Python News
+++++++++++
-What's New in Python 3.5.0 final?
-=================================
-Release date: 2015-09-13
+What's New in Python 3.5.1
+==========================
+
+Release date: TBA
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #24684: socket.socket.getaddrinfo() now calls
+ PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() instead of calling the encode() method of the
+ host, to handle correctly custom string with an encode() method which doesn't
+ return a byte string. The encoder of the IDNA codec is now called directly
+ instead of calling the encode() method of the string.
+
+- Issue #25060: Correctly compute stack usage of the BUILD_MAP opcode.
+
+- Issue #24857: Comparing call_args to a long sequence now correctly returns a
+ boolean result instead of raising an exception. Patch by A Kaptur.
+
+- Issue #23144: Make sure that HTMLParser.feed() returns all the data, even
+ when convert_charrefs is True.
+
+- Issue #24982: shutil.make_archive() with the "zip" format now adds entries
+ for directories (including empty directories) in ZIP file.
+
+- Issue #25019: Fixed a crash caused by setting non-string key of expat parser.
+ Based on patch by John Leitch.
+
+- Issue #16180: Exit pdb if file has syntax error, instead of trapping user
+ in an infinite loop. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
+
+- Issue #24891: Fix a race condition at Python startup if the file descriptor
+ of stdin (0), stdout (1) or stderr (2) is closed while Python is creating
+ sys.stdin, sys.stdout and sys.stderr objects. These attributes are now set
+ to None if the creation of the object failed, instead of raising an OSError
+ exception. Initial patch written by Marco Paolini.
+
+- Issue #24992: Fix error handling and a race condition (related to garbage
+ collection) in collections.OrderedDict constructor.
+
+- Issue #24881: Fixed setting binary mode in Python implementation of FileIO
+ on Windows and Cygwin. Patch from Akira Li.
+
+- Issue #21112: Fix regression in unittest.expectedFailure on subclasses.
+ Patch from Berker Peksag.
+
+- Issue #24764: cgi.FieldStorage.read_multi() now ignores the Content-Length
+ header in part headers. Patch written by Peter Landry and reviewed by Pierre
+ Quentel.
+
+- Issue #24913: Fix overrun error in deque.index().
+ Found by John Leitch and Bryce Darling.
+
+- Issue #24774: Fix docstring in http.server.test. Patch from Chiu-Hsiang Hsu.
+
+- Issue #21159: Improve message in configparser.InterpolationMissingOptionError.
+ Patch from Łukasz Langa.
+
+- Issue #20362: Honour TestCase.longMessage correctly in assertRegex.
+ Patch from Ilia Kurenkov.
+
+- Issue #23572: Fixed functools.singledispatch on classes with falsy
+ metaclasses. Patch by Ethan Furman.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Issue #24952: Clarify the default size argument of stack_size() in
+ the "threading" and "_thread" modules. Patch from Mattip.
+
+- Issue #23725: Overhaul tempfile docs. Note deprecated status of mktemp.
+ Patch from Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.
+
+- Issue #24808: Update the types of some PyTypeObject fields. Patch by
+ Joseph Weston.
+
+- Issue #22812: Fix unittest discovery examples.
+ Patch from Pam McA'Nulty.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- PCbuild\rt.bat now accepts an unlimited number of arguments to pass along
+ to regrtest.py. Previously there was a limit of 9.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #24910: Windows MSIs now have unique display names.
+
+- Issue #24986: It is now possible to build Python on Windows without errors
+ when external libraries are not available.
+
+Windows
+-------
+
+- Issue #25022: Removed very outdated PC/example_nt/ directory.
+ Build
+ -----
+
+ - Issue #25071: Windows installer should not require TargetDir
+ parameter when installing quietly
What's New in Python 3.5.0 release candidate 4?
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