Library
-------
-- Issue #21766: Prevent a security hole in CGIHTTPServer by URL unquoting paths
- before checking for a CGI script at that path.
+- Issue #19076: Don't pass the redundant 'file' argument to self.error().
-- Fix arbitrary memory access in JSONDecoder.raw_decode with a negative second
- parameter. Bug reported by Guido Vranken.
+- Issue #21942: Fixed source file viewing in pydoc's server mode on Windows.
-- Issue #20633: Replace relative import by absolute import.
+- Issue #11259: asynchat.async_chat().set_terminator() now raises a ValueError
+ if the number of received bytes is negative.
-- Issue #21082: In os.makedirs, do not set the process-wide umask. Note this
- changes behavior of makedirs when exist_ok=True.
+- Issue #12523: asynchat.async_chat.push() now raises a TypeError if it doesn't
+ get a bytes string
-- Issue #20875: Prevent possible gzip "'read' is not defined" NameError.
- Patch by Claudiu Popa.
+- Issue #21707: Add missing kwonlyargcount argument to
+ ModuleFinder.replace_paths_in_code().
-- Issue #11599: When an external command (e.g. compiler) fails, distutils now
- prints out the whole command line (instead of just the command name) if the
- environment variable DISTUTILS_DEBUG is set.
+- Issue #20639: calling Path.with_suffix('') allows removing the suffix
+ again. Patch by July Tikhonov.
-- Issue #4931: distutils should not produce unhelpful "error: None" messages
- anymore. distutils.util.grok_environment_error is kept but doc-deprecated.
+- Issue #21714: Disallow the construction of invalid paths using
+ Path.with_name(). Original patch by Antony Lee.
-- Issue #20283: RE pattern methods now accept the string keyword parameters
- as documented. The pattern and source keyword parameters are left as
- deprecated aliases.
+- Issue #21897: Fix a crash with the f_locals attribute with closure
+ variables when frame.clear() has been called.
-- Issue #21323: Fix http.server to again handle scripts in CGI subdirectories,
- broken by the fix for security issue #19435. Patch by Zach Byrne.
+- Issue #21151: Fixed a segfault in the winreg module when ``None`` is passed
+ as a ``REG_BINARY`` value to SetValueEx. Patch by John Ehresman.
-Tests
------
+- Issue #21090: io.FileIO.readall() does not ignore I/O errors anymore. Before,
+ it ignored I/O errors if at least the first C call read() succeed.
-- Issue #17752: Fix distutils tests when run from the installed location.
+- Issue #21781: ssl.RAND_add() now supports strings longer than 2 GB.
-- Issue #20946: Correct alignment assumptions of some ctypes tests.
+- Issue #11453: asyncore: emit a ResourceWarning when an unclosed file_wrapper
+ object is destroyed. The destructor now closes the file if needed. The
+ close() method can now be called twice: the second call does nothing.
-- Issue #20939: Fix test_geturl failure in test_urllibnet due to
- new redirect of http://www.python.org/ to https://www.python.org.
+- Issue #21858: Better handling of Python exceptions in the sqlite3 module.
+- Issue #21476: Make sure the email.parser.BytesParser TextIOWrapper is
+ discarded after parsing, so the input file isn't unexpectedly closed.
-What's New in Python 3.3.5?
-===========================
+- Issue #21729: Used the "with" statement in the dbm.dumb module to ensure
+ files closing. Patch by Claudiu Popa.
-*Release date: 09-Mar-2014*
+- Issue #21491: socketserver: Fix a race condition in child processes reaping.
-No changes from release candidate 2.
+- Issue #21832: Require named tuple inputs to be exact strings.
+- Issue #19145: The times argument for itertools.repeat now handles
+ negative values the same way for keyword arguments as it does for
+ positional arguments.
-What's New in Python 3.3.5 release candidate 2?
-===============================================
+- Issue #21812: turtle.shapetransform did not tranform the turtle on the
+ first call. (Issue identified and fixed by Lita Cho.)
-*Release date: 02-Mar-2014*
+- Issue #21635: The difflib SequenceMatcher.get_matching_blocks() method
+ cache didn't match the actual result. The former was a list of tuples
+ and the latter was a list of named tuples.
-Core and Builtins
------------------
+- Issue #21722: The distutils "upload" command now exits with a non-zero
+ return code when uploading fails. Patch by Martin Dengler.
-- Issue #20731: Properly position in source code files even if they
- are opened in text mode. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+- Issue #21723: asyncio.Queue: support any type of number (ex: float) for the
+ maximum size. Patch written by Vajrasky Kok.
-- Issue #19619: str.encode, bytes.decode and bytearray.decode now use an
- internal API to throw LookupError for known non-text encodings, rather
- than attempting the encoding or decoding operation and then throwing a
- TypeError for an unexpected output type. (The latter mechanism remains
- in place for third party non-text encodings)
+- Issue #21326: Add a new is_closed() method to asyncio.BaseEventLoop.
+ run_forever() and run_until_complete() methods of asyncio.BaseEventLoop now
+ raise an exception if the event loop was closed.
-Library
--------
+- Issue #21774: Fixed NameError for an incorrect variable reference in the
+ XML Minidom code for creating processing instructions.
+ (Found and fixed by Claudiu Popa.)
-- Issue #20778: Fix modulefinder to work with bytecode-only modules.
+- Issue #21766: Prevent a security hole in CGIHTTPServer by URL unquoting paths
+ before checking for a CGI script at that path.
-- Issue #20791: copy.copy() now doesn't make a copy when the input is
- a bytes object. Initial patch by Peter Otten.
+- Issue #21310: Fixed possible resource leak in failed open().
-- Issue #20621: Fixes a zipimport bug introduced in 3.3.4 that could cause
- spurious crashes or SystemErrors when importing modules or packages from a
- zip file. The change causing the problem was reverted.
+- Issue #21677: Fixed chaining nonnormalized exceptions in io close() methods.
-- Issue #20404: io.TextIOWrapper (and hence the open() builtin) now uses the
- internal codec marking system added for issue #19619 to throw LookupError
- for known non-text encodings at stream construction time. The existing
- output type checks remain in place to deal with unmarked third party
- codecs.
+- Issue #11709: Fix the pydoc.help function to not fail when sys.stdin is not a
+ valid file.
-Tests
------
+- Issue #13223: Fix pydoc.writedoc so that the HTML documentation for methods
+ that use 'self' in the example code is generated correctly.
-- Issue #20743: Fix a reference leak in test_tcl.
+- Issue #21463: In urllib.request, fix pruning of the FTP cache.
-Tools/Demos
------------
+- Issue #21618: The subprocess module could fail to close open fds that were
+ inherited by the calling process and already higher than POSIX resource
+ limits would otherwise allow. On systems with a functioning /proc/self/fd
+ or /dev/fd interface the max is now ignored and all fds are closed.
-- Issue #20535: PYTHONWARNING no longer affects the run_tests.py script.
- Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
+- Issue #21552: Fixed possible integer overflow of too long string lengths in
+ the tkinter module on 64-bit platforms.
+- Issue #14315: The zipfile module now ignores extra fields in the central
+ directory that are too short to be parsed instead of letting a struct.unpack
+ error bubble up as this "bad data" appears in many real world zip files in
+ the wild and is ignored by other zip tools.
-What's New in Python 3.3.5 release candidate 1?
-===============================================
+- Issue #21402: tkinter.ttk now works when default root window is not set.
-*Release date: 23-Feb-2014*
+- Issue #10203: sqlite3.Row now truly supports sequence protocol. In particulr
+ it supports reverse() and negative indices. Original patch by Claudiu Popa.
-Core and Builtins
------------------
+- Issue #18807: If copying (no symlinks) specified for a venv, then the python
+ interpreter aliases (python, python3) are now created by copying rather than
+ symlinking.
-- Issue #20588: Make Python-ast.c C89 compliant.
+- Issue #14710: pkgutil.get_loader() no longer raises an exception when None is
+ found in sys.modules.
-- Issue #20437: Fixed 21 potential bugs when deleting objects references.
+- Issue #14710: pkgutil.find_loader() no longer raises an exception when a
+ module doesn't exist.
-- Issue #20538: UTF-7 incremental decoder produced inconsistant string when
- input was truncated in BASE64 section.
+- Issue #21481: Argparse equality and inequality tests now return
+ NotImplemented when comparing to an unknown type.
-Library
--------
+- Issue #8743: Fix interoperability between set objects and the
+ collections.Set() abstract base class.
-- Issue #20635: Fixed grid_columnconfigure() and grid_rowconfigure() methods of
- Tkinter widgets to work in wantobjects=True mode.
+- Issue #13355: random.triangular() no longer fails with a ZeroDivisionError
+ when low equals high.
-- Issue #19612: On Windows, subprocess.Popen.communicate() now ignores
- OSError(22, 'Invalid argument') when writing input data into stdin, whereas
- the process already exited.
+- Issue #21538: The plistlib module now supports loading of binary plist files
+ when reference or offset size is not a power of two.
-- Issue #6815: os.path.expandvars() now supports non-ASCII environment
- variables names and values.
+- Issue #21801: Validate that __signature__ is None or an instance of Signature.
-- Issue #17671: Fixed a crash when use non-initialized io.BufferedRWPair.
- Based on patch by Stephen Tu.
+- Issue #21923: Prevent AttributeError in distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler
+ due to possible uninitialized _config_vars.
+
-- Issue #8478: Untokenizer.compat processes first token from iterator input.
- Patch based on lines from Georg Brandl, Eric Snow, and Gareth Rees.
++- Issue #21323: Fix http.server to again handle scripts in CGI subdirectories,
++ broken by the fix for security issue #19435. Patch by Zach Byrne.
-- Issue #20594: Avoid name clash with the libc function posix_close.
+Build
+-----
-- Issue #19856: shutil.move() failed to move a directory to other directory
- on Windows if source name ends with os.altsep.
+- Issue #17095: Fix Modules/Setup *shared* support.
-- Issue #14983: email.generator now always adds a line end after each MIME
- boundary marker, instead of doing so only when there is an epilogue. This
- fixes an RFC compliance bug and solves an issue with signed MIME parts.
+- Issue #21811: Anticipated fixes to support OS X versions > 10.9.
-- Issue #20540: Fix a performance regression (vs. Python 3.2) when layering
- a multiprocessing Connection over a TCP socket. For small payloads, Nagle's
- algorithm would introduce idle delays before the entire transmission of a
- message.
+IDLE
+----
-- Issue #16983: the new email header parsing code will now decode encoded words
- that are (incorrectly) surrounded by quotes, and register a defect.
+- Issue #21940: Add unittest for WidgetRedirector. Initial patch by Saimadhav
+ Heblikar.
-- Issue #19772: email.generator no longer mutates the message object when
- doing a down-transform from 8bit to 7bit CTEs.
+- Issue #18592: Add unittest for SearchDialogBase. Patch by Phil Webster.
-- Issue #18805: the netmask/hostmask parsing in ipaddress now more reliably
- filters out illegal values and correctly allows any valid prefix length.
+- Issue #21694: Add unittest for ParenMatch. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
-- Issue #17369: get_filename was raising an exception if the filename
- parameter's RFC2231 encoding was broken in certain ways. This was
- a regression relative to python2.
+- Issue #21686: add unittest for HyperParser. Original patch by Saimadhav
+ Heblikar.
-- Issue #20013: Some imap servers disconnect if the current mailbox is
- deleted, and imaplib did not handle that case gracefully. Now it
- handles the 'bye' correctly.
+- Issue #12387: Add missing upper(lower)case versions of default Windows key
+ bindings for Idle so Caps Lock does not disable them. Patch by Roger Serwy.
-- Issue #19920: TarFile.list() no longer fails when outputs a listing
- containing non-encodable characters. Based on patch by Vajrasky Kok.
+- Issue #21695: Closing a Find-in-files output window while the search is
+ still in progress no longer closes Idle.
-- Issue #20515: Fix NULL pointer dereference introduced by issue #20368.
+- Issue #18910: Add unittest for textView. Patch by Phil Webster.
-- Issue #19186: Restore namespacing of expat symbols inside the pyexpat module.
+- Issue #18292: Add unittest for AutoExpand. Patch by Saihadhav Heblikar.
-- Issue #20426: When passing the re.DEBUG flag, re.compile() displays the
- debug output every time it is called, regardless of the compilation cache.
+- Issue #18409: Add unittest for AutoComplete. Patch by Phil Webster.
-- Issue #20368: The null character now correctly passed from Tcl to Python.
- Improved error handling in variables-related commands.
+Tests
+-----
-- Issue #20435: Fix _pyio.StringIO.getvalue() to take into account newline
- translation settings.
+- Issue #20155: Changed HTTP method names in failing tests in test_httpservers
+ so that packet filtering software (specifically Windows Base Filtering Engine)
+ does not interfere with the transaction semantics expected by the tests.
-- Issue #20288: fix handling of invalid numeric charrefs in HTMLParser.
+- Issue #19493: Refactored the ctypes test package to skip tests explicitly
+ rather than silently.
-- Issue #20424: Python implementation of io.StringIO now supports lone surrogates.
+- Issue #18492: All resources are now allowed when tests are not run by
+ regrtest.py.
-- Issue #19456: ntpath.join() now joins relative paths correctly when a drive
- is present.
+- Issue #21634: Fix pystone micro-benchmark: use floor division instead of true
+ division to benchmark integers instead of floating point numbers. Set pystone
+ version to 1.2. Patch written by Lennart Regebro.
-- Issue #19077: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory cleanup is now most likely
- successful when called during nulling out of modules during shutdown.
- Misleading exception no longer raised when resource warning is emitted
- during shutdown.
+- Issue #21605: Added tests for Tkinter images.
-- Issue #20367: Fix behavior of concurrent.futures.as_completed() for
- duplicate arguments. Patch by Glenn Langford.
+- Issue #21493: Added test for ntpath.expanduser(). Original patch by
+ Claudiu Popa.
-- Issue #8260: The read(), readline() and readlines() methods of
- codecs.StreamReader returned incomplete data when were called after
- readline() or read(size). Based on patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
+- Issue #19925: Added tests for the spwd module. Original patch by Vajrasky Kok.
-IDLE
-----
+- Issue #21522: Added Tkinter tests for Listbox.itemconfigure(),
+ PanedWindow.paneconfigure(), and Menu.entryconfigure().
-- Issue #20406: Use Python application icons for Idle window title bars.
- Patch mostly by Serhiy Storchaka.
+Windows
+-------
-- Update the python.gif icon for the Idle classbrowser and pathbowser
- from the old green snake to the new new blue and yellow snakes.
+- Issue #21671, CVE-2014-0224: The bundled version of OpenSSL has been
+ updated to 1.0.1h.
-- Issue #17721: Remove non-functional configuration dialog help button until we
- make it actually gives some help when clicked. Patch by Guilherme Simões.
+- Issue #10747: Use versioned labels in the Windows start menu.
+ Patch by Olive Kilburn.
-Tests
------
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
+
+- Issue #21906: Make Tools/scripts/md5sum.py work in Python 3.
+ Patch by Zachary Ware.
-- Issue #20510: Rewrote test_exit in test_sys to match existing comments,
- use modern unittest features, and use helpers from test.script_helper
- instead of using subprocess directly. Patch by Gareth Rees.
+- Issue #21629: Fix Argument Clinic's "--converters" feature.
-- Issue #20532: Tests which use _testcapi are now marked as CPython only.
-- Issue #19920: Added tests for TarFile.list(). Based on patch by Vajrasky Kok.
+What's New in Python 3.4.1?
+===========================
-- Issue #19990: Added tests for the imghdr module. Based on patch by
- Claudiu Popa.
+Release date: 2014-05-18
-- Issue #20474: Fix test_socket "unexpected success" failures on OS X 10.7+.
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
-- Issue #20605: Make test_socket getaddrinfo OS X segfault test more robust.
+- Issue #21418: Fix a crash in the builtin function super() when called without
+ argument and without current frame (ex: embedded Python).
-Documentation
--------------
+- Issue #21425: Fix flushing of standard streams in the interactive
+ interpreter.
-- Issue #20488: Importlib is no longer *an* implementation of import, it's *the*
- implementation.
+- Issue #21435: In rare cases, when running finalizers on objects in cyclic
+ trash a bad pointer dereference could occur due to a subtle flaw in
+ internal iteration logic.
-Build
------
+Library
+-------
-- Issue #20221: Removed conflicting (or circular) hypot definition when
- compiled with VS 2010 or above. Initial patch by Tabrez Mohammed.
+- Issue #10744: Fix PEP 3118 format strings on ctypes objects with a nontrivial
+ shape.
-- Issue #20609: Restored the ability to build 64-bit Windows binaries on
- 32-bit Windows, which was broken by the change in issue #19788.
+- Issue #20998: Fixed re.fullmatch() of repeated single character pattern
+ with ignore case. Original patch by Matthew Barnett.
+- Issue #21075: fileinput.FileInput now reads bytes from standard stream if
+ binary mode is specified. Patch by Sam Kimbrel.
-What's New in Python 3.3.4?
-===========================
+- Issue #21396: Fix TextIOWrapper(..., write_through=True) to not force a
+ flush() on the underlying binary stream. Patch by akira.
-*Release date: 09-Feb-2014*
+- Issue #21470: Do a better job seeding the random number generator by
+ using enough bytes to span the full state space of the Mersenne Twister.
-Library
--------
+- Issue #21398: Fix an unicode error in the pydoc pager when the documentation
+ contains characters not encodable to the stdout encoding.
+
+Tests
+-----
-- Issue #20374: Fix build warnings of the readline module with libedit on Mac.
+- Issue #17756: Fix test_code test when run from the installed location.
+- Issue #17752: Fix distutils tests when run from the installed location.
+
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #18104: Add idlelib/idle_test/htest.py with a few sample tests to begin
+ consolidating and improving human-validated tests of Idle. Change other files
+ as needed to work with htest. Running the module as __main__ runs all tests.
-What's New in Python 3.3.4 release candidate 1?
-===============================================
-*Release date: 26-Jan-2014*
+What's New in Python 3.4.1rc1?
+==============================
+
+Release date: 2014-05-05
Core and Builtins
-----------------
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