Core and Builtins
-----------------
-- Issue #14761: Fix potential leak on an error case in the import machinery.
+- asdl_seq and asdl_int_seq are now Py_ssize_t sized.
+
+- Issue #14133 (PEP 415): Implement suppression of __context__ display with an
+ attribute on BaseException. This replaces the original mechanism of PEP 409.
+
+- Issue #14417: Mutating a dict during lookup now restarts the lookup instead
+ of raising a RuntimeError (undoes issue #14205).
+
+- Issue #14738: Speed-up UTF-8 decoding on non-ASCII data. Patch by Serhiy
+ Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #14700: Fix two broken and undefined-behaviour-inducing overflow checks
+ in old-style string formatting.
+
+- Issue #14705: The PyArg_Parse() family of functions now support the 'p' format
+ unit, which accepts a "boolean predicate" argument. It converts any Python
+ value into an integer--0 if it is "false", and 1 otherwise.
+
+Library
+-------
+
++- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field of HTTP Basic
++ Authentation in urllib2.
++
+- Issue 14807: move undocumented tarfile.filemode() to stat.filemode() and add
+ doc entry. Add tarfile.filemode alias with deprecation warning.
+
+- Issue #13815: TarFile.extractfile() now returns io.BufferedReader objects.
+
+- Issue #14532: Add a secure_compare() helper to the hmac module, to mitigate
+ timing attacks. Patch by Jon Oberheide.
+
+- Add importlib.util.resolve_name().
+
+- Issue #14366: Support lzma compression in zip files.
+ Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #13959: Introduce importlib.find_loader() and document
+ imp.find_module/load_module as deprecated.
+
+- Issue #14082: shutil.copy2() now copies extended attributes, if possible.
+ Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
+
+- Issue #13959: Make importlib.abc.FileLoader.load_module()/get_filename() and
+ importlib.machinery.ExtensionFileLoader.load_module() have their single
+ argument be optional. Allows for the replacement (and thus deprecation) of
+ imp.load_source()/load_package()/load_compiled().
+
+- Issue #13959: imp.get_suffixes() has been deprecated in favour of the new
+ attributes on importlib.machinery: SOURCE_SUFFIXES, DEBUG_BYTECODE_SUFFIXES,
+ OPTIMIZED_BYTECODE_SUFFIXES, BYTECODE_SUFFIXES, and EXTENSION_SUFFIXES. This
+ led to an indirect deprecation of inspect.getmoduleinfo().
+
+- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
+ support chflag operations. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
+
+- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
+ Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
+
+- Issue #14753: Make multiprocessing's handling of negative timeouts
+ the same as it was in Python 3.2.
+
+- Issue #14583: Fix importlib bug when a package's __init__.py would first
+ import one of its modules then raise an error.
+
+- Issue #14741: Fix missing support for Ellipsis ('...') in parser module.
+
+- Issue #14697: Fix missing support for set displays and set comprehensions in
+ parser module.
+
+- Issue #14701: Fix missing support for 'raise ... from' in parser module.
+
+- Add support for timeouts to the acquire() methods of
+ multiprocessing's lock/semaphore/condition proxies.
+
+- Issue #13989: Add support for text mode to gzip.open().
+
+- Issue #14127: The os.stat() result object now provides three additional
+ fields: st_ctime_ns, st_mtime_ns, and st_atime_ns, providing those times as an
+ integer with nanosecond resolution. The functions os.utime(), os.lutimes(),
+ and os.futimes() now accept a new parameter, ns, which accepts mtime and atime
+ as integers with nanosecond resolution.
+
+- Issue #14127 and #10148: shutil.copystat now preserves exact mtime and atime
+ on filesystems providing nanosecond resolution.
+
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
+
+- Issue #14695: Bring Tools/parser/unparse.py support up to date with
+ the Python 3.3 Grammar.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #13210: Windows build now uses VS2010, ported from VS2008.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 3?
+===================================
+
+*Release date: 01-May-2012*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.