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diff --git a/Doc/library/pickle.rst b/Doc/library/pickle.rst index 57fbe5b..71fe374 100644 --- a/Doc/library/pickle.rst +++ b/Doc/library/pickle.rst @@ -156,13 +156,14 @@ to read the pickle produced. * Protocol version 4 was added in Python 3.4. It adds support for very large objects, pickling more kinds of objects, and some data format - optimizations. It is the default protocol starting with Python 3.8. + optimizations. This was the default protocol in Python 3.8--3.13. Refer to :pep:`3154` for information about improvements brought by protocol 4. * Protocol version 5 was added in Python 3.8. It adds support for out-of-band - data and speedup for in-band data. Refer to :pep:`574` for information about - improvements brought by protocol 5. + data and speedup for in-band data. It is the default protocol starting with + Python 3.14. Refer to :pep:`574` for information about improvements brought + by protocol 5. .. note:: Serialization is a more primitive notion than persistence; although @@ -199,8 +200,10 @@ The :mod:`pickle` module provides the following constants: An integer, the default :ref:`protocol version <pickle-protocols>` used for pickling. May be less than :data:`HIGHEST_PROTOCOL`. Currently the - default protocol is 4, first introduced in Python 3.4 and incompatible - with previous versions. + default protocol is 5, introduced in Python 3.8 and incompatible + with previous versions. This version introduces support for out-of-band + buffers, where :pep:`3118`-compatible data can be transmitted separately + from the main pickle stream. .. versionchanged:: 3.0 @@ -210,6 +213,10 @@ The :mod:`pickle` module provides the following constants: The default protocol is 4. + .. versionchanged:: 3.14 + + The default protocol is 5. + The :mod:`pickle` module provides the following functions to make the pickling process more convenient: |