From 50fc84af385b713ef8566dd040227926acf39172 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kyle Stanley Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:19:36 -0500 Subject: [3.6] Add whatsnew for removal of asyncio.loop.create_datagram_endpoint()'s *reuse_address* parameter (GH-17595). (GH-17632) (cherry picked from commit f501db2b93a9d3d840b6fb38d6bdda8bcc400d4a) Co-authored-by: Kyle Stanley --- Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst index bd5c634..90250e4 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst @@ -2449,3 +2449,13 @@ In 3.6.7 the :mod:`tokenize` module now implicitly emits a ``NEWLINE`` token when provided with input that does not have a trailing new line. This behavior now matches what the C tokenizer does internally. (Contributed by Ammar Askar in :issue:`33899`.) + +Notable changes in Python 3.6.10 +================================ + +Due to significant security concerns, the *reuse_address* parameter of +:meth:`asyncio.loop.create_datagram_endpoint` is no longer supported. This is +because of the behavior of the socket option ``SO_REUSEADDR`` in UDP. For more +details, see the documentation for ``loop.create_datagram_endpoint()``. +(Contributed by Kyle Stanley, Antoine Pitrou, and Yury Selivanov in +:issue:`37228`.) -- cgit v0.12