From 97c36425322dd646470f187d8742dd644e40d425 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Victor Stinner Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:54:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] What's New in Python 3.4: more security changes --- Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 94b71c5b47d..c12c4bf52ab 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -143,6 +143,12 @@ Security improvements: (:pep:`456`). * :ref:`Make newly created file descriptors non-inheritable ` (:pep:`446`) to avoid leaking file descriptors to child processes. +* New command line option for :ref:`isolated mode `, + (:issue:`16499`). +* All modules of the standard library now support server certificate + verification including hostname matching (:func:`ssl.match_hostname`) and CRL + (Certificate Revocation list, see + :func:`ssl.SSLContext.load_verify_locations`). * A new :func:`hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac` function provides the `PKCS#5 password-based key derivation function 2 `_.