- Issue #23146: Fix mishandling of absolute Windows paths with forward
slashes in pathlib.
+- Issue #23096: Pickle representation of floats with protocol 0 now is the same
+ for both Python and C implementations.
+
+- Issue #19105: pprint now more efficiently uses free space at the right.
+
+- Issue #14910: Add allow_abbrev parameter to argparse.ArgumentParser. Patch by
+ Jonathan Paugh, Steven Bethard, paul j3 and Daniel Eriksson.
+
+- Issue #21717: tarfile.open() now supports 'x' (exclusive creation) mode.
+
+- Issue #23344: marshal.dumps() is now 20-25% faster on average.
+
+- Issue #20416: marshal.dumps() with protocols 3 and 4 is now 40-50% faster on
+ average.
+
- Issue #23421: Fixed compression in tarfile CLI. Patch by wdv4758h.
+ - Issue #23367: Fix possible overflows in the unicodedata module.
+
- Issue #23361: Fix possible overflow in Windows subprocess creation code.
+- logging.handlers.QueueListener now takes a respect_handler_level keyword
+ argument which, if set to True, will pass messages to handlers taking handler
+ levels into account.
+
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