From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 17:21:10 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: - Issue #23262: The webbrowser module now supports Firefox 36+ and derived
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- Issue #23262: The webbrowser module now supports Firefox 36+ and derived
  browsers.  Based on patch by Oleg Broytman.
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@@@ -24,109 -16,6 +24,112 @@@ Core and Builtin
  - Issue #23782: Fixed possible memory leak in _PyTraceback_Add() and exception
    loss in PyTraceBack_Here().
  
 +- Issue #28471: Fix "Python memory allocator called without holding the GIL"
 +  crash in socket.setblocking.
 +
 +
 +Library
 +-------
 +
++- Issue #23262: The webbrowser module now supports Firefox 36+ and derived
++  browsers.  Based on patch by Oleg Broytman.
++
 +- Issue #27939: Fixed bugs in tkinter.ttk.LabeledScale and tkinter.Scale caused
 +  by representing the scale as float value internally in Tk.  tkinter.IntVar
 +  now works if float value is set to underlying Tk variable.
 +
 +- Issue #18844: The various ways of specifing weights for random.choices()
 +  now produce the same result sequences.
 +
 +- Issue #28255: calendar.TextCalendar().prmonth() no longer prints a space
 +  at the start of new line after printing a month's calendar.  Patch by
 +  Xiang Zhang.
 +
 +- Issue #20491: The textwrap.TextWrapper class now honors non-breaking spaces.
 +  Based on patch by Kaarle Ritvanen.
 +
 +- Issue #28353: os.fwalk() no longer fails on broken links.
 +
 +- Issue #28430: Fix iterator of C implemented asyncio.Future doesn't accept
 +  non-None value is passed to it.send(val).
 +
 +- Issue #27025: Generated names for Tkinter widgets now start by the "!" prefix
 +  for readability (was "`").
 +
 +- Issue #25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by addin
 +  a workaround to Tix library bug.
 +
 +- Issue #28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer adds entry "./" to ZIP archive.
 +
 +- Issue #25953: re.sub() now raises an error for invalid numerical group
 +  reference in replacement template even if the pattern is not found in
 +  the string.  Error message for invalid group reference now includes the
 +  group index and the position of the reference.
 +  Based on patch by SilentGhost.
 +
 +- Issue #18219: Optimize csv.DictWriter for large number of columns.
 +  Patch by Mariatta Wijaya.
 +
 +- Issue #28448: Fix C implemented asyncio.Future didn't work on Windows.
 +
 +- Issue #28480: Fix error building socket module when multithreading is
 +  disabled.
 +
 +- Issue #24452: Make webbrowser support Chrome on Mac OS X.
 +
 +- Issue #20766: Fix references leaked by pdb in the handling of SIGINT
 +  handlers.
 +
 +- Issue #28492: Fix how StopIteration exception is raised in _asyncio.Future.
 +
 +- Issue #28500: Fix asyncio to handle async gens GC from another thread.
 +
 +- Issue #26923: Fix asyncio.Gather to refuse being cancelled once all
 +  children are done.
 +  Patch by Johannes Ebke.
 +
 +- Issue #26796: Don't configure the number of workers for default
 +  threadpool executor.
 +  Initial patch by Hans Lawrenz.
 +
 +- Issue #28544: Implement asyncio.Task in C.
 +
 +Windows
 +-------
 +
 +- Issue #28522: Fixes mishandled buffer reallocation in getpathp.c
 +
 +Build
 +-----
 +
 +- Issue #28444: Fix missing extensions modules when cross compiling.
 +
 +- Issue #28208: Update Windows build to use SQLite 3.14.2.0.
 +
 +- Issue #28248: Update Windows build to use OpenSSL 1.0.2j.
 +
 +Tests
 +-----
 +
 +- Issue #26944: Fix test_posix for Android where 'id -G' is entirely wrong or
 +  missing the effective gid.
 +
 +- Issue #28409: regrtest: fix the parser of command line arguments.
 +
 +
 +What's New in Python 3.6.0 beta 2
 +=================================
 +
 +*Release date: 2016-10-10*
 +
 +Core and Builtins
 +-----------------
 +
 +- Issue #28183: Optimize and cleanup dict iteration.
 +
 +- Issue #26081: Added C implementation of asyncio.Future.
 +  Original patch by Yury Selivanov.
 +
  - Issue #28379: Added sanity checks and tests for PyUnicode_CopyCharacters().
    Patch by Xiang Zhang.