Library
-------
-- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
- with Tk 8.5.
+- Issue #12221: Remove __version__ attributes from pyexpat, pickle, tarfile,
+ pydoc, tkinter, and xml.parsers.expat. This were useless version constants
+ left over from the Mercurial transition
-- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
- is set in shell.
++- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().
+
-- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
+- 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 #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 #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 #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
- attribute when called without a max_length argument.
+- Issue #12171: IncrementalEncoder.reset() of CJK codecs (multibytecodec) calls
+ encreset() instead of decreset().
-- 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 #12218: Removed wsgiref.egg-info.
-- 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 #12196: Add pipe2() to the os module.
-- Issue #11169: compileall module uses repr() to format filenames and paths to
- escape surrogate characters and show spaces.
+- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists.
+ Patch by Mher Movsisyan.
-- 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 #1625: BZ2File and bz2.decompress() now support multi-stream files.
+ Initial patch by Nir Aides.
-- 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 #12175: BufferedReader.read(-1) now calls raw.readall() if available.
-- Issue #11164: Stop trying to use _xmlplus in the xml module.
+- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now only reads the file position and size
+ once.
-Build
------
+- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.
-- Issue #11347: Use --no-as-needed when linking libpython3.so.
+- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
+ if the file is closed.
-Tools/Demos
------------
+- Issue #11109: New service_action method for BaseServer, used by ForkingMixin
+ class for cleanup. Initial Patch by Justin Wark.
-- Issue #11996: libpython (gdb), replace "py-bt" command by "py-bt-full" and
- add a smarter "py-bt" command printing a classic Python traceback.
+- Issue #12045: Avoid duplicate execution of command in
+ ctypes.util._get_soname(). Patch by Sijin Joseph.
-Tests
------
+- 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 #12096: Fix a race condition in test_threading.test_waitfor(). Patch
- written by Charles-François Natali.
+- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, read the data in one chunk to speed up large
+ reads and simplify code.
-- Issue #11614: import __hello__ prints "Hello World!". Patch written by
- Andreas Stührk.
+- Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
+ correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").
-- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.
+- 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 #11910: Fix test_heapq to skip the C tests when _heapq is missing.
+- 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.
-What's New in Python 3.2.1 beta 1?
-==================================
+- Issue #6501: os.device_encoding() returns None on Windows if the application
+ has no console.
-*Release date: 08-May-2011*
+- Issue #12132: Skip test_build_ext in case the xxmodule is not found.
-Core and Builtins
------------------
+- Issue #12105: Add O_CLOEXEC to the os module.
-- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
- interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when they
- try to take the GIL.
+- 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 #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
- the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
- Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
- str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
+- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
+ to be able to unload the module.
-- Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new
- subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
- the ISO-8859-15 codec.
+- 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 #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
- APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5. Patch by
- Charles-François Natali.
+- 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 #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
- accepted too.
+- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
+ with Tk 8.5.
-- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
- between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP chars
- (e.g. "\U00012345"[0]).
+- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
+ is set in shell.
-- Issue #11845: Fix typo in rangeobject.c that caused a crash in
- compute_slice_indices. Patch by Daniel Urban.
+- 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 #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
- (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
- written by Charles-Francois Natali.
+- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
+ attribute when called without a max_length argument.
-- Issue #11395: io.FileIO().write() clamps the data length to 32,767 bytes on
- Windows if the file is a TTY to workaround a Windows bug. The Windows console
- returns an error (12: not enough space error) on writing into stdout if stdout
- mode is binary and the length is greater than 66,000 bytes (or less, depending
- on heap usage).
+- 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 #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to a
- possible crash when calling Py_SetPath().
+- Issue #9971: Write an optimized implementation of BufferedReader.readinto().
+ Patch by John O'Connor.
-- Issue #11510: Fixed optimizer bug which turned "a,b={1,1}" into "a,b=(1,1)".
+- 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 #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with
- 3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin
- file descriptor would raise an exception. webbrowser.open would fail. fixed.
+- Issue #11799: urllib.request Authentication Handlers will raise a ValueError
+ when presented with an unsupported Authentication Scheme. Patch contributed
+ by Yuval Greenfield.
-- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when there
- are many tags (e.g. when using mq). Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
+- 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 #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
- UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
- Patch written by Ray Allen.
+- 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 #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with a
- buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
+- Issue #12011: signal.signal() and signal.siginterrupt() raise an OSError,
+ instead of a RuntimeError: OSError has an errno attribute.
-- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
- sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').
+- 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 #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index. Patch
- by Torsten Becker.
+- Issue #11743: Rewrite multiprocessing connection classes in pure Python.
-- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
- narrow build.
+- Issue #11164: Stop trying to use _xmlplus in the xml module.
-- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.
+- Issue #11888: Add log2 function to math module. Patch written by Mark
+ Dickinson.
-- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
- empty, instead of OverflowError.
+- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.
-Library
--------
+- 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 #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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