path: root/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.6.rst

.. bpo: 44022
.. date: 2021-05-05-17-37-04
.. nonce: bS3XJ9
.. release date: 2021-06-28
.. section: Security

mod:`http.client` now avoids infinitely reading potential HTTP headers after
a ``100 Continue`` status response from the server.

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.. bpo: 44409
.. date: 2021-06-13-23-12-18
.. nonce: eW4LS-
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix error location information for tokenizer errors raised on initialization
of the tokenizer. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

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.. bpo: 43667
.. date: 2021-05-27-17-34-29
.. nonce: ND9jP3
.. section: Core and Builtins

Improve Unicode support in non-UTF locales on Oracle Solaris. This issue
does not affect other Solaris systems.

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.. bpo: 44168
.. date: 2021-05-18-11-27-02
.. nonce: mgB-rt
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix error message in the parser involving keyword arguments with invalid
expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo

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.. bpo: 44114
.. date: 2021-05-12-14-26-16
.. nonce: p-WfAE
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix incorrect dictkeys_reversed and dictitems_reversed function signatures
in C code, which broke webassembly builds.

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.. bpo: 44070
.. date: 2021-05-10-22-30-12
.. nonce: 5bBtKx
.. section: Core and Builtins

No longer eagerly makes import filenames absolute, except for extension
modules, which was introduced in 3.9.5.

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.. bpo: 28146
.. date: 2021-01-13-19-34-41
.. nonce: AZBBkH
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix a confusing error message in :func:`str.format`.

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.. bpo: 11105
.. date: 2020-06-02-13-21-14
.. nonce: wceryW
.. section: Core and Builtins

When compiling :class:`ast.AST` objects with recursive references through
:func:`compile`, the interpreter doesn't crash anymore instead it raises a
:exc:`RecursionError`.

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.. bpo: 44516
.. date: 2021-06-26-12-27-14
.. nonce: BVyX_y
.. section: Library

Update vendored pip to 21.1.3

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.. bpo: 44482
.. date: 2021-06-22-08-43-04
.. nonce: U9GznK
.. section: Library

Fix very unlikely resource leak in :mod:`glob` in alternate Python
implementations.

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.. bpo: 44439
.. date: 2021-06-17-15-01-51
.. nonce: 1S7QhT
.. section: Library

Fix in :meth:`bz2.BZ2File.write` / :meth:`lzma.LZMAFile.write` methods, when
the input data is an object that supports the buffer protocol, the file
length may be wrong.

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.. bpo: 44434
.. date: 2021-06-16-16-52-14
.. nonce: SQS4Pg
.. section: Library

_thread.start_new_thread() no longer calls PyThread_exit_thread() explicitly
at the thread exit, the call was redundant. On Linux with the glibc,
pthread_exit() aborts the whole process if dlopen() fails to open
libgcc_s.so file (ex: EMFILE error). Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 44422
.. date: 2021-06-14-23-28-17
.. nonce: BlWOgv
.. section: Library

The :func:`threading.enumerate` function now uses a reentrant lock to
prevent a hang on reentrant call. Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 44395
.. date: 2021-06-12-10-08-14
.. nonce: PcW6Sx
.. section: Library

Fix :meth:`~email.message.MIMEPart.as_string` to pass unixfrom properly.
Patch by Dong-hee Na.

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.. bpo: 44342
.. date: 2021-06-10-21-04-14
.. nonce: nNH5jA
.. section: Library

[Enum] Be more robust in searching for pickle support before making an enum
class unpicklable.

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.. bpo: 44356
.. date: 2021-06-10-08-35-38
.. nonce: 6oDFhO
.. section: Library

[Enum] Allow multiple data-type mixins if they are all the same.

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.. bpo: 44254
.. date: 2021-05-29-01-05-43
.. nonce: f06xDm
.. section: Library

On Mac, give turtledemo button text a color that works on both light or dark
background.  Programmers cannot control the latter.

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.. bpo: 44145
.. date: 2021-05-16-00-00-38
.. nonce: ko5SJ7
.. section: Library

:mod:`hmac` computations were not releasing the GIL while calling the
OpenSSL ``HMAC_Update`` C API (a new feature in 3.9).  This unintentionally
prevented parallel computation as other :mod:`hashlib` algorithms support.

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.. bpo: 37788
.. date: 2021-05-13-19-07-28
.. nonce: adeFcf
.. section: Library

Fix a reference leak when a Thread object is never joined.

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.. bpo: 44061
.. date: 2021-05-07-08-39-23
.. nonce: MvElG6
.. section: Library

Fix regression in previous release when calling :func:`pkgutil.iter_modules`
with a list of :class:`pathlib.Path` objects

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.. bpo: 36515
.. date: 2021-05-05-11-44-49
.. nonce: uOSa3q
.. section: Library

The :mod:`hashlib` module no longer does unaligned memory accesses when
compiled for ARM platforms.

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.. bpo: 44018
.. date: 2021-05-03-10-07-43
.. nonce: VDyW8f
.. section: Library

random.seed() no longer mutates bytearray inputs.

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.. bpo: 38352
.. date: 2021-05-02-13-54-25
.. nonce: N9MlhV
.. section: Library

Add ``IO``, ``BinaryIO``, ``TextIO``, ``Match``, and ``Pattern`` to
``typing.__all__``. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

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.. bpo: 43972
.. date: 2021-04-30-16-58-24
.. nonce: Y2r9lg
.. section: Library

When :class:`http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` sends a ``301 (Moved
Permanently)`` for a directory path not ending with `/`, add a
``Content-Length: 0`` header. This improves the behavior for certain
clients.

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.. bpo: 28528
.. date: 2021-04-29-00-48-00
.. nonce: JLAVWj
.. section: Library

Fix a bug in :mod:`pdb` where :meth:`~pdb.Pdb.checkline` raises
:exc:`AttributeError` if it is called after :meth:`~pdb.Pdb.reset`.

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.. bpo: 43776
.. date: 2021-04-12-00-00-00
.. nonce: p14y7a
.. section: Library

When :class:`subprocess.Popen` args are provided as a string or as
:class:`pathlib.Path`, the Popen instance repr now shows the right thing.

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.. bpo: 43666
.. date: 2021-03-30-08-39-08
.. nonce: m72tlH
.. section: Library

AIX: `Lib/_aix_support.get_platform()` may fail in an AIX WPAR. The fileset
bos.rte appears to have a builddate in both LPAR and WPAR so this fileset is
queried rather than bos.mp64. To prevent a similiar situation (no builddate
in ODM) a value (9988) sufficient for completing a build is provided. Patch
by M Felt.

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.. bpo: 43650
.. date: 2021-03-29-00-23-30
.. nonce: v01tic
.. section: Library

Fix :exc:`MemoryError` in :func:`shutil.unpack_archive` which fails inside
:func:`shutil._unpack_zipfile` on large files. Patch by Igor Bolshakov.

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.. bpo: 43318
.. date: 2021-02-25-08-32-06
.. nonce: bZJw6V
.. section: Library

Fix a bug where :mod:`pdb` does not always echo cleared breakpoints.

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.. bpo: 43295
.. date: 2021-02-22-22-54-40
.. nonce: h_ffu7
.. section: Library

:meth:`datetime.datetime.strptime` now raises ``ValueError`` instead of
``IndexError`` when matching ``'z'`` with the ``%z`` format specifier.

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.. bpo: 37022
.. date: 2020-01-25-12-58-20
.. nonce: FUZI25
.. section: Library

:mod:`pdb` now displays exceptions from ``repr()`` with its ``p`` and ``pp``
commands.

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.. bpo: 40620
.. date: 2021-06-26-17-41-06
.. nonce: PAYDrB
.. section: Documentation

Convert examples in tutorial controlflow.rst section 4.3 to be
interpreter-demo style.

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.. bpo: 13814
.. date: 2021-06-21-15-46-32
.. nonce: LDcslu
.. section: Documentation

In the Design FAQ, answer "Why don't generators support the with statement?"

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.. bpo: 44392
.. date: 2021-06-16-18-09-49
.. nonce: 6RF1Sc
.. section: Documentation

Added a new section in the C API documentation for types used in type
hinting.  Documented ``Py_GenericAlias`` and ``Py_GenericAliasType``.

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.. bpo: 38291
.. date: 2021-06-14-09-20-37
.. nonce: VMYa_Q
.. section: Documentation

Mark ``typing.io`` and ``typing.re`` as deprecated since Python 3.8 in the
documentation. They were never properly supported by type checkers.

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.. bpo: 44322
.. date: 2021-06-06-14-12-00
.. nonce: K0PHfE
.. section: Documentation

Document that SyntaxError args have a details tuple and that details are
adjusted for errors in f-string field replacement expressions.

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.. bpo: 44195
.. date: 2021-05-23-09-11-28
.. nonce: 1bqkOs
.. section: Documentation

Corrected references to ``TraversableResources`` in docs. There is no
``TraversableReader``.

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.. bpo: 41963
.. date: 2021-05-17-20-03-47
.. nonce: eUz9_o
.. section: Documentation

Document that ``ConfigParser`` strips off comments when reading
configuration files.

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.. bpo: 44072
.. date: 2021-05-08-09-48-05
.. nonce: fb2x5I
.. section: Documentation

Correct where in the numeric ABC hierarchy ``**`` support is added, i.e., in
numbers.Complex, not numbers.Integral.

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.. bpo: 43558
.. date: 2021-05-07-12-27-09
.. nonce: UGhA8R
.. section: Documentation

Add the remark to :mod:`dataclasses` documentation that the :meth:`__init__`
of any base class has to be called in :meth:`__post_init__`, along with a
code example.

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.. bpo: 41621
.. date: 2020-08-24-13-35-04
.. nonce: nqaw9G
.. section: Documentation

Document that :class:`collections.defaultdict` parameter ``default_factory``
defaults to None and is positional-only.

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.. bpo: 44287
.. date: 2021-06-21-17-53-41
.. nonce: YON57s
.. section: Tests

Fix asyncio test_popen() of test_windows_utils by using a longer timeout.
Use military grade battle-tested :data:`test.support.SHORT_TIMEOUT` timeout
rather than a hardcoded timeout of 10 seconds: it's 30 seconds by default,
but it is made longer on slow buildbots. Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 44363
.. date: 2021-06-10-11-19-43
.. nonce: -K9jD0
.. section: Tests

Account for address sanitizer in test_capi. test_capi now passes when run
GCC address sanitizer.

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.. bpo: 44381
.. date: 2021-06-10-18-08-44
.. nonce: Xpc1iX
.. section: Build

The Windows build now accepts :envvar:`EnableControlFlowGuard` set to
``guard`` to enable CFG.

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.. bpo: 41299
.. date: 2021-06-06-16-36-13
.. nonce: Rg-vb_
.. section: Windows

Fix 16ms jitter when using timeouts in :mod:`threading`, such as with
:meth:`threading.Lock.acquire` or :meth:`threading.Condition.wait`.

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.. bpo: 43568
.. date: 2021-06-02-19-21-13
.. nonce: viomLm
.. section: macOS

Relax unnecessarily restrictive MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET check when building
extension modules for macOS. Patch by Joshua Root.

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.. bpo: 43109
.. date: 2021-05-24-21-15-41
.. nonce: npKJ9c
.. section: macOS

Allow --with-lto configure option to work with Apple-supplied Xcode or
Command Line Tools.

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.. bpo: 40128
.. date: 2021-06-11-17-43-39
.. nonce: 7vDN3U
.. section: IDLE

Mostly fix completions on macOS when not using tcl/tk 8.6.11 (as with 3.9).
The added update_idletask call should be harmless and possibly helpful
otherwise.

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.. bpo: 33962
.. date: 2021-06-10-00-50-02
.. nonce: ikAUNg
.. section: IDLE

Move the indent space setting from the Font tab to the new Windows tab.
Patch by Mark Roseman and Terry Jan Reedy.

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.. bpo: 40468
.. date: 2021-06-08-03-04-51
.. nonce: tUCGUb
.. section: IDLE

Split the settings dialog General tab into Windows and Shell/ED tabs. Move
help sources, which extend the Help menu, to the Extensions tab. Make space
for new options and shorten the dialog. The latter makes the dialog better
fit small screens.

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.. bpo: 41611
.. date: 2021-05-27-18-22-46
.. nonce: jOKpfc
.. section: IDLE

Avoid uncaught exceptions in ``AutoCompleteWindow.winconfig_event()``.

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.. bpo: 41611
.. date: 2021-05-27-13-39-43
.. nonce: liNQqj
.. section: IDLE

Fix IDLE sometimes freezing upon tab-completion on macOS.

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.. bpo: 44074
.. date: 2021-05-08-13-57-00
.. nonce: F09kCK
.. section: Tools/Demos

Make patchcheck automatically detect the correct base branch name
(previously it was hardcoded to 'master')

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.. bpo: 44441
.. date: 2021-06-23-12-12-04
.. nonce: 3p14JB
.. section: C API

:c:func:`Py_RunMain` now resets :c:data:`PyImport_Inittab` to its initial
value at exit. It must be possible to call :c:func:`PyImport_AppendInittab`
or :c:func:`PyImport_ExtendInittab` at each Python initialization. Patch by
Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 42083
.. date: 2021-05-04-15-13-31
.. nonce: ekXnbR
.. section: C API

Fix crash in :c:func:`PyStructSequence_NewType` when passed ``NULL`` in the
documentation string slot.