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authorLarry Hastings <larry@hastings.org>2013-09-09 12:12:21 (GMT)
committerLarry Hastings <larry@hastings.org>2013-09-09 12:12:21 (GMT)
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Python News
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-What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 3?
-===================================
-
Projected Release date: 2013-09-29
Core and Builtins
@@ -13,6 +10,17 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- 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`.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #18952: Fix regression in support data downloads introduced when
+ test.support was converted to a package. Regression noticed by Zachary
+ Ware.
+
What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 2?
===================================
@@ -68,6 +76,10 @@ Core and Builtins
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.
@@ -75,7 +87,7 @@ Library
readline activation code in ``site.py``.
- Issue #18672: Fixed format specifiers for Py_ssize_t in debugging output in
- the _sre moduel.
+ the _sre module.
- Issue #18830: inspect.getclasstree() no more produces duplicated entries even
when input list contains duplicates.