--- /dev/null
+.. date: 2024-11-28-15-55-48
+.. gh-issue: 127353
+.. nonce: i-XOXg
+.. release date: 2024-12-17
+.. section: Windows
+
+Allow to force color output on Windows using environment variables. Patch by
+Andrey Efremov.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-10-31-09-46-53
+.. gh-issue: 125729
+.. nonce: KdKVLa
+.. section: Windows
+
+Makes the presence of the :mod:`turtle` module dependent on the Tcl/Tk
+installer option. Previously, the module was always installed but would be
+unusable without Tcl/Tk.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-16-20-47-20
+.. gh-issue: 126700
+.. nonce: ayrHv4
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+Add support for multi-argument :mod:`gettext` functions in
+:program:`pygettext.py`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-13-13-41-34
+.. gh-issue: 127906
+.. nonce: NuRHlB
+.. section: Tests
+
+Test the limited C API in test_cppext. Patch by Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-09-12-35-44
+.. gh-issue: 127637
+.. nonce: KLx-9I
+.. section: Tests
+
+Add tests for the :mod:`dis` command-line interface. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-04-15-03-24
+.. gh-issue: 126925
+.. nonce: uxAMK-
+.. section: Tests
+
+iOS test results are now streamed during test execution, and the deprecated
+xcresulttool is no longer used.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-21-02-03-48
+.. gh-issue: 127076
+.. nonce: a3avV1
+.. section: Tests
+
+Disable strace based system call tests when LD_PRELOAD is set.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-20-18-49-01
+.. gh-issue: 127076
+.. nonce: DHnXxo
+.. section: Tests
+
+Filter out memory-related ``mmap``, ``munmap``, and ``mprotect`` calls from
+file-related ones when testing :mod:`io` behavior using strace.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-05-21-35-19
+.. gh-issue: 127655
+.. nonce: xpPoOf
+.. section: Security
+
+Fixed the :class:`!asyncio.selector_events._SelectorSocketTransport`
+transport not pausing writes for the protocol when the buffer reaches the
+high water mark when using :meth:`asyncio.WriteTransport.writelines`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-13-22-20-54
+.. gh-issue: 126907
+.. nonce: fWRL_R
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix crash when using :mod:`atexit` concurrently on the :term:`free-threaded
+<free threading>` build.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-12-16-59-42
+.. gh-issue: 127870
+.. nonce: _NFG-3
+.. section: Library
+
+Detect recursive calls in ctypes ``_as_parameter_`` handling. Patch by
+Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-08-08-36-18
+.. gh-issue: 127732
+.. nonce: UEKxoa
+.. section: Library
+
+The :mod:`platform` module now correctly detects Windows Server 2025.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-07-23-06-44
+.. gh-issue: 126789
+.. nonce: 4dqfV1
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed :func:`sysconfig.get_config_vars`, :func:`sysconfig.get_paths`, and
+siblings, returning outdated cached data if the value of :data:`sys.prefix`
+or :data:`sys.exec_prefix` changes. Overwriting :data:`sys.prefix` or
+:data:`sys.exec_prefix` still is discouraged, as that might break other
+parts of the code.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-07-15-28-31
+.. gh-issue: 127718
+.. nonce: 9dpLfi
+.. section: Library
+
+Add colour to :mod:`test.regrtest` output. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-06-17-28-55
+.. gh-issue: 127610
+.. nonce: ctv_NP
+.. section: Library
+
+Added validation for more than one var-positional or var-keyword parameters
+in :class:`inspect.Signature`. Patch by Maxim Ageev.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-05-10-14-52
+.. gh-issue: 127627
+.. nonce: fgCHOZ
+.. section: Library
+
+Added ``posix._emscripten_debugger()`` to help with debugging the test suite
+on the Emscripten target.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-04-15-04-12
+.. gh-issue: 126821
+.. nonce: lKCLVV
+.. section: Library
+
+macOS and iOS apps can now choose to redirect stdout and stderr to the
+system log during interpreter configuration.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-04-11-01-16
+.. gh-issue: 93312
+.. nonce: 9sB-Qw
+.. section: Library
+
+Include ``<sys/pidfd.h>`` to get ``os.PIDFD_NONBLOCK`` constant. Patch by
+Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-01-23-18-43
+.. gh-issue: 127481
+.. nonce: K36AoP
+.. section: Library
+
+Add the ``EPOLLWAKEUP`` constant to the :mod:`select` module.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-01-22-28-41
+.. gh-issue: 127065
+.. nonce: tFpRer
+.. section: Library
+
+Make :func:`operator.methodcaller` thread-safe and re-entrant safe.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-30-21-46-15
+.. gh-issue: 127321
+.. nonce: M78fBv
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`pdb.set_trace` will not stop at an opcode that does not have an
+associated line number anymore.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-29-23-02-43
+.. gh-issue: 127429
+.. nonce: dQf2w4
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed bug where, on cross-builds, the :mod:`sysconfig` POSIX data was being
+generated with the host Python's ``Makefile``. The data is now generated
+from current build's ``Makefile``.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-29-14-45-26
+.. gh-issue: 127413
+.. nonce: z11AUc
+.. section: Library
+
+Add the :option:`dis --specialized` command-line option to show specialized
+bytecode. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-29-00-15-59
+.. gh-issue: 125413
+.. nonce: WCN0vv
+.. section: Library
+
+Revert addition of :meth:`!pathlib.Path.scandir`. This method was added in
+3.14.0a2. The optimizations remain for file system paths, but other
+subclasses should only have to implement :meth:`pathlib.Path.iterdir`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-28-14-14-46
+.. gh-issue: 127257
+.. nonce: n6-jU9
+.. section: Library
+
+In :mod:`ssl`, system call failures that OpenSSL reports using
+``ERR_LIB_SYS`` are now raised as :exc:`OSError`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-27-17-04-38
+.. gh-issue: 59705
+.. nonce: sAGyvs
+.. section: Library
+
+On Linux, :class:`threading.Thread` now sets the thread name to the
+operating system. Patch by Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-27-16-06-10
+.. gh-issue: 127303
+.. nonce: asqkgh
+.. section: Library
+
+Publicly expose :data:`~token.EXACT_TOKEN_TYPES` in :attr:`!token.__all__`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-27-14-23-02
+.. gh-issue: 127331
+.. nonce: 9sNEC9
+.. section: Library
+
+:mod:`ssl` can show descriptions for errors added in OpenSSL 3.4.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-27-14-06-35
+.. gh-issue: 123967
+.. nonce: wxUmnW
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix faulthandler for trampoline frames. If the top-most frame is a
+trampoline frame, skip it. Patch by Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-26-17-42-00
+.. gh-issue: 127178
+.. nonce: U8hxjc
+.. section: Library
+
+A ``_sysconfig_vars_(...).json`` file is now shipped in the standard library
+directory. It contains the output of :func:`sysconfig.get_config_vars` on
+the default environment encoded as JSON data. This is an implementation
+detail, and may change at any time.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-25-19-04-10
+.. gh-issue: 127072
+.. nonce: -c284K
+.. section: Library
+
+Remove outdated ``socket.NETLINK_*`` constants not present in Linux kernels
+beyond 2.6.17.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-25-15-02-44
+.. gh-issue: 127255
+.. nonce: UXeljc
+.. section: Library
+
+The :func:`~ctypes.CopyComPointer` function is now public. Previously, this
+was private and only available in ``_ctypes``.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-24-14-20-17
+.. gh-issue: 127182
+.. nonce: WmfY2g
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix :meth:`!io.StringIO.__setstate__` crash, when :const:`None` was passed
+as the first value.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-24-12-41-31
+.. gh-issue: 127217
+.. nonce: UAXGFr
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix :func:`urllib.request.pathname2url` for paths starting with multiple
+slashes on Posix.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-23-12-25-06
+.. gh-issue: 125866
+.. nonce: wEOP66
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`urllib.request.pathname2url` now adds an empty authority when
+generating a URL for a path that begins with exactly one slash. For example,
+the path ``/etc/hosts`` is converted to the scheme-less URL
+``///etc/hosts``. As a result of this change, URLs without authorities are
+only generated for relative paths.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-23-00-17-29
+.. gh-issue: 127221
+.. nonce: OSXdFE
+.. section: Library
+
+Add colour to :mod:`unittest` output. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-22-10-42-34
+.. gh-issue: 127035
+.. nonce: UnbDlr
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix :mod:`shutil.which` on Windows. Now it looks at direct match if and only
+if the command ends with a PATHEXT extension or X_OK is not in mode. Support
+extensionless files if "." is in PATHEXT. Support PATHEXT extensions that
+end with a dot.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-22-09-23-41
+.. gh-issue: 122273
+.. nonce: H8M6fd
+.. section: Library
+
+Support PyREPL history on Windows. Patch by devdanzin and Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-22-04-49-31
+.. gh-issue: 125866
+.. nonce: TUtvPK
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`urllib.request.pathname2url` and :func:`~urllib.request.url2pathname`
+no longer convert Windows drive letters to uppercase.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-22-03-40-02
+.. gh-issue: 127078
+.. nonce: gI_PaP
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix issue where :func:`urllib.request.url2pathname` failed to discard an
+extra slash before a UNC drive in the URL path on Windows.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-22-02-31-55
+.. gh-issue: 126766
+.. nonce: jfkhBH
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix issue where :func:`urllib.request.url2pathname` failed to discard any
+'localhost' authority present in the URL.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-21-16-23-16
+.. gh-issue: 127065
+.. nonce: cfL1zd
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix crash when calling a :func:`operator.methodcaller` instance from
+multiple threads in the free threading build.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-21-06-03-46
+.. gh-issue: 127090
+.. nonce: yUYwdh
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix value of :attr:`urllib.response.addinfourl.url` for ``file:`` URLs that
+express relative paths and absolute Windows paths. The canonical URL
+generated by :func:`urllib.request.pathname2url` is now used.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-20-21-20-56
+.. gh-issue: 126992
+.. nonce: RbU0FZ
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix LONG and INT opcodes to only use base 10 for string to integer
+conversion in :mod:`pickle`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-20-16-58-59
+.. gh-issue: 126997
+.. nonce: 0PI41Y
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix support of STRING and GLOBAL opcodes with non-ASCII arguments in
+:mod:`pickletools`. :func:`pickletools.dis` now outputs non-ASCII bytes in
+STRING, BINSTRING and SHORT_BINSTRING arguments as escaped (``\xXX``).
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-20-11-37-08
+.. gh-issue: 126316
+.. nonce: ElkZmE
+.. section: Library
+
+:mod:`grp`: Make :func:`grp.getgrall` thread-safe by adding a mutex. Patch
+by Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-20-08-54-11
+.. gh-issue: 126618
+.. nonce: ef_53g
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix the representation of :class:`itertools.count` objects when the count
+value is :data:`sys.maxsize`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-19-14-34-05
+.. gh-issue: 126615
+.. nonce: LOskwi
+.. section: Library
+
+The :exc:`~ctypes.COMError` exception is now public. Previously, this was
+private and only available in ``_ctypes``.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-18-23-42-06
+.. gh-issue: 126985
+.. nonce: 7XplY9
+.. section: Library
+
+When running under a virtual environment with the :mod:`site` disabled (see
+:option:`-S`), :data:`sys.prefix` and :data:`sys.base_prefix` will now point
+to the virtual environment, instead of the base installation.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-18-23-18-27
+.. gh-issue: 112192
+.. nonce: DRdRgP
+.. section: Library
+
+In the :mod:`trace` module, increase the coverage precision (``cov%``) to
+one decimal.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-18-22-02-47
+.. gh-issue: 118761
+.. nonce: GQKD_J
+.. section: Library
+
+Improve import time of :mod:`mimetypes` by around 11-16 times. Patch by Hugo
+van Kemenade.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-18-19-03-46
+.. gh-issue: 126947
+.. nonce: NiDYUe
+.. section: Library
+
+Raise :exc:`TypeError` in :meth:`!_pydatetime.timedelta.__new__` if the
+passed arguments are not :class:`int` or :class:`float`, so that the Python
+implementation is in line with the C implementation.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-18-16-43-11
+.. gh-issue: 126946
+.. nonce: 52Ou-B
+.. section: Library
+
+Improve the :exc:`~getopt.GetoptError` error message when a long option
+prefix matches multiple accepted options in :func:`getopt.getopt` and
+:func:`getopt.gnu_getopt`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-16-10-52-48
+.. gh-issue: 126899
+.. nonce: GFnfBt
+.. section: Library
+
+Make tkinter widget methods :meth:`!after` and :meth:`!after_idle` accept
+arguments passed by keyword.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-15-01-50-36
+.. gh-issue: 85168
+.. nonce: bP8VIN
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix issue where :func:`urllib.request.url2pathname` and
+:func:`~urllib.request.pathname2url` always used UTF-8 when quoting and
+unquoting file URIs. They now use the :term:`filesystem encoding and error
+handler`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-13-19-15-18
+.. gh-issue: 126780
+.. nonce: ZZqJvI
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix :func:`os.path.normpath` for drive-relative paths on Windows.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-13-10-44-25
+.. gh-issue: 126775
+.. nonce: a3ubjh
+.. section: Library
+
+Make :func:`linecache.checkcache` thread safe and GC re-entrancy safe.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-12-20-05-09
+.. gh-issue: 126601
+.. nonce: Nj7bA9
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix issue where :func:`urllib.request.pathname2url` raised :exc:`OSError`
+when given a Windows path containing a colon character not following a drive
+letter, such as before an NTFS alternate data stream.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-12-13-14-47
+.. gh-issue: 126727
+.. nonce: 5Eqfqd
+.. section: Library
+
+``locale.nl_langinfo(locale.ERA)`` now returns multiple era description
+segments separated by semicolons. Previously it only returned the first
+segment on platforms with Glibc.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-04-22-02-30
+.. gh-issue: 85046
+.. nonce: Y5d_ZN
+.. section: Library
+
+Add :data:`~errno.EHWPOISON` error code to :mod:`errno`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-10-28-19-49-18
+.. gh-issue: 118201
+.. nonce: v41XXh
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed intermittent failures of :any:`os.confstr`, :any:`os.pathconf` and
+:any:`os.sysconf` on iOS and Android.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-10-23-20-05-54
+.. gh-issue: 86463
+.. nonce: jvFTI_
+.. section: Library
+
+The ``usage`` parameter of :class:`argparse.ArgumentParser` no longer
+affects the default value of the ``prog`` parameter in subparsers.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-09-13-18-24-27
+.. gh-issue: 124008
+.. nonce: XaiPQx
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix possible crash (in debug build), incorrect output or returning incorrect
+value from raw binary ``write()`` when writing to console on Windows.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-08-27-18-58-01
+.. gh-issue: 123401
+.. nonce: t4-FpI
+.. section: Library
+
+The :mod:`http.cookies` module now supports parsing obsolete :rfc:`850` date
+formats, in accordance with :rfc:`9110` requirements. Patch by Nano Zheng.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-30-11-37-40
+.. gh-issue: 122431
+.. nonce: lAzVtu
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`readline.append_history_file` now raises a :exc:`ValueError` when
+given a negative value.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-29-15-20-30
+.. gh-issue: 122356
+.. nonce: wKCmFx
+.. section: Library
+
+Guarantee that the position of a file-like object passed to
+:func:`zipfile.is_zipfile` is left untouched after the call. Patch by
+Bénédikt Tran.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-25-18-06-51
+.. gh-issue: 122288
+.. nonce: -_xxOR
+.. section: Library
+
+Improve the performances of :func:`fnmatch.translate` by a factor 1.7. Patch
+by Bénédikt Tran.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-02-15-23-54-42
+.. gh-issue: 88110
+.. nonce: KU6erv
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed :class:`multiprocessing.Process` reporting a ``.exitcode`` of 1 even
+on success when using the ``"fork"`` start method while using a
+:class:`concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2022-11-10-17-16-45
+.. gh-issue: 97514
+.. nonce: kzA0zl
+.. section: Library
+
+Authentication was added to the :mod:`multiprocessing` forkserver start
+method control socket so that only processes with the authentication key
+generated by the process that spawned the forkserver can control it. This
+is an enhancement over the other :gh:`97514` fixes so that access is no
+longer limited only by filesystem permissions.
+
+The file descriptor exchange of control pipes with the forked worker process
+now requires an explicit acknowledgement byte to be sent over the socket
+after the exchange on all forkserver supporting platforms. That makes
+testing the above much easier.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-27-22-56-48
+.. gh-issue: 127347
+.. nonce: xyddWS
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Publicly expose :func:`traceback.print_list` in :attr:`!traceback.__all__`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-10-21-08-05
+.. gh-issue: 127740
+.. nonce: 0tWC9h
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix error message in :func:`bytes.fromhex` when given an odd number of
+digits to properly indicate that an even number of hexadecimal digits is
+required.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-09-11-29-10
+.. gh-issue: 127058
+.. nonce: pqtBcZ
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+``PySequence_Tuple`` now creates the resulting tuple atomically, preventing
+partially created tuples being visible to the garbage collector or through
+``gc.get_referrers()``
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-07-13-06-09
+.. gh-issue: 127599
+.. nonce: tXCZb_
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix statistics for increments of object reference counts (in particular,
+when a reference count was increased by more than 1 in a single operation).
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-06-01-09-40
+.. gh-issue: 127651
+.. nonce: 80cm6j
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+When raising :exc:`ImportError` for missing symbols in ``from`` imports, use
+``__file__`` in the error message if ``__spec__.origin`` is not a location
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-05-19-25-00
+.. gh-issue: 127582
+.. nonce: ogUY2a
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix non-thread-safe object resurrection when calling finalizers and watcher
+callbacks in the free threading build.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-04-09-52-08
+.. gh-issue: 127434
+.. nonce: RjkGT_
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The iOS compiler shims can now accept arguments with spaces.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-03-21-07-06
+.. gh-issue: 127536
+.. nonce: 3jMMrT
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Add missing locks around some list assignment operations in the free
+threading build.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-30-23-35-45
+.. gh-issue: 127085
+.. nonce: KLKylb
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix race when exporting a buffer from a :class:`memoryview` object on the
+:term:`free-threaded <free threading>` build.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-25-05-15-21
+.. gh-issue: 127238
+.. nonce: O8wkH-
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Correct error message for :func:`sys.set_int_max_str_digits`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-24-07-01-28
+.. gh-issue: 113841
+.. nonce: WFg-Bu
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix possible undefined behavior division by zero in :class:`complex`'s
+:c:func:`_Py_c_pow`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-23-04-54-42
+.. gh-issue: 127133
+.. nonce: WMoJjF
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Calling :meth:`argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument_group` on an argument
+group, and calling :meth:`argparse.ArgumentParser.add_argument_group` or
+:meth:`argparse.ArgumentParser.add_mutually_exclusive_group` on a mutually
+exclusive group now raise exceptions. This nesting was never supported,
+often failed to work correctly, and was unintentionally exposed through
+inheritance. This functionality has been deprecated since Python 3.11.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-21-16-13-52
+.. gh-issue: 126491
+.. nonce: 0YvL94
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Add a marking phase to the GC. All objects that can be transitively reached
+from builtin modules or the stacks are marked as reachable before cycle
+detection. This reduces the amount of work done by the GC by approximately
+half.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-19-21-49-58
+.. gh-issue: 127020
+.. nonce: 5vvI17
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a crash in the free threading build when :c:func:`PyCode_GetCode`,
+:c:func:`PyCode_GetVarnames`, :c:func:`PyCode_GetCellvars`, or
+:c:func:`PyCode_GetFreevars` were called from multiple threads at the same
+time.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-19-17-17-32
+.. gh-issue: 127010
+.. nonce: 9Cl4bb
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Simplify GC tracking of dictionaries. All dictionaries are tracked when
+created, rather than being lazily tracked when a trackable object was added
+to them. This simplifies the code considerably and results in a slight
+speedup.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-18-23-18-17
+.. gh-issue: 126980
+.. nonce: r8QHdi
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix :meth:`~object.__buffer__` of :class:`bytearray` crashing when
+:attr:`~inspect.BufferFlags.READ` or :attr:`~inspect.BufferFlags.WRITE` are
+passed as flags.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-17-21-35-55
+.. gh-issue: 126937
+.. nonce: qluVM0
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix :exc:`TypeError` when a :class:`ctypes.Structure` has a field size that
+doesn't fit into an unsigned 16-bit integer. Instead, the maximum number of
+*bits* is :data:`sys.maxsize`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-16-22-37-46
+.. gh-issue: 126868
+.. nonce: yOoHSY
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Increase performance of :class:`int` by adding a freelist for compact ints.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-16-11-11-35
+.. gh-issue: 126881
+.. nonce: ijofLZ
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix crash in finalization of dtoa state. Patch by Kumar Aditya.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-15-16-39-37
+.. gh-issue: 126892
+.. nonce: QR6Yo3
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Require cold or invalidated code to "warm up" before being JIT compiled
+again.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-07-21-48-23
+.. gh-issue: 126091
+.. nonce: ETaRGE
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Ensure stack traces are complete when throwing into a generator chain that
+ends in a custom generator.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-10-27-04-47-28
+.. gh-issue: 126024
+.. nonce: XCQSqT
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Optimize decoding of short UTF-8 sequences containing non-ASCII characters
+by approximately 15%.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-10-14-13-28-16
+.. gh-issue: 125420
+.. nonce: hNKixM
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Add :meth:`memoryview.index` to :class:`memoryview` objects. Patch by
+Bénédikt Tran.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-10-14-12-34-51
+.. gh-issue: 125420
+.. nonce: jABXoZ
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Add :meth:`memoryview.count` to :class:`memoryview` objects. Patch by
+Bénédikt Tran.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-09-25-21-50-23
+.. gh-issue: 124470
+.. nonce: pFr3_d
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix crash in free-threaded builds when replacing object dictionary while
+reading attribute on another thread
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-08-03-14-02-27
+.. gh-issue: 69639
+.. nonce: mW3iKq
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Implement mixed-mode arithmetic rules combining real and complex numbers as
+specified by C standards since C99. Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-06-04-08-26-25
+.. gh-issue: 120010
+.. nonce: _z-AWz
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Correct invalid corner cases which resulted in ``(nan+nanj)`` output in
+complex multiplication, e.g., ``(1e300+1j)*(nan+infj)``. Patch by Sergey B
+Kirpichev.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-09-22-21-01-56
+.. gh-issue: 109746
+.. nonce: 32MHt9
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+If :func:`!_thread.start_new_thread` fails to start a new thread, it deletes
+its state from interpreter and thus avoids its repeated cleanup on
+finalization.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-16-07-12-15
+.. gh-issue: 127896
+.. nonce: HmI9pk
+.. section: C API
+
+The previously undocumented function :c:func:`PySequence_In` is :term:`soft
+deprecated`. Use :c:func:`PySequence_Contains` instead.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-10-14-25-22
+.. gh-issue: 127791
+.. nonce: YRw4GU
+.. section: C API
+
+Fix loss of callbacks after more than one call to
+:c:func:`PyUnstable_AtExit`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-06-16-53-34
+.. gh-issue: 127691
+.. nonce: k_Jitp
+.. section: C API
+
+The :ref:`Unicode Exception Objects <unicodeexceptions>` C API now raises a
+:exc:`TypeError` if its exception argument is not a :exc:`UnicodeError`
+object. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-02-16-10-36
+.. gh-issue: 123378
+.. nonce: Q6YRwe
+.. section: C API
+
+Ensure that the value of :attr:`UnicodeEncodeError.end <UnicodeError.end>`
+retrieved by :c:func:`PyUnicodeEncodeError_GetEnd` lies in ``[min(1,
+objlen), max(min(1, objlen), objlen)]`` where *objlen* is the length of
+:attr:`UnicodeEncodeError.object <UnicodeError.object>`. Similar arguments
+apply to :exc:`UnicodeDecodeError` and :exc:`UnicodeTranslateError` and
+their corresponding C interface. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-26-22-06-10
+.. gh-issue: 127314
+.. nonce: SsRrIu
+.. section: C API
+
+Improve error message when calling the C API without an active thread state
+on the :term:`free-threaded <free threading>` build.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-08-27-09-07-56
+.. gh-issue: 123378
+.. nonce: JJ6n_u
+.. section: C API
+
+Ensure that the value of :attr:`UnicodeEncodeError.start
+<UnicodeError.start>` retrieved by :c:func:`PyUnicodeEncodeError_GetStart`
+lies in ``[0, max(0, objlen - 1)]`` where *objlen* is the length of
+:attr:`UnicodeEncodeError.object <UnicodeError.object>`. Similar arguments
+apply to :exc:`UnicodeDecodeError` and :exc:`UnicodeTranslateError` and
+their corresponding C interface. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-08-12-10-15-19
+.. gh-issue: 109523
+.. nonce: S2c3fi
+.. section: C API
+
+Reading text from a non-blocking stream with ``read`` may now raise a
+:exc:`BlockingIOError` if the operation cannot immediately return bytes.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-03-17-26-53
+.. gh-issue: 102471
+.. nonce: XpmKYk
+.. section: C API
+
+Add a new import and export API for Python :class:`int` objects
+(:pep:`757`):
+
+* :c:func:`PyLong_GetNativeLayout`;
+* :c:func:`PyLong_Export`;
+* :c:func:`PyLong_FreeExport`;
+* :c:func:`PyLongWriter_Create`;
+* :c:func:`PyLongWriter_Finish`;
+* :c:func:`PyLongWriter_Discard`.
+
+Patch by Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-03-13-39-13
+.. gh-issue: 121058
+.. nonce: MKi1MV
+.. section: C API
+
+``PyThreadState_Clear()`` now warns (and calls ``sys.excepthook``) if the
+thread state still has an active exception.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-12-17-21-45
+.. gh-issue: 127865
+.. nonce: 30GDzs
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix build failure on systems without thread-locals support.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-12-06-12-47-52
+.. gh-issue: 127629
+.. nonce: tD-ERQ
+.. section: Build
+
+Emscripten builds now include ctypes support.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-30-16-36-09
+.. gh-issue: 127111
+.. nonce: QI9mMZ
+.. section: Build
+
+Updated the Emscripten web example to use ES6 modules and be built into a
+distinct ``web_example`` subfolder.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-22-08-46-46
+.. gh-issue: 115869
+.. nonce: UVLSKd
+.. section: Build
+
+Make ``jit_stencils.h`` (which is produced during JIT builds) reproducible.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-11-20-17-12-40
+.. gh-issue: 126898
+.. nonce: I2zILt
+.. section: Build
+
+The Emscripten build of Python is now based on ES6 modules.