cpython/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a2.rst

.. bpo: 42103
.. date: 2020-10-23-19-19-30
.. nonce: cILT66
.. release date: 2020-11-03
.. section: Security

Prevented potential DoS attack via CPU and RAM exhaustion when processing
malformed Apple Property List files in binary format.

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.. bpo: 42051
.. date: 2020-10-19-10-56-27
.. nonce: EU_B7u
.. section: Security

The :mod:`plistlib` module no longer accepts entity declarations in XML
plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. This should not affect users as
entity declarations are not used in regular plist files.

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.. bpo: 42236
.. date: 2020-11-01-21-21-38
.. nonce: MPx-NK
.. section: Core and Builtins

If the ``nl_langinfo(CODESET)`` function returns an empty string, Python now
uses UTF-8 as the filesystem encoding. Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 42218
.. date: 2020-10-31-17-50-23
.. nonce: Dp_Z3v
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fixed a bug in the PEG parser that was causing crashes in debug mode. Now
errors are checked in left-recursive rules to avoid cases where such errors
do not get handled in time and appear as long-distance crashes in other
places.

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.. bpo: 42214
.. date: 2020-10-30-22-16-30
.. nonce: lXskM_
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fixed a possible crash in the PEG parser when checking for the '!=' token in
the ``barry_as_flufl`` rule. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

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.. bpo: 42206
.. date: 2020-10-30-13-11-01
.. nonce: xxssR8
.. section: Core and Builtins

Propagate and raise the errors caused by :c:func:`PyAST_Validate` in the
parser.

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.. bpo: 41796
.. date: 2020-10-29-12-49-08
.. nonce: tkGdHq
.. section: Core and Builtins

The :mod:`ast` module internal state is now per interpreter. Patch by Victor
Stinner.

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.. bpo: 42143
.. date: 2020-10-27-21-34-05
.. nonce: N6KXUO
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix handling of errors during creation of ``PyFunctionObject``, which
resulted in operations on uninitialized memory. Patch by Yonatan
Goldschmidt.

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.. bpo: 41659
.. date: 2020-10-27-18-32-49
.. nonce: d4a-8o
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix a bug in the parser, where a curly brace following a `primary` didn't
fail immediately. This led to invalid expressions like `a {b}` to throw a
:exc:`SyntaxError` with a wrong offset, or invalid expressions ending with a
curly brace like `a {` to not fail immediately in the REPL.

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.. bpo: 42150
.. date: 2020-10-25-21-14-18
.. nonce: b70u_T
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix possible buffer overflow in the new parser when checking for
continuation lines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

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.. bpo: 42123
.. date: 2020-10-23-02-43-24
.. nonce: 64gJWC
.. section: Core and Builtins

Run the parser two times. On the first run, disable all the rules that only
generate better error messages to gain performance. If there's a parse
failure, run the parser a second time with those enabled.

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.. bpo: 42093
.. date: 2020-10-20-04-24-07
.. nonce: ooZZNh
.. section: Core and Builtins

The ``LOAD_ATTR`` instruction now uses new "per opcode cache" mechanism and
it is about 36% faster now. Patch by Pablo Galindo and Yury Selivanov.

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.. bpo: 42030
.. date: 2020-10-15-21-55-32
.. nonce: PmU2CA
.. section: Core and Builtins

Support for the legacy AIX-specific shared library loading support has been
removed. All versions of AIX since 4.3 have supported and defaulted to using
the common Unix mechanism instead.

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.. bpo: 41984
.. date: 2020-10-14-16-19-43
.. nonce: SEtKMr
.. section: Core and Builtins

The garbage collector now tracks all user-defined classes. Patch by Brandt
Bucher.

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.. bpo: 41993
.. date: 2020-10-10-13-53-52
.. nonce: YMzixQ
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fixed potential issues with removing not completely initialized module from
``sys.modules`` when import fails.

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.. bpo: 41979
.. date: 2020-10-09-10-55-50
.. nonce: ImXIk2
.. section: Core and Builtins

Star-unpacking is now allowed for with item's targets in the PEG parser.

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.. bpo: 41974
.. date: 2020-10-08-09-58-19
.. nonce: 8B-q8O
.. section: Core and Builtins

Removed special methods ``__int__``, ``__float__``, ``__floordiv__``,
``__mod__``, ``__divmod__``, ``__rfloordiv__``, ``__rmod__`` and
``__rdivmod__`` of the :class:`complex` class.  They always raised a
:exc:`TypeError`.

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.. bpo: 41902
.. date: 2020-10-02-13-32-05
.. nonce: ZKTxzW
.. section: Core and Builtins

Micro optimization when compute :c:member:`~PySequenceMethods.sq_item` and
:c:member:`~PyMappingMethods.mp_subscript` of :class:`range`. Patch by
Dong-hee Na.

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.. bpo: 41894
.. date: 2020-10-02-11-35-33
.. nonce: ffmtOt
.. section: Core and Builtins

When loading a native module and a load failure occurs, prevent a possible
UnicodeDecodeError when not running in a UTF-8 locale by decoding the load
error message using the current locale's encoding.

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.. bpo: 41902
.. date: 2020-10-01-22-44-23
.. nonce: iLoMVF
.. section: Core and Builtins

Micro optimization for range.index if step is 1. Patch by Dong-hee Na.

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.. bpo: 41435
.. date: 2020-08-07-13-42-48
.. nonce: qPWjJA
.. section: Core and Builtins

Add `sys._current_exceptions()` function to retrieve a dictionary mapping
each thread's identifier to the topmost exception currently active in that
thread at the time the function is called.

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.. bpo: 38605
.. date: 2020-05-27-16-08-16
.. nonce: rcs2uK
.. section: Core and Builtins

Enable ``from __future__ import annotations`` (:pep:`563`) by default. The
values found in :attr:`__annotations__` dicts are now strings, e.g. ``{"x":
"int"}`` instead of ``{"x": int}``.

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.. bpo: 35455
.. date: 2020-11-02-14-10-48
.. nonce: Q1xTIo
.. section: Library

On Solaris, :func:`~time.thread_time` is now implemented with
``gethrvtime()`` because ``clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID)`` is not
always available. Patch by Jakub Kulik.

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.. bpo: 42233
.. date: 2020-11-02-01-31-15
.. nonce: YxRj-h
.. section: Library

The :func:`repr` of :mod:`typing` types containing :ref:`Generic Alias Types
<types-genericalias>` previously did not show the parameterized types in the
``GenericAlias``.  They have now been changed to do so.

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.. bpo: 29566
.. date: 2020-10-31-13-28-36
.. nonce: 6aDbty
.. section: Library

``binhex.binhex()`` consistently writes macOS 9 line endings.

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.. bpo: 26789
.. date: 2020-10-31-01-16-49
.. nonce: 9BdNAt
.. section: Library

The :class:`logging.FileHandler` class now keeps a reference to the builtin
:func:`open` function to be able to open or reopen the file during Python
finalization. Fix errors like: ``NameError: name 'open' is not defined``.
Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 42157
.. date: 2020-10-26-23-29-16
.. nonce: 4wuwTe
.. section: Library

Removed the ``unicodedata.ucnhash_CAPI`` attribute which was an internal
PyCapsule object. The related private ``_PyUnicode_Name_CAPI`` structure was
moved to the internal C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 42157
.. date: 2020-10-26-19-08-07
.. nonce: Bdpa04
.. section: Library

Convert the :mod:`unicodedata` extension module to the multiphase
initialization API (:pep:`489`) and convert the ``unicodedata.UCD`` static
type to a heap type. Patch by Mohamed Koubaa and Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 42146
.. date: 2020-10-25-19-25-02
.. nonce: 6A8uvS
.. section: Library

Fix memory leak in :func:`subprocess.Popen` in case an uid (gid) specified
in `user` (`group`, `extra_groups`) overflows `uid_t` (`gid_t`).

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.. bpo: 42103
.. date: 2020-10-23-19-20-14
.. nonce: C5obK2
.. section: Library

:exc:`~plistlib.InvalidFileException` and :exc:`RecursionError` are now the
only errors caused by loading malformed binary Plist file (previously
ValueError and TypeError could be raised in some specific cases).

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.. bpo: 41490
.. date: 2020-10-23-08-54-47
.. nonce: -Yk6OD
.. section: Library

In ``importlib.resources``, ``.path`` method is more aggressive about
releasing handles to zipfile objects early, enabling use-cases like certifi
to leave the context open but delete the underlying zip file.

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.. bpo: 41052
.. date: 2020-10-21-23-45-02
.. nonce: 3N7J2J
.. section: Library

Pickling heap types implemented in C with protocols 0 and 1 raises now an
error instead of producing incorrect data.

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.. bpo: 42089
.. date: 2020-10-19-16-53-19
.. nonce: R1dthW
.. section: Library

In ``importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError``, make reference to the
package metadata being missing to improve the user experience.

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.. bpo: 41491
.. date: 2020-10-19-14-02-09
.. nonce: d1BUWH
.. section: Library

plistlib: fix parsing XML plists with hexadecimal integer values

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.. bpo: 42065
.. date: 2020-10-17-23-17-18
.. nonce: 85BsRA
.. section: Library

Fix an incorrectly formatted error from :meth:`_codecs.charmap_decode` when
called with a mapped value outside the range of valid Unicode code points.
PR by Max Bernstein.

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.. bpo: 41966
.. date: 2020-10-17-07-52-53
.. nonce: gwEQRZ
.. section: Library

Fix pickling pure Python :class:`datetime.time` subclasses. Patch by Dean
Inwood.

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.. bpo: 19270
.. date: 2020-10-16-22-48-01
.. nonce: jd_gkA
.. section: Library

:meth:`sched.scheduler.cancel()` will now cancel the correct event, if two
events with same priority are scheduled for the same time. Patch by Bar
Harel.

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.. bpo: 28660
.. date: 2020-10-16-16-08-04
.. nonce: eX9pvD
.. section: Library

:func:`textwrap.wrap` now attempts to break long words after hyphens when
``break_long_words=True`` and ``break_on_hyphens=True``.

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.. bpo: 35823
.. date: 2020-10-16-07-45-35
.. nonce: SNQo56
.. section: Library

Use ``vfork()`` instead of ``fork()`` for :func:`subprocess.Popen` on Linux
to improve performance in cases where it is deemed safe.

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.. bpo: 42043
.. date: 2020-10-15-17-20-37
.. nonce: OS0p_v
.. section: Library

Add support for ``zipfile.Path`` inheritance. ``zipfile.Path.is_file()`` now
returns False for non-existent names. ``zipfile.Path`` objects now expose a
``.filename`` attribute and rely on that to resolve ``.name`` and
``.parent`` when the ``Path`` object is at the root of the zipfile.

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.. bpo: 42021
.. date: 2020-10-12-21-21-24
.. nonce: 8yv_8-
.. section: Library

Fix possible ref leaks in :mod:`sqlite3` module init.

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.. bpo: 39101
.. date: 2020-10-11-21-43-03
.. nonce: -I49Pm
.. section: Library

Fixed tests using IsolatedAsyncioTestCase from hanging on BaseExceptions.

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.. bpo: 41976
.. date: 2020-10-08-18-22-28
.. nonce: Svm0wb
.. section: Library

Fixed a bug that was causing :func:`ctypes.util.find_library` to return
``None`` when triying to locate a library in an environment when gcc>=9 is
available and ``ldconfig`` is not. Patch by Pablo Galindo

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.. bpo: 41943
.. date: 2020-10-07-18-36-03
.. nonce: Pt55fT
.. section: Library

Fix bug where TestCase.assertLogs doesn't correctly filter messages by
level.

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.. bpo: 41923
.. date: 2020-10-03-23-14-50
.. nonce: Buonw9
.. section: Library

Implement :pep:`613`, introducing :data:`typing.TypeAlias` annotation.

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.. bpo: 41905
.. date: 2020-10-01-21-11-03
.. nonce: _JpjR4
.. section: Library

A new function in abc: *update_abstractmethods* to re-calculate an abstract
class's abstract status. In addition, *dataclass* has been changed to call
this function.

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.. bpo: 23706
.. date: 2020-09-30-11-05-11
.. nonce: dHTGjF
.. section: Library

Added *newline* parameter to ``pathlib.Path.write_text()``.

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.. bpo: 41876
.. date: 2020-09-29-16-23-54
.. nonce: QicdDU
.. section: Library

Tkinter font class repr uses font name

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.. bpo: 41831
.. date: 2020-09-22-11-07-50
.. nonce: k-Eop_
.. section: Library

``str()`` for the ``type`` attribute of the ``tkinter.Event`` object always
returns now the numeric code returned by Tk instead of the name of the event
type.

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.. bpo: 39337
.. date: 2020-09-13-02-02-18
.. nonce: L3NXTt
.. section: Library

:func:`encodings.normalize_encoding` now ignores non-ASCII characters.

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.. bpo: 41747
.. date: 2020-09-08-23-41-29
.. nonce: M6wLKv
.. section: Library

Ensure all methods that generated from :func:`dataclasses.dataclass` objects
now have the proper ``__qualname__`` attribute referring to the class they
belong to. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.

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.. bpo: 30681
.. date: 2020-09-04-17-33-04
.. nonce: LR4fnY
.. section: Library

Handle exceptions caused by unparsable date headers when using email
"default" policy.  Patch by Tim Bell, Georges Toth

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.. bpo: 41586
.. date: 2020-08-19-08-32-13
.. nonce: IYjmjK
.. section: Library

Add F_SETPIPE_SZ and F_GETPIPE_SZ to fcntl module. Allow setting pipesize on
subprocess.Popen.

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.. bpo: 41229
.. date: 2020-07-19-20-10-41
.. nonce: p8rJa2
.. section: Library

Add ``contextlib.aclosing`` for deterministic cleanup of async generators
which is analogous to ``contextlib.closing`` for non-async generators. Patch
by Joongi Kim and John Belmonte.

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.. bpo: 16396
.. date: 2020-07-08-09-45-00
.. nonce: z8o8Pn
.. section: Library

Allow ``ctypes.wintypes`` to be imported on non-Windows systems.

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.. bpo: 4356
.. date: 2020-05-31-10-48-47
.. nonce: P8kXqp
.. section: Library

Add a key function to the bisect module.

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.. bpo: 40592
.. date: 2020-05-14-16-01-34
.. nonce: Cmk855
.. section: Library

:func:`shutil.which` now ignores empty entries in :envvar:`PATHEXT` instead
of treating them as a match.

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.. bpo: 40492
.. date: 2020-05-04-12-16-00
.. nonce: ONk9Na
.. section: Library

Fix ``--outfile`` for :mod:`cProfile` / :mod:`profile` not writing the
output file in the original directory when the program being profiled
changes the working directory.  PR by Anthony Sottile.

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.. bpo: 34204
.. date: 2020-04-21-17-18-33
.. nonce: 9wXTtY
.. section: Library

The :mod:`shelve` module now uses :data:`pickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL` by default
instead of :mod:`pickle` protocol ``3``.

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.. bpo: 27321
.. date: 2020-01-19-18-40-26
.. nonce: 8e6SpM
.. section: Library

Fixed KeyError exception when flattening an email to a string attempts to
replace a non-existent Content-Transfer-Encoding header.

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.. bpo: 38976
.. date: 2019-12-05-05-22-49
.. nonce: 5MG7Uu
.. section: Library

The :mod:`http.cookiejar` module now supports the parsing of cookies in
CURL-style cookiejar files through MozillaCookieJar on all platforms.
Previously, such cookie entries would be silently ignored when loading a
cookiejar with such entries.

Additionally, the HTTP Only attribute is persisted in the object, and will
be correctly written to file if the MozillaCookieJar object is subsequently
dumped.

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.. bpo: 42061
.. date: 2020-10-28-21-39-45
.. nonce: _x-0sg
.. section: Documentation

Document __format__ functionality for IP addresses.

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.. bpo: 41910
.. date: 2020-10-21-14-40-54
.. nonce: CzBMit
.. section: Documentation

Document the default implementation of `object.__eq__`.

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.. bpo: 42010
.. date: 2020-10-21-02-21-14
.. nonce: 76vJ0u
.. section: Documentation

Clarify that subscription expressions are also valid for certain
:term:`classes <class>` and :term:`types <type>` in the standard library,
and for user-defined classes and types if the classmethod
:meth:`__class_getitem__` is provided.

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.. bpo: 41805
.. date: 2020-10-10-01-36-37
.. nonce: l-CGv5
.. section: Documentation

Documented :ref:`generic alias type <types-genericalias>` and
:data:`types.GenericAlias`. Also added an entry in glossary for
:term:`generic types <generic type>`.

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.. bpo: 39693
.. date: 2020-02-24-09-02-05
.. nonce: QXw0Fm
.. section: Documentation

Fix tarfile's extractfile documentation

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.. bpo: 39416
.. date: 2020-01-22-05-14-53
.. nonce: uYjhEm
.. section: Documentation

Document some restrictions on the default string representations of numeric
classes.

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.. bpo: 41739
.. date: 2020-10-12-00-11-47
.. nonce: wSCc4K
.. section: Tests

Fix test_logging.test_race_between_set_target_and_flush(): the test now
waits until all threads complete to avoid leaking running threads.

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.. bpo: 41970
.. date: 2020-10-08-14-00-17
.. nonce: aZ8QFf
.. section: Tests

Avoid a test failure in ``test_lib2to3`` if the module has already imported
at the time the test executes. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

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.. bpo: 41944
.. date: 2020-10-05-17-43-46
.. nonce: rf1dYb
.. section: Tests

Tests for CJK codecs no longer call ``eval()`` on content received via HTTP.

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.. bpo: 41306
.. date: 2020-08-03-13-44-37
.. nonce: VDoWXI
.. section: Tests

Fixed a failure in ``test_tk.test_widgets.ScaleTest`` happening when
executing the test with Tk 8.6.10.

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.. bpo: 38980
.. date: 2020-10-21-18-31-54
.. nonce: xz7BNd
.. section: Build

Add ``-fno-semantic-interposition`` to both the compile and link line when
building with ``--enable-optimizations``. Patch by Victor Stinner and Pablo
Galindo.

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.. bpo: 38439
.. date: 2020-10-20-13-19-42
.. nonce: eMLi-t
.. section: Windows

Updates the icons for IDLE in the Windows Store package.

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.. bpo: 38252
.. date: 2020-10-18-18-43-45
.. nonce: 7Nlepg
.. section: Windows

Use 8-byte step to detect ASCII sequence in 64-bit Windows build.

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.. bpo: 39107
.. date: 2020-09-24-23-09-40
.. nonce: GbUZvD
.. section: Windows

Update Tcl and Tk to 8.6.10 in Windows installer.

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.. bpo: 41557
.. date: 2020-08-26-09-35-06
.. nonce: vt00cQ
.. section: Windows

Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.33.0.

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.. bpo: 38324
.. date: 2020-05-30-02-46-43
.. nonce: 476M-5
.. section: Windows

Avoid Unicode errors when accessing certain locale data on Windows.

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.. bpo: 41471
.. date: 2020-10-19-12-25-19
.. nonce: gwA7un
.. section: macOS

Ignore invalid prefix lengths in system proxy excludes.

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.. bpo: 33987
.. date: 2020-10-24-21-27-37
.. nonce: fIh9JL
.. section: IDLE

Mostly finish using ttk widgets, mainly for editor, settings, and searches.
Some patches by Mark Roseman.

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.. bpo: 40511
.. date: 2020-06-16-12-16-13
.. nonce: XkihpM
.. section: IDLE

Typing opening and closing parentheses inside the parentheses of a function
call will no longer cause unnecessary "flashing" off and on of an existing
open call-tip, e.g. when typed in a string literal.

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.. bpo: 38439
.. date: 2020-04-22-09-37-40
.. nonce: ieXL-c
.. section: IDLE

Add a 256×256 pixel IDLE icon to the Windows .ico file. Created by Andrew
Clover. Remove the low-color gif variations from the .ico file.

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.. bpo: 42157
.. date: 2020-10-16-10-47-17
.. nonce: e3BcPM
.. section: C API

The private ``_PyUnicode_Name_CAPI`` structure of the PyCapsule API
``unicodedata.ucnhash_CAPI`` has been moved to the internal C API. Patch by
Victor Stinner.

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.. bpo: 42015
.. date: 2020-10-12-20-13-58
.. nonce: X4H2_V
.. section: C API

Fix potential crash in deallocating method objects when dynamically
allocated `PyMethodDef`'s lifetime is managed through the ``self`` argument
of a `PyCFunction`.

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.. bpo: 40423
.. date: 2020-10-11-19-17-44
.. nonce: GsmgEj
.. section: C API

The :mod:`subprocess` module and ``os.closerange`` will now use the
``close_range(low, high, flags)`` syscall when it is available for more
efficient closing of ranges of descriptors.

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.. bpo: 41845
.. date: 2020-10-11-05-05-53
.. nonce: ZFvuQM
.. section: C API

:c:func:`PyObject_GenericGetDict` is available again in the limited API when
targeting 3.10 or later.

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.. bpo: 40422
.. date: 2020-10-10-14-05-24
.. nonce: sh8IDY
.. section: C API

Add `_Py_closerange` function to provide performant closing of a range of
file descriptors.

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.. bpo: 41986
.. date: 2020-10-09-22-50-46
.. nonce: JUPE59
.. section: C API

:c:data:`Py_FileSystemDefaultEncodeErrors` and :c:data:`Py_UTF8Mode` are
available again in limited API.

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.. bpo: 41756
.. date: 2020-09-28-14-31-07
.. nonce: ZZ5wJG
.. section: C API

Add `PyIter_Send` function to allow sending value into
generator/coroutine/iterator without raising StopIteration exception to
signal return.

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.. bpo: 41784
.. date: 2020-09-14-10-17-00
.. nonce: Yl4gI2
.. section: C API

Added ``PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize`` to the limited C API.