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1 files changed, 18 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -12,9 +12,20 @@ What's New in Python 2.4 alpha 1? Core and builtins ----------------- -- Compiler flags set in PYTHONSTARTUP are now active in __main__. - -- Added two builtin types, set() and frozenset(). +- Critical bugfix, for SF bug 839548: if a weakref with a callback, + its callback, and its weakly referenced object, all became part of + cyclic garbage during a single run of garbage collection, the order + in which they were torn down was unpredictable. It was possible for + the callback to see partially-torn-down objects, leading to immediate + segfaults, or, if the callback resurrected garbage objects, to + resurrect insane objects that caused segfaults (or other surprises) + later. In one sense this wasn't surprising, because Python's cyclic gc + had no knowledge of Python's weakref objects. It does now. When + weakrefs with callbacks become part of cyclic garbage now, those + weakrefs are cleared first. The callbacks don't trigger then, + preventing the problems. If you need callbacks to trigger, then just + as when cyclic gc is not involved, you need to write your code so + that weakref objects outlive the objects they weakly reference. - Critical bugfix, for SF bug 840829: if cyclic garbage collection happened to occur during a weakref callback for a new-style class @@ -22,6 +33,10 @@ Core and builtins in a debug build, a segfault occurred reliably very soon after). This has been repaired. +- Compiler flags set in PYTHONSTARTUP are now active in __main__. + +- Added two builtin types, set() and frozenset(). + - Added a reversed() builtin function that returns a reverse iterator over a sequence. |