a multiprocessing Client or Listener with an AF_PIPE type address under
non-Windows platforms. Patch by Popa Claudiu.
+- Issue #14493: Use gvfs-open or xdg-open in webbrowser.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
++- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
++ a test failure in test_ssl.
++
+- Issue #14355: Regrtest now supports the standard unittest test loading, and
+ will use it if a test file contains no `test_main` method.
+
+Tools / Demos
+-------------
+
+- Issue #13165: stringbench is now available in the Tools/stringbench folder.
+ It used to live in its own SVN project.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 2?
+===================================
+
+*Release date: 01-Apr-2012*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #1683368: object.__new__ and object.__init__ raise a TypeError if they
+ are passed arguments and their complementary method is not overridden.
+
+- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
+ the module name that was not interned.
+
+- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
+ allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.
+
+- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
+ passed strings.
+
+- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
+ collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).
+
+- Issue #14205: dict lookup raises a RuntimeError if the dict is modified
+ during a lookup.
+
+- Issue #14220: When a generator is delegating to another iterator with the
+ yield from syntax, it needs to have its ``gi_running`` flag set to True.
+
+- Issue #14435: Remove dedicated block allocator from floatobject.c and rely
+ on the PyObject_Malloc() api like all other objects.
+
+- Issue #14471: Fix a possible buffer overrun in the winreg module.
+
+- Issue #14288: Allow the serialization of builtin iterators
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #14300: Under Windows, sockets created using socket.dup() now allow
+ overlapped I/O. Patch by sbt.
+
- Issue #13872: socket.detach() now marks the socket closed (as mirrored
in the socket repr()). Patch by Matt Joiner.