From: Christian Heimes Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 15:25:27 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Issue 18768: Correct doc string of RAND_edg(). Patch by Vajrasky Kok. X-Git-Tag: v3.4.0a2~194 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f920a1c1f132adb10fe81ea430f08c7b61d5cc9d;p=python Issue 18768: Correct doc string of RAND_edg(). Patch by Vajrasky Kok. --- f920a1c1f132adb10fe81ea430f08c7b61d5cc9d diff --cc Misc/NEWS index 9f652f9e34,f913ae17eb..2b8ff75615 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@@ -10,86 -12,10 +10,88 @@@ Projected Release date: 2013-09-0 Core and Builtins ----------------- +- Issue #18722: Remove uses of the "register" keyword in C code. + - Issue #18667: Add missing "HAVE_FCHOWNAT" symbol to posix._have_functions. +- Issue #16499: Add command line option for isolated mode. + +- Issue #15301: Parsing fd, uid, and gid parameters for builtins + in Modules/posixmodule.c is now far more robust. + - Issue #18368: PyOS_StdioReadline() no longer leaks memory when realloc() - fails. + fail. + +- Issue #17934: Add a clear() method to frame objects, to help clean up + expensive details (local variables) and break reference cycles. + +Library +------- + ++- Issue 18768: Correct doc string of RAND_edg(). Patch by Vajrasky Kok. ++ +- Issue #18178: Fix ctypes on BSD. dlmalloc.c was compiled twice which broke + malloc weak symbols. + +- Issue #18709: Fix CVE-2013-4238. The SSL module now handles NULL bytes + inside subjectAltName correctly. Formerly the module has used OpenSSL's + GENERAL_NAME_print() function to get the string represention of ASN.1 + strings for ``rfc822Name`` (email), ``dNSName`` (DNS) and + ``uniformResourceIdentifier`` (URI). + +- Issue #18701: Remove support of old CPython versions (<3.0) from C code. + +- Issue #18756: Improve error reporting in os.urandom() when the failure + is due to something else than /dev/urandom not existing (for example, + exhausting the file descriptor limit). + +- Issue #18673: Add O_TMPFILE to os module. O_TMPFILE requires Linux kernel + 3.11 or newer. It's only defined on system with 3.11 uapi headers, too. + +- Issue #18532: Change the builtin hash algorithms' names to lower case names + as promised by hashlib's documentation. + +- Issue #18405: Improve the entropy of crypt.mksalt(). + +- Issue #12015: The tempfile module now uses a suffix of 8 random characters + instead of 6, to reduce the risk of filename collision. The entropy was + reduced when uppercase letters were removed from the charset used to generate + random characters. + +- Issue #18585: Add :func:`textwrap.shorten` to collapse and truncate a + piece of text to a given length. + +- Issue #18598: Tweak exception message for importlib.import_module() to + include the module name when a key argument is missing. + +- Issue #18676: Change 'positive' to 'non-negative' in queue.py put and get + docstrings and ValueError messages. Patch by Zhongyue Luo + +- Fix refcounting issue with extension types in tkinter. + +- Issue #8112: xlmrpc.server's DocXMLRPCServer server no longer raises an error + if methods have annotations; it now correctly displays the annotations. + +- Issue #18600: Added policy argument to email.message.Message.as_string, + and as_bytes and __bytes__ methods to Message. + +- Issue #18671: Output more information when logging exceptions occur. + +- Issue #18621: Prevent the site module's patched builtins from keeping + too many references alive for too long. + +- Issue #4885: Add weakref support to mmap objects. Patch by Valerie Lambert. + +- Issue #8860: Fixed rounding in timedelta constructor. + + +What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 1? +=================================== + +Release date: 2013-08-03 + +Core and Builtins +----------------- - Issue #16741: Fix an error reporting in int().