cpython/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0b3.rst

.. bpo: 33136
.. date: 2018-03-25-12-05-43
.. nonce: TzSN4x
.. release date: 2018-03-29
.. section: Security

Harden ssl module against LibreSSL CVE-2018-8970.
X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_host() is called with an explicit namelen. A new test
ensures that NULL bytes are not allowed.

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.. bpo: 33001
.. date: 2018-03-05-10-09-51
.. nonce: elj4Aa
.. section: Security

Minimal fix to prevent buffer overrun in os.symlink on Windows

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.. bpo: 32981
.. date: 2018-03-02-10-24-52
.. nonce: O_qDyj
.. section: Security

Regexes in difflib and poplib were vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking.
These regexes formed potential DOS vectors (REDOS). They have been
refactored. This resolves CVE-2018-1060 and CVE-2018-1061. Patch by Jamie
Davis.

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.. bpo: 33053
.. date: 2018-03-25-19-49-06
.. nonce: V3xlsH
.. section: Core and Builtins

When using the -m switch, sys.path[0] is now explicitly expanded as the
*starting* working directory, rather than being left as the empty path
(which allows imports from the current working directory at the time of the
import)

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.. bpo: 33018
.. date: 2018-03-22-23-09-06
.. nonce: 0ncEJV
.. section: Core and Builtins

Improve consistency of errors raised by ``issubclass()`` when called with a
non-class and an abstract base class as the first and second arguments,
respectively. Patch by Josh Bronson.

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.. 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.

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.. bpo: 33026
.. date: 2018-03-08-09-48-38
.. nonce: QZA3Ba
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fixed jumping out of "with" block by setting f_lineno.

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.. bpo: 33005
.. date: 2018-03-06-12-19-19
.. nonce: LP-V2U
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix a crash on fork when using a custom memory allocator (ex: using
PYTHONMALLOC env var). _PyGILState_Reinit() and _PyInterpreterState_Enable()
now use the default RAW memory allocator to allocate a new interpreters
mutex on fork.

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.. bpo: 17288
.. date: 2018-02-27-13-36-21
.. nonce: Gdj24S
.. section: Core and Builtins

Prevent jumps from 'return' and 'exception' trace events.

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.. bpo: 32836
.. date: 2018-02-14-12-35-47
.. nonce: bThJnx
.. section: Core and Builtins

Don't use temporary variables in cases of list/dict/set comprehensions

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.. bpo: 33141
.. date: 2018-03-26-12-33-13
.. nonce: 23wlxf
.. section: Library

Have Field objects pass through __set_name__ to their default values, if
they have their own __set_name__.

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.. 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.

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.. bpo: 32873
.. date: 2018-03-24-19-54-48
.. nonce: cHyoAm
.. section: Library

Treat type variables and special typing forms as immutable by copy and
pickle.  This fixes several minor issues and inconsistencies, and improves
backwards compatibility with Python 3.6.

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.. bpo: 33134
.. date: 2018-03-24-19-34-26
.. nonce: hbVeIX
.. section: Library

When computing dataclass's __hash__, use the lookup table to contain the
function which returns the __hash__ value.  This is an improvement over
looking up a string, and then testing that string to see what to do.

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.. bpo: 33127
.. date: 2018-03-24-15-08-24
.. nonce: olJmHv
.. section: Library

The ssl module now compiles with LibreSSL 2.7.1.

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.. bpo: 32505
.. date: 2018-03-22-16-05-56
.. nonce: YK1N8v
.. section: Library

Raise TypeError if a member variable of a dataclass is of type Field, but
doesn't have a type annotation.

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.. bpo: 33078
.. date: 2018-03-21-17-59-39
.. nonce: PQOniT
.. section: Library

Fix the failure on OSX caused by the tests relying on sem_getvalue

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.. bpo: 33116
.. date: 2018-03-21-16-52-26
.. nonce: Tvzerj
.. section: Library

Add 'Field' to dataclasses.__all__.

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.. bpo: 32896
.. date: 2018-03-20-20-53-21
.. nonce: ewW3Ln
.. section: Library

Fix an error where subclassing a dataclass with a field that uses a
default_factory would generate an incorrect class.

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.. bpo: 33100
.. date: 2018-03-19-20-47-00
.. nonce: chyIO4
.. section: Library

Dataclasses: If a field has a default value that's a MemberDescriptorType,
then it's from that field being in __slots__, not an actual default value.

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.. bpo: 32953
.. date: 2018-03-18-17-38-48
.. nonce: t8WAWN
.. section: Library

If a non-dataclass inherits from a frozen dataclass, allow attributes to be
added to the derived class.  Only attributes from the frozen dataclass
cannot be assigned to.  Require all dataclasses in a hierarchy to be either
all frozen or all non-frozen.

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.. bpo: 33061
.. date: 2018-03-16-16-07-33
.. nonce: TRTTek
.. section: Library

Add missing ``NoReturn`` to ``__all__`` in typing.py

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.. bpo: 33078
.. date: 2018-03-15-07-38-00
.. nonce: RmjUF5
.. section: Library

Fix the size handling in multiprocessing.Queue when a pickling error occurs.

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.. bpo: 33064
.. date: 2018-03-12-19-58-25
.. nonce: LO2KIY
.. section: Library

lib2to3 now properly supports trailing commas after ``*args`` and
``**kwargs`` in function signatures.

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.. bpo: 33056
.. date: 2018-03-12-16-40-00
.. nonce: lNN9Eh
.. section: Library

FIX properly close leaking fds in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.

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.. 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.

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.. bpo: 31804
.. date: 2018-03-11-19-03-52
.. nonce: i8KUMp
.. section: Library

Avoid failing in multiprocessing.Process if the standard streams are closed
or None at exit.

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.. bpo: 33037
.. date: 2018-03-09-23-07-07
.. nonce: nAJ3at
.. section: Library

Skip sending/receiving data after SSL transport closing.

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.. 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.

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.. bpo: 32999
.. date: 2018-03-06-20-30-20
.. nonce: lgFXWl
.. section: Library

Fix C implementation of ``ABC.__subclasscheck__(cls, subclass)`` crashed when
``subclass`` is not a type object.

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.. bpo: 33009
.. date: 2018-03-06-11-54-59
.. nonce: -Ekysb
.. section: Library

Fix inspect.signature() for single-parameter partialmethods.

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.. bpo: 32969
.. date: 2018-03-06-00-19-41
.. nonce: rGTKa0
.. section: Library

Expose several missing constants in zlib and fix corresponding
documentation.

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.. bpo: 32056
.. date: 2018-03-01-17-49-56
.. nonce: IlpfgE
.. section: Library

Improved exceptions raised for invalid number of channels and sample width
when read an audio file in modules :mod:`!aifc`, :mod:`wave` and
:mod:`!sunau`.

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.. 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.

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.. bpo: 32857
.. date: 2018-02-16-14-37-14
.. nonce: -XljAx
.. section: Library

In :mod:`tkinter`, ``after_cancel(None)`` now raises a :exc:`ValueError`
instead of canceling the first scheduled function.  Patch by Cheryl Sabella.

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.. bpo: 31639
.. date: 2017-12-27-21-55-19
.. nonce: l3avDJ
.. section: Library

http.server now exposes a ThreadedHTTPServer class and uses it when the
module is run with ``-m`` to cope with web browsers pre-opening sockets.

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.. bpo: 27645
.. date: 2017-10-05-20-41-48
.. nonce: 1Y_Wag
.. section: Library

:class:`sqlite3.Connection` now exposes a
:class:`~sqlite3.Connection.backup` method, if the underlying SQLite library
is at version 3.6.11 or higher.  Patch by Lele Gaifax.

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.. bpo: 33126
.. date: 2018-03-28-17-03-17
.. nonce: 5UGkNv
.. section: Documentation

Document PyBuffer_ToContiguous().

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.. 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.

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.. 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.

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.. bpo: 18802
.. date: 2018-03-11-18-53-47
.. nonce: JhAqH3
.. section: Documentation

Documentation changes for ipaddress.  Patch by Jon Foster and Berker Peksag.

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.. 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)

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.. bpo: 32872
.. date: 2018-03-28-01-35-02
.. nonce: J5NDUj
.. section: Tests

Avoid regrtest compatibility issue with namespace packages.

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.. bpo: 32517
.. date: 2018-03-09-07-05-12
.. nonce: ugc1iW
.. section: Tests

Fix failing ``test_asyncio`` on macOS 10.12.2+ due to transport of
``KqueueSelector`` loop was not being closed.

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.. bpo: 19417
.. date: 2018-01-08-13-33-47
.. nonce: 2asoXy
.. section: Tests

Add test_bdb.py.

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.. bpo: 33163
.. date: 2018-03-28-04-15-03
.. nonce: hfpWuU
.. section: Build

Upgrade pip to 9.0.3 and setuptools to v39.0.1.

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.. bpo: 33016
.. date: 2018-03-07-01-33-33
.. nonce: Z_Med0
.. section: Windows

Fix potential use of uninitialized memory in nt._getfinalpathname

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.. bpo: 32903
.. date: 2018-02-28-11-03-24
.. nonce: 1SXY4t
.. section: Windows

Fix a memory leak in os.chdir() on Windows if the current directory is set
to a UNC path.

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.. bpo: 32726
.. date: 2018-03-29-06-56-12
.. nonce: urS9uX
.. section: macOS

Build and link with private copy of Tcl/Tk 8.6 for the macOS 10.6+
installer. The 10.9+ installer variant already does this.  This means that
the Python 3.7 provided by the python.org macOS installers no longer need or
use any external versions of Tcl/Tk, either system-provided or
user-installed, such as ActiveTcl.

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.. bpo: 32984
.. date: 2018-03-05-01-29-05
.. nonce: NGjgT4
.. section: IDLE

Set ``__file__`` while running a startup file.  Like Python, IDLE optionally
runs one startup file in the Shell window before presenting the first
interactive input prompt.  For IDLE, ``-s`` runs a file named in
environmental variable  :envvar:`IDLESTARTUP` or  :envvar:`PYTHONSTARTUP`;
``-r file`` runs ``file``.  Python sets ``__file__`` to the startup file
name before running the file and unsets it before the first prompt.  IDLE
now does the same when run normally, without the ``-n`` option.

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.. bpo: 32940
.. date: 2018-02-24-18-20-50
.. nonce: ZaJ1Rf
.. section: IDLE

Simplify and rename StringTranslatePseudoMapping in pyparse.

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.. bpo: 32885
.. date: 2018-02-20-12-16-47
.. nonce: dL5x7C
.. section: Tools/Demos

Add an ``-n`` flag for ``Tools/scripts/pathfix.py`` to disable automatic
backup creation (files with ``~`` suffix).

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.. bpo: 33042
.. date: 2018-03-20-21-43-09
.. nonce: FPFp64
.. section: C API

Embedding applications may once again call PySys_ResetWarnOptions,
PySys_AddWarnOption, and PySys_AddXOption prior to calling Py_Initialize.

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.. 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