From: Serhiy Storchaka Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:56:53 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Merge from 3.6. X-Git-Tag: v3.7.0a1~1756 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bdfc5ff17e9ad6c924aeb5f62ba51e948deec589;p=python Merge from 3.6. --- bdfc5ff17e9ad6c924aeb5f62ba51e948deec589 diff --cc Misc/NEWS index 13f58e686a,9fd898c5a2..6bdcf4e398 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@@ -19,9 -19,55 +19,6 @@@ Core and Builtin - Issue #28918: Fix the cross compilation of xxlimited when Python has been built with Py_DEBUG defined. - - Issue #5322: Fixed setting __new__ to a PyCFunction inside Python code. - Original patch by Andreas Stührk. -- Issue #28731: Optimize _PyDict_NewPresized() to create correct size dict. - Improve speed of dict literal with constant keys up to 30%. - -Library -------- - -- Issue #28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the - forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some - multiprocessing objects such as locks. - -- Issue #28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer - writes the index file when it is not changed. - -- Issue #26937: The chown() method of the tarfile.TarFile class does not fail - now when the grp module cannot be imported, as for example on Android - platforms. - -Windows -------- - -- Issue #28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder and disable it by default. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #28683: Fix the tests that bind() a unix socket and raise - PermissionError on Android for a non-root user. - -- Issue #26939: Add the support.setswitchinterval() function to fix - test_functools hanging on the Android armv7 qemu emulator. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #20211: Do not add the directory for installing C header files and the - directory for installing object code libraries to the cross compilation - search paths. Original patch by Thomas Petazzoni. - -- Issue #28849: Do not define sys.implementation._multiarch on Android. - - -What's New in Python 3.6.0 release candidate 1 -============================================== - -*Release date: 2016-12-06* - -Core and Builtins ------------------ -- - Issue #23722: Rather than silently producing a class that doesn't support zero-argument ``super()`` in methods, failing to pass the new ``__classcell__`` namespace entry up to ``type.__new__`` now results in a