- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
with large config files.
-- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
- Patch by Stan Mihai.
-
-- Issue #11053: Fix IDLE "Syntax Error" windows to behave as in 2.x,
- preventing a confusing hung appearance on OS X with the windows
- obscured.
+- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
+ larger than 4GB. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
-- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
- commands.
+- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
-- Issue #11020: Command-line pyclbr was broken because of missing 2-to-3
- conversion.
+- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
-- Issue #10974: IDLE no longer crashes if its recent files list includes files
- with non-ASCII characters in their path names.
+- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
+ their children.
-- Issue #10987: Fix the recursion limit handling in the _pickle module.
+- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
-- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
+- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
-- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
- length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
+Build
+-----
-- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
- a symbol named FSTAT.
+- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
-- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
- length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
- is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
+- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
+ package had previously been installed.
-- Issue #10899: No function type annotations in the standard library.
- Removed function type annotations from _pyio.py.
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
-- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
+- Issue #11179: Make ccbench work under Python 3.1 and 2.7 again.
-- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
- node twice.
+Extensions
+----------
-- Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
- continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space
- and looks like a header. Since Generator uses Header to format all
- headers, this check is made for all headers in any serialized message
- at serialization time. This provides protection against header
- injection attacks.
+- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
+ to an instance of the class.
-- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
- on an existing file.
+Tests
+-----
-- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
- the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
++- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
++ platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
+
-- Issue #10790: email.header.Header.append's charset logic now works correctly
- for charsets whose output codec is different from its input codec.
+- Issue #11653: fix -W with -j in regrtest.
-- Issue #6643: Reinitialize locks held within the threading module after fork
- to avoid a potential rare deadlock or crash on some platforms.
+- Issue #11577: improve test coverage of binhex.py. Patch by Arkady Koplyarov.
-- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
- file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
- patch by Ross Lagerwall.
+- Issue #11578: added test for the timeit module. Patch Michael Henry.
-- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
- variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util's
- request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
- params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
+- Issue #11503: improve test coverage of posixpath.py. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
-- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
+- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
+ Arlen.
-- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
- browsers actually parse cookies.
+- Issue #11548: Improve test coverage of the shutil module. Patch by
+ Evan Dandrea.
-- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
- it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
- the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
+- Issue #11554: Reactivated test_email_codecs.
-- Issue #4871: The zipfile module now gives a more useful error message if
- an attempt is made to use a string to specify the archive password.
+- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
+ false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
-- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
+- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
+ non-semaphore implementation of locks is used under POSIX.
-- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client
- and http.server, to avoid denial of services from the other party.
+- Issue #10911: Add tests on CGI with non-ASCII characters. Patch written by
+ Pierre Quentel.
-- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
+- Issue #9931: Fix hangs in GUI tests under Windows in certain conditions.
+ Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
-- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
- from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
+- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
+ to open door files.
-- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
- ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
-- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
- for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
+What's New in Python 3.2?
+=========================
-- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
+*Release date: 20-Feb-2011*
-- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
- causes debug mode to fail.
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
-- Issue #1078919: add_header now automatically RFC2231 encodes parameters
- that contain non-ascii values.
+- Issue #11249: Fix potential crashes when using the limited API.
-- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
+Build
+-----
-- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
- RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
- authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
+- Issue #11222: Fix non-framework shared library build on Mac OS X.
-- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
- way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
- current process.
+- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
-- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
+- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
-- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
- OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
- or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
+Documentation
+-------------
-- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
- IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
+- Issue #10709: Add updated AIX notes in Misc/README.AIX.
-Extensions
-----------
-- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
- to an instance of the class.
+What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 3?
+=============================================
-- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
+*Release date: 13-Feb-2011*
-Build
------
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
-- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
+- Issue #11134: Add missing fields to typeslots.h.
-- Issue #11184: Fix large-file support on AIX.
+- Issue #11135: Remove redundant doc field from PyType_Spec.
-- Issue #941346: Fix broken shared library build on AIX.
+- Issue #11067: Add PyType_GetFlags, to support PyUnicode_Check in the limited
+ ABI.
-- Issue #7716: Under Solaris, don't assume existence of /usr/xpg4/bin/grep in
- the configure script but use $GREP instead. Patch by Fabian Groffen.
+- Issue #11118: Fix bogus export of None in python3.dll.
-- Issue #10475: Don't hardcode compilers for LDSHARED/LDCXXSHARED on NetBSD
- and DragonFly BSD. Patch by Nicolas Joly.
+Library
+-------
-- Issue #10655: Fix the build on PowerPC on Linux with GCC when building with
- timestamp profiling (--with-tsc): the preprocessor test for the PowerPC
- support now looks for "__powerpc__" as well as "__ppc__": the latter seems to
- only be present on OS X; the former is the correct one for Linux with GCC.
+- Issue #11116: any error during addition of a message to a mailbox now causes a
+ rollback, instead of leaving the mailbox partially modified.
-- Issue #1099: Fix the build on MacOSX when building a framework with pydebug
- using GCC 4.0.
+- Issue #11132: Fix passing of "optimize" parameter when recursing in
+ compileall.compile_dir().
-Tests
------
+- Issue #11110: Fix a potential decref of a NULL in sqlite3.
-- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
- platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
+- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64. Patch
+ by Stan Mihai.
-- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
- false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
+Build
+-----
-- Issue #10822: Fix test_posix:test_getgroups failure under Solaris. Patch
- by Ross Lagerwall.
+- Issue #11079: The /Applications/Python x.x folder created by the Mac OS X
+ installers now includes a link to the installed documentation and no longer
+ includes an Extras directory. The Tools directory is now installed in the
+ framework under share/doc.
-- Issue #6293: Have regrtest.py echo back sys.flags. This is done by default
- in whole runs and enabled selectively using ``--header`` when running an
- explicit list of tests. Original patch by Collin Winter.
+- Issue #11121: Fix building with --enable-shared.
-- Issue #775964: test_grp now skips YP/NIS entries instead of failing when
- encountering them.
+Tests
+-----
-- Issue #7110: regrtest now sends test failure reports and single-failure
- tracebacks to stderr rather than stdout.
+- Issue #10971: test_zipimport_support is once again compatible with the refleak
+ hunter feature of test.regrtest.
-What's New in Python 3.1.3?
-===========================
+What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 2?
+=============================================
-*Release date: 2010-11-27*
+*Release date: 30-Jan-2011*
Core and Builtins
-----------------
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