- Issue #27522: Avoid an unintentional reference cycle in email.feedparser.
- - Issue #27713: Surpress spurious build warnings when updating importlib's
+- Issue #27512: Fix a segfault when os.fspath() called a an __fspath__() method
+ that raised an exception. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #25805: Skip a test in test_pkgutil as needed that doesn't work when
+ ``__name__ == __main__``. Patch by SilentGhost.
+
+- Issue #27472: Add test.support.unix_shell as the path to the default shell.
+
+- Issue #27369: In test_pyexpat, avoid testing an error message detail that
+ changed in Expat 2.2.0.
+
+- Issue #27594: Prevent assertion error when running test_ast with coverage
+ enabled: ensure code object has a valid first line number.
+ Patch suggested by Ivan Levkivskyi.
+
+Windows
+-------
+
+- Issue #27647: Update bundled Tcl/Tk to 8.6.6.
+
+- Issue #27610: Adds PEP 514 metadata to Windows installer
+
+- Issue #27469: Adds a shell extension to the launcher so that drag and drop
+ works correctly.
+
+- Issue #27309: Enables proper Windows styles in python[w].exe manifest.
+
+Build
+-----
+
++- Issue #27713: Suppress spurious build warnings when updating importlib's
+ bootstrap files. Patch by Xiang Zhang
+
+- Issue #25825: Correct the references to Modules/python.exp, which is
+ required on AIX. The references were accidentally changed in 3.5.0a1.
+
+- Issue #27453: CPP invocation in configure must use CPPFLAGS. Patch by
+ Chi Hsuan Yen.
+
+- Issue #27641: The configure script now inserts comments into the makefile
+ to prevent the pgen and _freeze_importlib executables from being cross-
+ compiled.
+
+- Issue #26662: Set PYTHON_FOR_GEN in configure as the Python program to be
+ used for file generation during the build.
+
+- Issue #10910: Avoid C++ compilation errors on FreeBSD and OS X.
+ Also update FreedBSD version checks for the original ctype UTF-8 workaround.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 3
+==================================
+
+*Release date: 2016-07-11*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #27473: Fixed possible integer overflow in bytes and bytearray
+ concatenations. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #23034: The output of a special Python build with defined COUNT_ALLOCS,
+ SHOW_ALLOC_COUNT or SHOW_TRACK_COUNT macros is now off by default. It can
+ be re-enabled using the "-X showalloccount" option. It now outputs to stderr
+ instead of stdout.
+
+- Issue #27443: __length_hint__() of bytearray iterators no longer return a
+ negative integer for a resized bytearray.
+
+- Issue #27007: The fromhex() class methods of bytes and bytearray subclasses
+ now return an instance of corresponding subclass.
+
+Library
+-------
+
- Issue #26844: Fix error message for imp.find_module() to refer to 'path'
instead of 'name'. Patch by Lev Maximov.