diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index 34e7cc09a6a..bbebe5b255e 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION        3
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION        13
 #define PY_MICRO_VERSION        0
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_BETA
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       4
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_GAMMA
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       1
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION              "3.13.0b4+"
+#define PY_VERSION              "3.13.0rc1"
 /*--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 35c3242bc33..27382ffee42 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Thu Jul 18 11:36:18 2024
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Wed Jul 31 20:10:37 2024
 # as part of the release process.
 topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
@@ -633,10 +633,10 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   '\n'
                   'Evaluation of a literal yields an object of the given type '
                   '(string,\n'
-                  'bytes, integer, floating point number, complex number) with '
+                  'bytes, integer, floating-point number, complex number) with '
                   'the given\n'
                   'value.  The value may be approximated in the case of '
-                  'floating point\n'
+                  'floating-point\n'
                   'and imaginary (complex) literals.  See section Literals for '
                   'details.\n'
                   '\n'
@@ -1307,8 +1307,8 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            'the first argument by the second.  The numeric arguments are '
            'first\n'
            'converted to a common type.  A zero right argument raises the\n'
-           '"ZeroDivisionError" exception.  The arguments may be floating '
-           'point\n'
+           '"ZeroDivisionError" exception.  The arguments may be '
+           'floating-point\n'
            'numbers, e.g., "3.14%0.7" equals "0.34" (since "3.14" equals '
            '"4*0.7 +\n'
            '0.34".)  The modulo operator always yields a result with the same '
@@ -1341,7 +1341,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '"divmod()"\n'
            'function are not defined for complex numbers.  Instead, convert to '
            'a\n'
-           'floating point number using the "abs()" function if appropriate.\n'
+           'floating-point number using the "abs()" function if appropriate.\n'
            '\n'
            'The "+" (addition) operator yields the sum of its arguments.  The\n'
            'arguments must either both be numbers or both be sequences of the '
@@ -4474,7 +4474,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                 'converted to\n'
                 '  complex;\n'
                 '\n'
-                '* otherwise, if either argument is a floating point number, '
+                '* otherwise, if either argument is a floating-point number, '
                 'the other\n'
                 '  is converted to floating point;\n'
                 '\n'
@@ -6587,10 +6587,10 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
               'that expression. (To create an empty tuple, use an empty pair '
               'of\n'
               'parentheses: "()".)\n',
- 'floating': 'Floating point literals\n'
+ 'floating': 'Floating-point literals\n'
              '***********************\n'
              '\n'
-             'Floating point literals are described by the following lexical\n'
+             'Floating-point literals are described by the following lexical\n'
              'definitions:\n'
              '\n'
              '   floatnumber   ::= pointfloat | exponentfloat\n'
@@ -6604,12 +6604,12 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
              'using\n'
              'radix 10. For example, "077e010" is legal, and denotes the same '
              'number\n'
-             'as "77e10". The allowed range of floating point literals is\n'
+             'as "77e10". The allowed range of floating-point literals is\n'
              'implementation-dependent.  As in integer literals, underscores '
              'are\n'
              'supported for digit grouping.\n'
              '\n'
-             'Some examples of floating point literals:\n'
+             'Some examples of floating-point literals:\n'
              '\n'
              '   3.14    10.    .001    1e100    3.14e-10    0e0    '
              '3.14_15_93\n'
@@ -6992,7 +6992,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   '\n'
                   'The "\'_\'" option signals the use of an underscore for a '
                   'thousands\n'
-                  'separator for floating point presentation types and for '
+                  'separator for floating-point presentation types and for '
                   'integer\n'
                   'presentation type "\'d\'".  For integer presentation types '
                   '"\'b\'", "\'o\'",\n'
@@ -7119,11 +7119,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   '\n'
                   'In addition to the above presentation types, integers can '
                   'be formatted\n'
-                  'with the floating point presentation types listed below '
+                  'with the floating-point presentation types listed below '
                   '(except "\'n\'"\n'
                   'and "None"). When doing so, "float()" is used to convert '
                   'the integer\n'
-                  'to a floating point number before formatting.\n'
+                  'to a floating-point number before formatting.\n'
                   '\n'
                   'The available presentation types for "float" and "Decimal" '
                   'values are:\n'
@@ -7981,11 +7981,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
               '\n'
               'An imaginary literal yields a complex number with a real part '
               'of 0.0.\n'
-              'Complex numbers are represented as a pair of floating point '
+              'Complex numbers are represented as a pair of floating-point '
               'numbers\n'
               'and have the same restrictions on their range.  To create a '
               'complex\n'
-              'number with a nonzero real part, add a floating point number to '
+              'number with a nonzero real part, add a floating-point number to '
               'it,\n'
               'e.g., "(3+4j)".  Some examples of imaginary literals:\n'
               '\n'
@@ -8782,8 +8782,8 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
  'numbers': 'Numeric literals\n'
             '****************\n'
             '\n'
-            'There are three types of numeric literals: integers, floating '
-            'point\n'
+            'There are three types of numeric literals: integers, '
+            'floating-point\n'
             'numbers, and imaginary numbers.  There are no complex literals\n'
             '(complex numbers can be formed by adding a real number and an\n'
             'imaginary number).\n'
@@ -13855,7 +13855,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
           '\n'
           '* A sign is shown only when the number is negative.\n'
           '\n'
-          'Python distinguishes between integers, floating point numbers, and\n'
+          'Python distinguishes between integers, floating-point numbers, and\n'
           'complex numbers:\n'
           '\n'
           '\n'
@@ -13900,28 +13900,28 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
           '"numbers.Real" ("float")\n'
           '------------------------\n'
           '\n'
-          'These represent machine-level double precision floating point '
+          'These represent machine-level double precision floating-point '
           'numbers.\n'
           'You are at the mercy of the underlying machine architecture (and C '
           'or\n'
           'Java implementation) for the accepted range and handling of '
           'overflow.\n'
-          'Python does not support single-precision floating point numbers; '
+          'Python does not support single-precision floating-point numbers; '
           'the\n'
           'savings in processor and memory usage that are usually the reason '
           'for\n'
           'using these are dwarfed by the overhead of using objects in Python, '
           'so\n'
           'there is no reason to complicate the language with two kinds of\n'
-          'floating point numbers.\n'
+          'floating-point numbers.\n'
           '\n'
           '\n'
           '"numbers.Complex" ("complex")\n'
           '-----------------------------\n'
           '\n'
           'These represent complex numbers as a pair of machine-level double\n'
-          'precision floating point numbers.  The same caveats apply as for\n'
-          'floating point numbers. The real and imaginary parts of a complex\n'
+          'precision floating-point numbers.  The same caveats apply as for\n'
+          'floating-point numbers. The real and imaginary parts of a complex\n'
           'number "z" can be retrieved through the read-only attributes '
           '"z.real"\n'
           'and "z.imag".\n'
@@ -14336,21 +14336,10 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
           'to\n'
           'calling "f(C,1)" where "f" is the underlying function.\n'
           '\n'
-          'Note that the transformation from function object to instance '
-          'method\n'
-          'object happens each time the attribute is retrieved from the '
-          'instance.\n'
-          'In some cases, a fruitful optimization is to assign the attribute '
-          'to a\n'
-          'local variable and call that local variable. Also notice that this\n'
-          'transformation only happens for user-defined functions; other '
-          'callable\n'
-          'objects (and all non-callable objects) are retrieved without\n'
-          'transformation.  It is also important to note that user-defined\n'
-          'functions which are attributes of a class instance are not '
-          'converted\n'
-          'to bound methods; this *only* happens when the function is an\n'
-          'attribute of the class.\n'
+          'It is important to note that user-defined functions which are\n'
+          'attributes of a class instance are not converted to bound methods;\n'
+          'this *only* happens when the function is an attribute of the '
+          'class.\n'
           '\n'
           '\n'
           'Generator functions\n'
@@ -16508,7 +16497,7 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
              '\n'
              '  * The linspace recipe shows how to implement a lazy version of '
              'range\n'
-             '    suitable for floating point applications.\n',
+             '    suitable for floating-point applications.\n',
  'typesseq-mutable': 'Mutable Sequence Types\n'
                      '**********************\n'
                      '\n'
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.13.0rc1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.13.0rc1.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..84e693e0616
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.13.0rc1.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,273 @@
+.. date: 2024-07-13-11-48-20
+.. gh-issue: 59022
+.. nonce: fYNbQ8
+.. release date: 2024-07-31
+.. section: Tests
+
+Add tests for :func:`pkgutil.extend_path`. Patch by Andreas Stocker.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-13-11-04-44
+.. gh-issue: 99242
+.. nonce: aGxnwz
+.. section: Tests
+
+:func:`os.getloadavg` may throw :exc:`OSError` when running regression tests
+under certain conditions (e.g. chroot). This error is now caught and
+ignored, since reporting load average is optional.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-22-13-11-28
+.. gh-issue: 122133
+.. nonce: 0mPeta
+.. section: Security
+
+Authenticate the socket connection for the ``socket.socketpair()`` fallback
+on platforms where ``AF_UNIX`` is not available like Windows.
+
+Patch by Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> and Seth Larson
+<seth@python.org>. Reported by Ellie <el@horse64.org>
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-18-13-17-47
+.. gh-issue: 121957
+.. nonce: QemKLU
+.. section: Security
+
+Fixed missing audit events around interactive use of Python, now also
+properly firing for ``python -i``, as well as for ``python -m asyncio``. The
+events in question are ``cpython.run_stdin`` and ``cpython.run_startup``.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-29-16-47-08
+.. gh-issue: 122400
+.. nonce: fM0YSv
+.. section: Library
+
+Handle :exc:`ValueError`\s raised by :func:`os.stat` in
+:class:`filecmp.dircmp` and :func:`filecmp.cmpfiles`. Patch by Bénédikt
+Tran.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-29-10-24-48
+.. gh-issue: 122311
+.. nonce: xChV1b
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix some error messages in :mod:`pickle`.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-26-21-21-13
+.. gh-issue: 122332
+.. nonce: fvw88r
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed segfault with :meth:`asyncio.Task.get_coro` when using an eager task
+factory.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-25-15-41-14
+.. gh-issue: 105733
+.. nonce: o3koJA
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`ctypes.ARRAY` is now :term:`soft deprecated`: it no longer emits
+deprecation warnings and is not scheduled for removal.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-24-09-29-55
+.. gh-issue: 122087
+.. nonce: FdBrWo
+.. section: Library
+
+Restore :func:`inspect.ismethoddescriptor` and :func:`inspect.isroutine`
+returning ``False`` for :class:`functools.partial` objects.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-23-15-30-23
+.. gh-issue: 122170
+.. nonce: Z9gi3Y
+.. section: Library
+
+Handle :exc:`ValueError`\s raised by :func:`os.stat` in :mod:`linecache`.
+Patch by Bénédikt Tran.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-23-09-14-44
+.. gh-issue: 82951
+.. nonce: -F5p5A
+.. section: Library
+
+Serializing objects with complex ``__qualname__`` (such as unbound methods
+and nested classes) by name no longer involves serializing parent objects by
+value in pickle protocols < 4.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-22-08-14-04
+.. gh-issue: 113785
+.. nonce: 6B_KNB
+.. section: Library
+
+:mod:`csv` now correctly parses numeric fields (when used with
+:const:`csv.QUOTE_NONNUMERIC` or :const:`csv.QUOTE_STRINGS`) which start
+with an escape character.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-21-18-03-30
+.. gh-issue: 122088
+.. nonce: vi2bP-
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`@warnings.deprecated <warnings.deprecated>` now copies the coroutine
+status of functions and methods so that :func:`inspect.iscoroutinefunction`
+returns the correct result.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-14-11-18-28
+.. gh-issue: 120930
+.. nonce: Kuo4L0
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed a bug introduced by gh-92081 that added an incorrect extra blank to
+encoded words occurring in wrapped headers.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-08-03-45-34
+.. gh-issue: 121474
+.. nonce: NsvrUN
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix missing sanity check for ``parties`` arg in :class:`threading.Barrier`
+constructor. Patch by Clinton Christian (pygeek).
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-06-09-19-53-11
+.. gh-issue: 120289
+.. nonce: s4HXR0
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed the use-after-free issue in :mod:`cProfile` by disallowing
+``disable()`` and ``clear()`` in external timers.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-30-18-02-55
+.. gh-issue: 122482
+.. nonce: TerE0g
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Change About IDLE to direct users to discuss.python.org instead of the now
+unused idle-dev email and mailing list.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-29-10-55-46
+.. gh-issue: 116090
+.. nonce: p1MhU0
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix an issue in JIT builds that prevented some :keyword:`for` loops from
+correctly firing :monitoring-event:`RAISE` monitoring events.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-26-21-26-33
+.. gh-issue: 122208
+.. nonce: z8KHsY
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Dictionary watchers now only deliver the PyDict_EVENT_ADDED event when the
+insertion is in a known good state to succeed.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-26-14-05-51
+.. gh-issue: 122300
+.. nonce: SVIF-l
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Preserve AST nodes for f-string with single-element format specifiers. Patch
+by Pablo Galindo
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-26-13-56-32
+.. gh-issue: 120906
+.. nonce: qBh2I9
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+:attr:`frame.f_locals` now supports arbitrary hashable objects as keys.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-21-01-23-54
+.. gh-issue: 122029
+.. nonce: gKv-e2
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Emit ``c_call`` events in :func:`sys.setprofile` when a ``PyMethodObject``
+pointing to a ``PyCFunction`` is called.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-19-15-28-05
+.. gh-issue: 122026
+.. nonce: sta2Ca
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a bug that caused the tokenizer to not correctly identify mismatched
+parentheses inside f-strings in some situations. Patch by Pablo Galindo
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-05-30-04-11-36
+.. gh-issue: 118934
+.. nonce: fbDqve
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Make ``PyEval_GetLocals`` return borrowed reference
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-30-23-48-26
+.. gh-issue: 116622
+.. nonce: yTTtil
+.. section: C API
+
+Make :any:`PyObject_Print` work around a bug in Android and OpenBSD which
+prevented it from throwing an exception when trying to write to a read-only
+stream.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-21-17-40-07
+.. gh-issue: 121489
+.. nonce: SUMFCr
+.. section: C API
+
+Export private :c:func:`!_PyBytes_Join` again.
+
+..
+
+.. date: 2024-07-18-07-53-07
+.. gh-issue: 120522
+.. nonce: dg3o5A
+.. section: Build
+
+Added a :option:`--with-app-store-compliance` option to patch out known
+issues with macOS/iOS App Store review processes.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2024-07-18-07-53-07.gh-issue-120522.dg3o5A.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2024-07-18-07-53-07.gh-issue-120522.dg3o5A.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index e90c625a886..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2024-07-18-07-53-07.gh-issue-120522.dg3o5A.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Added a :option:`--with-app-store-compliance` option to patch out known
-issues with macOS/iOS App Store review processes.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2024-07-21-17-40-07.gh-issue-121489.SUMFCr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2024-07-21-17-40-07.gh-issue-121489.SUMFCr.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c18a49c05d..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2024-07-21-17-40-07.gh-issue-121489.SUMFCr.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Export private :c:func:`!_PyBytes_Join` again.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2024-07-30-23-48-26.gh-issue-116622.yTTtil.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2024-07-30-23-48-26.gh-issue-116622.yTTtil.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ae0f83f37b..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2024-07-30-23-48-26.gh-issue-116622.yTTtil.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Make :any:`PyObject_Print` work around a bug in Android and OpenBSD which
-prevented it from throwing an exception when trying to write to a read-only
-stream.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-05-30-04-11-36.gh-issue-118934.fbDqve.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-05-30-04-11-36.gh-issue-118934.fbDqve.rst
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index 3087034fe45..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-05-30-04-11-36.gh-issue-118934.fbDqve.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Make ``PyEval_GetLocals`` return borrowed reference
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-07-19-15-28-05.gh-issue-122026.sta2Ca.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-07-19-15-28-05.gh-issue-122026.sta2Ca.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-07-19-15-28-05.gh-issue-122026.sta2Ca.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix a bug that caused the tokenizer to not correctly identify mismatched
-parentheses inside f-strings in some situations. Patch by Pablo Galindo
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-07-21-01-23-54.gh-issue-122029.gKv-e2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-07-21-01-23-54.gh-issue-122029.gKv-e2.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-07-21-01-23-54.gh-issue-122029.gKv-e2.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Emit ``c_call`` events in :func:`sys.setprofile` when a ``PyMethodObject`` pointing to a ``PyCFunction`` is called.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-07-26-14-05-51.gh-issue-122300.SVIF-l.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-07-26-14-05-51.gh-issue-122300.SVIF-l.rst
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index 6b58f89247d..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2024-07-26-14-05-51.gh-issue-122300.SVIF-l.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Preserve AST nodes for f-string with single-element format specifiers. Patch
-by Pablo Galindo
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-07-26-13-56-32.gh-issue-120906.qBh2I9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-07-26-13-56-32.gh-issue-120906.qBh2I9.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-07-26-13-56-32.gh-issue-120906.qBh2I9.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-:attr:`frame.f_locals` now supports arbitrary hashable objects as keys.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-07-26-21-26-33.gh-issue-122208.z8KHsY.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-07-26-21-26-33.gh-issue-122208.z8KHsY.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-07-26-21-26-33.gh-issue-122208.z8KHsY.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Dictionary watchers now only deliver the PyDict_EVENT_ADDED event when the insertion is in a known good state to succeed.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-07-29-10-55-46.gh-issue-116090.p1MhU0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-07-29-10-55-46.gh-issue-116090.p1MhU0.rst
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-Fix an issue in JIT builds that prevented some :keyword:`for` loops from
-correctly firing :monitoring-event:`RAISE` monitoring events.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2024-07-30-18-02-55.gh-issue-122482.TerE0g.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2024-07-30-18-02-55.gh-issue-122482.TerE0g.rst
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-Change About IDLE to direct users to discuss.python.org instead of the now
-unused idle-dev email and mailing list.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-06-09-19-53-11.gh-issue-120289.s4HXR0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-06-09-19-53-11.gh-issue-120289.s4HXR0.rst
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-Fixed the use-after-free issue in :mod:`cProfile` by disallowing
-``disable()`` and ``clear()`` in external timers.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-08-03-45-34.gh-issue-121474.NsvrUN.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-08-03-45-34.gh-issue-121474.NsvrUN.rst
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-Fix missing sanity check for ``parties`` arg in :class:`threading.Barrier`
-constructor. Patch by Clinton Christian (pygeek).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-14-11-18-28.gh-issue-120930.Kuo4L0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-14-11-18-28.gh-issue-120930.Kuo4L0.rst
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-Fixed a bug introduced by gh-92081 that added an incorrect extra
-blank to encoded words occurring in wrapped headers.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-21-18-03-30.gh-issue-122088.vi2bP-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-21-18-03-30.gh-issue-122088.vi2bP-.rst
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-:func:`@warnings.deprecated <warnings.deprecated>` now copies the
-coroutine status of functions and methods so that
-:func:`inspect.iscoroutinefunction` returns the correct result.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-22-08-14-04.gh-issue-113785.6B_KNB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-22-08-14-04.gh-issue-113785.6B_KNB.rst
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-:mod:`csv` now correctly parses numeric fields (when used with :const:`csv.QUOTE_NONNUMERIC` or :const:`csv.QUOTE_STRINGS`) which start with an escape character.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-23-09-14-44.gh-issue-82951.-F5p5A.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-23-09-14-44.gh-issue-82951.-F5p5A.rst
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-Serializing objects with complex ``__qualname__`` (such as unbound methods
-and nested classes) by name no longer involves serializing parent objects by
-value in pickle protocols < 4.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-23-15-30-23.gh-issue-122170.Z9gi3Y.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-23-15-30-23.gh-issue-122170.Z9gi3Y.rst
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-Handle :exc:`ValueError`\s raised by :func:`os.stat` in :mod:`linecache`.
-Patch by Bénédikt Tran.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-24-09-29-55.gh-issue-122087.FdBrWo.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-24-09-29-55.gh-issue-122087.FdBrWo.rst
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-Restore :func:`inspect.ismethoddescriptor` and :func:`inspect.isroutine`
-returning ``False`` for :class:`functools.partial` objects.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-25-15-41-14.gh-issue-105733.o3koJA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-25-15-41-14.gh-issue-105733.o3koJA.rst
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-:func:`ctypes.ARRAY` is now :term:`soft deprecated`: it no longer emits deprecation
-warnings and is not scheduled for removal.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-26-21-21-13.gh-issue-122332.fvw88r.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-26-21-21-13.gh-issue-122332.fvw88r.rst
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-Fixed segfault with :meth:`asyncio.Task.get_coro` when using an eager task
-factory.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-29-10-24-48.gh-issue-122311.xChV1b.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-29-10-24-48.gh-issue-122311.xChV1b.rst
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-Fix some error messages in :mod:`pickle`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-29-16-47-08.gh-issue-122400.fM0YSv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-07-29-16-47-08.gh-issue-122400.fM0YSv.rst
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-Handle :exc:`ValueError`\s raised by :func:`os.stat` in
-:class:`filecmp.dircmp` and :func:`filecmp.cmpfiles`.
-Patch by Bénédikt Tran.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2024-07-18-13-17-47.gh-issue-121957.QemKLU.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2024-07-18-13-17-47.gh-issue-121957.QemKLU.rst
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-Fixed missing audit events around interactive use of Python, now also
-properly firing for ``python -i``, as well as for ``python -m asyncio``. The
-events in question are ``cpython.run_stdin`` and ``cpython.run_startup``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2024-07-22-13-11-28.gh-issue-122133.0mPeta.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2024-07-22-13-11-28.gh-issue-122133.0mPeta.rst
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-Authenticate the socket connection for the ``socket.socketpair()`` fallback
-on platforms where ``AF_UNIX`` is not available like Windows.
-
-Patch by Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> and Seth Larson <seth@python.org>. Reported by Ellie
-<el@horse64.org>
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2024-07-13-11-04-44.gh-issue-99242.aGxnwz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2024-07-13-11-04-44.gh-issue-99242.aGxnwz.rst
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-:func:`os.getloadavg` may throw :exc:`OSError` when running regression tests
-under certain conditions (e.g. chroot). This error is now caught and
-ignored, since reporting load average is optional.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2024-07-13-11-48-20.gh-issue-59022.fYNbQ8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2024-07-13-11-48-20.gh-issue-59022.fYNbQ8.rst
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-Add tests for :func:`pkgutil.extend_path`. Patch by Andreas Stocker.
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-This is Python version 3.13.0 beta 4
-====================================
+This is Python version 3.13.0 release candidate 1
+=================================================
 
 .. image:: https://github.com/python/cpython/workflows/Tests/badge.svg
    :alt: CPython build status on GitHub Actions