From: Gregory P. Smith Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 07:15:20 +0000 (-0700) Subject: move my news entries to the build section as appropriate. X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8b1b81f03681610c5b3f5afc80b616085acbd7e5;p=python move my news entries to the build section as appropriate. --- 8b1b81f03681610c5b3f5afc80b616085acbd7e5 diff --cc Misc/NEWS index 7fce84d15f,15818383c4..1fc6d638f3 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@@ -10,47 -10,6 +10,40 @@@ What's New in Python 3.6.0 beta Core and Builtins ----------------- +- Issue #27911: Remove unnecessary error checks in + ``exec_builtin_or_dynamic()``. + - - Issue #27983: Cause lack of llvm-profdata tool when using clang as - required for PGO linking to be a configure time error rather than - make time when --with-optimizations is enabled. Also improve our - ability to find the llvm-profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes. - - - Issue #26307: The profile-opt build now applys PGO to the built-in modules. - +- Issue #27078: Added BUILD_STRING opcode. Optimized f-strings evaluation. + +- Issue #17884: Python now requires systems with inttypes.h and stdint.h + +- Issue #27961: Require platforms to support ``long long``. Python hasn't + compiled without ``long long`` for years, so this is basically a formality. + +- Issue #27355: Removed support for Windows CE. It was never finished, + and Windows CE is no longer a relevant platform for Python. + +- Issue #27921: Disallow backslashes in f-strings. This is a temporary + restriction: in beta 2, backslashes will only be disallowed inside + the braces (where the expressions are). This is a breaking change + from the 3.6 alpha releases. + +- Implement PEP 523. + +- Issue #27870: A left shift of zero by a large integer no longer attempts + to allocate large amounts of memory. + +- Issue #25402: In int-to-decimal-string conversion, improve the estimate + of the intermediate memory required, and remove an unnecessarily strict + overflow check. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. + +- Issue #27214: In long_invert, be more careful about modifying object + returned by long_add, and remove an unnecessary check for small longs. + Thanks Oren Milman for analysis and patch. + +- Issue #27506: Support passing the bytes/bytearray.translate() "delete" + argument by keyword. + - Issue #27812: Properly clear out a generator's frame's backreference to the generator to prevent crashes in frame.clear(). @@@ -231,167 -119,6 +224,174 @@@ Librar - Issue #2466: posixpath.ismount now correctly recognizes mount points which the user does not have permission to access. +- Issue #9998: On Linux, ctypes.util.find_library now looks in LD_LIBRARY_PATH + for shared libraries. + +- Issue #27573: exit message for code.interact is now configurable. + +- Issue #27930: Improved behaviour of logging.handlers.QueueListener. + Thanks to Paulo Andrade and Petr Viktorin for the analysis and patch. + +- Issue #6766: Distributed reference counting added to multiprocessing + to support nesting of shared values / proxy objects. + +C API +----- + +- Issue #26027: Add support for path-like objects in PyUnicode_FSConverter() & + PyUnicode_FSDecoder(). + +Tests +----- + +- Issue #27427: Additional tests for the math module. Patch by Francisco Couzo. + +- Issue #27953: Skip math and cmath tests that fail on OS X 10.4 due to a + poor libm implementation of tan. + +- Issue #26040: Improve test_math and test_cmath coverage and rigour. Patch by + Jeff Allen. + +- Issue #27787: Call gc.collect() before checking each test for "dangling + threads", since the dangling threads are weak references. + +Build +----- + ++- Issue #27983: Cause lack of llvm-profdata tool when using clang as ++ required for PGO linking to be a configure time error rather than ++ make time when --with-optimizations is enabled. Also improve our ++ ability to find the llvm-profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes. ++ ++- Issue #26307: The profile-opt build now applys PGO to the built-in modules. ++ +- Issue #26539: Add the --with-optimizations flag to turn on LTO and PGO build + support when available. + +- Issue #27917: Set platform triplets for Android builds. + +- Issue #25825: Update references to the $(LIBPL) installation path on AIX. + This path was changed in 3.2a4. + +- Update OS X installer to use SQLite 3.14.1 and XZ 5.2.2. + +- Issue #21122: Fix LTO builds on OS X. + +Windows +------- + +- Issue #27731: Opt-out of MAX_PATH on Windows 10 + +- Issue #6135: Adds encoding and errors parameters to subprocess. + +- Issue #27959: Adds oem encoding, alias ansi to mbcs, move aliasmbcs to + codec lookup. + +- Issue #27982: The functions of the winsound module now accept keyword + arguments. + +- Issue #20366: Build full text search support into SQLite on Windows. + +- Issue #27756: Adds new icons for Python files and processes on Windows. + Designs by Cherry Wang. + +- Issue #27883: Update sqlite to 3.14.1.0 on Windows. + + +What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 4 +================================== + +*Release date: 2016-08-15* + +Core and Builtins +----------------- + +- Issue #27704: Optimized creating bytes and bytearray from byte-like objects + and iterables. Speed up to 3 times for short objects. Original patch by + Naoki Inada. + +- Issue #26823: Large sections of repeated lines in tracebacks are now + abbreviated as "[Previous line repeated {count} more times]" by the builtin + traceback rendering. Patch by Emanuel Barry. + +- Issue #27574: Decreased an overhead of parsing keyword arguments in functions + implemented with using Argument Clinic. + +- Issue #22557: Now importing already imported modules is up to 2.5 times + faster. + +- Issue #17596: Include to help with Min GW building. + +- Issue #17599: On Windows, rename the privately defined REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER + structure to avoid conflicting with the definition from Min GW. + +- Issue #27507: Add integer overflow check in bytearray.extend(). Patch by + Xiang Zhang. + +- Issue #27581: Don't rely on wrapping for overflow check in + PySequence_Tuple(). Patch by Xiang Zhang. + +- Issue #1621: Avoid signed integer overflow in list and tuple operations. + Patch by Xiang Zhang. + +- Issue #27419: Standard __import__() no longer look up "__import__" in globals + or builtins for importing submodules or "from import". Fixed a crash if + raise a warning about unabling to resolve package from __spec__ or + __package__. + +- Issue #27083: Respect the PYTHONCASEOK environment variable under Windows. + +- Issue #27514: Make having too many statically nested blocks a SyntaxError + instead of SystemError. + +- Issue #27366: Implemented PEP 487 (Simpler customization of class creation). + Upon subclassing, the __init_subclass__ classmethod is called on the base + class. Descriptors are initialized with __set_name__ after class creation. + +Library +------- + +- Issue #26027, #27524: Add PEP 519/__fspath__() support to the os and os.path + modules. Includes code from Jelle Zijlstra. + +- Issue #27598: Add Collections to collections.abc. + Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi, docs by Neil Girdhar. + +- Issue #25958: Support "anti-registration" of special methods from + various ABCs, like __hash__, __iter__ or __len__. All these (and + several more) can be set to None in an implementation class and the + behavior will be as if the method is not defined at all. + (Previously, this mechanism existed only for __hash__, to make + mutable classes unhashable.) Code contributed by Andrew Barnert and + Ivan Levkivskyi. + +- Issue #16764: Support keyword arguments to zlib.decompress(). Patch by + Xiang Zhang. + +- Issue #27736: Prevent segfault after interpreter re-initialization due + to ref count problem introduced in code for Issue #27038 in 3.6.0a3. + Patch by Xiang Zhang. + +- Issue #25628: The *verbose* and *rename* parameters for + collections.namedtuple are now keyword-only. + +- Issue #12345: Add mathematical constant tau to math and cmath. See also + PEP 628. + +- Issue #26823: traceback.StackSummary.format now abbreviates large sections of + repeated lines as "[Previous line repeated {count} more times]" (this change + then further affects other traceback display operations in the module). Patch + by Emanuel Barry. + +- Issue #27664: Add to concurrent.futures.thread.ThreadPoolExecutor() + the ability to specify a thread name prefix. + +- Issue #27181: Add geometric_mean and harmonic_mean to statistics module. + +- Issue #27573: code.interact now prints an message when exiting. + +- Issue #6422: Add autorange method to timeit.Timer objects. + - Issue #27773: Correct some memory management errors server_hostname in _ssl.wrap_socket().