From: Éric Araujo Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2011 15:44:07 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Branch merge X-Git-Tag: v3.2.3rc1~581^2~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bcf99ac6650e69aac23af439cf23a8129ae2fba8;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Branch merge --- bcf99ac6650e69aac23af439cf23a8129ae2fba8 diff --cc Misc/NEWS index bd8c49788b30,25bbf3f998f7..e0efb877876d --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@@ -59,43 -71,7 +59,46 @@@ Test What's New in Python 3.2.2? =========================== -*Release date: XX-XXX-2011* +*Release date: 03-Sep-2011* + +Core and Builtins +----------------- + +- Issue #12326: sys.platform is now always 'linux2' on Linux, even if Python + is compiled on Linux 3. + +- Accept bytes for the AST string type. This is temporary until a proper fix in + 3.3. + +Library +------- ++ ++- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead ++ of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template. + +- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user + and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id + of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership + information was lost. + +- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi + now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist. + +- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch. + Fix by Richard M. Tew. + +Extension Modules +----------------- + +- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to + some functions like file.write(). + + + +What's New in Python 3.2.2 release candidate 1? +=============================================== + +*Release date: 14-Aug-2011* Core and Builtins -----------------