(Contributed by Cody Maloney in :gh:`129205`.)
+os.path
+-------
+
+* The *strict* parameter to :func:`os.path.realpath` accepts a new value,
+ :data:`os.path.ALLOW_MISSING`.
+ If used, errors other than :exc:`FileNotFoundError` will be re-raised;
+ the resulting path can be missing but it will be free of symlinks.
+ (Contributed by Petr Viktorin for :cve:`2025-4517`.)
+
+
pathlib
-------
(Contributed by Xuehai Pan in :gh:`131799`.)
+tarfile
+-------
+
+* :func:`~tarfile.data_filter` now normalizes symbolic link targets in order to
+ avoid path traversal attacks.
+ (Contributed by Petr Viktorin in :gh:`127987` and :cve:`2025-4138`.)
+* :func:`~tarfile.TarFile.extractall` now skips fixing up directory attributes
+ when a directory was removed or replaced by another kind of file.
+ (Contributed by Petr Viktorin in :gh:`127987` and :cve:`2024-12718`.)
+* :func:`~tarfile.TarFile.extract` and :func:`~tarfile.TarFile.extractall`
+ now (re-)apply the extraction filter when substituting a link (hard or
+ symbolic) with a copy of another archive member, and when fixing up
+ directory attributes.
+ The former raises a new exception, :exc:`~tarfile.LinkFallbackError`.
+ (Contributed by Petr Viktorin for :cve:`2025-4330` and :cve:`2024-12718`.)
+* :func:`~tarfile.TarFile.extract` and :func:`~tarfile.TarFile.extractall`
+ no longer extract rejected members when
+ :func:`~tarfile.TarFile.errorlevel` is zero.
+ (Contributed by Matt Prodani and Petr Viktorin in :gh:`112887`
+ and :cve:`2025-4435`.)
+
+
threading
---------
* :c:func:`PyUnicodeWriter_Discard`
* :c:func:`PyUnicodeWriter_Finish`
* :c:func:`PyUnicodeWriter_Format`
+ * :c:func:`PyUnicodeWriter_WriteASCII`
* :c:func:`PyUnicodeWriter_WriteChar`
* :c:func:`PyUnicodeWriter_WriteRepr`
* :c:func:`PyUnicodeWriter_WriteStr`
:c:func:`PyUnicodeWriter_WriteSubstring(writer, str, start, end) <PyUnicodeWriter_WriteSubstring>`.
* :c:func:`!_PyUnicodeWriter_WriteASCIIString`:
replace ``_PyUnicodeWriter_WriteASCIIString(&writer, str)`` with
- :c:func:`PyUnicodeWriter_WriteUTF8(writer, str) <PyUnicodeWriter_WriteUTF8>`.
+ :c:func:`PyUnicodeWriter_WriteASCII(writer, str) <PyUnicodeWriter_WriteASCII>`.
* :c:func:`!_PyUnicodeWriter_WriteLatin1String`:
replace ``_PyUnicodeWriter_WriteLatin1String(&writer, str)`` with
:c:func:`PyUnicodeWriter_WriteUTF8(writer, str) <PyUnicodeWriter_WriteUTF8>`.