- Issue #8112: xlmrpc.server's DocXMLRPCServer server no longer raises an error
if methods have annotations; it now correctly displays the annotations.
-- Issue #17998: Fix an internal error in regular expression engine.
+- Issue #18600: Added policy argument to email.message.Message.as_string,
+ and as_bytes and __bytes__ methods to Message.
-- Issue #17557: Fix os.getgroups() to work with the modified behavior of
- getgroups(2) on OS X 10.8. Original patch by Mateusz Lenik.
+- Issue #18671: Output more information when logging exceptions occur.
-- Issue #18599: Fix name attribute of _sha1.sha1() object. It now returns
- 'SHA1' instead of 'SHA'.
+- Issue #18621: Prevent the site module's patched builtins from keeping
+ too many references alive for too long.
-- Issue #18561: Skip name in ctypes' _build_callargs() if name is NULL.
+- Issue #4885: Add weakref support to mmap objects. Patch by Valerie Lambert.
-- Issue #18559: Fix NULL pointer dereference error in _pickle module
+- Issue #8860: Fixed rounding in timedelta constructor.
-- Issue #18556: Check the return value of a PyUnicode_AsWideChar() call in
- ctypes' U_set().
++- Issue #18849: Fixed a Windows-specific tempfile bug where collision with an
++ existing directory caused mkstemp and related APIs to fail instead of
++ retrying. Report and fix by Vlad Shcherbina.
+
-- Issue #18549: Eliminate dead code in socket_ntohl()
+Tests
+-----
-- Issue #18514: Fix unreachable Py_DECREF() call in PyCData_FromBaseObj()
+- Issue #12037: Fix test_email for desktop Windows.
-- Issue #18513: Fix behaviour of cmath.rect w.r.t. signed zeros on OS X 10.8 +
- gcc.
+- Issue #15507: test_subprocess's test_send_signal could fail if the test
+ runner were run in an environment where the process inherited an ignore
+ setting for SIGINT. Restore the SIGINT handler to the desired
+ KeyboardInterrupt raising one during that test.
-- Issue #18480: Add missing call to PyType_Ready to the _elementtree extension.
+- Issue #16799: Switched from getopt to argparse style in regrtest's argument
+ parsing. Added more tests for regrtest's argument parsing.
-- Issue #17778: Fix test discovery for test_multiprocessing. (Patch by
- Zachary Ware.)
+- Issue #18792: Use "127.0.0.1" or "::1" instead of "localhost" as much as
+ possible, since "localhost" goes through a DNS lookup under recent Windows
+ versions.
-- Issue #18431: The new email header parser now decodes RFC2047 encoded words
- in structured headers.
+IDLE
+----
-- Issue #18432: The sched module's queue method was incorrectly returning
- an iterator instead of a list.
+- Issue #18489: Add tests for SearchEngine. Original patch by Phil Webster.
-- Issue #18044: The new email header parser was mis-parsing encoded words where
- an encoded character immediately followed the '?' that follows the CTE
- character, resulting in a decoding failure. They are now decoded correctly.
+Documentation
+-------------
-- Issue #18101: Tcl.split() now process strings nested in a tuple as it
- do with byte strings.
+- Issue #18743: Fix references to non-existant "StringIO" module.
-- Issue #17198: Fix a NameError in the dbm module. Patch by Valentina
- Mukhamedzhanova.
+- Issue #18783: Removed existing mentions of Python long type in docstrings,
+ error messages and comments.
-- Issue #18013: Fix cgi.FieldStorage to parse the W3C sample form.
+Build
+-----
-- Issue #18347: ElementTree's html serializer now preserves the case of
- closing tags.
+- Issue #1584: Provide configure options to override default search paths for
+ Tcl and Tk when building _tkinter.
-- Issue #17261: Ensure multiprocessing's proxies use proper address.
+- Issue #15663: Tcl/Tk 8.5.14 is now included with the OS X 10.6+ 64-/32-bit
+ installer. It is no longer necessary to install a third-party version of
+ Tcl/Tk 8.5 to work around the problems in the Apple-supplied Tcl/Tk 8.5
+ shipped in OS X 10.6 and later releases.
-- Issue #18343: faulthandler.register() now keeps the previous signal handler
- when the function is called twice, so faulthandler.unregister() restores
- correctly the original signal handler.
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
-- Issue #17097: Make multiprocessing ignore EINTR.
+- Issue #18922: Now The Lib/smtpd.py and Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py scripts write
+ their version strings to stdout, and not to sderr.
-- Issue #18339: Negative ints keys in unpickler.memo dict no longer cause a
- segfault inside the _pickle C extension.
-- Issue #18224: Removed pydoc script from created venv, as it causes problems
- on Windows and adds no value over and above python -m pydoc ...
+What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 1?
+===================================
-- Issue #18155: The csv module now correctly handles csv files that use
- a delimter character that has a special meaning in regexes, instead of
- throwing an exception.
+Release date: 2013-08-03
-- Issue #14360: encode_quopri can now be successfully used as an encoder
- when constructing a MIMEApplication object.
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
-- Issue #18135: ssl.SSLSocket.write() now raises an OverflowError if the input
- string in longer than 2 gigabytes, and ssl.SSLContext.load_cert_chain()
- raises a ValueError if the password is longer than 2 gigabytes. The ssl
- module does not support partial write.
+- Issue #16741: Fix an error reporting in int().
-- Issue #18248: Fix libffi build on AIX.
+- Issue #17899: Fix rare file descriptor leak in os.listdir().
-- Issue #18259: Declare sethostname in socketmodule.c for AIX
+- Issue #10241: Clear extension module dict copies at interpreter shutdown.
+ Patch by Neil Schemenauer, minimally modified.
-- Issue #18167: cgi.FieldStorage no longer fails to handle multipart/form-data
- when \r\n appears at end of 65535 bytes without other newlines.
+- Issue #9035: ismount now recognises volumes mounted below a drive root
+ on Windows. Original patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.
-- subprocess: Prevent a possible double close of parent pipe fds when the
- subprocess exec runs into an error. Prevent a regular multi-close of the
- /dev/null fd when any of stdin, stdout and stderr was set to DEVNULL.
+- Issue #18214: Improve finalization of Python modules to avoid setting
+ their globals to None, in most cases.
-- Issue #16102: Make uuid._netbios_getnode() work again on Python 3.
+- Issue #18112: PEP 442 implementation (safe object finalization).
-- Issue #18109: os.uname() now decodes fields from the locale encoding, and
- socket.gethostname() now decodes the hostname from the locale encoding,
- instead of using the UTF-8 encoding in strict mode.
+- Issue #18552: Check return value of PyArena_AddPyObject() in
+ obj2ast_object().
-- Issue #17403: urllib.parse.robotparser normalizes the urls before adding to
- ruleline. This helps in handling certain types invalid urls in a conservative
- manner.
+- Issue #18560: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in sum().
-- Issue #18025: Fixed a segfault in io.BufferedIOBase.readinto() when raw
- stream's read() returns more bytes than requested.
+- Issue #18520: Add a new PyStructSequence_InitType2() function, same than
+ PyStructSequence_InitType() except that it has a return value (0 on success,
+ -1 on error).
-- Issue #18011: base64.b32decode() now raises a binascii.Error if there are
- non-alphabet characters present in the input string to conform a docstring.
- Updated the module documentation.
+- Issue #15905: Fix theoretical buffer overflow in handling of sys.argv[0],
+ prefix and exec_prefix if the operation system does not obey MAXPATHLEN.
-- Issue #13772: Restored directory detection of targets in ``os.symlink`` on
- Windows, which was temporarily removed in Python 3.2.3 due to an incomplete
- implementation. The implementation now works even if the symlink is created
- in a location other than the current directory.
+- Issue #18408: Fix many various bugs in code handling errors, especially
+ on memory allocation failure (MemoryError).
-- Issue #16986: ElementTree now correctly parses a string input not only when
- an internal XML encoding is UTF-8 or US-ASCII.
+- Issue #18344: Fix potential ref-leaks in _bufferedreader_read_all().
-- Issue #17812: Fixed quadratic complexity of base64.b32encode().
+- Issue #18342: Use the repr of a module name when an import fails when using
+ ``from ... import ...``.
-- Issue #17980: Fix possible abuse of ssl.match_hostname() for denial of
- service using certificates with many wildcards (CVE-2013-2099).
+- Issue #17872: Fix a segfault in marshal.load() when input stream returns
+ more bytes than requested.
-- Issue #17981: Closed socket on error in SysLogHandler.
+- Issue #18338: `python --version` now prints version string to stdout, and
+ not to stderr. Patch by Berker Peksag and Michael Dickens.
-- Fix typos in the multiprocessing module.
+- Issue #18426: Fix NULL pointer dereference in C extension import when
+ PyModule_GetDef() returns an error.
-- Issue #17754: Make ctypes.util.find_library() independent of the locale.
+- Issue #17206: On Windows, increase the stack size from 2 MB to 4.2 MB to fix
+ a stack overflow in the marshal module (fix a crash in test_marshal).
+ Patch written by Jeremy Kloth.
-- Issue #17968: Fix memory leak in os.listxattr().
+- Issue #3329: Implement the PEP 445: Add new APIs to customize Python memory
+ allocators.
-- Issue #17269: Workaround for socket.getaddrinfo crash on MacOS X
- with port None or "0" and flags AI_NUMERICSERV.
+- Issue #18328: Reorder ops in PyThreadState_Delete*() functions. Now the
+ tstate is first removed from TLS and then deallocated.
-- Issue #18698: Ensure imp.reload() returns the module out of sys.modules.
+- Issue #13483: Use VirtualAlloc in obmalloc on Windows.
-- Issue #18080: When building a C extension module on OS X, if the compiler
- is overriden with the CC environment variable, use the new compiler as
- the default for linking if LDSHARED is not also overriden. This restores
- Distutils behavior introduced in 3.2.3 and inadvertently dropped in 3.3.0.
+- Issue #18184: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyUnicode_FromFormatV() now raise
+ OverflowError when an argument of %c format is out of range.
-- Issue #18113: Fixed a refcount leak in the curses.panel module's
- set_userptr() method. Reported by Atsuo Ishimoto.
+- Issue #18111: The min() and max() functions now support a default argument
+ to be returned instead of raising a ValueError on an empty sequence.
+ (Contributed by Julian Berman.)
-- Issue #18849: Fixed a Windows-specific tempfile bug where collision with an
- existing directory caused mkstemp and related APIs to fail instead of
- retrying. Report and fix by Vlad Shcherbina.
+- Issue #18137: Detect integer overflow on precision in float.__format__()
+ and complex.__format__().
-C API
------
+- Issue #18183: Fix various unicode operations on strings with large unicode
+ codepoints.
-- Issue #18351: Fix various issues with a helper function in importlib used
- by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() (and thus by extension PyImport_ExecCodeModule() and PyImport_ExecCodeModuleEx()).
+- Issue #18180: Fix ref leak in _PyImport_GetDynLoadWindows().
-IDLE
-----
+- Issue #18038: SyntaxError raised during compilation sources with illegal
+ encoding now always contains an encoding name.
-- Issue #18489: Add tests for SearchEngine. Original patch by Phil Webster.
+- Issue #17931: Resolve confusion on Windows between pids and process
+ handles.
-- Issue #18429: Format / Format Paragraph, now works when comment blocks
- are selected. As with text blocks, this works best when the selection
- only includes complete lines.
+- Tweak the exception message when the magic number or size value in a bytecode
+ file is truncated.
-- Issue #18226: Add docstrings and unittests for FormatParagraph.py.
- Original patches by Todd Rovito and Phil Webster.
+- Issue #17932: Fix an integer overflow issue on Windows 64-bit in iterators:
+ change the C type of seqiterobject.it_index from long to Py_ssize_t.
-- Issue #18279: Format - Strip trailing whitespace no longer marks a file as
- changed when it has not been changed. This fix followed the addition of a
- test file originally written by Phil Webster (the issue's main goal).
+- Issue #18065: Don't set __path__ to the package name for frozen packages.
-- Issue #7136: In the Idle File menu, "New Window" is renamed "New File".
- Patch by Tal Einat, Roget Serwy, and Todd Rovito.
+- Issue #18088: When reloading a module, unconditionally reset all relevant
+ attributes on the module (e.g. __name__, __loader__, __package__, __file__,
+ __cached__).
-- Remove dead imports of imp.
+- Issue #17937: Try harder to collect cyclic garbage at shutdown.
-- Issue #18196: Avoid displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks.
+- Issue #12370: Prevent class bodies from interfering with the __class__
+ closure.
-- Issue #5492: Avoid traceback when exiting IDLE caused by a race condition.
+- Issue #17644: Fix a crash in str.format when curly braces are used in square
+ brackets.
-- Issue #17511: Keep IDLE find dialog open after clicking "Find Next".
- Original patch by Sarah K.
+- Issue #17237: Fix crash in the ASCII decoder on m68k.
-- Issue #18055: Move IDLE off of imp and on to importlib.
+- Issue #17927: Frame objects kept arguments alive if they had been
+ copied into a cell, even if the cell was cleared.
-- Issue #15392: Create a unittest framework for IDLE.
- Initial patch by Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan.
- See Lib/idlelib/idle_test/README.txt for how to run Idle tests.
+- Issue #1545463: At shutdown, defer finalization of codec modules so
+ that stderr remains usable.
-- Issue #14146: Highlight source line while debugging on Windows.
+- Issue #7330: Implement width and precision (ex: "%5.3s") for the format
+ string of PyUnicode_FromFormat() function, original patch written by Ysj Ray.
-- Issue #17532: Always include Options menu for IDLE on OS X.
- Patch by Guilherme Simões.
+- Issue #1545463: Global variables caught in reference cycles are now
+ garbage-collected at shutdown.
-Tests
------
+- Issue #17094: Clear stale thread states after fork(). Note that this
+ is a potentially disruptive change since it may release some system
+ resources which would otherwise remain perpetually alive (e.g. database
+ connections kept in thread-local storage).
-- Issue #12037: Fix test_email for desktop Windows.
+- Issue #17408: Avoid using an obsolete instance of the copyreg module when
+ the interpreter is shutdown and then started again.
-- Issue #15507: test_subprocess's test_send_signal could fail if the test
- runner were run in an environment where the process inherited an ignore
- setting for SIGINT. Restore the SIGINT handler to the desired
- KeyboardInterrupt raising one during that test.
+- Issue #5845: Enable tab-completion in the interactive interpreter by
+ default, thanks to a new sys.__interactivehook__.
-- Issue #18792: Use "127.0.0.1" or "::1" instead of "localhost" as much as
- possible, since "localhost" goes through a DNS lookup under recent Windows
- versions.
+- Issue #17115,17116: Module initialization now includes setting __package__ and
+ __loader__ attributes to None.
-- Issue #1666318: Add a test that shutil.copytree() retains directory
- permissions. Patch by Catherine Devlin.
+- Issue #17853: Ensure locals of a class that shadow free variables always win
+ over the closures.
-- Issue #18357: add tests for dictview set difference.
- Patch by Fraser Tweedale.
+- Issue #17863: In the interactive console, don't loop forever if the encoding
+ can't be fetched from stdin.
-- Issue #18273: move the tests in Lib/test/json_tests to Lib/test/test_json
- and make them discoverable by unittest. Patch by Zachary Ware.
+- Issue #17867: Raise an ImportError if __import__ is not found in __builtins__.
-- Fix a fcntl test case on KFreeBSD, Debian #708653 (Petr Salinger).
+- Issue #18698: Ensure importlib.reload() returns the module out of sys.modules.
-- Issue #18396: Fix spurious test failure in test_signal on Windows when
- faulthandler is enabled (Patch by Jeremy Kloth)
+- Issue #17857: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of sqlite3,
+ such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
-- Issue #17046: Fix broken test_executable_without_cwd in test_subprocess.
+- Issue #17413: sys.settrace callbacks were being passed a string instead of an
+ exception instance for the 'value' element of the arg tuple if the exception
+ originated from C code; now an exception instance is always provided.
-- Issue #15415: Add new temp_dir() and change_cwd() context managers to
- test.support, and refactor temp_cwd() to use them. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
+- Issue #17782: Fix undefined behaviour on platforms where
+ ``struct timespec``'s "tv_nsec" member is not a C long.
-- Issue #15494: test.support is now a package rather than a module (Initial
- patch by Indra Talip)
+- Issue #17722: When looking up __round__, resolve descriptors.
-- Issue #17944: test_zipfile now discoverable and uses subclassing to
- generate tests for different compression types. Fixed a bug with skipping
- some tests due to use of exhausted iterators.
+- Issue #16061: Speed up str.replace() for replacing 1-character strings.
+
+- Issue #17715: Fix segmentation fault from raising an exception in a __trunc__
+ method.
+
+- Issue #17643: Add __callback__ attribute to weakref.ref.
+
+- Issue #16447: Fixed potential segmentation fault when setting __name__ on a
+ class.
+
+- Issue #17669: Fix crash involving finalization of generators using yield from.
+
+- Issue #14439: Python now prints the traceback on runpy failure at startup.
+
+
+- Issue #17469: Fix _Py_GetAllocatedBlocks() and sys.getallocatedblocks()
+ when running on valgrind.
+
+- Issue #17619: Make input() check for Ctrl-C correctly on Windows.
+
+- Issue #17357: Add missing verbosity messages for -v/-vv that were lost during
+ the importlib transition.
+
+- Issue #17610: Don't rely on non-standard behavior of the C qsort() function.
+
+- Issue #17323: The "[X refs, Y blocks]" printed by debug builds has been
+ disabled by default. It can be re-enabled with the `-X showrefcount` option.
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #13461: Fix a crash in the TextIOWrapper.tell method on 64-bit
+ platforms. Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari.
+
+- Issue #18681: Fix a NameError in importlib.reload() (noticed by Weizhao Li).
+
+- Issue #14323: Expanded the number of digits in the coefficients for the
+ RGB -- YIQ conversions so that they match the FCC NTSC versions.
+
+- Issue #17998: Fix an internal error in regular expression engine.
+
+- Issue #17557: Fix os.getgroups() to work with the modified behavior of
+ getgroups(2) on OS X 10.8. Original patch by Mateusz Lenik.
+
+- Issue #18608: Avoid keeping a strong reference to the locale module
+ inside the _io module.
+
+- Issue #18619: Fix atexit leaking callbacks registered from sub-interpreters,
+ and make it GC-aware.
+
+- Issue #15699: The readline module now uses PEP 3121-style module
+ initialization, so as to reclaim allocated resources (Python callbacks)
+ at shutdown. Original patch by Robin Schreiber.
+
+- Issue #17616: wave.open now supports the context manager protocol.
+
+- Issue #18599: Fix name attribute of _sha1.sha1() object. It now returns
+ 'SHA1' instead of 'SHA'.
+
+- Issue #13266: Added inspect.unwrap to easily unravel __wrapped__ chains
+ (initial patch by Daniel Urban and Aaron Iles)
+
+- Issue #18561: Skip name in ctypes' _build_callargs() if name is NULL.
+
+- Issue #18559: Fix NULL pointer dereference error in _pickle module
+
+- Issue #18556: Check the return type of PyUnicode_AsWideChar() in ctype's
+ U_set().
+
+- Issue #17818: aifc.getparams now returns a namedtuple.
+
+- Issue #18549: Eliminate dead code in socket_ntohl()
+
+- Issue #18530: Remove additional stat call from posixpath.ismount.
+ Patch by Alex Gaynor.
+
+- Issue #18514: Fix unreachable Py_DECREF() call in PyCData_FromBaseObj()
+
+- Issue #9177: Calling read() or write() now raises ValueError, not
+ AttributeError, on a closed SSL socket. Patch by Senko Rasic.
+
+- Issue #18513: Fix behaviour of cmath.rect w.r.t. signed zeros on OS X 10.8 +
+ gcc.
+
+- Issue #18479: Changed venv Activate.ps1 to make deactivate a function, and
+ removed Deactivate.ps1.
+
+- Issue #18480: Add missing call to PyType_Ready to the _elementtree extension.
+
+- Issue #17778: Fix test discovery for test_multiprocessing. (Patch by
+ Zachary Ware.)
+
+- Issue #18393: The private module _gestalt and private functions
+ platform._mac_ver_gestalt, platform._mac_ver_lookup and
+ platform._bcd2str have been removed. This does not affect the public
+ interface of the platform module.
+
+- Issue #17482: functools.update_wrapper (and functools.wraps) now set the
+ __wrapped__ attribute correctly even if the underlying function has a
+ __wrapped__ attribute set.
+
+- Issue #18431: The new email header parser now decodes RFC2047 encoded words
+ in structured headers.
+
+- Issue #18432: The sched module's queue method was incorrectly returning
+ an iterator instead of a list.
+
+- Issue #18044: The new email header parser was mis-parsing encoded words where
+ an encoded character immediately followed the '?' that follows the CTE
+ character, resulting in a decoding failure. They are now decoded correctly.
+
+- Issue #18101: Tcl.split() now process strings nested in a tuple as it
+ do with byte strings.
+
+- Issue #18116: getpass was always getting an error when testing /dev/tty,
+ and thus was always falling back to stdin. It also leaked an open file
+ when it did so. Both of these issues are now fixed.
+
+- Issue #17198: Fix a NameError in the dbm module. Patch by Valentina
+ Mukhamedzhanova.
+
+- Issue #18013: Fix cgi.FieldStorage to parse the W3C sample form.
+
+- Issue #18020: improve html.escape speed by an order of magnitude.
+ Patch by Matt Bryant.
+
+- Issue #18347: ElementTree's html serializer now preserves the case of
+ closing tags.
+
+- Issue #17261: Ensure multiprocessing's proxies use proper address.
+
+- Issue #18343: faulthandler.register() now keeps the previous signal handler
+ when the function is called twice, so faulthandler.unregister() restores
+ correctly the original signal handler.
+
+- Issue #17097: Make multiprocessing ignore EINTR.
+
+- Issue #18339: Negative ints keys in unpickler.memo dict no longer cause a
+ segfault inside the _pickle C extension.
+
+- Issue 18240: The HMAC module is no longer restricted to bytes and accepts
+ any bytes-like object, e.g. memoryview. Original patch by Jonas Borgström.
+
+- Issue #18224: Removed pydoc script from created venv, as it causes problems
+ on Windows and adds no value over and above python -m pydoc ...
+
+- Issue #18155: The csv module now correctly handles csv files that use
+ a delimter character that has a special meaning in regexes, instead of
+ throwing an exception.
+
+- Issue #14360: encode_quopri can now be successfully used as an encoder
+ when constructing a MIMEApplication object.
+
+- Issue #11390: Add -o and -f command line options to the doctest CLI to
+ specify doctest options (and convert it to using argparse).
+
+- Issue #18135: ssl.SSLSocket.write() now raises an OverflowError if the input
+ string in longer than 2 gigabytes, and ssl.SSLContext.load_cert_chain()
+ raises a ValueError if the password is longer than 2 gigabytes. The ssl
+ module does not support partial write.
-- Issue #18266: test_largefile now works with unittest test discovery and
- supports running only selected tests. Patch by Zachary Ware.
+- Issue #11016: Add C implementation of the stat module as _stat.
-- Issue #17767: test_locale now works with unittest test discovery.
- Original patch by Zachary Ware.
+- Issue #18248: Fix libffi build on AIX.
-- Issue #18375: Assume --randomize when --randseed is used for running the
- testsuite.
+- Issue #18259: Declare sethostname in socketmodule.c for AIX
-- Issue #11185: Fix test_wait4 under AIX. Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
+- Issue #18147: Add diagnostic functions to ssl.SSLContext(). get_ca_list()
+ lists all loaded CA certificates and cert_store_stats() returns amount of
+ loaded X.509 certs, X.509 CA certs and CRLs.
-- Issue #17691: test_univnewlines now works with unittest test discovery.
- Patch by Zachary Ware.
+- Issue #18167: cgi.FieldStorage no longer fails to handle multipart/form-data
+ when \r\n appears at end of 65535 bytes without other newlines.
-- Issue #18094: test_uuid no more reports skipped tests as passed.
+- Issue #18076: Introduce importlib.util.decode_source().
+- Issue #18357: add tests for dictview set difference.
+ Patch by Fraser Tweedale.
-- Issue #11995: test_pydoc doesn't import all sys.path modules anymore.
-Documentation
--------------
+- importlib.abc.SourceLoader.get_source() no longer changes SyntaxError or
+ UnicodeDecodeError into ImportError.
-- Issue #18743: Fix references to non-existant "StringIO" module.
+- Issue #18058, 18057: Make the namespace package loader meet the
+ importlib.abc.InspectLoader ABC, allowing for namespace packages to work with
+ runpy.
-- Issue #18783: Removed existing mentions of Python long type in docstrings,
- error messages and comments.
+- Issue #17177: The imp module is pending deprecation.
-- Issue #17701: Improving strftime documentation.
+- subprocess: Prevent a possible double close of parent pipe fds when the
+ subprocess exec runs into an error. Prevent a regular multi-close of the
+ /dev/null fd when any of stdin, stdout and stderr was set to DEVNULL.
-- Issue #18440: Clarify that `hash()` can truncate the value returned from an
- object's custom `__hash__()` method.
+- Issue #18194: Introduce importlib.util.cache_from_source() and
+ source_from_cache() while documenting the equivalent functions in imp as
+ deprecated.
-- Issue #17953: Mention that you shouldn't replace sys.modules and deleting key
- items will cause Python to not be happy.
+- Issue #17907: Document imp.new_module() as deprecated in favour of
+ types.ModuleType.
-- Issue #17844: Add links to encoders and decoders for bytes-to-bytes codecs.
+- Issue #18192: Introduce importlib.util.MAGIC_NUMBER and document as deprecated
+ imp.get_magic().
-- Issue #14097: improve the "introduction" page of the tutorial.
+- Issue #18149: Add filecmp.clear_cache() to manually clear the filecmp cache.
+ Patch by Mark Levitt
-- Issue #17977: The documentation for the cadefault argument's default value
- in urllib.request.urlopen() is fixed to match the code.
+- Issue #18193: Add importlib.reload().
-Tools/Demos
------------
+- Issue #18157: Stop using imp.load_module() in pydoc.
-- Issue #18817: Fix a resource warning in Lib/aifc.py demo.
+- Issue #16102: Make uuid._netbios_getnode() work again on Python 3.
-- Issue #18439: Make patchcheck work on Windows for ACKS, NEWS.
+- Issue #17134: Add ssl.enum_cert_store() as interface to Windows' cert store.
-- Issue #18448: Fix a typo in Tools/demo/eiffel.py.
+- Issue #18143: Implement ssl.get_default_verify_paths() in order to debug
+ the default locations for cafile and capath.
-- Issue #18457: Fixed saving of formulas and complex numbers in
- Tools/demo/ss1.py.
+- Issue #17314: Move multiprocessing.forking over to importlib.
-- Issue #18449: Make Tools/demo/ss1.py work again on Python 3. Patch by
- Févry Thibault.
+- Issue #11959: SMTPServer and SMTPChannel now take an optional map, use of
+ which avoids affecting global state.
-- Issue #15239: Make mkstringprep.py work again on Python 3.
+- Issue #18109: os.uname() now decodes fields from the locale encoding, and
+ socket.gethostname() now decodes the hostname from the locale encoding,
+ instead of using the UTF-8 encoding in strict mode.
-- Issue #12990: The "Python Launcher" on OSX could not launch python scripts
- that have paths that include wide characters.
+- Issue #18089: Implement importlib.abc.InspectLoader.load_module.
-Build
------
+- Issue #18088: Introduce importlib.abc.Loader.init_module_attrs for setting
+ module attributes. Leads to the pending deprecation of
+ importlib.util.module_for_loader.
-- Issue #16067: Add description into MSI file to replace installer's temporary name.
+- Issue #17403: urllib.parse.robotparser normalizes the urls before adding to
+ ruleline. This helps in handling certain types invalid urls in a conservative
+ manner. Patch contributed by Mher Movsisyan.
-- Issue #18256: Compilation fix for recent AIX releases. Patch by
- David Edelsohn.
+- Issue #18070: Have importlib.util.module_for_loader() set attributes
+ unconditionally in order to properly support reloading.
-- Issue #15172: Document NASM 2.10+ as requirement for building OpenSSL 1.0.1
- on Windows.
+- Added importlib.util.module_to_load to return a context manager to provide the
+ proper module object to load.
-What's New in Python 3.3.2?
-===========================
+- Issue #18025: Fixed a segfault in io.BufferedIOBase.readinto() when raw
+ stream's read() returns more bytes than requested.
-*Release date: 13-May-2013*
+- Issue #18011: base64.b32decode() now raises a binascii.Error if there are
+ non-alphabet characters present in the input string to conform a docstring.
+ Updated the module documentation.
-Core and Builtins
------------------
+- Issue #18072: Implement importlib.abc.InspectLoader.get_code() and
+ importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader.get_code().
-- Issue #17237: Fix crash in the ASCII decoder on m68k.
+- Issue #8240: Set the SSL_MODE_ACCEPT_MOVING_WRITE_BUFFER flag on SSL
+ sockets.
-- Issue #17408: Avoid using an obsolete instance of the copyreg module when
- the interpreter is shutdown and then started again.
+- Issue #17269: Workaround for socket.getaddrinfo crash on MacOS X
+ with port None or "0" and flags AI_NUMERICSERV.
-- Issue #17863: In the interactive console, don't loop forever if the encoding
- can't be fetched from stdin.
+- Issue #16986: ElementTree now correctly parses a string input not only when
+ an internal XML encoding is UTF-8 or US-ASCII.
-- Issue #17867: Raise an ImportError if __import__ is not found in __builtins__.
+- Issue #17996: socket module now exposes AF_LINK constant on BSD and OSX.
-- Issue #17857: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of sqlite3,
- such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
+- Issue #17900: Allowed pickling of recursive OrderedDicts. Decreased pickled
+ size and pickling time.
-- Issue #17413: sys.settrace callbacks were being passed a string instead of an
- exception instance for the 'value' element of the arg tuple if the exception
- originated from C code; now an exception instance is always provided.
+- Issue #17914: Add os.cpu_count(). Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari, based on an
+ initial patch by Trent Nelson.
-- Issue #17782: Fix undefined behaviour on platforms where
- ``struct timespec``'s "tv_nsec" member is not a C long.
+- Issue #17812: Fixed quadratic complexity of base64.b32encode().
+ Optimize base64.b32encode() and base64.b32decode() (speed up to 3x).
-- Issue #17715: Fix segmentation fault from raising an exception in a __trunc__
- method.
+- Issue #17980: Fix possible abuse of ssl.match_hostname() for denial of
+ service using certificates with many wildcards (CVE-2013-2099).
-- Issue #16447: Fixed potential segmentation fault when setting __name__ on a
- class.
+- Issue #15758: Fix FileIO.readall() so it no longer has O(n**2) complexity.
-- Issue #17669: Fix crash involving finalization of generators using yield from.
+- Issue #14596: The struct.Struct() objects now use more compact implementation.
-- Issue #17619: Make input() check for Ctrl-C correctly on Windows.
+- Issue #17981: Closed socket on error in SysLogHandler.
-- Issue #17610: Don't rely on non-standard behavior of the C qsort() function.
+- Issue #17964: Fix os.sysconf(): the return type of the C sysconf() function
+ is long, not int.
+
+- Fix typos in the multiprocessing module.
-- Issue #17357: Add missing verbosity output when using -v/-vv.
+- Issue #17754: Make ctypes.util.find_library() independent of the locale.
-Library
--------
+- Issue #17968: Fix memory leak in os.listxattr().
- Issue #17606: Fixed support of encoded byte strings in the XMLGenerator
characters() and ignorableWhitespace() methods. Original patch by Sebastian
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