Python News
+++++++++++
-What's New in Python 3.2.4
++What's New in Python 3.3.1
+ ==========================
+
+ *Release date: XX-XX-XXXX*
+
+ Core and Builtins
+ -----------------
+
-- Issue #15761: Fix crash when PYTHONEXECUTABLE is set on Mac OS X.
-
-- Issue #15726: Fix incorrect bounds checking in PyState_FindModule.
- Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
-- Issue #15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle
- errors correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #13119: sys.stdout and sys.stderr are now using "\r\n" newline on
- Windows, as Python 2.
-
-- Issue #14579: Fix CVE-2012-2135: vulnerability in the utf-16 decoder after
- error handling. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15404: Refleak in PyMethodObject repr.
-
-- Issue #15394: An issue in PyModule_Create that caused references to
- be leaked on some error paths has been fixed. Patch by Julia Lawall.
-
-- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be
- non-deterministic when using randomized hashing (-R) has been fixed.
-
-- Issue #15020: The program name used to search for Python's path is now
- "python3" under Unix, not "python".
++Library
++-------
+
-- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m swith,
- return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.
++Extension Modules
++-----------------
+
-- 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.
++Tests
++-----
+
-- Issue #15142: Fix reference leak when deallocating instances of types
- created using PyType_FromSpec().
++Build
++-----
+
-- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
- the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
++Documentation
++-------------
+
-- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
- collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.
++- Issue #11964: Document a change in v3.2 to the behavior of the indent
++ parameter of json encoding operations.
+
-- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
- absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
- Patch by Sven Marnach.
++Tools/Demos
++-----------
+
-- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
+
-- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.
+What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 2?
+===============================================
-- Issue #14433: Prevent msvcrt crash in interactive prompt when stdin
- is closed.
+*Release date: XX-Sep-2012*
-- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
- when repr() or str() is called on such an object.
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
-- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
- special method with a different name.
+- Issue #15781: Fix two small race conditions in import's module locking.
-- Issue #14630: Fix a memory access bug for instances of a subclass of int
- with value 0.
+Library
+-------
-- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.
-- Issue #14607: Fix keyword-only arguments which started with ``__``.
+What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 1?
+===============================================
-- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
- any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
- Python. This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.
+*Release date: 25-Aug-2012*
-- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
- while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
-- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend(). Patch
- by Suman Saha.
+- Issue #15573: memoryview comparisons are now performed by value with full
+ support for any valid struct module format definition.
-- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
- the module name that was not interned.
+- Issue #15316: When an item in the fromlist for __import__ doesn't exist,
+ don't raise an error, but if an exception is raised as part of an import do
+ let that propagate.
-- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
- allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
+- Issue #15778: ensure that str(ImportError(msg)) returns a str
+ even when msg isn't a str.
-- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
- passed strings.
+- Issue #2051: Source file permission bits are once again correctly
+ copied to the cached bytecode file. (The migration to importlib
+ reintroduced this problem because these was no regression test. A test
+ has been added as part of this patch)
-- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
- collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
+- Issue #15761: Fix crash when PYTHONEXECUTABLE is set on Mac OS X.
-- Issue #14172: Fix reference leak when marshalling a buffer-like object
- (other than a bytes object).
+- Issue #15726: Fix incorrect bounds checking in PyState_FindModule.
+ Patch by Robin Schreiber.
-- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
- making it "atomic" for many purposes. Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
+- Issue #15604: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue() to check for and handle
+ errors correctly. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-- Issue #14471: Fix a possible buffer overrun in the winreg module.
+- Issue #14846: importlib.FileFinder now handles the case where the
+ directory being searched is removed after a previous import attempt
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