From cab0b2b053970982b760048acc3046363615a8dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brett Cannon Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 17:13:24 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-29708: Add What's New entries for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH and py_compile (GH-5306) --- Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst index 20be158ab0..e52e32c473 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst @@ -479,6 +479,17 @@ begins. (Contributed by Barry Warsaw in :issue:`31389`.) pdb command line now accepts `-m module_name` as an alternative to script file. (Contributed by Mario Corchero in :issue:`32206`.) +py_compile +---------- + +:func:`py_compile.compile` -- and by extension, :mod:`compileall` -- now +respects the :envvar:`SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` environment variable by +unconditionally creating ``.pyc`` files for hash-based validation. +This allows for guaranteeing +`reproducible builds `_ of ``.pyc`` +files when they are created eagerly. (Contributed by Bernhard M. Wiedemann +in :issue:`29708`.) + re -- @@ -544,6 +555,12 @@ Added functions :func:`time.thread_time` and :func:`time.thread_time_ns` to get per-thread CPU time measurements. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`32025`.) +unicodedata +----------- + +The internal :mod:`unicodedata` database has been upgraded to use `Unicode 10 +`_. (Contributed by Benjamin +Peterson.) unittest -------- @@ -565,20 +582,6 @@ children by preventing to get or set any new attribute on the sealed mock. The sealing process is performed recursively. (Contributed by Mario Corchero in :issue:`30541`.) -xmlrpc.server -------------- - -:meth:`register_function` of :class:`xmlrpc.server.SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher` and -its subclasses can be used as a decorator. (Contributed by Xiang Zhang in -:issue:`7769`.) - -unicodedata ------------ - -The internal :mod:`unicodedata` database has been upgraded to use `Unicode 10 -`_. (Contributed by Benjamin -Peterson.) - urllib.parse ------------ @@ -624,6 +627,13 @@ methods can now compare text of the current node with ``[. = "text"]``, not only text in children. Predicates also allow adding spaces for better readability. (Contributed by Stefan Behnel in :issue:`31648`.) +xmlrpc.server +------------- + +:meth:`register_function` of :class:`xmlrpc.server.SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher` and +its subclasses can be used as a decorator. (Contributed by Xiang Zhang in +:issue:`7769`.) + zipapp ------ @@ -680,10 +690,16 @@ Optimizations Build and C API Changes ======================= +* :mod:`py_compile` and :mod:`compileall` now support the + :envvar:`SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` environment variable by unconditionally + building ``.pyc`` files for hash verification instead of potentially + timestamp-based ``.pyc`` files. See the notes for the `py_compile`_ + improvement notes for more details. + * A full copy of libffi is no longer bundled for use when building the :mod:`_ctypes ` module on non-OSX UNIX platforms. An installed copy of libffi is now required when building ``_ctypes`` on such platforms. - Contributed by Zachary Ware in :issue:`27979`. + (Contributed by Zachary Ware in :issue:`27979`.) * The fields :c:member:`name` and :c:member:`doc` of structures :c:type:`PyMemberDef`, :c:type:`PyGetSetDef`, -- 2.40.0