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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.6rc1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.6rc1.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..bc21a34b1fd --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.6rc1.rst @@ -0,0 +1,885 @@ +.. bpo: 33786 +.. date: 2018-06-06-23-24-40 +.. nonce: lBvT8z +.. release date: 2018-06-11 +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix asynchronous generators to handle GeneratorExit in athrow() correctly + +.. + +.. bpo: 30654 +.. date: 2018-05-28-12-28-53 +.. nonce: 9fDJye +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fixed reset of the SIGINT handler to SIG_DFL on interpreter shutdown even +when there was a custom handler set previously. Patch by Philipp Kerling. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33622 +.. date: 2018-05-23-20-46-14 +.. nonce: xPucO9 +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fixed a leak when the garbage collector fails to add an object with the +``__del__`` method or referenced by it into the :data:`gc.garbage` list. +:c:func:`PyGC_Collect` can now be called when an exception is set and +preserves it. + +.. + +.. bpo: 31849 +.. date: 2018-05-14-11-00-00 +.. nonce: EmHaH4 +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix signed/unsigned comparison warning in pyhash.c. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33391 +.. date: 2018-05-02-08-36-03 +.. nonce: z4a7rb +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix a leak in set_symmetric_difference(). + +.. + +.. bpo: 28055 +.. date: 2018-04-25-20-44-42 +.. nonce: f49kfC +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix unaligned accesses in siphash24(). Patch by Rolf Eike Beer. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33231 +.. date: 2018-04-05-22-20-44 +.. nonce: 3Jmo0q +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix potential memory leak in ``normalizestring()``. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29922 +.. date: 2018-04-03-00-30-25 +.. nonce: CdLuMl +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Improved error messages in 'async with' when ``__aenter__()`` or +``__aexit__()`` return non-awaitable object. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33199 +.. date: 2018-04-02-09-32-40 +.. nonce: TPnxQu +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix ``ma_version_tag`` in dict implementation is uninitialized when copying +from key-sharing dict. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33041 +.. date: 2018-03-18-13-56-14 +.. nonce: XwPhI2 +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fixed jumping when the function contains an ``async for`` loop. + +.. + +.. bpo: 32282 +.. date: 2017-12-12-14-02-28 +.. nonce: xFVMTn +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix an unnecessary ifdef in the include of VersionHelpers.h in socketmodule +on Windows. + +.. + +.. bpo: 21983 +.. date: 2017-10-02-21-02-14 +.. nonce: UoC319 +.. section: Core and Builtins + +Fix a crash in `ctypes.cast()` in case the type argument is a ctypes +structured data type. Patch by Eryk Sun and Oren Milman. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30167 +.. date: 2018-06-10-19-29-17 +.. nonce: G5EgC5 +.. section: Library + +Prevent site.main() exception if PYTHONSTARTUP is set. Patch by Steve Weber. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33812 +.. date: 2018-06-10-13-26-02 +.. nonce: frGAOr +.. section: Library + +Datetime instance d with non-None tzinfo, but with d.tzinfo.utcoffset(d) +returning None is now treated as naive by the astimezone() method. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30805 +.. date: 2018-06-08-17-34-16 +.. nonce: 3qCWa0 +.. section: Library + +Avoid race condition with debug logging + +.. + +.. bpo: 33767 +.. date: 2018-06-03-22-41-59 +.. nonce: 2e82g3 +.. section: Library + +The concatenation (``+``) and repetition (``*``) sequence operations now +raise :exc:`TypeError` instead of :exc:`SystemError` when performed on +:class:`mmap.mmap` objects. Patch by Zackery Spytz. + +.. + +.. bpo: 32684 +.. date: 2018-05-29-12-51-18 +.. nonce: ZEIism +.. section: Library + +Fix gather to propagate cancellation of itself even with return_exceptions. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33674 +.. date: 2018-05-28-22-49-59 +.. nonce: 6LFFj7 +.. section: Library + +Fix a race condition in SSLProtocol.connection_made() of asyncio.sslproto: +start immediately the handshake instead of using call_soon(). Previously, +data_received() could be called before the handshake started, causing the +handshake to hang or fail. + +.. + +.. bpo: 31467 +.. date: 2018-05-28-18-40-26 +.. nonce: s4Fad3 +.. section: Library + +Fixed bug where calling write_eof() on a _SelectorSocketTransport after it's +already closed raises AttributeError. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33672 +.. date: 2018-05-28-17-45-06 +.. nonce: GM_Xm_ +.. section: Library + +Fix Task.__repr__ crash with Cython's bogus coroutines + +.. + +.. bpo: 33469 +.. date: 2018-05-28-15-55-12 +.. nonce: hmXBpY +.. section: Library + +Fix RuntimeError after closing loop that used run_in_executor + +.. + +.. bpo: 11874 +.. date: 2018-05-23-00-26-27 +.. nonce: glK5iP +.. section: Library + +Use a better regex when breaking usage into wrappable parts. Avoids bogus +assertion errors from custom metavar strings. + +.. + +.. bpo: 30877 +.. date: 2018-05-22-13-05-12 +.. nonce: JZEGjI +.. section: Library + +Fixed a bug in the Python implementation of the JSON decoder that prevented +the cache of parsed strings from clearing after finishing the decoding. +Based on patch by c-fos. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33548 +.. date: 2018-05-16-17-05-48 +.. nonce: xWslmx +.. section: Library + +tempfile._candidate_tempdir_list should consider common TEMP locations + +.. + +.. bpo: 33542 +.. date: 2018-05-16-09-30-27 +.. nonce: idNAcs +.. section: Library + +Prevent ``uuid.get_node`` from using a DUID instead of a MAC on Windows. +Patch by Zvi Effron + +.. + +.. bpo: 26819 +.. date: 2018-05-16-05-24-43 +.. nonce: taxbVT +.. section: Library + +Fix race condition with `ReadTransport.resume_reading` in Windows proactor +event loop. + +.. + +.. bpo: 28556 +.. date: 2018-05-10-14-51-19 +.. nonce: y3zK6I +.. section: Library + +Minor fixes in typing module: add annotations to ``NamedTuple.__new__``, +pass ``*args`` and ``**kwds`` in ``Generic.__new__``. Original PRs by +Paulius Šarka and Chad Dombrova. + +.. + +.. bpo: 20087 +.. date: 2018-05-05-18-02-24 +.. nonce: lJrvXL +.. section: Library + +Updated alias mapping with glibc 2.27 supported locales. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33422 +.. date: 2018-05-05-09-53-05 +.. nonce: 4FtQ0q +.. section: Library + +Fix trailing quotation marks getting deleted when looking up byte/string +literals on pydoc. Patch by Andrés Delfino. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33197 +.. date: 2018-04-29-23-56-20 +.. nonce: dgRLqr +.. section: Library + +Update error message when constructing invalid inspect.Parameters Patch by +Dong-hee Na. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33383 +.. date: 2018-04-29-11-15-38 +.. nonce: g32YWn +.. section: Library + +Fixed crash in the get() method of the :mod:`dbm.ndbm` database object when +it is called with a single argument. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33329 +.. date: 2018-04-23-13-21-39 +.. nonce: lQ-Eod +.. section: Library + +Fix multiprocessing regression on newer glibcs + +.. + +.. bpo: 991266 +.. date: 2018-04-21-00-24-08 +.. nonce: h93TP_ +.. section: Library + +Fix quoting of the ``Comment`` attribute of +:class:`http.cookies.SimpleCookie`. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33131 +.. date: 2018-04-20-10-43-17 +.. nonce: L2E977 +.. section: Library + +Upgrade bundled version of pip to 10.0.1. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33308 +.. date: 2018-04-18-19-12-25 +.. nonce: fW75xi +.. section: Library + +Fixed a crash in the :mod:`parser` module when converting an ST object to a +tree of tuples or lists with ``line_info=False`` and ``col_info=True``. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33263 +.. date: 2018-04-11-20-29-19 +.. nonce: B56Hc1 +.. section: Library + +Fix FD leak in `_SelectorSocketTransport` Patch by Vlad Starostin. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33256 +.. date: 2018-04-10-20-57-14 +.. nonce: ndHkqu +.. section: Library + +Fix display of ``<module>`` call in the html produced by ``cgitb.html()``. +Patch by Stéphane Blondon. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33203 +.. date: 2018-04-05-11-09-45 +.. nonce: Hje9Py +.. section: Library + +``random.Random.choice()`` now raises ``IndexError`` for empty sequences +consistently even when called from subclasses without a ``getrandbits()`` +implementation. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33224 +.. date: 2018-04-04-23-41-30 +.. nonce: pyR0jB +.. section: Library + +Update difflib.mdiff() for PEP 479. Convert an uncaught StopIteration in a +generator into a return-statement. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33209 +.. date: 2018-04-03-10-37-13 +.. nonce: 9sGWE_ +.. section: Library + +End framing at the end of C implementation of :func:`pickle.Pickler.dump`. + +.. + +.. bpo: 32861 +.. date: 2018-04-02-20-44-54 +.. nonce: HeBjzN +.. section: Library + +The urllib.robotparser's ``__str__`` representation now includes wildcard +entries and the "Crawl-delay" and "Request-rate" fields. Patch by Michael +Lazar. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33096 +.. date: 2018-03-25-13-18-16 +.. nonce: ofdbe7 +.. section: Library + +Allow ttk.Treeview.insert to insert iid that has a false boolean value. Note +iid=0 and iid=False would be same. Patch by Garvit Khatri. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33127 +.. date: 2018-03-24-15-08-24 +.. nonce: olJmHv +.. section: Library + +The ssl module now compiles with LibreSSL 2.7.1. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33021 +.. date: 2018-03-12-00-27-56 +.. nonce: m19B9T +.. section: Library + +Release the GIL during fstat() calls, avoiding hang of all threads when +calling mmap.mmap(), os.urandom(), and random.seed(). Patch by Nir Soffer. + +.. + +.. bpo: 27683 +.. date: 2018-03-07-22-28-17 +.. nonce: 572Rv4 +.. section: Library + +Fix a regression in :mod:`ipaddress` that result of :meth:`hosts` is empty +when the network is constructed by a tuple containing an integer mask and +only 1 bit left for addresses. + +.. + +.. bpo: 32844 +.. date: 2018-02-28-13-08-00 +.. nonce: u8tnAe +.. section: Library + +Fix wrong redirection of a low descriptor (0 or 1) to stderr in subprocess +if another low descriptor is closed. + +.. + +.. bpo: 31908 +.. date: 2017-10-31 +.. nonce: g4xh8x +.. section: Library + +Fix output of cover files for ``trace`` module command-line tool. Previously +emitted cover files only when ``--missing`` option was used. Patch by +Michael Selik. + +.. + +.. bpo: 31457 +.. date: 2017-10-18-19-05-17 +.. nonce: KlE6r8 +.. section: Library + +If nested log adapters are used, the inner ``process()`` methods are no +longer omitted. + +.. + +.. bpo: 16865 +.. date: 2017-09-29-16-40-38 +.. nonce: l-f6I_ +.. section: Library + +Support arrays >=2GiB in :mod:`ctypes`. Patch by Segev Finer. + +.. + +.. bpo: 31238 +.. date: 2017-08-21-12-31-53 +.. nonce: Gg0LRH +.. section: Library + +pydoc: the stop() method of the private ServerThread class now waits until +DocServer.serve_until_quit() completes and then explicitly sets its +docserver attribute to None to break a reference cycle. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33503 +.. date: 2018-05-14-20-08-58 +.. nonce: Wvt0qg +.. section: Documentation + +Fix broken pypi link + +.. + +.. bpo: 33421 +.. date: 2018-05-14-15-23-51 +.. nonce: 3GU_QO +.. section: Documentation + +Add missing documentation for ``typing.AsyncContextManager``. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33378 +.. date: 2018-04-29-04-02-18 +.. nonce: -anAHN +.. section: Documentation + +Add Korean language switcher for https://docs.python.org/3/ + +.. + +.. bpo: 33276 +.. date: 2018-04-20-14-09-36 +.. nonce: rA1z_3 +.. section: Documentation + +Clarify that the ``__path__`` attribute on modules cannot be just any value. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33201 +.. date: 2018-04-01-21-03-41 +.. nonce: aa8Lkl +.. section: Documentation + +Modernize documentation for writing C extension types. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33195 +.. date: 2018-04-01-14-30-36 +.. nonce: dRS-XX +.. section: Documentation + +Deprecate ``Py_UNICODE`` usage in ``c-api/arg`` document. ``Py_UNICODE`` +related APIs are deprecated since Python 3.3, but it is missed in the +document. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33126 +.. date: 2018-03-28-17-03-17 +.. nonce: 5UGkNv +.. section: Documentation + +Document PyBuffer_ToContiguous(). + +.. + +.. bpo: 27212 +.. date: 2018-03-22-19-23-04 +.. nonce: wrE5KR +.. section: Documentation + +Modify documentation for the :func:`islice` recipe to consume initial values +up to the start index. + +.. + +.. bpo: 28247 +.. date: 2018-03-20-20-11-05 +.. nonce: -V-WS- +.. section: Documentation + +Update :mod:`zipapp` documentation to describe how to make standalone +applications. + +.. + +.. bpo: 18802 +.. date: 2018-03-11-18-53-47 +.. nonce: JhAqH3 +.. section: Documentation + +Documentation changes for ipaddress. Patch by Jon Foster and Berker Peksag. + +.. + +.. bpo: 27428 +.. date: 2018-03-11-00-16-56 +.. nonce: B7A8FT +.. section: Documentation + +Update documentation to clarify that ``WindowsRegistryFinder`` implements +``MetaPathFinder``. (Patch by Himanshu Lakhara) + +.. + +.. bpo: 8243 +.. date: 2018-01-13-20-30-53 +.. nonce: s98r28 +.. section: Documentation + +Add a note about curses.addch and curses.addstr exception behavior when +writing outside a window, or pad. + +.. + +.. bpo: 31432 +.. date: 2017-09-13-07-14-59 +.. nonce: yAY4Z3 +.. section: Documentation + +Clarify meaning of CERT_NONE, CERT_OPTIONAL, and CERT_REQUIRED flags for +ssl.SSLContext.verify_mode. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33655 +.. date: 2018-05-26-16-01-40 +.. nonce: Frb4LA +.. section: Tests + +Ignore test_posix_fallocate failures on BSD platforms that might be due to +running on ZFS. + +.. + +.. bpo: 19417 +.. date: 2018-01-08-13-33-47 +.. nonce: 2asoXy +.. section: Tests + +Add test_bdb.py. + +.. + +.. bpo: 5755 +.. date: 2018-06-04-21-34-34 +.. nonce: 65GmCj +.. section: Build + +Move ``-Wstrict-prototypes`` option to ``CFLAGS_NODIST`` from ``OPT``. This +option emitted annoying warnings when building extension modules written in +C++. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33614 +.. date: 2018-05-28-11-40-22 +.. nonce: 28e0sE +.. section: Build + +Ensures module definition files for the stable ABI on Windows are correctly +regenerated. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33522 +.. date: 2018-05-15-12-44-50 +.. nonce: mJoNcA +.. section: Build + +Enable CI builds on Visual Studio Team Services at +https://python.visualstudio.com/cpython + +.. + +.. bpo: 33012 +.. date: 2018-05-10-21-10-01 +.. nonce: 5Zfjac +.. section: Build + +Add ``-Wno-cast-function-type`` for gcc 8 for silencing warnings about +function casts like casting to PyCFunction in method definition lists. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33394 +.. date: 2018-04-30-17-36-46 +.. nonce: _Vdi4t +.. section: Build + +Enable the verbose build for extension modules, when GNU make is passed +macros on the command line. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33184 +.. date: 2018-04-13-11-39-28 +.. nonce: aEohx0 +.. section: Windows + +Update Windows installer to OpenSSL 1.0.2o. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33184 +.. date: 2018-04-07-00-58-50 +.. nonce: rMTiqu +.. section: macOS + +Update macOS installer build to use OpenSSL 1.0.2o. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33656 +.. date: 2018-06-10-17-59-36 +.. nonce: 60ZqJS +.. section: IDLE + +On Windows, add API call saying that tk scales for DPI. On Windows 8.1+ or +10, with DPI compatibility properties of the Python binary unchanged, and a +monitor resolution greater than 96 DPI, this should make text and lines +sharper. It should otherwise have no effect. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33768 +.. date: 2018-06-04-19-23-11 +.. nonce: I_2qpV +.. section: IDLE + +Clicking on a context line moves that line to the top of the editor window. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33763 +.. date: 2018-06-03-20-12-57 +.. nonce: URiFlE +.. section: IDLE + +IDLE: Use read-only text widget for code context instead of label widget. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33664 +.. date: 2018-06-03-09-13-28 +.. nonce: PZzQyL +.. section: IDLE + +Scroll IDLE editor text by lines. Previously, the mouse wheel and scrollbar +slider moved text by a fixed number of pixels, resulting in partial lines at +the top of the editor box. The change also applies to the shell and grep +output windows, but not to read-only text views. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33679 +.. date: 2018-05-29-07-14-37 +.. nonce: MgX_Ui +.. section: IDLE + +Enable theme-specific color configuration for Code Context. Use the +Highlights tab to see the setting for built-in themes or add settings to +custom themes. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33642 +.. date: 2018-05-24-20-42-44 +.. nonce: J0VQbS +.. section: IDLE + +Display up to maxlines non-blank lines for Code Context. If there is no +current context, show a single blank line. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33628 +.. date: 2018-05-23-19-51-07 +.. nonce: sLlFLO +.. section: IDLE + +IDLE: Cleanup codecontext.py and its test. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33564 +.. date: 2018-05-17-19-41-12 +.. nonce: XzHZJe +.. section: IDLE + +IDLE's code context now recognizes async as a block opener. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29706 +.. date: 2018-05-15-17-01-10 +.. nonce: id4H5i +.. section: IDLE + +IDLE now colors async and await as keywords in 3.6. They become full +keywords in 3.7. + +.. + +.. bpo: 21474 +.. date: 2018-04-29-16-13-02 +.. nonce: bglg-F +.. section: IDLE + +Update word/identifier definition from ascii to unicode. In text and entry +boxes, this affects selection by double-click, movement left/right by +control-left/right, and deletion left/right by control-BACKSPACE/DEL. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33204 +.. date: 2018-04-02-00-28-13 +.. nonce: NBsuIv +.. section: IDLE + +IDLE: consistently color invalid string prefixes. A 'u' string prefix cannot +be paired with either 'r' or 'f'. Consistently color as much of the prefix, +starting at the right, as is valid. Revise and extend colorizer test. + +.. + +.. bpo: 32831 +.. date: 2018-02-12-08-08-45 +.. nonce: srDRvU +.. section: IDLE + +Add docstrings and tests for codecontext. + +.. + +.. bpo: 33189 +.. date: 2018-04-03-18-10-00 +.. nonce: QrXR00 +.. section: Tools/Demos + +:program:`pygettext.py` now recognizes only literal strings as docstrings +and translatable strings, and rejects bytes literals and f-string +expressions. + +.. + +.. bpo: 31920 +.. date: 2018-03-26-18-54-24 +.. nonce: u_WKsT +.. section: Tools/Demos + +Fixed handling directories as arguments in the ``pygettext`` script. Based +on patch by Oleg Krasnikov. + +.. + +.. bpo: 29673 +.. date: 2018-03-16-17-25-05 +.. nonce: m8QtaW +.. section: Tools/Demos + +Fix pystackv and pystack gdbinit macros. + +.. + +.. bpo: 32885 +.. date: 2018-02-20-12-16-47 +.. nonce: dL5x7C +.. section: Tools/Demos + +Add an ``-n`` flag for ``Tools/scripts/pathfix.py`` to disbale automatic +backup creation (files with ``~`` suffix). + +.. + +.. bpo: 31583 +.. date: 2017-09-26-10-11-21 +.. nonce: TM90_H +.. section: Tools/Demos + +Fix 2to3 for using with --add-suffix option but without --output-dir option +for relative path to files in current directory. + +.. + +.. bpo: 32374 +.. date: 2018-01-09-17-03-54 +.. nonce: SwwLoz +.. section: C API + +Document that m_traverse for multi-phase initialized modules can be called +with m_state=NULL, and add a sanity check |