc. - -Extension Modules ------------------ - -- Issue #29169: Update zlib to 1.2.11. - -Library -------- - -- bpo-30879: os.listdir() and os.scandir() now emit bytes names when called - with bytes-like argument. - -- bpo-30746: Prohibited the '=' character in environment variable names in - ``os.putenv()`` and ``os.spawn*()``. - -- [Security] bpo-30730: Prevent environment variables injection in subprocess on - Windows. Prevent passing other environment variables and command arguments. - -- [Security] bpo-30694: Upgrade expat copy from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 to get fixes - of multiple security vulnerabilities including: CVE-2017-9233 (External - entity infinite loop DoS), CVE-2016-9063 (Integer overflow, re-fix), - CVE-2016-0718 (Fix regression bugs from 2.2.0's fix to CVE-2016-0718) - and CVE-2012-0876 (Counter hash flooding with SipHash). - Note: the CVE-2016-5300 (Use os-specific entropy sources like getrandom) - doesn't impact Python, since Python already gets entropy from the OS to set - the expat secret using ``XML_SetHashSalt()``. - -- bpo-29755: Fixed the lgettext() family of functions in the gettext module. - They now always return bytes. - -- [Security] bpo-30500: Fix urllib.parse.splithost() to correctly parse - fragments. For example, ``splithost('//127.0.0.1#@evil.com/')`` now - correctly returns the ``127.0.0.1`` host, instead of treating ``@evil.com`` - as the host in an authentification (``login@host``). - -- bpo-30645: Fix path calculation in imp.load_package(), fixing it for - cases when a package is only shipped with bytecodes. Patch by - Alexandru Ardelean. - -- bpo-23890: unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() now manually breaks a reference - cycle to not keep objects alive longer than expected. - -- bpo-30149: inspect.signature() now supports callables with - variable-argument parameters wrapped with partialmethod. - Patch by Dong-hee Na. - -- bpo-29931: Fixed comparison check for ipaddress.ip_interface objects. - Patch by Sanjay Sundaresan. - -- [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 - a callback registered by atexit. - -- bpo-30508: Don't log exceptions if Task/Future "cancel()" method was - called. - -- bpo-28556: Updates to typing module: Add generic AsyncContextManager, add - support for ContextManager on all versions. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra - and Ivan Levkivskyi - -- bpo-29870: Fix ssl sockets leaks when connection is aborted in asyncio/ssl - implementation. Patch by Michaël Sghaïer. - -- bpo-29743: Closing transport during handshake process leaks open socket. - Patch by Nikolay Kim - -- bpo-27585: Fix waiter cancellation in asyncio.Lock. - Patch by Mathieu Sornay. - -- bpo-30418: On Windows, subprocess.Popen.communicate() now also ignore EINVAL - on stdin.write() if the child process is still running but closed the pipe. - -- bpo-30378: Fix the problem that logging.handlers.SysLogHandler cannot - handle IPv6 addresses. - -- bpo-29960: Preserve generator state when _random.Random.setstate() - raises an exception. Patch by Bryan Olson. - -- bpo-30414: multiprocessing.Queue._feed background running - thread do not break from main loop on exception. - -- bpo-30003: Fix handling escape characters in HZ codec. Based on patch - by Ma Lin. - -- bpo-30301: Fix AttributeError when using SimpleQueue.empty() under - *spawn* and *forkserver* start methods. - -- bpo-30329: imaplib and poplib now catch the Windows socket WSAEINVAL error - (code 10022) on shutdown(SHUT_RDWR): An invalid operation was attempted. - This error occurs sometimes on SSL connections. - -- bpo-30375: Warnings emitted when compile a regular expression now always - point to the line in the user code. Previously they could point into inners - of the re module if emitted from inside of groups or conditionals. - -- bpo-30048: Fixed ``Task.cancel()`` can be ignored when the task is - running coroutine and the coroutine returned without any more ``await``. - -- bpo-29990: Fix range checking in GB18030 decoder. Original patch by Ma Lin. - -- Revert bpo-26293 for zipfile breakage. See also bpo-29094. - -- bpo-30243: Removed the __init__ methods of _json's scanner and encoder. - Misusing them could cause memory leaks or crashes. Now scanner and encoder - objects are completely initialized in the __new__ methods. - -- bpo-30185: Avoid KeyboardInterrupt tracebacks in forkserver helper process - when Ctrl-C is received. - -- bpo-28556: Various updates to typing module: add typing.NoReturn type, use - WrapperDescriptorType, minor bug-fixes. Original PRs by - Jim Fasarakis-Hilliard and Ivan Levkivskyi. - -- bpo-30205: Fix getsockname() for unbound AF_UNIX sockets on Linux. - -- bpo-30070: Fixed leaks and crashes in errors handling in the parser module. - -- bpo-30061: Fixed crashes in IOBase methods __next__() and readlines() when - readline() or __next__() respectively return non-sizeable object. - Fixed possible other errors caused by not checking results of PyObject_Size(), - PySequence_Size(), or PyMapping_Size(). - -- bpo-30068: _io._IOBase.readlines will check if it's closed first when - hint is present. - -- bpo-29694: Fixed race condition in pathlib mkdir with flags - parents=True. Patch by Armin Rigo. - -- bpo-29692: Fixed arbitrary unchaining of RuntimeError exceptions in - contextlib.contextmanager. Patch by Siddharth Velankar. - -- bpo-29998: Pickling and copying ImportError now preserves name and path - attributes. - -- bpo-29942: Fix a crash in itertools.chain.from_iterable when encountering - long runs of empty iterables. - -- bpo-27863: Fixed multiple crashes in ElementTree caused by race conditions - and wrong types. - -- bpo-28699: Fixed a bug in pools in multiprocessing.pool that raising an - exception at the very first of an iterable may swallow the exception or - make the program hang. Patch by Davin Potts and Xiang Zhang. - -- bpo-25803: Avoid incorrect errors raised by Path.mkdir(exist_ok=True) - when the OS gives priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST. - -- bpo-29861: Release references to tasks, their arguments and their results - as soon as they are finished in multiprocessing.Pool. - -- bpo-29884: faulthandler: Restore the old sigaltstack during teardown. - Patch by Christophe Zeitouny. - -- bpo-25455: Fixed crashes in repr of recursive buffered file-like objects. - -- bpo-29800: Fix crashes in partial.__repr__ if the keys of partial.keywords - are not strings. Patch by Michael Seifert. - -- bpo-29742: get_extra_info() raises exception if get called on closed ssl transport. - Patch by Nikolay Kim. - -- bpo-8256: Fixed possible failing or crashing input() if attributes "encoding" - or "errors" of sys.stdin or sys.stdout are not set or are not strings. - -- bpo-28298: Fix a bug that prevented array 'Q', 'L' and 'I' from accepting big - intables (objects that have __int__) as elements. Patch by Oren Milman. - -- bpo-29615: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher no longer chains KeyError (or any other - exception) to exception(s) raised in the dispatched methods. - Patch by Petr Motejlek. - -- bpo-29704: asyncio.subprocess.SubprocessStreamProtocol no longer closes before - all pipes are closed. - -- bpo-29703: Fix asyncio to support instantiation of new event loops - in child processes. - -- bpo-29376: Fix assertion error in threading._DummyThread.is_alive(). - -- bpo-29110: 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. - -- Issue #28961: Fix unittest.mock._Call helper: don't ignore the name parameter - anymore. Patch written by Jiajun Huang. - -- bpo-29532: Altering a kwarg dictionary passed to functools.partial() - no longer affects a partial object after creation. - -- Issue #28556: Various updates to typing module: typing.Counter, typing.ChainMap, - improved ABC caching, etc. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra, Ivan Levkivskyi, - Manuel Krebber, and Łukasz Langa. - -- Issue #29100: Fix datetime.fromtimestamp() regression introduced in Python - 3.6.0: check minimum and maximum years. - -- Issue #29519: Fix weakref spewing exceptions during interpreter shutdown - when used with a rare combination of multiprocessing and custom codecs. - -- Issue #29416: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.Path.mkdir - -- Issue #29444: Fixed out-of-bounds buffer access in the group() method of - the match object. Based on patch by WGH. - -- Issue #29335: Fix subprocess.Popen.wait() when the child process has - exited to a stopped instead of terminated state (ex: when under ptrace). - -- Issue #29290: Fix a regression in argparse that help messages would wrap at - non-breaking spaces. - -- Issue #28735: Fixed the comparison of mock.MagickMock with mock.ANY. - -- Issue #29011: Fix an important omission by adding Deque to the typing module. - -- Issue #29219: Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of uninitialized - ctypes.CDLL instances. - -- Issue #28969: 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. - -- Issue #29142: 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. - -Windows -------- - -- bpo-30687: Locate msbuild.exe on Windows when building rather than - vcvarsall.bat - -- Issue #29392: Prevent crash when passing invalid arguments into msvcrt module. - -C API ------ - -- Issue #27867: Function PySlice_GetIndicesEx() is replaced with a macro if - Py_LIMITED_API is set to the value between 0x03050400 and 0x03060000 (not - including) or 0x03060100 or higher. - -- Issue #29083: 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. - -Documentation -------------- - -- bpo-30176: Add missing attribute related constants in curses documentation. - -- bpo-26985: Add missing info of code object in inspect documentation. - -- bpo-28929: Link the documentation to its source file on GitHub. - -- bpo-25008: Document smtpd.py as effectively deprecated and add a pointer to - aiosmtpd, a third-party asyncio-based replacement. - -- Issue #26355: Add canonical header link on each page to corresponding major - version of the documentation. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier. - -- Issue #29349: Fix Python 2 syntax in code for building the documentation. - -Build ------ - -- bpo-29243: Prevent unnecessary rebuilding of Python during ``make test``, - ``make install`` and some other make targets when configured with - ``--enable-optimizations``. - -- bpo-23404: Don't regenerate generated files based on file modification time - anymore: the action is now explicit. Replace ``make touch`` with - ``make regen-all``. - -- bpo-29643: Fix ``--enable-optimization`` didn't work. - -Tests ------ - -- bpo-30357: test_thread: setUp() now uses support.threading_setup() and - support.threading_cleanup() to wait until threads complete to avoid - random side effects on following tests. Initial patch written by Grzegorz - Grzywacz. - -- bpo-28087: 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-30197: Enhanced functions swap_attr() and swap_item() in the - test.support module. They now work when delete replaced attribute or item - inside the with statement. The old value of the attribute or item (or None - if it doesn't exist) now will be assigned to the target of the "as" clause, - if there is one. - -- Issue #29571: 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) - - -What's New in Python 3.5.3? -=========================== - -Release date: 2017-01-17 - -There were no code changes between 3.5.3rc1 and 3.5.3 final. - - -What's New in Python 3.5.3 release candidate 1? -=============================================== - -Release date: 2017-01-02 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #29073: bytearray formatting no longer truncates on first null byte. - -- Issue #28932: Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist. - -- Issue #28147: Fix a memory leak in split-table dictionaries: setattr() - must not convert combined table into split table. - -- Issue #25677: Correct the positioning of the syntax error caret for - indented blocks. Based on patch by Michael Layzell. - -- Issue #29000: Fixed bytes formatting of octals with zero padding in alternate - form. - -- Issue #28512: Fixed setting the offset attribute of SyntaxError by - PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx() and PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject(). - -- Issue #28991: functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure reentrancy - bug caused by a monkey-patched len() function. - -- Issue #28648: Fixed crash in Py_DecodeLocale() in debug build on Mac OS X - when decode astral characters. Patch by Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #19398: Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of - empty compile-time PYTHONPATH components. - -- Issue #28426: Fixed potential crash in PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject() in debug - build. - -- Issue #23782: Fixed possible memory leak in _PyTraceback_Add() and exception - loss in PyTraceBack_Here(). - -- Issue #28379: Added sanity checks and tests for PyUnicode_CopyCharacters(). - Patch by Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #28376: The type of long range iterator is now registered as Iterator. - Patch by Oren Milman. - -- Issue #28376: The constructor of range_iterator now checks that step is not 0. - Patch by Oren Milman. - -- Issue #26906: Resolving special methods of uninitialized type now causes - implicit initialization of the type instead of a fail. - -- Issue #18287: PyType_Ready() now checks that tp_name is not NULL. - Original patch by Niklas Koep. - -- Issue #24098: Fixed possible crash when AST is changed in process of - compiling it. - -- Issue #28350: String constants with null character no longer interned. - -- Issue #26617: Fix crash when GC runs during weakref callbacks. - -- Issue #27942: String constants now interned recursively in tuples and frozensets. - -- Issue #21578: Fixed misleading error message when ImportError called with - invalid keyword args. - -- Issue #28203: Fix incorrect type in error message from - ``complex(1.0, {2:3})``. Patch by Soumya Sharma. - -- Issue #27955: Fallback on reading /dev/urandom device when the getrandom() - syscall fails with EPERM, for example when blocked by SECCOMP. - -- Issue #28131: Fix a regression in zipimport's compile_source(). zipimport - should use the same optimization level as the interpreter. - -- Issue #25221: Fix corrupted result from PyLong_FromLong(0) when - Python is compiled with NSMALLPOSINTS = 0. - -- Issue #25758: Prevents zipimport from unnecessarily encoding a filename - (patch by Eryk Sun) - -- Issue #28189: dictitems_contains no longer swallows compare errors. - (Patch by Xiang Zhang) - -- Issue #27812: Properly clear out a generator's frame's backreference to the - generator to prevent crashes in frame.clear(). - -- Issue #27811: Fix a crash when a coroutine that has not been awaited is - finalized with warnings-as-errors enabled. - -- Issue #27587: Fix another issue found by PVS-Studio: Null pointer check - after use of 'def' in _PyState_AddModule(). - Initial patch by Christian Heimes. - -- Issue #26020: set literal evaluation order did not match documented behaviour. - -- Issue #27782: Multi-phase extension module import now correctly allows the - ``m_methods`` field to be used to add module level functions to instances - of non-module types returned from ``Py_create_mod``. Patch by Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #27936: The round() function accepted a second None argument - for some types but not for others. Fixed the inconsistency by - accepting None for all numeric types. - -- Issue #27487: Warn if a submodule argument to "python -m" or - runpy.run_module() is found in sys.modules after parent packages are - imported, but before the submodule is executed. - -- Issue #27558: Fix a SystemError in the implementation of "raise" statement. - In a brand new thread, raise a RuntimeError since there is no active - exception to reraise. Patch written by Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #27419: Standard __import__() no longer look up "__import__" in globals - or builtins for importing submodules or "from import". Fixed handling an - error of non-string package name. - -- Issue #27083: Respect the PYTHONCASEOK environment variable under Windows. - -- Issue #27514: Make having too many statically nested blocks a SyntaxError - instead of SystemError. - -- Issue #27473: Fixed possible integer overflow in bytes and bytearray - concatenations. Patch by Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #27507: Add integer overflow check in bytearray.extend(). Patch by - Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #27581: Don't rely on wrapping for overflow check in - PySequence_Tuple(). Patch by Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #27443: __length_hint__() of bytearray iterators no longer return a - negative integer for a resized bytearray. - -- Issue #27942: Fix memory leak in codeobject.c - -Library -------- - -- Issue #15812: inspect.getframeinfo() now correctly shows the first line of - a context. Patch by Sam Breese. - -- Issue #29094: Offsets in a ZIP file created with extern file object and modes - "w" and "x" now are relative to the start of the file. - -- Issue #13051: Fixed recursion errors in large or resized - curses.textpad.Textbox. Based on patch by Tycho Andersen. - -- Issue #29119: Fix weakrefs in the pure python version of - collections.OrderedDict move_to_end() method. - Contributed by Andra Bogildea. - -- Issue #9770: curses.ascii predicates now work correctly with negative - integers. - -- Issue #28427: old keys should not remove new values from - WeakValueDictionary when collecting from another thread. - -- Issue #28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py. - -- Issue #28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree. - -- Issue #19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and - WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another - thread. - -- Issue #20191: Fixed a crash in resource.prlimit() when pass a sequence that - doesn't own its elements as limits. - -- Issue #28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the - forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some - multiprocessing objects such as locks. - -- Issue #28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer - writes the index file when it is not changed. - -- Issue #25659: In ctypes, prevent a crash calling the from_buffer() and - from_buffer_copy() methods on abstract classes like Array. - -- Issue #28732: Fix crash in os.spawnv() with no elements in args - -- Issue #28485: Always raise ValueError for negative - compileall.compile_dir(workers=...) parameter, even when multithreading is - unavailable. - -- Issue #28387: Fixed possible crash in _io.TextIOWrapper deallocator when - the garbage collector is invoked in other thread. Based on patch by - Sebastian Cufre. - -- Issue #27517: LZMA compressor and decompressor no longer raise exceptions if - given empty data twice. Patch by Benjamin Fogle. - -- Issue #28549: Fixed segfault in curses's addch() with ncurses6. - -- Issue #28449: 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. - -- Issue #23262: The webbrowser module now supports Firefox 36+ and derived - browsers. Based on patch by Oleg Broytman. - -- Issue #27939: 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. - -- Issue #28255: calendar.TextCalendar().prmonth() no longer prints a space - at the start of new line after printing a month's calendar. Patch by - Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #20491: The textwrap.TextWrapper class now honors non-breaking spaces. - Based on patch by Kaarle Ritvanen. - -- Issue #28353: os.fwalk() no longer fails on broken links. - -- Issue #25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by addin - a workaround to Tix library bug. - -- Issue #28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer add entry "./" to ZIP archive. - -- Issue #24452: Make webbrowser support Chrome on Mac OS X. - -- Issue #20766: Fix references leaked by pdb in the handling of SIGINT - handlers. - -- Issue #26293: Fixed writing ZIP files that starts not from the start of the - file. Offsets in ZIP file now are relative to the start of the archive in - conforming to the specification. - -- Issue #28321: Fixed writing non-BMP characters with binary format in plistlib. - -- Issue #28322: Fixed possible crashes when unpickle itertools objects from - incorrect pickle data. Based on patch by John Leitch. - -- Fix possible integer overflows and crashes in the mmap module with unusual - usage patterns. - -- Issue #1703178: Fix the ability to pass the --link-objects option to the - distutils build_ext command. - -- Issue #28253: Fixed calendar functions for extreme months: 0001-01 - and 9999-12. - - Methods itermonthdays() and itermonthdays2() are reimplemented so - that they don't call itermonthdates() which can cause datetime.date - under/overflow. - -- Issue #28275: Fixed possible use after free in the decompress() - methods of the LZMADecompressor and BZ2Decompressor classes. - Original patch by John Leitch. - -- Issue #27897: Fixed possible crash in sqlite3.Connection.create_collation() - if pass invalid string-like object as a name. Patch by Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #18893: Fix invalid exception handling in Lib/ctypes/macholib/dyld.py. - Patch by Madison May. - -- Issue #27611: Fixed support of default root window in the tkinter.tix module. - -- Issue #27348: In the traceback module, restore the formatting of exception - messages like "Exception: None". This fixes a regression introduced in - 3.5a2. - -- Issue #25651: Allow falsy values to be used for msg parameter of subTest(). - -- Issue #27932: Prevent memory leak in win32_ver(). - -- Fix UnboundLocalError in socket._sendfile_use_sendfile. - -- Issue #28075: Check for ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in Windows implementation of - os.stat(). Patch by Eryk Sun. - -- Issue #25270: Prevent codecs.escape_encode() from raising SystemError when - an empty bytestring is passed. - -- Issue #28181: Get antigravity over HTTPS. Patch by Kaartic Sivaraam. - -- Issue #25895: Enable WebSocket URL schemes in urllib.parse.urljoin. - Patch by Gergely Imreh and Markus Holtermann. - -- Issue #27599: Fixed buffer overrun in binascii.b2a_qp() and binascii.a2b_qp(). - -- Issue #19003:m email.generator now replaces only ``\r`` and/or ``\n`` line - endings, per the RFC, instead of all unicode line endings. - -- Issue #28019: itertools.count() no longer rounds non-integer step in range - between 1.0 and 2.0 to 1. - -- Issue #25969: Update the lib2to3 grammar to handle the unpacking - generalizations added in 3.5. - -- Issue #14977: mailcap now respects the order of the lines in the mailcap - files ("first match"), as required by RFC 1542. Patch by Michael Lazar. - -- Issue #24594: Validates persist parameter when opening MSI database - -- Issue #17582: xml.etree.ElementTree nows preserves whitespaces in attributes - (Patch by Duane Griffin. Reviewed and approved by Stefan Behnel.) - -- Issue #28047: Fixed calculation of line length used for the base64 CTE - in the new email policies. - -- Issue #27445: Don't pass str(_charset) to MIMEText.set_payload(). - Patch by Claude Paroz. - -- Issue #22450: urllib now includes an ``Accept: */*`` header among the - default headers. This makes the results of REST API requests more - consistent and predictable especially when proxy servers are involved. - -- lib2to3.pgen3.driver.load_grammar() now creates a stable cache file - between runs given the same Grammar.txt input regardless of the hash - randomization setting. - -- Issue #27570: Avoid zero-length memcpy() etc calls with null source - pointers in the "ctypes" and "array" modules. - -- Issue #22233: Break email header lines *only* on the RFC specified CR and LF - characters, not on arbitrary unicode line breaks. This also fixes a bug in - HTTP header parsing. - -- Issue #27988: Fix email iter_attachments incorrect mutation of payload list. - -- Issue #27691: Fix ssl module's parsing of GEN_RID subject alternative name - fields in X.509 certs. - -- Issue #27850: Remove 3DES from ssl module's default cipher list to counter - measure sweet32 attack (CVE-2016-2183). - -- Issue #27766: Add ChaCha20 Poly1305 to ssl module's default ciper list. - (Required OpenSSL 1.1.0 or LibreSSL). - -- Issue #26470: Port ssl and hashlib module to OpenSSL 1.1.0. - -- Remove support for passing a file descriptor to os.access. It never worked but - previously didn't raise. - -- Issue #12885: Fix error when distutils encounters symlink. - -- Issue #27881: Fixed possible bugs when setting sqlite3.Connection.isolation_level. - Based on patch by Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #27861: Fixed a crash in sqlite3.Connection.cursor() when a factory - creates not a cursor. Patch by Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #19884: Avoid spurious output on OS X with Gnu Readline. - -- Issue #27706: Restore deterministic behavior of random.Random().seed() - for string seeds using seeding version 1. Allows sequences of calls - to random() to exactly match those obtained in Python 2. - Patch by Nofar Schnider. - -- Issue #10513: Fix a regression in Connection.commit(). Statements should - not be reset after a commit. - -- A new version of typing.py from https://github.com/python/typing: - - Collection (only for 3.6) (Issue #27598) - - Add FrozenSet to __all__ (upstream #261) - - fix crash in _get_type_vars() (upstream #259) - - Remove the dict constraint in ForwardRef._eval_type (upstream #252) - -- Issue #27539: Fix unnormalised ``Fraction.__pow__`` result in the case - of negative exponent and negative base. - -- Issue #21718: cursor.description is now available for queries using CTEs. - -- Issue #2466: posixpath.ismount now correctly recognizes mount points which - the user does not have permission to access. - -- 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. - -- 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 #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 #27568: Prevent HTTPoxy attack (CVE-2016-1000110). Ignore the - HTTP_PROXY variable when REQUEST_METHOD environment is set, which indicates - that the script is in CGI mode. - -- Issue #27656: Do not assume sched.h defines any SCHED_* constants. - -- Issue #27130: In the "zlib" module, fix handling of large buffers - (typically 4 GiB) when compressing and decompressing. Previously, inputs - were limited to 4 GiB, and compression and decompression operations did not - properly handle results of 4 GiB. - -- Issue #27533: Release GIL in nt._isdir - -- Issue #17711: Fixed unpickling by the persistent ID with protocol 0. - Original patch by Alexandre Vassalotti. - -- Issue #27522: Avoid an unintentional reference cycle in email.feedparser. - -- Issue #26844: Fix error message for imp.find_module() to refer to 'path' - instead of 'name'. Patch by Lev Maximov. - -- Issue #23804: Fix SSL zero-length recv() calls to not block and not raise - an error about unclean EOF. - -- Issue #27466: Change time format returned by http.cookie.time2netscape, - confirming the netscape cookie format and making it consistent with - documentation. - -- Issue #26664: Fix activate.fish by removing mis-use of ``$``. - -- Issue #22115: Fixed tracing Tkinter variables: trace_vdelete() with wrong - mode no longer break tracing, trace_vinfo() now always returns a list of - pairs of strings, tracing in the "u" mode now works. - -- Fix a scoping issue in importlib.util.LazyLoader which triggered an - UnboundLocalError when lazy-loading a module that was already put into - sys.modules. - -- Issue #27079: Fixed curses.ascii functions isblank(), iscntrl() and ispunct(). - -- Issue #26754: Some functions (compile() etc) accepted a filename argument - encoded as an iterable of integers. Now only strings and byte-like objects - are accepted. - -- Issue #27048: Prevents distutils failing on Windows when environment - variables contain non-ASCII characters - -- Issue #27330: Fixed possible leaks in the ctypes module. - -- Issue #27238: Got rid of bare excepts in the turtle module. Original patch - by Jelle Zijlstra. - -- Issue #27122: When an exception is raised within the context being managed - by a contextlib.ExitStack() and one of the exit stack generators - catches and raises it in a chain, do not re-raise the original exception - 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. - -- Issue #26386: Fixed ttk.TreeView selection operations with item id's - containing spaces. - -- [Security] Issue #22636: Avoid shell injection problems with - ctypes.util.find_library(). - -- Issue #16182: Fix various functions in the "readline" module to use the - locale encoding, and fix get_begidx() and get_endidx() to return code point - indexes. - -- Issue #27392: Add loop.connect_accepted_socket(). - Patch by Jim Fulton. - -- Issue #27930: Improved behaviour of logging.handlers.QueueListener. - Thanks to Paulo Andrade and Petr Viktorin for the analysis and patch. - -- Issue #21201: Improves readability of multiprocessing error message. Thanks - to Wojciech Walczak for patch. - -- Issue #27456: asyncio: Set TCP_NODELAY by default. - -- Issue #27906: Fix socket accept exhaustion during high TCP traffic. - Patch by Kevin Conway. - -- Issue #28174: Handle when SO_REUSEPORT isn't properly supported. - Patch by Seth Michael Larson. - -- Issue #26654: Inspect functools.partial in asyncio.Handle.__repr__. - Patch by iceboy. - -- Issue #26909: Fix slow pipes IO in asyncio. - Patch by INADA Naoki. - -- Issue #28176: Fix callbacks race in asyncio.SelectorLoop.sock_connect. - -- Issue #27759: Fix selectors incorrectly retain invalid file descriptors. - Patch by Mark Williams. - -- Issue #28368: Refuse monitoring processes if the child watcher has - no loop attached. - Patch by Vincent Michel. - -- Issue #28369: Raise RuntimeError when transport's FD is used with - add_reader, add_writer, etc. - -- Issue #28370: Speedup asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly. - Patch by Коренберг Марк. - -- Issue #28371: Deprecate passing asyncio.Handles to run_in_executor. - -- Issue #28372: Fix asyncio to support formatting of non-python coroutines. - -- Issue #28399: Remove UNIX socket from FS before binding. - Patch by Коренберг Марк. - -- Issue #27972: Prohibit Tasks to await on themselves. - -- Issue #26923: Fix asyncio.Gather to refuse being cancelled once all - children are done. - Patch by Johannes Ebke. - -- Issue #26796: Don't configure the number of workers for default - threadpool executor. - Initial patch by Hans Lawrenz. - -- Issue #28600: Optimize loop.call_soon(). - -- Issue #28613: Fix get_event_loop() return the current loop if - called from coroutines/callbacks. - -- Issue #28639: Fix inspect.isawaitable to always return bool - Patch by Justin Mayfield. - -- Issue #28652: Make loop methods reject socket kinds they do not support. - -- Issue #28653: Fix a refleak in functools.lru_cache. - -- Issue #28703: Fix asyncio.iscoroutinefunction to handle Mock objects. - -- Issue #24142: Reading a corrupt config file left the parser in an - invalid state. Original patch by Florian Höch. - -- Issue #28990: Fix SSL hanging if connection is closed before handshake - completed. - (Patch by HoHo-Ho) - -IDLE ----- - -- Issue #15308: Add 'interrupt execution' (^C) to Shell menu. - Patch by Roger Serwy, updated by Bayard Randel. - -- Issue #27922: Stop IDLE tests from 'flashing' gui widgets on the screen. - -- Add version to title of IDLE help window. - -- Issue #25564: In section on IDLE -- console differences, mention that - using exec means that __builtins__ is defined for each statement. - -- Issue #27714: text_textview and test_autocomplete now pass when re-run - in the same process. This occurs when test_idle fails when run with the - -w option but without -jn. Fix warning from test_config. - -- Issue #25507: IDLE no longer runs buggy code because of its tkinter imports. - Users must include the same imports required to run directly in Python. - -- Issue #27452: add line counter and crc to IDLE configHandler test dump. - -- Issue #27365: Allow non-ascii chars in IDLE NEWS.txt, for contributor names. - -- Issue #27245: IDLE: Cleanly delete custom themes and key bindings. - Previously, when IDLE was started from a console or by import, a cascade - of warnings was emitted. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -C API ------ - -- Issue #28808: PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString() now never raises exceptions. - -- Issue #26754: PyUnicode_FSDecoder() accepted a filename argument encoded as - an iterable of integers. Now only strings and bytes-like objects are accepted. - -Documentation -------------- - -- Issue #28513: Documented command-line interface of zipfile. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l/-M in regrtest - command line arguments. - -- Issue #28666: Now test.support.rmtree is able to remove unwritable or - unreadable directories. - -- Issue #23839: Various caches now are cleared before running every test file. - -- Issue #28409: regrtest: fix the parser of command line arguments. - -- Issue #27787: Call gc.collect() before checking each test for "dangling - threads", since the dangling threads are weak references. - -- Issue #27369: In test_pyexpat, avoid testing an error message detail that - changed in Expat 2.2.0. - -Tools/Demos ------------ - -- Issue #27952: Get Tools/scripts/fixcid.py working with Python 3 and the - current "re" module, avoid invalid Python backslash escapes, and fix a bug - parsing escaped C quote signs. - -- Issue #27332: Fixed the type of the first argument of module-level functions - generated by Argument Clinic. Patch by Petr Viktorin. - -- Issue #27418: Fixed Tools/importbench/importbench.py. - -Windows -------- - -- Issue #28251: Improvements to help manuals on Windows. - -- Issue #28110: launcher.msi has different product codes between 32-bit and - 64-bit - -- Issue #25144: Ensures TargetDir is set before continuing with custom - install. - -- Issue #27469: Adds a shell extension to the launcher so that drag and drop - works correctly. - -- Issue #27309: Enabled proper Windows styles in python[w].exe manifest. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #29080: Removes hard dependency on hg.exe from PCBuild/build.bat - -- Issue #23903: Added missed names to PC/python3.def. - -- Issue #10656: Fix out-of-tree building on AIX. Patch by Tristan Carel and - Michael Haubenwallner. - -- Issue #26359: Rename --with-optimiations to --enable-optimizations. - -- Issue #28444: Fix missing extensions modules when cross compiling. - -- Issue #28248: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2j. - -- Issue #28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale (python-config and distclean - targets in Makefile). Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis. - -- Issue #26661: setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch wrapper. - -- Issue #28066: Fix the logic that searches build directories for generated - include files when building outside the source tree. - -- Issue #15819: Remove redundant include search directory option for building - outside the source tree. - -- Issue #27566: Fix clean target in freeze makefile (patch by Lisa Roach) - -- Issue #27705: Update message in validate_ucrtbase.py - -- Issue #27983: Cause lack of llvm-profdata tool when using clang as - required for PGO linking to be a configure time error rather than - make time when --with-optimizations is enabled. Also improve our - ability to find the llvm-profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes. - -- Issue #26307: The profile-opt build now applies PGO to the built-in modules. - -- Issue #26359: Add the --with-optimizations configure flag. - -- Issue #27713: Suppress spurious build warnings when updating importlib's - bootstrap files. Patch by Xiang Zhang - -- Issue #25825: Correct the references to Modules/python.exp and ld_so_aix, - which are required on AIX. This updates references to an installation path - that was changed in 3.2a4, and undoes changed references to the build tree - that were made in 3.5.0a1. - -- Issue #27453: CPP invocation in configure must use CPPFLAGS. Patch by - Chi Hsuan Yen. - -- Issue #27641: The configure script now inserts comments into the makefile - to prevent the pgen and _freeze_importlib executables from being cross- - compiled. - -- Issue #26662: Set PYTHON_FOR_GEN in configure as the Python program to be - used for file generation during the build. - -- Issue #10910: Avoid C++ compilation errors on FreeBSD and OS X. - Also update FreedBSD version checks for the original ctype UTF-8 workaround. - -- Issue #28676: Prevent missing 'getentropy' declaration warning on macOS. - Patch by Gareth Rees. - - -What's New in Python 3.5.2? -=========================== - -Release date: 2016-06-26 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #26930: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2h. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #26867: Ubuntu's openssl OP_NO_SSLv3 is forced on by default; fix test. - -IDLE ----- - -- Issue #27365: Allow non-ascii in idlelib/NEWS.txt - minimal part for 3.5.2. - - -What's New in Python 3.5.2 release candidate 1? -=============================================== - -Release date: 2016-06-12 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #27066: Fixed SystemError if a custom opener (for open()) returns a - negative number without setting an exception. - -- Issue #20041: Fixed TypeError when frame.f_trace is set to None. - Patch by Xavier de Gaye. - -- Issue #26168: Fixed possible refleaks in failing Py_BuildValue() with the "N" - format unit. - -- Issue #26991: Fix possible refleak when creating a function with annotations. - -- Issue #27039: Fixed bytearray.remove() for values greater than 127. Patch by - Joe Jevnik. - -- Issue #23640: int.from_bytes() no longer bypasses constructors for subclasses. - -- Issue #26811: gc.get_objects() no longer contains a broken tuple with NULL - pointer. - -- Issue #20120: Use RawConfigParser for .pypirc parsing, - removing support for interpolation unintentionally added - with move to Python 3. Behavior no longer does any - interpolation in .pypirc files, matching behavior in Python - 2.7 and Setuptools 19.0. - -- Issue #26659: Make the builtin slice type support cycle collection. - -- Issue #26718: super.__init__ no longer leaks memory if called multiple times. - NOTE: A direct call of super.__init__ is not endorsed! - -- Issue #25339: PYTHONIOENCODING now has priority over locale in setting the - error handler for stdin and stdout. - -- Issue #26494: Fixed crash on iterating exhausting iterators. - Affected classes are generic sequence iterators, iterators of str, bytes, - bytearray, list, tuple, set, frozenset, dict, OrderedDict, corresponding - views and os.scandir() iterator. - -- Issue #26581: If coding cookie is specified multiple times on a line in - Python source code file, only the first one is taken to account. - -- Issue #26464: Fix str.translate() when string is ASCII and first replacements - removes character, but next replacement uses a non-ASCII character or a - string longer than 1 character. Regression introduced in Python 3.5.0. - -- Issue #22836: Ensure exception reports from PyErr_Display() and - PyErr_WriteUnraisable() are sensible even when formatting them produces - secondary errors. This affects the reports produced by - sys.__excepthook__() and when __del__() raises an exception. - -- Issue #26302: Correct behavior to reject comma as a legal character for - cookie names. - -- Issue #4806: Avoid masking the original TypeError exception when using star - (``*``) unpacking in function calls. Based on patch by Hagen Fürstenau and - Daniel Urban. - -- Issue #27138: Fix the doc comment for FileFinder.find_spec(). - -- Issue #26154: Add a new private _PyThreadState_UncheckedGet() function to get - the current Python thread state, but don't issue a fatal error if it is NULL. - This new function must be used instead of accessing directly the - _PyThreadState_Current variable. The variable is no more exposed since - Python 3.5.1 to hide the exact implementation of atomic C types, to avoid - compiler issues. - -- Issue #26194: Deque.insert() gave odd results for bounded deques that had - reached their maximum size. Now an IndexError will be raised when attempting - to insert into a full deque. - -- Issue #25843: When compiling code, don't merge constants if they are equal - but have a different types. For example, ``f1, f2 = lambda: 1, lambda: 1.0`` - is now correctly compiled to two different functions: ``f1()`` returns ``1`` - (``int``) and ``f2()`` returns ``1.0`` (``int``), even if ``1`` and ``1.0`` - are equal. - -- Issue #22995: [UPDATE] Comment out the one of the pickleability tests in - _PyObject_GetState() due to regressions observed in Cython-based projects. - -- Issue #25961: Disallowed null characters in the type name. - -- Issue #25973: Fix segfault when an invalid nonlocal statement binds a name - starting with two underscores. - -- Issue #22995: Instances of extension types with a state that aren't - subclasses of list or dict and haven't implemented any pickle-related - methods (__reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __getnewargs__, __getnewargs_ex__, - or __getstate__), can no longer be pickled. Including memoryview. - -- Issue #20440: Massive replacing unsafe attribute setting code with special - macro Py_SETREF. - -- Issue #25766: Special method __bytes__() now works in str subclasses. - -- Issue #25421: __sizeof__ methods of builtin types now use dynamic basic size. - 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 #27147: Mention PEP 420 in the importlib docs. - -- Issue #24097: Fixed crash in object.__reduce__() if slot name is freed inside - __getattr__. - -- Issue #24731: Fixed crash on converting objects with special methods - __bytes__, __trunc__, and __float__ returning instances of subclasses of - bytes, int, and float to subclasses of bytes, int, and float correspondingly. - -- Issue #26478: Fix semantic bugs when using binary operators with dictionary - views and tuples. - -- Issue #26171: Fix possible integer overflow and heap corruption in - zipimporter.get_data(). - -- Issue #25660: Fix TAB key behaviour in REPL with readline. - -- Issue #25887: Raise a RuntimeError when a coroutine object is awaited - more than once. - -- Issue #27243: Update the __aiter__ protocol: instead of returning - an awaitable that resolves to an asynchronous iterator, the asynchronous - iterator should be returned directly. Doing the former will trigger a - PendingDeprecationWarning. - - -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 - -- Issue #21386: Implement missing IPv4Address.is_global property. It was - documented since 07a5610bae9d. Initial patch by Roger Luethi. - -- Issue #20900: distutils register command now decodes HTTP responses - correctly. Initial patch by ingrid. - -- A new version of typing.py provides several new classes and - features: @overload outside stubs, Reversible, DefaultDict, Text, - ContextManager, Type[], NewType(), TYPE_CHECKING, and numerous bug - fixes (note that some of the new features are not yet implemented in - mypy or other static analyzers). Also classes for PEP 492 - (Awaitable, AsyncIterable, AsyncIterator) have been added (in fact - they made it into 3.5.1 but were never mentioned). - -- Issue #25738: Stop http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.send_error() from - sending a message body for 205 Reset Content. Also, don't send Content - header fields in responses that don't have a body. Patch by Susumu - Koshiba. - -- 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. - -- Issue #27164: In the zlib module, allow decompressing raw Deflate streams - with a predefined zdict. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #24291: Fix wsgiref.simple_server.WSGIRequestHandler to completely - write data to the client. Previously it could do partial writes and - truncate data. Also, wsgiref.handler.ServerHandler can now handle stdout - doing partial writes, but this is deprecated. - -- Issue #26809: Add ``__all__`` to :mod:`string`. Patch by Emanuel Barry. - -- Issue #26373: subprocess.Popen.communicate now correctly ignores - BrokenPipeError when the child process dies before .communicate() - is called in more/all circumstances. - -- Issue #21776: distutils.upload now correctly handles HTTPError. - Initial patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #27114: Fix SSLContext._load_windows_store_certs fails with - PermissionError - -- Issue #18383: Avoid creating duplicate filters when using filterwarnings - and simplefilter. Based on patch by Alex Shkop. - -- Issue #27057: Fix os.set_inheritable() on Android, ioctl() is blocked by - SELinux and fails with EACCESS. The function now falls back to fcntl(). - Patch written by Michał Bednarski. - -- Issue #27014: Fix infinite recursion using typing.py. Thanks to Kalle Tuure! - -- Issue #14132: Fix urllib.request redirect handling when the target only has - a query string. Original fix by Ján Janech. - -- Issue #17214: The "urllib.request" module now percent-encodes non-ASCII - bytes found in redirect target URLs. Some servers send Location header - fields with non-ASCII bytes, but "http.client" requires the request target - to be ASCII-encodable, otherwise a UnicodeEncodeError is raised. Based on - patch by Christian Heimes. - -- Issue #26892: Honor debuglevel flag in urllib.request.HTTPHandler. Patch - contributed by Chi Hsuan Yen. - -- Issue #22274: In the subprocess module, allow stderr to be redirected to - stdout even when stdout is not redirected. Patch by Akira Li. - -- Issue #26807: mock_open 'files' no longer error on readline at end of file. - Patch from Yolanda Robla. - -- Issue #25745: Fixed leaking a userptr in curses panel destructor. - -- Issue #26977: Removed unnecessary, and ignored, call to sum of squares helper - in statistics.pvariance. - -- Issue #26881: The modulefinder module now supports extended opcode arguments. - -- Issue #23815: Fixed crashes related to directly created instances of types in - _tkinter and curses.panel modules. - -- Issue #17765: weakref.ref() no longer silently ignores keyword arguments. - Patch by Georg Brandl. - -- Issue #26873: xmlrpc now raises ResponseError on unsupported type tags - instead of silently return incorrect result. - -- Issue #26711: Fixed the comparison of plistlib.Data with other types. - -- Issue #24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in `ctypes.util`. - - The bug only occurs on SunOS when the ctypes implementation searches - for the `crle` program. Patch by Xiang Zhang. Tested on SunOS by - Kees Bos. - -- Issue #26864: In urllib.request, change the proxy bypass host checking - against no_proxy to be case-insensitive, and to not match unrelated host - names that happen to have a bypassed hostname as a suffix. Patch by Xiang - Zhang. - -- Issue #26634: recursive_repr() now sets __qualname__ of wrapper. Patch by - Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #26804: urllib.request will prefer lower_case proxy environment - variables over UPPER_CASE or Mixed_Case ones. Patch contributed by Hans-Peter - Jansen. - -- Issue #26837: assertSequenceEqual() now correctly outputs non-stringified - differing items (like bytes in the -b mode). This affects assertListEqual() - and assertTupleEqual(). - -- Issue #26041: Remove "will be removed in Python 3.7" from deprecation - messages of platform.dist() and platform.linux_distribution(). - Patch by Kumaripaba Miyurusara Athukorala. - -- Issue #26822: itemgetter, attrgetter and methodcaller objects no longer - silently ignore keyword arguments. - -- Issue #26733: Disassembling a class now disassembles class and static methods. - Patch by Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #26801: Fix error handling in :func:`shutil.get_terminal_size`, catch - :exc:`AttributeError` instead of :exc:`NameError`. Patch written by Emanuel - Barry. - -- 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. - -- Issue #26717: Stop encoding Latin-1-ized WSGI paths with UTF-8. Patch by - Anthony Sottile. - -- Issue #26735: Fix :func:`os.urandom` on Solaris 11.3 and newer when reading - more than 1,024 bytes: call ``getrandom()`` multiple times with a limit of - 1024 bytes per call. - -- Issue #16329: Add .webm to mimetypes.types_map. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'. - -- Issue #13952: Add .csv to mimetypes.types_map. Patch by Geoff Wilson. - -- Issue #26709: Fixed Y2038 problem in loading binary PLists. - -- Issue #23735: Handle terminal resizing with Readline 6.3+ by installing our - own SIGWINCH handler. Patch by Eric Price. - -- Issue #26586: In http.server, respond with "413 Request header fields too - large" if there are too many header fields to parse, rather than killing - the connection and raising an unhandled exception. Patch by Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #22854: Change BufferedReader.writable() and - BufferedWriter.readable() to always return False. - -- Issue #25195: Fix a regression in mock.MagicMock. _Call is a subclass of - tuple (changeset 3603bae63c13 only works for classes) so we need to - implement __ne__ ourselves. Patch by Andrew Plummer. - -- Issue #26644: Raise ValueError rather than SystemError when a negative - length is passed to SSLSocket.recv() or read(). - -- Issue #23804: Fix SSL recv(0) and read(0) methods to return zero bytes - instead of up to 1024. - -- Issue #26616: Fixed a bug in datetime.astimezone() method. - -- Issue #21925: :func:`warnings.formatwarning` now catches exceptions on - ``linecache.getline(...)`` to be able to log :exc:`ResourceWarning` emitted - late during the Python shutdown process. - -- Issue #24266: Ctrl+C during Readline history search now cancels the search - mode when compiled with Readline 7. - -- Issue #26560: Avoid potential ValueError in BaseHandler.start_response. - Initial patch by Peter Inglesby. - -- [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. - -- Issue #26499: Account for remaining Content-Length in - HTTPResponse.readline() and read1(). Based on patch by Silent Ghost. - Also document that HTTPResponse now supports these methods. - -- Issue #25320: Handle sockets in directories unittest discovery is scanning. - Patch from Victor van den Elzen. - -- Issue #16181: cookiejar.http2time() now returns None if year is higher than - datetime.MAXYEAR. - -- Issue #26513: Fixes platform module detection of Windows Server - -- Issue #23718: Fixed parsing time in week 0 before Jan 1. Original patch by - Tamás Bence Gedai. - -- Issue #20589: Invoking Path.owner() and Path.group() on Windows now raise - NotImplementedError instead of ImportError. - -- Issue #26177: Fixed the keys() method for Canvas and Scrollbar widgets. - -- Issue #15068: Got rid of excessive buffering in the fileinput module. - The bufsize parameter is no longer used. - -- Issue #2202: Fix UnboundLocalError in - AbstractDigestAuthHandler.get_algorithm_impls. Initial patch by Mathieu - Dupuy. - -- Issue #25718: Fixed pickling and copying the accumulate() iterator with - total is None. - -- Issue #26475: Fixed debugging output for regular expressions with the (?x) - flag. - -- Issue #26457: Fixed the subnets() methods in IP network classes for the case - when resulting prefix length is equal to maximal prefix length. - Based on patch by Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #26385: Remove the file if the internal open() call in - NamedTemporaryFile() fails. Patch by Silent Ghost. - -- Issue #26402: Fix XML-RPC client to retry when the server shuts down a - persistent connection. This was a regression related to the new - http.client.RemoteDisconnected exception in 3.5.0a4. - -- Issue #25913: Leading ``<~`` is optional now in base64.a85decode() with - adobe=True. Patch by Swati Jaiswal. - -- Issue #26186: Remove an invalid type check in importlib.util.LazyLoader. - -- Issue #26367: importlib.__import__() raises SystemError like - builtins.__import__() when ``level`` is specified but without an accompanying - package specified. - -- Issue #26309: In the "socketserver" module, shut down the request (closing - the connected socket) when verify_request() returns false. Patch by Aviv - Palivoda. - -- [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. - -- Issue #26117: The os.scandir() iterator now closes file descriptor not only - when the iteration is finished, but when it was failed with error. - -- Issue #25911: Restored support of bytes paths in os.walk() on Windows. - -- Issue #26045: Add UTF-8 suggestion to error message when posting a - non-Latin-1 string with http.client. - -- Issue #12923: Reset FancyURLopener's redirect counter even if there is an - exception. Based on patches by Brian Brazil and Daniel Rocco. - -- Issue #25945: Fixed a crash when unpickle the functools.partial object with - wrong state. Fixed a leak in failed functools.partial constructor. - "args" and "keywords" attributes of functools.partial have now always types - tuple and dict correspondingly. - -- Issue #26202: copy.deepcopy() now correctly copies range() objects with - non-atomic attributes. - -- Issue #23076: Path.glob() now raises a ValueError if it's called with an - invalid pattern. Patch by Thomas Nyberg. - -- Issue #19883: Fixed possible integer overflows in zipimport. - -- Issue #26227: On Windows, getnameinfo(), gethostbyaddr() and - gethostbyname_ex() functions of the socket module now decode the hostname - from the ANSI code page rather than UTF-8. - -- Issue #26147: xmlrpc now works with strings not encodable with used - non-UTF-8 encoding. - -- Issue #25935: Garbage collector now breaks reference loops with OrderedDict. - -- Issue #16620: Fixed AttributeError in msilib.Directory.glob(). - -- Issue #26013: Added compatibility with broken protocol 2 pickles created - in old Python 3 versions (3.4.3 and lower). - -- Issue #25850: Use cross-compilation by default for 64-bit Windows. - -- Issue #17633: Improve zipimport's support for namespace packages. - -- Issue #24705: Fix sysconfig._parse_makefile not expanding ${} vars - appearing before $() vars. - -- Issue #22138: Fix mock.patch behavior when patching descriptors. Restore - original values after patching. Patch contributed by Sean McCully. - -- Issue #25672: In the ssl module, enable the SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode - option if it is safe to do so. - -- Issue #26012: Don't traverse into symlinks for ``**`` pattern in - pathlib.Path.[r]glob(). - -- Issue #24120: Ignore PermissionError when traversing a tree with - pathlib.Path.[r]glob(). Patch by Ulrich Petri. - -- Issue #25447: fileinput now uses sys.stdin as-is if it does not have a - buffer attribute (restores backward compatibility). - -- Issue #25447: Copying the lru_cache() wrapper object now always works, - independedly from the type of the wrapped object (by returning the original - object unchanged). - -- Issue #24103: Fixed possible use after free in ElementTree.XMLPullParser. - -- Issue #25860: os.fwalk() no longer skips remaining directories when error - occurs. Original patch by Samson Lee. - -- Issue #25914: Fixed and simplified OrderedDict.__sizeof__. - -- Issue #25902: Fixed various refcount issues in ElementTree iteration. - -- Issue #25717: Restore the previous behaviour of tolerating most fstat() - errors when opening files. This was a regression in 3.5a1, and stopped - anonymous temporary files from working in special cases. - -- Issue #24903: Fix regression in number of arguments compileall accepts when - '-d' is specified. The check on the number of arguments has been dropped - completely as it never worked correctly anyway. - -- Issue #25764: In the subprocess module, preserve any exception caused by - fork() failure when preexec_fn is used. - -- Issue #6478: _strptime's regexp cache now is reset after changing timezone - with time.tzset(). - -- Issue #14285: When executing a package with the "python -m package" option, - and package initialization fails, a proper traceback is now reported. The - "runpy" module now lets exceptions from package initialization pass back to - the caller, rather than raising ImportError. - -- Issue #19771: Also in runpy and the "-m" option, omit the irrelevant - message ". . . is a package and cannot be directly executed" if the package - could not even be initialized (e.g. due to a bad ``*.pyc`` file). - -- Issue #25177: Fixed problem with the mean of very small and very large - numbers. As a side effect, statistics.mean and statistics.variance should - be significantly faster. - -- Issue #25718: Fixed copying object with state with boolean value is false. - -- Issue #10131: Fixed deep copying of minidom documents. Based on patch - by Marian Ganisin. - -- Issue #25725: Fixed a reference leak in pickle.loads() when unpickling - invalid data including tuple instructions. - -- Issue #25663: In the Readline completer, avoid listing duplicate global - names, and search the global namespace before searching builtins. - -- Issue #25688: Fixed file leak in ElementTree.iterparse() raising an error. - -- Issue #23914: Fixed SystemError raised by unpickler on broken pickle data. - -- Issue #25691: Fixed crash on deleting ElementTree.Element attributes. - -- Issue #25624: ZipFile now always writes a ZIP_STORED header for directory - entries. Patch by Dingyuan Wang. - -- Skip getaddrinfo if host is already resolved. - Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis. - -- Issue #26050: Add asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil() method. - Patch by Марк Коренберг. - -- Issue #25924: Avoid unnecessary serialization of getaddrinfo(3) calls on - OS X versions 10.5 or higher. Original patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis. - -- Issue #26406: Avoid unnecessary serialization of getaddrinfo(3) calls on - current versions of OpenBSD and NetBSD. Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis. - -- Issue #26848: Fix asyncio/subprocess.communicate() to handle empty input. - Patch by Jack O'Connor. - -- Issue #27040: Add loop.get_exception_handler method - -- Issue #27041: asyncio: Add loop.create_future method - -- Issue #27223: asyncio: Fix _read_ready and _write_ready to respect - _conn_lost. - Patch by Łukasz Langa. - -- Issue #22970: asyncio: Fix inconsistency cancelling Condition.wait. - Patch by David Coles. - -IDLE ----- - -- Issue #5124: Paste with text selected now replaces the selection on X11. - This matches how paste works on Windows, Mac, most modern Linux apps, - and ttk widgets. Original patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #24759: Make clear in idlelib.idle_test.__init__ that the directory - is a private implementation of test.test_idle and tool for maintainers. - -- Issue #27196: Stop 'ThemeChanged' warnings when running IDLE tests. - These persisted after other warnings were suppressed in #20567. - Apply Serhiy Storchaka's update_idletasks solution to four test files. - Record this additional advice in idle_test/README.txt - -- Issue #20567: Revise idle_test/README.txt with advice about avoiding - tk warning messages from tests. Apply advice to several IDLE tests. - -- Issue #27117: Make colorizer htest and turtledemo work with dark themes. - Move code for configuring text widget colors to a new function. - -- Issue #26673: When tk reports font size as 0, change to size 10. - Such fonts on Linux prevented the configuration dialog from opening. - -- Issue #21939: Add test for IDLE's percolator. - Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar. - -- Issue #21676: Add test for IDLE's replace dialog. - Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar. - -- Issue #18410: Add test for IDLE's search dialog. - Original patch by Westley Martínez. - -- Issue #21703: Add test for IDLE's undo delegator. - Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar . - -- Issue #27044: Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory leaks. - -- Issue #23977: Add more asserts to test_delegator. - -- Issue #20640: Add tests for idlelib.configHelpSourceEdit. - Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar. - -- In the 'IDLE-console differences' section of the IDLE doc, clarify - how running with IDLE affects sys.modules and the standard streams. - -- Issue #25507: fix incorrect change in IOBinding that prevented printing. - Augment IOBinding htest to include all major IOBinding functions. - -- Issue #25905: Revert unwanted conversion of ' to ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION - MARK in README.txt and open this and NEWS.txt with 'ascii'. - Re-encode CREDITS.txt to utf-8 and open it with 'utf-8'. - -Documentation -------------- - -- Issue #19489: Moved the search box from the sidebar to the header and footer - of each page. Patch by Ammar Askar. - -- Issue #24136: Document the new PEP 448 unpacking syntax of 3.5. - -- Issue #26736: Used HTTPS for external links in the documentation if possible. - -- Issue #6953: Rework the Readline module documentation to group related - functions together, and add more details such as what underlying Readline - functions and variables are accessed. - -- Issue #23606: Adds note to ctypes documentation regarding cdll.msvcrt. - -- Issue #25500: Fix documentation to not claim that __import__ is searched for - in the global scope. - -- Issue #26014: Update 3.x packaging documentation: - * "See also" links to the new docs are now provided in the legacy pages - * links to setuptools documentation have been updated - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #21916: Added tests for the turtle module. Patch by ingrid, - Gregory Loyse and Jelle Zijlstra. - -- Issue #26523: The multiprocessing thread pool (multiprocessing.dummy.Pool) - was untested. - -- Issue #26015: Added new tests for pickling iterators of mutable sequences. - -- Issue #26325: Added test.support.check_no_resource_warning() to check that - no ResourceWarning is emitted. - -- Issue #25940: Changed test_ssl to use self-signed.pythontest.net. This - avoids relying on svn.python.org, which recently changed root certificate. - -- Issue #25616: Tests for OrderedDict are extracted from test_collections - into separate file test_ordered_dict. - -- Issue #26583: Skip test_timestamp_overflow in test_import if bytecode - files cannot be written. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #26884: Fix linking extension modules for cross builds. - Patch by Xavier de Gaye. - -- Issue #22359: Disable the rules for running _freeze_importlib and pgen when - cross-compiling. The output of these programs is normally saved with the - source code anyway, and is still regenerated when doing a native build. - Patch by Xavier de Gaye. - -- Issue #27229: Fix the cross-compiling pgen rule for in-tree builds. Patch - by Xavier de Gaye. - -- Issue #21668: Link audioop, _datetime, _ctypes_test modules to libm, - except on Mac OS X. Patch written by Xavier de Gaye. - -- Issue #25702: A --with-lto configure option has been added that will - enable link time optimizations at build time during a make profile-opt. - Some compilers and toolchains are known to not produce stable code when - using LTO, be sure to test things thoroughly before relying on it. - It can provide a few % speed up over profile-opt alone. - -- Issue #26624: Adds validation of ucrtbase[d].dll version with warning - for old versions. - -- Issue #17603: Avoid error about nonexistant fileblocks.o file by using a - lower-level check for st_blocks in struct stat. - -- Issue #26079: Fixing the build output folder for tix-8.4.3.6. Patch by - Bjoern Thiel. - -- Issue #26465: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2g. - -- Issue #24421: Compile Modules/_math.c once, before building extensions. - Previously it could fail to compile properly if the math and cmath builds - were concurrent. - -- Issue #25348: Added ``--pgo`` and ``--pgo-job`` arguments to - ``PCbuild\build.bat`` for building with Profile-Guided Optimization. The - old ``PCbuild\build_pgo.bat`` script is now deprecated, and simply calls - ``PCbuild\build.bat --pgo %*``. - -- Issue #25827: Add support for building with ICC to ``configure``, including - a new ``--with-icc`` flag. - -- Issue #25696: Fix installation of Python on UNIX with make -j9. - -- Issue #26930: Update OS X 10.5+ 32-bit-only installer to build - and link with OpenSSL 1.0.2h. - -- Issue #26268: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2f. - -- Issue #25136: Support Apple Xcode 7's new textual SDK stub libraries. - -- Issue #24324: Do not enable unreachable code warnings when using - gcc as the option does not work correctly in older versions of gcc - and has been silently removed as of gcc-4.5. - -Windows -------- - -- Issue #27053: Updates make_zip.py to correctly generate library ZIP file. - -- Issue #26268: Update the prepare_ssl.py script to handle OpenSSL releases - that don't include the contents of the include directory (that is, 1.0.2e - and later). - -- Issue #26071: bdist_wininst created binaries fail to start and find - 32bit Python - -- Issue #26073: Update the list of magic numbers in launcher - -- Issue #26065: Excludes venv from library when generating embeddable - distro. - -Tools/Demos ------------ - -- Issue #26799: Fix python-gdb.py: don't get C types once when the Python code - is loaded, but get C types on demand. The C types can change if - python-gdb.py is loaded before the Python executable. Patch written by Thomas - Ilsche. - -- Issue #26271: Fix the Freeze tool to properly use flags passed through - configure. Patch by Daniel Shaulov. - -- Issue #26489: Add dictionary unpacking support to Tools/parser/unparse.py. - Patch by Guo Ci Teo. - -- Issue #26316: Fix variable name typo in Argument Clinic. - -Misc ----- - -- Issue #17500, and https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/945: Remove - unused and outdated icons. - - -What's New in Python 3.5.1 final? -================================= - -Release date: 2015-12-06 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #25709: Fixed problem with in-place string concatenation and - utf-8 cache. - -Windows -------- - -- Issue #25715: Python 3.5.1 installer shows wrong upgrade path and incorrect - logic for launcher detection. - - -What's New in Python 3.5.1 release candidate 1? -=============================================== - -Release date: 2015-11-22 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #25630: Fix a possible segfault during argument parsing in functions - that accept filesystem paths. - -- Issue #23564: Fixed a partially broken sanity check in the _posixsubprocess - internals regarding how fds_to_pass were passed to the child. The bug had - no actual impact as subprocess.py already avoided it. - -- Issue #25388: Fixed tokenizer crash when processing undecodable source code - with a null byte. - -- Issue #25462: The hash of the key now is calculated only once in most - operations in C implementation of OrderedDict. - -- Issue #22995: Default implementation of __reduce__ and __reduce_ex__ now - rejects builtin types with not defined __new__. - -- Issue #25555: Fix parser and AST: fill lineno and col_offset of "arg" node - when compiling AST from Python objects. - -- Issue #24802: Avoid buffer overreads when int(), float(), compile(), exec() - and eval() are passed bytes-like objects. These objects are not - necessarily terminated by a null byte, but the functions assumed they were. - -- Issue #24726: Fixed a crash and leaking NULL in repr() of OrderedDict that - was mutated by direct calls of dict methods. - -- Issue #25449: Iterating OrderedDict with keys with unstable hash now raises - KeyError in C implementations as well as in Python implementation. - -- Issue #25395: Fixed crash when highly nested OrderedDict structures were - garbage collected. - -- Issue #25274: sys.setrecursionlimit() now raises a RecursionError if the new - recursion limit is too low depending at the current recursion depth. Modify - also the "lower-water mark" formula to make it monotonic. This mark is used - to decide when the overflowed flag of the thread state is reset. - -- Issue #24402: Fix input() to prompt to the redirected stdout when - sys.stdout.fileno() fails. - -- Issue #24806: Prevent builtin types that are not allowed to be subclassed from - being subclassed through multiple inheritance. - -- Issue #24848: Fixed a number of bugs in UTF-7 decoding of misformed data. - -- Issue #25280: Import trace messages emitted in verbose (-v) mode are no - longer formatted twice. - -- Issue #25003: On Solaris 11.3 or newer, os.urandom() now uses the - getrandom() function instead of the getentropy() function. The getentropy() - function is blocking to generate very good quality entropy, os.urandom() - doesn't need such high-quality entropy. - -- Issue #25182: The stdprinter (used as sys.stderr before the io module is - imported at startup) now uses the backslashreplace error handler. - -- Issue #25131: Make the line number and column offset of set/dict literals and - comprehensions correspond to the opening brace. - -- Issue #25150: Hide the private _Py_atomic_xxx symbols from the public - Python.h header to fix a compilation error with OpenMP. PyThreadState_GET() - becomes an alias to PyThreadState_Get() to avoid ABI incompatibilies. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #25626: Change three zlib functions to accept sizes that fit in - Py_ssize_t, but internally cap those sizes to UINT_MAX. This resolves a - regression in 3.5 where GzipFile.read() failed to read chunks larger than 2 - or 4 GiB. The change affects the zlib.Decompress.decompress() max_length - parameter, the zlib.decompress() bufsize parameter, and the - zlib.Decompress.flush() length parameter. - -- Issue #25583: Avoid incorrect errors raised by os.makedirs(exist_ok=True) - when the OS gives priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST. - -- Issue #25593: Change semantics of EventLoop.stop() in asyncio. - -- Issue #6973: When we know a subprocess.Popen process has died, do - not allow the send_signal(), terminate(), or kill() methods to do - anything as they could potentially signal a different process. - -- Issue #25590: In the Readline completer, only call getattr() once per - attribute. - -- Issue #25498: Fix a crash when garbage-collecting ctypes objects created - by wrapping a memoryview. This was a regression made in 3.5a1. Based - on patch by Eryksun. - -- Issue #25584: Added "escape" to the __all__ list in the glob module. - -- Issue #25584: Fixed recursive glob() with patterns starting with ``**``. - -- Issue #25446: Fix regression in smtplib's AUTH LOGIN support. - -- Issue #18010: Fix the pydoc web server's module search function to handle - exceptions from importing packages. - -- Issue #25554: Got rid of circular references in regular expression parsing. - -- Issue #25510: fileinput.FileInput.readline() now returns b'' instead of '' - at the end if the FileInput was opened with binary mode. - Patch by Ryosuke Ito. - -- Issue #25503: Fixed inspect.getdoc() for inherited docstrings of properties. - Original patch by John Mark Vandenberg. - -- Issue #25515: Always use os.urandom as a source of randomness in uuid.uuid4. - -- Issue #21827: Fixed textwrap.dedent() for the case when largest common - whitespace is a substring of smallest leading whitespace. - Based on patch by Robert Li. - -- Issue #25447: The lru_cache() wrapper objects now can be copied and pickled - (by returning the original object unchanged). - -- Issue #25390: typing: Don't crash on Union[str, Pattern]. - -- Issue #25441: asyncio: Raise error from drain() when socket is closed. - -- Issue #25410: Cleaned up and fixed minor bugs in C implementation of - OrderedDict. - -- Issue #25411: Improved Unicode support in SMTPHandler through better use of - the email package. Thanks to user simon04 for the patch. - -- Issue #25407: Remove mentions of the formatter module being removed in - Python 3.6. - -- Issue #25406: Fixed a bug in C implementation of OrderedDict.move_to_end() - that caused segmentation fault or hang in iterating after moving several - items to the start of ordered dict. - -- Issue #25364: zipfile now works in threads disabled builds. - -- Issue #25328: smtpd's SMTPChannel now correctly raises a ValueError if both - decode_data and enable_SMTPUTF8 are set to true. - -- Issue #25316: distutils raises OSError instead of DistutilsPlatformError - when MSVC is not installed. - -- Issue #25380: Fixed protocol for the STACK_GLOBAL opcode in - pickletools.opcodes. - -- Issue #23972: Updates asyncio datagram create method allowing reuseport - and reuseaddr socket options to be set prior to binding the socket. - Mirroring the existing asyncio create_server method the reuseaddr option - for datagram sockets defaults to True if the O/S is 'posix' (except if the - platform is Cygwin). Patch by Chris Laws. - -- Issue #25304: Add asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(). This lets you - submit a coroutine to a loop from another thread, returning a - concurrent.futures.Future. By Vincent Michel. - -- Issue #25232: Fix CGIRequestHandler to split the query from the URL at the - first question mark (?) rather than the last. Patch from Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #24657: Prevent CGIRequestHandler from collapsing slashes in the - query part of the URL as if it were a path. Patch from Xiang Zhang. - -- Issue #24483: C implementation of functools.lru_cache() now calculates key's - hash only once. - -- Issue #22958: Constructor and update method of weakref.WeakValueDictionary - now accept the self and the dict keyword arguments. - -- Issue #22609: Constructor of collections.UserDict now accepts the self keyword - argument. - -- Issue #25111: Fixed comparison of traceback.FrameSummary. - -- Issue #25262: Added support for BINBYTES8 opcode in Python implementation of - unpickler. Highest 32 bits of 64-bit size for BINUNICODE8 and BINBYTES8 - opcodes no longer silently ignored on 32-bit platforms in C implementation. - -- Issue #25034: Fix string.Formatter problem with auto-numbering and - nested format_specs. Patch by Anthon van der Neut. - -- Issue #25233: Rewrite the guts of asyncio.Queue and - asyncio.Semaphore to be more understandable and correct. - -- Issue #25203: Failed readline.set_completer_delims() no longer left the - module in inconsistent state. - -- Issue #23600: Default implementation of tzinfo.fromutc() was returning - wrong results in some cases. - -- Issue #23329: Allow the ssl module to be built with older versions of - LibreSSL. - -- Prevent overflow in _Unpickler_Read. - -- Issue #25047: The XML encoding declaration written by Element Tree now - respects the letter case given by the user. This restores the ability to - write encoding names in uppercase like "UTF-8", which worked in Python 2. - -- Issue #25135: Make deque_clear() safer by emptying the deque before clearing. - This helps avoid possible reentrancy issues. - -- Issue #19143: platform module now reads Windows version from kernel32.dll to - avoid compatibility shims. - -- Issue #25092: Fix datetime.strftime() failure when errno was already set to - EINVAL. - -- Issue #23517: Fix rounding in fromtimestamp() and utcfromtimestamp() methods - of datetime.datetime: microseconds are now rounded to nearest with ties - going to nearest even integer (ROUND_HALF_EVEN), instead of being rounding - towards minus infinity (ROUND_FLOOR). It's important that these methods use - the same rounding mode than datetime.timedelta to keep the property: - (datetime(1970,1,1) + timedelta(seconds=t)) == datetime.utcfromtimestamp(t). - It also the rounding mode used by round(float) for example. - -- Issue #25155: Fix datetime.datetime.now() and datetime.datetime.utcnow() on - Windows to support date after year 2038. It was a regression introduced in - Python 3.5.0. - -- Issue #25108: Omitted internal frames in traceback functions print_stack(), - format_stack(), and extract_stack() called without arguments. - -- Issue #25118: Fix a regression of Python 3.5.0 in os.waitpid() on Windows. - -- Issue #24684: socket.socket.getaddrinfo() now calls - PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() instead of calling the encode() method of the - host, to handle correctly custom string with an encode() method which doesn't - return a byte string. The encoder of the IDNA codec is now called directly - instead of calling the encode() method of the string. - -- Issue #25060: Correctly compute stack usage of the BUILD_MAP opcode. - -- Issue #24857: Comparing call_args to a long sequence now correctly returns a - boolean result instead of raising an exception. Patch by A Kaptur. - -- Issue #23144: Make sure that HTMLParser.feed() returns all the data, even - when convert_charrefs is True. - -- Issue #24982: shutil.make_archive() with the "zip" format now adds entries - for directories (including empty directories) in ZIP file. - -- Issue #25019: Fixed a crash caused by setting non-string key of expat parser. - Based on patch by John Leitch. - -- Issue #16180: Exit pdb if file has syntax error, instead of trapping user - in an infinite loop. Patch by Xavier de Gaye. - -- Issue #24891: Fix a race condition at Python startup if the file descriptor - of stdin (0), stdout (1) or stderr (2) is closed while Python is creating - sys.stdin, sys.stdout and sys.stderr objects. These attributes are now set - to None if the creation of the object failed, instead of raising an OSError - exception. Initial patch written by Marco Paolini. - -- Issue #24992: Fix error handling and a race condition (related to garbage - collection) in collections.OrderedDict constructor. - -- Issue #24881: Fixed setting binary mode in Python implementation of FileIO - on Windows and Cygwin. Patch from Akira Li. - -- Issue #25578: Fix (another) memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercer(). - -- Issue #25530: Disable the vulnerable SSLv3 protocol by default when creating - ssl.SSLContext. - -- Issue #25569: Fix memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert(). - -- Issue #25471: Sockets returned from accept() shouldn't appear to be - nonblocking. - -- Issue #25319: When threading.Event is reinitialized, the underlying condition - should use a regular lock rather than a recursive lock. - -- Issue #21112: Fix regression in unittest.expectedFailure on subclasses. - Patch from Berker Peksag. - -- Issue #24764: cgi.FieldStorage.read_multi() now ignores the Content-Length - header in part headers. Patch written by Peter Landry and reviewed by Pierre - Quentel. - -- Issue #24913: Fix overrun error in deque.index(). - Found by John Leitch and Bryce Darling. - -- Issue #24774: Fix docstring in http.server.test. Patch from Chiu-Hsiang Hsu. - -- Issue #21159: Improve message in configparser.InterpolationMissingOptionError. - Patch from Łukasz Langa. - -- Issue #20362: Honour TestCase.longMessage correctly in assertRegex. - Patch from Ilia Kurenkov. - -- Issue #23572: Fixed functools.singledispatch on classes with falsy - metaclasses. Patch by Ethan Furman. - -- asyncio: ensure_future() now accepts awaitable objects. - -IDLE ----- - -- Issue #15348: Stop the debugger engine (normally in a user process) - before closing the debugger window (running in the IDLE process). - This prevents the RuntimeErrors that were being caught and ignored. - -- Issue #24455: Prevent IDLE from hanging when a) closing the shell while the - debugger is active (15347); b) closing the debugger with the [X] button - (15348); and c) activating the debugger when already active (24455). - The patch by Mark Roseman does this by making two changes. - 1. Suspend and resume the gui.interaction method with the tcl vwait - mechanism intended for this purpose (instead of root.mainloop & .quit). - 2. In gui.run, allow any existing interaction to terminate first. - -- Change 'The program' to 'Your program' in an IDLE 'kill program?' message - to make it clearer that the program referred to is the currently running - user program, not IDLE itself. - -- Issue #24750: Improve the appearance of the IDLE editor window status bar. - Patch by Mark Roseman. - -- Issue #25313: Change the handling of new built-in text color themes to better - address the compatibility problem introduced by the addition of IDLE Dark. - Consistently use the revised idleConf.CurrentTheme everywhere in idlelib. - -- Issue #24782: Extension configuration is now a tab in the IDLE Preferences - dialog rather than a separate dialog. The former tabs are now a sorted - list. Patch by Mark Roseman. - -- Issue #22726: Re-activate the config dialog help button with some content - about the other buttons and the new IDLE Dark theme. - -- Issue #24820: IDLE now has an 'IDLE Dark' built-in text color theme. - It is more or less IDLE Classic inverted, with a cobalt blue background. - Strings, comments, keywords, ... are still green, red, orange, ... . - To use it with IDLEs released before November 2015, hit the - 'Save as New Custom Theme' button and enter a new name, - such as 'Custom Dark'. The custom theme will work with any IDLE - release, and can be modified. - -- Issue #25224: README.txt is now an idlelib index for IDLE developers and - curious users. The previous user content is now in the IDLE doc chapter. - 'IDLE' now means 'Integrated Development and Learning Environment'. - -- Issue #24820: Users can now set breakpoint colors in - Settings -> Custom Highlighting. Original patch by Mark Roseman. - -- Issue #24972: Inactive selection background now matches active selection - background, as configured by users, on all systems. Found items are now - always highlighted on Windows. Initial patch by Mark Roseman. - -- Issue #24570: Idle: make calltip and completion boxes appear on Macs - affected by a tk regression. Initial patch by Mark Roseman. - -- Issue #24988: Idle ScrolledList context menus (used in debugger) - now work on Mac Aqua. Patch by Mark Roseman. - -- Issue #24801: Make right-click for context menu work on Mac Aqua. - Patch by Mark Roseman. - -- Issue #25173: Associate tkinter messageboxes with a specific widget. - For Mac OSX, make them a 'sheet'. Patch by Mark Roseman. - -- Issue #25198: Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help. - * Properly indent fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman). - * Give code snippet a very Sphinx-like light blueish-gray background. - * Re-use initial width and height set by users for shell and editor. - * When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used, put the section header - at the top of the screen. - -- Issue #25225: Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors. - -- Issue #21995: Explain some differences between IDLE and console Python. - -- Issue #22820: Explain need for *print* when running file from Idle editor. - -- Issue #25224: Doc: augment Idle feature list and no-subprocess section. - -- Issue #25219: Update doc for Idle command line options. - Some were missing and notes were not correct. - -- Issue #24861: Most of idlelib is private and subject to change. - Use idleib.idle.* to start Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__. - -- Issue #25199: Idle: add synchronization comments for future maintainers. - -- Issue #16893: Replace help.txt with help.html for Idle doc display. - The new idlelib/help.html is rstripped Doc/build/html/library/idle.html. - It looks better than help.txt and will better document Idle as released. - The tkinter html viewer that works for this file was written by Mark Roseman. - The now unused EditorWindow.HelpDialog class and helt.txt file are deprecated. - -- Issue #24199: Deprecate unused idlelib.idlever with possible removal in 3.6. - -- Issue #24790: Remove extraneous code (which also create 2 & 3 conflicts). - -Documentation -------------- - -- Issue #22558: Add remaining doc links to source code for Python-coded modules. - Patch by Yoni Lavi. - -- Issue #12067: Rewrite Comparisons section in the Expressions chapter of the - language reference. Some of the details of comparing mixed types were - incorrect or ambiguous. NotImplemented is only relevant at a lower level - than the Expressions chapter. Added details of comparing range() objects, - and default behaviour and consistency suggestions for user-defined classes. - Patch from Andy Maier. - -- Issue #24952: Clarify the default size argument of stack_size() in - the "threading" and "_thread" modules. Patch from Mattip. - -- Issue #23725: Overhaul tempfile docs. Note deprecated status of mktemp. - Patch from Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek. - -- Issue #24808: Update the types of some PyTypeObject fields. Patch by - Joseph Weston. - -- Issue #22812: Fix unittest discovery examples. - Patch from Pam McA'Nulty. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #25449: Added tests for OrderedDict subclasses. - -- Issue #25099: Make test_compileall not fail when an entry on sys.path cannot - be written to (commonly seen in administrative installs on Windows). - -- Issue #23919: Prevents assert dialogs appearing in the test suite. - -- ``PCbuild\rt.bat`` now accepts an unlimited number of arguments to pass along - to regrtest.py. Previously there was a limit of 9. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #24915: Add LLVM support for PGO builds and use the test suite to - generate the profile data. Initial patch by Alecsandru Patrascu of Intel. - -- Issue #24910: Windows MSIs now have unique display names. - -- Issue #24986: It is now possible to build Python on Windows without errors - when external libraries are not available. - -Windows -------- - -- Issue #25450: Updates shortcuts to start Python in installation directory. - -- Issue #25164: Changes default all-users install directory to match per-user - directory. - -- Issue #25143: Improves installer error messages for unsupported platforms. - -- Issue #25163: Display correct directory in installer when using non-default - settings. - -- Issue #25361: Disables use of SSE2 instructions in Windows 32-bit build - -- Issue #25089: Adds logging to installer for case where launcher is not - selected on upgrade. - -- Issue #25165: Windows uninstallation should not remove launcher if other - versions remain - -- Issue #25112: py.exe launcher is missing icons - -- Issue #25102: Windows installer does not precompile for -O or -OO. - -- Issue #25081: Makes Back button in installer go back to upgrade page when - upgrading. - -- Issue #25091: Increases font size of the installer. - -- Issue #25126: Clarifies that the non-web installer will download some - components. - -- Issue #25213: Restores requestedExecutionLevel to manifest to disable - UAC virtualization. - -- Issue #25022: Removed very outdated PC/example_nt/ directory. - -Tools/Demos ------------ - -- Issue #25440: Fix output of python-config --extension-suffix. - - -What's New in Python 3.5.0 final? -================================= - -Release date: 2015-09-13 - -Build ------ - -- Issue #25071: Windows installer should not require TargetDir - parameter when installing quietly. - - -What's New in Python 3.5.0 release candidate 4? -=============================================== - -Release date: 2015-09-09 - -Library -------- - -- Issue #25029: Fixes MemoryError in test_strptime. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #25027: Reverts partial-static build options and adds - vcruntime140.dll to Windows installation. - - -What's New in Python 3.5.0 release candidate 3? -=============================================== - -Release date: 2015-09-07 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #24305: Prevent import subsystem stack frames from being counted - by the warnings.warn(stacklevel=) parameter. - -- Issue #24912: Prevent __class__ assignment to immutable built-in objects. - -- Issue #24975: Fix AST compilation for PEP 448 syntax. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #24917: time_strftime() buffer over-read. - -- Issue #24748: To resolve a compatibility problem found with py2exe and - pywin32, imp.load_dynamic() once again ignores previously loaded modules - to support Python modules replacing themselves with extension modules. - Patch by Petr Viktorin. - -- Issue #24635: Fixed a bug in typing.py where isinstance([], typing.Iterable) - would return True once, then False on subsequent calls. - -- Issue #24989: Fixed buffer overread in BytesIO.readline() if a position is - set beyond size. Based on patch by John Leitch. - -- Issue #24913: Fix overrun error in deque.index(). - Found by John Leitch and Bryce Darling. - - -What's New in Python 3.5.0 release candidate 2? -=============================================== - -Release date: 2015-08-25 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #24769: Interpreter now starts properly when dynamic loading - is disabled. Patch by Petr Viktorin. - -- Issue #21167: NAN operations are now handled correctly when python is - compiled with ICC even if -fp-model strict is not specified. - -- Issue #24492: A "package" lacking a __name__ attribute when trying to perform - a ``from .. import ...`` statement will trigger an ImportError instead of an - AttributeError. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #24847: Removes vcruntime140.dll dependency from Tcl/Tk. - -- Issue #24839: platform._syscmd_ver raises DeprecationWarning - -- Issue #24867: Fix Task.get_stack() for 'async def' coroutines - - -What's New in Python 3.5.0 release candidate 1? -=============================================== - -Release date: 2015-08-09 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #24667: Resize odict in all cases that the underlying dict resizes. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #24824: Signatures of codecs.encode() and codecs.decode() now are - compatible with pydoc. - -- Issue #24634: Importing uuid should not try to load libc on Windows - -- Issue #24798: _msvccompiler.py doesn't properly support manifests - -- Issue #4395: Better testing and documentation of binary operators. - Patch by Martin Panter. - -- Issue #23973: Update typing.py from GitHub repo. - -- Issue #23004: mock_open() now reads binary data correctly when the type of - read_data is bytes. Initial patch by Aaron Hill. - -- Issue #23888: Handle fractional time in cookie expiry. Patch by ssh. - -- Issue #23652: Make it possible to compile the select module against the - libc headers from the Linux Standard Base, which do not include some - EPOLL macros. Patch by Matt Frank. - -- Issue #22932: Fix timezones in email.utils.formatdate. - Patch from Dmitry Shachnev. - -- Issue #23779: imaplib raises TypeError if authenticator tries to abort. - Patch from Craig Holmquist. - -- Issue #23319: Fix ctypes.BigEndianStructure, swap correctly bytes. Patch - written by Matthieu Gautier. - -- Issue #23254: Document how to close the TCPServer listening socket. - Patch from Martin Panter. - -- Issue #19450: Update Windows and OS X installer builds to use SQLite 3.8.11. - -- Issue #17527: Add PATCH to wsgiref.validator. Patch from Luca Sbardella. - -- Issue #24791: Fix grammar regression for call syntax: 'g(\*a or b)'. - -IDLE ----- - -- Issue #23672: Allow Idle to edit and run files with astral chars in name. - Patch by Mohd Sanad Zaki Rizvi. - -- Issue #24745: Idle editor default font. Switch from Courier to - platform-sensitive TkFixedFont. This should not affect current customized - font selections. If there is a problem, edit $HOME/.idlerc/config-main.cfg - and remove 'fontxxx' entries from [Editor Window]. Patch by Mark Roseman. - -- Issue #21192: Idle editor. When a file is run, put its name in the restart bar. - Do not print false prompts. Original patch by Adnan Umer. - -- Issue #13884: Idle menus. Remove tearoff lines. Patch by Roger Serwy. - -Documentation -------------- - -- Issue #24129: Clarify the reference documentation for name resolution. - This includes removing the assumption that readers will be familiar with the - name resolution scheme Python used prior to the introduction of lexical - scoping for function namespaces. Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi. - -- Issue #20769: Improve reload() docs. Patch by Dorian Pula. - -- Issue #23589: Remove duplicate sentence from the FAQ. Patch by Yongzhi Pan. - -- Issue #24729: Correct IO tutorial to match implementation regarding - encoding parameter to open function. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #24751: When running regrtest with the ``-w`` command line option, - a test run is no longer marked as a failure if all tests succeed when - re-run. - - -What's New in Python 3.5.0 beta 4? -================================== - -Release date: 2015-07-26 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #23573: Restored optimization of bytes.rfind() and bytearray.rfind() - for single-byte argument on Linux. - -- Issue #24569: Make PEP 448 dictionary evaluation more consistent. - -- Issue #24583: Fix crash when set is mutated while being updated. - -- Issue #24407: Fix crash when dict is mutated while being updated. - -- Issue #24619: New approach for tokenizing async/await. As a consequence, - it is now possible to have one-line 'async def foo(): await ..' functions. - -- Issue #24687: Plug refleak on SyntaxError in function parameters - annotations. - -- Issue #15944: memoryview: Allow arbitrary formats when casting to bytes. - Patch by Martin Panter. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #23441: rcompleter now prints a tab character instead of displaying - possible completions for an empty word. Initial patch by Martin Sekera. - -- Issue #24683: Fixed crashes in _json functions called with arguments of - inappropriate type. - -- Issue #21697: shutil.copytree() now correctly handles symbolic links that - point to directories. Patch by Eduardo Seabra and Thomas Kluyver. - -- Issue #14373: Fixed segmentation fault when gc.collect() is called during - constructing lru_cache (C implementation). - -- Issue #24695: Fix a regression in traceback.print_exception(). If - exc_traceback is None we shouldn't print a traceback header like described - in the documentation. - -- Issue #24620: Random.setstate() now validates the value of state last element. - -- Issue #22485: Fixed an issue that caused `inspect.getsource` to return - incorrect results on nested functions. - -- Issue #22153: Improve unittest docs. Patch from Martin Panter and evilzero. - -- Issue #24580: Symbolic group references to open group in re patterns now are - explicitly forbidden as well as numeric group references. - -- Issue #24206: Fixed __eq__ and __ne__ methods of inspect classes. - -- Issue #24631: Fixed regression in the timeit module with multiline setup. - -- Issue #18622: unittest.mock.mock_open().reset_mock would recurse infinitely. - Patch from Nicola Palumbo and Laurent De Buyst. - -- Issue #23661: unittest.mock side_effects can now be exceptions again. This - was a regression vs Python 3.4. Patch from Ignacio Rossi - -- Issue #24608: chunk.Chunk.read() now always returns bytes, not str. - -- Issue #18684: Fixed reading out of the buffer in the re module. - -- Issue #24259: tarfile now raises a ReadError if an archive is truncated - inside a data segment. - -- Issue #15014: SMTP.auth() and SMTP.login() now support RFC 4954's optional - initial-response argument to the SMTP AUTH command. - -- Issue #24669: Fix inspect.getsource() for 'async def' functions. - Patch by Kai Groner. - -- Issue #24688: ast.get_docstring() for 'async def' functions. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #24603: Update Windows builds and OS X 10.5 installer to use OpenSSL - 1.0.2d. - - -What's New in Python 3.5.0 beta 3? -================================== - -Release date: 2015-07-05 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #24467: Fixed possible buffer over-read in bytearray. The bytearray - object now always allocates place for trailing null byte and it's buffer now - is always null-terminated. - -- Upgrade to Unicode 8.0.0. - -- Issue #24345: Add Py_tp_finalize slot for the stable ABI. - -- Issue #24400: Introduce a distinct type for PEP 492 coroutines; add - types.CoroutineType, inspect.getcoroutinestate, inspect.getcoroutinelocals; - coroutines no longer use CO_GENERATOR flag; sys.set_coroutine_wrapper - works only for 'async def' coroutines; inspect.iscoroutine no longer - uses collections.abc.Coroutine, it's intended to test for pure 'async def' - coroutines only; add new opcode: GET_YIELD_FROM_ITER; fix generators wrapper - used in types.coroutine to be instance of collections.abc.Generator; - collections.abc.Awaitable and collections.abc.Coroutine can no longer - be used to detect generator-based coroutines--use inspect.isawaitable - instead. - -- Issue #24450: Add gi_yieldfrom to generators and cr_await to coroutines. - Contributed by Benno Leslie and Yury Selivanov. - -- Issue #19235: Add new RecursionError exception. Patch by Georg Brandl. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #21750: mock_open.read_data can now be read from each instance, as it - could in Python 3.3. - -- Issue #24552: Fix use after free in an error case of the _pickle module. - -- Issue #24514: tarfile now tolerates number fields consisting of only - whitespace. - -- Issue #19176: Fixed doctype() related bugs in C implementation of ElementTree. - A deprecation warning no longer issued by XMLParser subclass with default - doctype() method. Direct call of doctype() now issues a warning. Parser's - doctype() now is not called if target's doctype() is called. Based on patch - by Martin Panter. - -- Issue #20387: Restore semantic round-trip correctness in tokenize/untokenize - for tab-indented blocks. - -- Issue #24456: Fixed possible buffer over-read in adpcm2lin() and lin2adpcm() - functions of the audioop module. - -- Issue #24336: The contextmanager decorator now works with functions with - keyword arguments called "func" and "self". Patch by Martin Panter. - -- Issue #24522: Fix possible integer overflow in json accelerator module. - -- Issue #24489: ensure a previously set C errno doesn't disturb cmath.polar(). - -- Issue #24408: Fixed AttributeError in measure() and metrics() methods of - tkinter.Font. - -- Issue #14373: C implementation of functools.lru_cache() now can be used with - methods. - -- Issue #24347: Set KeyError if PyDict_GetItemWithError returns NULL. - -- Issue #24348: Drop superfluous incref/decref. - -- Issue #24359: Check for changed OrderedDict size during iteration. - -- Issue #24368: Support keyword arguments in OrderedDict methods. - -- Issue #24362: Simplify the C OrderedDict fast nodes resize logic. - -- Issue #24377: Fix a ref leak in OrderedDict.__repr__. - -- Issue #24369: Defend against key-changes during iteration. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #24373: _testmultiphase and xxlimited now use tp_traverse and - tp_finalize to avoid reference leaks encountered when combining tp_dealloc - with PyType_FromSpec (see issue #16690 for details) - -Documentation -------------- - -- Issue #24458: Update documentation to cover multi-phase initialization for - extension modules (PEP 489). Patch by Petr Viktorin. - -- Issue #24351: Clarify what is meant by "identifier" in the context of - string.Template instances. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #24432: Update Windows builds and OS X 10.5 installer to use OpenSSL - 1.0.2c. - - -What's New in Python 3.5.0 beta 2? -================================== - -Release date: 2015-05-31 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #24284: The startswith and endswith methods of the str class no longer - return True when finding the empty string and the indexes are completely out - of range. - -- Issue #24115: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue(), PyObject_Not(), - PyObject_IsInstance(), PyObject_RichCompareBool() and _PyDict_Contains() - to check for and handle errors correctly. - -- Issue #24328: Fix importing one character extension modules. - -- Issue #11205: In dictionary displays, evaluate the key before the value. - -- Issue #24285: Fixed regression that prevented importing extension modules - from inside packages. Patch by Petr Viktorin. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #23247: Fix a crash in the StreamWriter.reset() of CJK codecs. - -- Issue #24270: Add math.isclose() and cmath.isclose() functions as per PEP 485. - Contributed by Chris Barker and Tal Einat. - -- Issue #5633: Fixed timeit when the statement is a string and the setup is not. - -- Issue #24326: Fixed audioop.ratecv() with non-default weightB argument. - Original patch by David Moore. - -- Issue #16991: Add a C implementation of OrderedDict. - -- Issue #23934: Fix inspect.signature to fail correctly for builtin types - lacking signature information. Initial patch by James Powell. - - -What's New in Python 3.5.0 beta 1? -================================== - -Release date: 2015-05-24 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #24276: Fixed optimization of property descriptor getter. - -- Issue #24268: PEP 489: Multi-phase extension module initialization. - Patch by Petr Viktorin. - -- Issue #23955: Add pyvenv.cfg option to suppress registry/environment - lookup for generating sys.path on Windows. - -- Issue #24257: Fixed system error in the comparison of faked - types.SimpleNamespace. - -- Issue #22939: Fixed integer overflow in iterator object. Patch by - Clement Rouault. - -- Issue #23985: Fix a possible buffer overrun when deleting a slice from - the front of a bytearray and then appending some other bytes data. - -- Issue #24102: Fixed exception type checking in standard error handlers. - -- Issue #15027: The UTF-32 encoder is now 3x to 7x faster. - -- Issue #23290: Optimize set_merge() for cases where the target is empty. - (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka.) - -- Issue #2292: PEP 448: Additional Unpacking Generalizations. - -- Issue #24096: Make warnings.warn_explicit more robust against mutation of the - warnings.filters list. - -- Issue #23996: Avoid a crash when a delegated generator raises an - unnormalized StopIteration exception. Patch by Stefan Behnel. - -- Issue #23910: Optimize property() getter calls. Patch by Joe Jevnik. - -- Issue #23911: Move path-based importlib bootstrap code to a separate - frozen module. - -- Issue #24192: Fix namespace package imports. - -- Issue #24022: Fix tokenizer crash when processing undecodable source code. - -- Issue #9951: Added a hex() method to bytes, bytearray, and memoryview. - -- Issue #22906: PEP 479: Change StopIteration handling inside generators. - -- Issue #24017: PEP 492: Coroutines with async and await syntax. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #14373: Added C implementation of functools.lru_cache(). Based on - patches by Matt Joiner and Alexey Kachayev. - -- Issue #24230: The tempfile module now accepts bytes for prefix, suffix and dir - parameters and returns bytes in such situations (matching the os module APIs). - -- Issue #22189: collections.UserString now supports __getnewargs__(), - __rmod__(), casefold(), format_map(), isprintable(), and maketrans(). - Patch by Joe Jevnik. - -- Issue #24244: Prevents termination when an invalid format string is - encountered on Windows in strftime. - -- Issue #23973: PEP 484: Add the typing module. - -- Issue #23086: The collections.abc.Sequence() abstract base class added - *start* and *stop* parameters to the index() mixin. - Patch by Devin Jeanpierre. - -- Issue #20035: Replaced the ``tkinter._fix`` module used for setting up the - Tcl/Tk environment on Windows with a private function in the ``_tkinter`` - module that makes no permanent changes to the environment. - -- Issue #24257: Fixed segmentation fault in sqlite3.Row constructor with faked - cursor type. - -- Issue #15836: assertRaises(), assertRaisesRegex(), assertWarns() and - assertWarnsRegex() assertments now check the type of the first argument - to prevent possible user error. Based on patch by Daniel Wagner-Hall. - -- Issue #9858: Add missing method stubs to _io.RawIOBase. Patch by Laura - Rupprecht. - -- Issue #22955: attrgetter, itemgetter and methodcaller objects in the operator - module now support pickling. Added readable and evaluable repr for these - objects. Based on patch by Josh Rosenberg. - -- Issue #22107: tempfile.gettempdir() and tempfile.mkdtemp() now try again - when a directory with the chosen name already exists on Windows as well as - on Unix. tempfile.mkstemp() now fails early if parent directory is not - valid (not exists or is a file) on Windows. - -- Issue #23780: Improved error message in os.path.join() with single argument. - -- Issue #6598: Increased time precision and random number range in - email.utils.make_msgid() to strengthen the uniqueness of the message ID. - -- Issue #24091: Fixed various crashes in corner cases in C implementation of - ElementTree. - -- Issue #21931: msilib.FCICreate() now raises TypeError in the case of a bad - argument instead of a ValueError with a bogus FCI error number. - Patch by Jeffrey Armstrong. - -- Issue #13866: *quote_via* argument added to urllib.parse.urlencode. - -- Issue #20098: New mangle_from policy option for email, default True - for compat32, but False for all other policies. - -- Issue #24211: The email library now supports RFC 6532: it can generate - headers using utf-8 instead of encoded words. - -- Issue #16314: Added support for the LZMA compression in distutils. - -- Issue #21804: poplib now supports RFC 6856 (UTF8). - -- Issue #18682: Optimized pprint functions for builtin scalar types. - -- Issue #22027: smtplib now supports RFC 6531 (SMTPUTF8). - -- Issue #23488: Random generator objects now consume 2x less memory on 64-bit. - -- Issue #1322: platform.dist() and platform.linux_distribution() functions are - now deprecated. Initial patch by Vajrasky Kok. - -- Issue #22486: Added the math.gcd() function. The fractions.gcd() function - now is deprecated. Based on patch by Mark Dickinson. - -- Issue #24064: Property() docstrings are now writeable. - (Patch by Berker Peksag.) - -- Issue #22681: Added support for the koi8_t encoding. - -- Issue #22682: Added support for the kz1048 encoding. - -- Issue #23796: peek and read1 methods of BufferedReader now raise ValueError - if they called on a closed object. Patch by John Hergenroeder. - -- Issue #21795: smtpd now supports the 8BITMIME extension whenever - the new *decode_data* constructor argument is set to False. - -- Issue #24155: optimize heapq.heapify() for better cache performance - when heapifying large lists. - -- Issue #21800: imaplib now supports RFC 5161 (enable), RFC 6855 - (utf8/internationalized email) and automatically encodes non-ASCII - usernames and passwords to UTF8. - -- Issue #20274: When calling a _sqlite.Connection, it now complains if passed - any keyword arguments. Previously it silently ignored them. - -- Issue #20274: Remove ignored and erroneous "kwargs" parameters from three - METH_VARARGS methods on _sqlite.Connection. - -- Issue #24134: assertRaises(), assertRaisesRegex(), assertWarns() and - assertWarnsRegex() checks now emits a deprecation warning when callable is - None or keyword arguments except msg is passed in the context manager mode. - -- Issue #24018: Add a collections.abc.Generator abstract base class. - Contributed by Stefan Behnel. - -- Issue #23880: Tkinter's getint() and getdouble() now support Tcl_Obj. - Tkinter's getdouble() now supports any numbers (in particular int). - -- Issue #22619: Added negative limit support in the traceback module. - Based on patch by Dmitry Kazakov. - -- Issue #24094: Fix possible crash in json.encode with poorly behaved dict - subclasses. - -- Issue #9246: On POSIX, os.getcwd() now supports paths longer than 1025 bytes. - Patch written by William Orr. - -- Issue #17445: add difflib.diff_bytes() to support comparison of - byte strings (fixes a regression from Python 2). - -- Issue #23917: Fall back to sequential compilation when ProcessPoolExecutor - doesn't exist. Patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #23008: Fixed resolving attributes with boolean value is False in pydoc. - -- Fix asyncio issue 235: LifoQueue and PriorityQueue's put didn't - increment unfinished tasks (this bug was introduced when - JoinableQueue was merged with Queue). - -- Issue #23908: os functions now reject paths with embedded null character - on Windows instead of silently truncating them. - -- Issue #23728: binascii.crc_hqx() could return an integer outside of the range - 0-0xffff for empty data. - -- Issue #23887: urllib.error.HTTPError now has a proper repr() representation. - Patch by Berker Peksag. - -- asyncio: New event loop APIs: set_task_factory() and get_task_factory(). - -- asyncio: async() function is deprecated in favour of ensure_future(). - -- Issue #24178: asyncio.Lock, Condition, Semaphore, and BoundedSemaphore - support new 'async with' syntax. Contributed by Yury Selivanov. - -- Issue #24179: Support 'async for' for asyncio.StreamReader. - Contributed by Yury Selivanov. - -- Issue #24184: Add AsyncIterator and AsyncIterable ABCs to - collections.abc. Contributed by Yury Selivanov. - -- Issue #22547: Implement informative __repr__ for inspect.BoundArguments. - Contributed by Yury Selivanov. - -- Issue #24190: Implement inspect.BoundArgument.apply_defaults() method. - Contributed by Yury Selivanov. - -- Issue #20691: Add 'follow_wrapped' argument to - inspect.Signature.from_callable() and inspect.signature(). - Contributed by Yury Selivanov. - -- Issue #24248: Deprecate inspect.Signature.from_function() and - inspect.Signature.from_builtin(). - -- Issue #23898: Fix inspect.classify_class_attrs() to support attributes - with overloaded __eq__ and __bool__. Patch by Mike Bayer. - -- Issue #24298: Fix inspect.signature() to correctly unwrap wrappers - around bound methods. - -IDLE ----- - -- Issue #23184: remove unused names and imports in idlelib. - Initial patch by Al Sweigart. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #21520: test_zipfile no longer fails if the word 'bad' appears - anywhere in the name of the current directory. - -- Issue #9517: Move script_helper into the support package. - Patch by Christie Wilson. - -Documentation -------------- - -- Issue #22155: Add File Handlers subsection with createfilehandler to tkinter - doc. Remove obsolete example from FAQ. Patch by Martin Panter. - -- Issue #24029: Document the name binding behavior for submodule imports. - -- Issue #24077: Fix typo in man page for -I command option: -s, not -S - -Tools/Demos ------------ - -- Issue #24000: Improved Argument Clinic's mapping of converters to legacy - "format units". Updated the documentation to match. - -- Issue #24001: Argument Clinic converters now use accept={type} - instead of types={'type'} to specify the types the converter accepts. - -- Issue #23330: h2py now supports arbitrary filenames in #include. - -- Issue #24031: make patchcheck now supports git checkouts, too. - - -What's New in Python 3.5.0 alpha 4? -=================================== - -Release date: 2015-04-19 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #22980: Under Linux, GNU/KFreeBSD and the Hurd, C extensions now include - the architecture triplet in the extension name, to make it easy to test builds - for different ABIs in the same working tree. Under OS X, the extension name - now includes PEP 3149-style information. - -- Issue #22631: Added Linux-specific socket constant CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES. - Patch courtesy of Joe Jevnik. - -- Issue #23731: Implement PEP 488: removal of .pyo files. - -- Issue #23726: Don't enable GC for user subclasses of non-GC types that - don't add any new fields. Patch by Eugene Toder. - -- Issue #23309: Avoid a deadlock at shutdown if a daemon thread is aborted - while it is holding a lock to a buffered I/O object, and the main thread - tries to use the same I/O object (typically stdout or stderr). A fatal - error is emitted instead. - -- Issue #22977: Fixed formatting Windows error messages on Wine. - Patch by Martin Panter. - -- Issue #23466: %c, %o, %x, and %X in bytes formatting now raise TypeError on - non-integer input. - -- Issue #24044: Fix possible null pointer dereference in list.sort in out of - memory conditions. - -- Issue #21354: PyCFunction_New function is exposed by python DLL again. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #23840: tokenize.open() now closes the temporary binary file on error - to fix a resource warning. - -- Issue #16914: new debuglevel 2 in smtplib adds timestamps to debug output. - -- Issue #7159: urllib.request now supports sending auth credentials - automatically after the first 401. This enhancement is a superset of the - enhancement from issue #19494 and supersedes that change. - -- Issue #23703: Fix a regression in urljoin() introduced in 901e4e52b20a. - Patch by Demian Brecht. - -- Issue #4254: Adds _curses.update_lines_cols(). Patch by Arnon Yaari - -- Issue #19933: Provide default argument for ndigits in round. Patch by - Vajrasky Kok. - -- Issue #23193: Add a numeric_owner parameter to - tarfile.TarFile.extract and tarfile.TarFile.extractall. Patch by - Michael Vogt and Eric Smith. - -- Issue #23342: Add a subprocess.run() function than returns a CalledProcess - instance for a more consistent API than the existing call* functions. - -- Issue #21217: inspect.getsourcelines() now tries to compute the start and end - lines from the code object, fixing an issue when a lambda function is used as - decorator argument. Patch by Thomas Ballinger and Allison Kaptur. - -- Issue #24521: Fix possible integer overflows in the pickle module. - -- Issue #22931: Allow '[' and ']' in cookie values. - -- The keywords attribute of functools.partial is now always a dictionary. - -- Issue #23811: Add missing newline to the PyCompileError error message. - Patch by Alex Shkop. - -- Issue #21116: Avoid blowing memory when allocating a multiprocessing shared - array that's larger than 50% of the available RAM. Patch by Médéric Boquien. - -- Issue #22982: Improve BOM handling when seeking to multiple positions of - a writable text file. - -- Issue #23464: Removed deprecated asyncio JoinableQueue. - -- Issue #23529: Limit the size of decompressed data when reading from - GzipFile, BZ2File or LZMAFile. This defeats denial of service attacks - using compressed bombs (i.e. compressed payloads which decompress to a huge - size). Patch by Martin Panter and Nikolaus Rath. - -- Issue #21859: Added Python implementation of io.FileIO. - -- Issue #23865: close() methods in multiple modules now are idempotent and more - robust at shutdown. If they need to release multiple resources, all are - released even if errors occur. - -- Issue #23400: Raise same exception on both Python 2 and 3 if sem_open is not - available. Patch by Davin Potts. - -- Issue #10838: The subprocess now module includes SubprocessError and - TimeoutError in its list of exported names for the users wild enough - to use ``from subprocess import *``. - -- Issue #23411: Added DefragResult, ParseResult, SplitResult, DefragResultBytes, - ParseResultBytes, and SplitResultBytes to urllib.parse.__all__. - Patch by Martin Panter. - -- Issue #23881: urllib.request.ftpwrapper constructor now closes the socket if - the FTP connection failed to fix a ResourceWarning. - -- Issue #23853: :meth:`socket.socket.sendall` does no more reset the socket - timeout each time data is sent successfully. The socket timeout is now the - maximum total duration to send all data. - -- Issue #22721: An order of multiline pprint output of set or dict containing - orderable and non-orderable elements no longer depends on iteration order of - set or dict. - -- Issue #15133: _tkinter.tkapp.getboolean() now supports Tcl_Obj and always - returns bool. tkinter.BooleanVar now validates input values (accepted bool, - int, str, and Tcl_Obj). tkinter.BooleanVar.get() now always returns bool. - -- Issue #10590: xml.sax.parseString() now supports string argument. - -- Issue #23338: Fixed formatting ctypes error messages on Cygwin. - Patch by Makoto Kato. - -- Issue #15582: inspect.getdoc() now follows inheritance chains. - -- Issue #2175: SAX parsers now support a character stream of InputSource object. - -- Issue #16840: Tkinter now supports 64-bit integers added in Tcl 8.4 and - arbitrary precision integers added in Tcl 8.5. - -- Issue #23834: Fix socket.sendto(), use the C Py_ssize_t type to store the - result of sendto() instead of the C int type. - -- Issue #23618: :meth:`socket.socket.connect` now waits until the connection - completes instead of raising :exc:`InterruptedError` if the connection is - interrupted by signals, signal handlers don't raise an exception and the - socket is blocking or has a timeout. :meth:`socket.socket.connect` still - raise :exc:`InterruptedError` for non-blocking sockets. - -- Issue #21526: Tkinter now supports new boolean type in Tcl 8.5. - -- Issue #23836: Fix the faulthandler module to handle reentrant calls to - its signal handlers. - -- Issue #23838: linecache now clears the cache and returns an empty result on - MemoryError. - -- Issue #10395: Added os.path.commonpath(). Implemented in posixpath and ntpath. - Based on patch by Rafik Draoui. - -- Issue #23611: Serializing more "lookupable" objects (such as unbound methods - or nested classes) now are supported with pickle protocols < 4. - -- Issue #13583: sqlite3.Row now supports slice indexing. - -- Issue #18473: Fixed 2to3 and 3to2 compatible pickle mappings. Fixed - ambigious reverse mappings. Added many new mappings. Import mapping is no - longer applied to modules already mapped with full name mapping. - -- Issue #23485: select.select() is now retried automatically with the - recomputed timeout when interrupted by a signal, except if the signal handler - raises an exception. This change is part of the PEP 475. - -- Issue #23752: When built from an existing file descriptor, io.FileIO() now - only calls fstat() once. Before fstat() was called twice, which was not - necessary. - -- Issue #23704: collections.deque() objects now support __add__, __mul__, and - __imul__(). - -- Issue #23171: csv.Writer.writerow() now supports arbitrary iterables. - -- Issue #23745: The new email header parser now handles duplicate MIME - parameter names without error, similar to how get_param behaves. - -- Issue #22117: Fix os.utime(), it now rounds the timestamp towards minus - infinity (-inf) instead of rounding towards zero. - -- Issue #23310: Fix MagicMock's initializer to work with __methods__, just - like configure_mock(). Patch by Kasia Jachim. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #23817: FreeBSD now uses "1.0" in the SOVERSION as other operating - systems, instead of just "1". - -- Issue #23501: Argument Clinic now generates code into separate files by default. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #23799: Added test.support.start_threads() for running and - cleaning up multiple threads. - -- Issue #22390: test.regrtest now emits a warning if temporary files or - directories are left after running a test. - -Tools/Demos ------------ - -- Issue #18128: pygettext now uses standard +NNNN format in the - POT-Creation-Date header. - -- Issue #23935: Argument Clinic's understanding of format units - accepting bytes, bytearrays, and buffers is now consistent with - both the documentation and the implementation. - -- Issue #23944: Argument Clinic now wraps long impl prototypes at column 78. - -- Issue #20586: Argument Clinic now ensures that functions without docstrings - have signatures. - -- Issue #23492: Argument Clinic now generates argument parsing code with - PyArg_Parse instead of PyArg_ParseTuple if possible. - -- Issue #23500: Argument Clinic is now smarter about generating the "#ifndef" - (empty) definition of the methoddef macro: it's only generated once, even - if Argument Clinic processes the same symbol multiple times, and it's emitted - at the end of all processing rather than immediately after the first use. - -C API ------ - -- Issue #23998: PyImport_ReInitLock() now checks for lock allocation error - - -What's New in Python 3.5.0 alpha 3? -=================================== - -Release date: 2015-03-28 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #23573: Increased performance of string search operations (str.find, - str.index, str.count, the in operator, str.split, str.partition) with - arguments of different kinds (UCS1, UCS2, UCS4). - -- Issue #23753: Python doesn't support anymore platforms without stat() or - fstat(), these functions are always required. - -- Issue #23681: The -b option now affects comparisons of bytes with int. - -- Issue #23632: Memoryviews now allow tuple indexing (including for - multi-dimensional memoryviews). - -- Issue #23192: Fixed generator lambdas. Patch by Bruno Cauet. - -- Issue #23629: Fix the default __sizeof__ implementation for variable-sized - objects. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #14260: The groupindex attribute of regular expression pattern object - now is non-modifiable mapping. - -- Issue #23792: Ignore KeyboardInterrupt when the pydoc pager is active. - This mimics the behavior of the standard unix pagers, and prevents - pipepager from shutting down while the pager itself is still running. - -- Issue #23775: pprint() of OrderedDict now outputs the same representation - as repr(). - -- Issue #23765: Removed IsBadStringPtr calls in ctypes - -- Issue #22364: Improved some re error messages using regex for hints. - -- Issue #23742: ntpath.expandvars() no longer loses unbalanced single quotes. - -- Issue #21717: The zipfile.ZipFile.open function now supports 'x' (exclusive - creation) mode. - -- Issue #21802: The reader in BufferedRWPair now is closed even when closing - writer failed in BufferedRWPair.close(). - -- Issue #23622: Unknown escapes in regular expressions that consist of ``'\'`` - and ASCII letter now raise a deprecation warning and will be forbidden in - Python 3.6. - -- Issue #23671: string.Template now allows specifying the "self" parameter as - a keyword argument. string.Formatter now allows specifying the "self" and - the "format_string" parameters as keyword arguments. - -- Issue #23502: The pprint module now supports mapping proxies. - -- Issue #17530: pprint now wraps long bytes objects and bytearrays. - -- Issue #22687: Fixed some corner cases in breaking words in tetxtwrap. - Got rid of quadratic complexity in breaking long words. - -- Issue #4727: The copy module now uses pickle protocol 4 (PEP 3154) and - supports copying of instances of classes whose __new__ method takes - keyword-only arguments. - -- Issue #23491: Added a zipapp module to support creating executable zip - file archives of Python code. Registered ".pyz" and ".pyzw" extensions - on Windows for these archives (PEP 441). - -- Issue #23657: Avoid explicit checks for str in zipapp, adding support - for pathlib.Path objects as arguments. - -- Issue #23688: Added support of arbitrary bytes-like objects and avoided - unnecessary copying of memoryview in gzip.GzipFile.write(). - Original patch by Wolfgang Maier. - -- Issue #23252: Added support for writing ZIP files to unseekable streams. - -- Issue #23647: Increase impalib's MAXLINE to accommodate modern mailbox sizes. - -- Issue #23539: If body is None, http.client.HTTPConnection.request now sets - Content-Length to 0 for PUT, POST, and PATCH headers to avoid 411 errors from - some web servers. - -- Issue #22351: The nntplib.NNTP constructor no longer leaves the connection - and socket open until the garbage collector cleans them up. Patch by - Martin Panter. - -- Issue #23704: collections.deque() objects now support methods for index(), - insert(), and copy(). This allows deques to be registered as a - MutableSequence and it improves their substitutability for lists. - -- Issue #23715: :func:`signal.sigwaitinfo` and :func:`signal.sigtimedwait` are - now retried when interrupted by a signal not in the *sigset* parameter, if - the signal handler does not raise an exception. signal.sigtimedwait() - recomputes the timeout with a monotonic clock when it is retried. - -- Issue #23001: Few functions in modules mmap, ossaudiodev, socket, ssl, and - codecs, that accepted only read-only bytes-like object now accept writable - bytes-like object too. - -- Issue #23646: If time.sleep() is interrupted by a signal, the sleep is now - retried with the recomputed delay, except if the signal handler raises an - exception (PEP 475). - -- Issue #23136: _strptime now uniformly handles all days in week 0, including - Dec 30 of previous year. Based on patch by Jim Carroll. - -- Issue #23700: Iterator of NamedTemporaryFile now keeps a reference to - NamedTemporaryFile instance. Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda. - -- Issue #22903: The fake test case created by unittest.loader when it fails - importing a test module is now picklable. - -- Issue #22181: On Linux, os.urandom() now uses the new getrandom() syscall if - available, syscall introduced in the Linux kernel 3.17. It is more reliable - and more secure, because it avoids the need of a file descriptor and waits - until the kernel has enough entropy. - -- Issue #2211: Updated the implementation of the http.cookies.Morsel class. - Setting attributes key, value and coded_value directly now is deprecated. - update() and setdefault() now transform and check keys. Comparing for - equality now takes into account attributes key, value and coded_value. - copy() now returns a Morsel, not a dict. repr() now contains all attributes. - Optimized checking keys and quoting values. Added new tests. - Original patch by Demian Brecht. - -- Issue #18983: Allow selection of output units in timeit. - Patch by Julian Gindi. - -- Issue #23631: Fix traceback.format_list when a traceback has been mutated. - -- Issue #23568: Add rdivmod support to MagicMock() objects. - Patch by Håkan Lövdahl. - -- Issue #2052: Add charset parameter to HtmlDiff.make_file(). - -- Issue #23668: Support os.truncate and os.ftruncate on Windows. - -- Issue #23138: Fixed parsing cookies with absent keys or values in cookiejar. - Patch by Demian Brecht. - -- Issue #23051: multiprocessing.Pool methods imap() and imap_unordered() now - handle exceptions raised by an iterator. Patch by Alon Diamant and Davin - Potts. - -- Issue #23581: Add matmul support to MagicMock. Patch by Håkan Lövdahl. - -- Issue #23566: enable(), register(), dump_traceback() and - dump_traceback_later() functions of faulthandler now accept file - descriptors. Patch by Wei Wu. - -- Issue #22928: Disabled HTTP header injections in http.client. - Original patch by Demian Brecht. - -- Issue #23615: Modules bz2, tarfile and tokenize now can be reloaded with - imp.reload(). Patch by Thomas Kluyver. - -- Issue #23605: os.walk() now calls os.scandir() instead of os.listdir(). - The usage of os.scandir() reduces the number of calls to os.stat(). - Initial patch written by Ben Hoyt. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #23585: make patchcheck will ensure the interpreter is built. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #23583: Added tests for standard IO streams in IDLE. - -- Issue #22289: Prevent test_urllib2net failures due to ftp connection timeout. - -Tools/Demos ------------ - -- Issue #22826: The result of open() in Tools/freeze/bkfile.py is now better - compatible with regular files (in particular it now supports the context - management protocol). - - -What's New in Python 3.5 alpha 2? -================================= - -Release date: 2015-03-09 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #23571: PyObject_Call() and PyCFunction_Call() now raise a SystemError - if a function returns a result and raises an exception. The SystemError is - chained to the previous exception. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #22524: New os.scandir() function, part of the PEP 471: "os.scandir() - function -- a better and faster directory iterator". Patch written by Ben - Hoyt. - -- Issue #23103: Reduced the memory consumption of IPv4Address and IPv6Address. - -- Issue #21793: BaseHTTPRequestHandler again logs response code as numeric, - not as stringified enum. Patch by Demian Brecht. - -- Issue #23476: In the ssl module, enable OpenSSL's X509_V_FLAG_TRUSTED_FIRST - flag on certificate stores when it is available. - -- Issue #23576: Avoid stalling in SSL reads when EOF has been reached in the - SSL layer but the underlying connection hasn't been closed. - -- Issue #23504: Added an __all__ to the types module. - -- Issue #23563: Optimized utility functions in urllib.parse. - -- Issue #7830: Flatten nested functools.partial. - -- Issue #20204: Added the __module__ attribute to _tkinter classes. - -- Issue #19980: Improved help() for non-recognized strings. help('') now - shows the help on str. help('help') now shows the help on help(). - Original patch by Mark Lawrence. - -- Issue #23521: Corrected pure python implementation of timedelta division. - - * Eliminated OverflowError from ``timedelta * float`` for some floats; - * Corrected rounding in timedlta true division. - -- Issue #21619: Popen objects no longer leave a zombie after exit in the with - statement if the pipe was broken. Patch by Martin Panter. - -- Issue #22936: Make it possible to show local variables in tracebacks for - both the traceback module and unittest. - -- Issue #15955: Add an option to limit the output size in bz2.decompress(). - Patch by Nikolaus Rath. - -- Issue #6639: Module-level turtle functions no longer raise TclError after - closing the window. - -- Issues #814253, #9179: Group references and conditional group references now - work in lookbehind assertions in regular expressions. - -- Issue #23215: Multibyte codecs with custom error handlers that ignores errors - consumed too much memory and raised SystemError or MemoryError. - Original patch by Aleksi Torhamo. - -- Issue #5700: io.FileIO() called flush() after closing the file. - flush() was not called in close() if closefd=False. - -- Issue #23374: Fixed pydoc failure with non-ASCII files when stdout encoding - differs from file system encoding (e.g. on Mac OS). - -- Issue #23481: Remove RC4 from the SSL module's default cipher list. - -- Issue #21548: Fix pydoc.synopsis() and pydoc.apropos() on modules with empty - docstrings. - -- Issue #22885: Fixed arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the dbm.dumb - module. Original patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #23239: ssl.match_hostname() now supports matching of IP addresses. - -- Issue #23146: Fix mishandling of absolute Windows paths with forward - slashes in pathlib. - -- Issue #23096: Pickle representation of floats with protocol 0 now is the same - for both Python and C implementations. - -- Issue #19105: pprint now more efficiently uses free space at the right. - -- Issue #14910: Add allow_abbrev parameter to argparse.ArgumentParser. Patch by - Jonathan Paugh, Steven Bethard, paul j3 and Daniel Eriksson. - -- Issue #21717: tarfile.open() now supports 'x' (exclusive creation) mode. - -- Issue #23344: marshal.dumps() is now 20-25% faster on average. - -- Issue #20416: marshal.dumps() with protocols 3 and 4 is now 40-50% faster on - average. - -- Issue #23421: Fixed compression in tarfile CLI. Patch by wdv4758h. - -- Issue #23367: Fix possible overflows in the unicodedata module. - -- Issue #23361: Fix possible overflow in Windows subprocess creation code. - -- logging.handlers.QueueListener now takes a respect_handler_level keyword - argument which, if set to True, will pass messages to handlers taking handler - levels into account. - -- Issue #19705: turtledemo now has a visual sorting algorithm demo. Original - patch from Jason Yeo. - -- Issue #23801: Fix issue where cgi.FieldStorage did not always ignore the - entire preamble to a multipart body. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #23445: pydebug builds now use "gcc -Og" where possible, to make - the resulting executable faster. - -- Issue #23686: Update OS X 10.5 installer build to use OpenSSL 1.0.2a. - -C API ------ - -- Issue #20204: Deprecation warning is now raised for builtin types without the - __module__ attribute. - -Windows -------- - -- Issue #23465: Implement PEP 486 - Make the Python Launcher aware of virtual - environments. Patch by Paul Moore. - -- Issue #23437: Make user scripts directory versioned on Windows. Patch by Paul - Moore. - - -What's New in Python 3.5 alpha 1? -================================= - -Release date: 2015-02-08 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #23285: PEP 475 - EINTR handling. - -- Issue #22735: Fix many edge cases (including crashes) involving custom mro() - implementations. - -- Issue #22896: Avoid using PyObject_AsCharBuffer(), PyObject_AsReadBuffer() - and PyObject_AsWriteBuffer(). - -- Issue #21295: Revert some changes (issue #16795) to AST line numbers and - column offsets that constituted a regression. - -- Issue #22986: Allow changing an object's __class__ between a dynamic type and - static type in some cases. - -- Issue #15859: PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(), PyUnicode_EncodeMBCS() and - PyUnicode_EncodeCodePage() now raise an exception if the object is not a - Unicode object. For PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(), it was already the case on - platforms other than Windows. Patch written by Campbell Barton. - -- Issue #21408: The default __ne__() now returns NotImplemented if __eq__() - returned NotImplemented. Original patch by Martin Panter. - -- Issue #23321: Fixed a crash in str.decode() when error handler returned - replacment string longer than mailformed input data. - -- Issue #22286: The "backslashreplace" error handlers now works with - decoding and translating. - -- Issue #23253: Delay-load ShellExecute[AW] in os.startfile for reduced - startup overhead on Windows. - -- Issue #22038: pyatomic.h now uses stdatomic.h or GCC built-in functions for - atomic memory access if available. Patch written by Vitor de Lima and Gustavo - Temple. - -- Issue #20284: %-interpolation (aka printf) formatting added for bytes and - bytearray. - -- Issue #23048: Fix jumping out of an infinite while loop in the pdb. - -- Issue #20335: bytes constructor now raises TypeError when encoding or errors - is specified with non-string argument. Based on patch by Renaud Blanch. - -- Issue #22834: If the current working directory ends up being set to a - non-existent directory then import will no longer raise FileNotFoundError. - -- Issue #22869: Move the interpreter startup & shutdown code to a new - dedicated pylifecycle.c module - -- Issue #22847: Improve method cache efficiency. - -- Issue #22335: Fix crash when trying to enlarge a bytearray to 0x7fffffff - bytes on a 32-bit platform. - -- Issue #22653: Fix an assertion failure in debug mode when doing a reentrant - dict insertion in debug mode. - -- Issue #22643: Fix integer overflow in Unicode case operations (upper, lower, - title, swapcase, casefold). - -- Issue #17636: Circular imports involving relative imports are now - supported. - -- Issue #22604: Fix assertion error in debug mode when dividing a complex - number by (nan+0j). - -- Issue #21052: Do not raise ImportWarning when sys.path_hooks or sys.meta_path - are set to None. - -- Issue #16518: Use 'bytes-like object required' in error messages that - previously used the far more cryptic "'x' does not support the buffer - protocol. - -- Issue #22470: Fixed integer overflow issues in "backslashreplace", - "xmlcharrefreplace", and "surrogatepass" error handlers. - -- Issue #22540: speed up `PyObject_IsInstance` and `PyObject_IsSubclass` in the - common case that the second argument has metaclass `type`. - -- Issue #18711: Add a new `PyErr_FormatV` function, similar to `PyErr_Format` - but accepting a `va_list` argument. - -- Issue #22520: Fix overflow checking when generating the repr of a unicode - object. - -- Issue #22519: Fix overflow checking in PyBytes_Repr. - -- Issue #22518: Fix integer overflow issues in latin-1 encoding. - -- Issue #16324: _charset parameter of MIMEText now also accepts - email.charset.Charset instances. Initial patch by Claude Paroz. - -- Issue #1764286: Fix inspect.getsource() to support decorated functions. - Patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #18554: os.__all__ includes posix functions. - -- Issue #21391: Use os.path.abspath in the shutil module. - -- Issue #11471: avoid generating a JUMP_FORWARD instruction at the end of - an if-block if there is no else-clause. Original patch by Eugene Toder. - -- Issue #22215: Now ValueError is raised instead of TypeError when str or bytes - argument contains not permitted null character or byte. - -- Issue #22258: Fix the internal function set_inheritable() on Illumos. - This platform exposes the function ``ioctl(FIOCLEX)``, but calling it fails - with errno is ENOTTY: "Inappropriate ioctl for device". set_inheritable() - now falls back to the slower ``fcntl()`` (``F_GETFD`` and then ``F_SETFD``). - -- Issue #21389: Displaying the __qualname__ of the underlying function in the - repr of a bound method. - -- Issue #22206: Using pthread, PyThread_create_key() now sets errno to ENOMEM - and returns -1 (error) on integer overflow. - -- Issue #20184: Argument Clinic based signature introspection added for - 30 of the builtin functions. - -- Issue #22116: C functions and methods (of the 'builtin_function_or_method' - type) can now be weakref'ed. Patch by Wei Wu. - -- Issue #22077: Improve index error messages for bytearrays, bytes, lists, - and tuples by adding 'or slices'. Added ', not <typename>' for bytearrays. - Original patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #20179: Apply Argument Clinic to bytes and bytearray. - Patch by Tal Einat. - -- Issue #22082: Clear interned strings in slotdefs. - -- Upgrade Unicode database to Unicode 7.0.0. - -- Issue #21897: Fix a crash with the f_locals attribute with closure - variables when frame.clear() has been called. - -- Issue #21205: Add a new ``__qualname__`` attribute to generator, the - qualified name, and use it in the representation of a generator - (``repr(gen)``). The default name of the generator (``__name__`` attribute) - is now get from the function instead of the code. Use ``gen.gi_code.co_name`` - to get the name of the code. - -- Issue #21669: With the aid of heuristics in SyntaxError.__init__, the - parser now attempts to generate more meaningful (or at least more search - engine friendly) error messages when "exec" and "print" are used as - statements. - -- Issue #21642: In the conditional if-else expression, allow an integer written - with no space between itself and the ``else`` keyword (e.g. ``True if 42else - False``) to be valid syntax. - -- Issue #21523: Fix over-pessimistic computation of the stack effect of - some opcodes in the compiler. This also fixes a quadratic compilation - time issue noticeable when compiling code with a large number of "and" - and "or" operators. - -- Issue #21418: Fix a crash in the builtin function super() when called without - argument and without current frame (ex: embedded Python). - -- Issue #21425: Fix flushing of standard streams in the interactive - interpreter. - -- Issue #21435: In rare cases, when running finalizers on objects in cyclic - trash a bad pointer dereference could occur due to a subtle flaw in - internal iteration logic. - -- Issue #21377: PyBytes_Concat() now tries to concatenate in-place when the - first argument has a reference count of 1. Patch by Nikolaus Rath. - -- Issue #20355: -W command line options now have higher priority than the - PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable. Patch by Arfrever. - -- Issue #21274: Define PATH_MAX for GNU/Hurd in Python/pythonrun.c. - -- Issue #20904: Support setting FPU precision on m68k. - -- Issue #21209: Fix sending tuples to custom generator objects with the yield - from syntax. - -- Issue #21193: pow(a, b, c) now raises ValueError rather than TypeError when b - is negative. Patch by Josh Rosenberg. - -- PEP 465 and Issue #21176: Add the '@' operator for matrix multiplication. - -- Issue #21134: Fix segfault when str is called on an uninitialized - UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, or UnicodeTranslateError object. - -- Issue #19537: Fix PyUnicode_DATA() alignment under m68k. Patch by - Andreas Schwab. - -- Issue #20929: Add a type cast to avoid shifting a negative number. - -- Issue #20731: Properly position in source code files even if they - are opened in text mode. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #20637: Key-sharing now also works for instance dictionaries of - subclasses. Patch by Peter Ingebretson. - -- Issue #8297: Attributes missing from modules now include the module name - in the error text. Original patch by ysj.ray. - -- Issue #19995: %c, %o, %x, and %X now raise TypeError on non-integer input. - -- Issue #19655: The ASDL parser - used by the build process to generate code for - managing the Python AST in C - was rewritten. The new parser is self contained - and does not require to carry long the spark.py parser-generator library; - spark.py was removed from the source base. - -- Issue #12546: Allow ``\x00`` to be used as a fill character when using str, int, - float, and complex __format__ methods. - -- Issue #20480: Add ipaddress.reverse_pointer. Patch by Leon Weber. - -- Issue #13598: Modify string.Formatter to support auto-numbering of - replacement fields. It now matches the behavior of str.format() in - this regard. Patches by Phil Elson and Ramchandra Apte. - -- Issue #8931: Make alternate formatting ('#') for type 'c' raise an - exception. In versions prior to 3.5, '#' with 'c' had no effect. Now - specifying it is an error. Patch by Torsten Landschoff. - -- Issue #23165: Perform overflow checks before allocating memory in the - _Py_char2wchar function. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #23399: pyvenv creates relative symlinks where possible. - -- Issue #20289: cgi.FieldStorage() now supports the context management - protocol. - -- Issue #13128: Print response headers for CONNECT requests when debuglevel - > 0. Patch by Demian Brecht. - -- Issue #15381: Optimized io.BytesIO to make less allocations and copyings. - -- Issue #22818: Splitting on a pattern that could match an empty string now - raises a warning. Patterns that can only match empty strings are now - rejected. - -- Issue #23099: Closing io.BytesIO with exported buffer is rejected now to - prevent corrupting exported buffer. - -- Issue #23326: Removed __ne__ implementations. Since fixing default __ne__ - implementation in issue #21408 they are redundant. - -- Issue #23363: Fix possible overflow in itertools.permutations. - -- Issue #23364: Fix possible overflow in itertools.product. - -- Issue #23366: Fixed possible integer overflow in itertools.combinations. - -- Issue #23369: Fixed possible integer overflow in - _json.encode_basestring_ascii. - -- Issue #23353: Fix the exception handling of generators in - PyEval_EvalFrameEx(). At entry, save or swap the exception state even if - PyEval_EvalFrameEx() is called with throwflag=0. At exit, the exception state - is now always restored or swapped, not only if why is WHY_YIELD or - WHY_RETURN. Patch co-written with Antoine Pitrou. - -- Issue #14099: Restored support of writing ZIP files to tellable but - non-seekable streams. - -- Issue #14099: Writing to ZipFile and reading multiple ZipExtFiles is - threadsafe now. - -- Issue #19361: JSON decoder now raises JSONDecodeError instead of ValueError. - -- Issue #18518: timeit now rejects statements which can't be compiled outside - a function or a loop (e.g. "return" or "break"). - -- Issue #23094: Fixed readline with frames in Python implementation of pickle. - -- Issue #23268: Fixed bugs in the comparison of ipaddress classes. - -- Issue #21408: Removed incorrect implementations of __ne__() which didn't - returned NotImplemented if __eq__() returned NotImplemented. The default - __ne__() now works correctly. - -- Issue #19996: :class:`email.feedparser.FeedParser` now handles (malformed) - headers with no key rather than assuming the body has started. - -- Issue #20188: Support Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) in the ssl - module. - -- Issue #23133: Pickling of ipaddress objects now produces more compact and - portable representation. - -- Issue #23248: Update ssl error codes from latest OpenSSL git master. - -- Issue #23266: Much faster implementation of ipaddress.collapse_addresses() - when there are many non-consecutive addresses. - -- Issue #23098: 64-bit dev_t is now supported in the os module. - -- Issue #21817: When an exception is raised in a task submitted to a - ProcessPoolExecutor, the remote traceback is now displayed in the - parent process. Patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #15955: Add an option to limit output size when decompressing LZMA - data. Patch by Nikolaus Rath and Martin Panter. - -- Issue #23250: In the http.cookies module, capitalize "HttpOnly" and "Secure" - as they are written in the standard. - -- Issue #23063: In the disutils' check command, fix parsing of reST with code or - code-block directives. - -- Issue #23209, #23225: selectors.BaseSelector.get_key() now raises a - RuntimeError if the selector is closed. And selectors.BaseSelector.close() - now clears its internal reference to the selector mapping to break a - reference cycle. Initial patch written by Martin Richard. - -- Issue #17911: Provide a way to seed the linecache for a PEP-302 module - without actually loading the code. - -- Issue #17911: Provide a new object API for traceback, including the ability - to not lookup lines at all until the traceback is actually rendered, without - any trace of the original objects being kept alive. - -- Issue #19777: Provide a home() classmethod on Path objects. Contributed - by Victor Salgado and Mayank Tripathi. - -- Issue #23206: Make ``json.dumps(..., ensure_ascii=False)`` as fast as the - default case of ``ensure_ascii=True``. Patch by Naoki Inada. - -- Issue #23185: Add math.inf and math.nan constants. - -- Issue #23186: Add ssl.SSLObject.shared_ciphers() and - ssl.SSLSocket.shared_ciphers() to fetch the client's list ciphers sent at - handshake. - -- Issue #23143: Remove compatibility with OpenSSLs older than 0.9.8. - -- Issue #23132: Improve performance and introspection support of comparison - methods created by functool.total_ordering. - -- Issue #19776: Add an expanduser() method on Path objects. - -- Issue #23112: Fix SimpleHTTPServer to correctly carry the query string and - fragment when it redirects to add a trailing slash. - -- Issue #21793: Added http.HTTPStatus enums (i.e. HTTPStatus.OK, - HTTPStatus.NOT_FOUND). Patch by Demian Brecht. - -- Issue #23093: In the io, module allow more operations to work on detached - streams. - -- Issue #23111: In the ftplib, make ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23 the default protocol - version. - -- Issue #22585: On OpenBSD 5.6 and newer, os.urandom() now calls getentropy(), - instead of reading /dev/urandom, to get pseudo-random bytes. - -- Issue #19104: pprint now produces evaluable output for wrapped strings. - -- Issue #23071: Added missing names to codecs.__all__. Patch by Martin Panter. - -- Issue #22783: Pickling now uses the NEWOBJ opcode instead of the NEWOBJ_EX - opcode if possible. - -- Issue #15513: Added a __sizeof__ implementation for pickle classes. - -- Issue #19858: pickletools.optimize() now aware of the MEMOIZE opcode, can - produce more compact result and no longer produces invalid output if input - data contains MEMOIZE opcodes together with PUT or BINPUT opcodes. - -- Issue #22095: Fixed HTTPConnection.set_tunnel with default port. The port - value in the host header was set to "None". Patch by Demian Brecht. - -- Issue #23016: A warning no longer produces an AttributeError when the program - is run with pythonw.exe. - -- Issue #21775: shutil.copytree(): fix crash when copying to VFAT. An exception - handler assumed that OSError objects always have a 'winerror' attribute. - That is not the case, so the exception handler itself raised AttributeError - when run on Linux (and, presumably, any other non-Windows OS). - Patch by Greg Ward. - -- Issue #1218234: Fix inspect.getsource() to load updated source of - reloaded module. Initial patch by Berker Peksag. - -- Issue #21740: Support wrapped callables in doctest. Patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #23009: Make sure selectors.EpollSelecrtor.select() works when no - FD is registered. - -- Issue #22959: In the constructor of http.client.HTTPSConnection, prefer the - context's check_hostname attribute over the *check_hostname* parameter. - -- Issue #22696: Add function :func:`sys.is_finalizing` to know about - interpreter shutdown. - -- Issue #16043: Add a default limit for the amount of data xmlrpclib.gzip_decode - will return. This resolves CVE-2013-1753. - -- Issue #14099: ZipFile.open() no longer reopen the underlying file. Objects - returned by ZipFile.open() can now operate independently of the ZipFile even - if the ZipFile was created by passing in a file-like object as the first - argument to the constructor. - -- Issue #22966: Fix __pycache__ pyc file name clobber when pyc_compile is - asked to compile a source file containing multiple dots in the source file - name. - -- Issue #21971: Update turtledemo doc and add module to the index. - -- Issue #21032: Fixed socket leak if HTTPConnection.getresponse() fails. - Original patch by Martin Panter. - -- Issue #22407: Deprecated the use of re.LOCALE flag with str patterns or - re.ASCII. It was newer worked. - -- Issue #22902: The "ip" command is now used on Linux to determine MAC address - in uuid.getnode(). Pach by Bruno Cauet. - -- Issue #22960: Add a context argument to xmlrpclib.ServerProxy constructor. - -- Issue #22389: Add contextlib.redirect_stderr(). - -- Issue #21356: Make ssl.RAND_egd() optional to support LibreSSL. The - availability of the function is checked during the compilation. Patch written - by Bernard Spil. - -- Issue #22915: SAX parser now supports files opened with file descriptor or - bytes path. - -- Issue #22609: Constructors and update methods of mapping classes in the - collections module now accept the self keyword argument. - -- Issue #22940: Add readline.append_history_file. - -- Issue #19676: Added the "namereplace" error handler. - -- Issue #22788: Add *context* parameter to logging.handlers.HTTPHandler. - -- Issue #22921: Allow SSLContext to take the *hostname* parameter even if - OpenSSL doesn't support SNI. - -- Issue #22894: TestCase.subTest() would cause the test suite to be stopped - when in failfast mode, even in the absence of failures. - -- Issue #22796: HTTP cookie parsing is now stricter, in order to protect - against potential injection attacks. - -- Issue #22370: Windows detection in pathlib is now more robust. - -- Issue #22841: Reject coroutines in asyncio add_signal_handler(). - Patch by Ludovic.Gasc. - -- Issue #19494: Added urllib.request.HTTPBasicPriorAuthHandler. Patch by - Matej Cepl. - -- Issue #22578: Added attributes to the re.error class. - -- Issue #22849: Fix possible double free in the io.TextIOWrapper constructor. - -- Issue #12728: Different Unicode characters having the same uppercase but - different lowercase are now matched in case-insensitive regular expressions. - -- Issue #22821: Fixed fcntl() with integer argument on 64-bit big-endian - platforms. - -- Issue #21650: Add an `--sort-keys` option to json.tool CLI. - -- Issue #22824: Updated reprlib output format for sets to use set literals. - Patch contributed by Berker Peksag. - -- Issue #22824: Updated reprlib output format for arrays to display empty - arrays without an unnecessary empty list. Suggested by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #22406: Fixed the uu_codec codec incorrectly ported to 3.x. - Based on patch by Martin Panter. - -- Issue #17293: uuid.getnode() now determines MAC address on AIX using netstat. - Based on patch by Aivars Kalvāns. - -- Issue #22769: Fixed ttk.Treeview.tag_has() when called without arguments. - -- Issue #22417: Verify certificates by default in httplib (PEP 476). - -- Issue #22775: Fixed unpickling of http.cookies.SimpleCookie with protocol 2 - and above. Patch by Tim Graham. - -- Issue #22776: Brought excluded code into the scope of a try block in - SysLogHandler.emit(). - -- Issue #22665: Add missing get_terminal_size and SameFileError to - shutil.__all__. - -- Issue #6623: Remove deprecated Netrc class in the ftplib module. Patch by - Matt Chaput. - -- Issue #17381: Fixed handling of case-insensitive ranges in regular - expressions. - -- Issue #22410: Module level functions in the re module now cache compiled - locale-dependent regular expressions taking into account the locale. - -- Issue #22759: Query methods on pathlib.Path() (exists(), is_dir(), etc.) - now return False when the underlying stat call raises NotADirectoryError. - -- Issue #8876: distutils now falls back to copying files when hard linking - doesn't work. This allows use with special filesystems such as VirtualBox - shared folders. - -- Issue #22217: Implemented reprs of classes in the zipfile module. - -- Issue #22457: Honour load_tests in the start_dir of discovery. - -- Issue #18216: gettext now raises an error when a .mo file has an - unsupported major version number. Patch by Aaron Hill. - -- Issue #13918: Provide a locale.delocalize() function which can remove - locale-specific number formatting from a string representing a number, - without then converting it to a specific type. Patch by Cédric Krier. - -- Issue #22676: Make the pickling of global objects which don't have a - __module__ attribute less slow. - -- Issue #18853: Fixed ResourceWarning in shlex.__nain__. - -- Issue #9351: Defaults set with set_defaults on an argparse subparser - are no longer ignored when also set on the parent parser. - -- Issue #7559: unittest test loading ImportErrors are reported as import errors - with their import exception rather than as attribute errors after the import - has already failed. - -- Issue #19746: Make it possible to examine the errors from unittest - discovery without executing the test suite. The new `errors` attribute - on TestLoader exposes these non-fatal errors encountered during discovery. - -- Issue #21991: Make email.headerregistry's header 'params' attributes - be read-only (MappingProxyType). Previously the dictionary was modifiable - but a new one was created on each access of the attribute. - -- Issue #22638: SSLv3 is now disabled throughout the standard library. - It can still be enabled by instantiating a SSLContext manually. - -- Issue #22641: In asyncio, the default SSL context for client connections - is now created using ssl.create_default_context(), for stronger security. - -- Issue #17401: Include closefd in io.FileIO repr. - -- Issue #21338: Add silent mode for compileall. quiet parameters of - compile_{dir, file, path} functions now have a multilevel value. Also, - -q option of the CLI now have a multilevel value. Patch by Thomas Kluyver. - -- Issue #20152: Convert the array and cmath modules to Argument Clinic. - -- Issue #18643: Add socket.socketpair() on Windows. - -- Issue #22435: Fix a file descriptor leak when socketserver bind fails. - -- Issue #13096: Fixed segfault in CTypes POINTER handling of large - values. - -- Issue #11694: Raise ConversionError in xdrlib as documented. Patch - by Filip Gruszczyński and Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #19380: Optimized parsing of regular expressions. - -- Issue #1519638: Now unmatched groups are replaced with empty strings in re.sub() - and re.subn(). - -- Issue #18615: sndhdr.what/whathdr now return a namedtuple. - -- Issue #22462: Fix pyexpat's creation of a dummy frame to make it - appear in exception tracebacks. - -- Issue #21965: Add support for in-memory SSL to the ssl module. Patch - by Geert Jansen. - -- Issue #21173: Fix len() on a WeakKeyDictionary when .clear() was called - with an iterator alive. - -- Issue #11866: Eliminated race condition in the computation of names - for new threads. - -- Issue #21905: Avoid RuntimeError in pickle.whichmodule() when sys.modules - is mutated while iterating. Patch by Olivier Grisel. - -- Issue #11271: concurrent.futures.Executor.map() now takes a *chunksize* - argument to allow batching of tasks in child processes and improve - performance of ProcessPoolExecutor. Patch by Dan O'Reilly. - -- Issue #21883: os.path.join() and os.path.relpath() now raise a TypeError with - more helpful error message for unsupported or mismatched types of arguments. - -- Issue #22219: The zipfile module CLI now adds entries for directories - (including empty directories) in ZIP file. - -- Issue #22449: In the ssl.SSLContext.load_default_certs, consult the - environmental variables SSL_CERT_DIR and SSL_CERT_FILE on Windows. - -- Issue #22508: The email.__version__ variable has been removed; the email - code is no longer shipped separately from the stdlib, and __version__ - hasn't been updated in several releases. - -- Issue #20076: Added non derived UTF-8 aliases to locale aliases table. - -- Issue #20079: Added locales supported in glibc 2.18 to locale alias table. - -- Issue #20218: Added convenience methods read_text/write_text and read_bytes/ - write_bytes to pathlib.Path objects. - -- Issue #22396: On 32-bit AIX platform, don't expose os.posix_fadvise() nor - os.posix_fallocate() because their prototypes in system headers are wrong. - -- Issue #22517: When an io.BufferedRWPair object is deallocated, clear its - weakrefs. - -- Issue #22437: Number of capturing groups in regular expression is no longer - limited by 100. - -- Issue #17442: InteractiveInterpreter now displays the full chained traceback - in its showtraceback method, to match the built in interactive interpreter. - -- Issue #23392: Added tests for marshal C API that works with FILE*. - - -- Issue #10510: distutils register and upload methods now use HTML standards - compliant CRLF line endings. - -- Issue #9850: Fixed macpath.join() for empty first component. Patch by - Oleg Oshmyan. - -- Issue #5309: distutils' build and build_ext commands now accept a ``-j`` - option to enable parallel building of extension modules. - -- Issue #22448: Improve canceled timer handles cleanup to prevent - unbound memory usage. Patch by Joshua Moore-Oliva. - -- Issue #22427: TemporaryDirectory no longer attempts to clean up twice when - used in the with statement in generator. - -- Issue #22362: Forbidden ambiguous octal escapes out of range 0-0o377 in - regular expressions. - -- Issue #20912: Now directories added to ZIP file have correct Unix and MS-DOS - directory attributes. - -- Issue #21866: ZipFile.close() no longer writes ZIP64 central directory - records if allowZip64 is false. - -- Issue #22278: Fix urljoin problem with relative urls, a regression observed - after changes to issue22118 were submitted. - -- Issue #22415: Fixed debugging output of the GROUPREF_EXISTS opcode in the re - module. Removed trailing spaces in debugging output. - -- Issue #22423: Unhandled exception in thread no longer causes unhandled - AttributeError when sys.stderr is None. - -- Issue #21332: Ensure that ``bufsize=1`` in subprocess.Popen() selects - line buffering, rather than block buffering. Patch by Akira Li. - -- Issue #21091: Fix API bug: email.message.EmailMessage.is_attachment is now - a method. - -- Issue #21079: Fix email.message.EmailMessage.is_attachment to return the - correct result when the header has parameters as well as a value. - -- Issue #22247: Add NNTPError to nntplib.__all__. - -- Issue #22366: urllib.request.urlopen will accept a context object - (SSLContext) as an argument which will then be used for HTTPS connection. - Patch by Alex Gaynor. - -- Issue #4180: The warnings registries are now reset when the filters - are modified. - -- Issue #22419: Limit the length of incoming HTTP request in wsgiref server to - 65536 bytes and send a 414 error code for higher lengths. Patch contributed - by Devin Cook. - -- Lax cookie parsing in http.cookies could be a security issue when combined - with non-standard cookie handling in some Web browsers. Reported by - Sergey Bobrov. - -- Issue #20537: logging methods now accept an exception instance as well as a - Boolean value or exception tuple. Thanks to Yury Selivanov for the patch. - -- Issue #22384: An exception in Tkinter callback no longer crashes the program - when it is run with pythonw.exe. - -- Issue #22168: Prevent turtle AttributeError with non-default Canvas on OS X. - -- Issue #21147: sqlite3 now raises an exception if the request contains a null - character instead of truncating it. Based on patch by Victor Stinner. - -- Issue #13968: The glob module now supports recursive search in - subdirectories using the ``**`` pattern. - -- Issue #21951: Fixed a crash in Tkinter on AIX when called Tcl command with - empty string or tuple argument. - -- Issue #21951: Tkinter now most likely raises MemoryError instead of crash - if the memory allocation fails. - -- Issue #22338: Fix a crash in the json module on memory allocation failure. - -- Issue #12410: imaplib.IMAP4 now supports the context management protocol. - Original patch by Tarek Ziadé. - -- Issue #21270: We now override tuple methods in mock.call objects so that - they can be used as normal call attributes. - -- Issue #16662: load_tests() is now unconditionally run when it is present in - a package's __init__.py. TestLoader.loadTestsFromModule() still accepts - use_load_tests, but it is deprecated and ignored. A new keyword-only - attribute `pattern` is added and documented. Patch given by Robert Collins, - tweaked by Barry Warsaw. - -- Issue #22226: First letter no longer is stripped from the "status" key in - the result of Treeview.heading(). - -- Issue #19524: Fixed resource leak in the HTTP connection when an invalid - response is received. Patch by Martin Panter. - -- Issue #20421: Add a .version() method to SSL sockets exposing the actual - protocol version in use. - -- Issue #19546: configparser exceptions no longer expose implementation details. - Chained KeyErrors are removed, which leads to cleaner tracebacks. Patch by - Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #22051: turtledemo no longer reloads examples to re-run them. - Initialization of variables and gui setup should be done in main(), - which is called each time a demo is run, but not on import. - -- Issue #21933: Turtledemo users can change the code font size with a menu - selection or control(command) '-' or '+' or control-mousewheel. - Original patch by Lita Cho. - -- Issue #21597: The separator between the turtledemo text pane and the drawing - canvas can now be grabbed and dragged with a mouse. The code text pane can - be widened to easily view or copy the full width of the text. The canvas - can be widened on small screens. Original patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho. - -- Issue #18132: Turtledemo buttons no longer disappear when the window is - shrunk. Original patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho. - -- Issue #22043: time.monotonic() is now always available. - ``threading.Lock.acquire()``, ``threading.RLock.acquire()`` and socket - operations now use a monotonic clock, instead of the system clock, when a - timeout is used. - -- Issue #21527: Add a default number of workers to ThreadPoolExecutor equal - to 5 times the number of CPUs. Patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #22216: smtplib now resets its state more completely after a quit. The - most obvious consequence of the previous behavior was a STARTTLS failure - during a connect/starttls/quit/connect/starttls sequence. - -- Issue #22098: ctypes' BigEndianStructure and LittleEndianStructure now - define an empty __slots__ so that subclasses don't always get an instance - dict. Patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #22185: Fix an occasional RuntimeError in threading.Condition.wait() - caused by mutation of the waiters queue without holding the lock. Patch - by Doug Zongker. - -- Issue #22287: On UNIX, _PyTime_gettimeofday() now uses - clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME) if available. As a side effect, Python now - depends on the librt library on Solaris and on Linux (only with glibc older - than 2.17). - -- Issue #22182: Use e.args to unpack exceptions correctly in - distutils.file_util.move_file. Patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- The webbrowser module now uses subprocess's start_new_session=True rather - than a potentially risky preexec_fn=os.setsid call. - -- Issue #22042: signal.set_wakeup_fd(fd) now raises an exception if the file - descriptor is in blocking mode. - -- Issue #16808: inspect.stack() now returns a named tuple instead of a tuple. - Patch by Daniel Shahaf. - -- Issue #22236: Fixed Tkinter images copying operations in NoDefaultRoot mode. - -- Issue #2527: Add a *globals* argument to timeit functions, in order to - override the globals namespace in which the timed code is executed. - Patch by Ben Roberts. - -- Issue #22118: Switch urllib.parse to use RFC 3986 semantics for the - resolution of relative URLs, rather than RFCs 1808 and 2396. - Patch by Demian Brecht. - -- Issue #21549: Added the "members" parameter to TarFile.list(). - -- Issue #19628: Allow compileall recursion depth to be specified with a -r - option. - -- Issue #15696: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for mmap objects on Windows. - -- Issue #22068: Avoided reference loops with Variables and Fonts in Tkinter. - -- Issue #22165: SimpleHTTPRequestHandler now supports undecodable file names. - -- Issue #15381: Optimized line reading in io.BytesIO. - -- Issue #8797: Raise HTTPError on failed Basic Authentication immediately. - Initial patch by Sam Bull. - -- Issue #20729: Restored the use of lazy iterkeys()/itervalues()/iteritems() - in the mailbox module. - -- Issue #21448: Changed FeedParser feed() to avoid O(N**2) behavior when - parsing long line. Original patch by Raymond Hettinger. - -- Issue #22184: The functools LRU Cache decorator factory now gives an earlier - and clearer error message when the user forgets the required parameters. - -- Issue #17923: glob() patterns ending with a slash no longer match non-dirs on - AIX. Based on patch by Delhallt. - -- Issue #21725: Added support for RFC 6531 (SMTPUTF8) in smtpd. - -- Issue #22176: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.1. This release - adds support for the Linux AArch64 and POWERPC ELF ABIv2 little endian - architectures. - -- Issue #5411: Added support for the "xztar" format in the shutil module. - -- Issue #21121: Don't force 3rd party C extensions to be built with - -Werror=declaration-after-statement. - -- Issue #21975: Fixed crash when using uninitialized sqlite3.Row (in particular - when unpickling pickled sqlite3.Row). sqlite3.Row is now initialized in the - __new__() method. - -- Issue #20170: Convert posixmodule to use Argument Clinic. - -- Issue #21539: Add an *exists_ok* argument to `Pathlib.mkdir()` to mimic - `mkdir -p` and `os.makedirs()` functionality. When true, ignore - FileExistsErrors. Patch by Berker Peksag. - -- Issue #22127: Bypass IDNA for pure-ASCII host names in the socket module - (in particular for numeric IPs). - -- Issue #21047: set the default value for the *convert_charrefs* argument - of HTMLParser to True. Patch by Berker Peksag. - -- Add an __all__ to html.entities. - -- Issue #15114: the strict mode and argument of HTMLParser, HTMLParser.error, - and the HTMLParserError exception have been removed. - -- Issue #22085: Dropped support of Tk 8.3 in Tkinter. - -- Issue #21580: Now Tkinter correctly handles bytes arguments passed to Tk. - In particular this allows initializing images from binary data. - -- Issue #22003: When initialized from a bytes object, io.BytesIO() now - defers making a copy until it is mutated, improving performance and - memory use on some use cases. Patch by David Wilson. - -- Issue #22018: On Windows, signal.set_wakeup_fd() now also supports sockets. - A side effect is that Python depends to the WinSock library. - -- Issue #22054: Add os.get_blocking() and os.set_blocking() functions to get - and set the blocking mode of a file descriptor (False if the O_NONBLOCK flag - is set, True otherwise). These functions are not available on Windows. - -- Issue #17172: Make turtledemo start as active on OS X even when run with - subprocess. Patch by Lita Cho. - -- Issue #21704: Fix build error for _multiprocessing when semaphores - are not available. Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis. - -- Issue #20173: Convert sha1, sha256, sha512 and md5 to ArgumentClinic. - Patch by Vajrasky Kok. - -- Fix repr(_socket.socket) on Windows 64-bit: don't fail with OverflowError - on closed socket. repr(socket.socket) already works fine. - -- Issue #22033: Reprs of most Python implemened classes now contain actual - class name instead of hardcoded one. - -- Issue #21947: The dis module can now disassemble generator-iterator - objects based on their gi_code attribute. Patch by Clement Rouault. - -- Issue #16133: The asynchat.async_chat.handle_read() method now ignores - BlockingIOError exceptions. - -- Issue #22044: Fixed premature DECREF in call_tzinfo_method. - Patch by Tom Flanagan. - -- Issue #19884: readline: Disable the meta modifier key if stdout is not - a terminal to not write the ANSI sequence ``"\033[1034h"`` into stdout. This - sequence is used on some terminal (ex: TERM=xterm-256color") to enable - support of 8 bit characters. - -- Issue #4350: Removed a number of out-of-dated and non-working for a long time - Tkinter methods. - -- Issue #6167: Scrollbar.activate() now returns the name of active element if - the argument is not specified. Scrollbar.set() now always accepts only 2 - arguments. - -- Issue #15275: Clean up and speed up the ntpath module. - -- Issue #21888: plistlib's load() and loads() now work if the fmt parameter is - specified. - -- Issue #22032: __qualname__ instead of __name__ is now always used to format - fully qualified class names of Python implemented classes. - -- Issue #22031: Reprs now always use hexadecimal format with the "0x" prefix - when contain an id in form " at 0x...". - -- Issue #22018: signal.set_wakeup_fd() now raises an OSError instead of a - ValueError on ``fstat()`` failure. - -- Issue #21044: tarfile.open() now handles fileobj with an integer 'name' - attribute. Based on patch by Antoine Pietri. - -- Issue #21966: Respect -q command-line option when code module is ran. - -- Issue #19076: Don't pass the redundant 'file' argument to self.error(). - -- Issue #16382: Improve exception message of warnings.warn() for bad - category. Initial patch by Phil Elson. - -- Issue #21932: os.read() now uses a :c:func:`Py_ssize_t` type instead of - :c:type:`int` for the size to support reading more than 2 GB at once. On - Windows, the size is truncted to INT_MAX. As any call to os.read(), the OS - may read less bytes than the number of requested bytes. - -- Issue #21942: Fixed source file viewing in pydoc's server mode on Windows. - -- Issue #11259: asynchat.async_chat().set_terminator() now raises a ValueError - if the number of received bytes is negative. - -- Issue #12523: asynchat.async_chat.push() now raises a TypeError if it doesn't - get a bytes string - -- Issue #21707: Add missing kwonlyargcount argument to - ModuleFinder.replace_paths_in_code(). - -- Issue #20639: calling Path.with_suffix('') allows removing the suffix - again. Patch by July Tikhonov. - -- Issue #21714: Disallow the construction of invalid paths using - Path.with_name(). Original patch by Antony Lee. - -- Issue #15014: Added 'auth' method to smtplib to make implementing auth - mechanisms simpler, and used it internally in the login method. - -- Issue #21151: Fixed a segfault in the winreg module when ``None`` is passed - as a ``REG_BINARY`` value to SetValueEx. Patch by John Ehresman. - -- Issue #21090: io.FileIO.readall() does not ignore I/O errors anymore. Before, - it ignored I/O errors if at least the first C call read() succeed. - -- Issue #5800: headers parameter of wsgiref.headers.Headers is now optional. - Initial patch by Pablo Torres Navarrete and SilentGhost. - -- Issue #21781: ssl.RAND_add() now supports strings longer than 2 GB. - -- Issue #21679: Prevent extraneous fstat() calls during open(). Patch by - Bohuslav Kabrda. - -- Issue #21863: cProfile now displays the module name of C extension functions, - in addition to their own name. - -- Issue #11453: asyncore: emit a ResourceWarning when an unclosed file_wrapper - object is destroyed. The destructor now closes the file if needed. The - close() method can now be called twice: the second call does nothing. - -- Issue #21858: Better handling of Python exceptions in the sqlite3 module. - -- Issue #21476: Make sure the email.parser.BytesParser TextIOWrapper is - discarded after parsing, so the input file isn't unexpectedly closed. - -- Issue #20295: imghdr now recognizes OpenEXR format images. - -- Issue #21729: Used the "with" statement in the dbm.dumb module to ensure - files closing. Patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #21491: socketserver: Fix a race condition in child processes reaping. - -- Issue #21719: Added the ``st_file_attributes`` field to os.stat_result on - Windows. - -- Issue #21832: Require named tuple inputs to be exact strings. - -- Issue #21722: The distutils "upload" command now exits with a non-zero - return code when uploading fails. Patch by Martin Dengler. - -- Issue #21723: asyncio.Queue: support any type of number (ex: float) for the - maximum size. Patch written by Vajrasky Kok. - -- Issue #21711: support for "site-python" directories has now been removed - from the site module (it was deprecated in 3.4). - -- Issue #17552: new socket.sendfile() method allowing a file to be sent over a - socket by using high-performance os.sendfile() on UNIX. - Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'. - -- Issue #18039: dbm.dump.open() now always creates a new database when the - flag has the value 'n'. Patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #21326: Add a new is_closed() method to asyncio.BaseEventLoop. - run_forever() and run_until_complete() methods of asyncio.BaseEventLoop now - raise an exception if the event loop was closed. - -- Issue #21766: Prevent a security hole in CGIHTTPServer by URL unquoting paths - before checking for a CGI script at that path. - -- Issue #21310: Fixed possible resource leak in failed open(). - -- Issue #21256: Printout of keyword args should be in deterministic order in - a mock function call. This will help to write better doctests. - -- Issue #21677: Fixed chaining nonnormalized exceptions in io close() methods. - -- Issue #11709: Fix the pydoc.help function to not fail when sys.stdin is not a - valid file. - -- Issue #21515: tempfile.TemporaryFile now uses os.O_TMPFILE flag is available. - -- Issue #13223: Fix pydoc.writedoc so that the HTML documentation for methods - that use 'self' in the example code is generated correctly. - -- Issue #21463: In urllib.request, fix pruning of the FTP cache. - -- Issue #21618: The subprocess module could fail to close open fds that were - inherited by the calling process and already higher than POSIX resource - limits would otherwise allow. On systems with a functioning /proc/self/fd - or /dev/fd interface the max is now ignored and all fds are closed. - -- Issue #20383: Introduce importlib.util.module_from_spec() as the preferred way - to create a new module. - -- Issue #21552: Fixed possible integer overflow of too long string lengths in - the tkinter module on 64-bit platforms. - -- Issue #14315: The zipfile module now ignores extra fields in the central - directory that are too short to be parsed instead of letting a struct.unpack - error bubble up as this "bad data" appears in many real world zip files in - the wild and is ignored by other zip tools. - -- Issue #13742: Added "key" and "reverse" parameters to heapq.merge(). - (First draft of patch contributed by Simon Sapin.) - -- Issue #21402: tkinter.ttk now works when default root window is not set. - -- Issue #3015: _tkinter.create() now creates tkapp object with wantobject=1 by - default. - -- Issue #10203: sqlite3.Row now truly supports sequence protocol. In particular - it supports reverse() and negative indices. Original patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #18807: If copying (no symlinks) specified for a venv, then the python - interpreter aliases (python, python3) are now created by copying rather than - symlinking. - -- Issue #20197: Added support for the WebP image type in the imghdr module. - Patch by Fabrice Aneche and Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #21513: Speedup some properties of IP addresses (IPv4Address, - IPv6Address) such as .is_private or .is_multicast. - -- Issue #21137: Improve the repr for threading.Lock() and its variants - by showing the "locked" or "unlocked" status. Patch by Berker Peksag. - -- Issue #21538: The plistlib module now supports loading of binary plist files - when reference or offset size is not a power of two. - -- Issue #21455: Add a default backlog to socket.listen(). - -- Issue #21525: Most Tkinter methods which accepted tuples now accept lists too. - -- Issue #22166: With the assistance of a new internal _codecs._forget_codec - helping function, test_codecs now clears the encoding caches to avoid the - appearance of a reference leak - -- Issue #22236: Tkinter tests now don't reuse default root window. New root - window is created for every test class. - -- Issue #10744: Fix PEP 3118 format strings on ctypes objects with a nontrivial - shape. - -- Issue #20826: Optimize ipaddress.collapse_addresses(). - -- Issue #21487: Optimize ipaddress.summarize_address_range() and - ipaddress.{IPv4Network,IPv6Network}.subnets(). - -- Issue #21486: Optimize parsing of netmasks in ipaddress.IPv4Network and - ipaddress.IPv6Network. - -- Issue #13916: Disallowed the surrogatepass error handler for non UTF-\* - encodings. - -- Issue #20998: Fixed re.fullmatch() of repeated single character pattern - with ignore case. Original patch by Matthew Barnett. - -- Issue #21075: fileinput.FileInput now reads bytes from standard stream if - binary mode is specified. Patch by Sam Kimbrel. - -- Issue #19775: Add a samefile() method to pathlib Path objects. Initial - patch by Vajrasky Kok. - -- Issue #21226: Set up modules properly in PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject - (and friends). - -- Issue #21398: Fix a unicode error in the pydoc pager when the documentation - contains characters not encodable to the stdout encoding. - -- Issue #16531: ipaddress.IPv4Network and ipaddress.IPv6Network now accept - an (address, netmask) tuple argument, so as to easily construct network - objects from existing addresses. - -- Issue #21156: importlib.abc.InspectLoader.source_to_code() is now a - staticmethod. - -- Issue #21424: Simplified and optimized heaqp.nlargest() and nmsmallest() - to make fewer tuple comparisons. - -- Issue #21396: Fix TextIOWrapper(..., write_through=True) to not force a - flush() on the underlying binary stream. Patch by akira. - -- Issue #18314: Unlink now removes junctions on Windows. Patch by Kim Gräsman - -- Issue #21088: Bugfix for curses.window.addch() regression in 3.4.0. - In porting to Argument Clinic, the first two arguments were reversed. - -- Issue #21407: _decimal: The module now supports function signatures. - -- Issue #10650: Remove the non-standard 'watchexp' parameter from the - Decimal.quantize() method in the Python version. It had never been - present in the C version. - -- Issue #21469: Reduced the risk of false positives in robotparser by - checking to make sure that robots.txt has been read or does not exist - prior to returning True in can_fetch(). - -- Issue #19414: Have the OrderedDict mark deleted links as unusable. - This gives an early failure if the link is deleted during iteration. - -- Issue #21421: Add __slots__ to the MappingViews ABC. - Patch by Josh Rosenberg. - -- Issue #21101: Eliminate double hashing in the C speed-up code for - collections.Counter(). - -- Issue #21321: itertools.islice() now releases the reference to the source - iterator when the slice is exhausted. Patch by Anton Afanasyev. - -- Issue #21057: TextIOWrapper now allows the underlying binary stream's - read() or read1() method to return an arbitrary bytes-like object - (such as a memoryview). Patch by Nikolaus Rath. - -- Issue #20951: SSLSocket.send() now raises either SSLWantReadError or - SSLWantWriteError on a non-blocking socket if the operation would block. - Previously, it would return 0. Patch by Nikolaus Rath. - -- Issue #13248: removed previously deprecated asyncore.dispatcher __getattr__ - cheap inheritance hack. - -- Issue #9815: assertRaises now tries to clear references to local variables - in the exception's traceback. - -- Issue #19940: ssl.cert_time_to_seconds() now interprets the given time - string in the UTC timezone (as specified in RFC 5280), not the local - timezone. - -- Issue #13204: Calling sys.flags.__new__ would crash the interpreter, - now it raises a TypeError. - -- Issue #19385: Make operations on a closed dbm.dumb database always raise the - same exception. - -- Issue #21207: Detect when the os.urandom cached fd has been closed or - replaced, and open it anew. - -- Issue #21291: subprocess's Popen.wait() is now thread safe so that - multiple threads may be calling wait() or poll() on a Popen instance - at the same time without losing the Popen.returncode value. - -- Issue #21127: Path objects can now be instantiated from str subclass - instances (such as ``numpy.str_``). - -- Issue #15002: urllib.response object to use _TemporaryFileWrapper (and - _TemporaryFileCloser) facility. Provides a better way to handle file - descriptor close. Patch contributed by Christian Theune. - -- Issue #12220: mindom now raises a custom ValueError indicating it doesn't - support spaces in URIs instead of letting a 'split' ValueError bubble up. - -- Issue #21068: The ssl.PROTOCOL* constants are now enum members. - -- Issue #21276: posixmodule: Don't define USE_XATTRS on KFreeBSD and the Hurd. - -- Issue #21262: New method assert_not_called for Mock. - It raises AssertionError if the mock has been called. - -- Issue #21238: New keyword argument `unsafe` to Mock. It raises - `AttributeError` incase of an attribute startswith assert or assret. - -- Issue #20896: ssl.get_server_certificate() now uses PROTOCOL_SSLv23, not - PROTOCOL_SSLv3, for maximum compatibility. - -- Issue #21239: patch.stopall() didn't work deterministically when the same - name was patched more than once. - -- Issue #21203: Updated fileConfig and dictConfig to remove inconsistencies. - Thanks to Jure Koren for the patch. - -- Issue #21222: Passing name keyword argument to mock.create_autospec now - works. - -- Issue #21197: Add lib64 -> lib symlink in venvs on 64-bit non-OS X POSIX. - -- Issue #17498: Some SMTP servers disconnect after certain errors, violating - strict RFC conformance. Instead of losing the error code when we issue the - subsequent RSET, smtplib now returns the error code and defers raising the - SMTPServerDisconnected error until the next command is issued. - -- Issue #17826: setting an iterable side_effect on a mock function created by - create_autospec now works. Patch by Kushal Das. - -- Issue #7776: Fix ``Host:`` header and reconnection when using - http.client.HTTPConnection.set_tunnel(). Patch by Nikolaus Rath. - -- Issue #20968: unittest.mock.MagicMock now supports division. - Patch by Johannes Baiter. - -- Issue #21529 (CVE-2014-4616): Fix arbitrary memory access in - JSONDecoder.raw_decode with a negative second parameter. Bug reported by Guido - Vranken. - -- Issue #21169: getpass now handles non-ascii characters that the - input stream encoding cannot encode by re-encoding using the - replace error handler. - -- Issue #21171: Fixed undocumented filter API of the rot13 codec. - Patch by Berker Peksag. - -- Issue #20539: Improved math.factorial error message for large positive inputs - and changed exception type (OverflowError -> ValueError) for large negative - inputs. - -- Issue #21172: isinstance check relaxed from dict to collections.Mapping. - -- Issue #21155: asyncio.EventLoop.create_unix_server() now raises a ValueError - if path and sock are specified at the same time. - -- Issue #21136: Avoid unnecessary normalization of Fractions resulting from - power and other operations. Patch by Raymond Hettinger. - -- Issue #17621: Introduce importlib.util.LazyLoader. - -- Issue #21076: signal module constants were turned into enums. - Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'. - -- Issue #20636: Improved the repr of Tkinter widgets. - -- Issue #19505: The items, keys, and values views of OrderedDict now support - reverse iteration using reversed(). - -- Issue #21149: Improved thread-safety in logging cleanup during interpreter - shutdown. Thanks to Devin Jeanpierre for the patch. - -- Issue #21058: Fix a leak of file descriptor in - :func:`tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile`, close the file descriptor if - :func:`io.open` fails - -- Issue #21200: Return None from pkgutil.get_loader() when __spec__ is missing. - -- Issue #21013: Enhance ssl.create_default_context() when used for server side - sockets to provide better security by default. - -- Issue #20145: `assertRaisesRegex` and `assertWarnsRegex` now raise a - TypeError if the second argument is not a string or compiled regex. - -- Issue #20633: Replace relative import by absolute import. - -- Issue #20980: Stop wrapping exception when using ThreadPool. - -- Issue #21082: In os.makedirs, do not set the process-wide umask. Note this - changes behavior of makedirs when exist_ok=True. - -- Issue #20990: Fix issues found by pyflakes for multiprocessing. - -- Issue #21015: SSL contexts will now automatically select an elliptic - curve for ECDH key exchange on OpenSSL 1.0.2 and later, and otherwise - default to "prime256v1". - -- Issue #21000: Improve the command-line interface of json.tool. - -- Issue #20995: Enhance default ciphers used by the ssl module to enable - better security and prioritize perfect forward secrecy. - -- Issue #20884: Don't assume that __file__ is defined on importlib.__init__. - -- Issue #21499: Ignore __builtins__ in several test_importlib.test_api tests. - -- Issue #20627: xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy is now a context manager. - -- Issue #19165: The formatter module now raises DeprecationWarning instead of - PendingDeprecationWarning. - -- Issue #13936: Remove the ability of datetime.time instances to be considered - false in boolean contexts. - -- Issue #18931: selectors module now supports /dev/poll on Solaris. - Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'. - -- Issue #19977: When the ``LC_TYPE`` locale is the POSIX locale (``C`` locale), - :py:data:`sys.stdin` and :py:data:`sys.stdout` are now using the - ``surrogateescape`` error handler, instead of the ``strict`` error handler. - -- Issue #20574: Implement incremental decoder for cp65001 code (Windows code - page 65001, Microsoft UTF-8). - -- Issue #20879: Delay the initialization of encoding and decoding tables for - base32, ascii85 and base85 codecs in the base64 module, and delay the - initialization of the unquote_to_bytes() table of the urllib.parse module, to - not waste memory if these modules are not used. - -- Issue #19157: Include the broadcast address in the usuable hosts for IPv6 - in ipaddress. - -- Issue #11599: When an external command (e.g. compiler) fails, distutils now - prints out the whole command line (instead of just the command name) if the - environment variable DISTUTILS_DEBUG is set. - -- Issue #4931: distutils should not produce unhelpful "error: None" messages - anymore. distutils.util.grok_environment_error is kept but doc-deprecated. - -- Issue #20875: Prevent possible gzip "'read' is not defined" NameError. - Patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #11558: ``email.message.Message.attach`` now returns a more - useful error message if ``attach`` is called on a message for which - ``is_multipart`` is False. - -- Issue #20283: RE pattern methods now accept the string keyword parameters - as documented. The pattern and source keyword parameters are left as - deprecated aliases. - -- Issue #20778: Fix modulefinder to work with bytecode-only modules. - -- Issue #20791: copy.copy() now doesn't make a copy when the input is - a bytes object. Initial patch by Peter Otten. - -- Issue #19748: On AIX, time.mktime() now raises an OverflowError for year - outsize range [1902; 2037]. - -- Issue #19573: inspect.signature: Use enum for parameter kind constants. - -- Issue #20726: inspect.signature: Make Signature and Parameter picklable. - -- Issue #17373: Add inspect.Signature.from_callable method. - -- Issue #20378: Improve repr of inspect.Signature and inspect.Parameter. - -- Issue #20816: Fix inspect.getcallargs() to raise correct TypeError for - missing keyword-only arguments. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin. - -- Issue #20817: Fix inspect.getcallargs() to fail correctly if more - than 3 arguments are missing. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin. - -- Issue #6676: Ensure a meaningful exception is raised when attempting - to parse more than one XML document per pyexpat xmlparser instance. - (Original patches by Hirokazu Yamamoto and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, with - suggested wording by David Gutteridge) - -- Issue #21117: Fix inspect.signature to better support functools.partial. - Due to the specifics of functools.partial implementation, - positional-or-keyword arguments passed as keyword arguments become - keyword-only. - -- Issue #20334: inspect.Signature and inspect.Parameter are now hashable. - Thanks to Antony Lee for bug reports and suggestions. - -- Issue #15916: doctest.DocTestSuite returns an empty unittest.TestSuite instead - of raising ValueError if it finds no tests - -- Issue #21209: Fix asyncio.tasks.CoroWrapper to workaround a bug - in yield-from implementation in CPythons prior to 3.4.1. - -- asyncio: Add gi_{frame,running,code} properties to CoroWrapper - (upstream issue #163). - -- Issue #21311: Avoid exception in _osx_support with non-standard compiler - configurations. Patch by John Szakmeister. - -- Issue #11571: Ensure that the turtle window becomes the topmost window - when launched on OS X. - -- Issue #21801: Validate that __signature__ is None or an instance of Signature. - -- Issue #21923: Prevent AttributeError in distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler - due to possible uninitialized _config_vars. - -- Issue #21323: Fix http.server to again handle scripts in CGI subdirectories, - broken by the fix for security issue #19435. Patch by Zach Byrne. - -- Issue #22733: Fix ffi_prep_args not zero-extending argument values correctly - on 64-bit Windows. - -- Issue #23302: Default to TCP_NODELAY=1 upon establishing an HTTPConnection. - Removed use of hard-coded MSS as it's an optimization that's no longer needed - with Nagle disabled. - -IDLE ----- - -- Issue #20577: Configuration of the max line length for the FormatParagraph - extension has been moved from the General tab of the Idle preferences dialog - to the FormatParagraph tab of the Config Extensions dialog. - Patch by Tal Einat. - -- Issue #16893: Update Idle doc chapter to match current Idle and add new - information. - -- Issue #3068: Add Idle extension configuration dialog to Options menu. - Changes are written to HOME/.idlerc/config-extensions.cfg. - Original patch by Tal Einat. - -- Issue #16233: A module browser (File : Class Browser, Alt+C) requires an - editor window with a filename. When Class Browser is requested otherwise, - from a shell, output window, or 'Untitled' editor, Idle no longer displays - an error box. It now pops up an Open Module box (Alt+M). If a valid name - is entered and a module is opened, a corresponding browser is also opened. - -- Issue #4832: Save As to type Python files automatically adds .py to the - name you enter (even if your system does not display it). Some systems - automatically add .txt when type is Text files. - -- Issue #21986: Code objects are not normally pickled by the pickle module. - To match this, they are no longer pickled when running under Idle. - -- Issue #17390: Adjust Editor window title; remove 'Python', - move version to end. - -- Issue #14105: Idle debugger breakpoints no longer disappear - when inserting or deleting lines. - -- Issue #17172: Turtledemo can now be run from Idle. - Currently, the entry is on the Help menu, but it may move to Run. - Patch by Ramchandra Apt and Lita Cho. - -- Issue #21765: Add support for non-ascii identifiers to HyperParser. - -- Issue #21940: Add unittest for WidgetRedirector. Initial patch by Saimadhav - Heblikar. - -- Issue #18592: Add unittest for SearchDialogBase. Patch by Phil Webster. - -- Issue #21694: Add unittest for ParenMatch. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar. - -- Issue #21686: add unittest for HyperParser. Original patch by Saimadhav - Heblikar. - -- Issue #12387: Add missing upper(lower)case versions of default Windows key - bindings for Idle so Caps Lock does not disable them. Patch by Roger Serwy. - -- Issue #21695: Closing a Find-in-files output window while the search is - still in progress no longer closes Idle. - -- Issue #18910: Add unittest for textView. Patch by Phil Webster. - -- Issue #18292: Add unittest for AutoExpand. Patch by Saihadhav Heblikar. - -- Issue #18409: Add unittest for AutoComplete. Patch by Phil Webster. - -- Issue #21477: htest.py - Improve framework, complete set of tests. - Patches by Saimadhav Heblikar - -- Issue #18104: Add idlelib/idle_test/htest.py with a few sample tests to begin - consolidating and improving human-validated tests of Idle. Change other files - as needed to work with htest. Running the module as __main__ runs all tests. - -- Issue #21139: Change default paragraph width to 72, the PEP 8 recommendation. - -- Issue #21284: Paragraph reformat test passes after user changes reformat width. - -- Issue #17654: Ensure IDLE menus are customized properly on OS X for - non-framework builds and for all variants of Tk. - -- Issue #23180: Rename IDLE "Windows" menu item to "Window". - Patch by Al Sweigart. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #15506: Use standard PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG autoconf macro in the configure - script. - -- Issue #22935: Allow the ssl module to be compiled if openssl doesn't support - SSL 3. - -- Issue #22592: Drop support of the Borland C compiler to build Python. The - distutils module still supports it to build extensions. - -- Issue #22591: Drop support of MS-DOS, especially of the DJGPP compiler - (MS-DOS port of GCC). - -- Issue #16537: Check whether self.extensions is empty in setup.py. Patch by - Jonathan Hosmer. - -- Issue #22359: Remove incorrect uses of recursive make. Patch by Jonas - Wagner. - -- Issue #21958: Define HAVE_ROUND when building with Visual Studio 2013 and - above. Patch by Zachary Turner. - -- Issue #18093: the programs that embed the CPython runtime are now in a - separate "Programs" directory, rather than being kept in the Modules - directory. - -- Issue #15759: "make suspicious", "make linkcheck" and "make doctest" in Doc/ - now display special message when and only when there are failures. - -- Issue #21141: The Windows build process no longer attempts to find Perl, - instead relying on OpenSSL source being configured and ready to build. The - ``PCbuild\build_ssl.py`` script has been re-written and re-named to - ``PCbuild\prepare_ssl.py``, and takes care of configuring OpenSSL source - for both 32 and 64 bit platforms. OpenSSL sources obtained from - svn.python.org will always be pre-configured and ready to build. - -- Issue #21037: Add a build option to enable AddressSanitizer support. - -- Issue #19962: The Windows build process now creates "python.bat" in the - root of the source tree, which passes all arguments through to the most - recently built interpreter. - -- Issue #21285: Refactor and fix curses configure check to always search - in a ncursesw directory. - -- Issue #15234: For BerkelyDB and Sqlite, only add the found library and - include directories if they aren't already being searched. This avoids - an explicit runtime library dependency. - -- Issue #17861: Tools/scripts/generate_opcode_h.py automatically regenerates - Include/opcode.h from Lib/opcode.py if the latter gets any change. - -- Issue #20644: OS X installer build support for documentation build changes - in 3.4.1: assume externally supplied sphinx-build is available in /usr/bin. - -- Issue #20022: Eliminate use of deprecated bundlebuilder in OS X builds. - -- Issue #15968: Incorporated Tcl, Tk, and Tix builds into the Windows build - solution. - -- Issue #17095: Fix Modules/Setup *shared* support. - -- Issue #21811: Anticipated fixes to support OS X versions > 10.9. - -- Issue #21166: Prevent possible segfaults and other random failures of - python --generate-posix-vars in pybuilddir.txt build target. - -- Issue #18096: Fix library order returned by python-config. - -- Issue #17219: Add library build dir for Python extension cross-builds. - -- Issue #22919: Windows build updated to support VC 14.0 (Visual Studio 2015), - which will be used for the official release. - -- Issue #21236: Build _msi.pyd with cabinet.lib instead of fci.lib - -- Issue #17128: Use private version of OpenSSL for OS X 10.5+ installer. - -C API ------ - -- Issue #14203: Remove obsolete support for view==NULL in PyBuffer_FillInfo(), - bytearray_getbuffer(), bytesiobuf_getbuffer() and array_buffer_getbuf(). - All functions now raise BufferError in that case. - -- Issue #22445: PyBuffer_IsContiguous() now implements precise contiguity - tests, compatible with NumPy's NPY_RELAXED_STRIDES_CHECKING compilation - flag. Previously the function reported false negatives for corner cases. - -- Issue #22079: PyType_Ready() now checks that statically allocated type has - no dynamically allocated bases. - -- Issue #22453: Removed non-documented macro PyObject_REPR(). - -- Issue #18395: Rename ``_Py_char2wchar()`` to :c:func:`Py_DecodeLocale`, - rename ``_Py_wchar2char()`` to :c:func:`Py_EncodeLocale`, and document - these functions. - -- Issue #21233: Add new C functions: PyMem_RawCalloc(), PyMem_Calloc(), - PyObject_Calloc(), _PyObject_GC_Calloc(). bytes(int) is now using - ``calloc()`` instead of ``malloc()`` for large objects which is faster and - use less memory. - -- Issue #20942: PyImport_ImportFrozenModuleObject() no longer sets __file__ to - match what importlib does; this affects _frozen_importlib as well as any - module loaded using imp.init_frozen(). - -Documentation -------------- - -- Issue #19548: Update the codecs module documentation to better cover the - distinction between text encodings and other codecs, together with other - clarifications. Patch by Martin Panter. - -- Issue #22394: Doc/Makefile now supports ``make venv PYTHON=../python`` to - create a venv for generating the documentation, e.g., - ``make html PYTHON=venv/bin/python3``. - -- Issue #21514: The documentation of the json module now refers to new JSON RFC - 7159 instead of obsoleted RFC 4627. - -- Issue #21777: The binary sequence methods on bytes and bytearray are now - documented explicitly, rather than assuming users will be able to derive - the expected behaviour from the behaviour of the corresponding str methods. - -- Issue #6916: undocument deprecated asynchat.fifo class. - -- Issue #17386: Expanded functionality of the ``Doc/make.bat`` script to make - it much more comparable to ``Doc/Makefile``. - -- Issue #21312: Update the thread_foobar.h template file to include newer - threading APIs. Patch by Jack McCracken. - -- Issue #21043: Remove the recommendation for specific CA organizations and to - mention the ability to load the OS certificates. - -- Issue #20765: Add missing documentation for PurePath.with_name() and - PurePath.with_suffix(). - -- Issue #19407: New package installation and distribution guides based on - the Python Packaging Authority tools. Existing guides have been retained - as legacy links from the distutils docs, as they still contain some - required reference material for tool developers that isn't recorded - anywhere else. - -- Issue #19697: Document cases where __main__.__spec__ is None. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #18982: Add tests for CLI of the calendar module. - -- Issue #19548: Added some additional checks to test_codecs to ensure that - statements in the updated documentation remain accurate. Patch by Martin - Panter. - -- Issue #22838: All test_re tests now work with unittest test discovery. - -- Issue #22173: Update lib2to3 tests to use unittest test discovery. - -- Issue #16000: Convert test_curses to use unittest. - -- Issue #21456: Skip two tests in test_urllib2net.py if _ssl module not - present. Patch by Remi Pointel. - -- Issue #20746: Fix test_pdb to run in refleak mode (-R). Patch by Xavier - de Gaye. - -- Issue #22060: test_ctypes has been somewhat cleaned up and simplified; it - now uses unittest test discovery to find its tests. - -- Issue #22104: regrtest.py no longer holds a reference to the suite of tests - loaded from test modules that don't define test_main(). - -- Issue #22111: Assorted cleanups in test_imaplib. Patch by Milan Oberkirch. - -- Issue #22002: Added ``load_package_tests`` function to test.support and used - it to implement/augment test discovery in test_asyncio, test_email, - test_importlib, test_json, and test_tools. - -- Issue #21976: Fix test_ssl to accept LibreSSL version strings. Thanks - to William Orr. - -- Issue #21918: Converted test_tools from a module to a package containing - separate test files for each tested script. - -- Issue #9554: Use modern unittest features in test_argparse. Initial patch by - Denver Coneybeare and Radu Voicilas. - -- Issue #20155: Changed HTTP method names in failing tests in test_httpservers - so that packet filtering software (specifically Windows Base Filtering Engine) - does not interfere with the transaction semantics expected by the tests. - -- Issue #19493: Refactored the ctypes test package to skip tests explicitly - rather than silently. - -- Issue #18492: All resources are now allowed when tests are not run by - regrtest.py. - -- Issue #21634: Fix pystone micro-benchmark: use floor division instead of true - division to benchmark integers instead of floating point numbers. Set pystone - version to 1.2. Patch written by Lennart Regebro. - -- Issue #21605: Added tests for Tkinter images. - -- Issue #21493: Added test for ntpath.expanduser(). Original patch by - Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #19925: Added tests for the spwd module. Original patch by Vajrasky Kok. - -- Issue #21522: Added Tkinter tests for Listbox.itemconfigure(), - PanedWindow.paneconfigure(), and Menu.entryconfigure(). - -- Issue #17756: Fix test_code test when run from the installed location. - -- Issue #17752: Fix distutils tests when run from the installed location. - -- Issue #18604: Consolidated checks for GUI availability. All platforms now - at least check whether Tk can be instantiated when the GUI resource is - requested. - -- Issue #21275: Fix a socket test on KFreeBSD. - -- Issue #21223: Pass test_site/test_startup_imports when some of the extensions - are built as builtins. - -- Issue #20635: Added tests for Tk geometry managers. - -- Add test case for freeze. - -- Issue #20743: Fix a reference leak in test_tcl. - -- Issue #21097: Move test_namespace_pkgs into test_importlib. - -- Issue #21503: Use test_both() consistently in test_importlib. - -- Issue #20939: Avoid various network test failures due to new - redirect of http://www.python.org/ to https://www.python.org: - use http://www.example.com instead. - -- Issue #20668: asyncio tests no longer rely on tests.txt file. - (Patch by Vajrasky Kok) - -- Issue #21093: Prevent failures of ctypes test_macholib on OS X if a - copy of libz exists in $HOME/lib or /usr/local/lib. - -- Issue #22770: Prevent some Tk segfaults on OS X when running gui tests. - -- Issue #23211: Workaround test_logging failure on some OS X 10.6 systems. - -- Issue #23345: Prevent test_ssl failures with large OpenSSL patch level - values (like 0.9.8zc). - -Tools/Demos ------------ - -- Issue #22314: pydoc now works when the LINES environment variable is set. - -- Issue #22615: Argument Clinic now supports the "type" argument for the - int converter. This permits using the int converter with enums and - typedefs. - -- Issue #20076: The makelocalealias.py script no longer ignores UTF-8 mapping. - -- Issue #20079: The makelocalealias.py script now can parse the SUPPORTED file - from glibc sources and supports command line options for source paths. - -- Issue #22201: Command-line interface of the zipfile module now correctly - extracts ZIP files with directory entries. Patch by Ryan Wilson. - -- Issue #22120: For functions using an unsigned integer return converter, - Argument Clinic now generates a cast to that type for the comparison - to -1 in the generated code. (This suppresses a compilation warning.) - -- Issue #18974: Tools/scripts/diff.py now uses argparse instead of optparse. - -- Issue #21906: Make Tools/scripts/md5sum.py work in Python 3. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #21629: Fix Argument Clinic's "--converters" feature. - -- Add support for ``yield from`` to 2to3. - -- Add support for the PEP 465 matrix multiplication operator to 2to3. - -- Issue #16047: Fix module exception list and __file__ handling in freeze. - Patch by Meador Inge. - -- Issue #11824: Consider ABI tags in freeze. Patch by Meador Inge. - -- Issue #20535: PYTHONWARNING no longer affects the run_tests.py script. - Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis. - -Windows -------- - -- Issue #23260: Update Windows installer - -- The bundled version of Tcl/Tk has been updated to 8.6.3. The most visible - result of this change is the addition of new native file dialogs when - running on Windows Vista or newer. See Tcl/Tk's TIP 432 for more - information. Also, this version of Tcl/Tk includes support for Windows 10. - -- Issue #17896: The Windows build scripts now expect external library sources - to be in ``PCbuild\..\externals`` rather than ``PCbuild\..\..``. - -- Issue #17717: The Windows build scripts now use a copy of NASM pulled from - svn.python.org to build OpenSSL. - -- Issue #21907: Improved the batch scripts provided for building Python. - -- Issue #22644: The bundled version of OpenSSL has been updated to 1.0.1j. - -- Issue #10747: Use versioned labels in the Windows start menu. - Patch by Olive Kilburn. - -- Issue #22980: .pyd files with a version and platform tag (for example, - ".cp35-win32.pyd") will now be loaded in preference to those without tags. - - -What's New in Python 3.4.0? -=========================== - -Release date: 2014-03-16 - -Library -------- - -- Issue #20939: Fix test_geturl failure in test_urllibnet due to - new redirect of http://www.python.org/ to https://www.python.org. - -Documentation -------------- - -- Merge in all documentation changes since branching 3.4.0rc1. - - -What's New in Python 3.4.0 release candidate 3? -=============================================== - -Release date: 2014-03-09 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #20786: Fix signatures for dict.__delitem__ and - property.__delete__ builtins. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #20839: Don't trigger a DeprecationWarning in the still supported - pkgutil.get_loader() API when __loader__ isn't set on a module (nor - when pkgutil.find_loader() is called directly). - -Build ------ - -- Issue #14512: Launch pydoc -b instead of pydocgui.pyw on Windows. - -- Issue #20748: Uninstalling pip does not leave behind the pyc of - the uninstaller anymore. - -- Issue #20568: The Windows installer now installs the unversioned ``pip`` - command in addition to the versioned ``pip3`` and ``pip3.4`` commands. - -- Issue #20757: The ensurepip helper for the Windows uninstaller now skips - uninstalling pip (rather than failing) if the user has updated pip to a - different version from the one bundled with ensurepip. - -- Issue #20465: Update OS X and Windows installer builds to use - SQLite 3.8.3.1. - - -What's New in Python 3.4.0 release candidate 2? -=============================================== - -Release date: 2014-02-23 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #20625: Parameter names in __annotations__ were not mangled properly. - Discovered by Jonas Wielicki, patch by Yury Selivanov. - -- Issue #20261: In pickle, lookup __getnewargs__ and __getnewargs_ex__ on the - type of the object. - -- Issue #20619: Give the AST nodes of keyword-only arguments a column and line - number. - -- Issue #20526: Revert changes of issue #19466 which introduces a regression: - don't clear anymore the state of Python threads early during the Python - shutdown. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #20710: The pydoc summary line no longer displays the "self" parameter - for bound methods. - -- Issue #20566: Change asyncio.as_completed() to use a Queue, to - avoid O(N**2) behavior. - -- Issue #20704: Implement new debug API in asyncio. Add new methods - BaseEventLoop.set_debug() and BaseEventLoop.get_debug(). - Add support for setting 'asyncio.tasks._DEBUG' variable with - 'PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG' environment variable. - -- asyncio: Refactoring and fixes: BaseEventLoop.sock_connect() raises an - error if the address is not resolved; use __slots__ in Handle and - TimerHandle; as_completed() and wait() raise TypeError if the passed - list of Futures is a single Future; call_soon() and other 'call_*()' - functions raise TypeError if the passed callback is a coroutine - function; _ProactorBasePipeTransport uses _FlowControlMixin; - WriteTransport.set_write_buffer_size() calls _maybe_pause_protocol() - to consider pausing receiving if the watermark limits have changed; - fix _check_resolved_address() for IPv6 address; and other minor - improvements, along with multiple documentation updates. - -- Issue #20684: Fix inspect.getfullargspec() to not to follow __wrapped__ - chains. Make its behaviour consistent with bound methods first argument. - Patch by Nick Coghlan and Yury Selivanov. - -- Issue #20681: Add new error handling API in asyncio. New APIs: - loop.set_exception_handler(), loop.default_exception_handler(), and - loop.call_exception_handler(). - -- Issue #20673: Implement support for UNIX Domain Sockets in asyncio. - New APIs: loop.create_unix_connection(), loop.create_unix_server(), - streams.open_unix_connection(), and streams.start_unix_server(). - -- Issue #20616: Add a format() method to tracemalloc.Traceback. - -- Issue #19744: the ensurepip installation step now just prints a warning to - stderr rather than failing outright if SSL/TLS is unavailable. This allows - local installation of POSIX builds without SSL/TLS support. - -- Issue #20594: Avoid name clash with the libc function posix_close. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #20641: Run MSI custom actions (pip installation, pyc compilation) - with the NoImpersonate flag, to support elevated execution (UAC). - -- Issue #20221: Removed conflicting (or circular) hypot definition when - compiled with VS 2010 or above. Initial patch by Tabrez Mohammed. - -- Issue #20609: Restored the ability to build 64-bit Windows binaries on - 32-bit Windows, which was broken by the change in issue #19788. - - -What's New in Python 3.4.0 release candidate 1? -=============================================== - -Release date: 2014-02-10 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #19255: The builtins module is restored to initial value before - cleaning other modules. The sys and builtins modules are cleaned last. - -- Issue #20588: Make Python-ast.c C89 compliant. - -- Issue #20437: Fixed 22 potential bugs when deleting object references. - -- Issue #20500: Displaying an exception at interpreter shutdown no longer - risks triggering an assertion failure in PyObject_Str. - -- Issue #20538: UTF-7 incremental decoder produced inconsistent string when - input was truncated in BASE64 section. - -- Issue #20404: io.TextIOWrapper (and hence the open() builtin) now uses the - internal codec marking system added for issue #19619 to throw LookupError - for known non-text encodings at stream construction time. The existing - output type checks remain in place to deal with unmarked third party - codecs. - -- Issue #17162: Add PyType_GetSlot. - -- Issue #20162: Fix an alignment issue in the siphash24() hash function which - caused a crash on PowerPC 64-bit (ppc64). - -Library -------- - -- Issue #20530: The signatures for slot builtins have been updated - to reflect the fact that they only accept positional-only arguments. - -- Issue #20517: Functions in the os module that accept two filenames - now register both filenames in the exception on failure. - -- Issue #20563: The ipaddress module API is now considered stable. - -- Issue #14983: email.generator now always adds a line end after each MIME - boundary marker, instead of doing so only when there is an epilogue. This - fixes an RFC compliance bug and solves an issue with signed MIME parts. - -- Issue #20540: Fix a performance regression (vs. Python 3.2) when layering - a multiprocessing Connection over a TCP socket. For small payloads, Nagle's - algorithm would introduce idle delays before the entire transmission of a - message. - -- Issue #16983: the new email header parsing code will now decode encoded words - that are (incorrectly) surrounded by quotes, and register a defect. - -- Issue #19772: email.generator no longer mutates the message object when - doing a down-transform from 8bit to 7bit CTEs. - -- Issue #20536: the statistics module now correctly handle Decimal instances - with positive exponents - -- Issue #18805: the netmask/hostmask parsing in ipaddress now more reliably - filters out illegal values and correctly allows any valid prefix length. - -- Issue #20481: For at least Python 3.4, the statistics module will require - that all inputs for a single operation be of a single consistent type, or - else a mixed of ints and a single other consistent type. This avoids - some interoperability issues that arose with the previous approach of - coercing to a suitable common type. - -- Issue #20478: the statistics module now treats collections.Counter inputs - like any other iterable. - -- Issue #17369: get_filename was raising an exception if the filename - parameter's RFC2231 encoding was broken in certain ways. This was - a regression relative to python2. - -- Issue #20013: Some imap servers disconnect if the current mailbox is - deleted, and imaplib did not handle that case gracefully. Now it - handles the 'bye' correctly. - -- Issue #20531: Revert 3.4 version of fix for #19063, and apply the 3.3 - version. That is, do *not* raise an error if unicode is passed to - email.message.Message.set_payload. - -- Issue #20476: If a non-compat32 policy is used with any of the email parsers, - EmailMessage is now used as the factory class. The factory class should - really come from the policy; that will get fixed in 3.5. - -- Issue #19920: TarFile.list() no longer fails when outputs a listing - containing non-encodable characters. Based on patch by Vajrasky Kok. - -- Issue #20515: Fix NULL pointer dereference introduced by issue #20368. - -- Issue #19186: Restore namespacing of expat symbols inside the pyexpat module. - -- Issue #20053: ensurepip (and hence venv) are no longer affected by the - settings in the default pip configuration file. - -- Issue #20426: When passing the re.DEBUG flag, re.compile() displays the - debug output every time it is called, regardless of the compilation cache. - -- Issue #20368: The null character now correctly passed from Tcl to Python. - Improved error handling in variables-related commands. - -- Issue #20435: Fix _pyio.StringIO.getvalue() to take into account newline - translation settings. - -- tracemalloc: Fix slicing traces and fix slicing a traceback. - -- Issue #20354: Fix an alignment issue in the tracemalloc module on 64-bit - platforms. Bug seen on 64-bit Linux when using "make profile-opt". - -- Issue #17159: inspect.signature now accepts duck types of functions, - which adds support for Cython functions. Initial patch by Stefan Behnel. - -- Issue #18801: Fix inspect.classify_class_attrs to correctly classify - object.__new__ and object.__init__. - -- Fixed cmath.isinf's name in its argument parsing code. - -- Issue #20311, #20452: poll and epoll now round the timeout away from zero, - instead of rounding towards zero, in select and selectors modules: - select.epoll.poll(), selectors.PollSelector.poll() and - selectors.EpollSelector.poll(). For example, a timeout of one microsecond - (1e-6) is now rounded to one millisecondi (1e-3), instead of being rounded to - zero. However, the granularity property and asyncio's resolution feature - were removed again. - -- asyncio: Some refactoring; various fixes; add write flow control to - unix pipes; Future.set_exception() instantiates the exception - argument if it is a class; improved proactor pipe transport; support - wait_for(f, None); don't log broken/disconnected pipes; use - ValueError instead of assert for forbidden subprocess_{shell,exec} - arguments; added a convenience API for subprocess management; added - StreamReader.at_eof(); properly handle duplicate coroutines/futures - in gather(), wait(), as_completed(); use a bytearray for buffering - in StreamReader; and more. - -- Issue #20288: fix handling of invalid numeric charrefs in HTMLParser. - -- Issue #20424: Python implementation of io.StringIO now supports lone surrogates. - -- Issue #20308: inspect.signature now works on classes without user-defined - __init__ or __new__ methods. - -- Issue #20372: inspect.getfile (and a bunch of other inspect functions that - use it) doesn't crash with unexpected AttributeError on classes defined in C - without __module__. - -- Issue #20356: inspect.signature formatting uses '/' to separate - positional-only parameters from others. - -- Issue #20223: inspect.signature now supports methods defined with - functools.partialmethods. - -- Issue #19456: ntpath.join() now joins relative paths correctly when a drive - is present. - -- Issue #19077: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory cleanup no longer fails when - called during shutdown. Emitting resource warning in __del__ no longer fails. - Original patch by Antoine Pitrou. - -- Issue #20394: Silence Coverity warning in audioop module. - -- Issue #20367: Fix behavior of concurrent.futures.as_completed() for - duplicate arguments. Patch by Glenn Langford. - -- Issue #8260: The read(), readline() and readlines() methods of - codecs.StreamReader returned incomplete data when were called after - readline() or read(size). Based on patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc. - -- Issue #20105: the codec exception chaining now correctly sets the - traceback of the original exception as its __traceback__ attribute. - -- Issue #17481: inspect.getfullargspec() now uses inspect.signature() API. - -- Issue #15304: concurrent.futures.wait() can block forever even if - Futures have completed. Patch by Glenn Langford. - -- Issue #14455: plistlib: fix serializing integers in the range - of an unsigned long long but outside of the range of signed long long for - binary plist files. - -IDLE ----- - -- Issue #20406: Use Python application icons for Idle window title bars. - Patch mostly by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Update the python.gif icon for the Idle classbrowser and pathbowser - from the old green snake to the new blue and yellow snakes. - -- Issue #17721: Remove non-functional configuration dialog help button until we - make it actually gives some help when clicked. Patch by Guilherme Simões. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #20532: Tests which use _testcapi now are marked as CPython only. - -- Issue #19920: Added tests for TarFile.list(). Based on patch by Vajrasky Kok. - -- Issue #19990: Added tests for the imghdr module. Based on patch by - Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #20474: Fix test_socket "unexpected success" failures on OS X 10.7+. - -Tools/Demos ------------ - -- Issue #20530: Argument Clinic's signature format has been revised again. - The new syntax is highly human readable while still preventing false - positives. The syntax also extends Python syntax to denote "self" and - positional-only parameters, allowing inspect.Signature objects to be - totally accurate for all supported builtins in Python 3.4. - -- Issue #20456: Argument Clinic now observes the C preprocessor conditional - compilation statements of the C files it parses. When a Clinic block is - inside a conditional code, it adjusts its output to match, including - automatically generating an empty methoddef macro. - -- Issue #20456: Cloned functions in Argument Clinic now use the correct - name, not the name of the function they were cloned from, for text - strings inside generated code. - -- Issue #20456: Fixed Argument Clinic's test suite and "--converters" feature. - -- Issue #20456: Argument Clinic now allows specifying different names - for a parameter in Python and C, using "as" on the parameter line. - -- Issue #20326: Argument Clinic now uses a simple, unique signature to - annotate text signatures in docstrings, resulting in fewer false - positives. "self" parameters are also explicitly marked, allowing - inspect.Signature() to authoritatively detect (and skip) said parameters. - -- Issue #20326: Argument Clinic now generates separate checksums for the - input and output sections of the block, allowing external tools to verify - that the input has not changed (and thus the output is not out-of-date). - -Build ------ - -- Issue #20465: Update SQLite shipped with OS X installer to 3.8.3. - -C-API ------ - -- Issue #20517: Added new functions allowing OSError exceptions to reference - two filenames instead of one: PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilenameObjects() and - PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObjects(). - -Documentation -------------- - -- Issue #20488: Change wording to say importlib is *the* implementation of - import instead of just *an* implementation. - -- Issue #6386: Clarify in the tutorial that specifying a symlink to execute - means the directory containing the executed script and not the symlink is - added to sys.path. - - -What's New in Python 3.4.0 Beta 3? -================================== - -Release date: 2014-01-26 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #20189: Four additional builtin types (PyTypeObject, - PyMethodDescr_Type, _PyMethodWrapper_Type, and PyWrapperDescr_Type) - have been modified to provide introspection information for builtins. - -- Issue #17825: Cursor "^" is correctly positioned for SyntaxError and - IndentationError. - -- Issue #2382: SyntaxError cursor "^" is now written at correct position in most - cases when multibyte characters are in line (before "^"). This still not - works correctly with wide East Asian characters. - -- Issue #18960: The first line of Python script could be executed twice when - the source encoding was specified on the second line. Now the source encoding - declaration on the second line isn't effective if the first line contains - anything except a comment. 'python -x' works now again with files with the - source encoding declarations, and can be used to make Python batch files - on Windows. - -Library -------- - -- asyncio: Various improvements and small changes not all covered by - issues listed below. E.g. wait_for() now cancels the inner task if - the timeout occcurs; tweaked the set of exported symbols; renamed - Empty/Full to QueueEmpty/QueueFull; "with (yield from lock)" now - uses a separate context manager; readexactly() raises if not enough - data was read; PTY support tweaks. - -- Issue #20311: asyncio: Add a granularity attribute to BaseEventLoop: maximum - between the resolution of the BaseEventLoop.time() method and the resolution - of the selector. The granuarility is used in the scheduler to round time and - deadline. - -- Issue #20311: selectors: Add a resolution attribute to BaseSelector. - -- Issue #20189: unittest.mock now no longer assumes that any object for - which it could get an inspect.Signature is a callable written in Python. - Fix courtesy of Michael Foord. - -- Issue #20317: ExitStack.__exit__ could create a self-referential loop if an - exception raised by a cleanup operation already had its context set - correctly (for example, by the @contextmanager decorator). The infinite - loop this caused is now avoided by checking if the expected context is - already set before trying to fix it. - -- Issue #20374: Fix build with GNU readline >= 6.3. - -- Issue #20262: Warnings are raised now when duplicate names are added in the - ZIP file or too long ZIP file comment is truncated. - -- Issue #20165: The unittest module no longer considers tests marked with - @expectedFailure successful if they pass. - -- Issue #18574: Added missing newline in 100-Continue reply from - http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler. Patch by Nikolaus Rath. - -- Issue #20270: urllib.urlparse now supports empty ports. - -- Issue #20243: TarFile no longer raise ReadError when opened in write mode. - -- Issue #20238: TarFile opened with external fileobj and "w:gz" mode didn't - write complete output on close. - -- Issue #20245: The open functions in the tarfile module now correctly handle - empty mode. - -- Issue #20242: Fixed basicConfig() format strings for the alternative - formatting styles. Thanks to kespindler for the bug report and patch. - -- Issue #20246: Fix buffer overflow in socket.recvfrom_into. - -- Issues #20206 and #5803: Fix edge case in email.quoprimime.encode where it - truncated lines ending in a character needing encoding but no newline by - using a more efficient algorithm that doesn't have the bug. - -- Issue #19082: Working xmlrpc.server and xmlrpc.client examples. Both in - modules and in documentation. Initial patch contributed by Vajrasky Kok. - -- Issue #20138: The wsgiref.application_uri() and wsgiref.request_uri() - functions now conform to PEP 3333 when handle non-ASCII URLs. - -- Issue #19097: Raise the correct Exception when cgi.FieldStorage is given an - invalid fileobj. - -- Issue #20152: Ported Python/import.c over to Argument Clinic. - -- Issue #13107: argparse and optparse no longer raises an exception when output - a help on environment with too small COLUMNS. Based on patch by - Elazar Gershuni. - -- Issue #20207: Always disable SSLv2 except when PROTOCOL_SSLv2 is explicitly - asked for. - -- Issue #18960: The tokenize module now ignore the source encoding declaration - on the second line if the first line contains anything except a comment. - -- Issue #20078: Reading malformed zipfiles no longer hangs with 100% CPU - consumption. - -- Issue #20113: os.readv() and os.writev() now raise an OSError exception on - error instead of returning -1. - -- Issue #19719: Make importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder.find_module(), - PathEntryFinder.find_loader(), and Loader.load_module() use PEP 451 APIs to - help with backwards-compatibility. - -- Issue #20144: inspect.Signature now supports parsing simple symbolic - constants as parameter default values in __text_signature__. - -- Issue #20072: Fixed multiple errors in tkinter with wantobjects is False. - -- Issue #20229: Avoid plistlib deprecation warning in platform.mac_ver(). - -- Issue #14455: Fix some problems with the new binary plist support in plistlib. - -IDLE ----- - -- Issue #17390: Add Python version to Idle editor window title bar. - Original patches by Edmond Burnett and Kent Johnson. - -- Issue #18960: IDLE now ignores the source encoding declaration on the second - line if the first line contains anything except a comment. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #20358: Tests for curses.window.overlay and curses.window.overwrite - no longer specify min{row,col} > max{row,col}. - -- Issue #19804: The test_find_mac test in test_uuid is now skipped if the - ifconfig executable is not available. - -- Issue #19886: Use better estimated memory requirements for bigmem tests. - -Tools/Demos ------------ - -- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic's "file" output preset now defaults to - "{dirname}/clinic/{basename}.h". - -- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic's "class" directive syntax has been extended - with two new required arguments: "typedef" and "type_object". - -- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic: If __new__ or __init__ functions didn't use - kwargs (or args), the PyArg_NoKeywords (or PyArg_NoPositional) calls - generated are only run when the type object is an exact match. - -- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic now fails if you have required parameters after - optional parameters. - -- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic converters now have a new template they can - inject code into: "modifiers". Code put there is run in the parsing - function after argument parsing but before the call to the impl. - -- Issue #20376: Argument Clinic now escapes backslashes in docstrings. - -- Issue #20381: Argument Clinic now sanity checks the default argument when - c_default is also specified, providing a nice failure message for - disallowed values. - -- Issue #20189: Argument Clinic now ensures that parser functions for - __new__ are always of type newfunc, the type of the tp_new slot. - Similarly, parser functions for __init__ are now always of type initproc, - the type of tp_init. - -- Issue #20189: Argument Clinic now suppresses the docstring for __new__ - and __init__ functions if no docstring is provided in the input. - -- Issue #20189: Argument Clinic now suppresses the "self" parameter in the - impl for @staticmethod functions. - -- Issue #20294: Argument Clinic now supports argument parsing for __new__ and - __init__ functions. - -- Issue #20299: Argument Clinic custom converters may now change the default - value of c_default and py_default with a class member. - -- Issue #20287: Argument Clinic's output is now configurable, allowing - delaying its output or even redirecting it to a separate file. - -- Issue #20226: Argument Clinic now permits simple expressions - (e.g. "sys.maxsize - 1") as default values for parameters. - -- Issue #19936: Added executable bits or shebang lines to Python scripts which - requires them. Disable executable bits and shebang lines in test and - benchmark files in order to prevent using a random system python, and in - source files of modules which don't provide command line interface. Fixed - shebang lines in the unittestgui and checkpip scripts. - -- Issue #20268: Argument Clinic now supports cloning the parameters and - return converter of existing functions. - -- Issue #20228: Argument Clinic now has special support for class special - methods. - -- Issue #20214: Fixed a number of small issues and documentation errors in - Argument Clinic (see issue for details). - -- Issue #20196: Fixed a bug where Argument Clinic did not generate correct - parsing code for functions with positional-only parameters where all arguments - are optional. - -- Issue #18960: 2to3 and the findnocoding.py script now ignore the source - encoding declaration on the second line if the first line contains anything - except a comment. - -- Issue #19723: The marker comments Argument Clinic uses have been changed - to improve readability. - -- Issue #20157: When Argument Clinic renames a parameter because its name - collides with a C keyword, it no longer exposes that rename to PyArg_Parse. - -- Issue #20141: Improved Argument Clinic's support for the PyArg_Parse "O!" - format unit. - -- Issue #20144: Argument Clinic now supports simple symbolic constants - as parameter default values. - -- Issue #20143: The line numbers reported in Argument Clinic errors are - now more accurate. - -- Issue #20142: Py_buffer variables generated by Argument Clinic are now - initialized with a default value. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #12837: Silence a tautological comparison warning on OS X under Clang in - socketmodule.c. - - -What's New in Python 3.4.0 Beta 2? -================================== - -Release date: 2014-01-05 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #17432: Drop UCS2 from names of Unicode functions in python3.def. - -- Issue #19526: Exclude all new API from the stable ABI. Exceptions can be - made if a need is demonstrated. - -- Issue #19969: PyBytes_FromFormatV() now raises an OverflowError if "%c" - argument is not in range [0; 255]. - -- Issue #19995: %c, %o, %x, and %X now issue a DeprecationWarning on non-integer - input; reworded docs to clarify that an integer type should define both __int__ - and __index__. - -- Issue #19787: PyThread_set_key_value() now always set the value. In Python - 3.3, the function did nothing if the key already exists (if the current value - is a non-NULL pointer). - -- Issue #14432: Remove the thread state field from the frame structure. Fix a - crash when a generator is created in a C thread that is destroyed while the - generator is still used. The issue was that a generator contains a frame, and - the frame kept a reference to the Python state of the destroyed C thread. The - crash occurs when a trace function is setup. - -- Issue #19576: PyGILState_Ensure() now initializes threads. At startup, Python - has no concrete GIL. If PyGILState_Ensure() is called from a new thread for - the first time and PyEval_InitThreads() was not called yet, a GIL needs to be - created. - -- Issue #17576: Deprecation warning emitted now when __int__() or __index__() - return not int instance. - -- Issue #19932: Fix typo in import.h, missing whitespaces in function prototypes. - -- Issue #19736: Add module-level statvfs constants defined for GNU/glibc - based systems. - -- Issue #20097: Fix bad use of "self" in importlib's WindowsRegistryFinder. - -- Issue #19729: In str.format(), fix recursive expansion in format spec. - -- Issue #19638: Fix possible crash / undefined behaviour from huge (more than 2 - billion characters) input strings in _Py_dg_strtod. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #20154: Deadlock in asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly(). - -- Issue #16113: Remove sha3 module again. - -- Issue #20111: pathlib.Path.with_suffix() now sanity checks the given suffix. - -- Fix breakage in TestSuite.countTestCases() introduced by issue #11798. - -- Issue #20108: Avoid parameter name clash in inspect.getcallargs(). - -- Issue #19918: Fix PurePath.relative_to() under Windows. - -- Issue #19422: Explicitly disallow non-SOCK_STREAM sockets in the ssl - module, rather than silently let them emit clear text data. - -- Issue #20046: Locale alias table no longer contains entities which can be - calculated. Generalized support of the euro modifier. - -- Issue #20027: Fixed locale aliases for devanagari locales. - -- Issue #20067: Tkinter variables now work when wantobjects is false. - -- Issue #19020: Tkinter now uses splitlist() instead of split() in configure - methods. - -- Issue #19744: ensurepip now provides a better error message when Python is - built without SSL/TLS support (pip currently requires that support to run, - even if only operating with local wheel files) - -- Issue #19734: ensurepip now ignores all pip environment variables to avoid - odd behaviour based on user configuration settings - -- Fix TypeError on "setup.py upload --show-response". - -- Issue #20045: Fix "setup.py register --list-classifiers". - -- Issue #18879: When a method is looked up on a temporary file, avoid closing - the file before the method is possibly called. - -- Issue #20037: Avoid crashes when opening a text file late at interpreter - shutdown. - -- Issue #19967: Thanks to the PEP 442, asyncio.Future now uses a - destructor to log uncaught exceptions, instead of the dedicated - _TracebackLogger class. - -- Added a Task.current_task() class method to asyncio. - -- Issue #19850: Set SA_RESTART in asyncio when registering a signal - handler to limit EINTR occurrences. - -- Implemented write flow control in asyncio for proactor event loop (Windows). - -- Change write buffer in asyncio use to avoid O(N**2) behavior. Make - write()/sendto() accept bytearray/memoryview. - -- Issue #20034: Updated alias mapping to most recent locale.alias file - from X.org distribution using makelocalealias.py. - -- Issue #5815: Fixed support for locales with modifiers. Fixed support for - locale encodings with hyphens. - -- Issue #20026: Fix the sqlite module to handle correctly invalid isolation - level (wrong type). - -- Issue #18829: csv.Dialect() now checks type for delimiter, escapechar and - quotechar fields. Original patch by Vajrasky Kok. - -- Issue #19855: uuid.getnode() on Unix now looks on the PATH for the - executables used to find the mac address, with /sbin and /usr/sbin as - fallbacks. - -- Issue #20007: HTTPResponse.read(0) no more prematurely closes connection. - Original patch by Simon Sapin. - -- Issue #19946: multiprocessing now uses runpy to initialize __main__ in - child processes when necessary, allowing it to correctly handle scripts - without suffixes and submodules that use explicit relative imports or - otherwise rely on parent modules being correctly imported prior to - execution. - -- Issue #19921: When Path.mkdir() is called with parents=True, any missing - parent is created with the default permissions, ignoring the mode argument - (mimicking the POSIX "mkdir -p" command). - -- Issue #19887: Improve the Path.resolve() algorithm to support certain - symlink chains. - -- Issue #19912: Fixed numerous bugs in ntpath.splitunc(). - -- Issue #19911: ntpath.splitdrive() now correctly processes the 'İ' character - (U+0130, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE). - -- Issue #19532: python -m compileall with no filename/directory arguments now - respects the -f and -q flags instead of ignoring them. - -- Issue #19623: Fixed writing to unseekable files in the aifc module. - -- Issue #19946: multiprocessing.spawn now raises ImportError when the module to - be used as the main module cannot be imported. - -- Issue #17919: select.poll.register() again works with poll.POLLNVAL on AIX. - Fixed integer overflow in the eventmask parameter. - -- Issue #19063: if a Charset's body_encoding was set to None, the email - package would generate a message claiming the Content-Transfer-Encoding - was 7bit, and produce garbage output for the content. This now works. - A couple of other set_payload mishandlings of non-ASCII are also fixed. - In addition, calling set_payload with a string argument without - specifying a charset now raises an error (this is a new error in 3.4). - -- Issue #15475: Add __sizeof__ implementations for itertools objects. - -- Issue #19944: Fix importlib.find_spec() so it imports parents as needed - and move the function to importlib.util. - -- Issue #19880: Fix a reference leak in unittest.TestCase. Explicitly break - reference cycles between frames and the _Outcome instance. - -- Issue #17429: platform.linux_distribution() now decodes files from the UTF-8 - encoding with the surrogateescape error handler, instead of decoding from the - locale encoding in strict mode. It fixes the function on Fedora 19 which is - probably the first major distribution release with a non-ASCII name. Patch - written by Toshio Kuratomi. - -- Issue #19343: Expose FreeBSD-specific APIs in resource module. Original - patch by Koobs. - -- Issue #19929: Call os.read with 32768 within subprocess.Popen.communicate - rather than 4096 for efficiency. A microbenchmark shows Linux and OS X - both using ~50% less cpu time this way. - -- Issue #19506: Use a memoryview to avoid a data copy when piping data - to stdin within subprocess.Popen.communicate. 5-10% less cpu usage. - -- Issue #19876: selectors unregister() no longer raises ValueError or OSError - if the FD is closed (as long as it was registered). - -- Issue #19908: pathlib now joins relative Windows paths correctly when a drive - is present. Original patch by Antoine Pitrou. - -- Issue #19296: Silence compiler warning in dbm_open - -- Issue #6784: Strings from Python 2 can now be unpickled as bytes - objects by setting the encoding argument of Unpickler to be 'bytes'. - Initial patch by Merlijn van Deen. - -- Issue #19839: Fix regression in bz2 module's handling of non-bzip2 data at - EOF, and analogous bug in lzma module. - -- Issue #19881: Fix pickling bug where cpickle would emit bad pickle data for - large bytes string (i.e., with size greater than 2**32-1). - -- Issue #19138: doctest's IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL now allows a match when - no exception detail exists (no colon following the exception's name, or - a colon does follow but no text follows the colon). - -- Issue #19927: Add __eq__ to path-based loaders in importlib. - -- Issue #19827: On UNIX, setblocking() and settimeout() methods of - socket.socket can now avoid a second syscall if the ioctl() function can be - used, or if the non-blocking flag of the socket is unchanged. - -- Issue #19785: smtplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name - indication for TLS/SSL connections. - -- Issue #19784: poplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name - indication for TLS/SSL connections. - -- Issue #19783: nntplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name - indication for TLS/SSL connections. - -- Issue #19782: imaplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name - indication for TLS/SSL connections. - -- Issue #20123: Fix pydoc.synopsis() for "binary" modules. - -- Issue #19834: Support unpickling of exceptions pickled by Python 2. - -- Issue #19781: ftplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name - indication for TLS/SSL connections. - -- Issue #19509: Add SSLContext.check_hostname to match the peer's certificate - with server_hostname on handshake. - -- Issue #15798: Fixed subprocess.Popen() to no longer fail if file - descriptor 0, 1 or 2 is closed. - -- Issue #17897: Optimized unpickle prefetching. - -- Issue #3693: Make the error message more helpful when the array.array() - constructor is given a str. Move the array module typecode documentation to - the docstring of the constructor. - -- Issue #19088: Fixed incorrect caching of the copyreg module in - object.__reduce__() and object.__reduce_ex__(). - -- Issue #19698: Removed exec_module() methods from - importlib.machinery.BuiltinImporter and ExtensionFileLoader. - -- Issue #18864: Added a setter for ModuleSpec.has_location. - -- Fixed _pickle.Unpickler to not fail when loading empty strings as - persistent IDs. - -- Issue #11480: Fixed copy.copy to work with classes with custom metaclasses. - Patch by Daniel Urban. - -- Issue #6477: Added support for pickling the types of built-in singletons - (i.e., Ellipsis, NotImplemented, None). - -- Issue #19713: Add remaining PEP 451-related deprecations and move away - from using find_module/find_loaer/load_module. - -- Issue #19708: Update pkgutil to use the new importer APIs. - -- Issue #19703: Update pydoc to use the new importer APIs. - -- Issue #19851: Fixed a regression in reloading sub-modules. - -- ssl.create_default_context() sets OP_NO_COMPRESSION to prevent CRIME. - -- Issue #19802: Add socket.SO_PRIORITY. - -- Issue #11508: Fixed uuid.getnode() and uuid.uuid1() on environment with - virtual interface. Original patch by Kent Frazier. - -- Issue #11489: JSON decoder now accepts lone surrogates. - -- Issue #19545: Avoid chained exceptions while passing stray % to - time.strptime(). Initial patch by Claudiu Popa. - -IDLE ----- - -- Issue #20058: sys.stdin.readline() in IDLE now always returns only one line. - -- Issue #19481: print() of string subclass instance in IDLE no longer hangs. - -- Issue #18270: Prevent possible IDLE AttributeError on OS X when no initial - shell window is present. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #20055: Fix test_shutil under Windows with symlink privileges held. - Patch by Vajrasky Kok. - -- Issue #20070: Don't run test_urllib2net when network resources are not - enabled. - -- Issue #19938: Re-enabled test_bug_1333982 in test_dis, which had been - disabled since 3.0 due to the changes in listcomp handling. - -- Issue #19320: test_tcl no longer fails when wantobjects is false. - -- Issue #19919: Fix flaky SSL test. connect_ex() sometimes returns - EWOULDBLOCK on Windows or VMs hosted on Windows. - -- Issue #19912: Added tests for ntpath.splitunc(). - -- Issue #19828: Fixed test_site when the whole suite is run with -S. - -- Issue #19928: Implemented a test for repr() of cell objects. - -- Issue #19535: Fixed test_docxmlrpc, test_functools, test_inspect, and - test_statistics when python is run with -OO. - -- Issue #19926: Removed unneeded test_main from test_abstract_numbers. - Patch by Vajrasky Kok. - -- Issue #19572: More skipped tests explicitly marked as skipped. - -- Issue #19595, #19987: Re-enabled a long-disabled test in test_winsound. - -- Issue #19588: Fixed tests in test_random that were silently skipped most - of the time. Patch by Julian Gindi. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #19728: Enable pip installation by default on Windows. - -- Issue #16136: Remove VMS support - -- Issue #18215: Add script Tools/ssl/test_multiple_versions.py to compile and - run Python's unit tests with multiple versions of OpenSSL. - -- Issue #19922: define _INCLUDE__STDC_A1_SOURCE in HP-UX to include mbstate_t - for mbrtowc(). - -- Issue #19788: kill_python(_d).exe is now run as a PreBuildEvent on the - pythoncore sub-project. This should prevent build errors due a previous - build's python(_d).exe still running. - -Documentation -------------- - -- Issue #20265: Updated some parts of the Using Windows document. - -- Issue #20266: Updated some parts of the Windows FAQ. - -- Issue #20255: Updated the about and bugs pages. - -- Issue #20253: Fixed a typo in the ipaddress docs that advertised an - illegal attribute name. Found by INADA Naoki. - -- Issue #18840: Introduce the json module in the tutorial, and de-emphasize - the pickle module. - -- Issue #19845: Updated the Compiling Python on Windows section. - -- Issue #19795: Improved markup of True/False constants. - -Tools/Demos ------------ - -- Issue #19659: Added documentation for Argument Clinic. - -- Issue #19976: Argument Clinic METH_NOARGS functions now always - take two parameters. - - -What's New in Python 3.4.0 Beta 1? -================================== - -Release date: 2013-11-24 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Use the repr of a module name in more places in import, especially - exceptions. - -- Issue #19619: str.encode, bytes.decode and bytearray.decode now use an - internal API to throw LookupError for known non-text encodings, rather - than attempting the encoding or decoding operation and then throwing a - TypeError for an unexpected output type. (The latter mechanism remains - in place for third party non-text encodings) - -- Issue #19183: Implement PEP 456 'secure and interchangeable hash algorithm'. - Python now uses SipHash24 on all major platforms. - -- Issue #12892: The utf-16* and utf-32* encoders no longer allow surrogate code - points (U+D800-U+DFFF) to be encoded. The utf-32* decoders no longer decode - byte sequences that correspond to surrogate code points. The surrogatepass - error handler now works with the utf-16* and utf-32* codecs. Based on - patches by Victor Stinner and Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu. - -- Issue #17806: Added keyword-argument support for "tabsize" to - str/bytes.expandtabs(). - -- Issue #17828: Output type errors in str.encode(), bytes.decode() and - bytearray.decode() now direct users to codecs.encode() or codecs.decode() - as appropriate. - -- Issue #17828: The interpreter now attempts to chain errors that occur in - codec processing with a replacement exception of the same type that - includes the codec name in the error message. It ensures it only does this - when the creation of the replacement exception won't lose any information. - -- Issue #19466: Clear the frames of daemon threads earlier during the - Python shutdown to call object destructors. So "unclosed file" resource - warnings are now correctly emitted for daemon threads. - -- Issue #19514: Deduplicate some _Py_IDENTIFIER declarations. - Patch by Andrei Dorian Duma. - -- Issue #17936: Fix O(n**2) behaviour when adding or removing many subclasses - of a given type. - -- Issue #19428: zipimport now handles errors when reading truncated or invalid - ZIP archive. - -- Issue #18408: Add a new PyFrame_FastToLocalsWithError() function to handle - exceptions when merging fast locals into f_locals of a frame. - PyEval_GetLocals() now raises an exception and return NULL on failure. - -- Issue #19369: Optimized the usage of __length_hint__(). - -- Issue #18603: Ensure that PyOS_mystricmp and PyOS_mystrnicmp are in the - Python executable and not removed by the linker's optimizer. - -- Issue #19306: Add extra hints to the faulthandler module's stack - dumps that these are "upside down". - -Library -------- - -- Issue #3158: doctest can now find doctests in functions and methods - written in C. - -- Issue #13477: Added command line interface to the tarfile module. - Original patch by Berker Peksag. - -- Issue #19674: inspect.signature() now produces a correct signature - for some builtins. - -- Issue #19722: Added opcode.stack_effect(), which - computes the stack effect of bytecode instructions. - -- Issue #19735: Implement private function ssl._create_stdlib_context() to - create SSLContext objects in Python's stdlib module. It provides a single - configuration point and makes use of SSLContext.load_default_certs(). - -- Issue #16203: Add re.fullmatch() function and regex.fullmatch() method, - which anchor the pattern at both ends of the string to match. - Original patch by Matthew Barnett. - -- Issue #13592: Improved the repr for regular expression pattern objects. - Based on patch by Hugo Lopes Tavares. - -- Issue #19641: Added the audioop.byteswap() function to convert big-endian - samples to little-endian and vice versa. - -- Issue #15204: Deprecated the 'U' mode in file-like objects. - -- Issue #17810: Implement PEP 3154, pickle protocol 4. - -- Issue #19668: Added support for the cp1125 encoding. - -- Issue #19689: Add ssl.create_default_context() factory function. It creates - a new SSLContext object with secure default settings. - -- Issue #19727: os.utime(..., None) is now potentially more precise - under Windows. - -- Issue #17201: ZIP64 extensions now are enabled by default. Patch by - William Mallard. - -- Issue #19292: Add SSLContext.load_default_certs() to load default root CA - certificates from default stores or system stores. By default the method - loads CA certs for authentication of server certs. - -- Issue #19673: Add pathlib to the stdlib as a provisional module (PEP 428). - -- Issue #16596: pdb in a generator now properly skips over yield and - yield from rather than stepping out of the generator into its - caller. (This is essential for stepping through asyncio coroutines.) - -- Issue #17916: Added dis.Bytecode.from_traceback() and - dis.Bytecode.current_offset to easily display "current instruction" - markers in the new disassembly API (Patch by Claudiu Popa). - -- Issue #19552: venv now supports bootstrapping pip into virtual environments - -- Issue #17134: Finalize interface to Windows' certificate store. Cert and - CRL enumeration are now two functions. enum_certificates() also returns - purpose flags as set of OIDs. - -- Issue #19555: Restore sysconfig.get_config_var('SO'), (and the distutils - equivalent) with a DeprecationWarning pointing people at $EXT_SUFFIX. - -- Issue #8813: Add SSLContext.verify_flags to change the verification flags - of the context in order to enable certification revocation list (CRL) - checks or strict X509 rules. - -- Issue #18294: Fix the zlib module to make it 64-bit safe. - -- Issue #19682: Fix compatibility issue with old version of OpenSSL that - was introduced by Issue #18379. - -- Issue #14455: plistlib now supports binary plists and has an updated API. - -- Issue #19633: Fixed writing not compressed 16- and 32-bit wave files on - big-endian platforms. - -- Issue #18379: SSLSocket.getpeercert() returns CA issuer AIA fields, OCSP - and CRL distribution points. - -- Issue #18138: Implement cadata argument of SSLContext.load_verify_location() - to load CA certificates and CRL from memory. It supports PEM and DER - encoded strings. - -- Issue #18775: Add name and block_size attribute to HMAC object. They now - provide the same API elements as non-keyed cryptographic hash functions. - -- Issue #17276: MD5 as default digestmod for HMAC is deprecated. The HMAC - module supports digestmod names, e.g. hmac.HMAC('sha1'). - -- Issue #19449: in csv's writerow, handle non-string keys when generating the - error message that certain keys are not in the 'fieldnames' list. - -- Issue #13633: Added a new convert_charrefs keyword arg to HTMLParser that, - when True, automatically converts all character references. - -- Issue #2927: Added the unescape() function to the html module. - -- Issue #8402: Added the escape() function to the glob module. - -- Issue #17618: Add Base85 and Ascii85 encoding/decoding to the base64 module. - -- Issue #19634: time.strftime("%y") now raises a ValueError on AIX when given a - year before 1900. - -- Fix test.support.bind_port() to not cause an error when Python was compiled - on a system with SO_REUSEPORT defined in the headers but run on a system - with an OS kernel that does not support that reasonably new socket option. - -- Fix compilation error under gcc of the ctypes module bundled libffi for arm. - -- Issue #19448: Add private API to SSL module to lookup ASN.1 objects by OID, - NID, short name and long name. - -- Issue #19282: dbm.open now supports the context management protocol. - (Initial patch by Claudiu Popa) - -- Issue #8311: Added support for writing any bytes-like objects in the aifc, - sunau, and wave modules. - -- Issue #5202: Added support for unseekable files in the wave module. - -- Issue #19544 and Issue #1180: Restore global option to ignore - ~/.pydistutils.cfg in Distutils, accidentally removed in backout of - distutils2 changes. - -- Issue #19523: Closed FileHandler leak which occurred when delay was set. - -- Issue #19544 and Issue #6516: Restore support for --user and --group - parameters to sdist command accidentally rolled back as part of the - distutils2 rollback. - -- Issue #13674: Prevented time.strftime from crashing on Windows when given - a year before 1900 and a format of %y. - -- Issue #19406: implementation of the ensurepip module (part of PEP 453). - Patch by Donald Stufft and Nick Coghlan. - -- Issue #19544 and Issue #6286: Restore use of urllib over http allowing use - of http_proxy for Distutils upload command, a feature accidentally lost - in the rollback of distutils2. - -- Issue #19544 and Issue #7457: Restore the read_pkg_file method to - distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata accidentally removed in the undo of - distutils2. - -- Issue #16685: Added support for any bytes-like objects in the audioop module. - Removed support for strings. - -- Issue #7171: Add Windows implementation of ``inet_ntop`` and ``inet_pton`` - to socket module. Patch by Atsuo Ishimoto. - -- Issue #19261: Added support for writing 24-bit samples in the sunau module. - -- Issue #1097797: Added CP273 encoding, used on IBM mainframes in - Germany and Austria. Mapping provided by Michael Bierenfeld. - -- Issue #1575020: Fixed support of 24-bit wave files on big-endian platforms. - -- Issue #19378: Fixed a number of cases in the dis module where the new - "file" parameter was not being honoured correctly - -- Issue #19378: Removed the "dis.Bytecode.show_info" method - -- Issue #19378: Renamed the "dis.Bytecode.display_code" method to - "dis.Bytecode.dis" and converted it to returning a string rather than - printing output. - -- Issue #19378: the "line_offset" parameter in the new "dis.get_instructions" - API has been renamed to "first_line" (and the default value and usage - changed accordingly). This should reduce confusion with the more common use - of "offset" in the dis docs to refer to bytecode offsets. - -- Issue #18678: Corrected spwd struct member names in spwd module: - sp_nam->sp_namp, and sp_pwd->sp_pwdp. The old names are kept as extra - structseq members, for backward compatibility. - -- Issue #6157: Fixed tkinter.Text.debug(). tkinter.Text.bbox() now raises - TypeError instead of TclError on wrong number of arguments. Original patch - by Guilherme Polo. - -- Issue #10197: Rework subprocess.get[status]output to use subprocess - functionality and thus to work on Windows. Patch by Nick Coghlan - -- Issue #6160: The bbox() method of tkinter.Spinbox now returns a tuple of - integers instead of a string. Based on patch by Guilherme Polo. - -- Issue #19403: contextlib.redirect_stdout is now reentrant - -- Issue #19286: Directories in ``package_data`` are no longer added to - the filelist, preventing failure outlined in the ticket. - -- Issue #19480: HTMLParser now accepts all valid start-tag names as defined - by the HTML5 standard. - -- Issue #15114: The html.parser module now raises a DeprecationWarning when the - strict argument of HTMLParser or the HTMLParser.error method are used. - -- Issue #19410: Undo the special-casing removal of '' for - importlib.machinery.FileFinder. - -- Issue #19424: Fix the warnings module to accept filename containing surrogate - characters. - -- Issue #19435: Fix directory traversal attack on CGIHttpRequestHandler. - -- Issue #19227: Remove pthread_atfork() handler. The handler was added to - solve #18747 but has caused issues. - -- Issue #19420: Fix reference leak in module initialization code of - _hashopenssl.c - -- Issue #19329: Optimized compiling charsets in regular expressions. - -- Issue #19227: Try to fix deadlocks caused by re-seeding then OpenSSL - pseudo-random number generator on fork(). - -- Issue #16037: HTTPMessage.readheaders() raises an HTTPException when more than - 100 headers are read. Adapted from patch by Jyrki Pulliainen. - -- Issue #16040: CVE-2013-1752: nntplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to - prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory. Patch by Jyrki - Pulliainen. - -- Issue #16041: CVE-2013-1752: poplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to - prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory. Patch by Jyrki - Pulliainen. - -- Issue #17997: Change behavior of ``ssl.match_hostname()`` to follow RFC 6125, - for security reasons. It now doesn't match multiple wildcards nor wildcards - inside IDN fragments. - -- Issue #16039: CVE-2013-1752: Change use of readline in imaplib module to limit - line length. Patch by Emil Lind. - -- Issue #19330: the unnecessary wrapper functions have been removed from the - implementations of the new contextlib.redirect_stdout and - contextlib.suppress context managers, which also ensures they provide - reasonable help() output on instances - -- Issue #19393: Fix symtable.symtable function to not be confused when there are - functions or classes named "top". - -- Issue #18685: Restore re performance to pre-PEP 393 levels. - -- Issue #19339: telnetlib module is now using time.monotonic() when available - to compute timeout. - -- Issue #19399: fix sporadic test_subprocess failure. - -- Issue #13234: Fix os.listdir to work with extended paths on Windows. - Patch by Santoso Wijaya. - -- Issue #19375: The site module adding a "site-python" directory to sys.path, - if it exists, is now deprecated. - -- Issue #19379: Lazily import linecache in the warnings module, to make - startup with warnings faster until a warning gets printed. - -- Issue #19288: Fixed the "in" operator of dbm.gnu databases for string - argument. Original patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis. - -- Issue #19287: Fixed the "in" operator of dbm.ndbm databases for string - argument. Original patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis. - -- Issue #19327: Fixed the working of regular expressions with too big charset. - -- Issue #17400: New 'is_global' attribute for ipaddress to tell if an address - is allocated by IANA for global or private networks. - -- Issue #19350: Increasing the test coverage of macurl2path. Patch by Colin - Williams. - -- Issue #19365: Optimized the parsing of long replacement string in re.sub*() - functions. - -- Issue #19352: Fix unittest discovery when a module can be reached - through several paths (e.g. under Debian/Ubuntu with virtualenv). - -- Issue #15207: Fix mimetypes to read from correct part of Windows registry - Original patch by Dave Chambers - -- Issue #16595: Add prlimit() to resource module. - -- Issue #19324: Expose Linux-specific constants in resource module. - -- Load SSL's error strings in hashlib. - -- Issue #18527: Upgrade internal copy of zlib to 1.2.8. - -- Issue #19274: Add a filterfunc parameter to PyZipFile.writepy. - -- Issue #8964: fix platform._sys_version to handle IronPython 2.6+. - Patch by Martin Matusiak. - -- Issue #19413: Restore pre-3.3 reload() semantics of re-finding modules. - -- Issue #18958: Improve error message for json.load(s) while passing a string - that starts with a UTF-8 BOM. - -- Issue #19307: Improve error message for json.load(s) while passing objects - of the wrong type. - -- Issue #16038: CVE-2013-1752: ftplib: Limit amount of data read by - limiting the call to readline(). Original patch by Michał - Jastrzębski and Giampaolo Rodola. - -- Issue #17087: Improved the repr for regular expression match objects. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #19664: test_userdict's repr test no longer depends on the order - of dict elements. - -- Issue #19440: Clean up test_capi by removing an unnecessary __future__ - import, converting from test_main to unittest.main, and running the - _testcapi module tests as subTests of a unittest TestCase method. - -- Issue #19378: the main dis module tests are now run with both stdout - redirection *and* passing an explicit file parameter - -- Issue #19378: removed the not-actually-helpful assertInstructionMatches - and assertBytecodeExactlyMatches helpers from bytecode_helper - -- Issue #18702: All skipped tests now reported as skipped. - -- Issue #19439: interpreter embedding tests are now executed on Windows - (Patch by Zachary Ware) - -- Issue #19085: Added basic tests for all tkinter widget options. - -- Issue #19384: Fix test_py_compile for root user, patch by Claudiu Popa. - -Documentation -------------- - -- Issue #18326: Clarify that list.sort's arguments are keyword-only. Also, - attempt to reduce confusion in the glossary by not saying there are - different "types" of arguments and parameters. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #19358: "make clinic" now runs the Argument Clinic preprocessor - over all CPython source files. - -- Update SQLite to 3.8.1, xz to 5.0.5, and Tcl/Tk to 8.6.1 on Windows. - -- Issue #16632: Enable DEP and ASLR on Windows. - -- Issue #17791: Drop PREFIX and EXEC_PREFIX definitions from PC/pyconfig.h - -- Add workaround for VS 2010 nmake clean issue. VS 2010 doesn't set up PATH - for nmake.exe correctly. - -- Issue #19550: Implement Windows installer changes of PEP 453 (ensurepip). - -- Issue #19520: Fix compiler warning in the _sha3 module on 32bit Windows. - -- Issue #19356: Avoid using a C variabled named "_self", it's a reserved - word in some C compilers. - -- Issue #15792: Correct build options on Win64. Patch by Jeremy Kloth. - -- Issue #19373: Apply upstream change to Tk 8.5.15 fixing OS X 10.9 - screen refresh problem for OS X installer build. - -- Issue #19649: On OS X, the same set of file names are now installed - in bin directories for all configurations: non-framework vs framework, - and single arch vs universal builds. pythonx.y-32 is now always - installed for 64-bit/32-bit universal builds. The obsolete and - undocumented pythonw* symlinks are no longer installed anywhere. - -- Issue #19553: PEP 453 - "make install" and "make altinstall" now install or - upgrade pip by default, using the bundled pip provided by the new ensurepip - module. A new configure option, --with-ensurepip[=upgrade|install|no], is - available to override the default ensurepip "--upgrade" option. The option - can also be set with "make [alt]install ENSUREPIP=[upgrade|install|no]". - -- Issue #19551: PEP 453 - the OS X installer now installs pip by default. - -- Update third-party libraries for OS X installers: xz 5.0.3 -> 5.0.5, - SQLite 3.7.13 -> 3.8.1 - -- Issue #15663: Revert OS X installer built-in Tcl/Tk support for 3.4.0b1. - Some third-party projects, such as Matplotlib and PIL/Pillow, - depended on being able to build with Tcl and Tk frameworks in - /Library/Frameworks. - -Tools/Demos ------------ - -- Issue #19730: Argument Clinic now supports all the existing PyArg - "format units" as legacy converters, as well as two new features: - "self converters" and the "version" directive. - -- Issue #19552: pyvenv now bootstraps pip into virtual environments by - default (pass --without-pip to request the old behaviour) - -- Issue #19390: Argument Clinic no longer accepts malformed Python - and C ids. - - -What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 4? -=================================== - -Release date: 2013-10-20 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #19301: Give classes and functions that are explicitly marked global a - global qualname. - -- Issue #19279: UTF-7 decoder no longer produces illegal strings. - -- Issue #16612: Add "Argument Clinic", a compile-time preprocessor for - C files to generate argument parsing code. (See PEP 436.) - -- Issue #18810: Shift stat calls in importlib.machinery.FileFinder such that - the code is optimistic that if something exists in a directory named exactly - like the possible package being searched for that it's in actuality a - directory. - -- Issue #18416: importlib.machinery.PathFinder now treats '' as the cwd and - importlib.machinery.FileFinder no longer special-cases '' to '.'. This leads - to modules imported from cwd to now possess an absolute file path for - __file__ (this does not affect modules specified by path on the CLI but it - does affect -m/runpy). It also allows FileFinder to be more consistent by not - having an edge case. - -- Issue #4555: All exported C symbols are now prefixed with either - "Py" or "_Py". - -- Issue #19219: Speed up marshal.loads(), and make pyc files slightly - (5% to 10%) smaller. - -- Issue #19221: Upgrade Unicode database to version 6.3.0. - -- Issue #16742: The result of the C callback PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer must - now be a string allocated by PyMem_RawMalloc() or PyMem_RawRealloc() (or NULL - if an error occurred), instead of a string allocated by PyMem_Malloc() or - PyMem_Realloc(). - -- Issue #19199: Remove ``PyThreadState.tick_counter`` field - -- Fix macro expansion of _PyErr_OCCURRED(), and make sure to use it in at - least one place so as to avoid regressions. - -- Issue #19087: Improve bytearray allocation in order to allow cheap popping - of data at the front (slice deletion). - -- Issue #19014: memoryview.cast() is now allowed on zero-length views. - -- Issue #18690: memoryview is now automatically registered with - collections.abc.Sequence - -- Issue #19078: memoryview now correctly supports the reversed builtin - (Patch by Claudiu Popa) - -Library -------- - -- Issue #17457: unittest test discovery now works with namespace packages. - Patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #18235: Fix the sysconfig variables LDSHARED and BLDSHARED under AIX. - Patch by David Edelsohn. - -- Issue #18606: Add the new "statistics" module (PEP 450). Contributed - by Steven D'Aprano. - -- Issue #12866: The audioop module now supports 24-bit samples. - -- Issue #19254: Provide an optimized Python implementation of pbkdf2_hmac. - -- Issues #19201, Issue #19222, Issue #19223: Add "x" mode (exclusive creation) - in opening file to bz2, gzip and lzma modules. Patches by Tim Heaney and - Vajrasky Kok. - -- Fix a reference count leak in _sre. - -- Issue #19262: Initial check in of the 'asyncio' package (a.k.a. Tulip, - a.k.a. PEP 3156). There are no docs yet, and the PEP is slightly - out of date with the code. This module will have *provisional* status - in Python 3.4. - -- Issue #19276: Fixed the wave module on 64-bit big-endian platforms. - -- Issue #19266: Rename the new-in-3.4 ``contextlib.ignore`` context manager - to ``contextlib.suppress`` in order to be more consistent with existing - descriptions of that operation elsewhere in the language and standard - library documentation (Patch by Zero Piraeus). - -- Issue #18891: Completed the new email package (provisional) API additions - by adding new classes EmailMessage, MIMEPart, and ContentManager. - -- Issue #18281: Unused stat constants removed from `tarfile`. - -- Issue #18999: Multiprocessing now supports 'contexts' with the same API - as the module, but bound to specified start methods. - -- Issue #18468: The re.split, re.findall, and re.sub functions and the group() - and groups() methods of match object now always return a string or a bytes - object. - -- Issue #18725: The textwrap module now supports truncating multiline text. - -- Issue #18776: atexit callbacks now display their full traceback when they - raise an exception. - -- Issue #17827: Add the missing documentation for ``codecs.encode`` and - ``codecs.decode``. - -- Issue #19218: Rename collections.abc to _collections_abc in order to - speed up interpreter start. - -- Issue #18582: Add 'pbkdf2_hmac' to the hashlib module. It implements PKCS#5 - password-based key derivation functions with HMAC as pseudorandom function. - -- Issue #19131: The aifc module now correctly reads and writes sampwidth of - compressed streams. - -- Issue #19209: Remove import of copyreg from the os module to speed up - interpreter startup. stat_result and statvfs_result are now hard-coded to - reside in the os module. - -- Issue #19205: Don't import the 're' module in site and sysconfig module to - speed up interpreter start. - -- Issue #9548: Add a minimal "_bootlocale" module that is imported by the - _io module instead of the full locale module. - -- Issue #18764: Remove the 'print' alias for the PDB 'p' command so that it no - longer shadows the print function. - -- Issue #19158: A rare race in BoundedSemaphore could allow .release() too - often. - -- Issue #15805: Add contextlib.redirect_stdout(). - -- Issue #18716: Deprecate the formatter module. - -- Issue #10712: 2to3 has a new "asserts" fixer that replaces deprecated names - of unittest methods (e.g. failUnlessEqual -> assertEqual). - -- Issue #18037: 2to3 now escapes ``'\u'`` and ``'\U'`` in native strings. - -- Issue #17839: base64.decodebytes and base64.encodebytes now accept any - object that exports a 1 dimensional array of bytes (this means the same - is now also true for base64_codec) - -- Issue #19132: The pprint module now supports compact mode. - -- Issue #19137: The pprint module now correctly formats instances of set and - frozenset subclasses. - -- Issue #10042: functools.total_ordering now correctly handles - NotImplemented being returned by the underlying comparison function (Patch - by Katie Miller) - -- Issue #19092: contextlib.ExitStack now correctly reraises exceptions - from the __exit__ callbacks of inner context managers (Patch by Hrvoje - Nikšić) - -- Issue #12641: Avoid passing "-mno-cygwin" to the mingw32 compiler, except - when necessary. Patch by Oscar Benjamin. - -- Issue #5845: In site.py, only load readline history from ~/.python_history - if no history has been read already. This avoids double writes to the - history file at shutdown. - -- Properly initialize all fields of a SSL object after allocation. - -- Issue #19095: SSLSocket.getpeercert() now raises ValueError when the - SSL handshake hasn't been done. - -- Issue #4366: Fix building extensions on all platforms when --enable-shared - is used. - -- Issue #19030: Fixed `inspect.getmembers` and `inspect.classify_class_attrs` - to attempt activating descriptors before falling back to a __dict__ search - for faulty descriptors. `inspect.classify_class_attrs` no longer returns - Attributes whose home class is None. - -C API ------ - -- Issue #1772673: The type of `char*` arguments now changed to `const char*`. - -- Issue #16129: Added a `Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding` pre-initialization API - to allow embedding applications like Blender to force a particular - encoding and error handler for the standard IO streams (initial patch by - Bastien Montagne) - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #19275: Fix test_site on AMD64 Snow Leopard - -- Issue #14407: Fix unittest test discovery in test_concurrent_futures. - -- Issue #18919: Unified and extended tests for audio modules: aifc, sunau and - wave. - -- Issue #18714: Added tests for ``pdb.find_function()``. - -Documentation -------------- - -- Issue #18758: Fixed and improved cross-references. - -- Issue #18972: Modernize email examples and use the argparse module in them. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #19130: Correct PCbuild/readme.txt, Python 3.3 and 3.4 require VS 2010. - -- Issue #15663: Update OS X 10.6+ installer to use Tcl/Tk 8.5.15. - -- Issue #14499: Fix several problems with OS X universal build support: - 1. ppc arch detection for extension module builds broke with Xcode 5 - 2. ppc arch detection in configure did not work on OS X 10.4 - 3. -sysroot and -arch flags were unnecessarily duplicated - 4. there was no obvious way to configure an intel-32 only build. - -- Issue #19019: Change the OS X installer build script to use CFLAGS instead - of OPT for special build options. By setting OPT, some compiler-specific - options like -fwrapv were overridden and thus not used, which could result - in broken interpreters when building with clang. - - -What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 3? -=================================== - -Release date: 2013-09-29 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #18818: The "encodingname" part of PYTHONIOENCODING is now optional. - -- Issue #19098: Prevent overflow in the compiler when the recursion limit is set - absurdly high. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #18929: `inspect.classify_class_attrs()` now correctly finds class - attributes returned by `dir()` that are located in the metaclass. - -- Issue #18950: Fix miscellaneous bugs in the sunau module. - Au_read.readframes() now updates current file position and reads correct - number of frames from multichannel stream. Au_write.writeframesraw() now - correctly updates current file position. Au_read.getnframes() now returns an - integer (as in Python 2). Au_read and Au_write now correctly works with file - object if start file position is not a zero. - -- Issue #18594: The fast path for collections.Counter() was never taken - due to an over-restrictive type check. - -- Issue #19053: ZipExtFile.read1() with non-zero argument no more returns empty - bytes until end of data. - -- logging: added support for Unix domain sockets to SocketHandler and - DatagramHandler. - -- Issue #18996: TestCase.assertEqual() now more cleverly shorten differing - strings in error report. - -- Issue #19034: repr() for tkinter.Tcl_Obj now exposes string reperesentation. - -- Issue #18978: ``urllib.request.Request`` now allows the method to be - indicated on the class and no longer sets it to None in ``__init__``. - -- Issue #18626: the inspect module now offers a basic command line - introspection interface (Initial patch by Claudiu Popa) - -- Issue #3015: Fixed tkinter with wantobject=False. Any Tcl command call - returned empty string. - -- Issue #19037: The mailbox module now makes all changes to maildir files - before moving them into place, to avoid race conditions with other programs - that may be accessing the maildir directory. - -- Issue #14984: On POSIX systems, when netrc is called without a filename - argument (and therefore is reading the user's $HOME/.netrc file), it now - enforces the same security rules as typical ftp clients: the .netrc file must - be owned by the user that owns the process and must not be readable by any - other user. - -- Issue #18873: The tokenize module now detects Python source code encoding - only in comment lines. - -- Issue #17764: Enable http.server to bind to a user specified network - interface. Patch contributed by Malte Swart. - -- Issue #18937: Add an assertLogs() context manager to unittest.TestCase - to ensure that a block of code emits a message using the logging module. - -- Issue #17324: Fix http.server's request handling case on trailing '/'. Patch - contributed by Vajrasky Kok. - -- Issue #19018: The heapq.merge() function no longer suppresses IndexError - in the underlying iterables. - -- Issue #18784: The uuid module no longer attempts to load libc via ctypes.CDLL - if all the necessary functions have already been found in libuuid. Patch by - Evgeny Sologubov. - -- The :envvar:`PYTHONFAULTHANDLER` environment variable now only enables the - faulthandler module if the variable is non-empty. Same behaviour than other - variables like :envvar:`PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE`. - -- Issue #1565525: New function ``traceback.clear_frames`` will clear - the local variables of all the stack frames referenced by a traceback - object. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #18952: Fix regression in support data downloads introduced when - test.support was converted to a package. Regression noticed by Zachary - Ware. - -IDLE ----- - -- Issue #18873: IDLE now detects Python source code encoding only in comment - lines. - -- Issue #18988: The "Tab" key now works when a word is already autocompleted. - -Documentation -------------- - -- Issue #17003: Unified the size argument names in the io module with common - practice. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #18596: Support the use of address sanity checking in recent versions - of clang and GCC by appropriately marking known false alarms in the small - object allocator. Patch contributed by Dhiru Kholia. - -Tools/Demos ------------ - -- Issue #18873: 2to3 and the findnocoding.py script now detect Python source - code encoding only in comment lines. - - -What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 2? -=================================== - -Release date: 2013-09-09 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #18942: sys._debugmallocstats() output was damaged on Windows. - -- Issue #18571: Implementation of the PEP 446: file descriptors and file - handles are now created non-inheritable; add functions - os.get/set_inheritable(), os.get/set_handle_inheritable() and - socket.socket.get/set_inheritable(). - -- Issue #11619: The parser and the import machinery do not encode Unicode - filenames anymore on Windows. - -- Issue #18808: Non-daemon threads are now automatically joined when - a sub-interpreter is shutdown (it would previously dump a fatal error). - -- Remove support for compiling on systems without getcwd(). - -- Issue #18774: Remove last bits of GNU PTH thread code and thread_pth.h. - -- Issue #18771: Add optimization to set object lookups to reduce the cost - of hash collisions. The core idea is to inspect a second key/hash pair - for each cache line retrieved. - -- Issue #16105: When a signal handler fails to write to the file descriptor - registered with ``signal.set_wakeup_fd()``, report an exception instead - of ignoring the error. - -- Issue #18722: Remove uses of the "register" keyword in C code. - -- Issue #18667: Add missing "HAVE_FCHOWNAT" symbol to posix._have_functions. - -- Issue #16499: Add command line option for isolated mode. - -- Issue #15301: Parsing fd, uid, and gid parameters for builtins - in Modules/posixmodule.c is now far more robust. - -- Issue #18368: PyOS_StdioReadline() no longer leaks memory when realloc() - fail. - -- Issue #17934: Add a clear() method to frame objects, to help clean up - expensive details (local variables) and break reference cycles. - -- Issue #18780: %-formatting codes %d, %i, and %u now treat int-subclasses - as int (displays value of int-subclass instead of str(int-subclass) ). - -Library -------- - -- Issue #18808: Thread.join() now waits for the underlying thread state to - be destroyed before returning. This prevents unpredictable aborts in - Py_EndInterpreter() when some non-daemon threads are still running. - -- Issue #18458: Prevent crashes with newer versions of libedit. Its readline - emulation has changed from 0-based indexing to 1-based like gnu readline. - -- Issue #18852: Handle case of ``readline.__doc__`` being ``None`` in the new - readline activation code in ``site.py``. - -- Issue #18672: Fixed format specifiers for Py_ssize_t in debugging output in - the _sre module. - -- Issue #18830: inspect.getclasstree() no longer produces duplicate entries even - when input list contains duplicates. - -- Issue #18878: sunau.open now supports the context management protocol. Based on - patches by Claudiu Popa and R. David Murray. - -- Issue #18909: Fix _tkinter.tkapp.interpaddr() on Windows 64-bit, don't cast - 64-bit pointer to long (32 bits). - -- Issue #18876: The FileIO.mode attribute now better reflects the actual mode - under which the file was opened. Patch by Erik Bray. - -- Issue #16853: Add new selectors module. - -- Issue #18882: Add threading.main_thread() function. - -- Issue #18901: The sunau getparams method now returns a namedtuple rather than - a plain tuple. Patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #17487: The result of the wave getparams method now is pickleable again. - Patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #18756: os.urandom() now uses a lazily-opened persistent file - descriptor, so as to avoid using many file descriptors when run in - parallel from multiple threads. - -- Issue #18418: After fork(), reinit all threads states, not only active ones. - Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis. - -- Issue #17974: Switch unittest from using getopt to using argparse. - -- Issue #11798: TestSuite now drops references to own tests after execution. - -- Issue #16611: http.cookie now correctly parses the 'secure' and 'httponly' - cookie flags. - -- Issue #11973: Fix a problem in kevent. The flags and fflags fields are now - properly handled as unsigned. - -- Issue #18807: ``pyvenv`` now takes a --copies argument allowing copies - instead of symlinks even where symlinks are available and the default. - -- Issue #18538: ``python -m dis`` now uses argparse for argument processing. - Patch by Michele Orrù. - -- Issue #18394: Close cgi.FieldStorage's optional file. - -- Issue #17702: On error, os.environb now suppresses the exception context - when raising a new KeyError with the original key. - -- Issue #16809: Fixed some tkinter incompatibilities with Tcl/Tk 8.6. - -- Issue #16809: Tkinter's splitlist() and split() methods now accept Tcl_Obj - argument. - -- Issue #18324: set_payload now correctly handles binary input. This also - supersedes the previous fixes for #14360, #1717, and #16564. - -- Issue #18794: Add a fileno() method and a closed attribute to select.devpoll - objects. - -- Issue #17119: Fixed integer overflows when processing large strings and tuples - in the tkinter module. - -- Issue #18747: Re-seed OpenSSL's pseudo-random number generator after fork. - A pthread_atfork() parent handler is used to seed the PRNG with pid, time - and some stack data. - -- Issue #8865: Concurrent invocation of select.poll.poll() now raises a - RuntimeError exception. Patch by Christian Schubert. - -- Issue #18777: The ssl module now uses the new CRYPTO_THREADID API of - OpenSSL 1.0.0+ instead of the deprecated CRYPTO id callback function. - -- Issue #18768: Correct doc string of RAND_edg(). Patch by Vajrasky Kok. - -- Issue #18178: Fix ctypes on BSD. dlmalloc.c was compiled twice which broke - malloc weak symbols. - -- Issue #18709: Fix CVE-2013-4238. The SSL module now handles NULL bytes - inside subjectAltName correctly. Formerly the module has used OpenSSL's - GENERAL_NAME_print() function to get the string representation of ASN.1 - strings for ``rfc822Name`` (email), ``dNSName`` (DNS) and - ``uniformResourceIdentifier`` (URI). - -- Issue #18701: Remove support of old CPython versions (<3.0) from C code. - -- Issue #18756: Improve error reporting in os.urandom() when the failure - is due to something else than /dev/urandom not existing (for example, - exhausting the file descriptor limit). - -- Issue #18673: Add O_TMPFILE to os module. O_TMPFILE requires Linux kernel - 3.11 or newer. It's only defined on system with 3.11 uapi headers, too. - -- Issue #18532: Change the builtin hash algorithms' names to lower case names - as promised by hashlib's documentation. - -- Issue #8713: add new spwan and forkserver start methods, and new functions - get_all_start_methods, get_start_method, and set_start_method, to - multiprocessing. - -- Issue #18405: Improve the entropy of crypt.mksalt(). - -- Issue #12015: The tempfile module now uses a suffix of 8 random characters - instead of 6, to reduce the risk of filename collision. The entropy was - reduced when uppercase letters were removed from the charset used to generate - random characters. - -- Issue #18585: Add :func:`textwrap.shorten` to collapse and truncate a - piece of text to a given length. - -- Issue #18598: Tweak exception message for importlib.import_module() to - include the module name when a key argument is missing. - -- Issue #19151: Fix docstring and use of _get_supported_file_loaders() to - reflect 2-tuples. - -- Issue #19152: Add ExtensionFileLoader.get_filename(). - -- Issue #18676: Change 'positive' to 'non-negative' in queue.py put and get - docstrings and ValueError messages. Patch by Zhongyue Luo - -- Fix refcounting issue with extension types in tkinter. - -- Issue #8112: xlmrpc.server's DocXMLRPCServer server no longer raises an error - if methods have annotations; it now correctly displays the annotations. - -- Issue #18600: Added policy argument to email.message.Message.as_string, - and as_bytes and __bytes__ methods to Message. - -- Issue #18671: Output more information when logging exceptions occur. - -- Issue #18621: Prevent the site module's patched builtins from keeping - too many references alive for too long. - -- Issue #4885: Add weakref support to mmap objects. Patch by Valerie Lambert. - -- Issue #8860: Fixed rounding in timedelta constructor. - -- Issue #18849: Fixed a Windows-specific tempfile bug where collision with an - existing directory caused mkstemp and related APIs to fail instead of - retrying. Report and fix by Vlad Shcherbina. - -- Issue #18920: argparse's default destination for the version action (-v, - --version) has also been changed to stdout, to match the Python executable. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #18623: Factor out the _SuppressCoreFiles context manager into - test.support. Patch by Valerie Lambert. - -- Issue #12037: Fix test_email for desktop Windows. - -- Issue #15507: test_subprocess's test_send_signal could fail if the test - runner were run in an environment where the process inherited an ignore - setting for SIGINT. Restore the SIGINT handler to the desired - KeyboardInterrupt raising one during that test. - -- Issue #16799: Switched from getopt to argparse style in regrtest's argument - parsing. Added more tests for regrtest's argument parsing. - -- Issue #18792: Use "127.0.0.1" or "::1" instead of "localhost" as much as - possible, since "localhost" goes through a DNS lookup under recent Windows - versions. - -IDLE ----- - -- Issue #18489: Add tests for SearchEngine. Original patch by Phil Webster. - -Documentation -------------- - -- Issue #18743: Fix references to non-existent "StringIO" module. - -- Issue #18783: Removed existing mentions of Python long type in docstrings, - error messages and comments. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #1584: Provide configure options to override default search paths for - Tcl and Tk when building _tkinter. - -- Issue #15663: Tcl/Tk 8.5.14 is now included with the OS X 10.6+ 64-/32-bit - installer. It is no longer necessary to install a third-party version of - Tcl/Tk 8.5 to work around the problems in the Apple-supplied Tcl/Tk 8.5 - shipped in OS X 10.6 and later releases. - -Tools/Demos ------------ - -- Issue #18922: Now The Lib/smtpd.py and Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py scripts write - their version strings to stdout, and not to sderr. - - -What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 1? -=================================== - -Release date: 2013-08-03 - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #16741: Fix an error reporting in int(). - -- Issue #17899: Fix rare file descriptor leak in os.listdir(). - -- Issue #10241: Clear extension module dict copies at interpreter shutdown. - Patch by Neil Schemenauer, minimally modified. - -- Issue #9035: ismount now recognises volumes mounted below a drive root - on Windows. Original patch by Atsuo Ishimoto. - -- Issue #18214: Improve finalization of Python modules to avoid setting - their globals to None, in most cases. - -- Issue #18112: PEP 442 implementation (safe object finalization). - -- Issue #18552: Check return value of PyArena_AddPyObject() in - obj2ast_object(). - -- Issue #18560: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in sum(). - -- Issue #18520: Add a new PyStructSequence_InitType2() function, same than - PyStructSequence_InitType() except that it has a return value (0 on success, - -1 on error). - -- Issue #15905: Fix theoretical buffer overflow in handling of sys.argv[0], - prefix and exec_prefix if the operation system does not obey MAXPATHLEN. - -- Issue #18408: Fix many various bugs in code handling errors, especially - on memory allocation failure (MemoryError). - -- Issue #18344: Fix potential ref-leaks in _bufferedreader_read_all(). - -- Issue #18342: Use the repr of a module name when an import fails when using - ``from ... import ...``. - -- Issue #17872: Fix a segfault in marshal.load() when input stream returns - more bytes than requested. - -- Issue #18338: `python --version` now prints version string to stdout, and - not to stderr. Patch by Berker Peksag and Michael Dickens. - -- Issue #18426: Fix NULL pointer dereference in C extension import when - PyModule_GetDef() returns an error. - -- Issue #17206: On Windows, increase the stack size from 2 MB to 4.2 MB to fix - a stack overflow in the marshal module (fix a crash in test_marshal). - Patch written by Jeremy Kloth. - -- Issue #3329: Implement the PEP 445: Add new APIs to customize Python memory - allocators. - -- Issue #18328: Reorder ops in PyThreadState_Delete*() functions. Now the - tstate is first removed from TLS and then deallocated. - -- Issue #13483: Use VirtualAlloc in obmalloc on Windows. - -- Issue #18184: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyUnicode_FromFormatV() now raise - OverflowError when an argument of %c format is out of range. - -- Issue #18111: The min() and max() functions now support a default argument - to be returned instead of raising a ValueError on an empty sequence. - (Contributed by Julian Berman.) - -- Issue #18137: Detect integer overflow on precision in float.__format__() - and complex.__format__(). - -- Issue #18183: Fix various unicode operations on strings with large unicode - codepoints. - -- Issue #18180: Fix ref leak in _PyImport_GetDynLoadWindows(). - -- Issue #18038: SyntaxError raised during compilation sources with illegal - encoding now always contains an encoding name. - -- Issue #17931: Resolve confusion on Windows between pids and process - handles. - -- Tweak the exception message when the magic number or size value in a bytecode - file is truncated. - -- Issue #17932: Fix an integer overflow issue on Windows 64-bit in iterators: - change the C type of seqiterobject.it_index from long to Py_ssize_t. - -- Issue #18065: Don't set __path__ to the package name for frozen packages. - -- Issue #18088: When reloading a module, unconditionally reset all relevant - attributes on the module (e.g. __name__, __loader__, __package__, __file__, - __cached__). - -- Issue #17937: Try harder to collect cyclic garbage at shutdown. - -- Issue #12370: Prevent class bodies from interfering with the __class__ - closure. - -- Issue #17644: Fix a crash in str.format when curly braces are used in square - brackets. - -- Issue #17237: Fix crash in the ASCII decoder on m68k. - -- Issue #17927: Frame objects kept arguments alive if they had been - copied into a cell, even if the cell was cleared. - -- Issue #1545463: At shutdown, defer finalization of codec modules so - that stderr remains usable. - -- Issue #7330: Implement width and precision (ex: "%5.3s") for the format - string of PyUnicode_FromFormat() function, original patch written by Ysj Ray. - -- Issue #1545463: Global variables caught in reference cycles are now - garbage-collected at shutdown. - -- Issue #17094: Clear stale thread states after fork(). Note that this - is a potentially disruptive change since it may release some system - resources which would otherwise remain perpetually alive (e.g. database - connections kept in thread-local storage). - -- Issue #17408: Avoid using an obsolete instance of the copyreg module when - the interpreter is shutdown and then started again. - -- Issue #5845: Enable tab-completion in the interactive interpreter by - default, thanks to a new sys.__interactivehook__. - -- Issue #17115,17116: Module initialization now includes setting __package__ and - __loader__ attributes to None. - -- Issue #17853: Ensure locals of a class that shadow free variables always win - over the closures. - -- Issue #17863: In the interactive console, don't loop forever if the encoding - can't be fetched from stdin. - -- Issue #17867: Raise an ImportError if __import__ is not found in __builtins__. - -- Issue #18698: Ensure importlib.reload() returns the module out of sys.modules. - -- Issue #17857: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of sqlite3, - such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4. - -- Issue #17413: sys.settrace callbacks were being passed a string instead of an - exception instance for the 'value' element of the arg tuple if the exception - originated from C code; now an exception instance is always provided. - -- Issue #17782: Fix undefined behaviour on platforms where - ``struct timespec``'s "tv_nsec" member is not a C long. - -- Issue #17722: When looking up __round__, resolve descriptors. - -- Issue #16061: Speed up str.replace() for replacing 1-character strings. - -- Issue #17715: Fix segmentation fault from raising an exception in a __trunc__ - method. - -- Issue #17643: Add __callback__ attribute to weakref.ref. - -- Issue #16447: Fixed potential segmentation fault when setting __name__ on a - class. - -- Issue #17669: Fix crash involving finalization of generators using yield from. - -- Issue #14439: Python now prints the traceback on runpy failure at startup. - -- Issue #17469: Fix _Py_GetAllocatedBlocks() and sys.getallocatedblocks() - when running on valgrind. - -- Issue #17619: Make input() check for Ctrl-C correctly on Windows. - -- Issue #17357: Add missing verbosity messages for -v/-vv that were lost during - the importlib transition. - -- Issue #17610: Don't rely on non-standard behavior of the C qsort() function. - -- Issue #17323: The "[X refs, Y blocks]" printed by debug builds has been - disabled by default. It can be re-enabled with the `-X showrefcount` option. - -- Issue #17328: Fix possible refleak in dict.setdefault. - -- Issue #17275: Corrected class name in init error messages of the C version of - BufferedWriter and BufferedRandom. - -- Issue #7963: Fixed misleading error message that issued when object is - called without arguments. - -- Issue #8745: Small speed up zipimport on Windows. Patch by Catalin Iacob. - -- Issue #5308: Raise ValueError when marshalling too large object (a sequence - with size >= 2**31), instead of producing illegal marshal data. - -- Issue #12983: Bytes literals with invalid ``\x`` escape now raise a SyntaxError - and a full traceback including line number. - -- Issue #16967: In function definition, evaluate positional defaults before - keyword-only defaults. - -- Issue #17173: Remove uses of locale-dependent C functions (isalpha() etc.) - in the interpreter. - -- Issue #17137: When a Unicode string is resized, the internal wide character - string (wstr) format is now cleared. - -- Issue #17043: The unicode-internal decoder no longer read past the end of - input buffer. - -- Issue #17098: All modules now have __loader__ set even if they pre-exist the - bootstrapping of importlib. - -- Issue #16979: Fix error handling bugs in the unicode-escape-decode decoder. - -- Issue #16772: The base argument to the int constructor no longer accepts - floats, or other non-integer objects with an __int__ method. Objects - with an __index__ method are now accepted. - -- Issue #10156: In the interpreter's initialization phase, unicode globals - are now initialized dynamically as needed. - -- Issue #16980: Fix processing of escaped non-ascii bytes in the - unicode-escape-decode decoder. - -- Issue #16975: Fix error handling bug in the escape-decode bytes decoder. - -- Issue #14850: Now a charmap decoder treats U+FFFE as "undefined mapping" - in any mapping, not only in a string. - -- Issue #16613: Add *m* argument to ``collections.Chainmap.new_child`` to - allow the new child map to be specified explicitly. - -- Issue #16730: importlib.machinery.FileFinder now no longers raises an - exception when trying to populate its cache and it finds out the directory is - unreadable or has turned into a file. Reported and diagnosed by - David Pritchard. - -- Issue #16906: Fix a logic error that prevented most static strings from being - cleared. - -- Issue #11461: Fix the incremental UTF-16 decoder. Original patch by - Amaury Forgeot d'Arc. - -- Issue #16856: Fix a segmentation fault from calling repr() on a dict with - a key whose repr raise an exception. - -- Issue #16367: Fix FileIO.readall() on Windows for files larger than 2 GB. - -- Issue #16761: Calling int() with base argument only now raises TypeError. - -- Issue #16759: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Reg2Py - when retrieving a REG_DWORD value. This corrects functions like - winreg.QueryValueEx that may have been returning truncated values. - -- Issue #14420: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Py2Reg - when passed a REG_DWORD value. Fixes OverflowError in winreg.SetValueEx. - -- Issue #11939: Set the st_dev attribute of stat_result to allow Windows to - take advantage of the os.path.samefile/sameopenfile/samestat implementations - used by other platforms. - -- Issue #16772: The int() constructor's second argument (base) no longer - accepts non integer values. Consistent with the behavior in Python 2. - -- Issue #14470: Remove w9xpopen support per PEP 11. - -- Issue #9856: Replace deprecation warning with raising TypeError - in object.__format__. Patch by Florent Xicluna. - -- Issue #16597: In buffered and text IO, call close() on the underlying stream - if invoking flush() fails. - -- Issue #16722: In the bytes() constructor, try to call __bytes__ on the - argument before __index__. - -- Issue #16421: loading multiple modules from one shared object is now - handled correctly (previously, the first module loaded from that file - was silently returned). Patch by Václav Šmilauer. - -- Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation - chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though - its refcount had dropped to zero. - -- Issue #16495: Remove extraneous NULL encoding check from bytes_decode(). - -- Issue #16619: Create NameConstant AST class to represent None, True, and False - literals. As a result, these constants are never loaded at runtime from - builtins. - -- Issue #16455: On FreeBSD and Solaris, if the locale is C, the - ASCII/surrogateescape codec is now used (instead of the locale encoding) to - decode the command line arguments. This change fixes inconsistencies with - os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode(), because these operating systems announce an - ASCII locale encoding, but actually use the ISO-8859-1 encoding in practice. - -- Issue #16562: Optimize dict equality testing. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #16588: Silence unused-but-set warnings in Python/thread_pthread - -- Issue #16592: stringlib_bytes_join doesn't raise MemoryError on allocation - failure. - -- Issue #16546: Fix: ast.YieldFrom argument is now mandatory. - -- Issue #16514: Fix regression causing a traceback when sys.path[0] is None - (actually, any non-string or non-bytes type). - -- Issue #16306: Fix multiple error messages when unknown command line - parameters where passed to the interpreter. Patch by Hieu Nguyen. - -- Issue #16215: Fix potential double memory free in str.replace(). Patch - by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #16290: A float return value from the __complex__ special method is no - longer accepted in the complex() constructor. - -- Issue #16416: On Mac OS X, operating system data are now always - encoded/decoded to/from UTF-8/surrogateescape, instead of the locale encoding - (which may be ASCII if no locale environment variable is set), to avoid - inconsistencies with os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() functions which are - already using UTF-8/surrogateescape. - -- Issue #16453: Fix equality testing of dead weakref objects. - -- Issue #9535: Fix pending signals that have been received but not yet - handled by Python to not persist after os.fork() in the child process. - -- Issue #14794: Fix slice.indices to return correct results for huge values, - rather than raising OverflowError. - -- Issue #15001: fix segfault on "del sys.modules['__main__']". Patch by Victor - Stinner. - -- Issue #8271: the utf-8 decoder now outputs the correct number of U+FFFD - characters when used with the 'replace' error handler on invalid utf-8 - sequences. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka, tests by Ezio Melotti. - -- Issue #5765: Apply a hard recursion limit in the compiler instead of - blowing the stack and segfaulting. Initial patch by Andrea Griffini. - -- Issue #16402: When slicing a range, fix shadowing of exceptions from - __index__. - -- Issue #16336: fix input checking in the surrogatepass error handler. - Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now - raises an error. - -- Issue #7317: Display full tracebacks when an error occurs asynchronously. - Patch by Alon Horev with update by Alexey Kachayev. - -- Issue #16309: Make PYTHONPATH="" behavior the same as if PYTHONPATH - not set at all. - -- Issue #10189: Improve the error reporting of SyntaxErrors related to global - and nonlocal statements. - -- Fix segfaults on setting __qualname__ on builtin types and attempting to - delete it on any type. - -- Issue #14625: Rewrite the UTF-32 decoder. It is now 3x to 4x faster. Patch - written by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #16345: Fix an infinite loop when ``fromkeys`` on a dict subclass - received a nonempty dict from the constructor. - -- Issue #16271: Fix strange bugs that resulted from __qualname__ appearing in a - class's __dict__ and on type. - -- Issue #12805: Make bytes.join and bytearray.join faster when the separator - is empty. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #6074: Ensure cached bytecode files can always be updated by the - user that created them, even when the source file is read-only. - -- Issue #15958: bytes.join and bytearray.join now accept arbitrary buffer - objects. - -- Issue #14783: Improve int() docstring and switch docstrings for str(), - range(), and slice() to use multi-line signatures. - -- Issue #16160: Subclass support now works for types.SimpleNamespace. - -- Issue #16148: Implement PEP 424, adding operator.length_hint and - PyObject_LengthHint. - -- Upgrade Unicode data (UCD) to version 6.2. - -- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap - decoder (already working as unicode strings). Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #15144: Fix possible integer overflow when handling pointers as integer - values, by using `Py_uintptr_t` instead of `size_t`. Patch by Serhiy - Storchaka. - -- Issue #15965: Explicitly cast `AT_FDCWD` as (int). Required on Solaris 10 - (which defines `AT_FDCWD` as ``0xffd19553``), harmless on other platforms. - -- Issue #15839: Convert SystemErrors in `super()` to RuntimeErrors. - -- Issue #15448: Buffered IO now frees the buffer when closed, instead - of when deallocating. - -- Issue #15846: Fix SystemError which happened when using `ast.parse()` in an - exception handler on code with syntax errors. - -- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek(). - Patch by Felipe Cruz. - -- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually - subscriptable. - -- Issue #15111: __import__ should propagate ImportError when raised as a - side-effect of a module triggered from using fromlist. - -- Issue #15022: Add pickle and comparison support to types.SimpleNamespace. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #4331: Added functools.partialmethod (Initial patch by Alon Horev) - -- Issue #13461: Fix a crash in the TextIOWrapper.tell method on 64-bit - platforms. Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari. - -- Issue #18681: Fix a NameError in importlib.reload() (noticed by Weizhao Li). - -- Issue #14323: Expanded the number of digits in the coefficients for the - RGB -- YIQ conversions so that they match the FCC NTSC versions. - -- Issue #17998: Fix an internal error in regular expression engine. - -- Issue #17557: Fix os.getgroups() to work with the modified behavior of - getgroups(2) on OS X 10.8. Original patch by Mateusz Lenik. - -- Issue #18608: Avoid keeping a strong reference to the locale module - inside the _io module. - -- Issue #18619: Fix atexit leaking callbacks registered from sub-interpreters, - and make it GC-aware. - -- Issue #15699: The readline module now uses PEP 3121-style module - initialization, so as to reclaim allocated resources (Python callbacks) - at shutdown. Original patch by Robin Schreiber. - -- Issue #17616: wave.open now supports the context management protocol. - -- Issue #18599: Fix name attribute of _sha1.sha1() object. It now returns - 'SHA1' instead of 'SHA'. - -- Issue #13266: Added inspect.unwrap to easily unravel __wrapped__ chains - (initial patch by Daniel Urban and Aaron Iles) - -- Issue #18561: Skip name in ctypes' _build_callargs() if name is NULL. - -- Issue #18559: Fix NULL pointer dereference error in _pickle module - -- Issue #18556: Check the return type of PyUnicode_AsWideChar() in ctype's - U_set(). - -- Issue #17818: aifc.getparams now returns a namedtuple. - -- Issue #18549: Eliminate dead code in socket_ntohl() - -- Issue #18530: Remove additional stat call from posixpath.ismount. - Patch by Alex Gaynor. - -- Issue #18514: Fix unreachable Py_DECREF() call in PyCData_FromBaseObj() - -- Issue #9177: Calling read() or write() now raises ValueError, not - AttributeError, on a closed SSL socket. Patch by Senko Rasic. - -- Issue #18513: Fix behaviour of cmath.rect w.r.t. signed zeros on OS X 10.8 + - gcc. - -- Issue #18479: Changed venv Activate.ps1 to make deactivate a function, and - removed Deactivate.ps1. - -- Issue #18480: Add missing call to PyType_Ready to the _elementtree extension. - -- Issue #17778: Fix test discovery for test_multiprocessing. (Patch by - Zachary Ware.) - -- Issue #18393: The private module _gestalt and private functions - platform._mac_ver_gestalt, platform._mac_ver_lookup and - platform._bcd2str have been removed. This does not affect the public - interface of the platform module. - -- Issue #17482: functools.update_wrapper (and functools.wraps) now set the - __wrapped__ attribute correctly even if the underlying function has a - __wrapped__ attribute set. - -- Issue #18431: The new email header parser now decodes RFC2047 encoded words - in structured headers. - -- Issue #18432: The sched module's queue method was incorrectly returning - an iterator instead of a list. - -- Issue #18044: The new email header parser was mis-parsing encoded words where - an encoded character immediately followed the '?' that follows the CTE - character, resulting in a decoding failure. They are now decoded correctly. - -- Issue #18101: Tcl.split() now process strings nested in a tuple as it - do with byte strings. - -- Issue #18116: getpass was always getting an error when testing /dev/tty, - and thus was always falling back to stdin, and would then raise an exception - if stdin could not be used (such as /dev/null). It also leaked an open file. - All of these issues are now fixed. - -- Issue #17198: Fix a NameError in the dbm module. Patch by Valentina - Mukhamedzhanova. - -- Issue #18013: Fix cgi.FieldStorage to parse the W3C sample form. - -- Issue #18020: improve html.escape speed by an order of magnitude. - Patch by Matt Bryant. - -- Issue #18347: ElementTree's html serializer now preserves the case of - closing tags. - -- Issue #17261: Ensure multiprocessing's proxies use proper address. - -- Issue #18343: faulthandler.register() now keeps the previous signal handler - when the function is called twice, so faulthandler.unregister() restores - correctly the original signal handler. - -- Issue #17097: Make multiprocessing ignore EINTR. - -- Issue #18339: Negative ints keys in unpickler.memo dict no longer cause a - segfault inside the _pickle C extension. - -- Issue #18240: The HMAC module is no longer restricted to bytes and accepts - any bytes-like object, e.g. memoryview. Original patch by Jonas Borgström. - -- Issue #18224: Removed pydoc script from created venv, as it causes problems - on Windows and adds no value over and above python -m pydoc ... - -- Issue #18155: The csv module now correctly handles csv files that use - a delimiter character that has a special meaning in regexes, instead of - throwing an exception. - -- Issue #14360: encode_quopri can now be successfully used as an encoder - when constructing a MIMEApplication object. - -- Issue #11390: Add -o and -f command line options to the doctest CLI to - specify doctest options (and convert it to using argparse). - -- Issue #18135: ssl.SSLSocket.write() now raises an OverflowError if the input - string in longer than 2 gigabytes, and ssl.SSLContext.load_cert_chain() - raises a ValueError if the password is longer than 2 gigabytes. The ssl - module does not support partial write. - -- Issue #11016: Add C implementation of the stat module as _stat. - -- Issue #18248: Fix libffi build on AIX. - -- Issue #18259: Declare sethostname in socketmodule.c for AIX - -- Issue #18147: Add diagnostic functions to ssl.SSLContext(). get_ca_list() - lists all loaded CA certificates and cert_store_stats() returns amount of - loaded X.509 certs, X.509 CA certs and CRLs. - -- Issue #18167: cgi.FieldStorage no longer fails to handle multipart/form-data - when ``\r\n`` appears at end of 65535 bytes without other newlines. - -- Issue #18076: Introduce importlib.util.decode_source(). - -- Issue #18357: add tests for dictview set difference. - Patch by Fraser Tweedale. - -- importlib.abc.SourceLoader.get_source() no longer changes SyntaxError or - UnicodeDecodeError into ImportError. - -- Issue #18058, 18057: Make the namespace package loader meet the - importlib.abc.InspectLoader ABC, allowing for namespace packages to work with - runpy. - -- Issue #17177: The imp module is pending deprecation. - -- subprocess: Prevent a possible double close of parent pipe fds when the - subprocess exec runs into an error. Prevent a regular multi-close of the - /dev/null fd when any of stdin, stdout and stderr was set to DEVNULL. - -- Issue #18194: Introduce importlib.util.cache_from_source() and - source_from_cache() while documenting the equivalent functions in imp as - deprecated. - -- Issue #17907: Document imp.new_module() as deprecated in favour of - types.ModuleType. - -- Issue #18192: Introduce importlib.util.MAGIC_NUMBER and document as deprecated - imp.get_magic(). - -- Issue #18149: Add filecmp.clear_cache() to manually clear the filecmp cache. - Patch by Mark Levitt - -- Issue #18193: Add importlib.reload(). - -- Issue #18157: Stop using imp.load_module() in pydoc. - -- Issue #16102: Make uuid._netbios_getnode() work again on Python 3. - -- Issue #17134: Add ssl.enum_cert_store() as interface to Windows' cert store. - -- Issue #18143: Implement ssl.get_default_verify_paths() in order to debug - the default locations for cafile and capath. - -- Issue #17314: Move multiprocessing.forking over to importlib. - -- Issue #11959: SMTPServer and SMTPChannel now take an optional map, use of - which avoids affecting global state. - -- Issue #18109: os.uname() now decodes fields from the locale encoding, and - socket.gethostname() now decodes the hostname from the locale encoding, - instead of using the UTF-8 encoding in strict mode. - -- Issue #18089: Implement importlib.abc.InspectLoader.load_module. - -- Issue #18088: Introduce importlib.abc.Loader.init_module_attrs for setting - module attributes. Leads to the pending deprecation of - importlib.util.module_for_loader. - -- Issue #17403: urllib.parse.robotparser normalizes the urls before adding to - ruleline. This helps in handling certain types invalid urls in a conservative - manner. Patch contributed by Mher Movsisyan. - -- Issue #18070: Have importlib.util.module_for_loader() set attributes - unconditionally in order to properly support reloading. - -- Added importlib.util.module_to_load to return a context manager to provide the - proper module object to load. - -- Issue #18025: Fixed a segfault in io.BufferedIOBase.readinto() when raw - stream's read() returns more bytes than requested. - -- Issue #18011: As was originally intended, base64.b32decode() now raises a - binascii.Error if there are non-b32-alphabet characters present in the input - string, instead of a TypeError. - -- Issue #18072: Implement importlib.abc.InspectLoader.get_code() and - importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader.get_code(). - -- Issue #8240: Set the SSL_MODE_ACCEPT_MOVING_WRITE_BUFFER flag on SSL - sockets. - -- Issue #17269: Workaround for socket.getaddrinfo crash on MacOS X - with port None or "0" and flags AI_NUMERICSERV. - -- Issue #16986: ElementTree now correctly works with string input when the - internal XML encoding is not UTF-8 or US-ASCII. - -- Issue #17996: socket module now exposes AF_LINK constant on BSD and OSX. - -- Issue #17900: Allowed pickling of recursive OrderedDicts. Decreased pickled - size and pickling time. - -- Issue #17914: Add os.cpu_count(). Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari, based on an - initial patch by Trent Nelson. - -- Issue #17812: Fixed quadratic complexity of base64.b32encode(). - Optimize base64.b32encode() and base64.b32decode() (speed up to 3x). - -- Issue #17980: Fix possible abuse of ssl.match_hostname() for denial of - service using certificates with many wildcards (CVE-2013-2099). - -- Issue #15758: Fix FileIO.readall() so it no longer has O(n**2) complexity. - -- Issue #14596: The struct.Struct() objects now use a more compact - implementation. - -- Issue #17981: logging's SysLogHandler now closes the socket when it catches - socket OSErrors. - -- Issue #17964: Fix os.sysconf(): the return type of the C sysconf() function - is long, not int. - -- Fix typos in the multiprocessing module. - -- Issue #17754: Make ctypes.util.find_library() independent of the locale. - -- Issue #17968: Fix memory leak in os.listxattr(). - -- Issue #17606: Fixed support of encoded byte strings in the XMLGenerator - characters() and ignorableWhitespace() methods. Original patch by Sebastian - Ortiz Vasquez. - -- Issue #17732: Ignore distutils.cfg options pertaining to install paths if a - virtual environment is active. - -- Issue #17915: Fix interoperability of xml.sax with file objects returned by - codecs.open(). - -- Issue #16601: Restarting iteration over tarfile really restarts rather - than continuing from where it left off. Patch by Michael Birtwell. - -- Issue #17289: The readline module now plays nicer with external modules - or applications changing the rl_completer_word_break_characters global - variable. Initial patch by Bradley Froehle. - -- Issue #12181: select module: Fix struct kevent definition on OpenBSD 64-bit - platforms. Patch by Federico Schwindt. - -- Issue #11816: multiple improvements to the dis module: get_instructions - generator, ability to redirect output to a file, Bytecode and Instruction - abstractions. Patch by Nick Coghlan, Ryan Kelly and Thomas Kluyver. - -- Issue #13831: Embed stringification of remote traceback in local - traceback raised when pool task raises an exception. - -- Issue #15528: Add weakref.finalize to support finalization using - weakref callbacks. - -- Issue #14173: Avoid crashing when reading a signal handler during - interpreter shutdown. - -- Issue #15902: Fix imp.load_module() accepting None as a file when loading an - extension module. - -- Issue #13721: SSLSocket.getpeercert() and SSLSocket.do_handshake() now - raise an OSError with ENOTCONN, instead of an AttributeError, when the - SSLSocket is not connected. - -- Issue #14679: add an __all__ (that contains only HTMLParser) to html.parser. - -- Issue #17802: Fix an UnboundLocalError in html.parser. Initial tests by - Thomas Barlow. - -- Issue #17358: Modules loaded by imp.load_source() and load_compiled() (and by - extension load_module()) now have a better chance of working when reloaded. - -- Issue #17804: New function ``struct.iter_unpack`` allows for streaming - struct unpacking. - -- Issue #17830: When keyword.py is used to update a keyword file, it now - preserves the line endings of the original file. - -- Issue #17272: Making the urllib.request's Request.full_url a descriptor. - Fixes bugs with assignment to full_url. Patch by Demian Brecht. - -- Issue #17353: Plistlib emitted empty data tags with deeply nested datastructures - -- Issue #11714: Use 'with' statements to assure a Semaphore releases a - condition variable. Original patch by Thomas Rachel. - -- Issue #16624: `subprocess.check_output` now accepts an `input` argument, - allowing the subprocess's stdin to be provided as a (byte) string. - Patch by Zack Weinberg. - -- Issue #17795: Reverted backwards-incompatible change in SysLogHandler with - Unix domain sockets. - -- Issue #16694: Add a pure Python implementation of the operator module. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #11182: remove the unused and undocumented pydoc.Scanner class. - Patch by Martin Morrison. - -- Issue #17741: Add ElementTree.XMLPullParser, an event-driven parser for - non-blocking applications. - -- Issue #17555: Fix ForkAwareThreadLock so that size of after fork - registry does not grow exponentially with generation of process. - -- Issue #17707: fix regression in multiprocessing.Queue's get() method where - it did not block for short timeouts. - -- Issue #17720: Fix the Python implementation of pickle.Unpickler to correctly - process the APPENDS opcode when it is used on non-list objects. - -- Issue #17012: shutil.which() no longer falls back to the PATH environment - variable if an empty path argument is specified. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #17710: Fix pickle raising a SystemError on bogus input. - -- Issue #17341: Include the invalid name in the error messages from re about - invalid group names. - -- Issue #17702: os.environ now raises KeyError with the original environment - variable name (str on UNIX), instead of using the encoded name (bytes on - UNIX). - -- Issue #16163: Make the importlib based version of pkgutil.iter_importers - work for submodules. Initial patch by Berker Peksag. - -- Issue #16804: Fix a bug in the 'site' module that caused running - 'python -S -m site' to incorrectly throw an exception. - -- Issue #15480: Remove the deprecated and unused TYPE_INT64 code from marshal. - Initial patch by Daniel Riti. - -- Issue #2118: SMTPException is now a subclass of OSError. - -- Issue #17016: Get rid of possible pointer wraparounds and integer overflows - in the re module. Patch by Nickolai Zeldovich. - -- Issue #16658: add missing return to HTTPConnection.send(). - Patch by Jeff Knupp. - -- Issue #9556: the logging package now allows specifying a time-of-day for a - TimedRotatingFileHandler to rotate. - -- Issue #14971: unittest test discovery no longer gets confused when a function - has a different __name__ than its name in the TestCase class dictionary. - -- Issue #17487: The wave getparams method now returns a namedtuple rather than - a plain tuple. - -- Issue #17675: socket repr() provides local and remote addresses (if any). - Patch by Giampaolo Rodola' - -- Issue #17093: Make the ABCs in importlib.abc provide default values or raise - reasonable exceptions for their methods to make them more amenable to super() - calls. - -- Issue #17566: Make importlib.abc.Loader.module_repr() optional instead of an - abstractmethod; now it raises NotImplementedError so as to be ignored by default. - -- Issue #17678: Remove the use of deprecated method in http/cookiejar.py by - changing the call to get_origin_req_host() to origin_req_host. - -- Issue #17666: Fix reading gzip files with an extra field. - -- Issue #16475: Support object instancing, recursion and interned strings - in marshal - -- Issue #17502: Process DEFAULT values in mock side_effect that returns iterator. - -- Issue #16795: On the ast.arguments object, unify vararg with varargannotation - and kwarg and kwargannotation. Change the column offset of ast.Attribute to be - at the attribute name. - -- Issue #17434: Properly raise a SyntaxError when a string occurs between future - imports. - -- Issue #17117: Import and @importlib.util.set_loader now set __loader__ when - it has a value of None or the attribute doesn't exist. - -- Issue #17032: The "global" in the "NameError: global name 'x' is not defined" - error message has been removed. Patch by Ram Rachum. - -- Issue #18080: When building a C extension module on OS X, if the compiler - is overridden with the CC environment variable, use the new compiler as - the default for linking if LDSHARED is not also overridden. This restores - Distutils behavior introduced in 3.2.3 and inadvertently dropped in 3.3.0. - -- Issue #18113: Fixed a refcount leak in the curses.panel module's - set_userptr() method. Reported by Atsuo Ishimoto. - -- Implement PEP 443 "Single-dispatch generic functions". - -- Implement PEP 435 "Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library". - -- Issue #15596: Faster pickling of unicode strings. - -- Issue #17572: Avoid chained exceptions when passing bad directives to - time.strptime(). Initial patch by Claudiu Popa. - -- Issue #17435: threading.Timer's __init__ method no longer uses mutable - default values for the args and kwargs parameters. - -- Issue #17526: fix an IndexError raised while passing code without filename to - inspect.findsource(). Initial patch by Tyler Doyle. - -- Issue #17540: Added style parameter to logging formatter configuration by dict. - -- Issue #16692: The ssl module now supports TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Initial - patch by Michele Orrù. - -- Issue #17025: multiprocessing: Reduce Queue and SimpleQueue contention. - -- Issue #17536: Add to webbrowser's browser list: www-browser, x-www-browser, - iceweasel, iceape. - -- Issue #17150: pprint now uses line continuations to wrap long string - literals. - -- Issue #17488: Change the subprocess.Popen bufsize parameter default value - from unbuffered (0) to buffering (-1) to match the behavior existing code - expects and match the behavior of the subprocess module in Python 2 to avoid - introducing hard to track down bugs. - -- Issue #17521: Corrected non-enabling of logger following two calls to - fileConfig(). - -- Issue #17508: Corrected logging MemoryHandler configuration in dictConfig() - where the target handler wasn't configured first. - -- Issue #17209: curses.window.get_wch() now correctly handles KeyboardInterrupt - (CTRL+c). - -- Issue #5713: smtplib now handles 421 (closing connection) error codes when - sending mail by closing the socket and reporting the 421 error code via the - exception appropriate to the command that received the error response. - -- Issue #16997: unittest.TestCase now provides a subTest() context manager - to procedurally generate, in an easy way, small test instances. - -- Issue #17485: Also delete the Request Content-Length header if the data - attribute is deleted. (Follow on to issue Issue #16464). - -- Issue #15927: CVS now correctly parses escaped newlines and carriage - when parsing with quoting turned off. - -- Issue #17467: add readline and readlines support to mock_open in - unittest.mock. - -- Issue #13248: removed deprecated and undocumented difflib.isbjunk, - isbpopular. - -- Issue #17192: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.0.13. This - specifically addresses a stack misalignment issue on x86 and issues on - some more recent platforms. - -- Issue #8862: Fixed curses cleanup when getkey is interrupted by a signal. - -- Issue #17443: imaplib.IMAP4_stream was using the default unbuffered IO - in subprocess, but the imap code assumes buffered IO. In Python2 this - worked by accident. IMAP4_stream now explicitly uses buffered IO. - -- Issue #17476: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in undocumented pydoc - 'allmethods'; it was missing unbound methods on the class. - -- Issue #17474: Remove the deprecated methods of Request class. - -- Issue #16709: unittest discover order is no-longer filesystem specific. Patch - by Jeff Ramnani. - -- Use the HTTPS PyPI url for upload, overriding any plain HTTP URL in pypirc. - -- Issue #5024: sndhdr.whichhdr now returns the frame count for WAV files - rather than -1. - -- Issue #17460: Remove the strict argument of HTTPConnection and removing the - DeprecationWarning being issued from 3.2 onwards. - -- Issue #16880: Do not assume _imp.load_dynamic() is defined in the imp module. - -- Issue #16389: Fixed a performance regression relative to Python 3.1 in the - caching of compiled regular expressions. - -- Added missing FeedParser and BytesFeedParser to email.parser.__all__. - -- Issue #17431: Fix missing import of BytesFeedParser in email.parser. - -- Issue #12921: http.server's send_error takes an explain argument to send more - information in response. Patch contributed by Karl. - -- Issue #17414: Add timeit, repeat, and default_timer to timeit.__all__. - -- Issue #1285086: Get rid of the refcounting hack and speed up - urllib.parse.unquote() and urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes(). - -- Issue #17099: Have importlib.find_loader() raise ValueError when __loader__ - is not set, harmonizing with what happens when the attribute is set to None. - -- Expose the O_PATH constant in the os module if it is available. - -- Issue #17368: Fix an off-by-one error in the Python JSON decoder that caused - a failure while decoding empty object literals when object_pairs_hook was - specified. - -- Issue #17385: Fix quadratic behavior in threading.Condition. The FIFO - queue now uses a deque instead of a list. - -- Issue #15806: Add contextlib.ignore(). This creates a context manager to - ignore specified exceptions, replacing the "except SomeException: pass" idiom. - -- Issue #14645: The email generator classes now produce output using the - specified linesep throughout. Previously if the prolog, epilog, or - body were stored with a different linesep, that linesep was used. This - fix corrects an RFC non-compliance issue with smtplib.send_message. - -- Issue #17278: Fix a crash in heapq.heappush() and heapq.heappop() when - the list is being resized concurrently. - -- Issue #16962: Use getdents64 instead of the obsolete getdents syscall - in the subprocess module on Linux. - -- Issue #16935: unittest now counts the module as skipped if it raises SkipTest, - instead of counting it as an error. Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #17018: Make Process.join() retry if os.waitpid() fails with EINTR. - -- Issue #17223: array module: Fix a crasher when converting an array containing - invalid characters (outside range [U+0000; U+10ffff]) to Unicode: - repr(array), str(array) and array.tounicode(). Patch written by Manuel Jacob. - -- Issue #17197: profile/cProfile modules refactored so that code of run() and - runctx() utility functions is not duplicated in both modules. - -- Issue #14720: sqlite3: Convert datetime microseconds correctly. - Patch by Lowe Thiderman. - -- Issue #15132: Allow a list for the defaultTest argument of - unittest.TestProgram. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen. - -- Issue #17225: JSON decoder now counts columns in the first line starting - with 1, as in other lines. - -- Issue #6623: Added explicit DeprecationWarning for ftplib.netrc, which has - been deprecated and undocumented for a long time. - -- Issue #13700: Fix byte/string handling in imaplib authentication when an - authobject is specified. - -- Issue #13153: Tkinter functions now raise TclError instead of ValueError when - a string argument contains non-BMP character. - -- Issue #9669: Protect re against infinite loops on zero-width matching in - non-greedy repeat. Patch by Matthew Barnett. - -- Issue #13169: The maximal repetition number in a regular expression has been - increased from 65534 to 2147483647 (on 32-bit platform) or 4294967294 (on - 64-bit). - -- Issue #17143: Fix a missing import in the trace module. Initial patch by - Berker Peksag. - -- Issue #15220: email.feedparser's line splitting algorithm is now simpler and - faster. - -- Issue #16743: Fix mmap overflow check on 32 bit Windows. - -- Issue #16996: webbrowser module now uses shutil.which() to find a - web-browser on the executable search path. - -- Issue #16800: tempfile.gettempdir() no longer left temporary files when - the disk is full. Original patch by Amir Szekely. - -- Issue #17192: Import libffi-3.0.12. - -- Issue #16564: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in the operation of - email.encoders.encode_7or8bit when used with binary data. - -- Issue #17052: unittest discovery should use self.testLoader. - -- Issue #4591: Uid and gid values larger than 2**31 are supported now. - -- Issue #17141: random.vonmisesvariate() no longer hangs for large kappas. - -- Issue #17149: Fix random.vonmisesvariate to always return results in - [0, 2*math.pi]. - -- Issue #1470548: XMLGenerator now works with binary output streams. - -- Issue #6975: os.path.realpath() now correctly resolves multiple nested - symlinks on POSIX platforms. - -- Issue #13773: sqlite3.connect() gets a new `uri` parameter to pass the - filename as a URI, allowing custom options to be passed. - -- Issue #16564: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in the operation of - email.encoders.encode_noop when used with binary data. - -- Issue #10355: The mode, name, encoding and newlines properties now work on - SpooledTemporaryFile objects even when they have not yet rolled over. - Obsolete method xreadline (which has never worked in Python 3) has been - removed. - -- Issue #16686: Fixed a lot of bugs in audioop module. Fixed crashes in - avgpp(), maxpp() and ratecv(). Fixed an integer overflow in add(), bias(), - and ratecv(). reverse(), lin2lin() and ratecv() no more lose precision for - 32-bit samples. max() and rms() no more returns a negative result and - various other functions now work correctly with 32-bit sample -0x80000000. - -- Issue #17073: Fix some integer overflows in sqlite3 module. - -- Issue #16723: httplib.HTTPResponse no longer marked closed when the connection - is automatically closed. - -- Issue #15359: Add CAN_BCM protocol support to the socket module. Patch by - Brian Thorne. - -- Issue #16948: Fix quoted printable body encoding for non-latin1 character - sets in the email package. - -- Issue #16811: Fix folding of headers with no value in the provisional email - policies. - -- Issue #17132: Update symbol for "yield from" grammar changes. - -- Issue #17076: Make copying of xattrs more tolerant of missing FS support. - Patch by Thomas Wouters. - -- Issue #17089: Expat parser now correctly works with string input when the - internal XML encoding is not UTF-8 or US-ASCII. It also now accepts bytes - and strings larger than 2 GiB. - -- Issue #6083: Fix multiple segmentation faults occurred when PyArg_ParseTuple - parses nested mutating sequence. - -- Issue #5289: Fix ctypes.util.find_library on Solaris. - -- Issue #17106: Fix a segmentation fault in io.TextIOWrapper when an underlying - stream or a decoder produces data of an unexpected type (i.e. when - io.TextIOWrapper initialized with text stream or use bytes-to-bytes codec). - -- Issue #17015: When it has a spec, a Mock object now inspects its signature - when matching calls, so that arguments can be matched positionally or - by name. - -- Issue #15633: httplib.HTTPResponse is now mark closed when the server - sends less than the advertised Content-Length. - -- Issue #12268: The io module file object write methods no longer abort early - when one of its write system calls is interrupted (EINTR). - -- Issue #6972: The zipfile module no longer overwrites files outside of - its destination path when extracting malicious zip files. - -- Issue #4844: ZipFile now raises BadZipFile when opens a ZIP file with an - incomplete "End of Central Directory" record. Original patch by Guilherme - Polo and Alan McIntyre. - -- Issue #17071: Signature.bind() now works when one of the keyword arguments - is named ``self``. - -- Issue #12004: Fix an internal error in PyZipFile when writing an invalid - Python file. Patch by Ben Morgan. - -- Have py_compile use importlib as much as possible to avoid code duplication. - Code now raises FileExistsError if the file path to be used for the - byte-compiled file is a symlink or non-regular file as a warning that import - will not keep the file path type if it writes to that path. - -- Issue #16972: Have site.addpackage() consider already known paths even when - none are explicitly passed in. Bug report and fix by Kirill. - -- Issue #1602133: on Mac OS X a shared library build (``--enable-shared``) - now fills the ``os.environ`` variable correctly. - -- Issue #15505: `unittest.installHandler` no longer assumes SIGINT handler is - set to a callable object. - -- Issue #13454: Fix a crash when deleting an iterator created by itertools.tee() - if all other iterators were very advanced before. - -- Issue #12411: Fix to cgi.parse_multipart to correctly use bytes boundaries - and bytes data. Patch by Jonas Wagner. - -- Issue #16957: shutil.which() no longer searches a bare file name in the - current directory on Unix and no longer searches a relative file path with - a directory part in PATH directories. Patch by Thomas Kluyver. - -- Issue #1159051: GzipFile now raises EOFError when reading a corrupted file - with truncated header or footer. - -- Issue #16993: shutil.which() now preserves the case of the path and extension - on Windows. - -- Issue #16992: On Windows in signal.set_wakeup_fd, validate the file - descriptor argument. - -- Issue #16422: For compatibility with the Python version, the C version of - decimal now uses strings instead of integers for rounding mode constants. - -- Issue #15861: tkinter now correctly works with lists and tuples containing - strings with whitespaces, backslashes or unbalanced braces. - -- Issue #9720: zipfile now writes correct local headers for files larger than - 4 GiB. - -- Issue #16955: Fix the poll() method for multiprocessing's socket - connections on Windows. - -- SSLContext.load_dh_params() now properly closes the input file. - -- Issue #15031: Refactor some .pyc management code to cut down on code - duplication. Thanks to Ronan Lamy for the report and taking an initial stab - at the problem. - -- Issue #16398: Optimize deque.rotate() so that it only moves pointers - and doesn't touch the underlying data with increfs and decrefs. - -- Issue #16900: Issue a ResourceWarning when an ssl socket is left unclosed. - -- Issue #13899: ``\A``, ``\Z``, and ``\B`` now correctly match the A, Z, - and B literals when used inside character classes (e.g. ``'[\A]'``). - Patch by Matthew Barnett. - -- Issue #15545: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it was - failing if the connection used a row factory (such as sqlite3.Row) that - produced unsortable objects. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750). - -- fcntl: add F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC constant, available on Linux 2.6.24+. - -- Issue #15972: Fix error messages when os functions expecting a file name or - file descriptor receive the incorrect type. - -- Issue #8109: The ssl module now has support for server-side SNI, thanks - to a :meth:`SSLContext.set_servername_callback` method. Patch by Daniel - Black. - -- Issue #16860: In tempfile, use O_CLOEXEC when available to set the - close-on-exec flag atomically. - -- Issue #16674: random.getrandbits() is now 20-40% faster for small integers. - -- Issue #16009: JSON error messages now provide more information. - -- Issue #16828: Fix error incorrectly raised by bz2.compress(b'') and - bz2.BZ2Compressor.compress(b''). Initial patch by Martin Packman. - -- Issue #16833: In http.client.HTTPConnection, do not concatenate the request - headers and body when the payload exceeds 16 KB, since it can consume more - memory for no benefit. Patch by Benno Leslie. - -- Issue #16541: tk_setPalette() now works with keyword arguments. - -- Issue #16820: In configparser, `parser.popitem()` no longer raises ValueError. - This makes `parser.clean()` work correctly. - -- Issue #16820: In configparser, ``parser['section'] = {}`` now preserves - section order within the parser. This makes `parser.update()` preserve section - order as well. - -- Issue #16820: In configparser, ``parser['DEFAULT'] = {}`` now correctly - clears previous values stored in the default section. Same goes for - ``parser.update({'DEFAULT': {}})``. - -- Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy. - -- Issue #16787: Increase asyncore and asynchat default output buffers size, to - decrease CPU usage and increase throughput. - -- Issue #10527: make multiprocessing use poll() instead of select() if available. - -- Issue #16688: Now regexes contained backreferences correctly work with - non-ASCII strings. Patch by Matthew Barnett. - -- Issue #16486: Make aifc files act as context managers. - -- Issue #16485: Now file descriptors are closed if file header patching failed - on closing an aifc file. - -- Issue #16640: Run less code under a lock in sched module. - -- Issue #16165: sched.scheduler.run() no longer blocks a scheduler for other - threads. - -- Issue #16641: Default values of sched.scheduler.enter() are no longer - modifiable. - -- Issue #16618: Make glob.glob match consistently across strings and bytes - regarding leading dots. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #16788: Add samestat to Lib/ntpath.py - -- Issue #16713: Parsing of 'tel' urls using urlparse separates params from - path. - -- Issue #16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects. - Patch by Anton Kasyanov. - -- Issue #15701: Fix HTTPError info method call to return the headers information. - -- Issue #16752: Add a missing import to modulefinder. Patch by Berker Peksag. - -- Issue #16646: ftplib.FTP.makeport() might lose socket error details. - (patch by Serhiy Storchaka) - -- Issue #16626: Fix infinite recursion in glob.glob() on Windows when the - pattern contains a wildcard in the drive or UNC path. Patch by Serhiy - Storchaka. - -- Issue #15783: Except for the number methods, the C version of decimal now - supports all None default values present in decimal.py. These values were - largely undocumented. - -- Issue #11175: argparse.FileType now accepts encoding and errors - arguments. Patch by Lucas Maystre. - -- Issue #16488: epoll() objects now support the `with` statement. Patch - by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #16298: In HTTPResponse.read(), close the socket when there is no - Content-Length and the incoming stream is finished. Patch by Eran - Rundstein. - -- Issue #16049: Add abc.ABC class to enable the use of inheritance to create - ABCs, rather than the more cumbersome metaclass=ABCMeta. Patch by Bruno - Dupuis. - -- Expose the TCP_FASTOPEN and MSG_FASTOPEN flags in socket when they're - available. - -- Issue #15701: Add a .headers attribute to urllib.error.HTTPError. Patch - contributed by Berker Peksag. - -- Issue #15872: Fix 3.3 regression introduced by the new fd-based shutil.rmtree - that caused it to not ignore certain errors when ignore_errors was set. - Patch by Alessandro Moura and Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #16248: Disable code execution from the user's home directory by - tkinter when the -E flag is passed to Python. Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #13390: New function :func:`sys.getallocatedblocks()` returns the - number of memory blocks currently allocated. - -- Issue #16628: Fix a memory leak in ctypes.resize(). - -- Issue #13614: Fix setup.py register failure with invalid rst in description. - Patch by Julien Courteau and Pierre Paul Lefebvre. - -- Issue #13512: Create ~/.pypirc securely (CVE-2011-4944). Initial patch by - Philip Jenvey, tested by Mageia and Debian. - -- Issue #7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later - on. Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani. - -- Issue #13120: Allow calling pdb.set_trace() from thread. - Patch by Ilya Sandler. - -- Issue #16585: Make CJK encoders support error handlers that return bytes per - PEP 383. - -- Issue #10182: The re module doesn't truncate indices to 32 bits anymore. - Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #16333: use (",", ": ") as default separator in json when indent is - specified, to avoid trailing whitespace. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #16573: In 2to3, treat enumerate() like a consuming call, so superfluous - list() calls aren't added to filter(), map(), and zip() which are directly - passed enumerate(). - -- Issue #16464: Reset the Content-Length header when a urllib Request is reused - with new data. - -- Issue #12848: The pure Python pickle implementation now treats object - lengths as unsigned 32-bit integers, like the C implementation does. - Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #16423: urllib.request now has support for ``data:`` URLs. Patch by - Mathias Panzenböck. - -- Issue #4473: Add a POP3.stls() to switch a clear-text POP3 session into - an encrypted POP3 session, on supported servers. Patch by Lorenzo Catucci. - -- Issue #4473: Add a POP3.capa() method to query the capabilities advertised - by the POP3 server. Patch by Lorenzo Catucci. - -- Issue #4473: Ensure the socket is shutdown cleanly in POP3.close(). - Patch by Lorenzo Catucci. - -- Issue #16522: added FAIL_FAST flag to doctest. - -- Issue #15627: Add the importlib.abc.InspectLoader.source_to_code() method. - -- Issue #16408: Fix file descriptors not being closed in error conditions - in the zipfile module. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #14631: Add a new :class:`weakref.WeakMethod` to simulate weak - references to bound methods. - -- Issue #16469: Fix exceptions from float -> Fraction and Decimal -> Fraction - conversions for special values to be consistent with those for float -> int - and Decimal -> int. Patch by Alexey Kachayev. - -- Issue #16481: multiprocessing no longer leaks process handles on Windows. - -- Issue #12428: Add a pure Python implementation of functools.partial(). - Patch by Brian Thorne. - -- Issue #16140: The subprocess module no longer double closes its child - subprocess.PIPE parent file descriptors on child error prior to exec(). - -- Remove a bare print to stdout from the subprocess module that could have - happened if the child process wrote garbage to its pre-exec error pipe. - -- The subprocess module now raises its own SubprocessError instead of a - RuntimeError in various error situations which should not normally happen. - -- Issue #16327: The subprocess module no longer leaks file descriptors - used for stdin/stdout/stderr pipes to the child when fork() fails. - -- Issue #14396: Handle the odd rare case of waitpid returning 0 when not - expected in subprocess.Popen.wait(). - -- Issue #16411: Fix a bug where zlib.decompressobj().flush() might try to access - previously-freed memory. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #16357: fix calling accept() on a SSLSocket created through - SSLContext.wrap_socket(). Original patch by Jeff McNeil. - -- Issue #16409: The reporthook callback made by the legacy - urllib.request.urlretrieve API now properly supplies a constant non-zero - block_size as it did in Python 3.2 and 2.7. This matches the behavior of - urllib.request.URLopener.retrieve. - -- Issue #16431: Use the type information when constructing a Decimal subtype - from a Decimal argument. - -- Issue #15641: Clean up deprecated classes from importlib. - Patch by Taras Lyapun. - -- Issue #16350: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now accumulates data from - successive calls after EOF in unused_data, instead of only saving the argument - to the last call. decompressobj().flush() now correctly sets unused_data and - unconsumed_tail. A bug in the handling of MemoryError when setting the - unconsumed_tail attribute has also been fixed. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group - is missing. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when - no newline is found. Patch by Ned Batchelder. - -- Issue #16284: Prevent keeping unnecessary references to worker functions - in concurrent.futures ThreadPoolExecutor. - -- Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one of the lists changes - size while iterated on. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #16228: Fix a crash in the json module where a list changes size - while it is being encoded. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #16351: New function gc.get_stats() returns per-generation collection - statistics. - -- Issue #14897: Enhance error messages of struct.pack and - struct.pack_into. Patch by Matti Mäki. - -- Issue #16316: mimetypes now recognizes the .xz and .txz (.tar.xz) extensions. - Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #12890: cgitb no longer prints spurious <p> tags in text - mode when the logdir option is specified. - -- Issue #16307: Fix multiprocessing.Pool.map_async not calling its callbacks. - Patch by Janne Karila. - -- Issue #16305: Fix a segmentation fault occurring when interrupting - math.factorial. - -- Issue #16116: Fix include and library paths to be correct when building C - extensions in venvs. - -- Issue #16245: Fix the value of a few entities in html.entities.html5. - -- Issue #16301: Fix the localhost verification in urllib/request.py for ``file://`` - urls. - -- Issue #16250: Fix the invocations of URLError which had misplaced filename - attribute for exception. - -- Issue #10836: Fix exception raised when file not found in urlretrieve - Initial patch by Ezio Melotti. - -- Issue #14398: Fix size truncation and overflow bugs in the bz2 module. - -- Issue #12692: Fix resource leak in urllib.request when talking to an HTTP - server that does not include a ``Connection: close`` header in its responses. - -- Issue #12034: Fix bogus caching of result in check_GetFinalPathNameByHandle. - Patch by Atsuo Ishimoto. - -- Improve performance of `lzma.LZMAFile` (see also issue #16034). - -- Issue #16220: wsgiref now always calls close() on an iterable response. - Patch by Brent Tubbs. - -- Issue #16270: urllib may hang when used for retrieving files via FTP by using - a context manager. Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'. - -- Issue #16461: Wave library should be able to deal with 4GB wav files, - and sample rate of 44100 Hz. - -- Issue #16176: Properly identify Windows 8 via platform.platform() - -- Issue #16088: BaseHTTPRequestHandler's send_error method includes a - Content-Length header in its response now. Patch by Antoine Pitrou. - -- Issue #16114: The subprocess module no longer provides a misleading error - message stating that args[0] did not exist when either the cwd or executable - keyword arguments specified a path that did not exist. - -- Issue #16169: Fix ctypes.WinError()'s confusion between errno and winerror. - -- Issue #16110: logging.fileConfig now accepts a pre-initialised ConfigParser - instance. - -- Issue #1492704: shutil.copyfile() raises a distinct SameFileError now if - source and destination are the same file. Patch by Atsuo Ishimoto. - -- Issue #13896: Make shelf instances work with 'with' as context managers. - Original patch by Filip Gruszczyński. - -- Issue #15417: Add support for csh and fish in venv activation scripts. - -- Issue #14377: ElementTree.write and some of the module-level functions have - a new parameter - *short_empty_elements*. It controls how elements with no - contents are emitted. - -- Issue #16089: Allow ElementTree.TreeBuilder to work again with a non-Element - element_factory (fixes a regression in SimpleTAL). - -- Issue #9650: List commonly used format codes in time.strftime and - time.strptime docsttings. Original patch by Mike Hoy. - -- Issue #15452: logging configuration socket listener now has a verify option - that allows an application to apply a verification function to the - received configuration data before it is acted upon. - -- Issue #16034: Fix performance regressions in the new `bz2.BZ2File` - implementation. Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- `pty.spawn()` now returns the child process status returned by `os.waitpid()`. - -- Issue #15756: `subprocess.poll()` now properly handles `errno.ECHILD` to - return a returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot be waited - on. - -- Issue #15323: Improve failure message of `Mock.assert_called_once_with()`. - -- Issue #16064: ``unittest -m`` claims executable is "python", not "python3". - -- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in `TextTestResult.__init__()` super call. - -- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes. - -- Issue #16013: Fix `csv.Reader` parsing issue with ending quote characters. - Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #15421: Fix an OverflowError in `Calendar.itermonthdates()` after - `datetime.MAXYEAR`. Patch by Cédric Krier. - -- Issue #16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to - /usr/bin/file. Patch by David Benjamin. - -- Issue #15970: `xml.etree.ElementTree` now serializes correctly the empty HTML - elements 'meta' and 'param'. - -- Issue #15842: The `SocketIO.{readable,writable,seekable}` methods now raise - ValueError when the file-like object is closed. Patch by Alessandro Moura. - -- Issue #15876: Fix a refleak in the `curses` module: window.encoding. - -- Issue #15881: Fix `atexit` hook in `multiprocessing`. Original patch by Chris - McDonough. - -- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of - `io.BytesIO` and `io.StringIO` objects now raise ValueError when the object - has been closed. Patch by Alessandro Moura. - -- Issue #15447: Use `subprocess.DEVNULL` in webbrowser, instead of opening - `os.devnull` explicitly and leaving it open. - -- Issue #15509: `webbrowser.UnixBrowser` no longer passes empty arguments to - Popen when ``%action`` substitutions produce empty strings. - -- Issue #12776, issue #11839: Call `argparse` type function (specified by - add_argument) only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the - case where the default was specified and the argument was given as well. This - was especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would - always be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line. - -- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change, - when ``action='append'``, ``type='str'`` and ``default=[]``. - -- Issue #16113: Added sha3 module based on the Keccak reference implementation - 3.2. The `hashlib` module has four additional hash algorithms: `sha3_224`, - `sha3_256`, `sha3_384` and `sha3_512`. As part of the patch some common - code was moved from _hashopenssl.c to hashlib.h. - -- ctypes.call_commethod was removed, since its only usage was in the defunct - samples directory. - -- Issue #16692: Added TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 support for the ssl modules. - -- Issue #16832: add abc.get_cache_token() to expose cache validity checking - support in ABCMeta. - -IDLE ----- - -- Issue #18429: Format / Format Paragraph, now works when comment blocks - are selected. As with text blocks, this works best when the selection - only includes complete lines. - -- Issue #18226: Add docstrings and unittests for FormatParagraph.py. - Original patches by Todd Rovito and Phil Webster. - -- Issue #18279: Format - Strip trailing whitespace no longer marks a file as - changed when it has not been changed. This fix followed the addition of a - test file originally written by Phil Webster (the issue's main goal). - -- Issue #7136: In the Idle File menu, "New Window" is renamed "New File". - Patch by Tal Einat, Roget Serwy, and Todd Rovito. - -- Remove dead imports of imp. - -- Issue #18196: Avoid displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks. - -- Issue #5492: Avoid traceback when exiting IDLE caused by a race condition. - -- Issue #17511: Keep IDLE find dialog open after clicking "Find Next". - Original patch by Sarah K. - -- Issue #18055: Move IDLE off of imp and on to importlib. - -- Issue #15392: Create a unittest framework for IDLE. - Initial patch by Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan. - See Lib/idlelib/idle_test/README.txt for how to run Idle tests. - -- Issue #14146: Highlight source line while debugging on Windows. - -- Issue #17838: Allow sys.stdin to be reassigned. - -- Issue #13495: Avoid loading the color delegator twice in IDLE. - -- Issue #17798: Allow IDLE to edit new files when specified on command line. - -- Issue #14735: Update IDLE docs to omit "Control-z on Windows". - -- Issue #17532: Always include Options menu for IDLE on OS X. - Patch by Guilherme Simões. - -- Issue #17585: Fixed IDLE regression. Now closes when using exit() or quit(). - -- Issue #17657: Show full Tk version in IDLE's about dialog. - Patch by Todd Rovito. - -- Issue #17613: Prevent traceback when removing syntax colorizer in IDLE. - -- Issue #1207589: Backwards-compatibility patch for right-click menu in IDLE. - -- Issue #16887: IDLE now accepts Cancel in tabify/untabify dialog box. - -- Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used. - -- Issue #14254: IDLE now handles readline correctly across shell restarts. - -- Issue #17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file. - -- Issue #6698: IDLE now opens just an editor window when configured to do so. - -- Issue #8900: Using keyboard shortcuts in IDLE to open a file no longer - raises an exception. - -- Issue #6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo. - -- Issue #17114: IDLE now uses non-strict config parser. - -- Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase - interface and support all mandatory methods and properties. - -- Issue #5066: Update IDLE docs. Patch by Todd Rovito. - -- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other - special characters in the file path. - -- Issue #16491: IDLE now prints chained exception tracebacks. - -- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for bytes literals. - -- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by - Roger Serwy. - -- Issue #16511: Use default IDLE width and height if config param is not valid. - Patch Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu. - Patch by Todd Rovito. - -- Issue #16123: IDLE - deprecate running without a subprocess. - Patch by Roger Serwy. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #1666318: Add a test that shutil.copytree() retains directory - permissions. Patch by Catherine Devlin. - -- Issue #18273: move the tests in Lib/test/json_tests to Lib/test/test_json - and make them discoverable by unittest. Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Fix a fcntl test case on KFreeBSD, Debian #708653 (Petr Salinger). - -- Issue #18396: Fix spurious test failure in test_signal on Windows when - faulthandler is enabled (Patch by Jeremy Kloth) - -- Issue #17046: Fix broken test_executable_without_cwd in test_subprocess. - -- Issue #15415: Add new temp_dir() and change_cwd() context managers to - test.support, and refactor temp_cwd() to use them. Patch by Chris Jerdonek. - -- Issue #15494: test.support is now a package rather than a module (Initial - patch by Indra Talip) - -- Issue #17944: test_zipfile now discoverable and uses subclassing to - generate tests for different compression types. Fixed a bug with skipping - some tests due to use of exhausted iterators. - -- Issue #18266: test_largefile now works with unittest test discovery and - supports running only selected tests. Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #17767: test_locale now works with unittest test discovery. - Original patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #18375: Assume --randomize when --randseed is used for running the - testsuite. - -- Issue #11185: Fix test_wait4 under AIX. Patch by Sébastien Sablé. - -- Issue #18207: Fix test_ssl for some versions of OpenSSL that ignore seconds - in ASN1_TIME fields. - -- Issue #18094: test_uuid no longer reports skipped tests as passed. - -- Issue #17992: Add timeouts to asyncore and asynchat tests so that they won't - accidentally hang. - -- Issue #17833: Fix test_gdb failures seen on machines where debug symbols - for glibc are available (seen on PPC64 Linux). - -- Issue #7855: Add tests for ctypes/winreg for issues found in IronPython. - Initial patch by Dino Viehland. - -- Issue #11078: test___all__ now checks for duplicates in __all__. - Initial patch by R. David Murray. - -- Issue #17712: Fix test_gdb failures on Ubuntu 13.04. - -- Issue #17835: Fix test_io when the default OS pipe buffer size is larger - than one million bytes. - -- Issue #17065: Use process-unique key for winreg tests to avoid failures if - test is run multiple times in parallel (eg: on a buildbot host). - -- Issue #12820: add tests for the xml.dom.minicompat module. - Patch by John Chandler and Phil Connell. - -- Issue #17691: test_univnewlines now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #17790: test_set now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #17789: test_random now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #17779: test_osx_env now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #17766: test_iterlen now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #17690: test_time now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #17692: test_sqlite now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #11995: test_pydoc doesn't import all sys.path modules anymore. - -- Issue #17448: test_sax now skips if there are no xml parsers available - instead of raising an ImportError. - -- Issue #11420: make test suite pass with -B/DONTWRITEBYTECODE set. - Initial patch by Thomas Wouters. - -- Issue #10652: make tcl/tk tests run after __all__ test, patch by - Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #11963: remove human verification from test_parser and test_subprocess. - -- Issue #11732: add a new suppress_crash_popup() context manager to test.support - that disables crash popups on Windows and use it in test_faulthandler and - test_capi. - -- Issue #13898: test_ssl no longer prints a spurious stack trace on Ubuntu. - -- Issue #17283: Share code between `__main__.py` and `regrtest.py` in - `Lib/test`. - -- Issue #17249: convert a test in test_capi to use unittest and reap threads. - -- Issue #17107: Test client-side SNI support in urllib.request thanks to - the new server-side SNI support in the ssl module. Initial patch by - Daniel Black. - -- Issue #17041: Fix testing when Python is configured with the - --without-doc-strings. - -- Issue #16923: Fix ResourceWarnings in test_ssl. - -- Issue #15539: Added regression tests for Tools/scripts/pindent.py. - -- Issue #17479: test_io now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #17066: test_robotparser now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #17334: test_index now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #17333: test_imaplib now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #17082: test_dbm* now work with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #17079: test_ctypes now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #17304: test_hash now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #17303: test_future* now work with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #17163: test_file now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #16925: test_configparser now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #16918: test_codecs now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #16919: test_crypt now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #16910: test_bytes, test_unicode, and test_userstring now work with - unittest test discovery. Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #16905: test_warnings now works with unittest test discovery. - Initial patch by Berker Peksag. - -- Issue #16898: test_bufio now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #16888: test_array now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #16896: test_asyncore now works with unittest test discovery. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #16897: test_bisect now works with unittest test discovery. - Initial patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #16852: test_genericpath, test_posixpath, test_ntpath, and test_macpath - now work with unittest test discovery. Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #16748: test_heapq now works with unittest test discovery. - -- Issue #10646: Tests rearranged for os.samefile/samestat to check for not - just symlinks but also hard links. - -- Issue #15302: Switch regrtest from using getopt to using argparse. - -- Issue #15324: Fix regrtest parsing of --fromfile, --match, and --randomize - options. - -- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for - localhost tests. - -- Issue #16664: Add regression tests for glob's behaviour concerning entries - starting with a ".". Patch by Sebastian Kreft. - -- Issue #13390: The ``-R`` option to regrtest now also checks for memory - allocation leaks, using :func:`sys.getallocatedblocks()`. - -- Issue #16559: Add more tests for the json module, including some from the - official test suite at json.org. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #16661: Fix the `os.getgrouplist()` test by not assuming that it gives - the same output as :command:`id -G`. - -- Issue #16115: Add some tests for the executable argument to - subprocess.Popen(). Initial patch by Kushal Das. - -- Issue #16126: PyErr_Format format mismatch in _testcapimodule.c. - Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #15304: Fix warning message when `os.chdir()` fails inside - `test.support.temp_cwd()`. Patch by Chris Jerdonek. - -- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in `TestMaildir.test_create_tmp()`. Patch by - Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #15557: Added a test suite for the webbrowser module, thanks to Anton - Barkovsky. - -- Issue #16698: Skip posix test_getgroups when built with OS X - deployment target prior to 10.6. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #16067: Add description into MSI file to replace installer's - temporary name. - -- Issue #18257: Fix readlink usage in python-config. Install the python - version again on Darwin. - -- Issue #18481: Add C coverage reporting with gcov and lcov. A new make target - "coverage-report" creates an instrumented Python build, runs unit tests - and creates a HTML. The report can be updated with "make coverage-lcov". - -- Issue #17845: Clarified the message printed when some module are not built. - -- Issue #18256: Compilation fix for recent AIX releases. Patch by - David Edelsohn. - -- Issue #17547: In configure, explicitly pass -Wformat for the benefit for GCC - 4.8. - -- Issue #15172: Document NASM 2.10+ as requirement for building OpenSSL 1.0.1 - on Windows. - -- Issue #17591: Use lowercase filenames when including Windows header files. - Patch by Roumen Petrov. - -- Issue #17550: Fix the --enable-profiling configure switch. - -- Issue #17425: Build with openssl 1.0.1d on Windows. - -- Issue #16754: Fix the incorrect shared library extension on linux. Introduce - two makefile macros SHLIB_SUFFIX and EXT_SUFFIX. SO now has the value of - SHLIB_SUFFIX again (as in 2.x and 3.1). The SO macro is removed in 3.4. - -- Issue #5033: Fix building of the sqlite3 extension module when the - SQLite library version has "beta" in it. Patch by Andreas Pelme. - -- Issue #17228: Fix building without pymalloc. - -- Issue #3718: Use AC_ARG_VAR to set MACHDEP in configure.ac. - -- Issue #16235: Implement python-config as a shell script. - -- Issue #16769: Remove outdated Visual Studio projects. - -- Issue #17031: Fix running regen in cross builds. - -- Issue #3754: fix typo in pthread AC_CACHE_VAL. - -- Issue #15484: Fix _PYTHON_PROJECT_BASE for srcdir != builddir builds; - use _PYTHON_PROJECT_BASE in distutils/sysconfig.py. - -- Drop support for Windows 2000 (changeset e52df05b496a). - -- Issue #17029: Let h2py search the multiarch system include directory. - -- Issue #16953: Fix socket module compilation on platforms with - HAVE_BROKEN_POLL. Patch by Jeffrey Armstrong. - -- Issue #16320: Remove redundant Makefile dependencies for strings and bytes. - -- Cross compiling needs host and build settings. configure no longer - creates a broken PYTHON_FOR_BUILD variable when --build is missing. - -- Fix cross compiling issue in setup.py, ensure that lib_dirs and inc_dirs are - defined in cross compiling mode, too. - -- Issue #16836: Enable IPv6 support even if IPv6 is disabled on the build host. - -- Issue #16593: Have BSD 'make -s' do the right thing, thanks to Daniel Shahaf - -- Issue #16262: fix out-of-src-tree builds, if mercurial is not installed. - -- Issue #15298: ensure _sysconfigdata is generated in build directory, not - source directory. - -- Issue #15833: Fix a regression in 3.3 that resulted in exceptions being - raised if importlib failed to write byte-compiled files. This affected - attempts to build Python out-of-tree from a read-only source directory. - -- Issue #15923: Fix a mistake in ``asdl_c.py`` that resulted in a TypeError - after 2801bf875a24 (see #15801). - -- Issue #16135: Remove OS/2 support. - -- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a read-only - source directory. (Somewhat related to issue #9860.) - -- Issue #15587: Enable Tk high-resolution text rendering on Macs with - Retina displays. Applies to Tkinter apps, such as IDLE, on OS X - framework builds linked with Cocoa Tk 8.5. - -- Issue #17161: make install now also installs a python3 man page. - -C-API ------ - -- Issue #18351: Fix various issues in a function in importlib provided to help - PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() (and thus by extension - PyImport_ExecCodeModule() and PyImport_ExecCodeModuleEx()). - -- Issue #9369: The types of `char*` arguments of PyObject_CallFunction() and - PyObject_CallMethod() now changed to `const char*`. Based on patches by - Jörg Müller and Lars Buitinck. - -- Issue #17206: Py_CLEAR(), Py_DECREF(), Py_XINCREF() and Py_XDECREF() now - expand their arguments once instead of multiple times. Patch written by Illia - Polosukhin. - -- Issue #17522: Add the PyGILState_Check() API. - -- Issue #17327: Add PyDict_SetDefault. - -- Issue #16881: Fix Py_ARRAY_LENGTH macro for GCC < 3.1. - -- Issue #16505: Remove unused Py_TPFLAGS_INT_SUBCLASS. - -- Issue #16086: PyTypeObject.tp_flags and PyType_Spec.flags are now unsigned - (unsigned long and unsigned int) to avoid an undefined behaviour with - Py_TPFLAGS_TYPE_SUBCLASS ((1 << 31). PyType_GetFlags() result type is - now unsigned too (unsigned long, instead of long). - -- Issue #16166: Add PY_LITTLE_ENDIAN and PY_BIG_ENDIAN macros and unified - endianness detection and handling. - -Documentation -------------- - -- Issue #23006: Improve the documentation and indexing of dict.__missing__. - Add an entry in the language datamodel special methods section. - Revise and index its discussion in the stdtypes mapping/dict section. - -- Issue #17701: Improving strftime documentation. - -- Issue #18440: Clarify that `hash()` can truncate the value returned from an - object's custom `__hash__()` method. - -- Issue #17844: Add links to encoders and decoders for bytes-to-bytes codecs. - -- Issue #14097: improve the "introduction" page of the tutorial. - -- Issue #17977: The documentation for the cadefault argument's default value - in urllib.request.urlopen() is fixed to match the code. - -- Issue #6696: add documentation for the Profile objects, and improve - profile/cProfile docs. Patch by Tom Pinckney. - -- Issue #15940: Specify effect of locale on time functions. - -- Issue #17538: Document XML vulnerabilties - -- Issue #16642: sched.scheduler timefunc initial default is time.monotonic. - Patch by Ramchandra Apte - -- Issue #17047: remove doubled words in docs and docstrings - reported by Serhiy Storchaka and Matthew Barnett. - -- Issue #15465: Document the versioning macros in the C API docs rather than - the standard library docs. Patch by Kushal Das. - -- Issue #16406: Combine the pages for uploading and registering to PyPI. - -- Issue #16403: Document how distutils uses the maintainer field in - PKG-INFO. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen. - -- Issue #16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a - dot. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen. - -- Issue #8890: Stop advertising an insecure practice by replacing uses - of the /tmp directory with better alternatives in the documentation. - Patch by Geoff Wilson. - -- Issue #17203: add long option names to unittest discovery docs. - -- Issue #13094: add "Why do lambdas defined in a loop with different values - all return the same result?" programming FAQ. - -- Issue #14901: Update portions of the Windows FAQ. - Patch by Ashish Nitin Patil. - -- Issue #16267: Better document the 3.3+ approach to combining - @abstractmethod with @staticmethod, @classmethod and @property - -- Issue #15209: Clarify exception chaining description in exceptions module - documentation - -- Issue #15990: Improve argument/parameter documentation. - -- Issue #16209: Move the documentation for the str built-in function to a new - str class entry in the "Text Sequence Type" section. - -- Issue #13538: Improve str() and object.__str__() documentation. - -- Issue #16489: Make it clearer that importlib.find_loader() needs parent - packages to be explicitly imported. - -- Issue #16400: Update the description of which versions of a given package - PyPI displays. - -- Issue #15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to - mean 'no compression'. Patch by Brian Brazil. - -- Issue #16197: Update winreg docstrings and documentation to match code. - Patch by Zachary Ware. - -- Issue #8040: added a version switcher to the documentation. Patch by - Yury Selivanov. - -- Issue #16241: Document -X faulthandler command line option. - Patch by Marek Šuppa. - -- Additional comments and some style changes in the concurrent.futures URL - retrieval example - -- Issue #16115: Improve subprocess.Popen() documentation around args, shell, - and executable arguments. - -- Issue #13498: Clarify docs of os.makedirs()'s exist_ok argument. Done with - great native-speaker help from R. David Murray. - -- Issue #15533: Clarify docs and add tests for `subprocess.Popen()`'s cwd - argument. - -- Issue #15979: Improve timeit documentation. - -- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in `int()`'s signature and - arguments. - -- Issue #15935: Clarification of `argparse` docs, re: add_argument() type and - default arguments. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek. - -- Issue #11964: Document a change in v3.2 to the behavior of the indent - parameter of json encoding operations. - -- Issue #15116: Remove references to appscript as it is no longer being - supported. - -Tools/Demos ------------ - -- Issue #18817: Fix a resource warning in Lib/aifc.py demo. Patch by - Vajrasky Kok. - -- Issue #18439: Make patchcheck work on Windows for ACKS, NEWS. - -- Issue #18448: Fix a typo in Tools/demo/eiffel.py. - -- Issue #18457: Fixed saving of formulas and complex numbers in - Tools/demo/ss1.py. - -- Issue #18449: Make Tools/demo/ss1.py work again on Python 3. Patch by - Févry Thibault. - -- Issue #12990: The "Python Launcher" on OSX could not launch python scripts - that have paths that include wide characters. - -- Issue #15239: Make mkstringprep.py work again on Python 3. - -- Issue #17028: Allowed Python arguments to be supplied to the Windows - launcher. - -- Issue #17156: pygettext.py now detects the encoding of source files and - correctly writes and escapes non-ascii characters. - -- Issue #15539: Fix a number of bugs in Tools/scripts/pindent.py. Now - pindent.py works with a "with" statement. pindent.py no longer produces - improper indentation. pindent.py now works with continued lines broken after - "class" or "def" keywords and with continuations at the start of line. - -- Issue #11797: Add a 2to3 fixer that maps reload() to imp.reload(). - -- Issue #10966: Remove the concept of unexpected skipped tests. - -- Issue #9893: Removed the Misc/Vim directory. - -- Removed the Misc/TextMate directory. - -- Issue #16245: Add the Tools/scripts/parse_html5_entities.py script to parse - the list of HTML5 entities and update the html.entities.html5 dictionary. - -- Issue #15378: Fix Tools/unicode/comparecodecs.py. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #16549: Make json.tool work again on Python 3 and add tests. - Initial patch by Berker Peksag and Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py. - Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -Windows -------- - -- Issue #18569: The installer now adds .py to the PATHEXT variable when extensions - are registered. Patch by Paul Moore. - -**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)** |