Build
-----
-- Issue #28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale (python-config and distclean
- targets in Makefile). Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
++- Issue #28762: lockf() is available on Android API level 24, but the F_LOCK
++ macro is not defined in android-ndk-r13.
+
-- Issue #26661: setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch wrapper.
+- Issue #28538: Fix the compilation error that occurs because if_nameindex() is
+ available on Android API level 24, but the if_nameindex structure is not
+ defined.
-- Issue #15819: Remove redundant include search directory option for building
- outside the source tree.
+- Issue #20211: Do not add the directory for installing C header files and the
+ directory for installing object code libraries to the cross compilation
+ search paths. Original patch by Thomas Petazzoni.
-Tests
------
+- Issue #28849: Do not define sys.implementation._multiarch on Android.
-- Issue #28217: Adds _testconsole module to test console input.
+- Issue #10656: Fix out-of-tree building on AIX. Patch by Tristan Carel and
+ Michael Haubenwallner.
+- Issue #26359: Rename --with-optimiations to --enable-optimizations.
-What's New in Python 3.6.0 beta 1
-=================================
+- Issue #28444: Fix missing extensions modules when cross compiling.
-*Release date: 2016-09-12*
+- Issue #28208: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use SQLite 3.14.2.
-Core and Builtins
------------------
+- Issue #28248: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2j.
-- Issue #23722: The __class__ cell used by zero-argument super() is now
- initialized from type.__new__ rather than __build_class__, so class methods
- relying on that will now work correctly when called from metaclass methods
- during class creation. Patch by Martin Teichmann.
+- Issue #21124: Fix building the _struct module on Cygwin by passing ``NULL``
+ instead of ``&PyType_Type`` to PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT. Patch by Masayuki
+ Yamamoto.
-- Issue #25221: Fix corrupted result from PyLong_FromLong(0) when Python
- is compiled with NSMALLPOSINTS = 0.
+- Issue #13756: Fix building extensions modules on Cygwin. Patch by Roumen
+ Petrov, based on original patch by Jason Tishler.
-- Issue #27080: Implement formatting support for PEP 515. Initial patch
- by Chris Angelico.
+- Issue #21085: Add configure check for siginfo_t.si_band, which Cygwin does
+ not provide. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto with review and rebase by Erik Bray.
-- Issue #27199: In tarfile, expose copyfileobj bufsize to improve throughput.
- Patch by Jason Fried.
+- Issue #28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale (python-config and distclean
+ targets in Makefile). Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
-- Issue #27948: In f-strings, only allow backslashes inside the braces
- (where the expressions are). This is a breaking change from the 3.6
- alpha releases, where backslashes are allowed anywhere in an
- f-string. Also, require that expressions inside f-strings be
- enclosed within literal braces, and not escapes like
- f'\x7b"hi"\x7d'.
+- Issue #26661: setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch wrapper.
-- Issue #28046: Remove platform-specific directories from sys.path.
+- Issue #27979: A full copy of libffi is no longer bundled for use when
+ building _ctypes on non-OSX UNIX platforms. An installed copy of libffi is
+ now required when building _ctypes on such platforms.
+
+- Issue #15819: Remove redundant include search directory option for building
+ outside the source tree.
+
+- Issue #28676: Prevent missing 'getentropy' declaration warning on macOS.
+ Patch by Gareth Rees.
+
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
+
+- Issue #28023: Fix python-gdb.py didn't support new dict implementation.
+
+- Issue #15369: The pybench and pystone microbenchmark have been removed from
+ Tools. Please use the new Python benchmark suite
+ https://github.com/python/performance which is more reliable and includes a
+ portable version of pybench working on Python 2 and Python 3.
+
+- Issue #28102: The zipfile module CLI now prints usage to stderr.
+ Patch by Stephen J. Turnbull.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l in regrtest
+ command line arguments.
+
+- Issue #28683: Fix the tests that bind() a unix socket and raise
+ PermissionError on Android for a non-root user.
+
+ - Issue #26936: Fix the test_socket failures on Android - getservbyname(),
+ getservbyport() and getaddrinfo() are broken on some Android API levels.
+
+- Issue #28666: Now test.support.rmtree is able to remove unwritable or
+ unreadable directories.
+
+- Issue #23839: Various caches now are cleared before running every test file.
+
+- Issue #26944: Fix test_posix for Android where 'id -G' is entirely wrong or
+ missing the effective gid.
+
+- Issue #28409: regrtest: fix the parser of command line arguments.
+
+- Issue #28217: Adds _testconsole module to test console input.
+
+- Issue #26939: Add the support.setswitchinterval() function to fix
+ test_functools hanging on the Android armv7 qemu emulator.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 beta 1
+=================================
+
+*Release date: 2016-09-12*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #23722: The __class__ cell used by zero-argument super() is now
+ initialized from type.__new__ rather than __build_class__, so class methods
+ relying on that will now work correctly when called from metaclass methods
+ during class creation. Patch by Martin Teichmann.
+
+- Issue #25221: Fix corrupted result from PyLong_FromLong(0) when Python
+ is compiled with NSMALLPOSINTS = 0.
+
+- Issue #27080: Implement formatting support for PEP 515. Initial patch
+ by Chris Angelico.
+
+- Issue #27199: In tarfile, expose copyfileobj bufsize to improve throughput.
+ Patch by Jason Fried.
+
+- Issue #27948: In f-strings, only allow backslashes inside the braces
+ (where the expressions are). This is a breaking change from the 3.6
+ alpha releases, where backslashes are allowed anywhere in an
+ f-string. Also, require that expressions inside f-strings be
+ enclosed within literal braces, and not escapes like
+ f'\x7b"hi"\x7d'.
+
+- Issue #28046: Remove platform-specific directories from sys.path.
- Issue #28071: Add early-out for differencing from an empty set.
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