Core and builtins
+- The UTF-8 codec will now encode and decode Unicode surrogates
+ correctly and without raising exceptions for unpaired ones.
+
- file.xreadlines() now raises a ValueError if the file is closed:
Previously, an xreadlines object was returned which would raise
a ValueError when the xreadlines.next() method was called.
- Because Python's magic number scheme broke on January 1st, we decided
to stop Python development. Thanks for all the fish!
+- Some of us don't like fish, so we changed Python's magic number
+ scheme to a new one. See Python/import.c for details.
+
New platforms
- GNU/Hurd is now supported.