- Issue #28512: Fixed setting the offset attribute of SyntaxError by
PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx() and PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject().
-- Issue #28991: functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure reentrancy
- bug caused by a monkey-patched len() function.
+- Issue #28918: Fix the cross compilation of xxlimited when Python has been
+ built with Py_DEBUG defined.
-- Issue #28648: Fixed crash in Py_DecodeLocale() in debug build on Mac OS X
- when decode astral characters. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+- Issue #28731: Optimize _PyDict_NewPresized() to create correct size dict.
+ Improve speed of dict literal with constant keys up to 30%.
-- Issue #19398: Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of
- empty compile-time PYTHONPATH components.
+Library
+-------
-- Issue #28426: Fixed potential crash in PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject() in debug
- build.
++- Issue 28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
+
-- Issue #23782: Fixed possible memory leak in _PyTraceback_Add() and exception
- loss in PyTraceBack_Here().
+- Issue #28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.
-- Issue #28379: Added sanity checks and tests for PyUnicode_CopyCharacters().
- Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+- Issue #19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and
+ WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another
+ thread.
-- Issue #28376: The type of long range iterator is now registered as Iterator.
- Patch by Oren Milman.
+- Issue #20191: Fixed a crash in resource.prlimit() when pass a sequence that
+ doesn't own its elements as limits.
-- Issue #28376: The constructor of range_iterator now checks that step is not 0.
- Patch by Oren Milman.
+- Issue #28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the
+ forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some
+ multiprocessing objects such as locks.
-- Issue #26906: Resolving special methods of uninitialized type now causes
- implicit initialization of the type instead of a fail.
+- Issue #28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer
+ writes the index file when it is not changed.
-- Issue #18287: PyType_Ready() now checks that tp_name is not NULL.
- Original patch by Niklas Koep.
+- Issue #26937: The chown() method of the tarfile.TarFile class does not fail
+ now when the grp module cannot be imported, as for example on Android
+ platforms.
-- Issue #24098: Fixed possible crash when AST is changed in process of
- compiling it.
+Windows
+-------
-- Issue #28350: String constants with null character no longer interned.
+- Issue #25778: winreg does not truncate string correctly (Patch by Eryk Sun)
-- Issue #26617: Fix crash when GC runs during weakref callbacks.
+- Issue #28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder and disable it by default.
-- Issue #27942: String constants now interned recursively in tuples and frozensets.
+Tests
+-----
-- Issue #21578: Fixed misleading error message when ImportError called with
- invalid keyword args.
+- Issue #28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l in regrtest
+ command line arguments.
-- Issue #28203: Fix incorrect type in error message from
- ``complex(1.0, {2:3})``. Patch by Soumya Sharma.
+- Issue #28683: Fix the tests that bind() a unix socket and raise
+ PermissionError on Android for a non-root user.
-- Issue #27955: Fallback on reading /dev/urandom device when the getrandom()
- syscall fails with EPERM, for example when blocked by SECCOMP.
+- Issue #26939: Add the support.setswitchinterval() function to fix
+ test_functools hanging on the Android armv7 qemu emulator.
-- Issue #28131: Fix a regression in zipimport's compile_source(). zipimport
- should use the same optimization level as the interpreter.
+Build
+-----
-- Issue #25221: Fix corrupted result from PyLong_FromLong(0) when
- Python is compiled with NSMALLPOSINTS = 0.
+- Issue #28538: Fix the compilation error that occurs because if_nameindex() is
+ available on Android API level 24, but the if_nameindex structure is not
+ defined.
-- Issue #25758: Prevents zipimport from unnecessarily encoding a filename
- (patch by Eryk Sun)
+- Issue #20211: Do not add the directory for installing C header files and the
+ directory for installing object code libraries to the cross compilation
+ search paths. Original patch by Thomas Petazzoni.
-- Issue #28189: dictitems_contains no longer swallows compare errors.
- (Patch by Xiang Zhang)
+- Issue #28849: Do not define sys.implementation._multiarch on Android.
-- Issue #27812: Properly clear out a generator's frame's backreference to the
- generator to prevent crashes in frame.clear().
-- Issue #27811: Fix a crash when a coroutine that has not been awaited is
- finalized with warnings-as-errors enabled.
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 release candidate 2
+==============================================
-- Issue #27587: Fix another issue found by PVS-Studio: Null pointer check
- after use of 'def' in _PyState_AddModule().
- Initial patch by Christian Heimes.
+*Release date: 2016-12-16*
-- Issue #26020: set literal evaluation order did not match documented behaviour.
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
-- Issue #27782: Multi-phase extension module import now correctly allows the
- ``m_methods`` field to be used to add module level functions to instances
- of non-module types returned from ``Py_create_mod``. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+- Issue #28147: Fix a memory leak in split-table dictionaries: setattr()
+ must not convert combined table into split table. Patch written by INADA
+ Naoki.
-- Issue #27936: The round() function accepted a second None argument
- for some types but not for others. Fixed the inconsistency by
- accepting None for all numeric types.
+- Issue #28990: Fix asyncio SSL hanging if connection is closed before
+ handshake is completed. (Patch by HoHo-Ho)
-- Issue #27487: Warn if a submodule argument to "python -m" or
- runpy.run_module() is found in sys.modules after parent packages are
- imported, but before the submodule is executed.
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
-- Issue #27558: Fix a SystemError in the implementation of "raise" statement.
- In a brand new thread, raise a RuntimeError since there is no active
- exception to reraise. Patch written by Xiang Zhang.
+- Issue #28770: Fix python-gdb.py for fastcalls.
-- Issue #27419: Standard __import__() no longer look up "__import__" in globals
- or builtins for importing submodules or "from import". Fixed handling an
- error of non-string package name.
+Windows
+-------
-- Issue #27083: Respect the PYTHONCASEOK environment variable under Windows.
+- Issue #28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder.
-- Issue #27514: Make having too many statically nested blocks a SyntaxError
- instead of SystemError.
+Build
+-----
-- Issue #27473: Fixed possible integer overflow in bytes and bytearray
- concatenations. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+- Issue #28898: Prevent gdb build errors due to HAVE_LONG_LONG redefinition.
-- Issue #27507: Add integer overflow check in bytearray.extend(). Patch by
- Xiang Zhang.
-- Issue #27581: Don't rely on wrapping for overflow check in
- PySequence_Tuple(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 release candidate 1
+==============================================
-- Issue #27443: __length_hint__() of bytearray iterators no longer return a
- negative integer for a resized bytearray.
+*Release date: 2016-12-06*
-- Issue #27942: Fix memory leak in codeobject.c
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #23722: Rather than silently producing a class that doesn't support
+ zero-argument ``super()`` in methods, failing to pass the new
+ ``__classcell__`` namespace entry up to ``type.__new__`` now results in a
+ ``DeprecationWarning`` and a class that supports zero-argument ``super()``.
+
+- Issue #28797: Modifying the class __dict__ inside the __set_name__ method of
+ a descriptor that is used inside that class no longer prevents calling the
+ __set_name__ method of other descriptors.
+
+- Issue #28782: Fix a bug in the implementation ``yield from`` when checking
+ if the next instruction is YIELD_FROM. Regression introduced by WORDCODE
+ (issue #26647).
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