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      1 .. bpo: 27095
      2 .. date: 9332
      3 .. nonce: 92UoyH
      4 .. release date: 2016-06-13
      5 .. section: Core and Builtins
      6 
      7 Simplified MAKE_FUNCTION and removed MAKE_CLOSURE opcodes. Patch by Demur
      8 Rumed.
      9 
     10 ..
     11 
     12 .. bpo: 27190
     13 .. date: 9331
     14 .. nonce: DHDFeD
     15 .. section: Core and Builtins
     16 
     17 Raise NotSupportedError if sqlite3 is older than 3.3.1. Patch by Dave
     18 Sawyer.
     19 
     20 ..
     21 
     22 .. bpo: 27286
     23 .. date: 9330
     24 .. nonce: U8q6B1
     25 .. section: Core and Builtins
     26 
     27 Fixed compiling BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL opcode.  Calling function with
     28 generalized unpacking (PEP 448) and conflicting keyword names could cause
     29 undefined behavior.
     30 
     31 ..
     32 
     33 .. bpo: 27140
     34 .. date: 9329
     35 .. nonce: uc39-1
     36 .. section: Core and Builtins
     37 
     38 Added BUILD_CONST_KEY_MAP opcode.
     39 
     40 ..
     41 
     42 .. bpo: 27186
     43 .. date: 9328
     44 .. nonce: EAnCS7
     45 .. section: Core and Builtins
     46 
     47 Add support for os.PathLike objects to open() (part of PEP 519).
     48 
     49 ..
     50 
     51 .. bpo: 27066
     52 .. date: 9327
     53 .. nonce: SNExZi
     54 .. section: Core and Builtins
     55 
     56 Fixed SystemError if a custom opener (for open()) returns a negative number
     57 without setting an exception.
     58 
     59 ..
     60 
     61 .. bpo: 26983
     62 .. date: 9326
     63 .. nonce: A0f3fK
     64 .. section: Core and Builtins
     65 
     66 float() now always return an instance of exact float. The deprecation
     67 warning is emitted if __float__ returns an instance of a strict subclass of
     68 float.  In a future versions of Python this can be an error.
     69 
     70 ..
     71 
     72 .. bpo: 27097
     73 .. date: 9325
     74 .. nonce: woRKey
     75 .. section: Core and Builtins
     76 
     77 Python interpreter is now about 7% faster due to optimized instruction
     78 decoding.  Based on patch by Demur Rumed.
     79 
     80 ..
     81 
     82 .. bpo: 26647
     83 .. date: 9324
     84 .. nonce: DLSzRi
     85 .. section: Core and Builtins
     86 
     87 Python interpreter now uses 16-bit wordcode instead of bytecode. Patch by
     88 Demur Rumed.
     89 
     90 ..
     91 
     92 .. bpo: 23275
     93 .. date: 9323
     94 .. nonce: YGPb_y
     95 .. section: Core and Builtins
     96 
     97 Allow assigning to an empty target list in round brackets: () = iterable.
     98 
     99 ..
    100 
    101 .. bpo: 27243
    102 .. date: 9322
    103 .. nonce: U36M4E
    104 .. section: Core and Builtins
    105 
    106 Update the __aiter__ protocol: instead of returning an awaitable that
    107 resolves to an asynchronous iterator, the asynchronous iterator should be
    108 returned directly.  Doing the former will trigger a
    109 PendingDeprecationWarning.
    110 
    111 ..
    112 
    113 .. bpo: 0
    114 .. date: 9321
    115 .. nonce: nBpVM1
    116 .. section: Library
    117 
    118 Comment out socket (SO_REUSEPORT) and posix (O_SHLOCK, O_EXLOCK) constants
    119 exposed on the API which are not implemented on GNU/Hurd. They would not
    120 work at runtime anyway.
    121 
    122 ..
    123 
    124 .. bpo: 27025
    125 .. date: 9320
    126 .. nonce: ffzxpX
    127 .. section: Library
    128 
    129 Generated names for Tkinter widgets are now more meaningful and recognizable.
    130 
    131 ..
    132 
    133 .. bpo: 25455
    134 .. date: 9319
    135 .. nonce: k10GoO
    136 .. section: Library
    137 
    138 Fixed crashes in repr of recursive ElementTree.Element and functools.partial
    139 objects.
    140 
    141 ..
    142 
    143 .. bpo: 27294
    144 .. date: 9318
    145 .. nonce: XPCURr
    146 .. section: Library
    147 
    148 Improved repr for Tkinter event objects.
    149 
    150 ..
    151 
    152 .. bpo: 20508
    153 .. date: 9317
    154 .. nonce: 3NMbT2
    155 .. section: Library
    156 
    157 Improve exception message of IPv{4,6}Network.__getitem__. Patch by Gareth
    158 Rees.
    159 
    160 ..
    161 
    162 .. bpo: 26556
    163 .. date: 9316
    164 .. nonce: v5j2uL
    165 .. original section: Library
    166 .. section: Security
    167 
    168 Update expat to 2.1.1, fixes CVE-2015-1283.
    169 
    170 ..
    171 
    172 .. bpo: 0
    173 .. date: 9315
    174 .. nonce: PHOAdg
    175 .. original section: Library
    176 .. section: Security
    177 
    178 Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smtplib, CVE-2016-0772. Reported by Team
    179 Oststrom.
    180 
    181 ..
    182 
    183 .. bpo: 21386
    184 .. date: 9314
    185 .. nonce: DjV72U
    186 .. section: Library
    187 
    188 Implement missing IPv4Address.is_global property.  It was documented since
    189 07a5610bae9d.  Initial patch by Roger Luethi.
    190 
    191 ..
    192 
    193 .. bpo: 27029
    194 .. date: 9313
    195 .. nonce: dmycvw
    196 .. section: Library
    197 
    198 Removed deprecated support of universal newlines mode from ZipFile.open().
    199 
    200 ..
    201 
    202 .. bpo: 27030
    203 .. date: 9312
    204 .. nonce: p29J7m
    205 .. section: Library
    206 
    207 Unknown escapes consisting of ``'\'`` and an ASCII letter in regular
    208 expressions now are errors.  The re.LOCALE flag now can be used only with
    209 bytes patterns.
    210 
    211 ..
    212 
    213 .. bpo: 27186
    214 .. date: 9311
    215 .. nonce: UYiwoh
    216 .. section: Library
    217 
    218 Add os.PathLike support to DirEntry (part of PEP 519). Initial patch by
    219 Jelle Zijlstra.
    220 
    221 ..
    222 
    223 .. bpo: 20900
    224 .. date: 9310
    225 .. nonce: H5YQPR
    226 .. section: Library
    227 
    228 distutils register command now decodes HTTP responses correctly.  Initial
    229 patch by ingrid.
    230 
    231 ..
    232 
    233 .. bpo: 27186
    234 .. date: 9309
    235 .. nonce: Xo4c_F
    236 .. section: Library
    237 
    238 Add os.PathLike support to pathlib, removing its provisional status (part of
    239 PEP 519). Initial patch by Dusty Phillips.
    240 
    241 ..
    242 
    243 .. bpo: 27186
    244 .. date: 9308
    245 .. nonce: ZD1wpp
    246 .. section: Library
    247 
    248 Add support for os.PathLike objects to os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() (part
    249 of PEP 519).
    250 
    251 ..
    252 
    253 .. bpo: 27186
    254 .. date: 9307
    255 .. nonce: y7YRfj
    256 .. section: Library
    257 
    258 Introduce os.PathLike and os.fspath() (part of PEP 519).
    259 
    260 ..
    261 
    262 .. bpo: 0
    263 .. date: 9306
    264 .. nonce: iYIeng
    265 .. section: Library
    266 
    267 A new version of typing.py provides several new classes and features:
    268 @overload outside stubs, Reversible, DefaultDict, Text, ContextManager,
    269 Type[], NewType(), TYPE_CHECKING, and numerous bug fixes (note that some of
    270 the new features are not yet implemented in mypy or other static analyzers).
    271 Also classes for PEP 492 (Awaitable, AsyncIterable, AsyncIterator) have been
    272 added (in fact they made it into 3.5.1 but were never mentioned).
    273 
    274 ..
    275 
    276 .. bpo: 25738
    277 .. date: 9305
    278 .. nonce: mED9w4
    279 .. section: Library
    280 
    281 Stop http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.send_error() from sending a message
    282 body for 205 Reset Content.  Also, don't send Content header fields in
    283 responses that don't have a body.  Patch by Susumu Koshiba.
    284 
    285 ..
    286 
    287 .. bpo: 21313
    288 .. date: 9304
    289 .. nonce: W30MBr
    290 .. section: Library
    291 
    292 Fix the "platform" module to tolerate when sys.version contains truncated
    293 build information.
    294 
    295 ..
    296 
    297 .. bpo: 26839
    298 .. date: 9303
    299 .. nonce: yVvy7R
    300 .. original section: Library
    301 .. section: Security
    302 
    303 On Linux, :func:`os.urandom` now calls ``getrandom()`` with
    304 ``GRND_NONBLOCK`` to fall back on reading ``/dev/urandom`` if the urandom
    305 entropy pool is not initialized yet. Patch written by Colm Buckley.
    306 
    307 ..
    308 
    309 .. bpo: 23883
    310 .. date: 9302
    311 .. nonce: tsZUiM
    312 .. section: Library
    313 
    314 Added missing APIs to __all__ to match the documented APIs for the following
    315 modules: cgi, mailbox, mimetypes, plistlib and smtpd. Patches by Jacek
    316 Koodziej.
    317 
    318 ..
    319 
    320 .. bpo: 27164
    321 .. date: 9301
    322 .. nonce: 6wmjx2
    323 .. section: Library
    324 
    325 In the zlib module, allow decompressing raw Deflate streams with a
    326 predefined zdict.  Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
    327 
    328 ..
    329 
    330 .. bpo: 24291
    331 .. date: 9300
    332 .. nonce: Ac6HvL
    333 .. section: Library
    334 
    335 Fix wsgiref.simple_server.WSGIRequestHandler to completely write data to the
    336 client.  Previously it could do partial writes and truncate data.  Also,
    337 wsgiref.handler.ServerHandler can now handle stdout doing partial writes,
    338 but this is deprecated.
    339 
    340 ..
    341 
    342 .. bpo: 21272
    343 .. date: 9299
    344 .. nonce: unScIG
    345 .. section: Library
    346 
    347 Use _sysconfigdata.py to initialize distutils.sysconfig.
    348 
    349 ..
    350 
    351 .. bpo: 19611
    352 .. date: 9298
    353 .. nonce: MT-Qga
    354 .. section: Library
    355 
    356 :mod:`inspect` now reports the implicit ``.0`` parameters generated by the
    357 compiler for comprehension and generator expression scopes as if they were
    358 positional-only parameters called ``implicit0``. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
    359 
    360 ..
    361 
    362 .. bpo: 26809
    363 .. date: 9297
    364 .. nonce: ya7JMb
    365 .. section: Library
    366 
    367 Add ``__all__`` to :mod:`string`.  Patch by Emanuel Barry.
    368 
    369 ..
    370 
    371 .. bpo: 26373
    372 .. date: 9296
    373 .. nonce: P6qz6o
    374 .. section: Library
    375 
    376 subprocess.Popen.communicate now correctly ignores BrokenPipeError when the
    377 child process dies before .communicate() is called in more/all
    378 circumstances.
    379 
    380 ..
    381 
    382 .. bpo: 0
    383 .. date: 9295
    384 .. nonce: eKchPz
    385 .. section: Library
    386 
    387 signal, socket, and ssl module IntEnum constant name lookups now return a
    388 consistent name for values having multiple names.  Ex: signal.Signals(6) now
    389 refers to itself as signal.SIGALRM rather than flipping between that and
    390 signal.SIGIOT based on the interpreter's hash randomization seed.
    391 
    392 ..
    393 
    394 .. bpo: 27167
    395 .. date: 9294
    396 .. nonce: orA_j0
    397 .. section: Library
    398 
    399 Clarify the subprocess.CalledProcessError error message text when the child
    400 process died due to a signal.
    401 
    402 ..
    403 
    404 .. bpo: 25931
    405 .. date: 9293
    406 .. nonce: W7h6Am
    407 .. section: Library
    408 
    409 Don't define socketserver.Forking* names on platforms such as Windows that
    410 do not support os.fork().
    411 
    412 ..
    413 
    414 .. bpo: 21776
    415 .. date: 9292
    416 .. nonce: 04eQfa
    417 .. section: Library
    418 
    419 distutils.upload now correctly handles HTTPError. Initial patch by Claudiu
    420 Popa.
    421 
    422 ..
    423 
    424 .. bpo: 26526
    425 .. date: 9291
    426 .. nonce: ScewjJ
    427 .. section: Library
    428 
    429 Replace custom parse tree validation in the parser module with a simple DFA
    430 validator.
    431 
    432 ..
    433 
    434 .. bpo: 27114
    435 .. date: 9290
    436 .. nonce: bGCuAM
    437 .. section: Library
    438 
    439 Fix SSLContext._load_windows_store_certs fails with PermissionError
    440 
    441 ..
    442 
    443 .. bpo: 18383
    444 .. date: 9289
    445 .. nonce: jr-b0l
    446 .. section: Library
    447 
    448 Avoid creating duplicate filters when using filterwarnings and simplefilter.
    449 Based on patch by Alex Shkop.
    450 
    451 ..
    452 
    453 .. bpo: 23026
    454 .. date: 9288
    455 .. nonce: V2rgYX
    456 .. section: Library
    457 
    458 winreg.QueryValueEx() now return an integer for REG_QWORD type.
    459 
    460 ..
    461 
    462 .. bpo: 26741
    463 .. date: 9287
    464 .. nonce: fsbb42
    465 .. section: Library
    466 
    467 subprocess.Popen destructor now emits a ResourceWarning warning if the child
    468 process is still running.
    469 
    470 ..
    471 
    472 .. bpo: 27056
    473 .. date: 9286
    474 .. nonce: rk-BBL
    475 .. section: Library
    476 
    477 Optimize pickle.load() and pickle.loads(), up to 10% faster to deserialize a
    478 lot of small objects.
    479 
    480 ..
    481 
    482 .. bpo: 21271
    483 .. date: 9285
    484 .. nonce: bHIfFA
    485 .. section: Library
    486 
    487 New keyword only parameters in reset_mock call.
    488 
    489 ..
    490 
    491 .. bpo: 5124
    492 .. date: 9284
    493 .. nonce: 4kwBvM
    494 .. section: IDLE
    495 
    496 Paste with text selected now replaces the selection on X11. This matches how
    497 paste works on Windows, Mac, most modern Linux apps, and ttk widgets.
    498 Original patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
    499 
    500 ..
    501 
    502 .. bpo: 24750
    503 .. date: 9283
    504 .. nonce: wA-pc9
    505 .. section: IDLE
    506 
    507 Switch all scrollbars in IDLE to ttk versions. Where needed, minimal tests
    508 are added to cover changes.
    509 
    510 ..
    511 
    512 .. bpo: 24759
    513 .. date: 9282
    514 .. nonce: 76HB4w
    515 .. section: IDLE
    516 
    517 IDLE requires tk 8.5 and availability ttk widgets. Delete now unneeded tk
    518 version tests and code for older versions. Add test for IDLE syntax
    519 colorizer.
    520 
    521 ..
    522 
    523 .. bpo: 27239
    524 .. date: 9281
    525 .. nonce: fToURh
    526 .. section: IDLE
    527 
    528 idlelib.macosx.isXyzTk functions initialize as needed.
    529 
    530 ..
    531 
    532 .. bpo: 27262
    533 .. date: 9280
    534 .. nonce: t7ckly
    535 .. section: IDLE
    536 
    537 move Aqua unbinding code, which enable context menus, to macosx.
    538 
    539 ..
    540 
    541 .. bpo: 24759
    542 .. date: 9279
    543 .. nonce: ccmySu
    544 .. section: IDLE
    545 
    546 Make clear in idlelib.idle_test.__init__ that the directory is a private
    547 implementation of test.test_idle and tool for maintainers.
    548 
    549 ..
    550 
    551 .. bpo: 27196
    552 .. date: 9278
    553 .. nonce: 3yp8TF
    554 .. section: IDLE
    555 
    556 Stop 'ThemeChanged' warnings when running IDLE tests. These persisted after
    557 other warnings were suppressed in #20567. Apply Serhiy Storchaka's
    558 update_idletasks solution to four test files. Record this additional advice
    559 in idle_test/README.txt
    560 
    561 ..
    562 
    563 .. bpo: 20567
    564 .. date: 9277
    565 .. nonce: hhT32b
    566 .. section: IDLE
    567 
    568 Revise idle_test/README.txt with advice about avoiding tk warning messages
    569 from tests.  Apply advice to several IDLE tests.
    570 
    571 ..
    572 
    573 .. bpo: 24225
    574 .. date: 9276
    575 .. nonce: NxQCka
    576 .. section: IDLE
    577 
    578 Update idlelib/README.txt with new file names and event handlers.
    579 
    580 ..
    581 
    582 .. bpo: 27156
    583 .. date: 9275
    584 .. nonce: j1N9br
    585 .. section: IDLE
    586 
    587 Remove obsolete code not used by IDLE.
    588 
    589 ..
    590 
    591 .. bpo: 27117
    592 .. date: 9274
    593 .. nonce: YrLPf4
    594 .. section: IDLE
    595 
    596 Make colorizer htest and turtledemo work with dark themes. Move code for
    597 configuring text widget colors to a new function.
    598 
    599 ..
    600 
    601 .. bpo: 24225
    602 .. date: 9273
    603 .. nonce: RbyFuV
    604 .. section: IDLE
    605 
    606 Rename many `idlelib/*.py` and `idle_test/test_*.py` files. Edit files to
    607 replace old names with new names when the old name referred to the module
    608 rather than the class it contained. See the issue and IDLE section in What's
    609 New in 3.6 for more.
    610 
    611 ..
    612 
    613 .. bpo: 26673
    614 .. date: 9272
    615 .. nonce: dh0_Ij
    616 .. section: IDLE
    617 
    618 When tk reports font size as 0, change to size 10. Such fonts on Linux
    619 prevented the configuration dialog from opening.
    620 
    621 ..
    622 
    623 .. bpo: 21939
    624 .. date: 9271
    625 .. nonce: pWz-OK
    626 .. section: IDLE
    627 
    628 Add test for IDLE's percolator. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
    629 
    630 ..
    631 
    632 .. bpo: 21676
    633 .. date: 9270
    634 .. nonce: hqy6Qh
    635 .. section: IDLE
    636 
    637 Add test for IDLE's replace dialog. Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
    638 
    639 ..
    640 
    641 .. bpo: 18410
    642 .. date: 9269
    643 .. nonce: DLSPZo
    644 .. section: IDLE
    645 
    646 Add test for IDLE's search dialog. Original patch by Westley Martnez.
    647 
    648 ..
    649 
    650 .. bpo: 21703
    651 .. date: 9268
    652 .. nonce: bEU8sP
    653 .. section: IDLE
    654 
    655 Add test for undo delegator.  Patch mostly by Saimadhav Heblikar .
    656 
    657 ..
    658 
    659 .. bpo: 27044
    660 .. date: 9267
    661 .. nonce: 4y7tyM
    662 .. section: IDLE
    663 
    664 Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory leaks.
    665 
    666 ..
    667 
    668 .. bpo: 23977
    669 .. date: 9266
    670 .. nonce: miDjj8
    671 .. section: IDLE
    672 
    673 Add more asserts to test_delegator.
    674 
    675 ..
    676 
    677 .. bpo: 16484
    678 .. date: 9265
    679 .. nonce: ITzcGg
    680 .. section: Documentation
    681 
    682 Change the default PYTHONDOCS URL to "https:", and fix the resulting links
    683 to use lowercase.  Patch by Sean Rodman, test by Kaushik Nadikuditi.
    684 
    685 ..
    686 
    687 .. bpo: 24136
    688 .. date: 9264
    689 .. nonce: MUK0zK
    690 .. section: Documentation
    691 
    692 Document the new PEP 448 unpacking syntax of 3.5.
    693 
    694 ..
    695 
    696 .. bpo: 22558
    697 .. date: 9263
    698 .. nonce: Pk02YC
    699 .. section: Documentation
    700 
    701 Add remaining doc links to source code for Python-coded modules. Patch by
    702 Yoni Lavi.
    703 
    704 ..
    705 
    706 .. bpo: 25285
    707 .. date: 9262
    708 .. nonce: 6CxIBo
    709 .. section: Tests
    710 
    711 regrtest now uses subprocesses when the -j1 command line option is used:
    712 each test file runs in a fresh child process. Before, the -j1 option was
    713 ignored.
    714 
    715 ..
    716 
    717 .. bpo: 25285
    718 .. date: 9261
    719 .. nonce: ENYqUQ
    720 .. section: Tests
    721 
    722 Tools/buildbot/test.bat script now uses -j1 by default to run each test file
    723 in fresh child process.
    724 
    725 ..
    726 
    727 .. bpo: 27064
    728 .. date: 9260
    729 .. nonce: xeY1WF
    730 .. section: Windows
    731 
    732 The py.exe launcher now defaults to Python 3. The Windows launcher
    733 ``py.exe`` no longer prefers an installed Python 2 version over Python 3 by
    734 default when used interactively.
    735 
    736 ..
    737 
    738 .. bpo: 27229
    739 .. date: 9259
    740 .. nonce: C2NDch
    741 .. section: Build
    742 
    743 Fix the cross-compiling pgen rule for in-tree builds.  Patch by Xavier de
    744 Gaye.
    745 
    746 ..
    747 
    748 .. bpo: 26930
    749 .. date: 9258
    750 .. nonce: Sqz2O3
    751 .. section: Build
    752 
    753 Update OS X 10.5+ 32-bit-only installer to build and link with OpenSSL
    754 1.0.2h.
    755 
    756 ..
    757 
    758 .. bpo: 17500
    759 .. date: 9257
    760 .. nonce: QTZbRV
    761 .. section: Windows
    762 
    763 Remove unused and outdated icons. (See also:
    764 https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/945)
    765 
    766 ..
    767 
    768 .. bpo: 27186
    769 .. date: 9256
    770 .. nonce: Ll8R-t
    771 .. section: C API
    772 
    773 Add the PyOS_FSPath() function (part of PEP 519).
    774 
    775 ..
    776 
    777 .. bpo: 26282
    778 .. date: 9255
    779 .. nonce: Rp-R6L
    780 .. section: C API
    781 
    782 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() now supports positional-only parameters.
    783 
    784 ..
    785 
    786 .. bpo: 26282
    787 .. date: 9254
    788 .. nonce: DRRV--
    789 .. section: Tools/Demos
    790 
    791 Argument Clinic now supports positional-only and keyword parameters in the
    792 same function.
    793