- Issue #2466: posixpath.ismount now correctly recognizes mount points which
the user does not have permission to access.
+- Issue #9998: On Linux, ctypes.util.find_library now looks in LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+ for shared libraries.
+
+- Issue #27573: exit message for code.interact is now configurable.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #27787: Call gc.collect() before checking each test for "dangling
+ threads", since the dangling threads are weak references.
+
++Build
++-----
++
++- Issue #25825: Update references to the $(LIBPL) installation path on AIX.
++ This path was changed in 3.2a4.
++
+
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 4
+==================================
+
+*Release date: 2016-08-15*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #27704: Optimized creating bytes and bytearray from byte-like objects
+ and iterables. Speed up to 3 times for short objects. Original patch by
+ Naoki Inada.
+
+- Issue #26823: Large sections of repeated lines in tracebacks are now
+ abbreviated as "[Previous line repeated {count} more times]" by the builtin
+ traceback rendering. Patch by Emanuel Barry.
+
+- Issue #27574: Decreased an overhead of parsing keyword arguments in functions
+ implemented with using Argument Clinic.
+
+- Issue #22557: Now importing already imported modules is up to 2.5 times
+ faster.
+
+- Issue #17596: Include <wincrypt.h> to help with Min GW building.
+
+- Issue #17599: On Windows, rename the privately defined REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER
+ structure to avoid conflicting with the definition from Min GW.
+
+- Issue #27507: Add integer overflow check in bytearray.extend(). Patch by
+ Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #27581: Don't rely on wrapping for overflow check in
+ PySequence_Tuple(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #1621: Avoid signed integer overflow in list and tuple operations.
+ Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #27419: Standard __import__() no longer look up "__import__" in globals
+ or builtins for importing submodules or "from import". Fixed a crash if
+ raise a warning about unabling to resolve package from __spec__ or
+ __package__.
+
+- Issue #27083: Respect the PYTHONCASEOK environment variable under Windows.
+
+- Issue #27514: Make having too many statically nested blocks a SyntaxError
+ instead of SystemError.
+
+- Issue #27366: Implemented PEP 487 (Simpler customization of class creation).
+ Upon subclassing, the __init_subclass__ classmethod is called on the base
+ class. Descriptors are initialized with __set_name__ after class creation.
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #26027, #27524: Add PEP 519/__fspath__() support to the os and os.path
+ modules. Includes code from Jelle Zijlstra.
+
+- Issue #27598: Add Collections to collections.abc.
+ Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi, docs by Neil Girdhar.
+
+- Issue #25958: Support "anti-registration" of special methods from
+ various ABCs, like __hash__, __iter__ or __len__. All these (and
+ several more) can be set to None in an implementation class and the
+ behavior will be as if the method is not defined at all.
+ (Previously, this mechanism existed only for __hash__, to make
+ mutable classes unhashable.) Code contributed by Andrew Barnert and
+ Ivan Levkivskyi.
+
+- Issue #16764: Support keyword arguments to zlib.decompress(). Patch by
+ Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #27736: Prevent segfault after interpreter re-initialization due
+ to ref count problem introduced in code for Issue #27038 in 3.6.0a3.
+ Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #25628: The *verbose* and *rename* parameters for
+ collections.namedtuple are now keyword-only.
+
+- Issue #12345: Add mathematical constant tau to math and cmath. See also
+ PEP 628.
+
+- Issue #26823: traceback.StackSummary.format now abbreviates large sections of
+ repeated lines as "[Previous line repeated {count} more times]" (this change
+ then further affects other traceback display operations in the module). Patch
+ by Emanuel Barry.
+
+- Issue #27664: Add to concurrent.futures.thread.ThreadPoolExecutor()
+ the ability to specify a thread name prefix.
+
+- Issue #27181: Add geometric_mean and harmonic_mean to statistics module.
+
+- Issue #27573: code.interact now prints an message when exiting.
+
+- Issue #6422: Add autorange method to timeit.Timer objects.
+
- Issue #27773: Correct some memory management errors server_hostname in
_ssl.wrap_socket().