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| author | Wenzel Jakob <wenzel.jakob@epfl.ch> | 2022-11-30 08:33:32 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-11-30 08:33:32 (GMT) |
| commit | c314198fadd3dc79ee15f375a409163d8fb33586 (patch) | |
| tree | 3638e07e4a904b8b9cd53c47cbe71b096247c4f1 /Misc | |
| parent | 8bb2303fd75c299d8fc85229889ac75e867c135c (diff) | |
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gh-98253: Break potential reference cycles in external code worsened by typing.py lru_cache (#98591)
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-10-24-11-01-05.gh-issue-98253.HVd5v4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-10-24-11-01-05.gh-issue-98253.HVd5v4.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..00df007 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-10-24-11-01-05.gh-issue-98253.HVd5v4.rst @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +The implementation of the typing module is now more resilient to reference +leaks in binary extension modules. + +Previously, a reference leak in a typed C API-based extension module could leak +internals of the typing module, which could in turn introduce leaks in +essentially any other package with typed function signatures. Although the +typing package is not the original source of the problem, such non-local +dependences exacerbate debugging of large-scale projects, and the +implementation was therefore changed to reduce harm by providing better +isolation. |