Core and Builtins
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+ - Issue #17237: Fix crash in the ASCII decoder on m68k.
+
+- Issue #17927: Frame objects kept arguments alive if they had been
+ copied into a cell, even if the cell was cleared.
+
+- Issue #17807: Generators can now be finalized even when they are part of
+ a reference cycle.
+
+- Issue #1545463: At shutdown, defer finalization of codec modules so
+ that stderr remains usable.
+
+- Issue #7330: Implement width and precision (ex: "%5.3s") for the format
+ string of PyUnicode_FromFormat() function, original patch written by Ysj Ray.
+
+- Issue #1545463: Global variables caught in reference cycles are now
+ garbage-collected at shutdown.
+
+- 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 #17408: Avoid using an obsolete instance of the copyreg module when
the interpreter is shutdown and then started again.