From: Steve Purcell <steve@pythonconsulting.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 16:05:17 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Added note of unittest.py changes that fixed bug 451309
X-Git-Tag: v2.2a3~45
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6091cd61ce9d8343d405bdb3f09e80e8ac9447c8;p=python

Added note of unittest.py changes that fixed bug 451309
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 52b2a1effd..ceb1c06621 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ Library
 - In restricted execution mode (using the rexec module), unmarshalling
   code objects is no longer allowed.  This plugs a security hole.
 
+- unittest.TestResult instances no longer store references to tracebacks
+  generated by test failures. This prevents unexpected dangling references
+  to objects that should be garbage collected between tests.
+
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