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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.4rc1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.4rc1.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5678ff2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.4rc1.rst @@ -0,0 +1,1135 @@ +.. bpo: 30730 +.. date: 084 +.. nonce: rJsyTH +.. original section: Library +.. release date: 2017-07-23 +.. section: Security + +Prevent environment variables injection in subprocess on Windows. Prevent +passing other environment variables and command arguments. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30694 +.. date: 083 +.. nonce: WkMWM_ +.. original section: Library +.. section: Security + +Upgrade expat copy from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1 to get fixes of multiple security +vulnerabilities including: CVE-2017-9233 (External entity infinite loop +DoS), CVE-2016-9063 (Integer overflow, re-fix), CVE-2016-0718 (Fix +regression bugs from 2.2.0's fix to CVE-2016-0718) and CVE-2012-0876 +(Counter hash flooding with SipHash). Note: the CVE-2016-5300 (Use os- +specific entropy sources like getrandom) doesn't impact Python, since Python +already gets entropy from the OS to set the expat secret using +``XML_SetHashSalt()``. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30500 +.. date: 081 +.. nonce: 1VG7R- +.. original section: Library +.. section: Security + +Fix urllib.parse.splithost() to correctly parse fragments. For example, +``splithost('//127.0.0.1#@evil.com/')`` now correctly returns the +``127.0.0.1`` host, instead of treating ``@evil.com`` as the host in an +authentification (``login@host``). + +.. + +.. bpo: 29591 +.. date: 076 +.. nonce: ExKblw +.. original section: Library +.. section: Security + +Update expat copy from 2.1.1 to 2.2.0 to get fixes of CVE-2016-0718 and +CVE-2016-4472. See https://sourceforge.net/p/expat/bugs/537/ for more +information. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30876 +.. date: 2017-07-11-06-31-32 +.. nonce: x35jZX +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Relative import from unloaded package now reimports the package instead of +failing with SystemError. Relative import from non-package now fails with +ImportError rather than SystemError. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30765 +.. date: 2017-06-26-14-29-50 +.. nonce: Q5iBmf +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Avoid blocking in pthread_mutex_lock() when PyThread_acquire_lock() is asked +not to block. + +.. + +.. bpo: 27945 +.. date: 100 +.. nonce: p29r3O +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fixed various segfaults with dict when input collections are mutated during +searching, inserting or comparing. Based on patches by Duane Griffin and +Tim Mitchell. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25794 +.. date: 099 +.. nonce: xfPwqm +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fixed type.__setattr__() and type.__delattr__() for non-interned attribute +names. Based on patch by Eryk Sun. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29935 +.. date: 098 +.. nonce: vgjdJo +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fixed error messages in the index() method of tuple, list and deque when +pass indices of wrong type. + +.. + +.. bpo: 28876 +.. date: 097 +.. nonce: cU-sGT +.. section: Core and Builtins + +``bool(range)`` works even if ``len(range)`` raises :exc:`OverflowError`. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29600 +.. date: 096 +.. nonce: 77wQ6C +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix wrapping coroutine return values in StopIteration. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29537 +.. date: 095 +.. nonce: lu1ysY +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Restore runtime compatibility with bytecode files generated by CPython 3.5.0 +to 3.5.2, and adjust the eval loop to avoid the problems that could be +caused by the malformed variant of the BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL opcode +that they may contain. Patch by Petr Viktorin, Serhiy Storchaka, and Nick +Coghlan. + +.. + +.. bpo: 28598 +.. date: 094 +.. nonce: QxbzQn +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Support __rmod__ for subclasses of str being called before str.__mod__. +Patch by Martijn Pieters. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29602 +.. date: 093 +.. nonce: qyyskC +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix incorrect handling of signed zeros in complex constructor for complex +subclasses and for inputs having a __complex__ method. Patch by Serhiy +Storchaka. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29347 +.. date: 092 +.. nonce: 1RPPGN +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fixed possibly dereferencing undefined pointers when creating weakref +objects. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29438 +.. date: 091 +.. nonce: IKxD6I +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fixed use-after-free problem in key sharing dict. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29319 +.. date: 090 +.. nonce: KLDUZf +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Prevent RunMainFromImporter overwriting sys.path[0]. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29337 +.. date: 089 +.. nonce: bjX8AE +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fixed possible BytesWarning when compare the code objects. Warnings could be +emitted at compile time. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29478 +.. date: 088 +.. nonce: rTQ-qy +.. section: Core and Builtins + +If max_line_length=None is specified while using the Compat32 policy, it is +no longer ignored. Patch by Mircea Cosbuc. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29403 +.. date: 2017-07-20-02-29-49 +.. nonce: 3RinCV +.. section: Library + +Fix ``unittest.mock``'s autospec to not fail on method-bound builtin +functions. Patch by Aaron Gallagher. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30961 +.. date: 2017-07-18-23-47-51 +.. nonce: 064jz0 +.. section: Library + +Fix decrementing a borrowed reference in tracemalloc. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30886 +.. date: 2017-07-10-12-14-22 +.. nonce: nqQj34 +.. section: Library + +Fix multiprocessing.Queue.join_thread(): it now waits until the thread +completes, even if the thread was started by the same process which created +the queue. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29854 +.. date: 2017-07-07-02-18-57 +.. nonce: J8wKb_ +.. section: Library + +Fix segfault in readline when using readline's history-size option. Patch +by Nir Soffer. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30807 +.. date: 2017-06-29-22-04-44 +.. nonce: sLtjY- +.. section: Library + +signal.setitimer() may disable the timer when passed a tiny value. + +Tiny values (such as 1e-6) are valid non-zero values for setitimer(), which +is specified as taking microsecond-resolution intervals. However, on some +platform, our conversion routine could convert 1e-6 into a zero interval, +therefore disabling the timer instead of (re-)scheduling it. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30441 +.. date: 2017-06-29-14-25-14 +.. nonce: 3Wh9kc +.. section: Library + +Fix bug when modifying os.environ while iterating over it + +.. + +.. bpo: 30532 +.. date: 2017-06-26-11-01-59 +.. nonce: qTeL1o +.. section: Library + +Fix email header value parser dropping folding white space in certain cases. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29169 +.. date: 087 +.. nonce: 8ypApm +.. section: Library + +Update zlib to 1.2.11. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30879 +.. date: 086 +.. nonce: N3KI-o +.. section: Library + +os.listdir() and os.scandir() now emit bytes names when called with bytes- +like argument. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30746 +.. date: 085 +.. nonce: 7drQI0 +.. section: Library + +Prohibited the '=' character in environment variable names in +``os.putenv()`` and ``os.spawn*()``. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29755 +.. date: 082 +.. nonce: diQcY_ +.. section: Library + +Fixed the lgettext() family of functions in the gettext module. They now +always return bytes. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30645 +.. date: 080 +.. nonce: oYzbbW +.. section: Library + +Fix path calculation in imp.load_package(), fixing it for cases when a +package is only shipped with bytecodes. Patch by Alexandru Ardelean. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23890 +.. date: 079 +.. nonce: GCFAAZ +.. section: Library + +unittest.TestCase.assertRaises() now manually breaks a reference cycle to +not keep objects alive longer than expected. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30149 +.. date: 078 +.. nonce: hE649r +.. section: Library + +inspect.signature() now supports callables with variable-argument parameters +wrapped with partialmethod. Patch by Dong-hee Na. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29931 +.. date: 077 +.. nonce: tfcTwK +.. section: Library + +Fixed comparison check for ipaddress.ip_interface objects. Patch by Sanjay +Sundaresan. + +.. + +.. bpo: 24484 +.. date: 075 +.. nonce: vFem8K +.. section: Library + +Avoid race condition in multiprocessing cleanup. + +.. + +.. bpo: 28994 +.. date: 074 +.. nonce: 9vzun1 +.. section: Library + +The traceback no longer displayed for SystemExit raised in a callback +registered by atexit. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30508 +.. date: 073 +.. nonce: wNWRS2 +.. section: Library + +Don't log exceptions if Task/Future "cancel()" method was called. + +.. + +.. bpo: 28556 +.. date: 072 +.. nonce: mESP7G +.. section: Library + +Updates to typing module: Add generic AsyncContextManager, add support for +ContextManager on all versions. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra and Ivan +Levkivskyi + +.. + +.. bpo: 29870 +.. date: 071 +.. nonce: p960Ih +.. section: Library + +Fix ssl sockets leaks when connection is aborted in asyncio/ssl +implementation. Patch by Michaël Sghaïer. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29743 +.. date: 070 +.. nonce: en2P4s +.. section: Library + +Closing transport during handshake process leaks open socket. Patch by +Nikolay Kim + +.. + +.. bpo: 27585 +.. date: 069 +.. nonce: 0Ugqqu +.. section: Library + +Fix waiter cancellation in asyncio.Lock. Patch by Mathieu Sornay. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30418 +.. date: 068 +.. nonce: EwISQm +.. section: Library + +On Windows, subprocess.Popen.communicate() now also ignore EINVAL on +stdin.write() if the child process is still running but closed the pipe. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30378 +.. date: 067 +.. nonce: R_19_5 +.. section: Library + +Fix the problem that logging.handlers.SysLogHandler cannot handle IPv6 +addresses. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29960 +.. date: 066 +.. nonce: g0wr3r +.. section: Library + +Preserve generator state when _random.Random.setstate() raises an exception. +Patch by Bryan Olson. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30414 +.. date: 065 +.. nonce: jGl1Lb +.. section: Library + +multiprocessing.Queue._feed background running thread do not break from main +loop on exception. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30003 +.. date: 064 +.. nonce: BOl9HE +.. section: Library + +Fix handling escape characters in HZ codec. Based on patch by Ma Lin. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30301 +.. date: 063 +.. nonce: ywOkjN +.. section: Library + +Fix AttributeError when using SimpleQueue.empty() under *spawn* and +*forkserver* start methods. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30329 +.. date: 062 +.. nonce: EuT36N +.. section: Library + +imaplib and poplib now catch the Windows socket WSAEINVAL error (code 10022) +on shutdown(SHUT_RDWR): An invalid operation was attempted. This error +occurs sometimes on SSL connections. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30375 +.. date: 061 +.. nonce: 9c8qM7 +.. section: Library + +Warnings emitted when compile a regular expression now always point to the +line in the user code. Previously they could point into inners of the re +module if emitted from inside of groups or conditionals. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30048 +.. date: 060 +.. nonce: ELRx8R +.. section: Library + +Fixed ``Task.cancel()`` can be ignored when the task is running coroutine +and the coroutine returned without any more ``await``. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29990 +.. date: 059 +.. nonce: HWV6KE +.. section: Library + +Fix range checking in GB18030 decoder. Original patch by Ma Lin. + +.. + +.. bpo: 26293 +.. date: 058 +.. nonce: wig0YG +.. section: Library + +Change resulted because of zipfile breakage. (See also: bpo-29094) + +.. + +.. bpo: 30243 +.. date: 057 +.. nonce: RHQt0v +.. section: Library + +Removed the __init__ methods of _json's scanner and encoder. Misusing them +could cause memory leaks or crashes. Now scanner and encoder objects are +completely initialized in the __new__ methods. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30185 +.. date: 056 +.. nonce: Tiu1n8 +.. section: Library + +Avoid KeyboardInterrupt tracebacks in forkserver helper process when Ctrl-C +is received. + +.. + +.. bpo: 28556 +.. date: 055 +.. nonce: 51gjbP +.. section: Library + +Various updates to typing module: add typing.NoReturn type, use +WrapperDescriptorType, minor bug-fixes. Original PRs by Jim Fasarakis- +Hilliard and Ivan Levkivskyi. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30205 +.. date: 054 +.. nonce: BsxO34 +.. section: Library + +Fix getsockname() for unbound AF_UNIX sockets on Linux. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30070 +.. date: 053 +.. nonce: XM_B41 +.. section: Library + +Fixed leaks and crashes in errors handling in the parser module. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30061 +.. date: 052 +.. nonce: 2w_dX9 +.. section: Library + +Fixed crashes in IOBase methods __next__() and readlines() when readline() +or __next__() respectively return non-sizeable object. Fixed possible other +errors caused by not checking results of PyObject_Size(), PySequence_Size(), +or PyMapping_Size(). + +.. + +.. bpo: 30068 +.. date: 051 +.. nonce: n4q47r +.. section: Library + +_io._IOBase.readlines will check if it's closed first when hint is present. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29694 +.. date: 050 +.. nonce: LWKxb1 +.. section: Library + +Fixed race condition in pathlib mkdir with flags parents=True. Patch by +Armin Rigo. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29692 +.. date: 049 +.. nonce: oyWrAE +.. section: Library + +Fixed arbitrary unchaining of RuntimeError exceptions in +contextlib.contextmanager. Patch by Siddharth Velankar. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29998 +.. date: 048 +.. nonce: poeIKD +.. section: Library + +Pickling and copying ImportError now preserves name and path attributes. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29942 +.. date: 047 +.. nonce: CsGNuT +.. section: Library + +Fix a crash in itertools.chain.from_iterable when encountering long runs of +empty iterables. + +.. + +.. bpo: 27863 +.. date: 046 +.. nonce: pPYHHI +.. section: Library + +Fixed multiple crashes in ElementTree caused by race conditions and wrong +types. + +.. + +.. bpo: 28699 +.. date: 045 +.. nonce: wZztZP +.. section: Library + +Fixed a bug in pools in multiprocessing.pool that raising an exception at +the very first of an iterable may swallow the exception or make the program +hang. Patch by Davin Potts and Xiang Zhang. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25803 +.. date: 044 +.. nonce: CPDR0W +.. section: Library + +Avoid incorrect errors raised by Path.mkdir(exist_ok=True) when the OS gives +priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29861 +.. date: 043 +.. nonce: t2ZoRK +.. section: Library + +Release references to tasks, their arguments and their results as soon as +they are finished in multiprocessing.Pool. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29884 +.. date: 042 +.. nonce: kWXR8W +.. section: Library + +faulthandler: Restore the old sigaltstack during teardown. Patch by +Christophe Zeitouny. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25455 +.. date: 041 +.. nonce: ZsahHN +.. section: Library + +Fixed crashes in repr of recursive buffered file-like objects. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29800 +.. date: 040 +.. nonce: d2xASa +.. section: Library + +Fix crashes in partial.__repr__ if the keys of partial.keywords are not +strings. Patch by Michael Seifert. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29742 +.. date: 039 +.. nonce: 8hqfEO +.. section: Library + +get_extra_info() raises exception if get called on closed ssl transport. +Patch by Nikolay Kim. + +.. + +.. bpo: 8256 +.. date: 038 +.. nonce: jAwGQH +.. section: Library + +Fixed possible failing or crashing input() if attributes "encoding" or +"errors" of sys.stdin or sys.stdout are not set or are not strings. + +.. + +.. bpo: 28298 +.. date: 037 +.. nonce: xfm84U +.. section: Library + +Fix a bug that prevented array 'Q', 'L' and 'I' from accepting big intables +(objects that have __int__) as elements. Patch by Oren Milman. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29615 +.. date: 036 +.. nonce: OpFKzg +.. section: Library + +SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher no longer chains KeyError (or any other exception) to +exception(s) raised in the dispatched methods. Patch by Petr Motejlek. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29704 +.. date: 035 +.. nonce: WHbx27 +.. section: Library + +asyncio.subprocess.SubprocessStreamProtocol no longer closes before all +pipes are closed. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29703 +.. date: 034 +.. nonce: ZdsPCR +.. section: Library + +Fix asyncio to support instantiation of new event loops in child processes. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29376 +.. date: 033 +.. nonce: rrJhJy +.. section: Library + +Fix assertion error in threading._DummyThread.is_alive(). + +.. + +.. bpo: 29110 +.. date: 032 +.. nonce: wmE-_T +.. section: Library + +Fix file object leak in aifc.open() when file is given as a filesystem path +and is not in valid AIFF format. Patch by Anthony Zhang. + +.. + +.. bpo: 28961 +.. date: 031 +.. nonce: Rt93vg +.. section: Library + +Fix unittest.mock._Call helper: don't ignore the name parameter anymore. +Patch written by Jiajun Huang. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29532 +.. date: 030 +.. nonce: YCwVQn +.. section: Library + +Altering a kwarg dictionary passed to functools.partial() no longer affects +a partial object after creation. + +.. + +.. bpo: 28556 +.. date: 029 +.. nonce: p6967e +.. section: Library + +Various updates to typing module: typing.Counter, typing.ChainMap, improved +ABC caching, etc. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra, Ivan Levkivskyi, Manuel +Krebber, and Łukasz Langa. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29100 +.. date: 028 +.. nonce: LAAERS +.. section: Library + +Fix datetime.fromtimestamp() regression introduced in Python 3.6.0: check +minimum and maximum years. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29519 +.. date: 027 +.. nonce: oGGgZ4 +.. section: Library + +Fix weakref spewing exceptions during interpreter shutdown when used with a +rare combination of multiprocessing and custom codecs. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29416 +.. date: 026 +.. nonce: KJGyI_ +.. section: Library + +Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.Path.mkdir + +.. + +.. bpo: 29444 +.. date: 025 +.. nonce: cEwgmk +.. section: Library + +Fixed out-of-bounds buffer access in the group() method of the match object. +Based on patch by WGH. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29335 +.. date: 024 +.. nonce: _KC7IK +.. section: Library + +Fix subprocess.Popen.wait() when the child process has exited to a stopped +instead of terminated state (ex: when under ptrace). + +.. + +.. bpo: 29290 +.. date: 023 +.. nonce: XBqptF +.. section: Library + +Fix a regression in argparse that help messages would wrap at non-breaking +spaces. + +.. + +.. bpo: 28735 +.. date: 022 +.. nonce: admHLO +.. section: Library + +Fixed the comparison of mock.MagickMock with mock.ANY. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29011 +.. date: 021 +.. nonce: MI5f2R +.. section: Library + +Fix an important omission by adding Deque to the typing module. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29219 +.. date: 020 +.. nonce: kxui7t +.. section: Library + +Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of uninitialized ctypes.CDLL instances. + +.. + +.. bpo: 28969 +.. date: 019 +.. nonce: j3HJYO +.. section: Library + +Fixed race condition in C implementation of functools.lru_cache. KeyError +could be raised when cached function with full cache was simultaneously +called from differen threads with the same uncached arguments. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29142 +.. date: 018 +.. nonce: xo6kAv +.. section: Library + +In urllib.request, suffixes in no_proxy environment variable with leading +dots could match related hostnames again (e.g. .b.c matches a.b.c). Patch by +Milan Oberkirch. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30176 +.. date: 013 +.. nonce: VivmCg +.. section: Documentation + +Add missing attribute related constants in curses documentation. + +.. + +.. bpo: 26985 +.. date: 012 +.. nonce: NB5_9S +.. section: Documentation + +Add missing info of code object in inspect documentation. + +.. + +.. bpo: 28929 +.. date: 011 +.. nonce: Md7kb0 +.. section: Documentation + +Link the documentation to its source file on GitHub. + +.. + +.. bpo: 25008 +.. date: 010 +.. nonce: CeIzyU +.. section: Documentation + +Document smtpd.py as effectively deprecated and add a pointer to aiosmtpd, a +third-party asyncio-based replacement. + +.. + +.. bpo: 26355 +.. date: 009 +.. nonce: SDq_8Y +.. section: Documentation + +Add canonical header link on each page to corresponding major version of the +documentation. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29349 +.. date: 008 +.. nonce: PjSo-t +.. section: Documentation + +Fix Python 2 syntax in code for building the documentation. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30822 +.. date: 2017-07-20-14-29-54 +.. nonce: X0wREo +.. section: Tests + +Fix regrtest command line parser to allow passing -u extralargefile to run +test_zipfile64. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30383 +.. date: 2017-06-27-13-52-43 +.. nonce: rCmrv7 +.. section: Tests + +regrtest: Enhance regrtest and backport features from the master branch. + +Add options: --coverage, --testdir, --list-tests (list test files, don't run +them), --list-cases (list test identifiers, don't run them, :issue:`30523`), +--matchfile (load a list of test filters from a text file, :issue:`30540`), +--slowest (alias to --slow). + +Enhance output: add timestamp, test result, currently running tests, "Tests +result: xxx" summary with total duration, etc. + +Fix reference leak hunting in regrtest, --huntrleaks: regrtest now warms up +caches, create explicitly all internal singletons which are created on +demand to prevent false positives when checking for reference leaks. +(:issue:`30675`). + +.. + +.. bpo: 30357 +.. date: 004 +.. nonce: n4CPEa +.. section: Tests + +test_thread: setUp() now uses support.threading_setup() and +support.threading_cleanup() to wait until threads complete to avoid random +side effects on following tests. Initial patch written by Grzegorz Grzywacz. + +.. + +.. bpo: 28087 +.. date: 003 +.. nonce: m8dc4R +.. section: Tests + +Skip test_asyncore and test_eintr poll failures on macOS. Skip some tests of +select.poll when running on macOS due to unresolved issues with the +underlying system poll function on some macOS versions. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30197 +.. date: 002 +.. nonce: c5wRfu +.. section: Tests + +Enhanced functions swap_attr() and swap_item() in the test.support module. +They now work when delete replaced attribute or item inside the with +statement. The old value of the attribute or item (or None if it doesn't +exist) now will be assigned to the target of the "as" clause, if there is +one. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29571 +.. date: 001 +.. nonce: r6Dixr +.. section: Tests + +to match the behaviour of the ``re.LOCALE`` flag, test_re.test_locale_flag +now uses ``locale.getpreferredencoding(False)`` to determine the candidate +encoding for the test regex (allowing it to correctly skip the test when the +default locale encoding is a multi-byte encoding) + +.. + +.. bpo: 29243 +.. date: 007 +.. nonce: WDK4hT +.. section: Build + +Prevent unnecessary rebuilding of Python during ``make test``, ``make +install`` and some other make targets when configured with ``--enable- +optimizations``. + +.. + +.. bpo: 23404 +.. date: 006 +.. nonce: PdYVWg +.. section: Build + +Don't regenerate generated files based on file modification time anymore: +the action is now explicit. Replace ``make touch`` with ``make regen-all``. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29643 +.. date: 005 +.. nonce: 4WLIJQ +.. section: Build + +Fix ``--enable-optimization`` didn't work. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30687 +.. date: 017 +.. nonce: 8mqHnu +.. section: Windows + +Locate msbuild.exe on Windows when building rather than vcvarsall.bat + +.. + +.. bpo: 29392 +.. date: 016 +.. nonce: OtqS5t +.. section: Windows + +Prevent crash when passing invalid arguments into msvcrt module. + +.. + +.. bpo: 27867 +.. date: 015 +.. nonce: VMCoJU +.. section: C API + +Function PySlice_GetIndicesEx() is replaced with a macro if Py_LIMITED_API +is set to the value between 0x03050400 and 0x03060000 (not including) or +0x03060100 or higher. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29083 +.. date: 014 +.. nonce: tGTjr_ +.. section: C API + +Fixed the declaration of some public API functions. PyArg_VaParse() and +PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords() were not available in limited API. +PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments(), PyArg_UnpackTuple() and Py_BuildValue() +were not available in limited API of version < 3.3 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is +defined. |