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.. date: 2022-09-28-17-09-37
.. gh-issue: 97616
.. nonce: K1e3Xs
.. release date: 2022-10-11
.. section: Security

Fix multiplying a list by an integer (``list *= int``): detect the integer
overflow when the new allocated length is close to the maximum size. Issue
reported by Jordan Limor.  Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. date: 2022-09-28-12-10-57
.. gh-issue: 97612
.. nonce: y6NvOQ
.. section: Security

Fix a shell code injection vulnerability in the
``get-remote-certificate.py`` example script. The script no longer uses a
shell to run ``openssl`` commands. Issue reported and initial fix by Caleb
Shortt. Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. date: 2022-04-27-18-25-30
.. gh-issue: 68966
.. nonce: gjS8zs
.. section: Security

The deprecated mailcap module now refuses to inject unsafe text (filenames,
MIME types, parameters) into shell commands. Instead of using such text, it
will warn and act as if a match was not found (or for test commands, as if
the test failed).

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.. date: 2022-10-06-15-45-57
.. gh-issue: 96078
.. nonce: fS-6mU
.. section: Core and Builtins

:func:`os.sched_yield` now release the GIL while calling sched_yield(2).
Patch by Dong-hee Na.

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.. date: 2022-10-05-17-02-22
.. gh-issue: 97943
.. nonce: LYAWlE
.. section: Core and Builtins

Bugfix: :func:`PyFunction_GetAnnotations` should return a borrowed
reference. It was returning a new reference.

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.. date: 2022-10-01-08-55-09
.. gh-issue: 97591
.. nonce: pw6kkH
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fixed a missing incref/decref pair in `Exception.__setstate__()`. Patch by
Ofey Chan.

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.. date: 2022-09-21-14-38-31
.. gh-issue: 96848
.. nonce: WuoLzU
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix command line parsing: reject :option:`-X int_max_str_digits <-X>` option
with no value (invalid) when the :envvar:`PYTHONINTMAXSTRDIGITS` environment
variable is set to a valid limit. Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. date: 2022-09-20-11-06-45
.. gh-issue: 95921
.. nonce: dkcRQn
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix overly-broad source position information for chained comparisons used as
branching conditions.

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.. date: 2022-09-18-08-47-40
.. gh-issue: 96821
.. nonce: Co2iOq
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix undefined behaviour in ``_testcapimodule.c``.

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.. date: 2022-09-16-19-02-40
.. gh-issue: 95778
.. nonce: cJmnst
.. section: Core and Builtins

When :exc:`ValueError` is raised if an integer is larger than the limit,
mention the :func:`sys.set_int_max_str_digits` function in the error
message. Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. date: 2022-09-16-16-54-35
.. gh-issue: 96387
.. nonce: GRzewg
.. section: Core and Builtins

At Python exit, sometimes a thread holding the GIL can wait forever for a
thread (usually a daemon thread) which requested to drop the GIL, whereas
the thread already exited. To fix the race condition, the thread which
requested the GIL drop now resets its request before exiting. Issue
discovered and analyzed by Mingliang ZHAO. Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. date: 2022-09-16-12-36-13
.. gh-issue: 96864
.. nonce: PLU3i8
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix a possible assertion failure, fatal error, or :exc:`SystemError` if a
line tracing event raises an exception while opcode tracing is enabled.

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.. date: 2022-09-13-12-06-46
.. gh-issue: 96678
.. nonce: NqGFyb
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix undefined behaviour in C code of null pointer arithmetic.

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.. date: 2022-09-07-13-38-37
.. gh-issue: 96641
.. nonce: wky0Fc
.. section: Core and Builtins

Do not expose ``KeyWrapper`` in :mod:`_functools`.

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.. date: 2022-09-06-16-22-13
.. gh-issue: 96611
.. nonce: 14wIX8
.. section: Core and Builtins

When loading a file with invalid UTF-8 inside a multi-line string, a correct
SyntaxError is emitted.

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.. date: 2022-08-29-13-06-58
.. gh-issue: 95196
.. nonce: eGRR4b
.. section: Core and Builtins

Disable incorrect pickling of the C implemented classmethod descriptors.

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.. date: 2022-08-28-10-51-19
.. gh-issue: 96352
.. nonce: jTLD2d
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix :exc:`AttributeError` missing ``name`` and ``obj`` attributes in
:meth:`object.__getattribute__`. Patch by Philip Georgi.

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.. bpo: 42316
.. date: 2020-11-15-02-08-43
.. nonce: LqdkWK
.. section: Core and Builtins

Document some places where an assignment expression needs parentheses.

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.. date: 2022-10-09-12-12-38
.. gh-issue: 87730
.. nonce: ClgP3f
.. section: Library

Wrap network errors consistently in urllib FTP support, so the test suite
doesn't fail when a network is available but the public internet is not
reachable.

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.. date: 2022-10-04-07-55-19
.. gh-issue: 97825
.. nonce: mNdv1l
.. section: Library

Fixes :exc:`AttributeError` when :meth:`subprocess.check_output` is used
with argument ``input=None`` and either of the arguments *encoding* or
*errors* are used.

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.. date: 2022-09-30-15-56-20
.. gh-issue: 96827
.. nonce: lzy1iw
.. section: Library

Avoid spurious tracebacks from :mod:`asyncio` when default executor cleanup
is delayed until after the event loop is closed (e.g. as the result of a
keyboard interrupt).

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.. date: 2022-09-29-23-22-24
.. gh-issue: 97592
.. nonce: tpJg_J
.. section: Library

Avoid a crash in the C version of
:meth:`asyncio.Future.remove_done_callback` when an evil argument is passed.

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.. date: 2022-09-29-08-15-55
.. gh-issue: 97639
.. nonce: JSjWYW
.. section: Library

Remove ``tokenize.NL`` check from :mod:`tabnanny`.

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.. date: 2022-09-25-23-24-52
.. gh-issue: 97545
.. nonce: HZLSNt
.. section: Library

Make Semaphore run faster.

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.. date: 2022-09-25-20-42-33
.. gh-issue: 73588
.. nonce: uVtjEA
.. section: Library

Fix generation of the default name of :class:`tkinter.Checkbutton`.
Previously, checkbuttons in different parent widgets could have the same
short name and share the same state if arguments "name" and "variable" are
not specified. Now they are globally unique.

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.. date: 2022-09-22-14-35-02
.. gh-issue: 97005
.. nonce: yf21Q7
.. section: Library

Update bundled libexpat to 2.4.9

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.. date: 2022-09-22-11-50-29
.. gh-issue: 85760
.. nonce: DETTPd
.. section: Library

Fix race condition in :mod:`asyncio` where
:meth:`~asyncio.SubprocessProtocol.process_exited` called before the
:meth:`~asyncio.SubprocessProtocol.pipe_data_received` leading to
inconsistent output. Patch by Kumar Aditya.

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.. date: 2022-09-17-13-15-10
.. gh-issue: 96819
.. nonce: 6RfqM7
.. section: Library

Fixed check in :mod:`multiprocessing.resource_tracker` that guarantees that
the length of a write to a pipe is not greater than ``PIPE_BUF``.

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.. date: 2022-09-15-00-37-33
.. gh-issue: 96741
.. nonce: 4b6czN
.. section: Library

Corrected type annotation for dataclass attribute
``pstats.FunctionProfile.ncalls`` to be ``str``.

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.. date: 2022-09-07-22-49-37
.. gh-issue: 96652
.. nonce: YqOKxI
.. section: Library

Fix the faulthandler implementation of ``faulthandler.register(signal,
chain=True)`` if the ``sigaction()`` function is not available: don't call
the previous signal handler if it's NULL. Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. date: 2022-08-29-12-35-28
.. gh-issue: 96073
.. nonce: WaGstf
.. section: Library

In :mod:`inspect`, fix overeager replacement of "``typing.``" in formatting
annotations.

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.. date: 2022-08-27-14-38-49
.. gh-issue: 90467
.. nonce: VOOB0p
.. section: Library

Fix :class:`asyncio.streams.StreamReaderProtocol` to keep a strong reference
to the created task, so that it's not garbage collected

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.. date: 2022-08-20-10-31-01
.. gh-issue: 96052
.. nonce: a6FhaD
.. section: Library

Fix handling compiler warnings (SyntaxWarning and DeprecationWarning) in
:func:`codeop.compile_command` when checking for incomplete input.
Previously it emitted warnings and raised a SyntaxError. Now it always
returns ``None`` for incomplete input without emitting any warnings.

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.. date: 2022-07-22-09-09-08
.. gh-issue: 91212
.. nonce: 53O8Ab
.. section: Library

Fixed flickering of the turtle window when the tracer is turned off. Patch
by Shin-myoung-serp.

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.. date: 2022-07-09-08-55-04
.. gh-issue: 74116
.. nonce: 0XwYC1
.. section: Library

Allow :meth:`asyncio.StreamWriter.drain` to be awaited concurrently by
multiple tasks. Patch by Kumar Aditya.

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.. date: 2022-05-25-15-57-39
.. gh-issue: 90155
.. nonce: YMstB5
.. section: Library

Fix broken :class:`asyncio.Semaphore` when acquire is cancelled.

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.. date: 2022-05-19-22-34-42
.. gh-issue: 92986
.. nonce: e6uKxj
.. section: Library

Fix :func:`ast.unparse` when ``ImportFrom.level`` is None

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.. date: 2022-04-15-11-29-38
.. gh-issue: 91539
.. nonce: 7WgVuA
.. section: Library

Improve performance of ``urllib.request.getproxies_environment`` when there
are many environment variables

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.. date: 2022-10-02-10-58-52
.. gh-issue: 97741
.. nonce: 39l023
.. section: Documentation

Fix ``!`` in c domain ref target syntax via a ``conf.py`` patch, so it works
as intended to disable ref target resolution.

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.. date: 2022-08-12-01-12-52
.. gh-issue: 95588
.. nonce: PA0FI7
.. section: Documentation

Clarified the conflicting advice given in the :mod:`ast` documentation about
:func:`ast.literal_eval` being "safe" for use on untrusted input while at
the same time warning that it can crash the process. The latter statement is
true and is deemed unfixable without a large amount of work unsuitable for a
bugfix. So we keep the warning and no longer claim that ``literal_eval`` is
safe.

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.. date: 2022-05-20-18-42-10
.. gh-issue: 93031
.. nonce: c2RdJe
.. section: Documentation

Update tutorial introduction output to use 3.10+ SyntaxError invalid range.

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.. date: 2022-09-11-14-23-49
.. gh-issue: 96729
.. nonce: W4uBWL
.. section: Build

Ensure that Windows releases built with ``Tools\msi\buildrelease.bat`` are
upgradable to and from official Python releases.

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.. date: 2022-10-02-11-59-23
.. gh-issue: 97728
.. nonce: dIdlPE
.. section: Windows

Fix possible crashes caused by the use of uninitialized variables when pass
invalid arguments in :func:`os.system` on Windows and in Windows-specific
modules (like ``winreg``).

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.. date: 2022-09-29-23-08-49
.. gh-issue: 90989
.. nonce: no89Q2
.. section: Windows

Clarify some text in the Windows installer.

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.. date: 2022-09-07-00-11-33
.. gh-issue: 96577
.. nonce: kV4K_1
.. section: Windows

Fixes a potential buffer overrun in :mod:`msilib`.

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.. date: 2022-10-05-15-26-58
.. gh-issue: 97897
.. nonce: Rf-C6u
.. section: macOS

The macOS 13 SDK includes support for the ``mkfifoat`` and ``mknodat``
system calls. Using the ``dir_fd`` option with either :func:`os.mkfifo` or
:func:`os.mknod` could result in a segfault if cpython is built with the
macOS 13 SDK but run on an earlier version of macOS. Prevent this by adding
runtime support for detection of these system calls ("weaklinking") as is
done for other newer syscalls on macOS.