maliciously constructed data. If you need to parse untrusted or
unauthenticated data see :ref:`xml-vulnerabilities`.
-.. versionchanged:: 3.8
+.. versionchanged:: 3.7.1
The SAX parser no longer processes general external entities by default to
increase security by default. To enable processing of external entities,
2. :mod:`xml.dom.minidom` doesn't expand external entities and simply returns
the unexpanded entity verbatim.
3. :mod:`xmlrpclib` doesn't expand external entities and omits them.
-4. Since Python 3.8, external general entities are no longer processed by
+4. Since Python 3.7.1, external general entities are no longer processed by
default.
constructed data. If you need to parse untrusted or unauthenticated data see
:ref:`xml-vulnerabilities`.
-.. versionchanged:: 3.8
+.. versionchanged:: 3.7.1
The SAX parser no longer processes general external entities by default
to increase security. Before, the parser created network connections