From: Phillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:21:31 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add notes to NEWS for other work today.
X-Git-Tag: v2.5a2~355
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=51dd7d97194eb1be5a43d259e1507b4661c617b6;p=python

Add notes to NEWS for other work today.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6943f81f14..caac381d05 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ Core and builtins
   sys.setdlopenflags() now works correctly on these systems. (SF patch 
   #1454844)
 
+- Patch #1463867: enhanced garbage collection to allow cleanup of cycles
+  involving generators that have paused outside of any ``try`` or ``with``
+  blocks.  (In 2.5a1, a paused generator that was part of a reference
+  cycle could not be garbage collected, regardless of whether it was
+  paused in a ``try`` or ``with`` block.)
 
 Extension Modules
 -----------------
@@ -52,6 +57,11 @@ C API
 Tests
 -----
 
+- The test_contextlib test in 2.5a1 wasn't actually run unless you ran
+  it separately and by hand.  It also wasn't cleaning up its changes to
+  the current Decimal context.
+
+
 Documentation
 -------------