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-- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch by
- Kasun Herath.
++- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
++ constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
++ written by Oleg Oshmyan.
++
+- Issue #12028: Make threading._get_ident() public, rename it to
+ threading.get_ident() and document it. This function was already used using
+ _thread.get_ident().
+
+- Issue #12171: IncrementalEncoder.reset() of CJK codecs (multibytecodec) calls
+ encreset() instead of decreset().
+
+- Issue #12218: Removed wsgiref.egg-info.
+
+- Issue #12196: Add pipe2() to the os module.
+
+- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists.
+ Patch by Mher Movsisyan.
+
+- Issue #1625: BZ2File and bz2.decompress() now support multi-stream files.
+ Initial patch by Nir Aides.
+
+- Issue #12175: BufferedReader.read(-1) now calls raw.readall() if available.
+
+- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now only reads the file position and size
+ once.
+
+- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
+
+- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
+ if the file is closed.
+
+- Issue #11109: New service_action method for BaseServer, used by ForkingMixin
+ class for cleanup. Initial Patch by Justin Wark.
+
+- Issue #12045: Avoid duplicate execution of command in
+ ctypes.util._get_soname(). Patch by Sijin Joseph.
+
+- Issue #10818: Remove the Tk GUI and the serve() function of the pydoc module,
+ pydoc -g has been deprecated in Python 3.2 and it has a new enhanced web
+ server.
+
+- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, read the data in one chunk to speed up large
+ reads and simplify code.
+
+- Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
+ correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").
+
+- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
+ their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
+ final argument is True.
+
+- Issue #12049: Add RAND_bytes() and RAND_pseudo_bytes() functions to the ssl
+ module.
+
+- Issue #12125: fixed the failures under Solaris due to improper test cleanup.
+
+- Issue #6501: os.device_encoding() returns None on Windows if the application
+ has no console.
+
+- Issue #12132: Skip test_build_ext in case the xxmodule is not found.
+
+- Issue #12105: Add O_CLOEXEC to the os module.
+
+- Issue #12079: Decimal('Infinity').fma(Decimal('0'), (3.91224318126786e+19+0j))
+ now raises TypeError (reflecting the invalid type of the 3rd argument) rather
+ than Decimal.InvalidOperation.
+
+- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
+ to be able to unload the module.
+
+- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
+ when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
+
+- Issue #8809: The SMTP_SSL constructor and SMTP.starttls() now support
+ passing a ``context`` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
+ Patch by Kasun Herath.
+
+- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
+ with Tk 8.5.
+
+- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
+ is set in shell.
+
+- Issue #8650: Make zlib module 64-bit clean. compress(), decompress() and
+ their incremental counterparts now raise OverflowError if given an input
+ larger than 4GB, instead of silently truncating the input and returning
+ an incorrect result.
+
+- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
+ attribute when called without a max_length argument.
+
+- Issue #12062: Fix a flushing bug when doing a certain type of I/O sequence
+ on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading, seeking a bit forward,
+ writing, then seeking before the previous write but still within buffered
+ data, and writing again).
+
+- Issue #9971: Write an optimized implementation of BufferedReader.readinto().
+ Patch by John O'Connor.
+
+- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
+ With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
+ IDLE to exit. Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
+
+- Issue #11799: urllib.request Authentication Handlers will raise a ValueError
+ when presented with an unsupported Authentication Scheme. Patch contributed
+ by Yuval Greenfield.
+
+- Issue #10419, #6011: build_scripts command of distutils handles correctly
+ non-ASCII path (path to the Python executable). Open and write the script in
+ binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the
+ encoding of the script.
+
+- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
+ order to accept exactly one connection. Patch by Daniel Evers.
+
+- Issue #12011: signal.signal() and signal.siginterrupt() raise an OSError,
+ instead of a RuntimeError: OSError has an errno attribute.
+
+- Issue #3709: a flush_headers method to BaseHTTPRequestHandler which manages
+ the sending of headers to output stream and flushing the internal headers
+ buffer. Patch contribution by Andrew Schaaf
+
+- Issue #11743: Rewrite multiprocessing connection classes in pure Python.
+
+- Issue #11164: Stop trying to use _xmlplus in the xml module.
+
+- Issue #11888: Add log2 function to math module. Patch written by Mark
+ Dickinson.
+
+- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
+
+- Issue #8407: The signal handler writes the signal number as a single byte
+ instead of a nul byte into the wakeup file descriptor. So it is possible to
+ wait more than one signal and know which signals were raised.
+
+- Issue #8407: Add pthread_kill(), sigpending() and sigwait() functions to the
+ signal module.
+
+- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented. Patch
+ by Kasun Herath.
- Issue #12002: ftplib's abort() method raises TypeError.
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