- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
with large config files.
-- Issue #8275: Fix passing of callback arguments with ctypes under Win64.
- Patch by Stan Mihai.
-
-- Issue #11053: Fix IDLE "Syntax Error" windows to behave as in 2.x,
- preventing a confusing hung appearance on OS X with the windows
- obscured.
+- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
+ larger than 4GB. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
-- Issue #11052: Correct IDLE menu accelerators on Mac OS X for Save
- commands.
+- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
-- Issue #11020: Command-line pyclbr was broken because of missing 2-to-3
- conversion.
+- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
-- Issue #10974: IDLE no longer crashes if its recent files list includes files
- with non-ASCII characters in their path names.
+- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
+ their children.
-- Issue #10987: Fix the recursion limit handling in the _pickle module.
+- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
-- Issue #10949: Improved robustness of rotating file handlers.
+- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
-- Issue #10955: Fix a potential crash when trying to mmap() a file past its
- length. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
+Build
+-----
-- Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
- a symbol named FSTAT.
+- Issue #11347: Use --no-as-needed when linking libpython3.so.
-- Issue #10916: mmap should not segfault when a file is mapped using 0 as
- length and a non-zero offset, and an attempt to read past the end of file
- is made (IndexError is raised instead). Patch by Ross Lagerwall.
+- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.
-- Issue #10899: No function type annotations in the standard library.
- Removed function type annotations from _pyio.py.
+- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
+ package had previously been installed.
-- Issue #10875: Update Regular Expression HOWTO; patch by 'SilentGhost'.
+IDLE
+----
-- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
- node twice.
+- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
+ file in a package.
-- Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
- continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space
- and looks like a header. Since Generator uses Header to format all
- headers, this check is made for all headers in any serialized message
- at serialization time. This provides protection against header
- injection attacks.
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
-- Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
- on an existing file.
+- Issue #11179: Make ccbench work under Python 3.1 and 2.7 again.
-- Issue #3839: wsgiref should not override a Content-Length header set by
- the application. Initial patch by Clovis Fabricio.
+Extension Modules
+-----------------
-- Issue #10790: email.header.Header.append's charset logic now works correctly
- for charsets whose output codec is different from its input codec.
++- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
++ objects using the C accelerations.
+
-- Issue #6643: Reinitialize locks held within the threading module after fork
- to avoid a potential rare deadlock or crash on some platforms.
+- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
+ objects using the C accelerations.
-- Issue #10806, issue #9905: Fix subprocess pipes when some of the standard
- file descriptors (0, 1, 2) are closed in the parent process. Initial
- patch by Ross Lagerwall.
+- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
+ to an instance of the class.
-- Issue #10753 - Characters ';', '=' and ',' in the PATH_INFO environment
- variable won't be quoted when the URI is constructed by the wsgiref.util's
- request_uri method. According to RFC 3986, these characters can be a part of
- params in PATH component of URI and need not be quoted.
+Tests
+-----
-- Issue #10738: Fix webbrowser.Opera.raise_opts
+- Issue #11873: Change regex in test_compileall to fix occasional failures when
+ when the randomly generated temporary path happened to match the regex.
-- Issue #9824: SimpleCookie now encodes , and ; in values to cater to how
- browsers actually parse cookies.
+- Issue #10914: Add a minimal embedding test to test_capi.
-- Issue #5258/#10642: if site.py encounters a .pth file that generates an error,
- it now prints the filename, line number, and traceback to stderr and skips
- the rest of that individual file, instead of stopping processing entirely.
+- Issue #11790: Fix sporadic failures in test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestCondition.
-- Issue #4871: The zipfile module now gives a more useful error message if
- an attempt is made to use a string to specify the archive password.
+- Fix possible "file already exists" error when running the tests in parallel.
-- Issue #10750: The ``raw`` attribute of buffered IO objects is now read-only.
+- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
+ platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.
-- Issue #6791: Limit header line length (to 65535 bytes) in http.client
- and http.server, to avoid denial of services from the other party.
+- Issue #11653: fix -W with -j in regrtest.
-- Issue #10404: Use ctl-button-1 on OSX for the context menu in Idle.
+- Issue #11577: improve test coverage of binhex.py. Patch by Arkady Koplyarov.
-- Issue #4188: Avoid creating dummy thread objects when logging operations
- from the threading module (with the internal verbose flag activated).
+- Issue #11578: added test for the timeit module. Patch Michael Henry.
-- Issue #9721: Fix the behavior of urljoin when the relative url starts with a
- ';' character. Patch by Wes Chow.
+- Issue #11503: improve test coverage of posixpath.py. Patch by Evan Dandrea.
-- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
- for security reasons. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
+- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
+ Arlen.
-- Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
+- Issue #11548: Improve test coverage of the shutil module. Patch by
+ Evan Dandrea.
-- Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer
- causes debug mode to fail.
+- Issue #11554: Reactivated test_email_codecs.
-- Issue #1078919: add_header now automatically RFC2231 encodes parameters
- that contain non-ascii values.
+- Issue #11490: test_subprocess:test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
+ false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.
-- Issue #10107: Warn about unsaved files in IDLE on OSX.
+- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
+ non-semaphore implementation of locks is used under POSIX.
-- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
- RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
- authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
+- Issue #10911: Add tests on CGI with non-ASCII characters. Patch written by
+ Pierre Quentel.
-- Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
- way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
- current process.
+- Issue #9931: Fix hangs in GUI tests under Windows in certain conditions.
+ Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
-- Issue #10464: netrc now correctly handles lines with embedded '#' characters.
+- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
+ to open door files.
-- Issue #1731717: Fixed the problem where subprocess.wait() could cause an
- OSError exception when The OS had been told to ignore SIGCLD in our process
- or otherwise not wait for exiting child processes.
+Documentation
+-------------
-- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the os x proxy bypass code for fully qualified
- IP addresses in the proxy exception list.
+- Issue #11818: Fix tempfile examples for Python 3.
-Extension Modules
------------------
-- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
- objects using the C accelerations.
+What's New in Python 3.2?
+=========================
-- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
- objects using the C accelerations.
+*Release date: 20-Feb-2011*
-- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
- to an instance of the class.
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
-- Issue #678250: Make mmap flush a noop on ACCESS_READ and ACCESS_COPY.
+- Issue #11249: Fix potential crashes when using the limited API.
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