.. bpo: 39184 .. date: 2020-02-07-23-54-18 .. nonce: v-ue-v .. release date: 2020-02-17 .. section: Security Add audit events to functions in `fcntl`, `msvcrt`, `os`, `resource`, `shutil`, `signal` and `syslog`. .. .. bpo: 39619 .. date: 2020-02-13-07-35-00 .. nonce: inb_master_chroot .. section: Core and Builtins Enable use of :func:`os.chroot` on HP-UX systems. .. .. bpo: 39606 .. date: 2020-02-11-23-59-07 .. nonce: a72Sxc .. section: Core and Builtins Fix regression caused by fix for bpo-39386, that prevented calling ``aclose`` on an async generator that had already been closed or exhausted. .. .. bpo: 39453 .. date: 2020-01-25-23-51-17 .. nonce: xCOkYk .. section: Core and Builtins Fixed a possible crash in :meth:`list.__contains__` when a list is changed during comparing items. Patch by Dong-hee Na. .. .. bpo: 39219 .. date: 2020-01-05-13-36-08 .. nonce: uHtKd4 .. section: Core and Builtins Syntax errors raised in the tokenizer now always set correct "text" and "offset" attributes. .. .. bpo: 27657 .. date: 2020-02-16-07-08-54 .. nonce: 9atgcz .. section: Library The original fix for bpo-27657, "Fix urlparse() with numeric paths" (GH-16839) included in 3.8.1, inadvertently introduced a behavior change that broke several third-party packages relying on the original undefined parsing behavior. The change is reverted in 3.8.2, restoring the behavior of 3.8.0 and earlier releases. .. .. bpo: 39474 .. date: 2020-02-12-12-01-26 .. nonce: RZMEUH .. section: Library Fixed starting position of AST for expressions like ``(a)(b)``, ``(a)[b]`` and ``(a).b``. .. .. bpo: 21016 .. date: 2020-02-12-10-04-39 .. nonce: bFXPH7 .. section: Library The :mod:`pydoc` and :mod:`trace` modules now use the :mod:`sysconfig` module to get the path to the Python standard library, to support uncommon installation path like ``/usr/lib64/python3.9/`` on Fedora. Patch by Jan Matějek. .. .. bpo: 39595 .. date: 2020-02-07-23-14-14 .. nonce: DHwddE .. section: Library Improved performance of zipfile.Path for files with a large number of entries. Also improved performance and fixed minor issue as published with `importlib_metadata 1.5 `_. .. .. bpo: 39600 .. date: 2020-02-10-17-09-48 .. nonce: X6NsyM .. section: IDLE In the font configuration window, remove duplicated font names.