Python News
+++++++++++
-What's New in Python 3.5.2 release candidate 1?
-===============================================
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 2
+==================================
+
+*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #26983: float() now always return an instance of exact float.
+ The deprecation warning is emitted if __float__ returns an instance of
+ a strict subclass of float. In a future versions of Python this can
+ be an error.
+
+- Issue #27097: Python interpreter is now about 7% faster due to optimized
+ instruction decoding. Based on patch by Demur Rumed.
+
+- Issue #26647: Python interpreter now uses 16-bit wordcode instead of bytecode.
+ Patch by Demur Rumed.
+
+- Issue #23275: Allow assigning to an empty target list in round brackets:
+ () = iterable.
+
+Library
+-------
+
++- Issue #27164: In the zlib module, allow decompressing raw Deflate streams
++ with a predefined zdict. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
++
+- Issue #24291: Fix wsgiref.simple_server.WSGIRequestHandler to completely
+ write data to the client. Previously it could do partial writes and
+ truncate data. Also, wsgiref.handler.ServerHandler can now handle stdout
+ doing partial writes, but this is deprecated.
+
+- Issue #21272: Use _sysconfigdata.py to initialize distutils.sysconfig.
+
+- Issue #19611: :mod:`inspect` now reports the implicit ``.0`` parameters
+ generated by the compiler for comprehension and generator expression scopes
+ as if they were positional-only parameters called ``implicit0``.
+ Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
+
+- Issue #26809: Add ``__all__`` to :mod:`string`. Patch by Emanuel Barry.
+
+- Issue #26373: subprocess.Popen.communicate now correctly ignores
+ BrokenPipeError when the child process dies before .communicate()
+ is called in more/all circumstances.
+
+- signal, socket, and ssl module IntEnum constant name lookups now return a
+ consistent name for values having multiple names. Ex: signal.Signals(6)
+ now refers to itself as signal.SIGALRM rather than flipping between that
+ and signal.SIGIOT based on the interpreter's hash randomization seed.
+
+- Issue #27167: Clarify the subprocess.CalledProcessError error message text
+ when the child process died due to a signal.
+
+- Issue #25931: Don't define socketserver.Forking* names on platforms such
+ as Windows that do not support os.fork().
+
+- Issue #21776: distutils.upload now correctly handles HTTPError.
+ Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.
+
+- Issue #26526: Replace custom parse tree validation in the parser
+ module with a simple DFA validator.
+
+- Issue #27114: Fix SSLContext._load_windows_store_certs fails with
+ PermissionError
+
+- Issue #18383: Avoid creating duplicate filters when using filterwarnings
+ and simplefilter. Based on patch by Alex Shkop.
+
+- Issue #23026: winreg.QueryValueEx() now return an integer for REG_QWORD type.
+
+- Issue #26741: subprocess.Popen destructor now emits a ResourceWarning warning
+ if the child process is still running.
+
+- Issue #27056: Optimize pickle.load() and pickle.loads(), up to 10% faster
+ to deserialize a lot of small objects.
+
+- Issue #21271: New keyword only parameters in reset_mock call.
+
+- Issue #25548: Showing memory address of class objects in repl.
+
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #27117: Make colorizer htest and turtledemo work with dark themes.
+ Move code for configuring text widget colors to a new function.
+
+- Issue #24225: Rename many idlelib/*.py and idle_test/test_*.py files.
+ Edit files to replace old names with new names when the old name
+ referred to the module rather than the class it contained.
+ See the issue and IDLE section in What's New in 3.6 for more.
+
+- Issue #26673: When tk reports font size as 0, change to size 10.
+ Such fonts on Linux prevented the configuration dialog from opening.
+
+- Issue #21939: Add test for IDLE's percolator.
+ Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
+
+- Issue #21676: Add test for IDLE's replace dialog.
+ Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
+
+- Issue #18410: Add test for IDLE's search dialog.
+ Original patch by Westley MartÃnez.
+
+- Issue #21703: Add test for undo delegator. Patch mostly by
+ Saimadhav Heblikar .
+
+- Issue #27044: Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory leaks.
-Release date: tba
+- Issue #23977: Add more asserts to test_delegator.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #25285: regrtest now uses subprocesses when the -j1 command line option
+ is used: each test file runs in a fresh child process. Before, the -j1 option
+ was ignored.
+
+- Issue #25285: Tools/buildbot/test.bat script now uses -j1 by default to run
+ each test file in fresh child process.
+
+Windows
+-------
+
+- Issue #27064: The py.exe launcher now defaults to Python 3.
+ The Windows launcher ``py.exe`` no longer prefers an installed
+ Python 2 version over Python 3 by default when used interactively.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #26930: Update OS X 10.5+ 32-bit-only installer to build
+ and link with OpenSSL 1.0.2h.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 1?
+===================================
+
+Release date: 2016-05-16
Core and Builtins
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