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authorGregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>2017-06-22 06:41:13 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-06-22 06:41:13 (GMT)
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bpo-29212: Fix the ugly repr() ThreadPoolExecutor thread name. (#2315)
bpo-29212: Fix the ugly ThreadPoolExecutor thread name. Fixes the newly introduced ugly default thread name for concurrent.futures thread.ThreadPoolExecutor threads. They'll now resemble the old <=3.5 threading default Thread-x names by being named ThreadPoolExecutor-y_n.
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Library
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+- bpo-29212: Fix concurrent.futures.thread.ThreadPoolExecutor threads to have
+ a non repr() based thread name by default when no thread_name_prefix is
+ supplied. They will now identify themselves as "ThreadPoolExecutor-y_n".
+
- [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),