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      1 .. bpo: 28183
      2 .. date: 9707
      3 .. nonce: MJZeNd
      4 .. release date: 2016-10-10
      5 .. section: Core and Builtins
      6 
      7 Optimize and cleanup dict iteration.
      8 
      9 ..
     10 
     11 .. bpo: 26081
     12 .. date: 9706
     13 .. nonce: _x5vjl
     14 .. section: Core and Builtins
     15 
     16 Added C implementation of asyncio.Future. Original patch by Yury Selivanov.
     17 
     18 ..
     19 
     20 .. bpo: 28379
     21 .. date: 9705
     22 .. nonce: DuXlco
     23 .. section: Core and Builtins
     24 
     25 Added sanity checks and tests for PyUnicode_CopyCharacters(). Patch by Xiang
     26 Zhang.
     27 
     28 ..
     29 
     30 .. bpo: 28376
     31 .. date: 9704
     32 .. nonce: oPD-5D
     33 .. section: Core and Builtins
     34 
     35 The type of long range iterator is now registered as Iterator. Patch by Oren
     36 Milman.
     37 
     38 ..
     39 
     40 .. bpo: 28376
     41 .. date: 9703
     42 .. nonce: YEy-uG
     43 .. section: Core and Builtins
     44 
     45 Creating instances of range_iterator by calling range_iterator type now is
     46 deprecated.  Patch by Oren Milman.
     47 
     48 ..
     49 
     50 .. bpo: 28376
     51 .. date: 9702
     52 .. nonce: fLeHM2
     53 .. section: Core and Builtins
     54 
     55 The constructor of range_iterator now checks that step is not 0. Patch by
     56 Oren Milman.
     57 
     58 ..
     59 
     60 .. bpo: 26906
     61 .. date: 9701
     62 .. nonce: YBjcwI
     63 .. section: Core and Builtins
     64 
     65 Resolving special methods of uninitialized type now causes implicit
     66 initialization of the type instead of a fail.
     67 
     68 ..
     69 
     70 .. bpo: 18287
     71 .. date: 9700
     72 .. nonce: k6jffS
     73 .. section: Core and Builtins
     74 
     75 PyType_Ready() now checks that tp_name is not NULL. Original patch by Niklas
     76 Koep.
     77 
     78 ..
     79 
     80 .. bpo: 24098
     81 .. date: 9699
     82 .. nonce: XqlP_1
     83 .. section: Core and Builtins
     84 
     85 Fixed possible crash when AST is changed in process of compiling it.
     86 
     87 ..
     88 
     89 .. bpo: 28201
     90 .. date: 9698
     91 .. nonce: GWUxAy
     92 .. section: Core and Builtins
     93 
     94 Dict reduces possibility of 2nd conflict in hash table when hashes have same
     95 lower bits.
     96 
     97 ..
     98 
     99 .. bpo: 28350
    100 .. date: 9697
    101 .. nonce: 8M5Eg9
    102 .. section: Core and Builtins
    103 
    104 String constants with null character no longer interned.
    105 
    106 ..
    107 
    108 .. bpo: 26617
    109 .. date: 9696
    110 .. nonce: Gh5LvN
    111 .. section: Core and Builtins
    112 
    113 Fix crash when GC runs during weakref callbacks.
    114 
    115 ..
    116 
    117 .. bpo: 27942
    118 .. date: 9695
    119 .. nonce: ZGuhns
    120 .. section: Core and Builtins
    121 
    122 String constants now interned recursively in tuples and frozensets.
    123 
    124 ..
    125 
    126 .. bpo: 21578
    127 .. date: 9694
    128 .. nonce: GI1bhj
    129 .. section: Core and Builtins
    130 
    131 Fixed misleading error message when ImportError called with invalid keyword
    132 args.
    133 
    134 ..
    135 
    136 .. bpo: 28203
    137 .. date: 9693
    138 .. nonce: LRn5vp
    139 .. section: Core and Builtins
    140 
    141 Fix incorrect type in complex(1.0, {2:3}) error message. Patch by Soumya
    142 Sharma.
    143 
    144 ..
    145 
    146 .. bpo: 28086
    147 .. date: 9692
    148 .. nonce: JsQPMQ
    149 .. section: Core and Builtins
    150 
    151 Single var-positional argument of tuple subtype was passed unscathed to the
    152 C-defined function.  Now it is converted to exact tuple.
    153 
    154 ..
    155 
    156 .. bpo: 28214
    157 .. date: 9691
    158 .. nonce: zQF8Em
    159 .. section: Core and Builtins
    160 
    161 Now __set_name__ is looked up on the class instead of the instance.
    162 
    163 ..
    164 
    165 .. bpo: 27955
    166 .. date: 9690
    167 .. nonce: HC4pZ4
    168 .. section: Core and Builtins
    169 
    170 Fallback on reading /dev/urandom device when the getrandom() syscall fails
    171 with EPERM, for example when blocked by SECCOMP.
    172 
    173 ..
    174 
    175 .. bpo: 28192
    176 .. date: 9689
    177 .. nonce: eR6stU
    178 .. section: Core and Builtins
    179 
    180 Don't import readline in isolated mode.
    181 
    182 ..
    183 
    184 .. bpo: 0
    185 .. date: 9688
    186 .. nonce: 9EbOiD
    187 .. section: Core and Builtins
    188 
    189 Upgrade internal unicode databases to Unicode version 9.0.0.
    190 
    191 ..
    192 
    193 .. bpo: 28131
    194 .. date: 9687
    195 .. nonce: owq0wW
    196 .. section: Core and Builtins
    197 
    198 Fix a regression in zipimport's compile_source().  zipimport should use the
    199 same optimization level as the interpreter.
    200 
    201 ..
    202 
    203 .. bpo: 28126
    204 .. date: 9686
    205 .. nonce: Qf6-uQ
    206 .. section: Core and Builtins
    207 
    208 Replace Py_MEMCPY with memcpy(). Visual Studio can properly optimize
    209 memcpy().
    210 
    211 ..
    212 
    213 .. bpo: 28120
    214 .. date: 9685
    215 .. nonce: e5xc1i
    216 .. section: Core and Builtins
    217 
    218 Fix dict.pop() for splitted dictionary when trying to remove a "pending key"
    219 (Not yet inserted in split-table). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
    220 
    221 ..
    222 
    223 .. bpo: 26182
    224 .. date: 9684
    225 .. nonce: jYlqTO
    226 .. section: Core and Builtins
    227 
    228 Raise DeprecationWarning when async and await keywords are used as
    229 variable/attribute/class/function name.
    230 
    231 ..
    232 
    233 .. bpo: 27998
    234 .. date: 9683
    235 .. nonce: CPhy4H
    236 .. section: Library
    237 
    238 Fixed bytes path support in os.scandir() on Windows. Patch by Eryk Sun.
    239 
    240 ..
    241 
    242 .. bpo: 28317
    243 .. date: 9682
    244 .. nonce: LgHleA
    245 .. section: Library
    246 
    247 The disassembler now decodes FORMAT_VALUE argument.
    248 
    249 ..
    250 
    251 .. bpo: 26293
    252 .. date: 9681
    253 .. nonce: 2mjvwX
    254 .. section: Library
    255 
    256 Fixed writing ZIP files that starts not from the start of the file.  Offsets
    257 in ZIP file now are relative to the start of the archive in conforming to
    258 the specification.
    259 
    260 ..
    261 
    262 .. bpo: 28380
    263 .. date: 9680
    264 .. nonce: jKPMzH
    265 .. section: Library
    266 
    267 unittest.mock Mock autospec functions now properly support assert_called,
    268 assert_not_called, and assert_called_once.
    269 
    270 ..
    271 
    272 .. bpo: 27181
    273 .. date: 9679
    274 .. nonce: SQyDpC
    275 .. section: Library
    276 
    277 remove statistics.geometric_mean and defer until 3.7.
    278 
    279 ..
    280 
    281 .. bpo: 28229
    282 .. date: 9678
    283 .. nonce: BKAxcS
    284 .. section: Library
    285 
    286 lzma module now supports pathlib.
    287 
    288 ..
    289 
    290 .. bpo: 28321
    291 .. date: 9677
    292 .. nonce: bQ-IIX
    293 .. section: Library
    294 
    295 Fixed writing non-BMP characters with binary format in plistlib.
    296 
    297 ..
    298 
    299 .. bpo: 28225
    300 .. date: 9676
    301 .. nonce: 6N28nu
    302 .. section: Library
    303 
    304 bz2 module now supports pathlib.  Initial patch by Ethan Furman.
    305 
    306 ..
    307 
    308 .. bpo: 28227
    309 .. date: 9675
    310 .. nonce: 7lUz8i
    311 .. section: Library
    312 
    313 gzip now supports pathlib.  Patch by Ethan Furman.
    314 
    315 ..
    316 
    317 .. bpo: 27358
    318 .. date: 9674
    319 .. nonce: t288Iv
    320 .. section: Library
    321 
    322 Optimized merging var-keyword arguments and improved error message when
    323 passing a non-mapping as a var-keyword argument.
    324 
    325 ..
    326 
    327 .. bpo: 28257
    328 .. date: 9673
    329 .. nonce: SVD_IH
    330 .. section: Library
    331 
    332 Improved error message when passing a non-iterable as a var-positional
    333 argument.  Added opcode BUILD_TUPLE_UNPACK_WITH_CALL.
    334 
    335 ..
    336 
    337 .. bpo: 28322
    338 .. date: 9672
    339 .. nonce: l9hzap
    340 .. section: Library
    341 
    342 Fixed possible crashes when unpickle itertools objects from incorrect pickle
    343 data.  Based on patch by John Leitch.
    344 
    345 ..
    346 
    347 .. bpo: 28228
    348 .. date: 9671
    349 .. nonce: 1qBwdM
    350 .. section: Library
    351 
    352 imghdr now supports pathlib.
    353 
    354 ..
    355 
    356 .. bpo: 28226
    357 .. date: 9670
    358 .. nonce: nMXiwU
    359 .. section: Library
    360 
    361 compileall now supports pathlib.
    362 
    363 ..
    364 
    365 .. bpo: 28314
    366 .. date: 9669
    367 .. nonce: N7YrkN
    368 .. section: Library
    369 
    370 Fix function declaration (C flags) for the getiterator() method of
    371 xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.
    372 
    373 ..
    374 
    375 .. bpo: 28148
    376 .. date: 9668
    377 .. nonce: Flzndx
    378 .. section: Library
    379 
    380 Stop using localtime() and gmtime() in the time module.
    381 
    382 Introduced platform independent _PyTime_localtime API that is similar to
    383 POSIX localtime_r, but available on all platforms.  Patch by Ed Schouten.
    384 
    385 ..
    386 
    387 .. bpo: 28253
    388 .. date: 9667
    389 .. nonce: aLfmhe
    390 .. section: Library
    391 
    392 Fixed calendar functions for extreme months: 0001-01 and 9999-12.
    393 
    394 Methods itermonthdays() and itermonthdays2() are reimplemented so that they
    395 don't call itermonthdates() which can cause datetime.date under/overflow.
    396 
    397 ..
    398 
    399 .. bpo: 28275
    400 .. date: 9666
    401 .. nonce: EhWIsz
    402 .. section: Library
    403 
    404 Fixed possible use after free in the decompress() methods of the
    405 LZMADecompressor and BZ2Decompressor classes. Original patch by John Leitch.
    406 
    407 ..
    408 
    409 .. bpo: 27897
    410 .. date: 9665
    411 .. nonce: I0Ppmx
    412 .. section: Library
    413 
    414 Fixed possible crash in sqlite3.Connection.create_collation() if pass
    415 invalid string-like object as a name.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
    416 
    417 ..
    418 
    419 .. bpo: 18844
    420 .. date: 9664
    421 .. nonce: fQsEdn
    422 .. section: Library
    423 
    424 random.choices() now has k as a keyword-only argument to improve the
    425 readability of common cases and come into line with the signature used in
    426 other languages.
    427 
    428 ..
    429 
    430 .. bpo: 18893
    431 .. date: 9663
    432 .. nonce: osiX5c
    433 .. section: Library
    434 
    435 Fix invalid exception handling in Lib/ctypes/macholib/dyld.py. Patch by
    436 Madison May.
    437 
    438 ..
    439 
    440 .. bpo: 27611
    441 .. date: 9662
    442 .. nonce: A_ArH_
    443 .. section: Library
    444 
    445 Fixed support of default root window in the tkinter.tix module. Added the
    446 master parameter in the DisplayStyle constructor.
    447 
    448 ..
    449 
    450 .. bpo: 27348
    451 .. date: 9661
    452 .. nonce: tDx7Vw
    453 .. section: Library
    454 
    455 In the traceback module, restore the formatting of exception messages like
    456 "Exception: None".  This fixes a regression introduced in 3.5a2.
    457 
    458 ..
    459 
    460 .. bpo: 25651
    461 .. date: 9660
    462 .. nonce: 3UhyPo
    463 .. section: Library
    464 
    465 Allow falsy values to be used for msg parameter of subTest().
    466 
    467 ..
    468 
    469 .. bpo: 27778
    470 .. date: 9659
    471 .. nonce: Yyo1aP
    472 .. section: Library
    473 
    474 Fix a memory leak in os.getrandom() when the getrandom() is interrupted by a
    475 signal and a signal handler raises a Python exception.
    476 
    477 ..
    478 
    479 .. bpo: 28200
    480 .. date: 9658
    481 .. nonce: 4IEbr7
    482 .. section: Library
    483 
    484 Fix memory leak on Windows in the os module (fix path_converter() function).
    485 
    486 ..
    487 
    488 .. bpo: 25400
    489 .. date: 9657
    490 .. nonce: d9Qn0E
    491 .. section: Library
    492 
    493 RobotFileParser now correctly returns default values for crawl_delay and
    494 request_rate.  Initial patch by Peter Wirtz.
    495 
    496 ..
    497 
    498 .. bpo: 27932
    499 .. date: 9656
    500 .. nonce: mtgl-6
    501 .. section: Library
    502 
    503 Prevent memory leak in win32_ver().
    504 
    505 ..
    506 
    507 .. bpo: 0
    508 .. date: 9655
    509 .. nonce: iPpjqX
    510 .. section: Library
    511 
    512 Fix UnboundLocalError in socket._sendfile_use_sendfile.
    513 
    514 ..
    515 
    516 .. bpo: 28075
    517 .. date: 9654
    518 .. nonce: aLiUs9
    519 .. section: Library
    520 
    521 Check for ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in Windows implementation of os.stat().  Patch
    522 by Eryk Sun.
    523 
    524 ..
    525 
    526 .. bpo: 22493
    527 .. date: 9653
    528 .. nonce: Mv_hZf
    529 .. section: Library
    530 
    531 Warning message emitted by using inline flags in the middle of regular
    532 expression now contains a (truncated) regex pattern. Patch by Tim Graham.
    533 
    534 ..
    535 
    536 .. bpo: 25270
    537 .. date: 9652
    538 .. nonce: jrZruM
    539 .. section: Library
    540 
    541 Prevent codecs.escape_encode() from raising SystemError when an empty
    542 bytestring is passed.
    543 
    544 ..
    545 
    546 .. bpo: 28181
    547 .. date: 9651
    548 .. nonce: NGc4Yv
    549 .. section: Library
    550 
    551 Get antigravity over HTTPS. Patch by Kaartic Sivaraam.
    552 
    553 ..
    554 
    555 .. bpo: 25895
    556 .. date: 9650
    557 .. nonce: j92qoQ
    558 .. section: Library
    559 
    560 Enable WebSocket URL schemes in urllib.parse.urljoin. Patch by Gergely Imreh
    561 and Markus Holtermann.
    562 
    563 ..
    564 
    565 .. bpo: 28114
    566 .. date: 9649
    567 .. nonce: gmFXsA
    568 .. section: Library
    569 
    570 Fix a crash in parse_envlist() when env contains byte strings. Patch by Eryk
    571 Sun.
    572 
    573 ..
    574 
    575 .. bpo: 27599
    576 .. date: 9648
    577 .. nonce: itvm8T
    578 .. section: Library
    579 
    580 Fixed buffer overrun in binascii.b2a_qp() and binascii.a2b_qp().
    581 
    582 ..
    583 
    584 .. bpo: 27906
    585 .. date: 9647
    586 .. nonce: TBBXrv
    587 .. section: Library
    588 
    589 Fix socket accept exhaustion during high TCP traffic. Patch by Kevin Conway.
    590 
    591 ..
    592 
    593 .. bpo: 28174
    594 .. date: 9646
    595 .. nonce: CV1UdI
    596 .. section: Library
    597 
    598 Handle when SO_REUSEPORT isn't properly supported. Patch by Seth Michael
    599 Larson.
    600 
    601 ..
    602 
    603 .. bpo: 26654
    604 .. date: 9645
    605 .. nonce: XtzTE9
    606 .. section: Library
    607 
    608 Inspect functools.partial in asyncio.Handle.__repr__. Patch by iceboy.
    609 
    610 ..
    611 
    612 .. bpo: 26909
    613 .. date: 9644
    614 .. nonce: ASiakT
    615 .. section: Library
    616 
    617 Fix slow pipes IO in asyncio. Patch by INADA Naoki.
    618 
    619 ..
    620 
    621 .. bpo: 28176
    622 .. date: 9643
    623 .. nonce: sU8R6L
    624 .. section: Library
    625 
    626 Fix callbacks race in asyncio.SelectorLoop.sock_connect.
    627 
    628 ..
    629 
    630 .. bpo: 27759
    631 .. date: 9642
    632 .. nonce: qpMDGq
    633 .. section: Library
    634 
    635 Fix selectors incorrectly retain invalid file descriptors. Patch by Mark
    636 Williams.
    637 
    638 ..
    639 
    640 .. bpo: 28368
    641 .. date: 9641
    642 .. nonce: fGl9y4
    643 .. section: Library
    644 
    645 Refuse monitoring processes if the child watcher has no loop attached. Patch
    646 by Vincent Michel.
    647 
    648 ..
    649 
    650 .. bpo: 28369
    651 .. date: 9640
    652 .. nonce: 8DTANe
    653 .. section: Library
    654 
    655 Raise RuntimeError when transport's FD is used with add_reader, add_writer,
    656 etc.
    657 
    658 ..
    659 
    660 .. bpo: 28370
    661 .. date: 9639
    662 .. nonce: 18jBuZ
    663 .. section: Library
    664 
    665 Speedup asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly. Patch by  .
    666 
    667 ..
    668 
    669 .. bpo: 28371
    670 .. date: 9638
    671 .. nonce: U9Zqdk
    672 .. section: Library
    673 
    674 Deprecate passing asyncio.Handles to run_in_executor.
    675 
    676 ..
    677 
    678 .. bpo: 28372
    679 .. date: 9637
    680 .. nonce: njcIPk
    681 .. section: Library
    682 
    683 Fix asyncio to support formatting of non-python coroutines.
    684 
    685 ..
    686 
    687 .. bpo: 28399
    688 .. date: 9636
    689 .. nonce: QKIqRX
    690 .. section: Library
    691 
    692 Remove UNIX socket from FS before binding. Patch by  .
    693 
    694 ..
    695 
    696 .. bpo: 27972
    697 .. date: 9635
    698 .. nonce: ZK-GFm
    699 .. section: Library
    700 
    701 Prohibit Tasks to await on themselves.
    702 
    703 ..
    704 
    705 .. bpo: 28402
    706 .. date: 9634
    707 .. nonce: v9zETJ
    708 .. section: Windows
    709 
    710 Adds signed catalog files for stdlib on Windows.
    711 
    712 ..
    713 
    714 .. bpo: 28333
    715 .. date: 9633
    716 .. nonce: KnpeO4
    717 .. section: Windows
    718 
    719 Enables Unicode for ps1/ps2 and input() prompts. (Patch by Eryk Sun)
    720 
    721 ..
    722 
    723 .. bpo: 28251
    724 .. date: 9632
    725 .. nonce: tR_AFs
    726 .. section: Windows
    727 
    728 Improvements to help manuals on Windows.
    729 
    730 ..
    731 
    732 .. bpo: 28110
    733 .. date: 9631
    734 .. nonce: cnkP5F
    735 .. section: Windows
    736 
    737 launcher.msi has different product codes between 32-bit and 64-bit
    738 
    739 ..
    740 
    741 .. bpo: 28161
    742 .. date: 9630
    743 .. nonce: hF91LI
    744 .. section: Windows
    745 
    746 Opening CON for write access fails
    747 
    748 ..
    749 
    750 .. bpo: 28162
    751 .. date: 9629
    752 .. nonce: 3FHPVD
    753 .. section: Windows
    754 
    755 WindowsConsoleIO readall() fails if first line starts with Ctrl+Z
    756 
    757 ..
    758 
    759 .. bpo: 28163
    760 .. date: 9628
    761 .. nonce: -DUgJw
    762 .. section: Windows
    763 
    764 WindowsConsoleIO fileno() passes wrong flags to _open_osfhandle
    765 
    766 ..
    767 
    768 .. bpo: 28164
    769 .. date: 9627
    770 .. nonce: 5MfN0J
    771 .. section: Windows
    772 
    773 _PyIO_get_console_type fails for various paths
    774 
    775 ..
    776 
    777 .. bpo: 28137
    778 .. date: 9626
    779 .. nonce: C1uvzY
    780 .. section: Windows
    781 
    782 Renames Windows path file to ._pth
    783 
    784 ..
    785 
    786 .. bpo: 28138
    787 .. date: 9625
    788 .. nonce: pNdv64
    789 .. section: Windows
    790 
    791 Windows ._pth file should allow import site
    792 
    793 ..
    794 
    795 .. bpo: 28426
    796 .. date: 9624
    797 .. nonce: zPwvbI
    798 .. section: C API
    799 
    800 Deprecated undocumented functions PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject(),
    801 PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject(), PyUnicode_AsDecodedUnicode() and
    802 PyUnicode_AsEncodedUnicode().
    803 
    804 ..
    805 
    806 .. bpo: 28258
    807 .. date: 9623
    808 .. nonce: iKtAHd
    809 .. section: Build
    810 
    811 Fixed build with Estonian locale (python-config and distclean targets in
    812 Makefile).  Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
    813 
    814 ..
    815 
    816 .. bpo: 26661
    817 .. date: 9622
    818 .. nonce: Z_HNbs
    819 .. section: Build
    820 
    821 setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch wrapper.
    822 
    823 ..
    824 
    825 .. bpo: 15819
    826 .. date: 9621
    827 .. nonce: QVDr3E
    828 .. section: Build
    829 
    830 Remove redundant include search directory option for building outside the
    831 source tree.
    832 
    833 ..
    834 
    835 .. bpo: 28217
    836 .. date: 9620
    837 .. nonce: Y37OKV
    838 .. section: Tests
    839 
    840 Adds _testconsole module to test console input.
    841