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authorKyle Stanley <aeros167@gmail.com>2019-12-09 14:21:10 (GMT)
committerƁukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>2019-12-09 14:21:10 (GMT)
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bpo-37228: Fix loop.create_datagram_endpoint()'s usage of SO_REUSEADDR (#17311)
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+Due to significant security concerns, the *reuse_address* parameter of
+:meth:`asyncio.loop.create_datagram_endpoint` is no longer supported. This is
+because of the behavior of ``SO_REUSEADDR`` in UDP. For more details, see the
+documentation for ``loop.create_datagram_endpoint()``.
+(Contributed by Kyle Stanley, Antoine Pitrou, and Yury Selivanov in
+:issue:`37228`.)