From: Martin Panter Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 09:39:41 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Issue #18383: Merge warnings fix from 3.5 X-Git-Tag: v3.6.0a2~227 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b6ae2ae47ca754aed313e84990f220777cf45905;p=python Issue #18383: Merge warnings fix from 3.5 --- b6ae2ae47ca754aed313e84990f220777cf45905 diff --cc Misc/NEWS index ee30945cdb,4918265b66..06cf8d986c --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@@ -2,56 -2,10 +2,59 @@@ Python News +++++++++++ -What's New in Python 3.5.2 release candidate 1? -=============================================== +What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 2 +================================== + +*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX* + +Core and Builtins +----------------- + +- Issue #27097: Python interpreter is now about 7% faster due to optimized + instruction decoding. Based on patch by Demur Rumed. + +- Issue #26647: Python interpreter now uses 16-bit wordcode instead of bytecode. + Patch by Demur Rumed. + +- Issue #23275: Allow assigning to an empty target list in round brackets: + () = iterable. + +Library +------- + ++- Issue #18383: Avoid creating duplicate filters when using filterwarnings ++ and simplefilter. Based on patch by Alex Shkop. + -Release date: tba +- Issue #23026: winreg.QueryValueEx() now return an integer for REG_QWORD type. + +- Issue #26741: subprocess.Popen destructor now emits a ResourceWarning warning + if the child process is still running. + +- Issue #27056: Optimize pickle.load() and pickle.loads(), up to 10% faster + to deserialize a lot of small objects. + +Tests +----- + +- Issue #25285: regrtest now uses subprocesses when the -j1 command line option + is used: each test file runs in a fresh child process. Before, the -j1 option + was ignored. + +- Issue #25285: Tools/buildbot/test.bat script now uses -j1 by default to run + each test file in fresh child process. + +Windows +------- + +- Issue #27064: The py.exe launcher now defaults to Python 3. + The Windows launcher ``py.exe`` no longer prefers an installed + Python 2 version over Python 3 by default when used interactively. + + +What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 1? +=================================== + +Release date: 2016-05-16 Core and Builtins -----------------