diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index aa35c24a9fa..62d7e77bdaa 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION        12
 #define PY_MICRO_VERSION        0
 #define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_BETA
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       3
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       4
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION              "3.12.0b3+"
+#define PY_VERSION              "3.12.0b4"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
index 9a6a1b37545..9603975729c 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Mon Jun 19 20:55:48 2023
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Tue Jul 11 14:22:58 2023
+# as part of the release process.
 topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
            '\n'
@@ -208,7 +209,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                'the\n'
                '  subscript must have a type compatible with the mapping’s key '
                'type,\n'
-               '  and the mapping is then asked to create a key/datum pair '
+               '  and the mapping is then asked to create a key/value pair '
                'which maps\n'
                '  the subscript to the assigned object.  This can either '
                'replace an\n'
@@ -5687,30 +5688,31 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
  'dict': 'Dictionary displays\n'
          '*******************\n'
          '\n'
-         'A dictionary display is a possibly empty series of key/datum pairs\n'
-         'enclosed in curly braces:\n'
+         'A dictionary display is a possibly empty series of dict items\n'
+         '(key/value pairs) enclosed in curly braces:\n'
          '\n'
-         '   dict_display       ::= "{" [key_datum_list | dict_comprehension] '
+         '   dict_display       ::= "{" [dict_item_list | dict_comprehension] '
          '"}"\n'
-         '   key_datum_list     ::= key_datum ("," key_datum)* [","]\n'
-         '   key_datum          ::= expression ":" expression | "**" or_expr\n'
+         '   dict_item_list     ::= dict_item ("," dict_item)* [","]\n'
+         '   dict_item          ::= expression ":" expression | "**" or_expr\n'
          '   dict_comprehension ::= expression ":" expression comp_for\n'
          '\n'
          'A dictionary display yields a new dictionary object.\n'
          '\n'
-         'If a comma-separated sequence of key/datum pairs is given, they are\n'
+         'If a comma-separated sequence of dict items is given, they are\n'
          'evaluated from left to right to define the entries of the '
          'dictionary:\n'
          'each key object is used as a key into the dictionary to store the\n'
-         'corresponding datum.  This means that you can specify the same key\n'
-         'multiple times in the key/datum list, and the final dictionary’s '
+         'corresponding value.  This means that you can specify the same key\n'
+         'multiple times in the dict item list, and the final dictionary’s '
          'value\n'
          'for that key will be the last one given.\n'
          '\n'
          'A double asterisk "**" denotes *dictionary unpacking*. Its operand\n'
          'must be a *mapping*.  Each mapping item is added to the new\n'
-         'dictionary.  Later values replace values already set by earlier\n'
-         'key/datum pairs and earlier dictionary unpackings.\n'
+         'dictionary.  Later values replace values already set by earlier '
+         'dict\n'
+         'items and earlier dictionary unpackings.\n'
          '\n'
          'New in version 3.5: Unpacking into dictionary displays, originally\n'
          'proposed by **PEP 448**.\n'
@@ -5726,7 +5728,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
          'Restrictions on the types of the key values are listed earlier in\n'
          'section The standard type hierarchy.  (To summarize, the key type\n'
          'should be *hashable*, which excludes all mutable objects.)  Clashes\n'
-         'between duplicate keys are not detected; the last datum (textually\n'
+         'between duplicate keys are not detected; the last value (textually\n'
          'rightmost in the display) stored for a given key value prevails.\n'
          '\n'
          'Changed in version 3.8: Prior to Python 3.8, in dict '
@@ -13256,7 +13258,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
           'are\n'
           'most of the built-in objects considered false:\n'
           '\n'
-          '* constants defined to be false: "None" and "False".\n'
+          '* constants defined to be false: "None" and "False"\n'
           '\n'
           '* zero of any numeric type: "0", "0.0", "0j", "Decimal(0)",\n'
           '  "Fraction(0, 1)"\n'
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0b4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0b4.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5212f359ec5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.12.0b4.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,318 @@
+.. date: 2023-06-13-20-52-24
+.. gh-issue: 102988
+.. nonce: Kei7Vf
+.. release date: 2023-07-11
+.. section: Security
+
+CVE-2023-27043: Prevent :func:`email.utils.parseaddr` and
+:func:`email.utils.getaddresses` from returning the realname portion of an
+invalid RFC2822 email header in the email address portion of the 2-tuple
+returned after being parsed by :class:`email._parseaddr.AddressList`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-07-04-09-51-45
+.. gh-issue: 106396
+.. nonce: DmYp7x
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+When the format specification of an f-string expression is empty, the parser
+now generates an empty :class:`ast.JoinedStr` node for it instead of an
+one-element :class:`ast.JoinedStr` with an empty string
+:class:`ast.Constant`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-29-09-46-41
+.. gh-issue: 106145
+.. nonce: QC6-Kq
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Make ``end_lineno`` and ``end_col_offset`` required on ``type_param`` ast
+nodes.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-22-19-16-24
+.. gh-issue: 105979
+.. nonce: TDP2CU
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix crash in :func:`!_imp.get_frozen_object` due to improper exception
+handling.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-22-14-19-17
+.. gh-issue: 98931
+.. nonce: PPgvSF
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Ensure custom :exc:`SyntaxError` error messages are raised for invalid
+imports with multiple targets. Patch by Pablo Galindo
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-19-11-04-01
+.. gh-issue: 105908
+.. nonce: 7oanny
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed bug where :gh:`99111` breaks future import ``barry_as_FLUFL`` in the
+Python REPL.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-12-16-38-31
+.. gh-issue: 105340
+.. nonce: _jRHXe
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Include the comprehension iteration variable in ``locals()`` inside a
+module- or class-scope comprehension.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-08-09-10-15
+.. gh-issue: 105486
+.. nonce: dev-WS
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Change the repr of ``ParamSpec`` list of args in ``types.GenericAlias``.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-01-13-11-37-41
+.. gh-issue: 101006
+.. nonce: fuLvn2
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Improve error handling when read :mod:`marshal` data.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-07-07-17-44-03
+.. gh-issue: 106524
+.. nonce: XkBV8h
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix crash in :func:`!_sre.template` with templates containing invalid group
+indices.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-07-07-13-47-28
+.. gh-issue: 106510
+.. nonce: 9n5BdC
+.. section: Library
+
+Improve debug output for atomic groups in regular expressions.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-07-07-03-05-58
+.. gh-issue: 106503
+.. nonce: ltfeiH
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ref cycle in :class:`!asyncio._SelectorSocketTransport` by removing
+``_write_ready`` in ``close``.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-07-05-14-34-10
+.. gh-issue: 105497
+.. nonce: HU5u89
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix flag mask inversion when unnamed flags exist.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-07-05-13-08-23
+.. gh-issue: 90876
+.. nonce: Qvlkfl
+.. section: Library
+
+Prevent :mod:`multiprocessing.spawn` from failing to *import* in
+environments where ``sys.executable`` is ``None``.  This regressed in 3.11
+with the addition of support for path-like objects in multiprocessing.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-07-03-15-09-44
+.. gh-issue: 106292
+.. nonce: 3npldV
+.. section: Library
+
+Check for an instance-dict cached value in the :meth:`__get__` method of
+:func:`functools.cached_property`. This better matches the pre-3.12 behavior
+and improves compatibility for users subclassing
+:func:`functools.cached_property` and adding a :meth:`__set__` method.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-07-02-10-56-41
+.. gh-issue: 106330
+.. nonce: QSkIUH
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix incorrect matching of empty paths in :meth:`pathlib.PurePath.match`.
+This bug was introduced in Python 3.12.0 beta 1.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-07-01-16-40-54
+.. gh-issue: 102541
+.. nonce: C1ahtk
+.. section: Library
+
+Make pydoc.doc catch bad module ImportError when output stream is not None.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-27-23-22-37
+.. gh-issue: 106152
+.. nonce: ya5jBT
+.. section: Library
+
+Added PY_THROW event hook for :mod:`cProfile` for generators
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-25-12-28-55
+.. gh-issue: 106075
+.. nonce: W7tMRb
+.. section: Library
+
+Added `asyncio.taskgroups.__all__` to `asyncio.__all__` for export in star
+imports.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-22-15-21-11
+.. gh-issue: 105987
+.. nonce: T7Kzrb
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix crash due to improper reference counting in :mod:`asyncio` eager task
+factory internal routines.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-21-19-04-27
+.. gh-issue: 105974
+.. nonce: M47n3t
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix bug where a :class:`typing.Protocol` class that had one or more
+non-callable members would raise :exc:`TypeError` when :func:`issubclass`
+was called against it, even if it defined a custom ``__subclasshook__``
+method. The behaviour in Python 3.11 and lower -- which has now been
+restored -- was not to raise :exc:`TypeError` in these situations if a
+custom ``__subclasshook__`` method was defined. Patch by Alex Waygood.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-20-23-18-45
+.. gh-issue: 96145
+.. nonce: o5dTRM
+.. section: Library
+
+Reverted addition of ``json.AttrDict``.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-08-17-49-46
+.. gh-issue: 105497
+.. nonce: K6Q8nU
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix flag inversion when alias/mask members exist.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-05-14-43-56
+.. gh-issue: 104554
+.. nonce: pwfKIo
+.. section: Library
+
+Add RTSPS scheme support in urllib.parse
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2022-07-12-18-45-13
+.. gh-issue: 94777
+.. nonce: mOybx7
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix hanging :mod:`multiprocessing` ``ProcessPoolExecutor`` when a child
+process crashes while data is being written in the call queue.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-30-19-28-59
+.. gh-issue: 106232
+.. nonce: hQ4-tz
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Make timeit doc command lines compatible with Windows by using double quotes
+for arguments.  This works on linux and macOS also.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-28-02-51-08
+.. gh-issue: 101634
+.. nonce: Rayczr
+.. section: Tests
+
+When running the Python test suite with ``-jN`` option, if a worker stdout
+cannot be decoded from the locale encoding report a failed testn so the
+exitcode is non-zero. Patch by Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-26-21-56-29
+.. gh-issue: 106118
+.. nonce: 0cCfhl
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix compilation for platforms without :data:`!O_CLOEXEC`. The issue was
+introduced with Python 3.12b1 in :gh:`103295`. Patch by Erlend Aasland.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-05-20-23-49-30
+.. gh-issue: 104692
+.. nonce: s5UIu5
+.. section: Build
+
+Include ``commoninstall`` as a prerequisite for ``bininstall``
+
+This ensures that ``commoninstall`` is completed before ``bininstall`` is
+started when parallel builds are used (``make -j install``), and so the
+``python3`` symlink is only installed after all standard library modules are
+installed.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-07-03-14-06-19
+.. gh-issue: 106359
+.. nonce: RfJuR0
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+Argument Clinic now explicitly forbids "kwarg splats" in function calls used
+as annotations.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2023-06-13-14-24-55
+.. gh-issue: 105227
+.. nonce: HDL9aF
+.. section: C API
+
+The new :c:func:`PyType_GetDict` provides the dictionary for the given type
+object that is normally exposed by ``cls.__dict__``.  Normally it's
+sufficient to use :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_dict`, but for the static
+builtin types :c:member:`!tp_dict` is now always ``NULL``.
+:c:func:`!PyType_GetDict()` provides the correct dict object instead.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2023-05-20-23-49-30.gh-issue-104692.s5UIu5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2023-05-20-23-49-30.gh-issue-104692.s5UIu5.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 2936990999e..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2023-05-20-23-49-30.gh-issue-104692.s5UIu5.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-Include ``commoninstall`` as a prerequisite for ``bininstall``
-
-This ensures that ``commoninstall`` is completed before ``bininstall``
-is started when parallel builds are used (``make -j install``), and so
-the ``python3`` symlink is only installed after all standard library
-modules are installed.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2023-06-26-21-56-29.gh-issue-106118.0cCfhl.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2023-06-26-21-56-29.gh-issue-106118.0cCfhl.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index f93cae5d03b..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2023-06-26-21-56-29.gh-issue-106118.0cCfhl.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix compilation for platforms without :data:`!O_CLOEXEC`. The issue was
-introduced with Python 3.12b1 in :gh:`103295`. Patch by Erlend Aasland.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2023-06-13-14-24-55.gh-issue-105227.HDL9aF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2023-06-13-14-24-55.gh-issue-105227.HDL9aF.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 846663621e8..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2023-06-13-14-24-55.gh-issue-105227.HDL9aF.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-The new :c:func:`PyType_GetDict` provides the dictionary for the given type
-object that is normally exposed by ``cls.__dict__``.  Normally it's
-sufficient to use :c:member:`~PyTypeObject.tp_dict`, but for the static
-builtin types :c:member:`!tp_dict` is now always ``NULL``.  :c:func:`!PyType_GetDict()`
-provides the correct dict object instead.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-01-13-11-37-41.gh-issue-101006.fuLvn2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-01-13-11-37-41.gh-issue-101006.fuLvn2.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index c98670d8c49..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-01-13-11-37-41.gh-issue-101006.fuLvn2.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Improve error handling when read :mod:`marshal` data.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-08-09-10-15.gh-issue-105486.dev-WS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-08-09-10-15.gh-issue-105486.dev-WS.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f735db3dc8..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-08-09-10-15.gh-issue-105486.dev-WS.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Change the repr of ``ParamSpec`` list of args in ``types.GenericAlias``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-12-16-38-31.gh-issue-105340._jRHXe.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-12-16-38-31.gh-issue-105340._jRHXe.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index f6d4fa8fc4d..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-12-16-38-31.gh-issue-105340._jRHXe.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Include the comprehension iteration variable in ``locals()`` inside a
-module- or class-scope comprehension.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-19-11-04-01.gh-issue-105908.7oanny.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-19-11-04-01.gh-issue-105908.7oanny.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 03db3f064f5..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-19-11-04-01.gh-issue-105908.7oanny.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fixed bug where :gh:`99111` breaks future import ``barry_as_FLUFL`` in the Python REPL.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-22-14-19-17.gh-issue-98931.PPgvSF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-22-14-19-17.gh-issue-98931.PPgvSF.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 611660d6286..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-22-14-19-17.gh-issue-98931.PPgvSF.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Ensure custom :exc:`SyntaxError` error messages are raised for invalid
-imports with multiple targets. Patch by Pablo Galindo
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-22-19-16-24.gh-issue-105979.TDP2CU.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-22-19-16-24.gh-issue-105979.TDP2CU.rst
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index be6962afd0c..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-22-19-16-24.gh-issue-105979.TDP2CU.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix crash in :func:`!_imp.get_frozen_object` due to improper exception handling.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-29-09-46-41.gh-issue-106145.QC6-Kq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-29-09-46-41.gh-issue-106145.QC6-Kq.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f9445bbcbe..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-06-29-09-46-41.gh-issue-106145.QC6-Kq.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Make ``end_lineno`` and ``end_col_offset`` required on ``type_param`` ast
-nodes.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-07-04-09-51-45.gh-issue-106396.DmYp7x.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-07-04-09-51-45.gh-issue-106396.DmYp7x.rst
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index c5767e97271..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2023-07-04-09-51-45.gh-issue-106396.DmYp7x.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-When the format specification of an f-string expression is empty, the parser now
-generates an empty :class:`ast.JoinedStr` node for it instead of an one-element
-:class:`ast.JoinedStr` with an empty string :class:`ast.Constant`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2023-06-30-19-28-59.gh-issue-106232.hQ4-tz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2023-06-30-19-28-59.gh-issue-106232.hQ4-tz.rst
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index bc16f92b7d6..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2023-06-30-19-28-59.gh-issue-106232.hQ4-tz.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Make timeit doc command lines compatible with Windows by using double quotes
-for arguments.  This works on linux and macOS also.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-07-12-18-45-13.gh-issue-94777.mOybx7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-07-12-18-45-13.gh-issue-94777.mOybx7.rst
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index 2c04a35fbfc..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-07-12-18-45-13.gh-issue-94777.mOybx7.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix hanging :mod:`multiprocessing` ``ProcessPoolExecutor`` when a child process crashes while data is being written in the call queue.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-06-05-14-43-56.gh-issue-104554.pwfKIo.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-06-05-14-43-56.gh-issue-104554.pwfKIo.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-06-05-14-43-56.gh-issue-104554.pwfKIo.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add RTSPS scheme support in urllib.parse
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-06-08-17-49-46.gh-issue-105497.K6Q8nU.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-06-08-17-49-46.gh-issue-105497.K6Q8nU.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-06-08-17-49-46.gh-issue-105497.K6Q8nU.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix flag inversion when alias/mask members exist.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-06-20-23-18-45.gh-issue-96145.o5dTRM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-06-20-23-18-45.gh-issue-96145.o5dTRM.rst
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-Reverted addition of ``json.AttrDict``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-06-21-19-04-27.gh-issue-105974.M47n3t.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-06-21-19-04-27.gh-issue-105974.M47n3t.rst
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-Fix bug where a :class:`typing.Protocol` class that had one or more
-non-callable members would raise :exc:`TypeError` when :func:`issubclass`
-was called against it, even if it defined a custom ``__subclasshook__``
-method. The behaviour in Python 3.11 and lower -- which has now been
-restored -- was not to raise :exc:`TypeError` in these situations if a
-custom ``__subclasshook__`` method was defined. Patch by Alex Waygood.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-06-22-15-21-11.gh-issue-105987.T7Kzrb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-06-22-15-21-11.gh-issue-105987.T7Kzrb.rst
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-Fix crash due to improper reference counting in :mod:`asyncio` eager task factory internal routines.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-06-25-12-28-55.gh-issue-106075.W7tMRb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-06-25-12-28-55.gh-issue-106075.W7tMRb.rst
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-Added `asyncio.taskgroups.__all__` to `asyncio.__all__` for export in star imports.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-06-27-23-22-37.gh-issue-106152.ya5jBT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-06-27-23-22-37.gh-issue-106152.ya5jBT.rst
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-Added PY_THROW event hook for :mod:`cProfile` for generators
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-01-16-40-54.gh-issue-102541.C1ahtk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-01-16-40-54.gh-issue-102541.C1ahtk.rst
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-Make pydoc.doc catch bad module ImportError when output stream is not None.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-02-10-56-41.gh-issue-106330.QSkIUH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-02-10-56-41.gh-issue-106330.QSkIUH.rst
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-Fix incorrect matching of empty paths in :meth:`pathlib.PurePath.match`.
-This bug was introduced in Python 3.12.0 beta 1.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-03-15-09-44.gh-issue-106292.3npldV.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-03-15-09-44.gh-issue-106292.3npldV.rst
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-Check for an instance-dict cached value in the :meth:`__get__` method of
-:func:`functools.cached_property`. This better matches the pre-3.12 behavior
-and improves compatibility for users subclassing
-:func:`functools.cached_property` and adding a :meth:`__set__` method.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-05-13-08-23.gh-issue-90876.Qvlkfl.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-05-13-08-23.gh-issue-90876.Qvlkfl.rst
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-Prevent :mod:`multiprocessing.spawn` from failing to *import* in environments
-where ``sys.executable`` is ``None``.  This regressed in 3.11 with the addition
-of support for path-like objects in multiprocessing.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-05-14-34-10.gh-issue-105497.HU5u89.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-05-14-34-10.gh-issue-105497.HU5u89.rst
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-Fix flag mask inversion when unnamed flags exist.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-07-03-05-58.gh-issue-106503.ltfeiH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-07-03-05-58.gh-issue-106503.ltfeiH.rst
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-Fix ref cycle in :class:`!asyncio._SelectorSocketTransport` by removing
-``_write_ready`` in ``close``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-07-13-47-28.gh-issue-106510.9n5BdC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-07-13-47-28.gh-issue-106510.9n5BdC.rst
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Improve debug output for atomic groups in regular expressions.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-07-17-44-03.gh-issue-106524.XkBV8h.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-07-17-44-03.gh-issue-106524.XkBV8h.rst
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-Fix crash in :func:`!_sre.template` with templates containing invalid group indices.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-06-13-20-52-24.gh-issue-102988.Kei7Vf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-06-13-20-52-24.gh-issue-102988.Kei7Vf.rst
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@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-CVE-2023-27043: Prevent :func:`email.utils.parseaddr`
-and :func:`email.utils.getaddresses` from returning the realname portion of an
-invalid RFC2822 email header in the email address portion of the 2-tuple
-returned after being parsed by :class:`email._parseaddr.AddressList`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2023-06-28-02-51-08.gh-issue-101634.Rayczr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2023-06-28-02-51-08.gh-issue-101634.Rayczr.rst
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-When running the Python test suite with ``-jN`` option, if a worker stdout
-cannot be decoded from the locale encoding report a failed testn so the
-exitcode is non-zero. Patch by Victor Stinner.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2023-07-03-14-06-19.gh-issue-106359.RfJuR0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2023-07-03-14-06-19.gh-issue-106359.RfJuR0.rst
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-Argument Clinic now explicitly forbids "kwarg splats" in function calls used as
-annotations.
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is Python version 3.12.0 beta 3
+This is Python version 3.12.0 beta 4
 =====================================
 
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