available only when Py_LIMITED_API is set to the PY_VERSION_HEX value of
the minimum Python version supporting this API.
+- Issue #28822: The indices parameters *start* and *end* of PyUnicode_FindChar()
+ are now adjusted to behave like ``str[start:end]``.
+
+- Issue #28808: PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString() now never raises exceptions.
+
+- Issue #28761: The fields name and doc of structures PyMemberDef, PyGetSetDef,
+ PyStructSequence_Field, PyStructSequence_Desc, and wrapperbase are now of
+ type ``const char *`` rather of ``char *``.
+
+- Issue #28748: Private variable _Py_PackageContext is now of type ``const char *``
+ rather of ``char *``.
+
+- Issue #19569: Compiler warnings are now emitted if use most of deprecated
+ functions.
+
+- Issue #28426: Deprecated undocumented functions PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject(),
+ PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject(), PyUnicode_AsDecodedUnicode() and
+ PyUnicode_AsEncodedUnicode().
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Issue #23722: The data model reference and the porting section in the
+ 3.6 What's New guide now cover the additional ``__classcell__`` handling
+ needed for custom metaclasses to fully support PEP 487 and zero-argument
+ ``super()``.
+
+- Issue #28513: Documented command-line interface of zipfile.
+
+Build
+-----
+
++- Issue #26851: Set Android compilation and link flags.
++
+- Issue #28768: Fix implicit declaration of function _setmode. Patch by
+ Masayuki Yamamoto
+
+- Issue #29080: Removes hard dependency on hg.exe from PCBuild/build.bat
+
+- Issue #23903: Added missed names to PC/python3.def.
+
+- Issue #28762: lockf() is available on Android API level 24, but the F_LOCK
+ macro is not defined in android-ndk-r13.
+
+- Issue #28538: Fix the compilation error that occurs because if_nameindex() is
+ available on Android API level 24, but the if_nameindex structure is not
+ defined.
+
+- Issue #20211: Do not add the directory for installing C header files and the
+ directory for installing object code libraries to the cross compilation
+ search paths. Original patch by Thomas Petazzoni.
+
+- Issue #28849: Do not define sys.implementation._multiarch on Android.
+
+- Issue #10656: Fix out-of-tree building on AIX. Patch by Tristan Carel and
+ Michael Haubenwallner.
+
+- Issue #26359: Rename --with-optimiations to --enable-optimizations.
+
+- Issue #28444: Fix missing extensions modules when cross compiling.
+
+- Issue #28208: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use SQLite 3.14.2.
+
+- Issue #28248: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2j.
+
+- Issue #21124: Fix building the _struct module on Cygwin by passing ``NULL``
+ instead of ``&PyType_Type`` to PyVarObject_HEAD_INIT. Patch by Masayuki
+ Yamamoto.
+
+- Issue #13756: Fix building extensions modules on Cygwin. Patch by Roumen
+ Petrov, based on original patch by Jason Tishler.
+
+- Issue #21085: Add configure check for siginfo_t.si_band, which Cygwin does
+ not provide. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto with review and rebase by Erik Bray.
+
+- Issue #28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale (python-config and distclean
+ targets in Makefile). Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
+
+- Issue #26661: setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch wrapper.
+
+- Issue #27979: A full copy of libffi is no longer bundled for use when
+ building _ctypes on non-OSX UNIX platforms. An installed copy of libffi is
+ now required when building _ctypes on such platforms.
+
+- Issue #15819: Remove redundant include search directory option for building
+ outside the source tree.
+
+- Issue #28676: Prevent missing 'getentropy' declaration warning on macOS.
+ Patch by Gareth Rees.
+
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
+
+- Issue #28023: Fix python-gdb.py didn't support new dict implementation.
+
+- Issue #15369: The pybench and pystone microbenchmark have been removed from
+ Tools. Please use the new Python benchmark suite
+ https://github.com/python/performance which is more reliable and includes a
+ portable version of pybench working on Python 2 and Python 3.
+
+- Issue #28102: The zipfile module CLI now prints usage to stderr.
+ Patch by Stephen J. Turnbull.
+
Tests
-----