created and renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an
mbox, MMDF or Babyl mailbox.
-- Issue #14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system
- mktime() when timezone offest is supplied.
+- Issue 10924: Fixed mksalt() to use a RNG that is suitable for cryptographic
+ purpose.
-- Fix GzipFile's handling of filenames given as bytes objects.
+- Issue #15184: Ensure consistent results of OS X configuration
+ tailoring for universal builds by factoring out common OS X-specific
+ customizations from sysconfig, distutils.sysconfig, distutils.util,
+ and distutils.unixccompiler into a new module _osx_support.
-- Issue #15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.
+C API
+-----
-- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
- between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
- MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
+- Issues #15169, #14599: Strip out the C implementation of
+ imp.source_from_cache() used by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() and
+ used the Python code instead. Leads to PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject() to not
+ try to infer the source path from the bytecode path as
+ PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() does.
-- Issue #10133: Make multiprocessing deallocate buffer if socket read
- fails. Patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.
+Extension Modules
+-----------------
-- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
- non-string argument to SystemExit.
+- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
+ of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
-- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
- patch by mouad.
+- Issue #15194: Update libffi to the 3.0.11 release.
-- Issue #14992: os.makedirs(path, exist_ok=True) would raise an OSError
- when the path existed and had the S_ISGID mode bit set when it was
- not explicitly asked for. This is no longer an exception as mkdir
- cannot control if the OS sets that bit for it or not.
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
-- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
- options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+- Issue #15458: python-config gets a new option --configdir to print the
+ $LIBPL value.
-- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
+- Move importlib.test.benchmark to Tools/importbench.
-- Issue #14443: Tell rpmbuild to use the correct version of Python in
- bdist_rpm. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
+- Issue #12605: The gdb hooks for debugging CPython (within Tools/gdb) have
+ been enhanced to show information on more C frames relevant to CPython within
+ the "py-bt" and "py-bt-full" commands:
+ * C frames that are waiting on the GIL
+ * C frames that are garbage-collecting
+ * C frames that are due to the invocation of a PyCFunction
-- Issue #14929: Stop Idle 3.x from closing on Unicode decode errors when
- grepping. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+Documentation
+-------------
-- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
- Other tooltipss have been corrected or improved and the number of tests
- has been tripled. Original patch by Roger Serwy.
+- Issue #15295: Reorganize and rewrite the documentation on the import system.
-- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing even when
- the parent window is closed before the dialog. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+- Issue #15230: Clearly document some of the limitations of the runpy
+ module and nudge readers towards importlib when appropriate.
-- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.
+- Issue #15053: Copy Python 3.3 import lock change notice to all relevant
+ functions in imp instead of just at the top of the relevant section.
-- Issue #14920: Fix the help(urllib.parse) failure on locale C on terminals.
- Have ascii characters in help.
+- Issue #15288: Link to the term "loader" in notes in pkgutil about how things
+ won't work as expected in Python 3.3 and mark the requisite functions as
+ "changed" since they will no longer work with modules directly imported by
+ import itself.
-- Issue #14863: Update the documentation of os.fdopen() to reflect the
- fact that it's only a thin wrapper around open() anymore.
+- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
+ execfile().
-- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
- not go in illegal range and returns None.
+- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
+ contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
-- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.
+Tests
+-----
-- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
- Header in Cookie.py.
+- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support.
+ Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #14721: Send the correct 'Content-length: 0' header when the body is an
- empty string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.
+- Issue #15320: Make iterating the list of tests thread-safe when running
+ tests in multiprocess mode. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
- ports stricter.
+- Issue #15168: Move importlib.test to test.test_importlib.
-- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
- scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.
+- Issue #15091: Reactivate a test on UNIX which was failing thanks to a
+ forgotten importlib.invalidate_caches() call.
-- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
- when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
- Xavier de Gaye.
+- Issue #15230: Adopted a more systematic approach in the runpy tests.
-- Issue #14829: Fix bisect and range() indexing with large indices
- (>= 2 ** 32) under 64-bit Windows.
+- Issue #15300: Ensure the temporary test working directories are in the same
+ parent folder when running tests in multiprocess mode from a Python build.
+ Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
- accessing the Tk clipboard. Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
- UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
- environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
- Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.
+- Issue #15284: Skip {send,recv}msg tests in test_socket when IPv6 is not
+ enabled. Patch by Brian Brazil.
-- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field of HTTP Basic
- Authentation in urllib2.
+- Issue #15277: Fix a resource leak in support.py when IPv6 is disabled.
+ Patch by Brian Brazil.
-- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
- support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
+Build
+-----
-- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
- Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
+- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
-- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.
+- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
-- Issue #14741: Fix missing support for Ellipsis ('...') in parser module.
+- Issue #15431: Add _freeze_importlib project to regenerate importlib.h
+ on Windows. Patch by Kristján Valur Jónsson.
-- Issue #14697: Fix missing support for set displays and set comprehensions in
- parser module.
+- Issue #14197: For OS X framework builds, ensure links to the shared
+ library are created with the proper ABI suffix.
-- Issue #14701: Fix missing support for 'raise ... from' in parser module.
+- Issue #14330: For cross builds, don't use host python, use host search paths
+ for host compiler.
-- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
- step. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
+- Issue #15235: Allow Berkley DB versions up to 5.3 to build the dbm module.
-- Issue #14696: Fix parser module to understand 'nonlocal' declarations.
+- Issue #15268: Search curses.h in /usr/include/ncursesw.
-- Issue #10941: Fix imaplib.Internaldate2tuple to produce correct result near
- the DST transition. Patch by Joe Peterson.
-- Issue #9154: Fix parser module to understand function annotations.
+What's New in Python 3.3.0 Beta 1?
+==================================
-- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
- test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).
+*Release date: 27-Jun-2012*
-- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
- the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
-- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
- were missing, instead of raising an error.
+- Fix a (most likely) very rare memory leak when calling main() and not being
+ able to decode a command-line argument.
-- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
- which send EOF without trailing \r\n.
+- Issue #14815: Use Py_ssize_t instead of long for the object hash, to
+ preserve all 64 bits of hash on Win64.
-- Issue #14629: Raise SyntaxError in tokenizer.detect_encoding if the
- first two lines have non-UTF-8 characters without an encoding declaration.
+- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read() or readall() methods
+ no longer lose data when an underlying read system call is interrupted.
+ IOError is no longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR
+ from within these methods.
-- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
- module's active list after a fork().
+- Issue #11626: Add _SizeT functions to stable ABI.
-- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
- a bare '/'.
+- Issue #15146: Add PyType_FromSpecWithBases. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.
+- Issue #15142: Fix reference leak when deallocating instances of types
+ created using PyType_FromSpec().
-- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
- to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.
+- Issue #15042: Add PyState_AddModule and PyState_RemoveModule. Add version
+ guard for Py_LIMITED_API additions. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
- if only the comment is changed. In addition, the TypeError that results from
- trying to set a non-binary value as a comment is now now raised at the time
- the comment is set rather than at the time the zipfile is written.
+- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
+ the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
-- Issue #7978: socketserver now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
- returned. This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
- Patch by Jerzy Kozera.
+- Issue #15096: Removed support for ur'' as the raw notation isn't
+ compatible with Python 2.x's raw unicode strings.
-- Issue #14496: Fix wrong name in idlelib/tabbedpages.py.
- Patch by Popa Claudiu.
+- Issue #13783: Generator objects now use the identifier APIs internally
-- Issue #14482: Raise a ValueError, not a NameError, when trying to create
- a multiprocessing Client or Listener with an AF_UNIX type address under
- Windows. Patch by Popa Claudiu.
+- Issue #14874: Restore charmap decoding speed to pre-PEP 393 levels.
+ Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #14151: Raise a ValueError, not a NameError, when trying to create
- a multiprocessing Client or Listener with an AF_PIPE type address under
- non-Windows platforms. Patch by Popa Claudiu.
+- Issue #15026: utf-16 encoding is now significantly faster (up to 10x).
+ Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #13872: socket.detach() now marks the socket closed (as mirrored
- in the socket repr()). Patch by Matt Joiner.
+- Issue #11022: open() and io.TextIOWrapper are now calling
+ locale.getpreferredencoding(False) instead of locale.getpreferredencoding()
+ in text mode if the encoding is not specified. Don't change temporary the
+ locale encoding using locale.setlocale(), use the current locale encoding
+ instead of the user preferred encoding.
-- Issue #14406: Fix a race condition when using ``concurrent.futures.wait(
- return_when=ALL_COMPLETED)``. Patch by Matt Joiner.
+- Issue #14673: Add Eric Snow's sys.implementation implementation.
-- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
- when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
- has to use the built-in default key bindings.
- There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
+- Issue #15038: Optimize python Locks on Windows.
-- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
- OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
- was not meant to connect.
+Library
+-------
-- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
- that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.
+- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
+ Patch by Roger Serwy.
-- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
- (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
+- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
+ for tkinter SimpleDialog.
-- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
- attribute.
++- Issue #15512: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for parser.
++ Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
-- Issue #11686: Added missing entries to email package __all__ lists
- (mostly the new Bytes classes).
+- Issue #15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects.
+ Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.
+- Issue #15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects.
+ Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.
+- Issue #15514: Correct __sizeof__ support for cpu_set.
+ Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #14062: Header objects now correctly respect the 'linesep' setting
- when processed by BytesParser (which smtplib.SMTP.send_message uses).
+- Issue #15187: Bugfix: remove temporary directories test_shutil was leaving
+ behind.
-- Issue #14291: Email now defaults to utf-8 for non-ASCII unicode headers
- instead of raising an error. This fixes a regression relative to 2.7.
+- Issue #15177: Added dir_fd parameter to os.fwalk().
-- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
+- Issue #15176: Clarified behavior, documentation, and implementation
+ of os.listdir().
-- Issue #14184: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
- Mac OS X to avoid interpreter crashes when using threads on 10.7.
+- Issue #15061: Re-implemented hmac.compare_digest() in C to prevent further
+ timing analysis and to support all buffer protocol aware objects as well as
+ ASCII only str instances safely.
-- Issue #10543: Fix unittest test discovery with Jython bytecode files.
+- Issue #15164: Change return value of platform.uname() from a
+ plain tuple to a collections.namedtuple.
-- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
- Windows when the child process has already exited.
+- Support Mageia Linux in the platform module.
-- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
- return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
- fixed.
+- Issue #11678: Support Arch linux in the platform module.
-- Issue #14177: marshal.loads() now raises TypeError when given an unicode
- string. Patch by Guilherme Gonçalves.
+- Issue #15118: Change return value of os.uname() and os.times() from
+ plain tuples to immutable iterable objects with named attributes
+ (structseq objects).
-- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak containers (WeakSet, WeakKeyDictionary,
- WeakValueDictionary) to return a better approximation when some objects
- are dead or dying. Moreover, the implementation is now O(1) rather than
- O(n).
+- Speed up _decimal by another 10-15% by caching the thread local context
+ that was last accessed. In the pi benchmark (64-bit platform, prec=9),
+ _decimal is now only 1.5x slower than float.
-- Issue #13125: Silence spurious test_lib2to3 output when in non-verbose mode.
- Patch by Mikhail Novikov.
+- Remove the packaging module, which is not ready for prime time.
-- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
- scripts found in the Tools directory.
+- Issue #15154: Add "dir_fd" parameter to os.rmdir, remove "rmdir"
+ parameter from os.remove / os.unlink.
-- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
- on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.
+- Issue #4489: Add a shutil.rmtree that isn't susceptible to symlink attacks.
+ It is used automatically on platforms supporting the necessary os.openat()
+ and os.unlinkat() functions. Main code by Martin von Löwis.
-Extension Modules
------------------
+- Issue #15156: HTMLParser now uses the new "html.entities.html5" dictionary.
-- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
- of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
+- Issue #11113: add a new "html5" dictionary containing the named character
+ references defined by the HTML5 standard and the equivalent Unicode
+ character(s) to the html.entities module.
-- Issue #15000: Support the "unique" x32 architecture in _posixsubprocess.c.
+- Issue #15114: the strict mode of HTMLParser and the HTMLParseError exception
+ are deprecated now that the parser is able to parse invalid markup.
-- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
- ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
- case of overflow has been fixed.
+- Issue #3665: \u and \U escapes are now supported in unicode regular
+ expressions. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #14212: The re module didn't retain a reference to buffers it was
- scanning, resulting in segfaults.
+- Issue #15153: Added inspect.getgeneratorlocals to simplify white box
+ testing of generator state updates
-Tests
------
+- Issue #13062: Added inspect.getclosurevars to simplify testing stateful
+ closures
-- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support.
+- Issue #11024: Fixes and additional tests for Time2Internaldate.
+
+- Issue #14626: Large refactoring of functions / parameters in the os module.
+ Many functions now support "dir_fd" and "follow_symlinks" parameters;
+ some also support accepting an open file descriptor in place of of a path
+ string. Added os.support_* collections as LBYL helpers. Removed many
+ functions only previously seen in 3.3 alpha releases (often starting with
+ "f" or "l", or ending with "at"). Originally suggested by Serhiy Storchaka;
+ implemented by Larry Hastings.
+
+- Issue #15008: Implement PEP 362 "Signature Objects".
+ Patch by Yury Selivanov.
+
+- Issue: #15138: base64.urlsafe_{en,de}code() are now 3-4x faster.
+
+- Issue #444582: Add shutil.which, for finding programs on the system path.
+ Original patch by Erik Demaine, with later iterations by Jan Killian
+ and Brian Curtin.
+
+- Issue #14837: SSL errors now have ``library`` and ``reason`` attributes
+ describing precisely what happened and in which OpenSSL submodule. The
+ str() of a SSLError is also enhanced accordingly.
+
+- Issue #9527: datetime.astimezone() method will now supply a class
+ timezone instance corresponding to the system local timezone when
+ called with no arguments.
+
+- Issue #14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system
+ mktime() when timezone offest is supplied.
+
+- Issue #14684: zlib.compressobj() and zlib.decompressobj() now support the use
+ of predefined compression dictionaries. Original patch by Sam Rushing.
+
+- Fix GzipFile's handling of filenames given as bytes objects.
+
+- Issue #14772: Return destination values from some shutil functions.
+
+- Issue #15064: Implement context manager protocol for multiprocessing types
+
+- Issue #15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.
+
+- Issue #14657: The frozen instance of importlib used for bootstrap is now
+ also the module imported as importlib._bootstrap.
+
+- Issue #14055: Add __sizeof__ support to _elementtree.
+
+- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
+ with 'b' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #15320: Make iterating the list of tests thread-safe when running
- tests in multiprocess mode. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
+- Issue #15006: Allow equality comparison between naive and aware
+ time or datetime objects.
-- Issue #15230: Adopted a more systematic approach in the runpy tests
+- Issue #14982: Document that pkgutil's iteration functions require the
+ non-standard iter_modules() method to be defined by an importer (something
+ the importlib importers do not define).
-- Issue #15300: Ensure the temporary test working directories are in the same
- parent folder when running tests in multiprocess mode from a Python build.
- Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
+- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
+ between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
+ MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
-- test_nntplib now tolerates being run from behind NNTP gateways that add
- "X-Antivirus" headers to articles
+- Issue #14059: Implement multiprocessing.Barrier.
-- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
- block loading of the gdb hooks
+- Issue #15061: The inappropriately named hmac.secure_compare has been
+ renamed to hmac.compare_digest, restricted to operating on bytes inputs
+ only and had its documentation updated to more accurately reflect both its
+ intent and its limitations
-- Issue #14026: In test_cmd_line_script, check that sys.argv is populated
- correctly for the various invocation approaches (Patch by Jason Yeo)
+- Issue #13841: Make child processes exit using sys.exit() on Windows.
-- Issue #14032: Fix incorrect variable name in test_cmd_line_script debugging
- message (Patch by Jason Yeo)
+- Issue #14936: curses_panel was converted to PEP 3121 and PEP 384 API.
+ Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
- a test failure in test_ssl.
+- Issue #1667546: On platforms supporting tm_zone and tm_gmtoff fields
+ in struct tm, time.struct_time objects returned by time.gmtime(),
+ time.localtime() and time.strptime() functions now have tm_zone and
+ tm_gmtoff attributes. Original patch by Paul Boddie.
-Build
------
+- Rename adjusted attribute to adjustable in time.get_clock_info() result.
-- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.
+- Issue #3518: Remove references to non-existent BaseManager.from_address()
+ method.
-- Issue #14197: For OS X framework builds, ensure links to the shared
- library are created with the proper ABI suffix.
+- Issue #13857: Added textwrap.indent() function (initial patch by Ezra
+ Berch)
-- Issue #14472: Update .gitignore. Patch by Matej Cepl.
+- Issue #2736: Added datetime.timestamp() method.
-- The Windows build now uses OpenSSL 1.0.0j and bzip2 1.0.6.
+- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
+ non-string argument to SystemExit.
-- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.
+- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly. Initial
+ patch by mouad.
-- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin.
+- Issue #11823: disassembly now shows argument counts on calls with keyword args.
-- Issue #14387: Do not include accu.h from Python.h.
+- Issue #14711: os.stat_float_times() has been deprecated.
-- Issue #14359: Only use O_CLOEXEC in _posixmodule.c if it is defined.
- Based on patch from Hervé Coatanhay.
+- LZMAFile now accepts the modes "rb"/"wb"/"ab" as synonyms of "r"/"w"/"a".
-- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.
+- The bz2 and lzma modules now each contain an open() function, allowing
+ compressed files to readily be opened in text mode as well as binary mode.
-Documentation
--------------
+- BZ2File.__init__() and LZMAFile.__init__() now accept a file object as their
+ first argument, rather than requiring a separate "fileobj" argument.
-- Issue #15230: Clearly document some of the limitations of the runpy
- module and nudge readers towards importlib when appropriate.
+- gzip.open() now accepts file objects as well as filenames.
-- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
- execfile().
+- Issue #14992: os.makedirs(path, exist_ok=True) would raise an OSError
+ when the path existed and had the S_ISGID mode bit set when it was
+ not explicitly asked for. This is no longer an exception as mkdir
+ cannot control if the OS sets that bit for it or not.
-- Issue #8799: Fix and improve the threading.Condition documentation.
+- Issue #14989: Make the CGI enable option to http.server available via command
+ line.
-- Issue #14943: Correct a default argument value for winreg.OpenKey
- and correctly list the argument names in the function's explanation.
+- Issue #14987: Add a missing import statement to inspect.
-- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.
+- Issue #1079: email.header.decode_header now correctly parses all the examples
+ in RFC2047. There is a necessary visible behavior change: the leading and/or
+ trailing whitespace on ASCII parts is now preserved.
-- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch
- contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
+- Issue #14969: Better handling of exception chaining in contextlib.ExitStack
-Tools/Demos
------------
+- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
+ options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #14963: Convert contextlib.ExitStack.__exit__ to use an iterative
+ algorithm (Patch by Alon Horev)
+
+- Issue #14785: Add sys._debugmallocstats() to help debug low-level memory
+ allocation issues
+
+- Issue #14443: Ensure that .py files are byte-compiled with the correct Python
+ executable within bdist_rpm even on older versions of RPM
+
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Issue #13783: Inadvertent additions to the public C API in the PEP 380
+ implementation have either been removed or marked as private interfaces.
+
+Extension Modules
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #15000: Support the "unique" x32 architecture in _posixsubprocess.c.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Issue #15081: Document PyState_FindModule.
+ Patch by Robin Schreiber.
+
+- Issue #14814: Added first draft of ipaddress module API reference
-- Issue #14695: Fix missing support for starred assignments in
- Tools/parser/unparse.py.
+Tests
+-----
+- Issue #14769: test_capi now has SkipitemTest, which cleverly checks
+ for "parity" between PyArg_ParseTuple() and the Python/getargs.c static
+ function skipitem() for all possible "format units".
+
+- test_nntplib now tolerates being run from behind NNTP gateways that add
+ "X-Antivirus" headers to articles
-What's New in Python 3.2.3?
-===========================
+- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
+ block loading of the gdb hooks
-*Release date: 10-Apr-2012*
+- Issue #14963: Add test cases for exception handling behaviour
+ in contextlib.ExitStack (Initial patch by Alon Horev)
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