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@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@ Python News +++++++++++ -What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 3? -=================================== - Projected Release date: 2013-09-29 Core and Builtins @@ -13,6 +10,17 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- The :envvar:`PYTHONFAULTHANDLER` environment variable now only enables the + faulthandler module if the variable is non-empty. Same behaviour than other + variables like :envvar:`PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE`. + +Tests +----- + +- Issue #18952: Fix regression in support data downloads introduced when + test.support was converted to a package. Regression noticed by Zachary + Ware. + What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 2? =================================== @@ -68,6 +76,10 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #18808: Thread.join() now waits for the underlying thread state to + be destroyed before returning. This prevents unpredictable aborts in + Py_EndInterpreter() when some non-daemon threads are still running. + - Issue #18458: Prevent crashes with newer versions of libedit. Its readline emulation has changed from 0-based indexing to 1-based like gnu readline. @@ -75,7 +87,7 @@ Library readline activation code in ``site.py``. - Issue #18672: Fixed format specifiers for Py_ssize_t in debugging output in - the _sre moduel. + the _sre module. - Issue #18830: inspect.getclasstree() no more produces duplicated entries even when input list contains duplicates. |