diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Misc/NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 37 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -1,15 +1,33 @@ -XXX check that regsub.split / splitx are correctly documented. - -====================================== +========================================= ==> Release 1.4beta3 (August 26 1996) <== -====================================== +========================================= + +(XXX This is less readable that it should. I promis to restructure it +for the final 1.4 release.) -XXX This needs to be reordered. What's new in 1.4beta3 (since beta2)? ------------------------------------- +- In urllib.urlopen(): HTTP URLs containing user:passwd@host are now +handled correctly when using a proxy server. + +- In ntpath.normpath(): don't truncate to 8+3 format. + +- In mimetools.choose_boundary(): don't die when getuid() or getpid() +aren't defined. + +- Module urllib: some optimizations to (un)quoting. + +- New module MimeWriter for writing MIME documents. + +- More changes to formatter module. + +- The freeze script works once again and is much more robust (using +sys.prefix etc.). It also supports a -o option to specify an +output directory. + - New module whichdb recognizes dbm, gdbm and bsddb/dbhash files. - The Doc/Makefile targets have been reorganized somewhat to remove the @@ -55,9 +73,10 @@ meaningful. - A generic Makefile for dynamically loaded modules is provided in the Misc subdirectory (Misc/gMakefile). -- A new version of python-mode.el for Emacs is provided. Ask Barry Warsaw -for a list of changes. The separate file pyimenu.el is no longer needed, -imenu support is folded into python-mode.el. +- A new version of python-mode.el for Emacs is provided. See +http://www.python.org/ftp/emacs/pmdetails.html for details. The +separate file pyimenu.el is no longer needed, imenu support is folded +into python-mode.el. - The configure script can finally correctly find the readline library in a non-standard location. The LDFLAGS variable is passed on the the Makefiles @@ -83,6 +102,8 @@ can use *.so and *.sl as shared libraries. - Some more fidgeting for AIX shared libraries. - The mpz module is now compatible with GMP 2.x. (Not tested by me.) +(Note -- a complete replacement by Niels Mo"ller, called gpmodule, is +available from the contrib directory on the ftp site.) - A warning is written to sys.stderr when a __del__ method raises an exception (formerly, such exceptions were completely ignored). |