Core and Builtins
-----------------
+- Remove supporting for compiling on systems without getcwd().
+
+- Issue #18774: Remove last bits of GNU PTH thread code and thread_pth.h.
+
+- Issue #18771: Add optimization to set object lookups to reduce the cost
+ of hash collisions. The core idea is to inspect a second key/hash pair
+ for each cache line retrieved.
+
+- Issue #16105: When a signal handler fails to write to the file descriptor
+ registered with ``signal.set_wakeup_fd()``, report an exception instead
+ of ignoring the error.
+
+- Issue #18722: Remove uses of the "register" keyword in C code.
+
- Issue #18667: Add missing "HAVE_FCHOWNAT" symbol to posix._have_functions.
+- Issue #16499: Add command line option for isolated mode.
+
+- Issue #15301: Parsing fd, uid, and gid parameters for builtins
+ in Modules/posixmodule.c is now far more robust.
+
- Issue #18368: PyOS_StdioReadline() no longer leaks memory when realloc()
- fails.
+ fail.
+
+- Issue #17934: Add a clear() method to frame objects, to help clean up
+ expensive details (local variables) and break reference cycles.
+
+Library
+-------
+
++- Issue #11973: Fix a problem in kevent. The flags and fflags fields are now
++ properly handled as unsigned.
++
+- Issue #18807: ``pyvenv`` now takes a --copies argument allowing copies
+ instead of symlinks even where symlinks are available and the default.
+
+- Issue #18538: ``python -m dis`` now uses argparse for argument processing.
+ Patch by Michele Orrù.
+
+- Issue #18394: Close cgi.FieldStorage's optional file.
+
+- Issue #17702: On error, os.environb now removes suppress the except context
+ when raising a new KeyError with the original key.
+
+- Issue #16809: Fixed some tkinter incompabilities with Tcl/Tk 8.6.
+
+- Issue #16809: Tkinter's splitlist() and split() methods now accept Tcl_Obj
+ argument.
+
+- Issue #18324: set_payload now correctly handles binary input. This also
+ supersedes the previous fixes for #14360, #1717, and #16564.
+
+- Issue #18794: Add a fileno() method and a closed attribute to select.devpoll
+ objects.
+
+- Issue #17119: Fixed integer overflows when processing large strings and tuples
+ in the tkinter module.
+
+- Issue #18747: Re-seed OpenSSL's pseudo-random number generator after fork.
+ A pthread_atfork() parent handler is used to seed the PRNG with pid, time
+ and some stack data.
+
+- Issue #8865: Concurrent invocation of select.poll.poll() now raises a
+ RuntimeError exception. Patch by Christian Schubert.
+
+- Issue #18777: The ssl module now uses the new CRYPTO_THREADID API of
+ OpenSSL 1.0.0+ instead of the deprecated CRYPTO id callback function.
+
+- Issue #18768: Correct doc string of RAND_edg(). Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
+
+- Issue #18178: Fix ctypes on BSD. dlmalloc.c was compiled twice which broke
+ malloc weak symbols.
+
+- Issue #18709: Fix CVE-2013-4238. The SSL module now handles NULL bytes
+ inside subjectAltName correctly. Formerly the module has used OpenSSL's
+ GENERAL_NAME_print() function to get the string represention of ASN.1
+ strings for ``rfc822Name`` (email), ``dNSName`` (DNS) and
+ ``uniformResourceIdentifier`` (URI).
+
+- Issue #18701: Remove support of old CPython versions (<3.0) from C code.
+
+- Issue #18756: Improve error reporting in os.urandom() when the failure
+ is due to something else than /dev/urandom not existing (for example,
+ exhausting the file descriptor limit).
+
+- Issue #18673: Add O_TMPFILE to os module. O_TMPFILE requires Linux kernel
+ 3.11 or newer. It's only defined on system with 3.11 uapi headers, too.
+
+- Issue #18532: Change the builtin hash algorithms' names to lower case names
+ as promised by hashlib's documentation.
+
+- Issue #18405: Improve the entropy of crypt.mksalt().
+
+- Issue #12015: The tempfile module now uses a suffix of 8 random characters
+ instead of 6, to reduce the risk of filename collision. The entropy was
+ reduced when uppercase letters were removed from the charset used to generate
+ random characters.
+
+- Issue #18585: Add :func:`textwrap.shorten` to collapse and truncate a
+ piece of text to a given length.
+
+- Issue #18598: Tweak exception message for importlib.import_module() to
+ include the module name when a key argument is missing.
+
+- Issue #18676: Change 'positive' to 'non-negative' in queue.py put and get
+ docstrings and ValueError messages. Patch by Zhongyue Luo
+
+- Fix refcounting issue with extension types in tkinter.
+
+- Issue #8112: xlmrpc.server's DocXMLRPCServer server no longer raises an error
+ if methods have annotations; it now correctly displays the annotations.
+
+- Issue #18600: Added policy argument to email.message.Message.as_string,
+ and as_bytes and __bytes__ methods to Message.
+
+- Issue #18671: Output more information when logging exceptions occur.
+
+- Issue #18621: Prevent the site module's patched builtins from keeping
+ too many references alive for too long.
+
+- Issue #4885: Add weakref support to mmap objects. Patch by Valerie Lambert.
+
+- Issue #8860: Fixed rounding in timedelta constructor.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #18792: Use "127.0.0.1" or "::1" instead of "localhost" as much as
+ possible, since "localhost" goes through a DNS lookup under recent Windows
+ versions.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 1?
+===================================
+
+Release date: 2013-08-03
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
- Issue #16741: Fix an error reporting in int().
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