Issue #17221: Resort Misc/NEWS.

2025-09-26 18:29:57 +00:00 · 2013-04-14 18:53:39 +03:00 · 2013-04-14 18:53:39 +03:00 · f2fa5fc794
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@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Build
 - Issue #17550: Fix the --enable-profiling configure switch.
-Library
+IDLE
 -------
 - Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used.
@ -142,10 +142,6 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #17328: Fix possible refleak in dict.setdefault.
 - Issue #17223: array module: Fix a crasher when converting an array containing
  invalid characters (outside range [U+0000; U+10ffff]) to Unicode:
  repr(array), str(array) and array.tounicode(). Patch written by Manuel Jacob.
 - Issue #17223: Fix PyUnicode_FromUnicode() for string of 1 character outside
  the range U+0000-U+10ffff.
@ -200,8 +196,6 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #11461: Fix the incremental UTF-16 decoder. Original patch by
  Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
 - Issue #16881: Fix Py_ARRAY_LENGTH macro for GCC < 3.1.
 - Issue #16856: Fix a segmentation fault from calling repr() on a dict with
  a key whose repr raise an exception.
@ -284,12 +278,6 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #16271: Fix strange bugs that resulted from __qualname__ appearing in a
  class's __dict__ and on type.
 - Issue #16197: Update winreg docstrings and documentation to match code.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.
 - Issue #16241: Document -X faulthandler command line option.
  Patch by Marek Šuppa.
 - Issue #6074: Ensure cached bytecode files can always be updated by the
  user that created them, even when the source file is read-only.
@ -387,6 +375,10 @@ Library
 - Issue #17018: Make Process.join() retry if os.waitpid() fails with EINTR.
 - Issue #17223: array module: Fix a crasher when converting an array containing
  invalid characters (outside range [U+0000; U+10ffff]) to Unicode:
  repr(array), str(array) and array.tounicode(). Patch written by Manuel Jacob.
 - Issue #14720: sqlite3: Convert datetime microseconds correctly.
  Patch by Lowe Thiderman.
@ -431,9 +423,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #6975: os.path.realpath() now correctly resolves multiple nested
  symlinks on POSIX platforms.
 - Issue #17156: pygettext.py now uses an encoding of source file and correctly
  writes and escapes non-ascii characters.
 - Issue #16564: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in the operation of
  email.encoders.encode_noop when used with binary data.
@ -449,8 +438,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #17073: Fix some integer overflows in sqlite3 module.
 - Issue #17114: IDLE now uses non-strict config parser.
 - Issue #16723: httplib.HTTPResponse no longer marked closed when the connection
  is automatically closed.
@ -481,6 +468,9 @@ Library
 - Issue #15633: httplib.HTTPResponse is now mark closed when the server
  sends less than the advertised Content-Length.
 - Issue #12268: The io module file object write methods no longer abort early
  when one of its write system calls is interrupted (EINTR).
 - Issue #6972: The zipfile module no longer overwrites files outside of
  its destination path when extracting malicious zip files.
@ -500,9 +490,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #15505: `unittest.installHandler` no longer assumes SIGINT handler is
  set to a callable object.
 - Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
  interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.
 - Issue #13454: Fix a crash when deleting an iterator created by itertools.tee()
  if all other iterators were very advanced before.
@ -538,9 +525,6 @@ Library
 - SSLContext.load_dh_params() now properly closes the input file.
 - Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
  special characters in the file path.
 - Issue #16900: Issue a ResourceWarning when an ssl socket is left unclosed.
 - Issue #13899: \A, \Z, and \B now correctly match the A, Z, and B literals
@ -550,8 +534,6 @@ Library
  failing if the connection used a row factory (such as sqlite3.Row) that
  produced unsortable objects. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
 - Issue #16491: IDLE now prints chained exception tracebacks.
 - Issue #15972: Fix error messages when os functions expecting a file name or
  file descriptor receive the incorrect type.
@ -571,8 +553,6 @@ Library
  clears previous values stored in the default section. Same goes for
  ``parser.update({'DEFAULT': {}})``.
 - Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for bytes literals.
 - Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy.
 - Issue #10527: make multiprocessing use poll() instead of select() if available.
@ -589,18 +569,9 @@ Library
 - Issue #16641: Default values of sched.scheduler.enter() are no longer
  modifiable.
 - Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
  Roger Serwy.
 - Issue #16618: Make glob.glob match consistently across strings and bytes
  regarding leading dots.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 - Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for
  localhost tests.
 - Issue #16511: Use default IDLE width and height if config param is not valid.
  Patch Serhiy Storchaka.
 - Issue #16713: Parsing of 'tel' urls using urlparse separates params from
  path.
@ -657,11 +628,6 @@ Library
  list() calls aren't added to filter(), map(), and zip() which are directly
  passed enumerate().
 - Issue #16476: Fix json.tool to avoid including trailing whitespace.
 - Issue #16549: Make json.tool work again on Python 3 and add tests.
  Initial patch by Berker Peksag and Serhiy Storchaka.
 - Issue #12848: The pure Python pickle implementation now treats object
  lengths as unsigned 32-bit integers, like the C implementation does.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
@ -709,9 +675,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when
  no newline is found.  Patch by Ned Batchelder.
 - Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu
  Patch by Todd Rovito.
 - Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one the lists changes
  size while iterated on.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
@ -802,9 +765,6 @@ Library
  `io.BytesIO` and `io.StringIO` objects now raise ValueError when the object
  has been closed.  Patch by Alessandro Moura.
 - Issue #16126: PyErr_Format format mismatch in _testcapimodule.c.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 - Issue #15447: Use `subprocess.DEVNULL` in webbrowser, instead of opening
  `os.devnull` explicitly and leaving it open.
@ -820,8 +780,29 @@ Library
 - Issue #15906: Fix a regression in `argparse` caused by the preceding change,
  when ``action='append'``, ``type='str'`` and ``default=[]``.
- Issue #12268: The io module file object write methods no longer abort early
+IDLE
-  when one of its write system calls is interrupted (EINTR).
+----
 - Issue #17114: IDLE now uses non-strict config parser.
 - Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
  interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.
 - Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
  special characters in the file path.
 - Issue #16491: IDLE now prints chained exception tracebacks.
 - Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for bytes literals.
 - Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
  Roger Serwy.
 - Issue #16511: Use default IDLE width and height if config param is not valid.
  Patch Serhiy Storchaka.
 - Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu
  Patch by Todd Rovito.
 Tests
 -----
@ -914,6 +895,9 @@ Tests
 - Issue #15324: Fix regrtest parsing of --fromfile, --match, and --randomize
  options.
 - Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for
  localhost tests.
 - Issue #16664: Add regression tests for glob's behaviour concerning entries
  starting with a ".".  Patch by Sebastian Kreft.
@ -926,6 +910,9 @@ Tests
 - Issue #16115: Add some tests for the executable argument to
  subprocess.Popen().  Initial patch by Kushal Das.
 - Issue #16126: PyErr_Format format mismatch in _testcapimodule.c.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 - Issue #15304: Fix warning message when `os.chdir()` fails inside
  `test.support.temp_cwd()`.  Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
@ -999,11 +986,10 @@ Build
 - Issue #17161: make install now also installs a python3 man page.
-Tools/Demos
+C-API
-----------
+-----
- Issue #13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
+- Issue #16881: Fix Py_ARRAY_LENGTH macro for GCC < 3.1.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 Documentation
 -------------
@ -1061,9 +1047,15 @@ Documentation
 - Issue #15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to
  mean 'no compression'. Patch by Brian Brazil.
 - Issue #16197: Update winreg docstrings and documentation to match code.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.
 - Issue #8040: added a version switcher to the documentation.  Patch by
  Yury Selivanov.
 - Issue #16241: Document -X faulthandler command line option.
  Patch by Marek Šuppa.
 - Additional comments and some style changes in the concurrent.futures URL
  retrieval example
@ -1087,12 +1079,12 @@ Documentation
 - Issue #15116: Remove references to appscript as it is no longer being
  supported.
 - Issue #15116: Remove references to appscript as it is no longer being
  supported.
 Tools/Demos
 -----------
 - Issue #17156: pygettext.py now uses an encoding of source file and correctly
  writes and escapes non-ascii characters.
 - Issue #15539: Fix a number of bugs in Tools/scripts/pindent.py.  Now
  pindent.py works with a "with" statement.  pindent.py no longer produces
  improper indentation.  pindent.py now works with continued lines broken after
@ -1100,6 +1092,14 @@ Tools/Demos
 - Issue #15378: Fix Tools/unicode/comparecodecs.py.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 - Issue #16476: Fix json.tool to avoid including trailing whitespace.
 - Issue #16549: Make json.tool work again on Python 3 and add tests.
  Initial patch by Berker Peksag and Serhiy Storchaka.
 - Issue #13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 What's New in Python 3.3.0?
 ===========================
@ -1306,18 +1306,12 @@ Library
 - Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using `multiprocessing`
  on Windows without the ``if __name__ == '__main__'`` idiom.
 IDLE
 ----
 - Issue #15678: Fix IDLE menus when started from OS X command line (3.3.0b2
  regression).
 C API
 -----
 Extension Modules
 -----------------
 Tools/Demos
 -----------
 Documentation
 -------------
@ -1484,9 +1478,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #15546: Fix handling of pathological input data in the peek() and
  read1() methods of the BZ2File, GzipFile and LZMAFile classes.
 - Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
  ended with ``\``.  Patch by Roger Serwy.
 - Issue #12655: Instead of requiring a custom type, `os.sched_getaffinity()` and
  `os.sched_setaffinity()` now use regular sets of integers to represent the
  CPUs a process is restricted to.
@ -1511,8 +1502,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #15364: Fix sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir') to be an absolute path.
 - Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
 - Issue #15413: `os.times()` had disappeared under Windows.
 - Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused `sys.getsizeof()` to
@ -1639,6 +1628,12 @@ Extension Modules
 - Issue #15194: Update libffi to the 3.0.11 release.
 IDLE
 ----
 - Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
  ended with ``\``.  Patch by Roger Serwy.
 Tools/Demos
 -----------
@ -1658,6 +1653,8 @@ Tools/Demos
 Documentation
 -------------
 - Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.
 - Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names.  Patch by
  Serhiy Storchaka.
@ -1762,14 +1759,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #11626: Add _SizeT functions to stable ABI.
 - Issue #15146: Add PyType_FromSpecWithBases. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
 - Issue #15142: Fix reference leak when deallocating instances of types
  created using PyType_FromSpec().
 - Issue #15042: Add PyState_AddModule and PyState_RemoveModule. Add version
  guard for Py_LIMITED_API additions. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
 - Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
  the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.
@ -1800,9 +1792,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #16305: Fix a segmentation fault occurring when interrupting
  math.factorial.
 - Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
  Patch by Roger Serwy.
 - Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
  for tkinter SimpleDialog.
@ -1821,14 +1810,8 @@ Library
 - Issue #15514: Correct __sizeof__ support for cpu_set.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
 - Issue #15187: Bugfix: remove temporary directories test_shutil was leaving
  behind.
 - Issue #15177: Added dir_fd parameter to os.fwalk().
 - Issue #15176: Clarified behavior, documentation, and implementation
  of os.listdir().
 - Issue #15061: Re-implemented hmac.compare_digest() in C to prevent further
  timing analysis and to support all buffer protocol aware objects as well as
  ASCII only str instances safely.
@ -1928,10 +1911,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #15006: Allow equality comparison between naive and aware
  time or datetime objects.
 - Issue #14982: Document that pkgutil's iteration functions require the
  non-standard iter_modules() method to be defined by an importer (something
  the importlib importers do not define).
 - Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
  between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
  MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.
@ -1999,9 +1978,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #14969: Better handling of exception chaining in contextlib.ExitStack
 - Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
  options.  Patch by Roger Serwy.
 - Issue #14963: Convert contextlib.ExitStack.__exit__ to use an iterative
  algorithm (Patch by Alon Horev)
@ -2014,6 +1990,11 @@ Library
 C-API
 -----
 - Issue #15146: Add PyType_FromSpecWithBases. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
 - Issue #15042: Add PyState_AddModule and PyState_RemoveModule. Add version
  guard for Py_LIMITED_API additions. Patch by Robin Schreiber.
 - Issue #13783: Inadvertent additions to the public C API in the PEP 380
  implementation have either been removed or marked as private interfaces.
@ -2022,9 +2003,25 @@ Extension Modules
 - Issue #15000: Support the "unique" x32 architecture in _posixsubprocess.c.
 IDLE
 ----
 - Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
  Patch by Roger Serwy.
 - Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
  options.  Patch by Roger Serwy.
 Documentation
 -------------
 - Issue #15176: Clarified behavior, documentation, and implementation
  of os.listdir().
 - Issue #14982: Document that pkgutil's iteration functions require the
  non-standard iter_modules() method to be defined by an importer (something
  the importlib importers do not define).
 - Issue #15081: Document PyState_FindModule.
  Patch by Robin Schreiber.
@ -2033,6 +2030,9 @@ Documentation
 Tests
 -----
 - Issue #15187: Bugfix: remove temporary directories test_shutil was leaving
  behind.
 - Issue #14769: test_capi now has SkipitemTest, which cleverly checks
  for "parity" between PyArg_ParseTuple() and the Python/getargs.c static
  function skipitem() for all possible "format units".
@ -2121,34 +2121,18 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #14700: Fix two broken and undefined-behaviour-inducing overflow checks
  in old-style string formatting.
 - Issue #14705: The PyArg_Parse() family of functions now support the 'p' format
  unit, which accepts a "boolean predicate" argument.  It converts any Python
  value into an integer--0 if it is "false", and 1 otherwise.
 Library
 -------
 - Issue #14690: Use monotonic clock instead of system clock in the sched,
  subprocess and trace modules.
 - Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and
  byte literals supported in Python 3.3.
 - Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
 - Issue #14443: Tell rpmbuild to use the correct version of Python in
  bdist_rpm. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
 - Issue #14929: Stop Idle 3.x from closing on Unicode decode errors when
  grepping. Patch by Roger Serwy.
 - Issue #12515: email now registers a defect if it gets to EOF while parsing
  a MIME part without seeing the closing MIME boundary.
 - Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
  Other tooltipss have been corrected or improved and the number of tests
  has been tripled. Original patch by Roger Serwy.
 - Issue #1672568: email now always decodes base64 payloads, adding padding and
  ignoring non-base64-alphabet characters if needed, and registering defects
  for any such problems.
@ -2182,9 +2166,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #14548: Make multiprocessing finalizers check pid before
  running to cope with possibility of gc running just after fork.
 - Issue #14863: Update the documentation of os.fdopen() to reflect the
  fact that it's only a thin wrapper around open() anymore.
 - Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
  not go in illegal range and returns None.
@ -2311,6 +2292,21 @@ Library
 - Issue #14127 and #10148: shutil.copystat now preserves exact mtime and atime
  on filesystems providing nanosecond resolution.
 IDLE
 ----
 - Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and
  byte literals supported in Python 3.3.
 - Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
 - Issue #14929: Stop IDLE 3.x from closing on Unicode decode errors when
  grepping. Patch by Roger Serwy.
 - Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes IDLE.
  Other tooltipss have been corrected or improved and the number of tests
  has been tripled. Original patch by Roger Serwy.
 Tools/Demos
 -----------
@ -2329,9 +2325,19 @@ Build
 - Issue #13210: Windows build now uses VS2010, ported from VS2008.
 C-API
 -----
 - Issue #14705: The PyArg_Parse() family of functions now support the 'p' format
  unit, which accepts a "boolean predicate" argument.  It converts any Python
  value into an integer--0 if it is "false", and 1 otherwise.
 Documentation
 -------------
 - Issue #14863: Update the documentation of os.fdopen() to reflect the
  fact that it's only a thin wrapper around open() anymore.
 - Issue #14588: The language reference now accurately documents the Python 3
  class definition process. Patch by Nick Coghlan.
@ -2380,9 +2386,6 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #14339: Speed improvements to bin, oct and hex functions.  Patch by
  Serhiy Storchaka.
 - Issue #14098: New functions PyErr_GetExcInfo and PyErr_SetExcInfo.
  Patch by Stefan Behnel.
 - Issue #14385: It is now possible to use a custom type for the __builtins__
  namespace, instead of a dict. It can be used for sandboxing for example.
  Raise also a NameError instead of ImportError if __build_class__ name if not
@ -2532,12 +2535,6 @@ Library
 - Don't Py_DECREF NULL variable in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder.
 - Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
  Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.
 - Issue #14496: Fix wrong name in idlelib/tabbedpages.py.
  Patch by Popa Claudiu.
 - Issue #3033: Add displayof parameter to tkinter font. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
 - Issue #14482: Raise a ValueError, not a NameError, when trying to create
@ -2573,6 +2570,15 @@ Tests
 - Issue #14355: Regrtest now supports the standard unittest test loading, and
  will use it if a test file contains no `test_main` method.
 IDLE
 ----
 - Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
  Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.
 - Issue #14496: Fix wrong name in idlelib/tabbedpages.py.
  Patch by Popa Claudiu.
 Tools / Demos
 -------------
@ -2582,6 +2588,12 @@ Tools / Demos
 - Issue #13165: stringbench is now available in the Tools/stringbench folder.
  It used to live in its own SVN project.
 C-API
 -----
 - Issue #14098: New functions PyErr_GetExcInfo and PyErr_SetExcInfo.
  Patch by Stefan Behnel.
 What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 2?
 ===================================
@ -2633,16 +2645,9 @@ Library
 - Issue #5136: deprecate old, unused functions from tkinter.
 - Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
  when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
  has to use the built-in default key bindings.
  There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
 - Issue #14416: syslog now defines the LOG_ODELAY and LOG_AUTHPRIV constants
  if they are defined in <syslog.h>.
 - IDLE can be launched as python -m idlelib
 - Issue #14295: Add unittest.mock
 - Issue #7652: Add --with-system-libmpdec option to configure for linking
@ -2668,9 +2673,6 @@ Library
  up the decimal module. Performance gains of the new C implementation are
  between 10x and 100x, depending on the application.
 - Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
  (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
 - Issue #14269: SMTPD now conforms to the RFC and requires a HELO command
  before MAIL, RCPT, or DATA.
@ -2702,8 +2704,6 @@ Library
  denial of service due to hash collisions.  Patch by David Malcolm with some
  modifications by the expat project.
 - Issue #14200: Idle shell crash on printing non-BMP unicode character.
 - Issue #12818: format address no longer needlessly \ escapes ()s in names when
  the name ends up being quoted.
@ -2719,8 +2719,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #989712: Support using Tk without a mainloop.
 - Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
 - Issue #3835: Refuse to use unthreaded Tcl in threaded Python.
 - Issue #2843: Add new Tk API to Tkinter.
@ -2949,10 +2947,6 @@ Core and Builtins
  on POSIX systems supporting anonymous memory mappings.  Patch by
  Charles-François Natali.
 - Issue #13452: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() doesn't support error handlers
  different than "strict" anymore. The caller was unable to compute the
  size of the output buffer: it depends on the error handler.
 - PEP 3155 / issue #13448: Qualified name for classes and functions.
 - Issue #13436: Fix a bogus error message when an AST object was passed
@ -3043,10 +3037,6 @@ Core and Builtins
 - PEP 3151 / issue #12555: reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy.
 - Issue #13560: Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
  and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() functions to the C API to decode/encode from/to
  the current locale encoding.
 - Add internal API for static strings (_Py_identifier et al.).
 - Issue #13063: the Windows error ERROR_NO_DATA (numbered 232 and described
@ -3292,17 +3282,11 @@ Core and Builtins
  PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(unicode, "utf-8",
  NULL).
 - Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
 - Issue #10829: Refactor PyUnicode_FromFormat(), use the same function to parse
  the format string in the 3 steps, fix crashs on invalid format strings.
 - Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.
 - Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
  UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
  Patch written by Ray Allen.
 - Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with
  a buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.
@ -3312,9 +3296,6 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #11828: startswith and endswith now accept None as slice index.
  Patch by Torsten Becker.
 - Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
  narrow build.
 - Issue #11168: Remove filename debug variable from PyEval_EvalFrameEx().
  It encoded the Unicode filename to UTF-8, but the encoding fails on
  undecodable filename (on surrogate characters) which raises an unexpected
@ -3356,15 +3337,9 @@ Library
  are dead or dying.  Moreover, the implementation is now O(1) rather than
  O(n).
 - Issue #13125: Silence spurious test_lib2to3 output when in non-verbose mode.
  Patch by Mikhail Novikov.
 - Issue #11841: Fix comparison bug with 'rc' versions in packaging.version.
  Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
 - Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
  scripts found in the Tools directory.
 - Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
  on Windows.  Also fixed in packaging.
@ -3420,9 +3395,6 @@ Library
  authenticating (since the result may change, according to RFC 4643).
  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
 - Issue #13989: Document that GzipFile does not support text mode, and give a
  more helpful error message when opened with an invalid mode string.
 - Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
  Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
  Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
@ -3439,10 +3411,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments when
  strict=False.
 - Issue #13921: Undocument and clean up sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode,
  which is obsolete in Python 3.x. It's now aliased to str for
  backwards compatibility.
 - When '' is a path (e.g. in sys.path), make sure __file__ uses the current
  working directory instead of '' in importlib.
@ -3464,11 +3432,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
  raise a ProgrammingError now.
 - Issue #10881: Fix test_site failure with OS X framework builds.
 - Issue #964437: Make IDLE help window non-modal.
  Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
 - Issue #13734: Add os.fwalk(), a directory walking function yielding file
  descriptors.
@ -3478,16 +3441,8 @@ Library
 - Issue #11805: package_data in setup.cfg should allow more than one value.
 - Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
  module, like hashlib.  (Patch by Roger Serwy)
 - Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
 - Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.
 - Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
  Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
 - Issue #8828: Add new function os.replace(), for cross-platform renaming
  with overwriting.
@ -3508,12 +3463,6 @@ Library
  OSError if localtime() failed. time.clock() now raises a RuntimeError if the
  processor time used is not available or its value cannot be represented
 - Issue #13862: Fix spurious failure in test_zlib due to runtime/compile time
  minor versions not matching.
 - Issue #12804: Fix test_socket and test_urllib2net failures when running tests
  on a system without internet access.
 - Issue #13772: In os.symlink() under Windows, do not try to guess the link
  target's type (file or directory).  The detection was buggy and made the
  call non-atomic (therefore prone to race conditions).
@ -3540,9 +3489,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding ``user:password`` during Basic
  Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto.
 - Issue #13726: Fix the ambiguous -S flag in regrtest. It is -o/--slow for slow
  tests.
 - Issue #12364: Fix a hang in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
  The hang would occur when retrieving the result of a scheduled future after
  the executor had been shut down.
@ -3625,10 +3571,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #13591: A bug in importlib has been fixed that caused import_module
  to load a module twice.
 - Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint files,
  display a message popup and continue rather than crash.  Original patch by
  Roger Serwy.
 - Issue #13449 sched.scheduler.run() method has a new "blocking" parameter which
  when set to False makes run() execute the scheduled events due to expire
  soonest (if any) and then return.  Patch by Giampaolo Rodolà.
@ -3648,9 +3590,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #5905, #13560: time.strftime() is now using the current locale
  encoding, instead of UTF-8, if the wcsftime() function is not available.
 - Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
  Patch by Tal Einat.
 - Issue #13464: Add a readinto() method to http.client.HTTPResponse.  Patch
  by Jon Kuhn.
@ -3762,9 +3701,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
  when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
 - Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
  (Patch by Roger Serwy)
 - Fix the xmlrpc.client user agent to return something similar to
  urllib.request user agent: "Python-xmlrpc/3.3".
@ -3867,10 +3803,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #13034: When decoding some SSL certificates, the subjectAltName
  extension could be unreported.
 - Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
  with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
  (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
 - Issue #12306: Expose the runtime version of the zlib C library as a constant,
  ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION, in the zlib module. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.
@ -3899,8 +3831,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.
 - Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
 - Issue #12494: On error, call(), check_call(), check_output() and
  getstatusoutput() functions of the subprocess module now kill the process,
  read its status (to avoid zombis) and close pipes.
@ -3970,9 +3900,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #10087: Fix the html output format of the calendar module.
 - Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
  in os.kill().
 - Issue #13121: add support for inplace math operators to collections.Counter.
 - Add support for unary plus and unary minus to collections.Counter.
@ -4018,15 +3945,9 @@ Library
 - Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
  given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.
 - Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
  when opening a long file.  With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
 - Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscate)
  a ``Connection: close`` header.
 - Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
  with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
 - Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
 - Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup under Turkish locales.
@ -4325,9 +4246,6 @@ Library
  passing a ``context`` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
  Patch by Kasun Herath.
 - Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
  with Tk 8.5.
 - Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
  is set in shell.
@ -4347,10 +4265,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #9971: Write an optimized implementation of BufferedReader.readinto().
  Patch by John O'Connor.
 - Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
  With Tk < 8.5, PythonCmd() in _tkinter.c raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
  IDLE to exit.  Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
 - Issue #11799: urllib.request Authentication Handlers will raise a ValueError
  when presented with an unsupported Authentication Scheme. Patch contributed
  by Yuval Greenfield.
@ -4587,9 +4501,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi
 - Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
  Patch by Ben Hayden.
 - Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
  concurrent.futures.
@ -4642,8 +4553,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
  setup and teardown.
 - Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
 - Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
  the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.
@ -4676,9 +4585,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
  encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.
 - Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
  Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
 - Issue #11407: `TestCase.run` returns the result object used or created.
  Contributed by Janathan Hartley.
@ -4801,11 +4707,6 @@ Library
 - Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.
 - Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
 - Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
  their children.
 - Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.
 - Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.
@ -4858,10 +4759,61 @@ Build
 - Issue #11495: OSF support is eliminated. It was deprecated in Python 3.2.
 IDLE
 ----
 - Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
  when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
  has to use the built-in default key bindings.
  There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.
 - IDLE can be launched as python -m idlelib
 - Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
  (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)
 - Issue #14200: IDLE shell crash on printing non-BMP unicode character.
 - Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.
 - Issue #964437: Make IDLE help window non-modal.
  Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.
 - Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
  module, like hashlib.  (Patch by Roger Serwy)
 - Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
  Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.
 - Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint files,
  display a message popup and continue rather than crash.  Original patch by
  Roger Serwy.
 - Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
  Patch by Tal Einat.
 - Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
  (Patch by Roger Serwy)
 - Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
  with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
  (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)
 - Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.
 - Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
  in os.kill().
 - Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
  when opening a long file.  With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.
 - Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
  with Tk 8.5.
 - Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
  With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
  IDLE to exit.  Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().
 - Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
  file in a package.
@ -4957,6 +4909,33 @@ Extension Modules
 Tests
 -----
 - Issue #13125: Silence spurious test_lib2to3 output when in non-verbose mode.
  Patch by Mikhail Novikov.
 - Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
  scripts found in the Tools directory.
 - Issue #10881: Fix test_site failure with OS X framework builds.
 - Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.
 - Issue #13862: Fix spurious failure in test_zlib due to runtime/compile time
  minor versions not matching.
 - Issue #12804: Fix test_socket and test_urllib2net failures when running tests
  on a system without internet access.
 - Issue #13726: Fix the ambiguous -S flag in regrtest. It is -o/--slow for slow
  tests.
 - Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
  Patch by Ben Hayden.
 - Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage
 - Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
  Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.
 - Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test
 - Issue #13786: Remove unimplemented 'trace' long option from regrtest.py.
@ -5159,6 +5138,23 @@ Tests
 C-API
 -----
 - Issue #13452: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() doesn't support error handlers
  different than "strict" anymore. The caller was unable to compute the
  size of the output buffer: it depends on the error handler.
 - Issue #13560: Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
  and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() functions to the C API to decode/encode from/to
  the current locale encoding.
 - Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.
 - Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
  UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
  Patch written by Ray Allen.
 - Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
  narrow build.
 - Add PyObject_GenericGetDict and PyObject_GeneriSetDict. They are generic
  implementations for the getter and setter of a ``__dict__`` descriptor of C
  types.
@ -5184,6 +5180,21 @@ C-API
 Documentation
 -------------
 - Issue #13989: Document that GzipFile does not support text mode, and give a
  more helpful error message when opened with an invalid mode string.
 - Issue #13921: Undocument and clean up sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode,
  which is obsolete in Python 3.x. It's now aliased to str for
  backwards compatibility.
 - Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
  with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.
 - Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.
 - Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
  their children.
 - Issue #13498: Clarify docs of os.makedirs()'s exist_ok argument.  Done with
  great native-speaker help from R. David Murray.