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Patch by Erlend Aasland. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-13-01-29-08 +.. gh-issue: 128690 +.. nonce: cPFVDb +.. section: Tests + +Temporarily do not use test_embed in PGO profile builds until the problem +with test_init_pyvenv_cfg failing in some configurations is resolved. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-11-13-40-12 +.. gh-issue: 128731 +.. nonce: qpKlai +.. section: Library + +Fix :exc:`ResourceWarning` in +:meth:`urllib.robotparser.RobotFileParser.read`. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-10-15-06-45 +.. gh-issue: 71339 +.. nonce: EKnpzw +.. section: Library + +Add new assertion methods for :mod:`unittest`: +:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertHasAttr`, +:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertNotHasAttr`, +:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertIsSubclass`, +:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertNotIsSubclass` +:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertStartsWith`, +:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertNotStartsWith`, +:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertEndsWith` and +:meth:`~unittest.TestCase.assertNotEndsWith`. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-10-13-34-33 +.. gh-issue: 118761 +.. nonce: qRB8nS +.. section: Library + +Improve import time of :mod:`pickle` by 25% by removing an unnecessary +regular expression. As such, :mod:`re` is no more implicitly available as +``pickle.re``. Patch by Bénédikt Tran. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-09-12-06-52 +.. gh-issue: 128661 +.. nonce: ixx_0z +.. section: Library + +Fixes :func:`typing.evaluate_forward_ref` not showing deprecation when +``type_params`` arg is not passed. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-08-03-09-29 +.. gh-issue: 128562 +.. nonce: Mlv-yO +.. section: Library + +Fix possible conflicts in generated :mod:`tkinter` widget names if the +widget class name ends with a digit. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-06-21-35-00 +.. gh-issue: 128559 +.. nonce: 6fxcDM +.. section: Library + +Improved import time of :mod:`asyncio`. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-06-18-41-08 +.. gh-issue: 128552 +.. nonce: fV-f8j +.. section: Library + +Fix cyclic garbage introduced by :meth:`asyncio.loop.create_task` and +:meth:`asyncio.TaskGroup.create_task` holding a reference to the created +task if it is eager. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-05-11-46-14 +.. gh-issue: 128340 +.. nonce: gKI0uU +.. section: Library + +Add internal thread safe handle to be used in +:meth:`asyncio.loop.call_soon_threadsafe` for thread safe cancellation. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-04-11-32-46 +.. gh-issue: 128182 +.. nonce: SJ2Zsa +.. section: Library + +Fix crash when using :mod:`ctypes` pointers concurrently on the :term:`free +threaded <free threading>` build. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-02-15-20-17 +.. gh-issue: 128400 +.. nonce: UMiG4f +.. section: Library + +Only show the current thread in :mod:`faulthandler` on the :term:`free +threaded <free threading>` build to prevent races. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-02-13-05-16 +.. gh-issue: 128400 +.. nonce: 5N43fF +.. section: Library + +Fix crash when using :func:`faulthandler.dump_traceback` while other threads +are active on the :term:`free threaded <free threading>` build. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-01-19-24-43 +.. gh-issue: 128388 +.. nonce: 8UdMz_ +.. section: Library + +Fix ``PyREPL`` on Windows to support more keybindings, like the +:kbd:`Control-←` and :kbd:`Control-→` word-skipping keybindings and those +with meta (i.e. :kbd:`Alt`), e.g. :kbd:`Alt-d` to ``kill-word`` or +:kbd:`Alt-Backspace` ``backward-kill-word``. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-30-20-48-28 +.. gh-issue: 88834 +.. nonce: RIvgwc +.. section: Library + +Unify the instance check for :class:`typing.Union` and +:class:`types.UnionType`: :class:`!Union` now uses the instance checks +against its parameters instead of the subclass checks. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-29-13-49-46 +.. gh-issue: 128302 +.. nonce: psRpPN +.. section: Library + +Fix :meth:`!xml.dom.xmlbuilder.DOMEntityResolver.resolveEntity`, which was +broken by the Python 3.0 transition. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-29-00-33-34 +.. gh-issue: 128317 +.. nonce: WgFina +.. section: Library + +Highlight today in colour in :mod:`calendar`'s CLI output. Patch by Hugo van +Kemenade. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-27-16-28-57 +.. gh-issue: 128302 +.. nonce: 2GMvyl +.. section: Library + +Allow :meth:`!xml.dom.xmlbuilder.DOMParser.parse` to correctly handle +:class:`!xml.dom.xmlbuilder.DOMInputSource` instances that only have a +:attr:`!systemId` attribute set. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-21-11-12-50 +.. gh-issue: 128151 +.. nonce: aq7vpG +.. section: Library + +Improve generation of :class:`~uuid.UUID` objects version 3, 4, 5, and 8 via +their dedicated functions by 30%. Patch by Bénédikt Tran. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-20-10-57-10 +.. gh-issue: 128118 +.. nonce: mYak8i +.. section: Library + +Improve performance of :func:`copy.copy` by 30% via a fast path for atomic +types and container types. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-19-20-46-01 +.. gh-issue: 127946 +.. nonce: 4lM3Op +.. section: Library + +Fix crash when modifying :class:`ctypes._CFuncPtr` objects concurrently on +the :term:`free threaded <free threading>` build. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-18-10-18-55 +.. gh-issue: 128062 +.. nonce: E9oU7- +.. section: Library + +Revert the font of :mod:`turtledemo`'s menu bar to its default value and +display the shortcut keys in the correct position. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-18-00-07-50 +.. gh-issue: 128014 +.. nonce: F3aUbz +.. section: Library + +Fix resetting the default window icon by passing ``default=''`` to the +:mod:`tkinter` method :meth:`!wm_iconbitmap`. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-17-15-23-40 +.. gh-issue: 41872 +.. nonce: 31LjKY +.. section: Library + +Fix quick extraction of module docstrings from a file in :mod:`pydoc`. It +now supports docstrings with single quotes, escape sequences, raw string +literals, and other Python syntax. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-17-13-21-52 +.. gh-issue: 127060 +.. nonce: mv2bX6 +.. section: Library + +Set TERM environment variable to "dumb" to disable traceback colors in IDLE, +since IDLE doesn't understand ANSI escape sequences. Patch by Victor +Stinner. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-17-12-41-07 +.. gh-issue: 126742 +.. nonce: l07qvT +.. section: Library + +Fix support of localized error messages reported by :manpage:`dlerror(3)` +and :manpage:`gdbm_strerror <gdbm(3)>` in :mod:`ctypes` and :mod:`dbm.gnu` +functions respectively. Patch by Bénédikt Tran. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-13-14-21-04 +.. gh-issue: 122548 +.. nonce: hq3Vud +.. section: Library + +Adds two new local events to sys.monitoring, ``BRANCH_LEFT`` and +``BRANCH_RIGHT``. This allows the two arms of the branch to be disabled +independently, which should hugely improve performance of branch-level +coverage tools. The old branch event, ``BRANCH`` is now deprecated. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-12-07-27-51 +.. gh-issue: 127847 +.. nonce: ksfNKM +.. section: Library + +Fix the position when doing interleaved seeks and reads in uncompressed, +unencrypted zip files returned by :meth:`zipfile.ZipFile.open`. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-06-21-03-11 +.. gh-issue: 127688 +.. nonce: NJqtc- +.. section: Library + +Add the :data:`~os.SCHED_DEADLINE` and :data:`~os.SCHED_NORMAL` constants to +the :mod:`os` module. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-04-10-39-29 +.. gh-issue: 83662 +.. nonce: CG1s3m +.. section: Library + +Add missing ``__class_getitem__`` method to the Python implementation of +:func:`functools.partial`, to make it compatible with the C version. This is +mainly relevant for alternative Python implementations like PyPy and +GraalPy, because CPython will usually use the C-implementation of that +function. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-03-20-28-08 +.. gh-issue: 127586 +.. nonce: zgotYF +.. section: Library + +:class:`multiprocessing.pool.Pool` now properly restores blocked signal +handlers of the parent thread when creating processes via either *spawn* or +*forkserver*. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-03-14-45-16 +.. gh-issue: 98188 +.. nonce: GX9i2b +.. section: Library + +Fix an issue in :meth:`email.message.Message.get_payload` where data cannot +be decoded if the Content Transfer Encoding mechanism contains trailing +whitespaces or additional junk text. Patch by Hui Liu. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-02-19-13-19 +.. gh-issue: 127529 +.. nonce: Pj1Xtf +.. section: Library + +Correct behavior of +:func:`!asyncio.selector_events.BaseSelectorEventLoop._accept_connection` in +handling :exc:`ConnectionAbortedError` in a loop. This improves performance +on OpenBSD. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-11-28-14-24-12 +.. gh-issue: 127360 +.. nonce: HVKt-c +.. section: Library + +When a descriptive error message cannot be provided for an +:exc:`ssl.SSLError`, the "unknown error" message now shows the internal +error code (as retrieved by ``ERR_get_error`` and similar OpenSSL +functions). + +.. + +.. date: 2024-11-24-14-53-35 +.. gh-issue: 127196 +.. nonce: 8CBkUa +.. section: Library + +Fix crash when dict with keys in invalid encoding were passed to several +functions in ``_interpreters`` module. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-11-19-10-46-57 +.. gh-issue: 124130 +.. nonce: OZ_vR5 +.. section: Library + +Fix a bug in matching regular expression ``\B`` in empty input string. Now +it is always the opposite of ``\b``. To get an old behavior, use +``(?!\A\Z)\B``. To get a new behavior in old Python versions, use +``(?!\b)``. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-11-11-07-56-03 +.. gh-issue: 126639 +.. nonce: AmVSt- +.. section: Library + +:class:`tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile` will now issue a :exc:`ResourceWarning` +when it is finalized by the garbage collector without being explicitly +closed. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-11-09-15-59-51 +.. gh-issue: 126624 +.. nonce: bN53Va +.. section: Library + +Expose error code :data:`~xml.parsers.expat.errors.XML_ERROR_NOT_STARTED` of +Expat >=2.6.4 in :mod:`xml.parsers.expat.errors`. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-10-31-14-31-36 +.. gh-issue: 126225 +.. nonce: vTxGXm +.. section: Library + +:mod:`getopt` and :mod:`optparse` are no longer marked as deprecated. There +are legitimate reasons to use one of these modules in preference to +:mod:`argparse`, and none of these modules are at risk of being removed from +the standard library. Of the three, ``argparse`` remains the recommended +default choice, *unless* one of the concerns noted at the top of the +``optparse`` module documentation applies. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-10-04-09-56-45 +.. gh-issue: 124761 +.. nonce: N4pSD6 +.. section: Library + +Add :data:`~socket.SO_REUSEPORT_LB` constant to :mod:`socket` for FreeBSD. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-09-04-14-13-14 +.. gh-issue: 121720 +.. nonce: z9hhXQ +.. section: Library + +:class:`enum.EnumDict` can now be used without resorting to private API. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-08-28-16-10-37 +.. gh-issue: 123424 +.. nonce: u96_i6 +.. section: Library + +Add :meth:`zipfile.ZipInfo._for_archive` setting default properties on +:class:`~zipfile.ZipInfo` objects. Patch by Bénédikt Tran and Jason R. +Coombs. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-07-13-13-25-31 +.. gh-issue: 121676 +.. nonce: KDLS11 +.. section: Library + +Deprecate calling the Python implementation of :meth:`functools.reduce` with +a ``function`` or ``sequence`` as a :term:`keyword argument`. This will be +forbidden in Python 3.16 in order to match the C implementation. + +.. + +.. date: 2023-11-12-21-53-40 +.. gh-issue: 112015 +.. nonce: 2WPRxE +.. section: Library + +:func:`ctypes.memoryview_at` now exists to create a :class:`memoryview` +object that refers to the supplied pointer and length. This works like +:func:`ctypes.string_at` except it avoids a buffer copy, and is typically +useful when implementing pure Python callback functions that are passed +dynamically-sized buffers. + +.. + +.. date: 2022-07-28-12-32-59 +.. gh-issue: 95371 +.. nonce: F24IFC +.. section: Library + +Added support for other image formats (PNG, PGM, and PPM) to the turtle +module. Patch by Shin-myoung-serp. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-13-12-48-30 +.. gh-issue: 128078 +.. nonce: qOsl9B +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix a :exc:`SystemError` when using :func:`anext` with a default tuple +value. Patch by Bénédikt Tran. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-11-12-39-17 +.. gh-issue: 128717 +.. nonce: i65d06 +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix a crash when setting the recursion limit while other threads are active +on the :term:`free threaded <free threading>` build. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-09-11-46-57 +.. gh-issue: 124483 +.. nonce: KRtBeQ +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Treat ``Py_DECREF`` and variants as escaping when generating opcode and uop +metadata. This prevents the possibility of a ``__del__`` method causing the +JIT to behave incorrectly. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-07-19-48-56 +.. gh-issue: 126703 +.. nonce: 0ISs-7 +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Improve performance of class methods by using a freelist. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-24-01-40-12 +.. gh-issue: 128137 +.. nonce: gsTwr_ +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Update :c:type:`PyASCIIObject` layout to handle interned field with the +atomic operation. Patch by Donghee Na. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-23-11-14-07 +.. gh-issue: 128192 +.. nonce: 02mEhD +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Upgrade HTTP digest authentication algorithm for :mod:`urllib.request` by +supporting SHA-256 digest authentication as specified in :rfc:`7616`. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-22-15-47-44 +.. gh-issue: 126868 +.. nonce: RpjKez +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Increase usage of freelist for :class:`int` allocation. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-20-23-07-33 +.. gh-issue: 114203 +.. nonce: 84NgoW +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Optimize ``Py_BEGIN_CRITICAL_SECTION`` for simple recursive calls. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-20-12-25-16 +.. gh-issue: 127705 +.. nonce: WmCz1z +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Adds stackref debugging when ``Py_STACKREF_DEBUG`` is set. Finds all +double-closes and leaks, logging the origin and last borrow. + +Inspired by HPy's debug mode. +https://docs.hpyproject.org/en/latest/debug-mode.html + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-18-14-22-48 +.. gh-issue: 128079 +.. nonce: SUD5le +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix a bug where :keyword:`except* <except_star>` does not properly check the +return value of an :exc:`ExceptionGroup`'s :meth:`~BaseExceptionGroup.split` +function, leading to a crash in some cases. Now when +:meth:`~BaseExceptionGroup.split` returns an invalid object, +:keyword:`except* <except_star>` raises a :exc:`TypeError` with the original +raised :exc:`ExceptionGroup` object chained to it. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-17-22-28-15 +.. gh-issue: 128030 +.. nonce: H1ptOD +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Avoid error from calling ``PyModule_GetFilenameObject`` on a non-module +object when importing a non-existent symbol from a non-module object. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-17-18-20-37 +.. gh-issue: 128035 +.. nonce: JwqHdB +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Indicate through :data:`ssl.HAS_PHA` whether the :mod:`ssl` module supports +TLSv1.3 post-handshake client authentication (PHA). Patch by Will +Childs-Klein. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-17-13-45-33 +.. gh-issue: 127274 +.. nonce: deNxNC +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Add a new flag, ``CO_METHOD``, to :attr:`~codeobject.co_flags` that +indicates whether the code object belongs to a function defined in class +scope. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-15-21-11-26 +.. gh-issue: 66409 +.. nonce: wv109z +.. section: Core and Builtins + +During the :ref:`path initialization <sys-path-init>`, we now check if +``base_exec_prefix`` is the same as ``base_prefix`` before falling back to +searching the Python interpreter directory. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-15-19-51-54 +.. gh-issue: 127970 +.. nonce: vdUp-y +.. section: Core and Builtins + +We now use the location of the ``libpython`` runtime library used in the +current proccess to determine :data:`sys.base_prefix` on all platforms +implementing the `dladdr +<https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/dladdr.html>`_ +function defined by the UNIX standard — this includes Linux, Android, macOS, +iOS, FreeBSD, etc. This was already the case on Windows and macOS Framework +builds. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-13-15-21-45 +.. gh-issue: 127773 +.. nonce: E-DZR4 +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Do not use the type attribute cache for types with incompatible :term:`MRO`. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-13-14-17-24 +.. gh-issue: 127903 +.. nonce: vemHSl +.. section: Core and Builtins + +``Objects/unicodeobject.c``: fix a crash on DEBUG builds in +``_copy_characters`` when there is nothing to copy. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-11-14-32-22 +.. gh-issue: 127809 +.. nonce: 0W8khe +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix an issue where the experimental JIT may infer an incorrect result type +for exponentiation (``**`` and ``**=``), leading to bugs or crashes. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-02-18-15-37 +.. gh-issue: 126862 +.. nonce: fdIK7T +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix a possible overflow when a class inherits from an absurd number of +super-classes. Reported by Valery Fedorenko. Patch by Bénédikt Tran. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-12-12-19-51 +.. gh-issue: 128400 +.. nonce: OwoIDw +.. section: C API + +:c:func:`Py_FatalError` no longer shows all threads on the :term:`free +threaded <free threading>` build to prevent crashes. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-08-13-13-18 +.. gh-issue: 128629 +.. nonce: gSmzyl +.. section: C API + +Add macros :c:func:`Py_PACK_VERSION` and :c:func:`Py_PACK_FULL_VERSION` for +bit-packing Python version numbers. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-16-21-59-06 +.. gh-issue: 128008 +.. nonce: fa9Jt0 +.. section: C API + +Add :c:func:`PyWeakref_IsDead` function, which tests if a weak reference is +dead. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-11-13-01-26 +.. gh-issue: 127350 +.. nonce: uEBZZ4 +.. section: C API + +Add :c:func:`Py_fopen` function to open a file. Similar to the +:c:func:`!fopen` function, but the *path* parameter is a Python object and +an exception is set on error. Add also :c:func:`Py_fclose` function to close +a file, function needed for Windows support. Patch by Victor Stinner. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-09-19-44-00 +.. gh-issue: 128627 +.. nonce: mHzsEd +.. section: Build + +For Emscripten builds the function pointer cast call trampoline now uses the +wasm-gc ref.test instruction if it's available instead of Wasm JS type +reflection. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-04-22-39-10 +.. gh-issue: 128472 +.. nonce: Wt5E6M +.. section: Build + +Skip BOLT optimization of functions using computed gotos, fixing errors on +build with LLVM 19. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-02-12-50-46 +.. gh-issue: 115765 +.. nonce: jko7Fg +.. section: Build + +GNU Autoconf 2.72 is now required to generate :file:`!configure`. Patch by +Erlend Aasland. + +.. + +.. date: 2025-01-02-11-02-45 +.. gh-issue: 123925 +.. nonce: TLlyUi +.. section: Build + +Fix building the :mod:`curses` module on platforms with libncurses but +without libncursesw. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-31-17-09-37 +.. gh-issue: 90905 +.. nonce: PjLNai +.. section: Build + +Add support for cross-compiling to x86_64 on aarch64/arm64 macOS. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-28-21-05-19 +.. gh-issue: 128321 +.. nonce: 0UvbXw +.. section: Build + +Set ``LIBS`` instead of ``LDFLAGS`` when checking if :mod:`sqlite3` library +functions are available. This fixes the ordering of linked libraries during +checks, which was incorrect when using a statically linked ``libsqlite3``. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-21-09-56-37 +.. gh-issue: 100384 +.. nonce: Ib-XrN +.. section: Build + +Error on ``unguarded-availability`` in macOS builds, preventing invalid use +of symbols that are not available in older versions of the OS. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-20-09-03-22 +.. gh-issue: 128104 +.. nonce: m_SoVx +.. section: Build + +Remove ``Py_STRFTIME_C99_SUPPORT`` conditions in favor of requiring C99 +:manpage:`strftime(3)` specifier support at build time. When +cross-compiling, there is no build time check and support is assumed. + +.. + +.. date: 2024-12-16-16-16-35 +.. gh-issue: 127951 +.. nonce: lpE13- +.. section: Build + +Add option ``--pystats`` to the Windows build to enable performance +statistics collection. |