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What's New in Python 3.4.3rc1?
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Release date: TBA

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #20335: bytes constructor now raises TypeError when encoding or errors
  is specified with non-string argument.  Based on patch by Renaud Blanch.

- Issue #22335: Fix crash when trying to enlarge a bytearray to 0x7fffffff
  bytes on a 32-bit platform.

- Issue #22653: Fix an assertion failure in debug mode when doing a reentrant
  dict insertion in debug mode.

- Issue #22643: Fix integer overflow in Unicode case operations (upper, lower,
  title, swapcase, casefold).

- Issue #22604: Fix assertion error in debug mode when dividing a complex
  number by (nan+0j).

- Issue #22470: Fixed integer overflow issues in "backslashreplace",
  "xmlcharrefreplace", and "surrogatepass" error handlers.

- Issue #22520: Fix overflow checking when generating the repr of a unicode
  object.

- Issue #22519: Fix overflow checking in PyBytes_Repr.

- Issue #22518: Fix integer overflow issues in latin-1 encoding.

Library
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- Issue #22966: Fix __pycache__ pyc file name clobber when pyc_compile is
  asked to compile a source file containing multiple dots in the source file
  name.

- Issue #21971: Update turtledemo doc and add module to the index.

- Issue #21032. Fixed socket leak if HTTPConnection.getresponse() fails.
  Original patch by Martin Panter.

- Issue #22960: Add a context argument to xmlrpclib.ServerProxy constructor.

- Issue #22915: SAX parser now supports files opened with file descriptor or
  bytes path.

- Issue #22609: Constructors and update methods of mapping classes in the
  collections module now accept the self keyword argument.

- Issue #22788: Add *context* parameter to logging.handlers.HTTPHandler.

- Issue #22921: Allow SSLContext to take the *hostname* parameter even if
  OpenSSL doesn't support SNI.

- Issue #22894: TestCase.subTest() would cause the test suite to be stopped
  when in failfast mode, even in the absence of failures.

- Issue #22638: SSLv3 is now disabled throughout the standard library.
  It can still be enabled by instantiating a SSLContext manually.

- Issue #22370: Windows detection in pathlib is now more robust.

- Issue #22841: Reject coroutines in asyncio add_signal_handler().
  Patch by Ludovic.Gasc.

- Issue #22849: Fix possible double free in the io.TextIOWrapper constructor.

- Issue #12728: Different Unicode characters having the same uppercase but
  different lowercase are now matched in case-insensitive regular expressions.

- Issue #22821: Fixed fcntl() with integer argument on 64-bit big-endian
  platforms.

- Issue #22406: Fixed the uu_codec codec incorrectly ported to 3.x.
  Based on patch by Martin Panter.

- Issue #17293: uuid.getnode() now determines MAC address on AIX using netstat.
  Based on patch by Aivars Kalvāns.

- Issue #22769: Fixed ttk.Treeview.tag_has() when called without arguments.

- Issue #22417: Verify certificates by default in httplib (PEP 476).

- Issue #22775: Fixed unpickling of http.cookies.SimpleCookie with protocol 2
  and above.  Patch by Tim Graham.

- Issue #22366: urllib.request.urlopen will accept a context object
  (SSLContext) as an argument which will then used be for HTTPS connection.
  Patch by Alex Gaynor.

- Issue #22776: Brought excluded code into the scope of a try block in
  SysLogHandler.emit().

- Issue #22665: Add missing get_terminal_size and SameFileError to
  shutil.__all__.

- Issue #17381: Fixed handling of case-insensitive ranges in regular
  expressions.

- Issue #22410: Module level functions in the re module now cache compiled
  locale-dependent regular expressions taking into account the locale.

- Issue #22759: Query methods on pathlib.Path() (exists(), is_dir(), etc.)
  now return False when the underlying stat call raises NotADirectoryError.

- Issue #8876: distutils now falls back to copying files when hard linking
  doesn't work.  This allows use with special filesystems such as VirtualBox
  shared folders.

- Issue #18853: Fixed ResourceWarning in shlex.__nain__.

- Issue #9351: Defaults set with set_defaults on an argparse subparser
  are no longer ignored when also set on the parent parser.

- Issue #21991: Make email.headerregistry's header 'params' attributes
  be read-only (MappingProxyType).  Previously the dictionary was modifiable
  but a new one was created on each access of the attribute.

- Issue #22641: In asyncio, the default SSL context for client connections
  is now created using ssl.create_default_context(), for stronger security.

- Issue #22435: Fix a file descriptor leak when SocketServer bind fails.

- Issue #13096: Fixed segfault in CTypes POINTER handling of large
  values.

- Issue #11694: Raise ConversionError in xdrlib as documented.  Patch
  by Filip Gruszczyński and Claudiu Popa.

- Issue #22462: Fix pyexpat's creation of a dummy frame to make it
  appear in exception tracebacks.

- Issue #21173: Fix len() on a WeakKeyDictionary when .clear() was called
  with an iterator alive.

- Issue #11866: Eliminated race condition in the computation of names
  for new threads.

- Issue #21905: Avoid RuntimeError in pickle.whichmodule() when sys.modules
  is mutated while iterating.  Patch by Olivier Grisel.

- Issue #22219: The zipfile module CLI now adds entries for directories
  (including empty directories) in ZIP file.

- Issue #22449: In the ssl.SSLContext.load_default_certs, consult the
  enviromental variables SSL_CERT_DIR and SSL_CERT_FILE on Windows.

- Issue #20076: Added non derived UTF-8 aliases to locale aliases table.

- Issue #20079: Added locales supported in glibc 2.18 to locale alias table.

- Issue #22396: On 32-bit AIX platform, don't expose os.posix_fadvise() nor
  os.posix_fallocate() because their prototypes in system headers are wrong.

- Issue #22517: When a io.BufferedRWPair object is deallocated, clear its
  weakrefs.

- Issue #22448: Improve canceled timer handles cleanup to prevent
  unbound memory usage. Patch by Joshua Moore-Oliva.

IDLE
----

- Issue #3068: Add Idle extension configuration dialog to Options menu.
  Changes are written to HOME/.idlerc/config-extensions.cfg.
  Original patch by Tal Einat.

- Issue #16233: A module browser (File : Class Browser, Alt+C) requires a
  editor window with a filename.  When Class Browser is requested otherwise,
  from a shell, output window, or 'Untitled' editor, Idle no longer displays
  an error box.  It now pops up an  Open Module box (Alt+M). If a valid name
  is entered and a module is opened, a corresponding browser is also opened.

- Issue #4832: Save As to type Python files automatically adds .py to the
  name you enter (even if your system does not display it).  Some systems
  automatically add .txt when type is Text files.

- Issue #21986: Code objects are not normally pickled by the pickle module.
  To match this, they are no longer pickled when running under Idle.

Tests
-----

- Issue #22838: All test_re tests now work with unittest test discovery.

- Issue #22173: Update lib2to3 tests to use unittest test discovery.

- Issue #16000: Convert test_curses to use unittest.

- Issue #21456: Skip two tests in test_urllib2net.py if _ssl module not
  present. Patch by Remi Pointel.

- Issue #22770: Prevent some Tk segfaults on OS X when running gui tests.

Build
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- Issue #16537: Check whether self.extensions is empty in setup.py. Patch by
  Jonathan Hosmer.

- Issue #18096: Fix library order returned by python-config.

- Issue #17219: Add library build dir for Python extension cross-builds.

Documentation
-------------

- Issue #21514: The documentation of the json module now refers to new JSON RFC
  7159 instead of obsoleted RFC 4627.

Tools/Demos
-----------

- Issue #22314: pydoc now works when the LINES environment variable is set.

Windows
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- Issue #17896: The Windows build scripts now expect external library sources
  to be in ``PCbuild\..\externals`` rather than ``PCbuild\..\..``.

- Issue #17717: The Windows build scripts now use a copy of NASM pulled from
  svn.python.org to build OpenSSL.

- Issue #22644: The bundled version of OpenSSL has been updated to 1.0.1j.

What's New in Python 3.4.2?
===========================

Release date: 2014-10-06

Core and Builtins
-----------------

Library
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- Issue #10510: distutils register and upload methods now use HTML standards
  compliant CRLF line endings.

- Issue #9850: Fixed macpath.join() for empty first component.  Patch by
  Oleg Oshmyan.

- Issue #22427: TemporaryDirectory no longer attempts to clean up twice when
  used in the with statement in generator.

- Issue #20912: Now directories added to ZIP file have correct Unix and MS-DOS
  directory attributes.

- Issue #21866: ZipFile.close() no longer writes ZIP64 central directory
  records if allowZip64 is false.

- Issue #22415: Fixed debugging output of the GROUPREF_EXISTS opcode in the re
  module.  Removed trailing spaces in debugging output.

- Issue #22423: Unhandled exception in thread no longer causes unhandled
  AttributeError when sys.stderr is None.

- Issue #21332: Ensure that ``bufsize=1`` in subprocess.Popen() selects
  line buffering, rather than block buffering.  Patch by Akira Li.


What's New in Python 3.4.2rc1?
==============================

Release date: 2014-09-22

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #22258: Fix the the internal function set_inheritable() on Illumos.
  This platform exposes the function ``ioctl(FIOCLEX)``, but calling it fails
  with errno is ENOTTY: "Inappropriate ioctl for device". set_inheritable()
  now falls back to the slower ``fcntl()`` (``F_GETFD`` and then ``F_SETFD``).

- Issue #21669: With the aid of heuristics in SyntaxError.__init__, the
  parser now attempts to generate more meaningful (or at least more search
  engine friendly) error messages when "exec" and "print" are used as
  statements.

- Issue #21642: If the conditional if-else expression, allow an integer written
  with no space between itself and the ``else`` keyword (e.g. ``True if 42else
  False``) to be valid syntax.

- Issue #21523: Fix over-pessimistic computation of the stack effect of
  some opcodes in the compiler.  This also fixes a quadratic compilation
  time issue noticeable when compiling code with a large number of "and"
  and "or" operators.

Library
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- Issue #21091: Fix API bug: email.message.EmailMessage.is_attachment is now
  a method.  Since EmailMessage is provisional, we can change the API in a
  maintenance release, but we use a trick to remain backward compatible with
  3.4.0/1.

- Issue #21079: Fix email.message.EmailMessage.is_attachment to return the
  correct result when the header has parameters as well as a value.

- Issue #22247: Add NNTPError to nntplib.__all__.

- Issue #4180: The warnings registries are now reset when the filters
  are modified.

- Issue #22419: Limit the length of incoming HTTP request in wsgiref server to
  65536 bytes and send a 414 error code for higher lengths. Patch contributed
  by Devin Cook.

- Lax cookie parsing in http.cookies could be a security issue when combined
  with non-standard cookie handling in some Web browsers.  Reported by
  Sergey Bobrov.

- Issue #22384: An exception in Tkinter callback no longer crashes the program
  when it is run with pythonw.exe.

- Issue #22168: Prevent turtle AttributeError with non-default Canvas on OS X.

- Issue #21147: sqlite3 now raises an exception if the request contains a null
  character instead of truncate it.  Based on patch by Victor Stinner.

- Issue #21951: Fixed a crash in Tkinter on AIX when called Tcl command with
  empty string or tuple argument.

- Issue #21951: Tkinter now most likely raises MemoryError instead of crash
  if the memory allocation fails.

- Issue #22338: Fix a crash in the json module on memory allocation failure.

- Issue #22226: First letter no longer is stripped from the "status" key in
  the result of Treeview.heading().

- Issue #19524: Fixed resource leak in the HTTP connection when an invalid
  response is received.  Patch by Martin Panter.

- Issue #22051: turtledemo no longer reloads examples to re-run them.
  Initialization of variables and gui setup should be done in main(),
  which is called each time a demo is run, but not on import.

- Issue #21933: Turtledemo users can change the code font size with a menu
  selection or control(command) '-' or '+' or control-mousewheel.
  Original patch by Lita Cho.

- Issue #21597: The separator between the turtledemo text pane and the drawing
  canvas can now be grabbed and dragged with a mouse.  The code text pane can
  be widened to easily view or copy the full width of the text.  The canvas
  can be widened on small screens.  Original patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho.

- Issue #18132: Turtledemo buttons no longer disappear when the window is
  shrunk.  Original patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho.

- Issue #22216: smtplib now resets its state more completely after a quit.  The
  most obvious consequence of the previous behavior was a STARTTLS failure
  during a connect/starttls/quit/connect/starttls sequence.

- Issue #22185: Fix an occasional RuntimeError in threading.Condition.wait()
  caused by mutation of the waiters queue without holding the lock.  Patch
  by Doug Zongker.

- Issue #22182: Use e.args to unpack exceptions correctly in
  distutils.file_util.move_file. Patch by Claudiu Popa.

- The webbrowser module now uses subprocess's start_new_session=True rather
  than a potentially risky preexec_fn=os.setsid call.

- Issue #22236: Fixed Tkinter images copying operations in NoDefaultRoot mode.

- Issue #22191: Fix warnings.__all__.

- Issue #15696: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for mmap objects on Windows.

- Issue #22068: Avoided reference loops with Variables and Fonts in Tkinter.

- Issue #22165: SimpleHTTPRequestHandler now supports undecodable file names.

- Issue #8797: Raise HTTPError on failed Basic Authentication immediately.
  Initial patch by Sam Bull.

- Issue #20729: Restored the use of lazy iterkeys()/itervalues()/iteritems()
  in the mailbox module.

- Issue #21448: Changed FeedParser feed() to avoid O(N**2) behavior when
  parsing long line.  Original patch by Raymond Hettinger.

- Issue #22184:  The functools LRU Cache decorator factory now gives an earlier
  and clearer error message when the user forgets the required parameters.

- Issue #17923: glob() patterns ending with a slash no longer match non-dirs on
  AIX.  Based on patch by Delhallt.

- Issue #21121: Don't force 3rd party C extensions to be built with
  -Werror=declaration-after-statement.

- Issue #21975: Fixed crash when using uninitialized sqlite3.Row (in particular
  when unpickling pickled sqlite3.Row).  sqlite3.Row is now initialized in the
  __new__() method.

- Issue #21580: Now Tkinter correctly handles bytes arguments passed to Tk.
  In particular this allows to initialize images from binary data.

- Issue #17172: Make turtledemo start as active on OS X even when run with
  subprocess.  Patch by Lita Cho.

- Issue #21704: Fix build error for _multiprocessing when semaphores
  are not available.  Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.

- Fix repr(_socket.socket) on Windows 64-bit: don't fail with OverflowError
  on closed socket. repr(socket.socket) already works fine.

- Issue #16133: The asynchat.async_chat.handle_read() method now ignores
  BlockingIOError exceptions.

- Issue #22044: Fixed premature DECREF in call_tzinfo_method.
  Patch by Tom Flanagan.

- Issue #19884: readline: Disable the meta modifier key if stdout is not
  a terminal to not write the ANSI sequence "\033[1034h" into stdout. This
  sequence is used on some terminal (ex: TERM=xterm-256color") to enable
  support of 8 bit characters.

- Issue #21888: plistlib's load() and loads() now work if the fmt parameter is
  specified.

- Issue #21044: tarfile.open() now handles fileobj with an integer 'name'
  attribute.  Based on patch by Antoine Pietri.

- Issue #21867:  Prevent turtle crash due to invalid undo buffer size.

- Issue #19076: Don't pass the redundant 'file' argument to self.error().

- Issue #21942: Fixed source file viewing in pydoc's server mode on Windows.

- Issue #11259: asynchat.async_chat().set_terminator() now raises a ValueError
  if the number of received bytes is negative.

- Issue #12523: asynchat.async_chat.push() now raises a TypeError if it doesn't
  get a bytes string

- Issue #21707: Add missing kwonlyargcount argument to
  ModuleFinder.replace_paths_in_code().

- Issue #20639: calling Path.with_suffix('') allows removing the suffix
  again.  Patch by July Tikhonov.

- Issue #21714: Disallow the construction of invalid paths using
  Path.with_name().  Original patch by Antony Lee.

- Issue #21897: Fix a crash with the f_locals attribute with closure
  variables when frame.clear() has been called.

- Issue #21151: Fixed a segfault in the winreg module when ``None`` is passed
  as a ``REG_BINARY`` value to SetValueEx.  Patch by John Ehresman.

- Issue #21090: io.FileIO.readall() does not ignore I/O errors anymore. Before,
  it ignored I/O errors if at least the first C call read() succeed.

- Issue #21781: ssl.RAND_add() now supports strings longer than 2 GB.

- Issue #11453: asyncore: emit a ResourceWarning when an unclosed file_wrapper
  object is destroyed. The destructor now closes the file if needed. The
  close() method can now be called twice: the second call does nothing.

- Issue #21858: Better handling of Python exceptions in the sqlite3 module.

- Issue #21476: Make sure the email.parser.BytesParser TextIOWrapper is
  discarded after parsing, so the input file isn't unexpectedly closed.

- Issue #21729: Used the "with" statement in the dbm.dumb module to ensure
  files closing.  Patch by Claudiu Popa.

- Issue #21491: socketserver: Fix a race condition in child processes reaping.

- Issue #21832:  Require named tuple inputs to be exact strings.

- Issue #19145:  The times argument for itertools.repeat now handles
  negative values the same way for keyword arguments as it does for
  positional arguments.

- Issue #21812: turtle.shapetransform did not tranform the turtle on the
  first call.  (Issue identified and fixed by Lita Cho.)

- Issue #21635:  The difflib SequenceMatcher.get_matching_blocks() method
  cache didn't match the actual result.  The former was a list of tuples
  and the latter was a list of named tuples.

- Issue #21722: The distutils "upload" command now exits with a non-zero
  return code when uploading fails.  Patch by Martin Dengler.

- Issue #21723: asyncio.Queue: support any type of number (ex: float) for the
  maximum size. Patch written by Vajrasky Kok.

- Issue #21326: Add a new is_closed() method to asyncio.BaseEventLoop.
  run_forever() and run_until_complete() methods of asyncio.BaseEventLoop now
  raise an exception if the event loop was closed.

- Issue #21774: Fixed NameError for an incorrect variable reference in the
  XML Minidom code for creating processing instructions.
  (Found and fixed by Claudiu Popa.)

- Issue #21766: Prevent a security hole in CGIHTTPServer by URL unquoting paths
  before checking for a CGI script at that path.

- Issue #21310: Fixed possible resource leak in failed open().

- Issue #21677: Fixed chaining nonnormalized exceptions in io close() methods.

- Issue #11709: Fix the pydoc.help function to not fail when sys.stdin is not a
  valid file.

- Issue #13223: Fix pydoc.writedoc so that the HTML documentation for methods
  that use 'self' in the example code is generated correctly.

- Issue #21463: In urllib.request, fix pruning of the FTP cache.

- Issue #21618: The subprocess module could fail to close open fds that were
  inherited by the calling process and already higher than POSIX resource
  limits would otherwise allow.  On systems with a functioning /proc/self/fd
  or /dev/fd interface the max is now ignored and all fds are closed.

- Issue #21552: Fixed possible integer overflow of too long string lengths in
  the tkinter module on 64-bit platforms.

- Issue #14315: The zipfile module now ignores extra fields in the central
  directory that are too short to be parsed instead of letting a struct.unpack
  error bubble up as this "bad data" appears in many real world zip files in
  the wild and is ignored by other zip tools.

- Issue #21402: tkinter.ttk now works when default root window is not set.

- Issue #10203: sqlite3.Row now truly supports sequence protocol.  In particulr
  it supports reverse() and negative indices.  Original patch by Claudiu Popa.

- Issue #18807: If copying (no symlinks) specified for a venv, then the python
  interpreter aliases (python, python3) are now created by copying rather than
  symlinking.

- Issue #14710: pkgutil.get_loader() no longer raises an exception when None is
  found in sys.modules.

- Issue #14710: pkgutil.find_loader() no longer raises an exception when a
  module doesn't exist.

- Issue #21481:  Argparse equality and inequality tests now return
  NotImplemented when comparing to an unknown type.

- Issue #8743: Fix interoperability between set objects and the
  collections.Set() abstract base class.

- Issue #13355: random.triangular() no longer fails with a ZeroDivisionError
  when low equals high.

- Issue #21538: The plistlib module now supports loading of binary plist files
  when reference or offset size is not a power of two.

- Issue #21801: Validate that __signature__ is None or an instance of Signature.

- Issue #21923: Prevent AttributeError in distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler
  due to possible uninitialized _config_vars.

- Issue #21323: Fix http.server to again handle scripts in CGI subdirectories,
  broken by the fix for security issue #19435.  Patch by Zach Byrne.

Extension Modules
-----------------

- Issue #22176: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.1.  This release
  adds support for the Linux AArch64 and POWERPC ELF ABIv2 little endian
  architectures.

Build
-----

- Issue #15661: python.org OS X installers are now distributed as signed
  installer packages compatible with the Gatekeeper security feature.

- Issue #21958: Define HAVE_ROUND when building with Visual Studio 2013 and
  above.  Patch by Zachary Turner.

- Issue #15759: "make suspicious", "make linkcheck" and "make doctest" in Doc/
  now display special message when and only when there are failures.

- Issue #17095: Fix Modules/Setup *shared* support.

- Issue #21811: Anticipated fixes to support OS X versions > 10.9.

- Issue #21166: Prevent possible segfaults and other random failures of
  python --generate-posix-vars in pybuilddir.txt build target.

IDLE
----

- Issue #17390: Adjust Editor window title; remove 'Python',
  move version to end.

- Issue #14105: Idle debugger breakpoints no longer disappear
  when inseting or deleting lines.

- Issue #17172: Turtledemo can now be run from Idle.
  Currently, the entry is on the Help menu, but it may move to Run.
  Patch by Ramchandra Apt and Lita Cho.

- Issue #21765: Add support for non-ascii identifiers to HyperParser.

- Issue #21940: Add unittest for WidgetRedirector. Initial patch by Saimadhav
  Heblikar.

- Issue #18592: Add unittest for SearchDialogBase. Patch by Phil Webster.

- Issue #21694: Add unittest for ParenMatch. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.

- Issue #21686: add unittest for HyperParser. Original patch by Saimadhav
  Heblikar.

- Issue #12387: Add missing upper(lower)case versions of default Windows key
  bindings for Idle so Caps Lock does not disable them. Patch by Roger Serwy.

- Issue #21695: Closing a Find-in-files output window while the search is
  still in progress no longer closes Idle.

- Issue #18910: Add unittest for textView. Patch by Phil Webster.

- Issue #18292: Add unittest for AutoExpand. Patch by Saihadhav Heblikar.

- Issue #18409: Add unittest for AutoComplete. Patch by Phil Webster.

Tests
-----

- Issue #22166:  with the assistance of a new internal _codecs._forget_codec
  helping function, test_codecs now clears the encoding caches to avoid the
  appearance of a reference leak

- Issue #22236: Tkinter tests now don't reuse default root window.  New root
  window is created for every test class.

- Issue #20746: Fix test_pdb to run in refleak mode (-R).  Patch by Xavier
  de Gaye.

- Issue #22060: test_ctypes has been somewhat cleaned up and simplified; it
  now uses unittest test discovery to find its tests.

- Issue #22104: regrtest.py no longer holds a reference to the suite of tests
  loaded from test modules that don't define test_main().

- Issue #22002: Added ``load_package_tests`` function to test.support and used
  it to implement/augment test discovery in test_asyncio, test_email,
  test_importlib, test_json, and test_tools.

- Issue #21976: Fix test_ssl to accept LibreSSL version strings.  Thanks
  to William Orr.

- Issue #21918: Converted test_tools from a module to a package containing
  separate test files for each tested script.

- Issue #20155: Changed HTTP method names in failing tests in test_httpservers
  so that packet filtering software (specifically Windows Base Filtering Engine)
  does not interfere with the transaction semantics expected by the tests.

- Issue #19493: Refactored the ctypes test package to skip tests explicitly
  rather than silently.

- Issue #18492: All resources are now allowed when tests are not run by
  regrtest.py.

- Issue #21634: Fix pystone micro-benchmark: use floor division instead of true
  division to benchmark integers instead of floating point numbers. Set pystone
  version to 1.2. Patch written by Lennart Regebro.

- Issue #21605: Added tests for Tkinter images.

- Issue #21493: Added test for ntpath.expanduser().  Original patch by
  Claudiu Popa.

- Issue #19925: Added tests for the spwd module. Original patch by Vajrasky Kok.

- Issue #21522: Added Tkinter tests for Listbox.itemconfigure(),
  PanedWindow.paneconfigure(), and Menu.entryconfigure().

Documentation
-------------

- Issue #21777: The binary sequence methods on bytes and bytearray are now
  documented explicitly, rather than assuming users will be able to derive
  the expected behaviour from the behaviour of the corresponding str methods.

Windows
-------

- Issue #21671, #22160, CVE-2014-0224: The bundled version of OpenSSL has been
  updated to 1.0.1i.

- Issue #10747: Use versioned labels in the Windows start menu.
  Patch by Olive Kilburn.

Tools/Demos
-----------

- Issue #22201: Command-line interface of the zipfile module now correctly
  extracts ZIP files with directory entries.  Patch by Ryan Wilson.

- Issue #21906: Make Tools/scripts/md5sum.py work in Python 3.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #21629: Fix Argument Clinic's "--converters" feature.


What's New in Python 3.4.1?
===========================

Release date: 2014-05-18

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #21418: Fix a crash in the builtin function super() when called without
  argument and without current frame (ex: embedded Python).

- Issue #21425: Fix flushing of standard streams in the interactive
  interpreter.

- Issue #21435: In rare cases, when running finalizers on objects in cyclic
  trash a bad pointer dereference could occur due to a subtle flaw in
  internal iteration logic.

Library
-------

- Issue #10744: Fix PEP 3118 format strings on ctypes objects with a nontrivial
  shape.

- Issue #20998: Fixed re.fullmatch() of repeated single character pattern
  with ignore case.  Original patch by Matthew Barnett.

- Issue #21075: fileinput.FileInput now reads bytes from standard stream if
  binary mode is specified.  Patch by Sam Kimbrel.

- Issue #21396: Fix TextIOWrapper(..., write_through=True) to not force a
  flush() on the underlying binary stream.  Patch by akira.

- Issue #21470: Do a better job seeding the random number generator by
  using enough bytes to span the full state space of the Mersenne Twister.

- Issue #21398: Fix an unicode error in the pydoc pager when the documentation
  contains characters not encodable to the stdout encoding.

Tests
-----

- Issue #17756: Fix test_code test when run from the installed location.

- Issue #17752: Fix distutils tests when run from the installed location.

IDLE
----

- Issue #18104: Add idlelib/idle_test/htest.py with a few sample tests to begin
  consolidating and improving human-validated tests of Idle. Change other files
  as needed to work with htest.  Running the module as __main__ runs all tests.


What's New in Python 3.4.1rc1?
==============================

Release date: 2014-05-05

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #21274: Define PATH_MAX for GNU/Hurd in Python/pythonrun.c.

- Issue #21209: Fix sending tuples to custom generator objects with the yield
  from syntax.

- Issue #21134: Fix segfault when str is called on an uninitialized
  UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, or UnicodeTranslateError object.

- Issue #19537: Fix PyUnicode_DATA() alignment under m68k.  Patch by
  Andreas Schwab.

- Issue #20929: Add a type cast to avoid shifting a negative number.

- Issue #20731: Properly position in source code files even if they
  are opened in text mode. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #20637: Key-sharing now also works for instance dictionaries of
  subclasses.  Patch by Peter Ingebretson.

- Issue #12546: Allow \x00 to be used as a fill character when using str, int,
  float, and complex __format__ methods.

- Issue #13598: Modify string.Formatter to support auto-numbering of
  replacement fields. It now matches the behavior of str.format() in
  this regard. Patches by Phil Elson and Ramchandra Apte.

Library
-------

- Issue #21088: Bugfix for curses.window.addch() regression in 3.4.0.
  In porting to Argument Clinic, the first two arguments were reversed.

- Issue #21469:  Reduced the risk of false positives in robotparser by
  checking to make sure that robots.txt has been read or does not exist
  prior to returning True in can_fetch().

- Issue #21321: itertools.islice() now releases the reference to the source
  iterator when the slice is exhausted.  Patch by Anton Afanasyev.

- Issue #9815: assertRaises now tries to clear references to local variables
  in the exception's traceback.

- Issue #13204: Calling sys.flags.__new__ would crash the interpreter,
  now it raises a TypeError.

- Issue #19385: Make operations on a closed dbm.dumb database always raise the
  same exception.

- Issue #21207: Detect when the os.urandom cached fd has been closed or
  replaced, and open it anew.

- Issue #21291: subprocess's Popen.wait() is now thread safe so that
  multiple threads may be calling wait() or poll() on a Popen instance
  at the same time without losing the Popen.returncode value.

- Issue #21127: Path objects can now be instantiated from str subclass
  instances (such as ``numpy.str_``).

- Issue #15002: urllib.response object to use _TemporaryFileWrapper (and
  _TemporaryFileCloser) facility. Provides a better way to handle file
  descriptor close. Patch contributed by Christian Theune.

- Issue #12220: mindom now raises a custom ValueError indicating it doesn't
  support spaces in URIs instead of letting a 'split' ValueError bubble up.

- Issue #21239: patch.stopall() didn't work deterministically when the same
  name was patched more than once.

- Issue #21222: Passing name keyword argument to mock.create_autospec now
  works.

- Issue #21197: Add lib64 -> lib symlink in venvs on 64-bit non-OS X POSIX.

- Issue #17498: Some SMTP servers disconnect after certain errors, violating
  strict RFC conformance.  Instead of losing the error code when we issue the
  subsequent RSET, smtplib now returns the error code and defers raising the
  SMTPServerDisconnected error until the next command is issued.

- Issue #17826: setting an iterable side_effect on a mock function created by
  create_autospec now works. Patch by Kushal Das.

- Issue #7776: Fix ``Host:`` header and reconnection when using
  http.client.HTTPConnection.set_tunnel(). Patch by Nikolaus Rath.

- Issue #20968: unittest.mock.MagicMock now supports division.
  Patch by Johannes Baiter.

- Fix arbitrary memory access in JSONDecoder.raw_decode with a negative second
  parameter. Bug reported by Guido Vranken.

- Issue #21169: getpass now handles non-ascii characters that the
  input stream encoding cannot encode by re-encoding using the
  replace error handler.

- Issue #21171: Fixed undocumented filter API of the rot13 codec.
  Patch by Berker Peksag.

- Issue #21172: isinstance check relaxed from dict to collections.Mapping.

- Issue #21155: asyncio.EventLoop.create_unix_server() now raises a ValueError
  if path and sock are specified at the same time.

- Issue #21149: Improved thread-safety in logging cleanup during interpreter
  shutdown. Thanks to Devin Jeanpierre for the patch.

- Issue #20145: `assertRaisesRegex` and `assertWarnsRegex` now raise a
  TypeError if the second argument is not a string or compiled regex.

- Issue #21058: Fix a leak of file descriptor in
  :func:`tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile`, close the file descriptor if
  :func:`io.open` fails

- Issue #21200: Return None from pkgutil.get_loader() when __spec__ is missing.

- Issue #21013: Enhance ssl.create_default_context() when used for server side
  sockets to provide better security by default.

- Issue #20633: Replace relative import by absolute import.

- Issue #20980: Stop wrapping exception when using ThreadPool.

- Issue #21082: In os.makedirs, do not set the process-wide umask. Note this
  changes behavior of makedirs when exist_ok=True.

- Issue #20990: Fix issues found by pyflakes for multiprocessing.

- Issue #21015: SSL contexts will now automatically select an elliptic
  curve for ECDH key exchange on OpenSSL 1.0.2 and later, and otherwise
  default to "prime256v1".

- Issue #20995: Enhance default ciphers used by the ssl module to enable
  better security an prioritize perfect forward secrecy.

- Issue #20884: Don't assume that __file__ is defined on importlib.__init__.

- Issue #21499: Ignore __builtins__ in several test_importlib.test_api tests.

- Issue #20879: Delay the initialization of encoding and decoding tables for
  base32, ascii85 and base85 codecs in the base64 module, and delay the
  initialization of the unquote_to_bytes() table of the urllib.parse module, to
  not waste memory if these modules are not used.

- Issue #19157: Include the broadcast address in the usuable hosts for IPv6
  in ipaddress.

- Issue #11599: When an external command (e.g. compiler) fails, distutils now
  prints out the whole command line (instead of just the command name) if the
  environment variable DISTUTILS_DEBUG is set.

- Issue #4931: distutils should not produce unhelpful "error: None" messages
  anymore.  distutils.util.grok_environment_error is kept but doc-deprecated.

- Issue #20875: Prevent possible gzip "'read' is not defined" NameError.
  Patch by Claudiu Popa.

- Issue #11558: ``email.message.Message.attach`` now returns a more
  useful error message if ``attach`` is called on a message for which
  ``is_multipart`` is False.

- Issue #20283: RE pattern methods now accept the string keyword parameters
  as documented.  The pattern and source keyword parameters are left as
  deprecated aliases.

- Issue #20778: Fix modulefinder to work with bytecode-only modules.

- Issue #20791: copy.copy() now doesn't make a copy when the input is
  a bytes object.  Initial patch by Peter Otten.

- Issue #19748: On AIX, time.mktime() now raises an OverflowError for year
  outsize range [1902; 2037].

- Issue #20816: Fix inspect.getcallargs() to raise correct TypeError for
  missing keyword-only arguments. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.

- Issue #20817: Fix inspect.getcallargs() to fail correctly if more
  than 3 arguments are missing. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.

- Issue #6676: Ensure a meaningful exception is raised when attempting
  to parse more than one XML document per pyexpat xmlparser instance.
  (Original patches by Hirokazu Yamamoto and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc, with
  suggested wording by David Gutteridge)

- Issue #21117: Fix inspect.signature to better support functools.partial.
  Due to the specifics of functools.partial implementation,
  positional-or-keyword arguments passed as keyword arguments become
  keyword-only.

- Issue #21209: Fix asyncio.tasks.CoroWrapper to workaround a bug
  in yield-from implementation in CPythons prior to 3.4.1.

- asyncio: Add gi_{frame,running,code} properties to CoroWrapper
  (upstream issue #163).

- Issue #21311: Avoid exception in _osx_support with non-standard compiler
  configurations.  Patch by John Szakmeister.

- Issue #11571: Ensure that the turtle window becomes the topmost window
  when launched on OS X.

Extension Modules
-----------------

- Issue #21276: posixmodule: Don't define USE_XATTRS on KFreeBSD and the Hurd.
- Issue #21226: Set up modules properly in PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject
  (and friends).

IDLE
----

- Issue #21139: Change default paragraph width to 72, the PEP 8 recommendation.

- Issue #21284: Paragraph reformat test passes after user changes reformat width.

- Issue #17654: Ensure IDLE menus are customized properly on OS X for
  non-framework builds and for all variants of Tk.

Build
-----

- The Windows build now includes OpenSSL 1.0.1g

- Issue #21285: Refactor and fix curses configure check to always search
  in a ncursesw directory.

- Issue #15234: For BerkelyDB and Sqlite, only add the found library and
  include directories if they aren't already being searched. This avoids
  an explicit runtime library dependency.

- Issue #20644: OS X installer build support for documentation build changes
  in 3.4.1: assume externally supplied sphinx-build is available in /usr/bin.

C API
-----
- Issue #20942: PyImport_ImportFrozenModuleObject() no longer sets __file__ to
  match what importlib does; this affects _frozen_importlib as well as any
  module loaded using imp.init_frozen().

Documentation
-------------

- Issue #17386: Expanded functionality of the ``Doc/make.bat`` script to make
  it much more comparable to ``Doc/Makefile``.

- Issue #21043: Remove the recommendation for specific CA organizations and to
  mention the ability to load the OS certificates.

- Issue #20765: Add missing documentation for PurePath.with_name() and
  PurePath.with_suffix().

- Issue #19407: New package installation and distribution guides based on
  the Python Packaging Authority tools. Existing guides have been retained
  as legacy links from the distutils docs, as they still contain some
  required reference material for tool developers that isn't recorded
  anywhere else.

- Issue #19697: Document cases where __main__.__spec__ is None.

Tests
-----

- Issue #18604: Consolidated checks for GUI availability.  All platforms now
  at least check whether Tk can be instantiated when the GUI resource is
  requested.

- Issue #21275: Fix a socket test on KFreeBSD.

- Issue #21223: Pass test_site/test_startup_imports when some of the extensions
  are built as builtins.

- Issue #20635: Added tests for Tk geometry managers.

- Add test case for freeze.

- Issue #20743: Fix a reference leak in test_tcl.

- Issue #21097: Move test_namespace_pkgs into test_importlib.

- Issue #20939: Avoid various network test failures due to new
  redirect of http://www.python.org/ to https://www.python.org:
  use http://www.example.com instead.

- Issue #20668: asyncio tests no longer rely on tests.txt file.
  (Patch by Vajrasky Kok)

- Issue #21093: Prevent failures of ctypes test_macholib on OS X if a
  copy of libz exists in $HOME/lib or /usr/local/lib.

Tools/Demos
-----------

- Add support for ``yield from`` to 2to3.

- Add support for the PEP 465 matrix multiplication operator to 2to3.

- Issue #16047: Fix module exception list and __file__ handling in freeze.
  Patch by Meador Inge.

- Issue #11824: Consider ABI tags in freeze. Patch by Meador Inge.

- Issue #20535: PYTHONWARNING no longer affects the run_tests.py script.
  Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.


What's New in Python 3.4.0?
===========================

Release date: 2014-03-16

Library
-------

- Issue #20939: Fix test_geturl failure in test_urllibnet due to
  new redirect of http://www.python.org/ to https://www.python.org.

Documentation
-------------

- Merge in all documentation changes since branching 3.4.0rc1.


What's New in Python 3.4.0 release candidate 3?
===============================================

Release date: 2014-03-09

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #20786: Fix signatures for dict.__delitem__ and
  property.__delete__ builtins.

Library
-------

- Issue #20839: Don't trigger a DeprecationWarning in the still supported
  pkgutil.get_loader() API when __loader__ isn't set on a module (nor
  when pkgutil.find_loader() is called directly).

Build
-----

- Issue #14512: Launch pydoc -b instead of pydocgui.pyw on Windows.

- Issue #20748: Uninstalling pip does not leave behind the pyc of
  the uninstaller anymore.

- Issue #20568: The Windows installer now installs the unversioned ``pip``
  command in addition to the versioned ``pip3`` and ``pip3.4`` commands.

- Issue #20757: The ensurepip helper for the Windows uninstaller now skips
  uninstalling pip (rather than failing) if the user has updated pip to a
  different version from the one bundled with ensurepip.

- Issue #20465: Update OS X and Windows installer builds to use
  SQLite 3.8.3.1.


What's New in Python 3.4.0 release candidate 2?
===============================================

Release date: 2014-02-23

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #20625: Parameter names in __annotations__ were not mangled properly.
  Discovered by Jonas Wielicki, patch by Yury Selivanov.

- Issue #20261: In pickle, lookup __getnewargs__ and __getnewargs_ex__ on the
  type of the object.

- Issue #20619: Give the AST nodes of keyword-only arguments a column and line
  number.

- Issue #20526: Revert changes of issue #19466 which introduces a regression:
  don't clear anymore the state of Python threads early during the Python
  shutdown.

Library
-------

- Issue #20710: The pydoc summary line no longer displays the "self" parameter
  for bound methods.

- Issue #20566: Change asyncio.as_completed() to use a Queue, to
  avoid O(N**2) behavior.

- Issue #20704: Implement new debug API in asyncio. Add new methods
  BaseEventLoop.set_debug() and BaseEventLoop.get_debug().
  Add support for setting 'asyncio.tasks._DEBUG' variable with
  'PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG' environment variable.

- asyncio: Refactoring and fixes: BaseEventLoop.sock_connect() raises an
  error if the address is not resolved; use __slots__ in Handle and
  TimerHandle; as_completed() and wait() raise TypeError if the passed
  list of Futures is a single Future; call_soon() and other 'call_*()'
  functions raise TypeError if the passed callback is a coroutine
  function; _ProactorBasePipeTransport uses _FlowControlMixin;
  WriteTransport.set_write_buffer_size() calls _maybe_pause_protocol()
  to consider pausing receiving if the watermark limits have changed;
  fix _check_resolved_address() for IPv6 address; and other minor
  improvements, along with multiple documentation updates.

- Issue #20684: Fix inspect.getfullargspec() to not to follow __wrapped__
  chains. Make its behaviour consistent with bound methods first argument.
  Patch by Nick Coghlan and Yury Selivanov.

- Issue #20681: Add new error handling API in asyncio. New APIs:
  loop.set_exception_handler(), loop.default_exception_handler(), and
  loop.call_exception_handler().

- Issue #20673: Implement support for UNIX Domain Sockets in asyncio.
  New APIs: loop.create_unix_connection(), loop.create_unix_server(),
  streams.open_unix_connection(), and streams.start_unix_server().

- Issue #20616: Add a format() method to tracemalloc.Traceback.

- Issue #19744: the ensurepip installation step now just prints a warning to
  stderr rather than failing outright if SSL/TLS is unavailable. This allows
  local installation of POSIX builds without SSL/TLS support.

- Issue #20594: Avoid name clash with the libc function posix_close.

Build
-----

- Issue #20641: Run MSI custom actions (pip installation, pyc compilation)
  with the NoImpersonate flag, to support elevated execution (UAC).

- Issue #20221: Removed conflicting (or circular) hypot definition when
  compiled with VS 2010 or above.  Initial patch by Tabrez Mohammed.

- Issue #20609: Restored the ability to build 64-bit Windows binaries on
  32-bit Windows, which was broken by the change in issue #19788.


What's New in Python 3.4.0 release candidate 1?
===============================================

Release date: 2014-02-10

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #19255: The builtins module is restored to initial value before
  cleaning other modules.  The sys and builtins modules are cleaned last.

- Issue #20588: Make Python-ast.c C89 compliant.

- Issue #20437: Fixed 22 potential bugs when deleting objects references.

- Issue #20500: Displaying an exception at interpreter shutdown no longer
  risks triggering an assertion failure in PyObject_Str.

- Issue #20538: UTF-7 incremental decoder produced inconsistent string when
  input was truncated in BASE64 section.

- Issue #20404: io.TextIOWrapper (and hence the open() builtin) now uses the
  internal codec marking system added for issue #19619 to throw LookupError
  for known non-text encodings at stream construction time. The existing
  output type checks remain in place to deal with unmarked third party
  codecs.

- Issue #17162: Add PyType_GetSlot.

- Issue #20162: Fix an alignment issue in the siphash24() hash function which
  caused a crash on PowerPC 64-bit (ppc64).

Library
-------

- Issue #20530: The signatures for slot builtins have been updated
  to reflect the fact that they only accept positional-only arguments.

- Issue #20517: Functions in the os module that accept two filenames
  now register both filenames in the exception on failure.

- Issue #20563: The ipaddress module API is now considered stable.

- Issue #14983: email.generator now always adds a line end after each MIME
  boundary marker, instead of doing so only when there is an epilogue.  This
  fixes an RFC compliance bug and solves an issue with signed MIME parts.

- Issue #20540: Fix a performance regression (vs. Python 3.2) when layering
  a multiprocessing Connection over a TCP socket.  For small payloads, Nagle's
  algorithm would introduce idle delays before the entire transmission of a
  message.

- Issue #16983: the new email header parsing code will now decode encoded words
  that are (incorrectly) surrounded by quotes, and register a defect.

- Issue #19772: email.generator no longer mutates the message object when
  doing a down-transform from 8bit to 7bit CTEs.

- Issue #20536: the statistics module now correctly handle Decimal instances
  with positive exponents

- Issue #18805: the netmask/hostmask parsing in ipaddress now more reliably
  filters out illegal values and correctly allows any valid prefix length.

- Issue #20481: For at least Python 3.4, the statistics module will require
  that all inputs for a single operation be of a single consistent type, or
  else a mixed of ints and a single other consistent type. This avoids
  some interoperability issues that arose with the previous approach of
  coercing to a suitable common type.

- Issue #20478: the statistics module now treats collections.Counter inputs
  like any other iterable.

- Issue #17369: get_filename was raising an exception if the filename
  parameter's RFC2231 encoding was broken in certain ways.  This was
  a regression relative to python2.

- Issue #20013: Some imap servers disconnect if the current mailbox is
  deleted, and imaplib did not handle that case gracefully.  Now it
  handles the 'bye' correctly.

- Issue #20531: Revert 3.4 version of fix for #19063, and apply the 3.3
  version.  That is, do *not* raise an error if unicode is passed to
  email.message.Message.set_payload.

- Issue #20476: If a non-compat32 policy is used with any of the email parsers,
  EmailMessage is now used as the factory class.  The factory class should
  really come from the policy; that will get fixed in 3.5.

- Issue #19920: TarFile.list() no longer fails when outputs a listing
  containing non-encodable characters.  Based on patch by Vajrasky Kok.

- Issue #20515: Fix NULL pointer dereference introduced by issue #20368.

- Issue #19186: Restore namespacing of expat symbols inside the pyexpat module.

- Issue #20053: ensurepip (and hence venv) are no longer affected by the
  settings in the default pip configuration file.

- Issue #20426: When passing the re.DEBUG flag, re.compile() displays the
  debug output every time it is called, regardless of the compilation cache.

- Issue #20368: The null character now correctly passed from Tcl to Python.
  Improved error handling in variables-related commands.

- Issue #20435: Fix _pyio.StringIO.getvalue() to take into account newline
  translation settings.

- tracemalloc: Fix slicing traces and fix slicing a traceback.

- Issue #20354: Fix an alignment issue in the tracemalloc module on 64-bit
  platforms. Bug seen on 64-bit Linux when using "make profile-opt".

- Issue #17159: inspect.signature now accepts duck types of functions,
  which adds support for Cython functions. Initial patch by Stefan Behnel.

- Issue #18801: Fix inspect.classify_class_attrs to correctly classify
  object.__new__ and object.__init__.

- Fixed cmath.isinf's name in its argument parsing code.

- Issue #20311, #20452: poll and epoll now round the timeout away from zero,
  instead of rounding towards zero, in select and selectors modules:
  select.epoll.poll(), selectors.PollSelector.poll() and
  selectors.EpollSelector.poll(). For example, a timeout of one microsecond
  (1e-6) is now rounded to one millisecondi (1e-3), instead of being rounded to
  zero.  However, the granularity property and asyncio's resolution feature
  were removed again.

- asyncio: Some refactoring; various fixes; add write flow control to
  unix pipes; Future.set_exception() instantiates the exception
  argument if it is a class; improved proactor pipe transport; support
  wait_for(f, None); don't log broken/disconnected pipes; use
  ValueError instead of assert for forbidden subprocess_{shell,exec}
  arguments; added a convenience API for subprocess management; added
  StreamReader.at_eof(); properly handle duplicate coroutines/futures
  in gather(), wait(), as_completed(); use a bytearray for buffering
  in StreamReader; and more.

- Issue #20288: fix handling of invalid numeric charrefs in HTMLParser.

- Issue #20424: Python implementation of io.StringIO now supports lone surrogates.

- Issue #20308: inspect.signature now works on classes without user-defined
  __init__ or __new__ methods.

- Issue #20372: inspect.getfile (and a bunch of other inspect functions that
  use it) doesn't crash with unexpected AttributeError on classes defined in C
  without __module__.

- Issue #20356: inspect.signature formatting uses '/' to separate
  positional-only parameters from others.

- Issue #20223: inspect.signature now supports methods defined with
  functools.partialmethods.

- Issue #19456: ntpath.join() now joins relative paths correctly when a drive
  is present.

- Issue #19077: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory cleanup no longer fails when
  called during shutdown.  Emitting resource warning in __del__ no longer fails.
  Original patch by Antoine Pitrou.

- Issue #20394: Silence Coverity warning in audioop module.

- Issue #20367: Fix behavior of concurrent.futures.as_completed() for
  duplicate arguments.  Patch by Glenn Langford.

- Issue #8260: The read(), readline() and readlines() methods of
  codecs.StreamReader returned incomplete data when were called after
  readline() or read(size).  Based on patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.

- Issue #20105: the codec exception chaining now correctly sets the
  traceback of the original exception as its __traceback__ attribute.

- Issue #17481: inspect.getfullargspec() now uses inspect.signature() API.

- Issue #15304: concurrent.futures.wait() can block forever even if
  Futures have completed. Patch by Glenn Langford.

- Issue #14455: plistlib: fix serializing integers in the range
  of an unsigned long long but outside of the range of signed long long for
  binary plist files.

IDLE
----

- Issue #20406: Use Python application icons for Idle window title bars.
  Patch mostly by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Update the python.gif icon for the Idle classbrowser and pathbowser
  from the old green snake to the new blue and yellow snakes.

- Issue #17721: Remove non-functional configuration dialog help button until we
  make it actually gives some help when clicked. Patch by Guilherme Simões.

Tests
-----

- Issue #20532: Tests which use _testcapi now are marked as CPython only.

- Issue #19920: Added tests for TarFile.list().  Based on patch by Vajrasky Kok.

- Issue #19990: Added tests for the imghdr module.  Based on patch by
  Claudiu Popa.

- Issue #20474: Fix test_socket "unexpected success" failures on OS X 10.7+.

Tools/Demos
-----------

- Issue #20530: Argument Clinic's signature format has been revised again.
  The new syntax is highly human readable while still preventing false
  positives.  The syntax also extends Python syntax to denote "self" and
  positional-only parameters, allowing inspect.Signature objects to be
  totally accurate for all supported builtins in Python 3.4.

- Issue #20456: Argument Clinic now observes the C preprocessor conditional
  compilation statements of the C files it parses.  When a Clinic block is
  inside a conditional code, it adjusts its output to match, including
  automatically generating an empty methoddef macro.

- Issue #20456: Cloned functions in Argument Clinic now use the correct
  name, not the name of the function they were cloned from, for text
  strings inside generated code.

- Issue #20456: Fixed Argument Clinic's test suite and "--converters" feature.

- Issue #20456: Argument Clinic now allows specifying different names
  for a parameter in Python and C, using "as" on the parameter line.

- Issue #20326: Argument Clinic now uses a simple, unique signature to
  annotate text signatures in docstrings, resulting in fewer false
  positives.  "self" parameters are also explicitly marked, allowing
  inspect.Signature() to authoritatively detect (and skip) said parameters.

- Issue #20326: Argument Clinic now generates separate checksums for the
  input and output sections of the block, allowing external tools to verify
  that the input has not changed (and thus the output is not out-of-date).

Build
-----

- Issue #20465: Update SQLite shipped with OS X installer to 3.8.3.

C-API
-----

- Issue #20517: Added new functions allowing OSError exceptions to reference
  two filenames instead of one: PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilenameObjects() and
  PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObjects().

Documentation
-------------

- Issue #20488: Change wording to say importlib is *the* implementation of
  import instead of just *an* implementation.

- Issue #6386: Clarify in the tutorial that specifying a symlink to execute
  means the directory containing the executed script and not the symlink is
  added to sys.path.


What's New in Python 3.4.0 Beta 3?
==================================

Release date: 2014-01-26

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #20189: Four additional builtin types (PyTypeObject,
  PyMethodDescr_Type, _PyMethodWrapper_Type, and PyWrapperDescr_Type)
  have been modified to provide introspection information for builtins.

- Issue #17825: Cursor "^" is correctly positioned for SyntaxError and
  IndentationError.

- Issue #2382: SyntaxError cursor "^" is now written at correct position in most
  cases when multibyte characters are in line (before "^").  This still not
  works correctly with wide East Asian characters.

- Issue #18960: The first line of Python script could be executed twice when
  the source encoding was specified on the second line.  Now the source encoding
  declaration on the second line isn't effective if the first line contains
  anything except a comment.  'python -x' works now again with files with the
  source encoding declarations, and can be used to make Python batch files
  on Windows.

Library
-------

- asyncio: Various improvements and small changes not all covered by
  issues listed below.  E.g. wait_for() now cancels the inner task if
  the timeout occcurs; tweaked the set of exported symbols; renamed
  Empty/Full to QueueEmpty/QueueFull; "with (yield from lock)" now
  uses a separate context manager; readexactly() raises if not enough
  data was read; PTY support tweaks.

- Issue #20311: asyncio: Add a granularity attribute to BaseEventLoop: maximum
  between the resolution of the BaseEventLoop.time() method and the resolution
  of the selector. The granuarility is used in the scheduler to round time and
  deadline.

- Issue #20311: selectors: Add a resolution attribute to BaseSelector.

- Issue #20189: unittest.mock now no longer assumes that any object for
  which it could get an inspect.Signature is a callable written in Python.
  Fix courtesy of Michael Foord.

- Issue #20317: ExitStack.__exit__ could create a self-referential loop if an
  exception raised by a cleanup operation already had its context set
  correctly (for example, by the @contextmanager decorator). The infinite
  loop this caused is now avoided by checking if the expected context is
  already set before trying to fix it.

- Issue #20374: Fix build with GNU readline >= 6.3.

- Issue #20262: Warnings are raised now when duplicate names are added in the
  ZIP file or too long ZIP file comment is truncated.

- Issue #20165: The unittest module no longer considers tests marked with
  @expectedFailure successful if they pass.

- Issue #18574: Added missing newline in 100-Continue reply from
  http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler. Patch by Nikolaus Rath.

- Issue #20270: urllib.urlparse now supports empty ports.

- Issue #20243: TarFile no longer raise ReadError when opened in write mode.

- Issue #20238: TarFile opened with external fileobj and "w:gz" mode didn't
  write complete output on close.

- Issue #20245: The open functions in the tarfile module now correctly handle
  empty mode.

- Issue #20242: Fixed basicConfig() format strings for the alternative
  formatting styles. Thanks to kespindler for the bug report and patch.

- Issue #20246: Fix buffer overflow in socket.recvfrom_into.

- Issues #20206 and #5803: Fix edge case in email.quoprimime.encode where it
  truncated lines ending in a character needing encoding but no newline by
  using a more efficient algorithm that doesn't have the bug.

- Issue #19082: Working xmlrpc.server and xmlrpc.client examples. Both in
  modules and in documentation. Initial patch contributed by Vajrasky Kok.

- Issue #20138: The wsgiref.application_uri() and wsgiref.request_uri()
  functions now conform to PEP 3333 when handle non-ASCII URLs.

- Issue #19097: Raise the correct Exception when cgi.FieldStorage is given an
  invalid fileobj.

- Issue #20152: Ported Python/import.c over to Argument Clinic.

- Issue #13107: argparse and optparse no longer raises an exception when output
  a help on environment with too small COLUMNS.  Based on patch by
  Elazar Gershuni.

- Issue #20207: Always disable SSLv2 except when PROTOCOL_SSLv2 is explicitly
  asked for.

- Issue #18960: The tokenize module now ignore the source encoding declaration
  on the second line if the first line contains anything except a comment.

- Issue #20078: Reading malformed zipfiles no longer hangs with 100% CPU
  consumption.

- Issue #20113: os.readv() and os.writev() now raise an OSError exception on
  error instead of returning -1.

- Issue #19719: Make importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder.find_module(),
  PathEntryFinder.find_loader(), and Loader.load_module() use PEP 451 APIs to
  help with backwards-compatibility.

- Issue #20144: inspect.Signature now supports parsing simple symbolic
  constants as parameter default values in __text_signature__.

- Issue #20072: Fixed multiple errors in tkinter with wantobjects is False.

- Issue #20229: Avoid plistlib deprecation warning in platform.mac_ver().

- Issue #14455: Fix some problems with the new binary plist support in plistlib.

IDLE
----

- Issue #17390: Add Python version to Idle editor window title bar.
  Original patches by Edmond Burnett and Kent Johnson.

- Issue #18960: IDLE now ignores the source encoding declaration on the second
  line if the first line contains anything except a comment.

Tests
-----

- Issue #20358: Tests for curses.window.overlay and curses.window.overwrite
  no longer specify min{row,col} > max{row,col}.

- Issue #19804: The test_find_mac test in test_uuid is now skipped if the
  ifconfig executable is not available.

- Issue #19886: Use better estimated memory requirements for bigmem tests.

Tools/Demos
-----------

- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic's "file" output preset now defaults to
  "{dirname}/clinic/{basename}.h".

- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic's "class" directive syntax has been extended
  with two new required  arguments: "typedef" and "type_object".

- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic: If __new__ or __init__ functions didn't use
  kwargs (or args), the PyArg_NoKeywords (or PyArg_NoPositional) calls
  generated are only run when the type object is an exact match.

- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic now fails if you have required parameters after
  optional parameters.

- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic converters now have a new template they can
  inject code into: "modifiers".  Code put there is run in the parsing
  function after argument parsing but before the call to the impl.

- Issue #20376: Argument Clinic now escapes backslashes in docstrings.

- Issue #20381: Argument Clinic now sanity checks the default argument when
  c_default is also specified, providing a nice failure message for
  disallowed values.

- Issue #20189: Argument Clinic now ensures that parser functions for
  __new__ are always of type newfunc, the type of the tp_new slot.
  Similarly, parser functions for __init__ are now always of type initproc,
  the type of tp_init.

- Issue #20189: Argument Clinic now suppresses the docstring for __new__
  and __init__ functions if no docstring is provided in the input.

- Issue #20189: Argument Clinic now suppresses the "self" parameter in the
  impl for @staticmethod functions.

- Issue #20294: Argument Clinic now supports argument parsing for __new__ and
  __init__ functions.

- Issue #20299: Argument Clinic custom converters may now change the default
  value of c_default and py_default with a class member.

- Issue #20287: Argument Clinic's output is now configurable, allowing
  delaying its output or even redirecting it to a separate file.

- Issue #20226: Argument Clinic now permits simple expressions
  (e.g. "sys.maxsize - 1") as default values for parameters.

- Issue #19936: Added executable bits or shebang lines to Python scripts which
  requires them.  Disable executable bits and shebang lines in test and
  benchmark files in order to prevent using a random system python, and in
  source files of modules which don't provide command line interface.  Fixed
  shebang lines in the unittestgui and checkpip scripts.

- Issue #20268: Argument Clinic now supports cloning the parameters and
  return converter of existing functions.

- Issue #20228: Argument Clinic now has special support for class special
  methods.

- Issue #20214: Fixed a number of small issues and documentation errors in
  Argument Clinic (see issue for details).

- Issue #20196: Fixed a bug where Argument Clinic did not generate correct
  parsing code for functions with positional-only parameters where all arguments
  are optional.

- Issue #18960: 2to3 and the findnocoding.py script now ignore the source
  encoding declaration on the second line if the first line contains anything
  except a comment.

- Issue #19723: The marker comments Argument Clinic uses have been changed
  to improve readability.

- Issue #20157: When Argument Clinic renames a parameter because its name
  collides with a C keyword, it no longer exposes that rename to PyArg_Parse.

- Issue #20141: Improved Argument Clinic's support for the PyArg_Parse "O!"
  format unit.

- Issue #20144: Argument Clinic now supports simple symbolic constants
  as parameter default values.

- Issue #20143: The line numbers reported in Argument Clinic errors are
  now more accurate.

- Issue #20142: Py_buffer variables generated by Argument Clinic are now
  initialized with a default value.

Build
-----

- Issue #12837: Silence a tautological comparison warning on OS X under Clang in
  socketmodule.c.

What's New in Python 3.4.0 Beta 2?
==================================

Release date: 2014-01-05

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #17432: Drop UCS2 from names of Unicode functions in python3.def.

- Issue #19526: Exclude all new API from the stable ABI. Exceptions can be
  made if a need is demonstrated.

- Issue #19969: PyBytes_FromFormatV() now raises an OverflowError if "%c"
  argument is not in range [0; 255].

- Issue #19995: %c, %o, %x, and %X now issue a DeprecationWarning on non-integer
  input; reworded docs to clarify that an integer type should define both __int__
  and __index__.

- Issue #19787: PyThread_set_key_value() now always set the value. In Python
  3.3, the function did nothing if the key already exists (if the current value
  is a non-NULL pointer).

- Issue #14432: Remove the thread state field from the frame structure. Fix a
  crash when a generator is created in a C thread that is destroyed while the
  generator is still used. The issue was that a generator contains a frame, and
  the frame kept a reference to the Python state of the destroyed C thread. The
  crash occurs when a trace function is setup.

- Issue #19576: PyGILState_Ensure() now initializes threads. At startup, Python
  has no concrete GIL. If PyGILState_Ensure() is called from a new thread for
  the first time and PyEval_InitThreads() was not called yet, a GIL needs to be
  created.

- Issue #17576: Deprecation warning emitted now when __int__() or __index__()
  return not int instance.

- Issue #19932: Fix typo in import.h, missing whitespaces in function prototypes.

- Issue #19736: Add module-level statvfs constants defined for GNU/glibc
  based systems.

- Issue #20097: Fix bad use of "self" in importlib's WindowsRegistryFinder.

- Issue #19729: In str.format(), fix recursive expansion in format spec.

- Issue #19638: Fix possible crash / undefined behaviour from huge (more than 2
  billion characters) input strings in _Py_dg_strtod.

Library
-------

- Issue #20154: Deadlock in asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly().

- Issue #16113: Remove sha3 module again.

- Issue #20111: pathlib.Path.with_suffix() now sanity checks the given suffix.

- Fix breakage in TestSuite.countTestCases() introduced by issue #11798.

- Issue #20108: Avoid parameter name clash in inspect.getcallargs().

- Issue #19918: Fix PurePath.relative_to() under Windows.

- Issue #19422: Explicitly disallow non-SOCK_STREAM sockets in the ssl
  module, rather than silently let them emit clear text data.

- Issue #20046: Locale alias table no longer contains entities which can be
  calculated.  Generalized support of the euro modifier.

- Issue #20027: Fixed locale aliases for devanagari locales.

- Issue #20067: Tkinter variables now work when wantobjects is false.

- Issue #19020: Tkinter now uses splitlist() instead of split() in configure
  methods.

- Issue #19744: ensurepip now provides a better error message when Python is
  built without SSL/TLS support (pip currently requires that support to run,
  even if only operating with local wheel files)

- Issue #19734: ensurepip now ignores all pip environment variables to avoid
  odd behaviour based on user configuration settings

- Fix TypeError on "setup.py upload --show-response".

- Issue #20045: Fix "setup.py register --list-classifiers".

- Issue #18879: When a method is looked up on a temporary file, avoid closing
  the file before the method is possibly called.

- Issue #20037: Avoid crashes when opening a text file late at interpreter
  shutdown.

- Issue #19967: Thanks to the PEP 442, asyncio.Future now uses a
  destructor to log uncaught exceptions, instead of the dedicated
  _TracebackLogger class.

- Added a Task.current_task() class method to asyncio.

- Issue #19850: Set SA_RESTART in asyncio when registering a signal
  handler to limit EINTR occurrences.

- Implemented write flow control in asyncio for proactor event loop (Windows).

- Change write buffer in asyncio use to avoid O(N**2) behavior.  Make
  write()/sendto() accept bytearray/memoryview.

- Issue #20034: Updated alias mapping to most recent locale.alias file
  from X.org distribution using makelocalealias.py.

- Issue #5815: Fixed support for locales with modifiers.  Fixed support for
  locale encodings with hyphens.

- Issue #20026: Fix the sqlite module to handle correctly invalid isolation
  level (wrong type).

- Issue #18829: csv.Dialect() now checks type for delimiter, escapechar and
  quotechar fields.  Original patch by Vajrasky Kok.

- Issue #19855: uuid.getnode() on Unix now looks on the PATH for the
  executables used to find the mac address, with /sbin and /usr/sbin as
  fallbacks.

- Issue #20007: HTTPResponse.read(0) no more prematurely closes connection.
  Original patch by Simon Sapin.

- Issue #19946: multiprocessing now uses runpy to initialize __main__ in
  child processes when necessary, allowing it to correctly handle scripts
  without suffixes and submodules that use explicit relative imports or
  otherwise rely on parent modules being correctly imported prior to
  execution.

- Issue #19921: When Path.mkdir() is called with parents=True, any missing
  parent is created with the default permissions, ignoring the mode argument
  (mimicking the POSIX "mkdir -p" command).

- Issue #19887: Improve the Path.resolve() algorithm to support certain
  symlink chains.

- Issue #19912: Fixed numerous bugs in ntpath.splitunc().

- Issue #19911: ntpath.splitdrive() now correctly processes the 'İ' character
  (U+0130, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE).

- Issue #19532: python -m compileall with no filename/directory arguments now
  respects the -f and -q flags instead of ignoring them.

- Issue #19623: Fixed writing to unseekable files in the aifc module.

- Issue #19946: multiprocessing.spawn now raises ImportError when the module to
  be used as the main module cannot be imported.

- Issue #17919: select.poll.register() again works with poll.POLLNVAL on AIX.
  Fixed integer overflow in the eventmask parameter.

- Issue #19063: if a Charset's body_encoding was set to None, the email
  package would generate a message claiming the Content-Transfer-Encoding
  was 7bit, and produce garbage output for the content.  This now works.
  A couple of other set_payload mishandlings of non-ASCII are also fixed.
  In addition, calling set_payload with a string argument without
  specifying a charset now raises an error (this is a new error in 3.4).

- Issue #15475: Add __sizeof__ implementations for itertools objects.

- Issue #19944: Fix importlib.find_spec() so it imports parents as needed
  and move the function to importlib.util.

- Issue #19880: Fix a reference leak in unittest.TestCase. Explicitly break
  reference cycles between frames and the _Outcome instance.

- Issue #17429: platform.linux_distribution() now decodes files from the UTF-8
  encoding with the surrogateescape error handler, instead of decoding from the
  locale encoding in strict mode. It fixes the function on Fedora 19 which is
  probably the first major distribution release with a non-ASCII name. Patch
  written by Toshio Kuratomi.

- Issue #19343: Expose FreeBSD-specific APIs in resource module.  Original
  patch by Koobs.

- Issue #19929: Call os.read with 32768 within subprocess.Popen.communicate
  rather than 4096 for efficiency.  A microbenchmark shows Linux and OS X
  both using ~50% less cpu time this way.

- Issue #19506: Use a memoryview to avoid a data copy when piping data
  to stdin within subprocess.Popen.communicate.  5-10% less cpu usage.

- Issue #19876: selectors unregister() no longer raises ValueError or OSError
  if the FD is closed (as long as it was registered).

- Issue #19908: pathlib now joins relative Windows paths correctly when a drive
  is present.  Original patch by Antoine Pitrou.

- Issue #19296: Silence compiler warning in dbm_open

- Issue #6784: Strings from Python 2 can now be unpickled as bytes
  objects by setting the encoding argument of Unpickler to be 'bytes'.
  Initial patch by Merlijn van Deen.

- Issue #19839: Fix regression in bz2 module's handling of non-bzip2 data at
  EOF, and analogous bug in lzma module.

- Issue #19881: Fix pickling bug where cpickle would emit bad pickle data for
  large bytes string (i.e., with size greater than 2**32-1).

- Issue #19138: doctest's IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL now allows a match when
  no exception detail exists (no colon following the exception's name, or
  a colon does follow but no text follows the colon).

- Issue #19927: Add __eq__ to path-based loaders in importlib.

- Issue #19827: On UNIX, setblocking() and settimeout() methods of
  socket.socket can now avoid a second syscall if the ioctl() function can be
  used, or if the non-blocking flag of the socket is unchanged.

- Issue #19785: smtplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
  indication for TLS/SSL connections.

- Issue #19784: poplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
  indication for TLS/SSL connections.

- Issue #19783: nntplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
  indication for TLS/SSL connections.

- Issue #19782: imaplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
  indication for TLS/SSL connections.

- Issue 20123: Fix pydoc.synopsis() for "binary" modules.

- Issue #19834: Support unpickling of exceptions pickled by Python 2.

- Issue #19781: ftplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
  indication for TLS/SSL connections.

- Issue #19509: Add SSLContext.check_hostname to match the peer's certificate
  with server_hostname on handshake.

- Issue #15798: Fixed subprocess.Popen() to no longer fail if file
  descriptor 0, 1 or 2 is closed.

- Issue #17897: Optimized unpickle prefetching.

- Issue #3693: Make the error message more helpful when the array.array()
  constructor is given a str. Move the array module typecode documentation to
  the docstring of the constructor.

- Issue #19088: Fixed incorrect caching of the copyreg module in
  object.__reduce__() and object.__reduce_ex__().

- Issue #19698: Removed exec_module() methods from
  importlib.machinery.BuiltinImporter and ExtensionFileLoader.

- Issue #18864: Added a setter for ModuleSpec.has_location.

- Fixed _pickle.Unpickler to not fail when loading empty strings as
  persistent IDs.

- Issue #11480: Fixed copy.copy to work with classes with custom metaclasses.
  Patch by Daniel Urban.

- Issue #6477: Added support for pickling the types of built-in singletons
  (i.e., Ellipsis, NotImplemented, None).

- Issue #19713: Add remaining PEP 451-related deprecations and move away
  from using find_module/find_loaer/load_module.

- Issue #19708: Update pkgutil to use the new importer APIs.

- Issue #19703: Update pydoc to use the new importer APIs.

- Issue #19851: Fixed a regression in reloading sub-modules.

- ssl.create_default_context() sets OP_NO_COMPRESSION to prevent CRIME.

- Issue #19802: Add socket.SO_PRIORITY.

- Issue #11508: Fixed uuid.getnode() and uuid.uuid1() on environment with
  virtual interface.  Original patch by Kent Frazier.

- Issue #11489: JSON decoder now accepts lone surrogates.

- Issue #19545: Avoid chained exceptions while passing stray % to
  time.strptime().  Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.

IDLE
----

- Issue #20058: sys.stdin.readline() in IDLE now always returns only one line.

- Issue #19481: print() of string subclass instance in IDLE no longer hangs.

- Issue #18270: Prevent possible IDLE AttributeError on OS X when no initial
  shell window is present.

Tests
-----

- Issue #20055: Fix test_shutil under Windows with symlink privileges held.
  Patch by Vajrasky Kok.

- Issue #20070: Don't run test_urllib2net when network resources are not
  enabled.

- Issue #19938: Re-enabled test_bug_1333982 in test_dis, which had been
  disabled since 3.0 due to the changes in listcomp handling.

- Issue #19320: test_tcl no longer fails when wantobjects is false.

- Issue #19919: Fix flaky SSL test. connect_ex() sometimes returns
  EWOULDBLOCK on Windows or VMs hosted on Windows.

- Issue #19912: Added tests for ntpath.splitunc().

- Issue #19828: Fixed test_site when the whole suite is run with -S.

- Issue #19928: Implemented a test for repr() of cell objects.

- Issue #19535: Fixed test_docxmlrpc, test_functools, test_inspect, and
  test_statistics when python is run with -OO.

- Issue #19926: Removed unneeded test_main from test_abstract_numbers.
  Patch by Vajrasky Kok.

- Issue #19572: More skipped tests explicitly marked as skipped.

- Issue #19595, #19987: Re-enabled a long-disabled test in test_winsound.

- Issue #19588: Fixed tests in test_random that were silently skipped most
  of the time.  Patch by Julian Gindi.

Build
-----

- Issue #19728: Enable pip installation by default on Windows.

- Issue #16136: Remove VMS support

- Issue #18215: Add script Tools/ssl/test_multiple_versions.py to compile and
  run Python's unit tests with multiple versions of OpenSSL.

- Issue #19922: define _INCLUDE__STDC_A1_SOURCE in HP-UX to include mbstate_t
  for mbrtowc().

- Issue #19788: kill_python(_d).exe is now run as a PreBuildEvent on the
  pythoncore sub-project.  This should prevent build errors due a previous
  build's python(_d).exe still running.

Documentation
-------------

- Issue #20265: Updated some parts of the Using Windows document.

- Issue #20266: Updated some parts of the Windows FAQ.

- Issue #20255: Updated the about and bugs pages.

- Issue #20253: Fixed a typo in the ipaddress docs that advertised an
  illegal attribute name.  Found by INADA Naoki.

- Issue #18840: Introduce the json module in the tutorial, and de-emphasize
  the pickle module.

- Issue #19845: Updated the Compiling Python on Windows section.

- Issue #19795: Improved markup of True/False constants.

Tools/Demos
-----------

- Issue #19659: Added documentation for Argument Clinic.

- Issue #19976: Argument Clinic METH_NOARGS functions now always
  take two parameters.

What's New in Python 3.4.0 Beta 1?
==================================

Release date: 2013-11-24

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Use the repr of a module name in more places in import, especially
  exceptions.

- Issue #19619: str.encode, bytes.decode and bytearray.decode now use an
  internal API to throw LookupError for known non-text encodings, rather
  than attempting the encoding or decoding operation and then throwing a
  TypeError for an unexpected output type. (The latter mechanism remains
  in place for third party non-text encodings)

- Issue #19183: Implement PEP 456 'secure and interchangeable hash algorithm'.
  Python now uses SipHash24 on all major platforms.

- Issue #12892: The utf-16* and utf-32* encoders no longer allow surrogate code
  points (U+D800-U+DFFF) to be encoded.  The utf-32* decoders no longer decode
  byte sequences that correspond to surrogate code points.  The surrogatepass
  error handler now works with the utf-16* and utf-32* codecs.  Based on
  patches by Victor Stinner and Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu.

- Issue #17806: Added keyword-argument support for "tabsize" to
  str/bytes.expandtabs().

- Issue #17828: Output type errors in str.encode(), bytes.decode() and
  bytearray.decode() now direct users to codecs.encode() or codecs.decode()
  as appropriate.

- Issue #17828: The interpreter now attempts to chain errors that occur in
  codec processing with a replacement exception of the same type that
  includes the codec name in the error message. It ensures it only does this
  when the creation of the replacement exception won't lose any information.

- Issue #19466: Clear the frames of daemon threads earlier during the
  Python shutdown to call objects destructors. So "unclosed file" resource
  warnings are now corretly emitted for daemon threads.

- Issue #19514: Deduplicate some _Py_IDENTIFIER declarations.
  Patch by Andrei Dorian Duma.

- Issue #17936: Fix O(n**2) behaviour when adding or removing many subclasses
  of a given type.

- Issue #19428: zipimport now handles errors when reading truncated or invalid
  ZIP archive.

- Issue #18408: Add a new PyFrame_FastToLocalsWithError() function to handle
  exceptions when merging fast locals into f_locals of a frame.
  PyEval_GetLocals() now raises an exception and return NULL on failure.

- Issue #19369: Optimized the usage of __length_hint__().

- Issue #18603: Ensure that PyOS_mystricmp and PyOS_mystrnicmp are in the
  Python executable and not removed by the linker's optimizer.

- Issue #19306: Add extra hints to the faulthandler module's stack
  dumps that these are "upside down".

Library
-------

- Issue #3158: doctest can now find doctests in functions and methods
  written in C.

- Issue #13477: Added command line interface to the tarfile module.
  Original patch by Berker Peksag.

- Issue #19674: inspect.signature() now produces a correct signature
  for some builtins.

- Issue #19722: Added opcode.stack_effect(), which
  computes the stack effect of bytecode instructions.

- Issue #19735: Implement private function ssl._create_stdlib_context() to
  create SSLContext objects in Python's stdlib module. It provides a single
  configuration point and makes use of SSLContext.load_default_certs().

- Issue #16203: Add re.fullmatch() function and regex.fullmatch() method,
  which anchor the pattern at both ends of the string to match.
  Original patch by Matthew Barnett.

- Issue #13592: Improved the repr for regular expression pattern objects.
  Based on patch by Hugo Lopes Tavares.

- Issue #19641: Added the audioop.byteswap() function to convert big-endian
  samples to little-endian and vice versa.

- Issue #15204: Deprecated the 'U' mode in file-like objects.

- Issue #17810: Implement PEP 3154, pickle protocol 4.

- Issue #19668: Added support for the cp1125 encoding.

- Issue #19689: Add ssl.create_default_context() factory function. It creates
  a new SSLContext object with secure default settings.

- Issue #19727: os.utime(..., None) is now potentially more precise
  under Windows.

- Issue #17201: ZIP64 extensions now are enabled by default.  Patch by
  William Mallard.

- Issue #19292: Add SSLContext.load_default_certs() to load default root CA
  certificates from default stores or system stores. By default the method
  loads CA certs for authentication of server certs.

- Issue #19673: Add pathlib to the stdlib as a provisional module (PEP 428).

- Issue #16596: pdb in a generator now properly skips over yield and
  yield from rather than stepping out of the generator into its
  caller.  (This is essential for stepping through asyncio coroutines.)

- Issue #17916: Added dis.Bytecode.from_traceback() and
  dis.Bytecode.current_offset to easily display "current instruction"
  markers in the new disassembly API (Patch by Claudiu Popa).

- Issue #19552: venv now supports bootstrapping pip into virtual environments

- Issue #17134: Finalize interface to Windows' certificate store. Cert and
  CRL enumeration are now two functions. enum_certificates() also returns
  purpose flags as set of OIDs.

- Issue #19555: Restore sysconfig.get_config_var('SO'), (and the distutils
  equivalent) with a DeprecationWarning pointing people at $EXT_SUFFIX.

- Issue #8813: Add SSLContext.verify_flags to change the verification flags
  of the context in order to enable certification revocation list (CRL)
  checks or strict X509 rules.

- Issue #18294: Fix the zlib module to make it 64-bit safe.

- Issue #19682: Fix compatibility issue with old version of OpenSSL that
  was introduced by Issue #18379.

- Issue #14455: plistlib now supports binary plists and has an updated API.

- Issue #19633: Fixed writing not compressed 16- and 32-bit wave files on
  big-endian platforms.

- Issue #18379: SSLSocket.getpeercert() returns CA issuer AIA fields, OCSP
  and CRL distribution points.

- Issue #18138: Implement cadata argument of SSLContext.load_verify_location()
  to load CA certificates and CRL from memory. It supports PEM and DER
  encoded strings.

- Issue #18775: Add name and block_size attribute to HMAC object. They now
  provide the same API elements as non-keyed cryptographic hash functions.

- Issue #17276: MD5 as default digestmod for HMAC is deprecated. The HMAC
  module supports digestmod names, e.g. hmac.HMAC('sha1').

- Issue #19449: in csv's writerow, handle non-string keys when generating the
  error message that certain keys are not in the 'fieldnames' list.

- Issue #13633: Added a new convert_charrefs keyword arg to HTMLParser that,
  when True, automatically converts all character references.

- Issue #2927: Added the unescape() function to the html module.

- Issue #8402: Added the escape() function to the glob module.

- Issue #17618: Add Base85 and Ascii85 encoding/decoding to the base64 module.

- Issue #19634: time.strftime("%y") now raises a ValueError on AIX when given a
  year before 1900.

- Fix test.support.bind_port() to not cause an error when Python was compiled
  on a system with SO_REUSEPORT defined in the headers but run on a system
  with an OS kernel that does not support that reasonably new socket option.

- Fix compilation error under gcc of the ctypes module bundled libffi for arm.

- Issue #19448: Add private API to SSL module to lookup ASN.1 objects by OID,
  NID, short name and long name.

- Issue #19282: dbm.open now supports the context management protocol. (Inital
  patch by Claudiu Popa)

- Issue #8311: Added support for writing any bytes-like objects in the aifc,
  sunau, and wave modules.

- Issue #5202: Added support for unseekable files in the wave module.

- Issue #19544 and Issue #1180: Restore global option to ignore
  ~/.pydistutils.cfg in Distutils, accidentally removed in backout of
  distutils2 changes.

- Issue #19523: Closed FileHandler leak which occurred when delay was set.

- Issue #19544 and Issue #6516: Restore support for --user and --group
  parameters to sdist command accidentally rolled back as part of the
  distutils2 rollback.

- Issue #13674: Prevented time.strftime from crashing on Windows when given
  a year before 1900 and a format of %y.

- Issue #19406: implementation of the ensurepip module (part of PEP 453).
  Patch by Donald Stufft and Nick Coghlan.

- Issue #19544 and Issue #6286: Restore use of urllib over http allowing use
  of http_proxy for Distutils upload command, a feature accidentally lost
  in the rollback of distutils2.

- Issue #19544 and Issue #7457: Restore the read_pkg_file method to
  distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata accidentally removed in the undo of
  distutils2.

- Issue #16685: Added support for any bytes-like objects in the audioop module.
  Removed support for strings.

- Issue #7171: Add Windows implementation of ``inet_ntop`` and ``inet_pton``
  to socket module. Patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.

- Issue #19261: Added support for writing 24-bit samples in the sunau module.

- Issue #1097797: Added CP273 encoding, used on IBM mainframes in
  Germany and Austria.  Mapping provided by Michael Bierenfeld.

- Issue #1575020: Fixed support of 24-bit wave files on big-endian platforms.

- Issue #19378: Fixed a number of cases in the dis module where the new
  "file" parameter was not being honoured correctly

- Issue #19378: Removed the "dis.Bytecode.show_info" method

- Issue #19378: Renamed the "dis.Bytecode.display_code" method to
  "dis.Bytecode.dis" and converted it to returning a string rather than
  printing output.

- Issue #19378: the "line_offset" parameter in the new "dis.get_instructions"
  API has been renamed to "first_line" (and the default value and usage
  changed accordingly). This should reduce confusion with the more common use
  of "offset" in the dis docs to refer to bytecode offsets.

- Issue #18678: Corrected spwd struct member names in spwd module:
  sp_nam->sp_namp, and sp_pwd->sp_pwdp.  The old names are kept as extra
  structseq members, for backward compatibility.

- Issue #6157: Fixed tkinter.Text.debug().  tkinter.Text.bbox() now raises
  TypeError instead of TclError on wrong number of arguments.  Original patch
  by Guilherme Polo.

- Issue #10197: Rework subprocess.get[status]output to use subprocess
  functionality and thus to work on Windows. Patch by Nick Coghlan

- Issue #6160: The bbox() method of tkinter.Spinbox now returns a tuple of
  integers instead of a string.  Based on patch by Guilherme Polo.

- Issue #19403: contextlib.redirect_stdout is now reentrant

- Issue #19286: Directories in ``package_data`` are no longer added to
  the filelist, preventing failure outlined in the ticket.

- Issue #19480: HTMLParser now accepts all valid start-tag names as defined
  by the HTML5 standard.

- Issue #15114: The html.parser module now raises a DeprecationWarning when the
  strict argument of HTMLParser or the HTMLParser.error method are used.

- Issue #19410: Undo the special-casing removal of '' for
  importlib.machinery.FileFinder.

- Issue #19424: Fix the warnings module to accept filename containing surrogate
  characters.

- Issue #19435: Fix directory traversal attack on CGIHttpRequestHandler.

- Issue #19227: Remove pthread_atfork() handler. The handler was added to
  solve #18747 but has caused issues.

- Issue #19420: Fix reference leak in module initalization code of
  _hashopenssl.c

- Issue #19329: Optimized compiling charsets in regular expressions.

- Issue #19227: Try to fix deadlocks caused by re-seeding then OpenSSL
  pseudo-random number generator on fork().

- Issue #16037: HTTPMessage.readheaders() raises an HTTPException when more than
  100 headers are read.  Adapted from patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.

- Issue #16040: CVE-2013-1752: nntplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to
  prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory.  Patch by Jyrki
  Pulliainen.

- Issue #16041: CVE-2013-1752: poplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to
  prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory.  Patch by Jyrki
  Pulliainen.

- Issue #17997: Change behavior of ``ssl.match_hostname()`` to follow RFC 6125,
  for security reasons.  It now doesn't match multiple wildcards nor wildcards
  inside IDN fragments.

- Issue #16039: CVE-2013-1752: Change use of readline in imaplib module to limit
  line length.  Patch by Emil Lind.

- Issue #19330: the unnecessary wrapper functions have been removed from the
  implementations of the new contextlib.redirect_stdout and
  contextlib.suppress context managers, which also ensures they provide
  reasonable help() output on instances

- Issue #19393: Fix symtable.symtable function to not be confused when there are
  functions or classes named "top".

- Issue #18685: Restore re performance to pre-PEP 393 levels.

- Issue #19339: telnetlib module is now using time.monotonic() when available
  to compute timeout.

- Issue #19399: fix sporadic test_subprocess failure.

- Issue #13234: Fix os.listdir to work with extended paths on Windows.
  Patch by Santoso Wijaya.

- Issue #19375: The site module adding a "site-python" directory to sys.path,
  if it exists, is now deprecated.

- Issue #19379: Lazily import linecache in the warnings module, to make
  startup with warnings faster until a warning gets printed.

- Issue #19288: Fixed the "in" operator of dbm.gnu databases for string
  argument.  Original patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.

- Issue #19287: Fixed the "in" operator of dbm.ndbm databases for string
  argument.  Original patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.

- Issue #19327: Fixed the working of regular expressions with too big charset.

- Issue #17400: New 'is_global' attribute for ipaddress to tell if an address
  is allocated by IANA for global or private networks.

- Issue #19350: Increasing the test coverage of macurl2path. Patch by Colin
  Williams.

- Issue #19365: Optimized the parsing of long replacement string in re.sub*()
  functions.

- Issue #19352: Fix unittest discovery when a module can be reached
  through several paths (e.g. under Debian/Ubuntu with virtualenv).

- Issue #15207: Fix mimetypes to read from correct part of Windows registry
  Original patch by Dave Chambers

- Issue #16595: Add prlimit() to resource module.

- Issue #19324: Expose Linux-specific constants in resource module.

- Load SSL's error strings in hashlib.

- Issue #18527: Upgrade internal copy of zlib to 1.2.8.

- Issue #19274: Add a filterfunc parameter to PyZipFile.writepy.

- Issue #8964: fix platform._sys_version to handle IronPython 2.6+.
  Patch by Martin Matusiak.

- Issue #19413: Restore pre-3.3 reload() semantics of re-finding modules.

- Issue #18958: Improve error message for json.load(s) while passing a string
  that starts with a UTF-8 BOM.

- Issue #19307: Improve error message for json.load(s) while passing objects
  of the wrong type.

- Issue #16038: CVE-2013-1752: ftplib: Limit amount of data read by
  limiting the call to readline().  Original patch by Michał
  Jastrzębski and Giampaolo Rodola.

- Issue #17087: Improved the repr for regular expression match objects.

Tests
-----

- Issue #19664: test_userdict's repr test no longer depends on the order
  of dict elements.

- Issue #19440: Clean up test_capi by removing an unnecessary __future__
  import, converting from test_main to unittest.main, and running the
  _testcapi module tests as subTests of a unittest TestCase method.

- Issue #19378: the main dis module tests are now run with both stdout
  redirection *and* passing an explicit file parameter

- Issue #19378: removed the not-actually-helpful assertInstructionMatches
  and assertBytecodeExactlyMatches helpers from bytecode_helper

- Issue #18702: All skipped tests now reported as skipped.

- Issue #19439: interpreter embedding tests are now executed on Windows
  (Patch by Zachary Ware)

- Issue #19085: Added basic tests for all tkinter widget options.

- Issue #19384: Fix test_py_compile for root user, patch by Claudiu Popa.

Documentation
-------------

- Issue #18326: Clarify that list.sort's arguments are keyword-only.  Also,
  attempt to reduce confusion in the glossary by not saying there are
  different "types" of arguments and parameters.

Build
-----

- Issue #19358: "make clinic" now runs the Argument Clinic preprocessor
  over all CPython source files.

- Update SQLite to 3.8.1, xz to 5.0.5, and Tcl/Tk to 8.6.1 on Windows.

- Issue #16632: Enable DEP and ASLR on Windows.

- Issue #17791: Drop PREFIX and EXEC_PREFIX definitions from PC/pyconfig.h

- Add workaround for VS 2010 nmake clean issue. VS 2010 doesn't set up PATH
  for nmake.exe correctly.

- Issue #19550: Implement Windows installer changes of PEP 453 (ensurepip).

- Issue #19520: Fix compiler warning in the _sha3 module on 32bit Windows.

- Issue #19356: Avoid using a C variabled named "_self", it's a reserved
  word in some C compilers.

- Issue #15792: Correct build options on Win64. Patch by Jeremy Kloth.

- Issue #19373: Apply upstream change to Tk 8.5.15 fixing OS X 10.9
  screen refresh problem for OS X installer build.

- Issue #19649: On OS X, the same set of file names are now installed
  in bin directories for all configurations: non-framework vs framework,
  and single arch vs universal builds.  pythonx.y-32 is now always
  installed for 64-bit/32-bit universal builds.  The obsolete and
  undocumented pythonw* symlinks are no longer installed anywhere.

- Issue #19553: PEP 453 - "make install" and "make altinstall" now install or
  upgrade pip by default, using the bundled pip provided by the new ensurepip
  module.  A new configure option, --with-ensurepip[=upgrade|install|no], is
  available to override the default ensurepip "--upgrade" option.  The option
  can also be set with "make [alt]install ENSUREPIP=[upgrade|install\no]".

- Issue #19551: PEP 453 - the OS X installer now installs pip by default.

- Update third-party libraries for OS X installers: xz 5.0.3 -> 5.0.5,
  SQLite 3.7.13 -> 3.8.1

- Issue #15663: Revert OS X installer built-in Tcl/Tk support for 3.4.0b1.
  Some third-party projects, such as Matplotlib and PIL/Pillow,
  depended on being able to build with Tcl and Tk frameworks in
  /Library/Frameworks.

Tools/Demos
-----------

- Issue #19730: Argument Clinic now supports all the existing PyArg
  "format units" as legacy converters, as well as two new features:
  "self converters" and the "version" directive.

- Issue #19552: pyvenv now bootstraps pip into virtual environments by
  default (pass --without-pip to request the old behaviour)

- Issue #19390: Argument Clinic no longer accepts malformed Python
  and C ids.

What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 4?
===================================

Release date: 2013-10-20

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #19301: Give classes and functions that are explicitly marked global a
  global qualname.

- Issue #19279: UTF-7 decoder no longer produces illegal strings.

- Issue #16612: Add "Argument Clinic", a compile-time preprocessor for
  C files to generate argument parsing code.  (See PEP 436.)

- Issue #18810: Shift stat calls in importlib.machinery.FileFinder such that
  the code is optimistic that if something exists in a directory named exactly
  like the possible package being searched for that it's in actuality a
  directory.

- Issue #18416: importlib.machinery.PathFinder now treats '' as the cwd and
  importlib.machinery.FileFinder no longer special-cases '' to '.'. This leads
  to modules imported from cwd to now possess an absolute file path for
  __file__ (this does not affect modules specified by path on the CLI but it
  does affect -m/runpy). It also allows FileFinder to be more consistent by not
  having an edge case.

- Issue #4555: All exported C symbols are now prefixed with either
  "Py" or "_Py".

- Issue #19219: Speed up marshal.loads(), and make pyc files slightly
  (5% to 10%) smaller.

- Issue #19221: Upgrade Unicode database to version 6.3.0.

- Issue #16742: The result of the C callback PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer must
  now be a string allocated by PyMem_RawMalloc() or PyMem_RawRealloc() (or NULL
  if an error occurred), instead of a string allocated by PyMem_Malloc() or
  PyMem_Realloc().

- Issue #19199: Remove ``PyThreadState.tick_counter`` field

- Fix macro expansion of _PyErr_OCCURRED(), and make sure to use it in at
  least one place so as to avoid regressions.

- Issue #19087: Improve bytearray allocation in order to allow cheap popping
  of data at the front (slice deletion).

- Issue #19014: memoryview.cast() is now allowed on zero-length views.

- Issue #18690: memoryview is now automatically registered with
  collections.abc.Sequence

- Issue #19078: memoryview now correctly supports the reversed builtin
  (Patch by Claudiu Popa)

Library
-------

- Issue #17457: unittest test discovery now works with namespace packages.
  Patch by Claudiu Popa.

- Issue #18235: Fix the sysconfig variables LDSHARED and BLDSHARED under AIX.
  Patch by David Edelsohn.

- Issue #18606: Add the new "statistics" module (PEP 450).  Contributed
  by Steven D'Aprano.

- Issue #12866: The audioop module now supports 24-bit samples.

- Issue #19254: Provide an optimized Python implementation of pbkdf2_hmac.

- Issues #19201, Issue #19222, Issue #19223: Add "x" mode (exclusive creation)
  in opening file to bz2, gzip and lzma modules. Patches by Tim Heaney and
  Vajrasky Kok.

- Fix a reference count leak in _sre.

- Issue #19262: Initial check in of the 'asyncio' package (a.k.a. Tulip,
  a.k.a. PEP 3156).  There are no docs yet, and the PEP is slightly
  out of date with the code.  This module will have *provisional* status
  in Python 3.4.

- Issue #19276: Fixed the wave module on 64-bit big-endian platforms.

- Issue #19266: Rename the new-in-3.4 ``contextlib.ignore`` context manager
  to ``contextlib.suppress`` in order to be more consistent with existing
  descriptions of that operation elsewhere in the language and standard
  library documentation (Patch by Zero Piraeus).

- Issue #18891: Completed the new email package (provisional) API additions
  by adding new classes EmailMessage, MIMEPart, and ContentManager.

- Issue #18281: Unused stat constants removed from `tarfile`.

- Issue #18999: Multiprocessing now supports 'contexts' with the same API
  as the module, but bound to specified start methods.

- Issue #18468: The re.split, re.findall, and re.sub functions and the group()
  and groups() methods of match object now always return a string or a bytes
  object.

- Issue #18725: The textwrap module now supports truncating multiline text.

- Issue #18776: atexit callbacks now display their full traceback when they
  raise an exception.

- Issue #17827: Add the missing documentation for ``codecs.encode`` and
  ``codecs.decode``.

- Issue #19218: Rename collections.abc to _collections_abc in order to
  speed up interpreter start.

- Issue #18582: Add 'pbkdf2_hmac' to the hashlib module. It implements PKCS#5
  password-based key derivation functions with HMAC as pseudorandom function.

- Issue #19131: The aifc module now correctly reads and writes sampwidth of
  compressed streams.

- Issue #19209: Remove import of copyreg from the os module to speed up
  interpreter startup. stat_result and statvfs_result are now hard-coded to
  reside in the os module.

- Issue #19205: Don't import the 're' module in site and sysconfig module to
  speed up interpreter start.

- Issue #9548: Add a minimal "_bootlocale" module that is imported by the
  _io module instead of the full locale module.

- Issue #18764: remove the 'print' alias for the PDB 'p' command so that it no
  longer shadows the print function.

- Issue #19158:  a rare race in BoundedSemaphore could allow .release() too
  often.

- Issue #15805: Add contextlib.redirect_stdout().

- Issue #18716: Deprecate the formatter module.

- Issue #10712: 2to3 has a new "asserts" fixer that replaces deprecated names
  of unittest methods (e.g. failUnlessEqual -> assertEqual).

- Issue #18037: 2to3 now escapes '\u' and '\U' in native strings.

- Issue #17839: base64.decodebytes and base64.encodebytes now accept any
  object that exports a 1 dimensional array of bytes (this means the same
  is now also true for base64_codec)

- Issue #19132: The pprint module now supports compact mode.

- Issue #19137: The pprint module now correctly formats instances of set and
  frozenset subclasses.

- Issue #10042: functools.total_ordering now correctly handles
  NotImplemented being returned by the underlying comparison function (Patch
  by Katie Miller)

- Issue #19092: contextlib.ExitStack now correctly reraises exceptions
  from the __exit__ callbacks of inner context managers (Patch by Hrvoje
  Nikšić)

- Issue #12641: Avoid passing "-mno-cygwin" to the mingw32 compiler, except
  when necessary.  Patch by Oscar Benjamin.

- Issue #5845: In site.py, only load readline history from ~/.python_history
  if no history has been read already.  This avoids double writes to the
  history file at shutdown.

- Properly initialize all fields of a SSL object after allocation.

- Issue #19095: SSLSocket.getpeercert() now raises ValueError when the
  SSL handshake hasn't been done.

- Issue #4366: Fix building extensions on all platforms when --enable-shared
  is used.

- Issue #19030: Fixed `inspect.getmembers` and `inspect.classify_class_attrs`
  to attempt activating descriptors before falling back to a __dict__ search
  for faulty descriptors.  `inspect.classify_class_attrs` no longer returns
  Attributes whose home class is None.

C API
-----

- Issue #1772673: The type of `char*` arguments now changed to `const char*`.

- Issue #16129: Added a `Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding` pre-initialization API
  to allow embedding applications like Blender to force a particular
  encoding and error handler for the standard IO streams (initial patch by
  Bastien Montagne)

Tests
-----

- Issue #19275: Fix test_site on AMD64 Snow Leopard

- Issue #14407: Fix unittest test discovery in test_concurrent_futures.

- Issue #18919: Unified and extended tests for audio modules: aifc, sunau and
  wave.

- Issue #18714: Added tests for ``pdb.find_function()``.

Documentation
-------------

- Issue #18758: Fixed and improved cross-references.

- Issue #18972: Modernize email examples and use the argparse module in them.

Build
-----

- Issue #19130: Correct PCbuild/readme.txt, Python 3.3 and 3.4 require VS 2010.

- Issue #15663: Update OS X 10.6+ installer to use Tcl/Tk 8.5.15.

- Issue #14499: Fix several problems with OS X universal build support:
    1. ppc arch detection for extension module builds broke with Xcode 5
    2. ppc arch detection in configure did not work on OS X 10.4
    3. -sysroot and -arch flags were unnecessarily duplicated
    4. there was no obvious way to configure an intel-32 only build.

- Issue #19019: Change the OS X installer build script to use CFLAGS instead
  of OPT for special build options.  By setting OPT, some compiler-specific
  options like -fwrapv were overridden and thus not used, which could result
  in broken interpreters when building with clang.

What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 3?
===================================

Release date: 2013-09-29

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #18818: The "encodingname" part of PYTHONIOENCODING is now optional.

- Issue #19098: Prevent overflow in the compiler when the recursion limit is set
  absurdly high.

Library
-------

- Issue #18929: `inspect.classify_class_attrs()` now correctly finds class
  attributes returned by `dir()` that are located in the metaclass.

- Issue #18950: Fix miscellaneous bugs in the sunau module.
  Au_read.readframes() now updates current file position and reads correct
  number of frames from multichannel stream.  Au_write.writeframesraw() now
  correctly updates current file position.  Au_read.getnframes() now returns an
  integer (as in Python 2).  Au_read and Au_write now correctly works with file
  object if start file position is not a zero.

- Issue #18594: The fast path for collections.Counter() was never taken
  due to an over-restrictive type check.

- Issue #19053: ZipExtFile.read1() with non-zero argument no more returns empty
  bytes until end of data.

- logging: added support for Unix domain sockets to SocketHandler and
  DatagramHandler.

- Issue #18996: TestCase.assertEqual() now more cleverly shorten differing
  strings in error report.

- Issue #19034: repr() for tkinter.Tcl_Obj now exposes string reperesentation.

- Issue #18978: ``urllib.request.Request`` now allows the method to be
  indicated on the class and no longer sets it to None in ``__init__``.

- Issue #18626: the inspect module now offers a basic command line
  introspection interface (Initial patch by Claudiu Popa)

- Issue #3015: Fixed tkinter with wantobject=False.  Any Tcl command call
  returned empty string.

- Issue #19037: The mailbox module now makes all changes to maildir files
  before moving them into place, to avoid race conditions with other programs
  that may be accessing the maildir directory.

- Issue #14984: On POSIX systems, when netrc is called without a filename
  argument (and therefore is reading the user's $HOME/.netrc file), it now
  enforces the same security rules as typical ftp clients: the .netrc file must
  be owned by the user that owns the process and must not be readable by any
  other user.

- Issue #18873: The tokenize module now detects Python source code encoding
  only in comment lines.

- Issue #17764: Enable http.server to bind to a user specified network
  interface.  Patch contributed by Malte Swart.

- Issue #18937: Add an assertLogs() context manager to unittest.TestCase
  to ensure that a block of code emits a message using the logging module.

- Issue #17324: Fix http.server's request handling case on trailing '/'. Patch
  contributed by Vajrasky Kok.

- Issue #19018: The heapq.merge() function no longer suppresses IndexError
  in the underlying iterables.

- Issue #18784: The uuid module no longer attempts to load libc via ctypes.CDLL
  if all the necessary functions have already been found in libuuid.  Patch by
  Evgeny Sologubov.

- The :envvar:`PYTHONFAULTHANDLER` environment variable now only enables the
  faulthandler module if the variable is non-empty. Same behaviour than other
  variables like :envvar:`PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE`.

- Issue #1565525: New function ``traceback.clear_frames`` will clear
  the local variables of all the stack frames referenced by a traceback
  object.

Tests
-----

- Issue #18952: Fix regression in support data downloads introduced when
  test.support was converted to a package. Regression noticed by Zachary
  Ware.

IDLE
----

- Issue #18873: IDLE now detects Python source code encoding only in comment
  lines.

- Issue #18988: The "Tab" key now works when a word is already autocompleted.

Documentation
-------------

- Issue #17003: Unified the size argument names in the io module with common
  practice.

Build
-----

- Issue #18596: Support the use of address sanity checking in recent versions
  of clang and GCC by appropriately marking known false alarms in the small
  object allocator. Patch contributed by Dhiru Kholia.

Tools/Demos
-----------

- Issue #18873: 2to3 and the findnocoding.py script now detect Python source
  code encoding only in comment lines.


What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 2?
===================================

Release date: 2013-09-09

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #18942: sys._debugmallocstats() output was damaged on Windows.

- Issue #18571: Implementation of the PEP 446: file descriptors and file
  handles are now created non-inheritable; add functions
  os.get/set_inheritable(), os.get/set_handle_inheritable() and
  socket.socket.get/set_inheritable().

- Issue #11619: The parser and the import machinery do not encode Unicode
  filenames anymore on Windows.

- Issue #18808: Non-daemon threads are now automatically joined when
  a sub-interpreter is shutdown (it would previously dump a fatal error).

- Remove support for compiling on systems without getcwd().

- Issue #18774: Remove last bits of GNU PTH thread code and thread_pth.h.

- Issue #18771: Add optimization to set object lookups to reduce the cost
  of hash collisions.  The core idea is to inspect a second key/hash pair
  for each cache line retrieved.

- Issue #16105: When a signal handler fails to write to the file descriptor
  registered with ``signal.set_wakeup_fd()``, report an exception instead
  of ignoring the error.

- Issue #18722: Remove uses of the "register" keyword in C code.

- Issue #18667: Add missing "HAVE_FCHOWNAT" symbol to posix._have_functions.

- Issue #16499: Add command line option for isolated mode.

- Issue #15301: Parsing fd, uid, and gid parameters for builtins
  in Modules/posixmodule.c is now far more robust.

- Issue #18368: PyOS_StdioReadline() no longer leaks memory when realloc()
  fail.

- Issue #17934: Add a clear() method to frame objects, to help clean up
  expensive details (local variables) and break reference cycles.

- Issue #18780: %-formatting codes %d, %i, and %u now treat int-subclasses
  as int (displays value of int-subclass instead of str(int-subclass) ).

Library
-------

- Issue #18808: Thread.join() now waits for the underlying thread state to
  be destroyed before returning.  This prevents unpredictable aborts in
  Py_EndInterpreter() when some non-daemon threads are still running.

- Issue #18458: Prevent crashes with newer versions of libedit.  Its readline
  emulation has changed from 0-based indexing to 1-based like gnu readline.

- Issue #18852: Handle case of ``readline.__doc__`` being ``None`` in the new
  readline activation code in ``site.py``.

- Issue #18672: Fixed format specifiers for Py_ssize_t in debugging output in
  the _sre module.

- Issue #18830: inspect.getclasstree() no longer produces duplicate entries even
  when input list contains duplicates.

- Issue #18878: sunau.open now supports the context management protocol.  Based on
  patches by Claudiu Popa and R. David Murray.

- Issue #18909: Fix _tkinter.tkapp.interpaddr() on Windows 64-bit, don't cast
  64-bit pointer to long (32 bits).

- Issue #18876: The FileIO.mode attribute now better reflects the actual mode
  under which the file was opened.  Patch by Erik Bray.

- Issue #16853: Add new selectors module.

- Issue #18882: Add threading.main_thread() function.

- Issue #18901: The sunau getparams method now returns a namedtuple rather than
  a plain tuple.  Patch by Claudiu Popa.

- Issue #17487: The result of the wave getparams method now is pickleable again.
  Patch by Claudiu Popa.

- Issue #18756: os.urandom() now uses a lazily-opened persistent file
  descriptor, so as to avoid using many file descriptors when run in
  parallel from multiple threads.

- Issue #18418: After fork(), reinit all threads states, not only active ones.
  Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.

- Issue #17974: Switch unittest from using getopt to using argparse.

- Issue #11798: TestSuite now drops references to own tests after execution.

- Issue #16611: http.cookie now correctly parses the 'secure' and 'httponly'
  cookie flags.

- Issue #11973: Fix a problem in kevent. The flags and fflags fields are now
  properly handled as unsigned.

- Issue #18807: ``pyvenv`` now takes a --copies argument allowing copies
  instead of symlinks even where symlinks are available and the default.

- Issue #18538: ``python -m dis`` now uses argparse for argument processing.
  Patch by Michele Orrù.

- Issue #18394: Close cgi.FieldStorage's optional file.

- Issue #17702: On error, os.environb now suppresses the exception context
  when raising a new KeyError with the original key.

- Issue #16809: Fixed some tkinter incompabilities with Tcl/Tk 8.6.

- Issue #16809: Tkinter's splitlist() and split() methods now accept Tcl_Obj
  argument.

- Issue #18324: set_payload now correctly handles binary input.  This also
  supersedes the previous fixes for #14360, #1717, and #16564.

- Issue #18794: Add a fileno() method and a closed attribute to select.devpoll
  objects.

- Issue #17119: Fixed integer overflows when processing large strings and tuples
  in the tkinter module.

- Issue #18747: Re-seed OpenSSL's pseudo-random number generator after fork.
  A pthread_atfork() parent handler is used to seed the PRNG with pid, time
  and some stack data.

- Issue #8865: Concurrent invocation of select.poll.poll() now raises a
  RuntimeError exception.  Patch by Christian Schubert.

- Issue #18777: The ssl module now uses the new CRYPTO_THREADID API of
  OpenSSL 1.0.0+ instead of the deprecated CRYPTO id callback function.

- Issue #18768: Correct doc string of RAND_edg(). Patch by Vajrasky Kok.

- Issue #18178: Fix ctypes on BSD. dlmalloc.c was compiled twice which broke
  malloc weak symbols.

- Issue #18709: Fix CVE-2013-4238. The SSL module now handles NULL bytes
  inside subjectAltName correctly. Formerly the module has used OpenSSL's
  GENERAL_NAME_print() function to get the string represention of ASN.1
  strings for ``rfc822Name`` (email), ``dNSName`` (DNS) and
  ``uniformResourceIdentifier`` (URI).

- Issue #18701: Remove support of old CPython versions (<3.0) from C code.

- Issue #18756: Improve error reporting in os.urandom() when the failure
  is due to something else than /dev/urandom not existing (for example,
  exhausting the file descriptor limit).

- Issue #18673: Add O_TMPFILE to os module. O_TMPFILE requires Linux kernel
  3.11 or newer. It's only defined on system with 3.11 uapi headers, too.

- Issue #18532: Change the builtin hash algorithms' names to lower case names
  as promised by hashlib's documentation.

- Issue #8713: add new spwan and forkserver start methods, and new functions
  get_all_start_methods, get_start_method, and set_start_method, to
  multiprocessing.

- Issue #18405: Improve the entropy of crypt.mksalt().

- Issue #12015: The tempfile module now uses a suffix of 8 random characters
  instead of 6, to reduce the risk of filename collision. The entropy was
  reduced when uppercase letters were removed from the charset used to generate
  random characters.

- Issue #18585: Add :func:`textwrap.shorten` to collapse and truncate a
  piece of text to a given length.

- Issue #18598: Tweak exception message for importlib.import_module() to
  include the module name when a key argument is missing.

- Issue #19151: Fix docstring and use of _get_supported_file_loaders() to
  reflect 2-tuples.

- Issue #19152: Add ExtensionFileLoader.get_filename().

- Issue #18676: Change 'positive' to 'non-negative' in queue.py put and get
  docstrings and ValueError messages. Patch by Zhongyue Luo

- Fix refcounting issue with extension types in tkinter.

- Issue #8112: xlmrpc.server's DocXMLRPCServer server no longer raises an error
  if methods have annotations; it now correctly displays the annotations.

- Issue #18600: Added policy argument to email.message.Message.as_string,
  and as_bytes and __bytes__ methods to Message.

- Issue #18671: Output more information when logging exceptions occur.

- Issue #18621: Prevent the site module's patched builtins from keeping
  too many references alive for too long.

- Issue #4885: Add weakref support to mmap objects.  Patch by Valerie Lambert.

- Issue #8860: Fixed rounding in timedelta constructor.

- Issue #18849: Fixed a Windows-specific tempfile bug where collision with an
  existing directory caused mkstemp and related APIs to fail instead of
  retrying. Report and fix by Vlad Shcherbina.

- Issue #18920: argparse's default destination for the version action (-v,
  --version) has also been changed to stdout, to match the Python executable.

Tests
-----

- Issue #18623: Factor out the _SuppressCoreFiles context manager into
  test.support.  Patch by Valerie Lambert.

- Issue #12037: Fix test_email for desktop Windows.

- Issue #15507: test_subprocess's test_send_signal could fail if the test
  runner were run in an environment where the process inherited an ignore
  setting for SIGINT.  Restore the SIGINT handler to the desired
  KeyboardInterrupt raising one during that test.

- Issue #16799: Switched from getopt to argparse style in regrtest's argument
  parsing.  Added more tests for regrtest's argument parsing.

- Issue #18792: Use "127.0.0.1" or "::1" instead of "localhost" as much as
  possible, since "localhost" goes through a DNS lookup under recent Windows
  versions.

IDLE
----

- Issue #18489: Add tests for SearchEngine. Original patch by Phil Webster.

Documentation
-------------

- Issue #18743: Fix references to non-existant "StringIO" module.

- Issue #18783: Removed existing mentions of Python long type in docstrings,
  error messages and comments.

Build
-----

- Issue #1584: Provide configure options to override default search paths for
  Tcl and Tk when building _tkinter.

- Issue #15663: Tcl/Tk 8.5.14 is now included with the OS X 10.6+ 64-/32-bit
  installer.  It is no longer necessary to install a third-party version of
  Tcl/Tk 8.5 to work around the problems in the Apple-supplied Tcl/Tk 8.5
  shipped in OS X 10.6 and later releases.

Tools/Demos
-----------

- Issue #18922: Now The Lib/smtpd.py and Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py scripts write
  their version strings to stdout, and not to sderr.

What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 1?
===================================

Release date: 2013-08-03

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #16741: Fix an error reporting in int().

- Issue #17899: Fix rare file descriptor leak in os.listdir().

- Issue #10241: Clear extension module dict copies at interpreter shutdown.
  Patch by Neil Schemenauer, minimally modified.

- Issue #9035: ismount now recognises volumes mounted below a drive root
  on Windows. Original patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.

- Issue #18214: Improve finalization of Python modules to avoid setting
  their globals to None, in most cases.

- Issue #18112: PEP 442 implementation (safe object finalization).

- Issue #18552: Check return value of PyArena_AddPyObject() in
  obj2ast_object().

- Issue #18560: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in sum().

- Issue #18520: Add a new PyStructSequence_InitType2() function, same than
  PyStructSequence_InitType() except that it has a return value (0 on success,
  -1 on error).

- Issue #15905: Fix theoretical buffer overflow in handling of sys.argv[0],
  prefix and exec_prefix if the operation system does not obey MAXPATHLEN.

- Issue #18408: Fix many various bugs in code handling errors, especially
  on memory allocation failure (MemoryError).

- Issue #18344: Fix potential ref-leaks in _bufferedreader_read_all().

- Issue #18342: Use the repr of a module name when an import fails when using
  ``from ... import ...``.

- Issue #17872: Fix a segfault in marshal.load() when input stream returns
  more bytes than requested.

- Issue #18338: `python --version` now prints version string to stdout, and
  not to stderr.  Patch by Berker Peksag and Michael Dickens.

- Issue #18426: Fix NULL pointer dereference in C extension import when
  PyModule_GetDef() returns an error.

- Issue #17206: On Windows, increase the stack size from 2 MB to 4.2 MB to fix
  a stack overflow in the marshal module (fix a crash in test_marshal).
  Patch written by Jeremy Kloth.

- Issue #3329: Implement the PEP 445: Add new APIs to customize Python memory
  allocators.

- Issue #18328: Reorder ops in PyThreadState_Delete*() functions. Now the
  tstate is first removed from TLS and then deallocated.

- Issue #13483: Use VirtualAlloc in obmalloc on Windows.

- Issue #18184: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyUnicode_FromFormatV() now raise
  OverflowError when an argument of %c format is out of range.

- Issue #18111: The min() and max() functions now support a default argument
  to be returned instead of raising a ValueError on an empty sequence.
  (Contributed by Julian Berman.)

- Issue #18137: Detect integer overflow on precision in float.__format__()
  and complex.__format__().

- Issue #18183: Fix various unicode operations on strings with large unicode
  codepoints.

- Issue #18180: Fix ref leak in _PyImport_GetDynLoadWindows().

- Issue #18038: SyntaxError raised during compilation sources with illegal
  encoding now always contains an encoding name.

- Issue #17931: Resolve confusion on Windows between pids and process
  handles.

- Tweak the exception message when the magic number or size value in a bytecode
  file is truncated.

- Issue #17932: Fix an integer overflow issue on Windows 64-bit in iterators:
  change the C type of seqiterobject.it_index from long to Py_ssize_t.

- Issue #18065: Don't set __path__ to the package name for frozen packages.

- Issue #18088: When reloading a module, unconditionally reset all relevant
  attributes on the module (e.g. __name__, __loader__, __package__, __file__,
  __cached__).

- Issue #17937: Try harder to collect cyclic garbage at shutdown.

- Issue #12370: Prevent class bodies from interfering with the __class__
  closure.

- Issue #17644: Fix a crash in str.format when curly braces are used in square
  brackets.

- Issue #17237: Fix crash in the ASCII decoder on m68k.

- Issue #17927: Frame objects kept arguments alive if they had been
  copied into a cell, even if the cell was cleared.

- Issue #1545463: At shutdown, defer finalization of codec modules so
  that stderr remains usable.

- Issue #7330: Implement width and precision (ex: "%5.3s") for the format
  string of PyUnicode_FromFormat() function, original patch written by Ysj Ray.

- Issue #1545463: Global variables caught in reference cycles are now
  garbage-collected at shutdown.

- Issue #17094: Clear stale thread states after fork().  Note that this
  is a potentially disruptive change since it may release some system
  resources which would otherwise remain perpetually alive (e.g. database
  connections kept in thread-local storage).

- Issue #17408: Avoid using an obsolete instance of the copyreg module when
  the interpreter is shutdown and then started again.

- Issue #5845: Enable tab-completion in the interactive interpreter by
  default, thanks to a new sys.__interactivehook__.

- Issue #17115,17116: Module initialization now includes setting __package__ and
  __loader__ attributes to None.

- Issue #17853: Ensure locals of a class that shadow free variables always win
  over the closures.

- Issue #17863: In the interactive console, don't loop forever if the encoding
  can't be fetched from stdin.

- Issue #17867: Raise an ImportError if __import__ is not found in __builtins__.

- Issue #18698: Ensure importlib.reload() returns the module out of sys.modules.

- Issue #17857: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of sqlite3,
  such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.

- Issue #17413: sys.settrace callbacks were being passed a string instead of an
  exception instance for the 'value' element of the arg tuple if the exception
  originated from C code; now an exception instance is always provided.

- Issue #17782: Fix undefined behaviour on platforms where
  ``struct timespec``'s "tv_nsec" member is not a C long.

- Issue #17722: When looking up __round__, resolve descriptors.

- Issue #16061: Speed up str.replace() for replacing 1-character strings.

- Issue #17715: Fix segmentation fault from raising an exception in a __trunc__
  method.

- Issue #17643: Add __callback__ attribute to weakref.ref.

- Issue #16447: Fixed potential segmentation fault when setting __name__ on a
  class.

- Issue #17669: Fix crash involving finalization of generators using yield from.

- Issue #14439: Python now prints the traceback on runpy failure at startup.

- Issue #17469: Fix _Py_GetAllocatedBlocks() and sys.getallocatedblocks()
  when running on valgrind.

- Issue #17619: Make input() check for Ctrl-C correctly on Windows.

- Issue #17357: Add missing verbosity messages for -v/-vv that were lost during
  the importlib transition.

- Issue #17610: Don't rely on non-standard behavior of the C qsort() function.

- Issue #17323: The "[X refs, Y blocks]" printed by debug builds has been
  disabled by default.  It can be re-enabled with the `-X showrefcount` option.

- Issue #17328: Fix possible refleak in dict.setdefault.

- Issue #17275: Corrected class name in init error messages of the C version of
  BufferedWriter and BufferedRandom.

- Issue #7963: Fixed misleading error message that issued when object is
  called without arguments.

- Issue #8745: Small speed up zipimport on Windows. Patch by Catalin Iacob.

- Issue #5308: Raise ValueError when marshalling too large object (a sequence
  with size >= 2**31), instead of producing illegal marshal data.

- Issue #12983: Bytes literals with invalid \x escape now raise a SyntaxError
  and a full traceback including line number.

- Issue #16967: In function definition, evaluate positional defaults before
  keyword-only defaults.

- Issue #17173: Remove uses of locale-dependent C functions (isalpha() etc.)
  in the interpreter.

- Issue #17137: When an Unicode string is resized, the internal wide character
  string (wstr) format is now cleared.

- Issue #17043: The unicode-internal decoder no longer read past the end of
  input buffer.

- Issue #17098: All modules now have __loader__ set even if they pre-exist the
  bootstrapping of importlib.

- Issue #16979: Fix error handling bugs in the unicode-escape-decode decoder.

- Issue #16772: The base argument to the int constructor no longer accepts
  floats, or other non-integer objects with an __int__ method.  Objects
  with an __index__ method are now accepted.

- Issue #10156: In the interpreter's initialization phase, unicode globals
  are now initialized dynamically as needed.

- Issue #16980: Fix processing of escaped non-ascii bytes in the
  unicode-escape-decode decoder.

- Issue #16975: Fix error handling bug in the escape-decode bytes decoder.

- Issue #14850: Now a charmap decoder treats U+FFFE as "undefined mapping"
  in any mapping, not only in a string.

- Issue #16613: Add *m* argument to ``collections.Chainmap.new_child`` to
  allow the new child map to be specified explicitly.

- Issue #16730: importlib.machinery.FileFinder now no longers raises an
  exception when trying to populate its cache and it finds out the directory is
  unreadable or has turned into a file. Reported and diagnosed by
  David Pritchard.

- Issue #16906: Fix a logic error that prevented most static strings from being
  cleared.

- Issue #11461: Fix the incremental UTF-16 decoder. Original patch by
  Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.

- Issue #16856: Fix a segmentation fault from calling repr() on a dict with
  a key whose repr raise an exception.

- Issue #16367: Fix FileIO.readall() on Windows for files larger than 2 GB.

- Issue #16761: Calling int() with base argument only now raises TypeError.

- Issue #16759: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Reg2Py
  when retrieving a REG_DWORD value. This corrects functions like
  winreg.QueryValueEx that may have been returning truncated values.

- Issue #14420: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Py2Reg
  when passed a REG_DWORD value. Fixes OverflowError in winreg.SetValueEx.

- Issue #11939: Set the st_dev attribute of stat_result to allow Windows to
  take advantage of the os.path.samefile/sameopenfile/samestat implementations
  used by other platforms.

- Issue #16772: The int() constructor's second argument (base) no longer
  accepts non integer values.  Consistent with the behavior in Python 2.

- Issue #14470: Remove w9xpopen support per PEP 11.

- Issue #9856: Replace deprecation warning with raising TypeError
  in object.__format__. Patch by Florent Xicluna.

- Issue #16597: In buffered and text IO, call close() on the underlying stream
  if invoking flush() fails.

- Issue #16722: In the bytes() constructor, try to call __bytes__ on the
  argument before __index__.

- Issue #16421: loading multiple modules from one shared object is now
  handled correctly (previously, the first module loaded from that file
  was silently returned). Patch by Václav Šmilauer.

- Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation
  chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though
  its refcount had dropped to zero.

- Issue #16495: Remove extraneous NULL encoding check from bytes_decode().

- Issue #16619: Create NameConstant AST class to represent None, True, and False
  literals. As a result, these constants are never loaded at runtime from
  builtins.

- Issue #16455: On FreeBSD and Solaris, if the locale is C, the
  ASCII/surrogateescape codec is now used (instead of the locale encoding) to
  decode the command line arguments. This change fixes inconsistencies with
  os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode(), because these operating systems announce an
  ASCII locale encoding, but actually use the ISO-8859-1 encoding in practice.

- Issue #16562: Optimize dict equality testing.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #16588: Silence unused-but-set warnings in Python/thread_pthread

- Issue #16592: stringlib_bytes_join doesn't raise MemoryError on allocation
  failure.

- Issue #16546: Fix: ast.YieldFrom argument is now mandatory.

- Issue #16514: Fix regression causing a traceback when sys.path[0] is None
  (actually, any non-string or non-bytes type).

- Issue #16306: Fix multiple error messages when unknown command line
  parameters where passed to the interpreter.  Patch by Hieu Nguyen.

- Issue #16215: Fix potential double memory free in str.replace().  Patch
  by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #16290: A float return value from the __complex__ special method is no
  longer accepted in the complex() constructor.

- Issue #16416: On Mac OS X, operating system data are now always
  encoded/decoded to/from UTF-8/surrogateescape, instead of the locale encoding
  (which may be ASCII if no locale environment variable is set), to avoid
  inconsistencies with os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() functions which are
  already using UTF-8/surrogateescape.

- Issue #16453: Fix equality testing of dead weakref objects.

- Issue #9535: Fix pending signals that have been received but not yet
  handled by Python to not persist after os.fork() in the child process.

- Issue #14794: Fix slice.indices to return correct results for huge values,
  rather than raising OverflowError.

- Issue #15001: fix segfault on "del sys.modules['__main__']". Patch by Victor
  Stinner.

- Issue #8271: the utf-8 decoder now outputs the correct number of U+FFFD
  characters when used with the 'replace' error handler on invalid utf-8
  sequences.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka, tests by Ezio Melotti.

- Issue #5765: Apply a hard recursion limit in the compiler instead of
  blowing the stack and segfaulting. Initial patch by Andrea Griffini.

- Issue #16402: When slicing a range, fix shadowing of exceptions from
  __index__.

- Issue #16336: fix input checking in the surrogatepass error handler.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now
  raises an error.

- Issue #7317: Display full tracebacks when an error occurs asynchronously.
  Patch by Alon Horev with update by Alexey Kachayev.

- Issue #16309: Make PYTHONPATH="" behavior the same as if PYTHONPATH
  not set at all.

- Issue #10189: Improve the error reporting of SyntaxErrors related to global
  and nonlocal statements.

- Fix segfaults on setting __qualname__ on builtin types and attempting to
  delete it on any type.

- Issue #14625: Rewrite the UTF-32 decoder. It is now 3x to 4x faster. Patch
  written by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #16345: Fix an infinite loop when ``fromkeys`` on a dict subclass
  received a nonempty dict from the constructor.

- Issue #16271: Fix strange bugs that resulted from __qualname__ appearing in a
  class's __dict__ and on type.

- Issue #12805: Make bytes.join and bytearray.join faster when the separator
  is empty.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #6074: Ensure cached bytecode files can always be updated by the
  user that created them, even when the source file is read-only.

- Issue #15958: bytes.join and bytearray.join now accept arbitrary buffer
  objects.

- Issue #14783: Improve int() docstring and switch docstrings for str(),
  range(), and slice() to use multi-line signatures.

- Issue #16160: Subclass support now works for types.SimpleNamespace.

- Issue #16148: Implement PEP 424, adding operator.length_hint and
  PyObject_LengthHint.

- Upgrade Unicode data (UCD) to version 6.2.

- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap
  decoder (already working as unicode strings).  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #15144: Fix possible integer overflow when handling pointers as integer
  values, by using `Py_uintptr_t` instead of `size_t`.  Patch by Serhiy
  Storchaka.

- Issue #15965: Explicitly cast `AT_FDCWD` as (int).  Required on Solaris 10
  (which defines `AT_FDCWD` as ``0xffd19553``), harmless on other platforms.

- Issue #15839: Convert SystemErrors in `super()` to RuntimeErrors.

- Issue #15448: Buffered IO now frees the buffer when closed, instead
  of when deallocating.

- Issue #15846: Fix SystemError which happened when using `ast.parse()` in an
  exception handler on code with syntax errors.

- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
  Patch by Felipe Cruz.

- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
  subscriptable.

- Issue #15111: __import__ should propagate ImportError when raised as a
  side-effect of a module triggered from using fromlist.

- Issue #15022: Add pickle and comparison support to types.SimpleNamespace.

Library
-------

- Issue #4331: Added functools.partialmethod (Initial patch by Alon Horev)

- Issue #13461: Fix a crash in the TextIOWrapper.tell method on 64-bit
  platforms.  Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari.

- Issue #18681: Fix a NameError in importlib.reload() (noticed by Weizhao Li).

- Issue #14323: Expanded the number of digits in the coefficients for the
  RGB -- YIQ conversions so that they match the FCC NTSC versions.

- Issue #17998: Fix an internal error in regular expression engine.

- Issue #17557: Fix os.getgroups() to work with the modified behavior of
  getgroups(2) on OS X 10.8.  Original patch by Mateusz Lenik.

- Issue #18608: Avoid keeping a strong reference to the locale module
  inside the _io module.

- Issue #18619: Fix atexit leaking callbacks registered from sub-interpreters,
  and make it GC-aware.

- Issue #15699: The readline module now uses PEP 3121-style module
  initialization, so as to reclaim allocated resources (Python callbacks)
  at shutdown.  Original patch by Robin Schreiber.

- Issue #17616: wave.open now supports the context management protocol.

- Issue #18599: Fix name attribute of _sha1.sha1() object. It now returns
  'SHA1' instead of 'SHA'.

- Issue #13266: Added inspect.unwrap to easily unravel __wrapped__ chains
  (initial patch by Daniel Urban and Aaron Iles)

- Issue #18561: Skip name in ctypes' _build_callargs() if name is NULL.

- Issue #18559: Fix NULL pointer dereference error in _pickle module

- Issue #18556: Check the return type of PyUnicode_AsWideChar() in ctype's
  U_set().

- Issue #17818: aifc.getparams now returns a namedtuple.

- Issue #18549: Eliminate dead code in socket_ntohl()

- Issue #18530: Remove additional stat call from posixpath.ismount.
  Patch by Alex Gaynor.

- Issue #18514: Fix unreachable Py_DECREF() call in PyCData_FromBaseObj()

- Issue #9177: Calling read() or write() now raises ValueError, not
  AttributeError, on a closed SSL socket.  Patch by Senko Rasic.

- Issue #18513: Fix behaviour of cmath.rect w.r.t. signed zeros on OS X 10.8 +
  gcc.

- Issue #18479: Changed venv Activate.ps1 to make deactivate a function, and
  removed Deactivate.ps1.

- Issue #18480: Add missing call to PyType_Ready to the _elementtree extension.

- Issue #17778: Fix test discovery for test_multiprocessing. (Patch by
  Zachary Ware.)

- Issue #18393: The private module _gestalt and private functions
  platform._mac_ver_gestalt, platform._mac_ver_lookup and
  platform._bcd2str have been removed. This does not affect the public
  interface of the platform module.

- Issue #17482: functools.update_wrapper (and functools.wraps) now set the
  __wrapped__ attribute correctly even if the underlying function has a
  __wrapped__ attribute set.

- Issue #18431: The new email header parser now decodes RFC2047 encoded words
  in structured headers.

- Issue #18432: The sched module's queue method was incorrectly returning
  an iterator instead of a list.

- Issue #18044: The new email header parser was mis-parsing encoded words where
  an encoded character immediately followed the '?' that follows the CTE
  character, resulting in a decoding failure.  They are now decoded correctly.

- Issue #18101: Tcl.split() now process strings nested in a tuple as it
  do with byte strings.

- Issue #18116: getpass was always getting an error when testing /dev/tty,
  and thus was always falling back to stdin, and would then raise an exception
  if stdin could not be used (such as /dev/null).  It also leaked an open file.
  All of these issues are now fixed.

- Issue #17198: Fix a NameError in the dbm module.  Patch by Valentina
  Mukhamedzhanova.

- Issue #18013: Fix cgi.FieldStorage to parse the W3C sample form.

- Issue #18020: improve html.escape speed by an order of magnitude.
  Patch by Matt Bryant.

- Issue #18347: ElementTree's html serializer now preserves the case of
  closing tags.

- Issue #17261: Ensure multiprocessing's proxies use proper address.

- Issue #18343: faulthandler.register() now keeps the previous signal handler
  when the function is called twice, so faulthandler.unregister() restores
  correctly the original signal handler.

- Issue #17097: Make multiprocessing ignore EINTR.

- Issue #18339: Negative ints keys in unpickler.memo dict no longer cause a
  segfault inside the _pickle C extension.

- Issue #18240: The HMAC module is no longer restricted to bytes and accepts
  any bytes-like object, e.g. memoryview. Original patch by Jonas Borgström.

- Issue #18224: Removed pydoc script from created venv, as it causes problems
  on Windows and adds no value over and above python -m pydoc ...

- Issue #18155: The csv module now correctly handles csv files that use
  a delimter character that has a special meaning in regexes, instead of
  throwing an exception.

- Issue #14360: encode_quopri can now be successfully used as an encoder
  when constructing a MIMEApplication object.

- Issue #11390: Add -o and -f command line options to the doctest CLI to
  specify doctest options (and convert it to using argparse).

- Issue #18135: ssl.SSLSocket.write() now raises an OverflowError if the input
  string in longer than 2 gigabytes, and ssl.SSLContext.load_cert_chain()
  raises a ValueError if the password is longer than 2 gigabytes. The ssl
  module does not support partial write.

- Issue #11016: Add C implementation of the stat module as _stat.

- Issue #18248: Fix libffi build on AIX.

- Issue #18259: Declare sethostname in socketmodule.c for AIX

- Issue #18147: Add diagnostic functions to ssl.SSLContext(). get_ca_list()
  lists all loaded CA certificates and cert_store_stats() returns amount of
  loaded X.509 certs, X.509 CA certs and CRLs.

- Issue #18167: cgi.FieldStorage no longer fails to handle multipart/form-data
  when \r\n appears at end of 65535 bytes without other newlines.

- Issue #18076: Introduce importlib.util.decode_source().
- Issue #18357: add tests for dictview set difference.
  Patch by Fraser Tweedale.

- importlib.abc.SourceLoader.get_source() no longer changes SyntaxError or
  UnicodeDecodeError into ImportError.

- Issue #18058, 18057: Make the namespace package loader meet the
  importlib.abc.InspectLoader ABC, allowing for namespace packages to work with
  runpy.

- Issue #17177: The imp module is pending deprecation.

- subprocess: Prevent a possible double close of parent pipe fds when the
  subprocess exec runs into an error.  Prevent a regular multi-close of the
  /dev/null fd when any of stdin, stdout and stderr was set to DEVNULL.

- Issue #18194: Introduce importlib.util.cache_from_source() and
  source_from_cache() while documenting the equivalent functions in imp as
  deprecated.

- Issue #17907: Document imp.new_module() as deprecated in favour of
  types.ModuleType.

- Issue #18192: Introduce importlib.util.MAGIC_NUMBER and document as deprecated
  imp.get_magic().

- Issue #18149: Add filecmp.clear_cache() to manually clear the filecmp cache.
  Patch by Mark Levitt

- Issue #18193: Add importlib.reload().

- Issue #18157: Stop using imp.load_module() in pydoc.

- Issue #16102: Make uuid._netbios_getnode() work again on Python 3.

- Issue #17134: Add ssl.enum_cert_store() as interface to Windows' cert store.

- Issue #18143: Implement ssl.get_default_verify_paths() in order to debug
  the default locations for cafile and capath.

- Issue #17314: Move multiprocessing.forking over to importlib.

- Issue #11959: SMTPServer and SMTPChannel now take an optional map, use of
  which avoids affecting global state.

- Issue #18109: os.uname() now decodes fields from the locale encoding, and
  socket.gethostname() now decodes the hostname from the locale encoding,
  instead of using the UTF-8 encoding in strict mode.

- Issue #18089: Implement importlib.abc.InspectLoader.load_module.

- Issue #18088: Introduce importlib.abc.Loader.init_module_attrs for setting
  module attributes. Leads to the pending deprecation of
  importlib.util.module_for_loader.

- Issue #17403: urllib.parse.robotparser normalizes the urls before adding to
  ruleline. This helps in handling certain types invalid urls in a conservative
  manner. Patch contributed by Mher Movsisyan.

- Issue #18070: Have importlib.util.module_for_loader() set attributes
  unconditionally in order to properly support reloading.

- Added importlib.util.module_to_load to return a context manager to provide the
  proper module object to load.

- Issue #18025: Fixed a segfault in io.BufferedIOBase.readinto() when raw
  stream's read() returns more bytes than requested.

- Issue #18011: As was originally intended, base64.b32decode() now raises a
  binascii.Error if there are non-b32-alphabet characters present in the input
  string, instead of a TypeError.

- Issue #18072: Implement importlib.abc.InspectLoader.get_code() and
  importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader.get_code().

- Issue #8240: Set the SSL_MODE_ACCEPT_MOVING_WRITE_BUFFER flag on SSL
  sockets.

- Issue #17269: Workaround for socket.getaddrinfo crash on MacOS X
  with port None or "0" and flags AI_NUMERICSERV.

- Issue #16986: ElementTree now correctly works with string input when the
  internal XML encoding is not UTF-8 or US-ASCII.

- Issue #17996: socket module now exposes AF_LINK constant on BSD and OSX.

- Issue #17900: Allowed pickling of recursive OrderedDicts.  Decreased pickled
  size and pickling time.

- Issue #17914: Add os.cpu_count(). Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari, based on an
  initial patch by Trent Nelson.

- Issue #17812: Fixed quadratic complexity of base64.b32encode().
  Optimize base64.b32encode() and base64.b32decode() (speed up to 3x).

- Issue #17980: Fix possible abuse of ssl.match_hostname() for denial of
  service using certificates with many wildcards (CVE-2013-2099).

- Issue #15758: Fix FileIO.readall() so it no longer has O(n**2) complexity.

- Issue #14596: The struct.Struct() objects now use a more compact
  implementation.

- Issue #17981: logging's SysLogHandler now closes the socket when it catches
  socket OSErrors.

- Issue #17964: Fix os.sysconf(): the return type of the C sysconf() function
  is long, not int.

- Fix typos in the multiprocessing module.

- Issue #17754: Make ctypes.util.find_library() independent of the locale.

- Issue #17968: Fix memory leak in os.listxattr().

- Issue #17606: Fixed support of encoded byte strings in the XMLGenerator
  characters() and ignorableWhitespace() methods.  Original patch by Sebastian
  Ortiz Vasquez.

- Issue #17732: Ignore distutils.cfg options pertaining to install paths if a
  virtual environment is active.

- Issue #17915: Fix interoperability of xml.sax with file objects returned by
  codecs.open().

- Issue #16601: Restarting iteration over tarfile really restarts rather
  than continuing from where it left off.  Patch by Michael Birtwell.

- Issue #17289: The readline module now plays nicer with external modules
  or applications changing the rl_completer_word_break_characters global
  variable.  Initial patch by Bradley Froehle.

- Issue #12181: select module: Fix struct kevent definition on OpenBSD 64-bit
  platforms. Patch by Federico Schwindt.

- Issue #11816: multiple improvements to the dis module: get_instructions
  generator, ability to redirect output to a file, Bytecode and Instruction
  abstractions. Patch by Nick Coghlan, Ryan Kelly and Thomas Kluyver.

- Issue #13831: Embed stringification of remote traceback in local
  traceback raised when pool task raises an exception.

- Issue #15528: Add weakref.finalize to support finalization using
  weakref callbacks.

- Issue #14173: Avoid crashing when reading a signal handler during
  interpreter shutdown.

- Issue #15902: Fix imp.load_module() accepting None as a file when loading an
  extension module.

- Issue #13721: SSLSocket.getpeercert() and SSLSocket.do_handshake() now
  raise an OSError with ENOTCONN, instead of an AttributeError, when the
  SSLSocket is not connected.

- Issue #14679: add an __all__ (that contains only HTMLParser) to html.parser.

- Issue #17802: Fix an UnboundLocalError in html.parser.  Initial tests by
  Thomas Barlow.

- Issue #17358: Modules loaded by imp.load_source() and load_compiled() (and by
  extention load_module()) now have a better chance of working when reloaded.

- Issue #17804: New function ``struct.iter_unpack`` allows for streaming
  struct unpacking.

- Issue #17830: When keyword.py is used to update a keyword file, it now
  preserves the line endings of the original file.

- Issue #17272: Making the urllib.request's Request.full_url a descriptor.
  Fixes bugs with assignment to full_url. Patch by Demian Brecht.

- Issue #17353: Plistlib emitted empty data tags with deeply nested datastructures

- Issue #11714: Use 'with' statements to assure a Semaphore releases a
  condition variable.  Original patch by Thomas Rachel.

- Issue #16624: `subprocess.check_output` now accepts an `input` argument,
  allowing the subprocess's stdin to be provided as a (byte) string.
  Patch by Zack Weinberg.

- Issue #17795: Reverted backwards-incompatible change in SysLogHandler with
  Unix domain sockets.

- Issue #16694: Add a pure Python implementation of the operator module.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #11182: remove the unused and undocumented pydoc.Scanner class.
  Patch by Martin Morrison.

- Issue #17741: Add ElementTree.XMLPullParser, an event-driven parser for
  non-blocking applications.

- Issue #17555: Fix ForkAwareThreadLock so that size of after fork
  registry does not grow exponentially with generation of process.

- Issue #17707: fix regression in multiprocessing.Queue's get() method where
  it did not block for short timeouts.

- Issue #17720: Fix the Python implementation of pickle.Unpickler to correctly
  process the APPENDS opcode when it is used on non-list objects.

- Issue #17012: shutil.which() no longer falls back to the PATH environment
  variable if an empty path argument is specified.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #17710: Fix pickle raising a SystemError on bogus input.

- Issue #17341: Include the invalid name in the error messages from re about
  invalid group names.

- Issue #17702: os.environ now raises KeyError with the original environment
  variable name (str on UNIX), instead of using the encoded name (bytes on
  UNIX).

- Issue #16163: Make the importlib based version of pkgutil.iter_importers
  work for submodules. Initial patch by Berker Peksag.

- Issue #16804: Fix a bug in the 'site' module that caused running
  'python -S -m site' to incorrectly throw an exception.

- Issue #15480: Remove the deprecated and unused TYPE_INT64 code from marshal.
  Initial patch by Daniel Riti.

- Issue #2118: SMTPException is now a subclass of OSError.

- Issue #17016: Get rid of possible pointer wraparounds and integer overflows
  in the re module.  Patch by Nickolai Zeldovich.

- Issue #16658: add missing return to HTTPConnection.send()
  Patch by Jeff Knupp.

- Issue #9556: the logging package now allows specifying a time-of-day for a
  TimedRotatingFileHandler to rotate.

- Issue #14971: unittest test discovery no longer gets confused when a function
  has a different __name__ than its name in the TestCase class dictionary.

- Issue #17487: The wave getparams method now returns a namedtuple rather than
  a plain tuple.

- Issue #17675: socket repr() provides local and remote addresses (if any).
  Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'

- Issue #17093: Make the ABCs in importlib.abc provide default values or raise
  reasonable exceptions for their methods to make them more amenable to super()
  calls.

- Issue #17566: Make importlib.abc.Loader.module_repr() optional instead of an
  abstractmethod; now it raises NotImplementedError so as to be ignored by default.

- Issue #17678: Remove the use of deprecated method in http/cookiejar.py by
  changing the call to get_origin_req_host() to origin_req_host.

- Issue #17666: Fix reading gzip files with an extra field.

- Issue #16475: Support object instancing, recursion and interned strings
  in marshal

- Issue #17502: Process DEFAULT values in mock side_effect that returns iterator.

- Issue #16795: On the ast.arguments object, unify vararg with varargannotation
  and kwarg and kwargannotation. Change the column offset of ast.Attribute to be
  at the attribute name.

- Issue #17434: Properly raise a SyntaxError when a string occurs between future
  imports.

- Issue #17117: Import and @importlib.util.set_loader now set __loader__ when
  it has a value of None or the attribute doesn't exist.

- Issue #17032: The "global" in the "NameError: global name 'x' is not defined"
  error message has been removed.  Patch by Ram Rachum.

- Issue #18080: When building a C extension module on OS X, if the compiler
  is overriden with the CC environment variable, use the new compiler as
  the default for linking if LDSHARED is not also overriden.  This restores
  Distutils behavior introduced in 3.2.3 and inadvertently dropped in 3.3.0.

- Issue #18113: Fixed a refcount leak in the curses.panel module's
  set_userptr() method.  Reported by Atsuo Ishimoto.

- Implement PEP 443 "Single-dispatch generic functions".

- Implement PEP 435 "Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library".

- Issue #15596: Faster pickling of unicode strings.

- Issue #17572: Avoid chained exceptions when passing bad directives to
  time.strptime().  Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.

- Issue #17435: threading.Timer's __init__ method no longer uses mutable
  default values for the args and kwargs parameters.

- Issue #17526: fix an IndexError raised while passing code without filename to
  inspect.findsource().  Initial patch by Tyler Doyle.

- Issue #17540: Added style parameter to logging formatter configuration by dict.

- Issue #16692: The ssl module now supports TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2.  Initial
  patch by Michele Orrù.

- Issue #17025: multiprocessing: Reduce Queue and SimpleQueue contention.

- Issue #17536: Add to webbrowser's browser list: www-browser, x-www-browser,
  iceweasel, iceape.

- Issue #17150: pprint now uses line continuations to wrap long string
  literals.

- Issue #17488: Change the subprocess.Popen bufsize parameter default value
  from unbuffered (0) to buffering (-1) to match the behavior existing code
  expects and match the behavior of the subprocess module in Python 2 to avoid
  introducing hard to track down bugs.

- Issue #17521: Corrected non-enabling of logger following two calls to
  fileConfig().

- Issue #17508: Corrected logging MemoryHandler configuration in dictConfig()
  where the target handler wasn't configured first.

- Issue #17209: curses.window.get_wch() now correctly handles KeyboardInterrupt
  (CTRL+c).

- Issue #5713: smtplib now handles 421 (closing connection) error codes when
  sending mail by closing the socket and reporting the 421 error code via the
  exception appropriate to the command that received the error response.

- Issue #16997: unittest.TestCase now provides a subTest() context manager
  to procedurally generate, in an easy way, small test instances.

- Issue #17485: Also delete the Request Content-Length header if the data
  attribute is deleted.  (Follow on to issue Issue #16464).

- Issue #15927: CVS now correctly parses escaped newlines and carriage
  when parsing with quoting turned off.

- Issue #17467: add readline and readlines support to mock_open in
  unittest.mock.

- Issue #13248: removed deprecated and undocumented difflib.isbjunk,
  isbpopular.

- Issue #17192: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.0.13.  This
  specifically addresses a stack misalignment issue on x86 and issues on
  some more recent platforms.

- Issue #8862: Fixed curses cleanup when getkey is interrputed by a signal.

- Issue #17443: imaplib.IMAP4_stream was using the default unbuffered IO
  in subprocess, but the imap code assumes buffered IO.  In Python2 this
  worked by accident.  IMAP4_stream now explicitly uses buffered IO.

- Issue #17476: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in undocumented pydoc
  'allmethods'; it was missing unbound methods on the class.

- Issue #17474: Remove the deprecated methods of Request class.

- Issue #16709: unittest discover order is no-longer filesystem specific. Patch
  by Jeff Ramnani.

- Use the HTTPS PyPI url for upload, overriding any plain HTTP URL in pypirc.

- Issue #5024: sndhdr.whichhdr now returns the frame count for WAV files
  rather than -1.

- Issue #17460: Remove the strict argument of HTTPConnection and removing the
  DeprecationWarning being issued from 3.2 onwards.

- Issue #16880: Do not assume _imp.load_dynamic() is defined in the imp module.

- Issue #16389: Fixed a performance regression relative to Python 3.1 in the
  caching of compiled regular expressions.

- Added missing FeedParser and BytesFeedParser to email.parser.__all__.

- Issue #17431: Fix missing import of BytesFeedParser in email.parser.

- Issue #12921: http.server's send_error takes an explain argument to send more
  information in response. Patch contributed by Karl.

- Issue #17414: Add timeit, repeat, and default_timer to timeit.__all__.

- Issue #1285086: Get rid of the refcounting hack and speed up
  urllib.parse.unquote() and urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes().

- Issue #17099: Have importlib.find_loader() raise ValueError when __loader__
  is not set, harmonizing with what happens when the attribute is set to None.

- Expose the O_PATH constant in the os module if it is available.

- Issue #17368: Fix an off-by-one error in the Python JSON decoder that caused
  a failure while decoding empty object literals when object_pairs_hook was
  specified.

- Issue #17385: Fix quadratic behavior in threading.Condition.  The FIFO
  queue now uses a deque instead of a list.

- Issue #15806: Add contextlib.ignore().  This creates a context manager to
  ignore specified exceptions, replacing the "except SomeException: pass" idiom.

- Issue #14645: The email generator classes now produce output using the
  specified linesep throughout.  Previously if the prolog, epilog, or
  body were stored with a different linesep, that linesep was used.  This
  fix corrects an RFC non-compliance issue with smtplib.send_message.

- Issue #17278: Fix a crash in heapq.heappush() and heapq.heappop() when
  the list is being resized concurrently.

- Issue #16962: Use getdents64 instead of the obsolete getdents syscall
  in the subprocess module on Linux.

- Issue #16935: unittest now counts the module as skipped if it raises SkipTest,
  instead of counting it as an error.  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #17018: Make Process.join() retry if os.waitpid() fails with EINTR.

- Issue #17223: array module: Fix a crasher when converting an array containing
  invalid characters (outside range [U+0000; U+10ffff]) to Unicode:
  repr(array), str(array) and array.tounicode(). Patch written by Manuel Jacob.

- Issue #17197: profile/cProfile modules refactored so that code of run() and
  runctx() utility functions is not duplicated in both modules.

- Issue #14720: sqlite3: Convert datetime microseconds correctly.
  Patch by Lowe Thiderman.

- Issue #15132: Allow a list for the defaultTest argument of
  unittest.TestProgram. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.

- Issue #17225: JSON decoder now counts columns in the first line starting
  with 1, as in other lines.

- Issue #6623: Added explicit DeprecationWarning for ftplib.netrc, which has
  been deprecated and undocumented for a long time.

- Issue #13700: Fix byte/string handling in imaplib authentication when an
  authobject is specified.

- Issue #13153: Tkinter functions now raise TclError instead of ValueError when
  a string argument contains non-BMP character.

- Issue #9669: Protect re against infinite loops on zero-width matching in
  non-greedy repeat.  Patch by Matthew Barnett.

- Issue #13169: The maximal repetition number in a regular expression has been
  increased from 65534 to 2147483647 (on 32-bit platform) or 4294967294 (on
  64-bit).

- Issue #17143: Fix a missing import in the trace module.  Initial patch by
  Berker Peksag.

- Issue #15220: email.feedparser's line splitting algorithm is now simpler and
  faster.

- Issue #16743: Fix mmap overflow check on 32 bit Windows.

- Issue #16996: webbrowser module now uses shutil.which() to find a
  web-browser on the executable search path.

- Issue #16800: tempfile.gettempdir() no longer left temporary files when
  the disk is full.  Original patch by Amir Szekely.

- Issue #17192: Import libffi-3.0.12.

- Issue #16564: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in the operation of
  email.encoders.encode_7or8bit when used with binary data.

- Issue #17052: unittest discovery should use self.testLoader.

- Issue #4591: Uid and gid values larger than 2**31 are supported now.

- Issue #17141: random.vonmisesvariate() no longer hangs for large kappas.

- Issue #17149: Fix random.vonmisesvariate to always return results in
  [0, 2*math.pi].

- Issue #1470548: XMLGenerator now works with binary output streams.

- Issue #6975: os.path.realpath() now correctly resolves multiple nested
  symlinks on POSIX platforms.

- Issue #13773: sqlite3.connect() gets a new `uri` parameter to pass the
  filename as a URI, allowing to pass custom options.

- Issue #16564: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in the operation of
  email.encoders.encode_noop when used with binary data.

- Issue #10355: The mode, name, encoding and newlines properties now work on
  SpooledTemporaryFile objects even when they have not yet rolled over.
  Obsolete method xreadline (which has never worked in Python 3) has been
  removed.

- Issue #16686: Fixed a lot of bugs in audioop module.  Fixed crashes in
  avgpp(), maxpp() and ratecv().  Fixed an integer overflow in add(), bias(),
  and ratecv().  reverse(), lin2lin() and ratecv() no more lose precision for
  32-bit samples.  max() and rms() no more returns a negative result and
  various other functions now work correctly with 32-bit sample -0x80000000.

- Issue #17073: Fix some integer overflows in sqlite3 module.

- Issue #16723: httplib.HTTPResponse no longer marked closed when the connection
  is automatically closed.

- Issue #15359: Add CAN_BCM protocol support to the socket module. Patch by
  Brian Thorne.

- Issue #16948: Fix quoted printable body encoding for non-latin1 character
  sets in the email package.

- Issue #16811: Fix folding of headers with no value in the provisional email
  policies.

- Issue #17132: Update symbol for "yield from" grammar changes.

- Issue #17076: Make copying of xattrs more tolerant of missing FS support.
  Patch by Thomas Wouters.

- Issue #17089: Expat parser now correctly works with string input when the
  internal XML encoding is not UTF-8 or US-ASCII.  It also now accepts bytes
  and strings larger than 2 GiB.

- Issue #6083: Fix multiple segmentation faults occured when PyArg_ParseTuple
  parses nested mutating sequence.

- Issue #5289: Fix ctypes.util.find_library on Solaris.

- Issue #17106: Fix a segmentation fault in io.TextIOWrapper when an underlying
  stream or a decoder produces data of an unexpected type (i.e. when
  io.TextIOWrapper initialized with text stream or use bytes-to-bytes codec).

- Issue #17015: When it has a spec, a Mock object now inspects its signature
  when matching calls, so that arguments can be matched positionally or
  by name.

- Issue #15633: httplib.HTTPResponse is now mark closed when the server
  sends less than the advertised Content-Length.

- Issue #12268: The io module file object write methods no longer abort early
  when one of its write system calls is interrupted (EINTR).

- Issue #6972: The zipfile module no longer overwrites files outside of
  its destination path when extracting malicious zip files.

- Issue #4844: ZipFile now raises BadZipFile when opens a ZIP file with an
  incomplete "End of Central Directory" record.  Original patch by Guilherme
  Polo and Alan McIntyre.

- Issue #17071: Signature.bind() now works when one of the keyword arguments
  is named ``self``.

- Issue #12004: Fix an internal error in PyZipFile when writing an invalid
  Python file.  Patch by Ben Morgan.

- Have py_compile use importlib as much as possible to avoid code duplication.
  Code now raises FileExistsError if the file path to be used for the
  byte-compiled file is a symlink or non-regular file as a warning that import
  will not keep the file path type if it writes to that path.

- Issue #16972: Have site.addpackage() consider already known paths even when
  none are explicitly passed in. Bug report and fix by Kirill.

- Issue #1602133: on Mac OS X a shared library build (``--enable-shared``)
  now fills the ``os.environ`` variable correctly.

- Issue #15505: `unittest.installHandler` no longer assumes SIGINT handler is
  set to a callable object.

- Issue #13454: Fix a crash when deleting an iterator created by itertools.tee()
  if all other iterators were very advanced before.

- Issue #12411: Fix to cgi.parse_multipart to correctly use bytes boundaries
  and bytes data. Patch by Jonas Wagner.

- Issue #16957: shutil.which() no longer searches a bare file name in the
  current directory on Unix and no longer searches a relative file path with
  a directory part in PATH directories.  Patch by Thomas Kluyver.

- Issue #1159051: GzipFile now raises EOFError when reading a corrupted file
  with truncated header or footer.

- Issue #16993: shutil.which() now preserves the case of the path and extension
  on Windows.

- Issue #16992: On Windows in signal.set_wakeup_fd, validate the file
  descriptor argument.

- Issue #16422: For compatibility with the Python version, the C version of
  decimal now uses strings instead of integers for rounding mode constants.

- Issue #15861: tkinter now correctly works with lists and tuples containing
  strings with whitespaces, backslashes or unbalanced braces.

- Issue #9720: zipfile now writes correct local headers for files larger than
  4 GiB.

- Issue #16955: Fix the poll() method for multiprocessing's socket
  connections on Windows.

- SSLContext.load_dh_params() now properly closes the input file.

- Issue #15031: Refactor some .pyc management code to cut down on code
  duplication. Thanks to Ronan Lamy for the report and taking an initial stab
  at the problem.

- Issue #16398: Optimize deque.rotate() so that it only moves pointers
  and doesn't touch the underlying data with increfs and decrefs.

- Issue #16900: Issue a ResourceWarning when an ssl socket is left unclosed.

- Issue #13899: \A, \Z, and \B now correctly match the A, Z, and B literals
  when used inside character classes (e.g. '[\A]').  Patch by Matthew Barnett.

- Issue #15545: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it was
  failing if the connection used a row factory (such as sqlite3.Row) that
  produced unsortable objects. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).

- fcntl: add F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC constant, available on Linux 2.6.24+.

- Issue #15972: Fix error messages when os functions expecting a file name or
  file descriptor receive the incorrect type.

- Issue #8109: The ssl module now has support for server-side SNI, thanks
  to a :meth:`SSLContext.set_servername_callback` method.  Patch by Daniel
  Black.

- Issue #16860: In tempfile, use O_CLOEXEC when available to set the
  close-on-exec flag atomically.

- Issue #16674: random.getrandbits() is now 20-40% faster for small integers.

- Issue #16009: JSON error messages now provide more information.

- Issue #16828: Fix error incorrectly raised by bz2.compress(b'') and
  bz2.BZ2Compressor.compress(b''). Initial patch by Martin Packman.

- Issue #16833: In http.client.HTTPConnection, do not concatenate the request
  headers and body when the payload exceeds 16 KB, since it can consume more
  memory for no benefit.  Patch by Benno Leslie.

- Issue #16541: tk_setPalette() now works with keyword arguments.

- Issue #16820: In configparser, `parser.popitem()` no longer raises ValueError.
  This makes `parser.clean()` work correctly.

- Issue #16820: In configparser, ``parser['section'] = {}`` now preserves
  section order within the parser. This makes `parser.update()` preserve section
  order as well.

- Issue #16820: In configparser, ``parser['DEFAULT'] = {}`` now correctly
  clears previous values stored in the default section. Same goes for
  ``parser.update({'DEFAULT': {}})``.

- Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy.

- Issue #16787: Increase asyncore and asynchat default output buffers size, to
  decrease CPU usage and increase throughput.

- Issue #10527: make multiprocessing use poll() instead of select() if available.

- Issue #16688: Now regexes contained backreferences correctly work with
  non-ASCII strings.  Patch by Matthew Barnett.

- Issue #16486: Make aifc files act as context managers.

- Issue #16485: Now file descriptors are closed if file header patching failed
  on closing an aifc file.

- Issue #16640: Run less code under a lock in sched module.

- Issue #16165: sched.scheduler.run() no longer blocks a scheduler for other
  threads.

- Issue #16641: Default values of sched.scheduler.enter() are no longer
  modifiable.

- Issue #16618: Make glob.glob match consistently across strings and bytes
  regarding leading dots.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #16788: Add samestat to Lib/ntpath.py

- Issue #16713: Parsing of 'tel' urls using urlparse separates params from
  path.

- Issue #16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects.
  Patch by Anton Kasyanov.

- Issue #15701: Fix HTTPError info method call to return the headers information.

- Issue #16752: Add a missing import to modulefinder. Patch by Berker Peksag.

- Issue #16646: ftplib.FTP.makeport() might lose socket error details.
  (patch by Serhiy Storchaka)

- Issue #16626: Fix infinite recursion in glob.glob() on Windows when the
  pattern contains a wildcard in the drive or UNC path.  Patch by Serhiy
  Storchaka.

- Issue #15783: Except for the number methods, the C version of decimal now
  supports all None default values present in decimal.py. These values were
  largely undocumented.

- Issue #11175: argparse.FileType now accepts encoding and errors
  arguments. Patch by Lucas Maystre.

- Issue #16488: epoll() objects now support the `with` statement.  Patch
  by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #16298: In HTTPResponse.read(), close the socket when there is no
  Content-Length and the incoming stream is finished.  Patch by Eran
  Rundstein.

- Issue #16049: Add abc.ABC class to enable the use of inheritance to create
  ABCs, rather than the more cumbersome metaclass=ABCMeta. Patch by Bruno
  Dupuis.

- Expose the TCP_FASTOPEN and MSG_FASTOPEN flags in socket when they're
  available.

- Issue #15701: Add a .headers attribute to urllib.error.HTTPError. Patch
  contributed by Berker Peksag.

- Issue #15872: Fix 3.3 regression introduced by the new fd-based shutil.rmtree
  that caused it to not ignore certain errors when ignore_errors was set.
  Patch by Alessandro Moura and Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #16248: Disable code execution from the user's home directory by
  tkinter when the -E flag is passed to Python.  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #13390: New function :func:`sys.getallocatedblocks()` returns the
  number of memory blocks currently allocated.

- Issue #16628: Fix a memory leak in ctypes.resize().

- Issue #13614: Fix setup.py register failure with invalid rst in description.
  Patch by Julien Courteau and Pierre Paul Lefebvre.

- Issue #13512: Create ~/.pypirc securely (CVE-2011-4944).  Initial patch by
  Philip Jenvey, tested by Mageia and Debian.

- Issue #7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later
  on.  Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani.

- Issue #13120: Allow to call pdb.set_trace() from thread.
  Patch by Ilya Sandler.

- Issue #16585: Make CJK encoders support error handlers that return bytes per
  PEP 383.

- Issue #10182: The re module doesn't truncate indices to 32 bits anymore.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #16333: use (",", ": ") as default separator in json when indent is
  specified, to avoid trailing whitespace.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #16573: In 2to3, treat enumerate() like a consuming call, so superfluous
  list() calls aren't added to filter(), map(), and zip() which are directly
  passed enumerate().

- Issue #16464: Reset the Content-Length header when a urllib Request is reused
  with new data.

- Issue #12848: The pure Python pickle implementation now treats object
  lengths as unsigned 32-bit integers, like the C implementation does.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #16423: urllib.request now has support for ``data:`` URLs.  Patch by
  Mathias Panzenböck.

- Issue #4473: Add a POP3.stls() to switch a clear-text POP3 session into
  an encrypted POP3 session, on supported servers.  Patch by Lorenzo Catucci.

- Issue #4473: Add a POP3.capa() method to query the capabilities advertised
  by the POP3 server.  Patch by Lorenzo Catucci.

- Issue #4473: Ensure the socket is shutdown cleanly in POP3.close().
  Patch by Lorenzo Catucci.

- Issue #16522: added FAIL_FAST flag to doctest.

- Issue #15627: Add the importlib.abc.InspectLoader.source_to_code() method.

- Issue #16408: Fix file descriptors not being closed in error conditions
  in the zipfile module.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #14631: Add a new :class:`weakref.WeakMethod` to simulate weak
  references to bound methods.

- Issue #16469: Fix exceptions from float -> Fraction and Decimal -> Fraction
  conversions for special values to be consistent with those for float -> int
  and Decimal -> int.  Patch by Alexey Kachayev.

- Issue #16481: multiprocessing no longer leaks process handles on Windows.

- Issue #12428: Add a pure Python implementation of functools.partial().
  Patch by Brian Thorne.

- Issue #16140: The subprocess module no longer double closes its child
  subprocess.PIPE parent file descriptors on child error prior to exec().

- Remove a bare print to stdout from the subprocess module that could have
  happened if the child process wrote garbage to its pre-exec error pipe.

- The subprocess module now raises its own SubprocessError instead of a
  RuntimeError in various error situations which should not normally happen.

- Issue #16327: The subprocess module no longer leaks file descriptors
  used for stdin/stdout/stderr pipes to the child when fork() fails.

- Issue #14396: Handle the odd rare case of waitpid returning 0 when not
  expected in subprocess.Popen.wait().

- Issue #16411: Fix a bug where zlib.decompressobj().flush() might try to access
  previously-freed memory. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #16357: fix calling accept() on a SSLSocket created through
  SSLContext.wrap_socket().  Original patch by Jeff McNeil.

- Issue #16409: The reporthook callback made by the legacy
  urllib.request.urlretrieve API now properly supplies a constant non-zero
  block_size as it did in Python 3.2 and 2.7.  This matches the behavior of
  urllib.request.URLopener.retrieve.

- Issue #16431: Use the type information when constructing a Decimal subtype
  from a Decimal argument.

- Issue #15641: Clean up deprecated classes from importlib
  Patch by Taras Lyapun.

- Issue #16350: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now accumulates data from
  successive calls after EOF in unused_data, instead of only saving the argument
  to the last call. decompressobj().flush() now correctly sets unused_data and
  unconsumed_tail. A bug in the handling of MemoryError when setting the
  unconsumed_tail attribute has also been fixed. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group
  is missing.  Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when
  no newline is found.  Patch by Ned Batchelder.

- Issue #16284: Prevent keeping unnecessary references to worker functions
  in concurrent.futures ThreadPoolExecutor.

- Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one the lists changes
  size while iterated on.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #16228: Fix a crash in the json module where a list changes size
  while it is being encoded.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #16351: New function gc.get_stats() returns per-generation collection
  statistics.

- Issue #14897: Enhance error messages of struct.pack and
  struct.pack_into. Patch by Matti Mäki.

- Issue #16316: mimetypes now recognizes the .xz and .txz (.tar.xz) extensions.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #12890: cgitb no longer prints spurious <p> tags in text
  mode when the logdir option is specified.

- Issue #16307: Fix multiprocessing.Pool.map_async not calling its callbacks.
  Patch by Janne Karila.

- Issue #16305: Fix a segmentation fault occurring when interrupting
  math.factorial.

- Issue #16116: Fix include and library paths to be correct when building C
  extensions in venvs.

- Issue #16245: Fix the value of a few entities in html.entities.html5.

- Issue #16301: Fix the localhost verification in urllib/request.py for file://
  urls.

- Issue #16250: Fix the invocations of URLError which had misplaced filename
  attribute for exception.

- Issue #10836: Fix exception raised when file not found in urlretrieve
  Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.

- Issue #14398: Fix size truncation and overflow bugs in the bz2 module.

- Issue #12692: Fix resource leak in urllib.request when talking to an HTTP
  server that does not include a ``Connection: close`` header in its responses.

- Issue #12034: Fix bogus caching of result in check_GetFinalPathNameByHandle.
  Patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.

- Improve performance of `lzma.LZMAFile` (see also issue #16034).

- Issue #16220: wsgiref now always calls close() on an iterable response.
  Patch by Brent Tubbs.

- Issue #16270: urllib may hang when used for retrieving files via FTP by using
  a context manager.  Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.

- Issue #16461: Wave library should be able to deal with 4GB wav files,
  and sample rate of 44100 Hz.

- Issue #16176: Properly identify Windows 8 via platform.platform()

- Issue #16088: BaseHTTPRequestHandler's send_error method includes a
  Content-Length header in it's response now. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.

- Issue #16114: The subprocess module no longer provides a misleading error
  message stating that args[0] did not exist when either the cwd or executable
  keyword arguments specified a path that did not exist.

- Issue #16169: Fix ctypes.WinError()'s confusion between errno and winerror.

- Issue #16110: logging.fileConfig now accepts a pre-initialised ConfigParser
  instance.

- Issue #1492704: shutil.copyfile() raises a distinct SameFileError now if
  source and destination are the same file. Patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.

- Issue #13896: Make shelf instances work with 'with' as context managers.
  Original patch by Filip Gruszczyński.

- Issue #15417: Add support for csh and fish in venv activation scripts.

- Issue #14377: ElementTree.write and some of the module-level functions have
  a new parameter - *short_empty_elements*. It controls how elements with no
  contents are emitted.

- Issue #16089: Allow ElementTree.TreeBuilder to work again with a non-Element
  element_factory (fixes a regression in SimpleTAL).

- Issue #9650: List commonly used format codes in time.strftime and
  time.strptime docsttings.  Original patch by Mike Hoy.

- Issue #15452: logging configuration socket listener now has a verify option
  that allows an application to apply a verification function to the
  received configuration data before it is acted upon.

- Issue #16034: Fix performance regressions in the new `bz2.BZ2File`
  implementation.  Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- `pty.spawn()` now returns the child process status returned by `os.waitpid()`.

- Issue #15756: `subprocess.poll()` now properly handles `errno.ECHILD` to
  return a returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot be waited
  on.

- Issue #15323: Improve failure message of `Mock.assert_called_once_with()`.

- Issue #16064: ``unittest -m`` claims executable is "python", not "python3".

- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in `TextTestResult.__init__()` super call.

- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes.

- Issue #16013: Fix `csv.Reader` parsing issue with ending quote characters.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #15421: Fix an OverflowError in `Calendar.itermonthdates()` after
  `datetime.MAXYEAR`.  Patch by Cédric Krier.

- Issue #16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to
  /usr/bin/file.  Patch by David Benjamin.

- Issue #15970: `xml.etree.ElementTree` now serializes correctly the empty HTML
  elements 'meta' and 'param'.

- Issue #15842: The `SocketIO.{readable,writable,seekable}` methods now raise
  ValueError when the file-like object is closed.  Patch by Alessandro Moura.

- Issue #15876: Fix a refleak in the `curses` module: window.encoding.

- Issue #15881: Fix `atexit` hook in `multiprocessing`.  Original patch by Chris
  McDonough.

- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of
  `io.BytesIO` and `io.StringIO` objects now raise ValueError when the object
  has been closed.  Patch by Alessandro Moura.

- Issue #15447: Use `subprocess.DEVNULL` in webbrowser, instead of opening
  `os.devnull` explicitly and leaving it open.

- Issue #15509: `webbrowser.UnixBrowser` no longer passes empty arguments to
  Popen when ``%action`` substitutions produce empty strings.

- Issue #12776, issue #11839: Call `argparse` type function (specified by
  add_argument) only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the
  case where the default was specified and the argument was given as well.  This
  was especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would
  always be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line.

- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change,
  when ``action='append'``, ``type='str'`` and ``default=[]``.

- Issue #16113: Added sha3 module based on the Keccak reference implementation
  3.2. The `hashlib` module has four additional hash algorithms: `sha3_224`,
  `sha3_256`, `sha3_384` and `sha3_512`. As part of the patch some common
  code was moved from _hashopenssl.c to hashlib.h.

- ctypes.call_commethod was removed, since its only usage was in the defunct
  samples directory.

- Issue #16692: Added TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 support for the ssl modules.

- Issue #16832: add abc.get_cache_token() to expose cache validity checking
  support in ABCMeta.

IDLE
----

- Issue #18429: Format / Format Paragraph, now works when comment blocks
  are selected. As with text blocks, this works best when the selection
  only includes complete lines.

- Issue #18226: Add docstrings and unittests for FormatParagraph.py.
  Original patches by Todd Rovito and Phil Webster.

- Issue #18279: Format - Strip trailing whitespace no longer marks a file as
  changed when it has not been changed. This fix followed the addition of a
  test file originally written by Phil Webster (the issue's main goal).

- Issue #7136: In the Idle File menu, "New Window" is renamed "New File".
  Patch by Tal Einat, Roget Serwy, and Todd Rovito.

- Remove dead imports of imp.

- Issue #18196: Avoid displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks.

- Issue #5492: Avoid traceback when exiting IDLE caused by a race condition.

- Issue #17511: Keep IDLE find dialog open after clicking "Find Next".
  Original patch by Sarah K.

- Issue #18055: Move IDLE off of imp and on to importlib.

- Issue #15392: Create a unittest framework for IDLE.
  Initial patch by Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan.
  See Lib/idlelib/idle_test/README.txt for how to run Idle tests.

- Issue #14146: Highlight source line while debugging on Windows.

- Issue #17838: Allow sys.stdin to be reassigned.

- Issue #13495: Avoid loading the color delegator twice in IDLE.

- Issue #17798: Allow IDLE to edit new files when specified on command line.

- Issue #14735: Update IDLE docs to omit "Control-z on Windows".

- Issue #17532: Always include Options menu for IDLE on OS X.
  Patch by Guilherme Simões.

- Issue #17585: Fixed IDLE regression. Now closes when using exit() or quit().

- Issue #17657: Show full Tk version in IDLE's about dialog.
  Patch by Todd Rovito.

- Issue #17613: Prevent traceback when removing syntax colorizer in IDLE.

- Issue #1207589: Backwards-compatibility patch for right-click menu in IDLE.

- Issue #16887: IDLE now accepts Cancel in tabify/untabify dialog box.

- Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used.

- Issue #14254: IDLE now handles readline correctly across shell restarts.

- Issue #17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file.

- Issue #6698: IDLE now opens just an editor window when configured to do so.

- Issue #8900: Using keyboard shortcuts in IDLE to open a file no longer
  raises an exception.

- Issue #6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo.

- Issue #17114: IDLE now uses non-strict config parser.

- Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
  interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.

- Issue #5066: Update IDLE docs. Patch by Todd Rovito.

- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
  special characters in the file path.

- Issue #16491: IDLE now prints chained exception tracebacks.

- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for bytes literals.

- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
  Roger Serwy.

- Issue #16511: Use default IDLE width and height if config param is not valid.
  Patch Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu
  Patch by Todd Rovito.

- Issue #16123: IDLE - deprecate running without a subprocess.
  Patch by Roger Serwy.

Tests
-----

- Issue #1666318: Add a test that shutil.copytree() retains directory
  permissions.  Patch by Catherine Devlin.

- Issue #18273: move the tests in Lib/test/json_tests to Lib/test/test_json
  and make them discoverable by unittest.  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Fix a fcntl test case on KFreeBSD, Debian #708653 (Petr Salinger).

- Issue #18396: Fix spurious test failure in test_signal on Windows when
  faulthandler is enabled (Patch by Jeremy Kloth)

- Issue #17046: Fix broken test_executable_without_cwd in test_subprocess.

- Issue #15415: Add new temp_dir() and change_cwd() context managers to
  test.support, and refactor temp_cwd() to use them.  Patch by Chris Jerdonek.

- Issue #15494: test.support is now a package rather than a module (Initial
  patch by Indra Talip)

- Issue #17944: test_zipfile now discoverable and uses subclassing to
  generate tests for different compression types.  Fixed a bug with skipping
  some tests due to use of exhausted iterators.

- Issue #18266: test_largefile now works with unittest test discovery and
  supports running only selected tests.  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #17767: test_locale now works with unittest test discovery.
  Original patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #18375: Assume --randomize when --randseed is used for running the
  testsuite.

- Issue #11185: Fix test_wait4 under AIX.  Patch by Sébastien Sablé.

- Issue #18207: Fix test_ssl for some versions of OpenSSL that ignore seconds
  in ASN1_TIME fields.

- Issue #18094: test_uuid no longer reports skipped tests as passed.

- Issue #17992: Add timeouts to asyncore and asynchat tests so that they won't
  accidentally hang.

- Issue #17833: Fix test_gdb failures seen on machines where debug symbols
  for glibc are available (seen on PPC64 Linux).

- Issue #7855: Add tests for ctypes/winreg for issues found in IronPython.
  Initial patch by Dino Viehland.

- Issue #11078: test___all__ now checks for duplicates in __all__.
  Initial patch by R. David Murray.

- Issue #17712: Fix test_gdb failures on Ubuntu 13.04.

- Issue #17835: Fix test_io when the default OS pipe buffer size is larger
  than one million bytes.

- Issue #17065: Use process-unique key for winreg tests to avoid failures if
  test is run multiple times in parallel (eg: on a buildbot host).

- Issue #12820: add tests for the xml.dom.minicompat module.
  Patch by John Chandler and Phil Connell.

- Issue #17691: test_univnewlines now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #17790: test_set now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #17789: test_random now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #17779: test_osx_env now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #17766: test_iterlen now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #17690: test_time now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #17692: test_sqlite now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #11995: test_pydoc doesn't import all sys.path modules anymore.

- Issue #17448: test_sax now skips if there are no xml parsers available
  instead of raising an ImportError.

- Issue #11420: make test suite pass with -B/DONTWRITEBYTECODE set.
  Initial patch by Thomas Wouters.

- Issue #10652: make tcl/tk tests run after __all__ test, patch by
  Zachary Ware.

- Issue #11963: remove human verification from test_parser and test_subprocess.

- Issue #11732: add a new suppress_crash_popup() context manager to test.support
  that disables crash popups on Windows and use it in test_faulthandler and
  test_capi.

- Issue #13898: test_ssl no longer prints a spurious stack trace on Ubuntu.

- Issue #17283: Share code between `__main__.py` and `regrtest.py` in
  `Lib/test`.

- Issue #17249: convert a test in test_capi to use unittest and reap threads.

- Issue #17107: Test client-side SNI support in urllib.request thanks to
  the new server-side SNI support in the ssl module.  Initial patch by
  Daniel Black.

- Issue #17041: Fix testing when Python is configured with the
  --without-doc-strings.

- Issue #16923: Fix ResourceWarnings in test_ssl.

- Issue #15539: Added regression tests for Tools/scripts/pindent.py.

- Issue #17479: test_io now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #17066: test_robotparser now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #17334: test_index now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #17333: test_imaplib now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #17082: test_dbm* now work with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #17079: test_ctypes now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #17304: test_hash now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #17303: test_future* now work with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #17163: test_file now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #16925: test_configparser now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #16918: test_codecs now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #16919: test_crypt now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #16910: test_bytes, test_unicode, and test_userstring now work with
  unittest test discovery.  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #16905: test_warnings now works with unittest test discovery.
  Initial patch by Berker Peksag.

- Issue #16898: test_bufio now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #16888: test_array now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #16896: test_asyncore now works with unittest test discovery.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #16897: test_bisect now works with unittest test discovery.
  Initial patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #16852: test_genericpath, test_posixpath, test_ntpath, and test_macpath
  now work with unittest test discovery.  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #16748: test_heapq now works with unittest test discovery.

- Issue #10646: Tests rearranged for os.samefile/samestat to check for not
  just symlinks but also hard links.

- Issue #15302: Switch regrtest from using getopt to using argparse.

- Issue #15324: Fix regrtest parsing of --fromfile, --match, and --randomize
  options.

- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for
  localhost tests.

- Issue #16664: Add regression tests for glob's behaviour concerning entries
  starting with a ".".  Patch by Sebastian Kreft.

- Issue #13390: The ``-R`` option to regrtest now also checks for memory
  allocation leaks, using :func:`sys.getallocatedblocks()`.

- Issue #16559: Add more tests for the json module, including some from the
  official test suite at json.org.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #16661: Fix the `os.getgrouplist()` test by not assuming that it gives
  the same output as :command:`id -G`.

- Issue #16115: Add some tests for the executable argument to
  subprocess.Popen().  Initial patch by Kushal Das.

- Issue #16126: PyErr_Format format mismatch in _testcapimodule.c.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #15304: Fix warning message when `os.chdir()` fails inside
  `test.support.temp_cwd()`.  Patch by Chris Jerdonek.

- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in `TestMaildir.test_create_tmp()`. Patch by
  Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #15557: Added a test suite for the webbrowser module, thanks to Anton
  Barkovsky.

- Issue #16698: Skip posix test_getgroups when built with OS X
  deployment target prior to 10.6.

Build
-----

- Issue #16067: Add description into MSI file to replace installer's
  temporary name.

- Issue #18257: Fix readlink usage in python-config.  Install the python
  version again on Darwin.

- Issue #18481: Add C coverage reporting with gcov and lcov. A new make target
  "coverage-report" creates an instrumented Python build, runs unit tests
  and creates a HTML. The report can be updated with "make coverage-lcov".

- Issue #17845: Clarified the message printed when some module are not built.

- Issue #18256: Compilation fix for recent AIX releases.  Patch by
  David Edelsohn.

- Issue #17547: In configure, explicitly pass -Wformat for the benefit for GCC
  4.8.

- Issue #15172: Document NASM 2.10+ as requirement for building OpenSSL 1.0.1
  on Windows.

- Issue #17591: Use lowercase filenames when including Windows header files.
  Patch by Roumen Petrov.

- Issue #17550: Fix the --enable-profiling configure switch.

- Issue #17425: Build with openssl 1.0.1d on Windows.

- Issue #16754: Fix the incorrect shared library extension on linux. Introduce
  two makefile macros SHLIB_SUFFIX and EXT_SUFFIX. SO now has the value of
  SHLIB_SUFFIX again (as in 2.x and 3.1). The SO macro is removed in 3.4.

- Issue #5033: Fix building of the sqlite3 extension module when the
  SQLite library version has "beta" in it. Patch by Andreas Pelme.

- Issue #17228: Fix building without pymalloc.

- Issue #3718: Use AC_ARG_VAR to set MACHDEP in configure.ac.

- Issue #16235: Implement python-config as a shell script.

- Issue #16769: Remove outdated Visual Studio projects.

- Issue #17031: Fix running regen in cross builds.

- Issue #3754: fix typo in pthread AC_CACHE_VAL.

- Issue #15484: Fix _PYTHON_PROJECT_BASE for srcdir != builddir builds;
  use _PYTHON_PROJECT_BASE in distutils/sysconfig.py.

- Drop support for Windows 2000 (changeset e52df05b496a).

- Issue #17029: Let h2py search the multiarch system include directory.

- Issue #16953: Fix socket module compilation on platforms with
  HAVE_BROKEN_POLL. Patch by Jeffrey Armstrong.

- Issue #16320: Remove redundant Makefile dependencies for strings and bytes.

- Cross compiling needs host and build settings. configure no longer
  creates a broken PYTHON_FOR_BUILD variable when --build is missing.

- Fix cross compiling issue in setup.py, ensure that lib_dirs and inc_dirs are
  defined in cross compiling mode, too.

- Issue #16836: Enable IPv6 support even if IPv6 is disabled on the build host.

- Issue #16593: Have BSD 'make -s' do the right thing, thanks to Daniel Shahaf

- Issue #16262: fix out-of-src-tree builds, if mercurial is not installed.

- Issue #15298: ensure _sysconfigdata is generated in build directory, not
  source directory.

- Issue #15833: Fix a regression in 3.3 that resulted in exceptions being
  raised if importlib failed to write byte-compiled files.  This affected
  attempts to build Python out-of-tree from a read-only source directory.

- Issue #15923: Fix a mistake in ``asdl_c.py`` that resulted in a TypeError
  after 2801bf875a24 (see #15801).

- Issue #16135: Remove OS/2 support.

- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a read-only
  source directory.  (Somewhat related to issue #9860.)

- Issue #15587: Enable Tk high-resolution text rendering on Macs with
  Retina displays.  Applies to Tkinter apps, such as IDLE, on OS X
  framework builds linked with Cocoa Tk 8.5.

- Issue #17161: make install now also installs a python3 man page.

C-API
-----

- Issue #18351: Fix various issues in a function in importlib provided to help
  PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() (and thus by extension
  PyImport_ExecCodeModule() and PyImport_ExecCodeModuleEx()).

- Issue #9369: The types of `char*` arguments of PyObject_CallFunction() and
  PyObject_CallMethod() now changed to `const char*`.  Based on patches by
  Jörg Müller and Lars Buitinck.

- Issue #17206: Py_CLEAR(), Py_DECREF(), Py_XINCREF() and Py_XDECREF() now
  expand their arguments once instead of multiple times.  Patch written by Illia
  Polosukhin.

- Issue #17522: Add the PyGILState_Check() API.

- Issue #17327: Add PyDict_SetDefault.

- Issue #16881: Fix Py_ARRAY_LENGTH macro for GCC < 3.1.

- Issue #16505: Remove unused Py_TPFLAGS_INT_SUBCLASS.

- Issue #16086: PyTypeObject.tp_flags and PyType_Spec.flags are now unsigned
  (unsigned long and unsigned int) to avoid an undefined behaviour with
  Py_TPFLAGS_TYPE_SUBCLASS ((1 << 31). PyType_GetFlags() result type is
  now unsigned too (unsigned long, instead of long).

- Issue #16166: Add PY_LITTLE_ENDIAN and PY_BIG_ENDIAN macros and unified
  endianness detection and handling.

Documentation
-------------

- Issue #17701: Improving strftime documentation.

- Issue #18440: Clarify that `hash()` can truncate the value returned from an
  object's custom `__hash__()` method.

- Issue #17844: Add links to encoders and decoders for bytes-to-bytes codecs.

- Issue #14097: improve the "introduction" page of the tutorial.

- Issue #17977: The documentation for the cadefault argument's default value
  in urllib.request.urlopen() is fixed to match the code.

- Issue #6696: add documentation for the Profile objects, and improve
  profile/cProfile docs.  Patch by Tom Pinckney.

- Issue #15940: Specify effect of locale on time functions.

- Issue 17538: Document XML vulnerabilties

- Issue #16642: sched.scheduler timefunc initial default is time.monotonic.
  Patch by Ramchandra Apte

- Issue #17047: remove doubled words in docs and docstrings
  reported by Serhiy Storchaka and Matthew Barnett.

- Issue #15465: Document the versioning macros in the C API docs rather than
  the standard library docs. Patch by Kushal Das.

- Issue #16406: Combine the pages for uploading and registering to PyPI.

- Issue #16403: Document how distutils uses the maintainer field in
  PKG-INFO. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.

- Issue #16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a
  dot. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.

- Issue #8890: Stop advertising an insecure practice by replacing uses
  of the /tmp directory with better alternatives in the documentation.
  Patch by Geoff Wilson.

- Issue #17203: add long option names to unittest discovery docs.

- Issue #13094: add "Why do lambdas defined in a loop with different values
  all return the same result?" programming FAQ.

- Issue #14901: Update portions of the Windows FAQ.
  Patch by Ashish Nitin Patil.

- Issue #16267: Better document the 3.3+ approach to combining
  @abstractmethod with @staticmethod, @classmethod and @property

- Issue #15209: Clarify exception chaining description in exceptions module
  documentation

- Issue #15990: Improve argument/parameter documentation.

- Issue #16209: Move the documentation for the str built-in function to a new
  str class entry in the "Text Sequence Type" section.

- Issue #13538: Improve str() and object.__str__() documentation.

- Issue #16489: Make it clearer that importlib.find_loader() needs parent
  packages to be explicitly imported.

- Issue #16400: Update the description of which versions of a given package
  PyPI displays.

- Issue #15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to
  mean 'no compression'. Patch by Brian Brazil.

- Issue #16197: Update winreg docstrings and documentation to match code.
  Patch by Zachary Ware.

- Issue #8040: added a version switcher to the documentation.  Patch by
  Yury Selivanov.

- Issue #16241: Document -X faulthandler command line option.
  Patch by Marek Šuppa.

- Additional comments and some style changes in the concurrent.futures URL
  retrieval example

- Issue #16115: Improve subprocess.Popen() documentation around args, shell,
  and executable arguments.

- Issue #13498: Clarify docs of os.makedirs()'s exist_ok argument.  Done with
  great native-speaker help from R. David Murray.

- Issue #15533: Clarify docs and add tests for `subprocess.Popen()`'s cwd
  argument.

- Issue #15979: Improve timeit documentation.

- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in `int()`'s signature and
  arguments.

- Issue #15935: Clarification of `argparse` docs, re: add_argument() type and
  default arguments.  Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.

- Issue #11964: Document a change in v3.2 to the behavior of the indent
  parameter of json encoding operations.

- Issue #15116: Remove references to appscript as it is no longer being
  supported.

Tools/Demos
-----------

- Issue #18817: Fix a resource warning in Lib/aifc.py demo.  Patch by
  Vajrasky Kok.

- Issue #18439: Make patchcheck work on Windows for ACKS, NEWS.

- Issue #18448: Fix a typo in Tools/demo/eiffel.py.

- Issue #18457: Fixed saving of formulas and complex numbers in
  Tools/demo/ss1.py.

- Issue #18449: Make Tools/demo/ss1.py work again on Python 3.  Patch by
  Févry Thibault.

- Issue #12990: The "Python Launcher" on OSX could not launch python scripts
  that have paths that include wide characters.

- Issue #15239: Make mkstringprep.py work again on Python 3.

- Issue #17028: Allowed Python arguments to be supplied to the Windows
  launcher.

- Issue #17156: pygettext.py now detects the encoding of source files and
  correctly writes and escapes non-ascii characters.

- Issue #15539: Fix a number of bugs in Tools/scripts/pindent.py.  Now
  pindent.py works with a "with" statement.  pindent.py no longer produces
  improper indentation.  pindent.py now works with continued lines broken after
  "class" or "def" keywords and with continuations at the start of line.

- Issue #11797: Add a 2to3 fixer that maps reload() to imp.reload().

- Issue #10966: Remove the concept of unexpected skipped tests.

- Issue #9893: Removed the Misc/Vim directory.

- Removed the Misc/TextMate directory.

- Issue #16245: Add the Tools/scripts/parse_html5_entities.py script to parse
  the list of HTML5 entities and update the html.entities.html5 dictionary.

- Issue #15378: Fix Tools/unicode/comparecodecs.py.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #16549: Make json.tool work again on Python 3 and add tests.
  Initial patch by Berker Peksag and Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Windows
-------

- Issue #18569: The installer now adds .py to the PATHEXT variable when extensions
  are registered. Patch by Paul Moore.


What's New in Python 3.3.0?
===========================

*Release date: 29-Sep-2012*

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #16046: Fix loading sourceless legacy .pyo files.

- Issue #16060: Fix refcounting bug when `__trunc__()` returns an object whose
  `__int__()` gives a non-integer.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

Extension Modules
-----------------

- Issue #16012: Fix a regression in pyexpat. The parser's `UseForeignDTD()`
  method doesn't require an argument again.


What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 3?
===============================================

*Release date: 23-Sep-2012*

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #15900: Fix reference leak in `PyUnicode_TranslateCharmap()`.

- Issue #15926: Fix crash after multiple reinitializations of the interpreter.

- Issue #15895: Fix FILE pointer leak in one error branch of
  `PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags()` when filename points to a pyc/pyo file, closeit is
  false an and set_main_loader() fails.

- Fixes for a few crash and memory leak regressions found by Coverity.

Library
-------

- Issue #15882: Change `_decimal` to accept any coefficient tuple when
  constructing infinities. This is done for backwards compatibility with
  decimal.py: Infinity coefficients are undefined in _decimal (in accordance
  with the specification).

- Issue #15925: Fix a regression in `email.util` where the `parsedate()` and
  `parsedate_tz()` functions did not return None anymore when the argument could
  not be parsed.

Extension Modules
-----------------

- Issue #15973: Fix a segmentation fault when comparing datetime timezone
  objects.

- Issue #15977: Fix memory leak in Modules/_ssl.c when the function
  _set_npn_protocols() is called multiple times, thanks to Daniel Sommermann.

- Issue #15969: `faulthandler` module: rename dump_tracebacks_later() to
  dump_traceback_later() and cancel_dump_tracebacks_later() to
  cancel_dump_traceback_later().

- _decimal module: use only C 89 style comments.


What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 2?
===============================================

*Release date: 09-Sep-2012*

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #13992: The trashcan mechanism is now thread-safe.  This eliminates
  sporadic crashes in multi-thread programs when several long deallocator chains
  ran concurrently and involved subclasses of built-in container types.

- Issue #15784: Modify `OSError`.__str__() to better distinguish between errno
  error numbers and Windows error numbers.

- Issue #15781: Fix two small race conditions in import's module locking.

Library
-------

- Issue #17158: Add 'symbols' to help() welcome message; clarify
  'modules spam' messages.

- Issue #15847: Fix a regression in argparse, which did not accept tuples as
  argument lists anymore.

- Issue #15828: Restore support for C extensions in `imp.load_module()`.

- Issue #15340: Fix importing the random module when ``/dev/urandom`` cannot be
  opened.  This was a regression caused by the hash randomization patch.

- Issue #10650: Deprecate the watchexp parameter of the `Decimal.quantize()`
  method.

- Issue #15785: Modify `window.get_wch()` API of the curses module: return a
  character for most keys, and an integer for special keys, instead of always
  returning an integer. So it is now possible to distinguish special keys like
  keypad keys.

- Issue #14223: Fix `window.addch()` of the curses module for special characters
  like curses.ACS_HLINE: the Python function addch(int) and addch(bytes) is now
  calling the C function waddch()/mvwaddch() (as it was done in Python 3.2),
  instead of wadd_wch()/mvwadd_wch(). The Python function addch(str) is still
  calling the C function wadd_wch()/mvwadd_wch() if the Python curses is linked
  to libncursesw.

Build
-----

- Issue #15822: Really ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed
  (replaces fixes for Issue #15645).

Documentation
-------------

- Issue #15814: The memoryview enhancements in 3.3.0 accidentally permitted the
  hashing of multi-dimensional memorviews and memoryviews with multi-byte item
  formats. The intended restrictions have now been documented - they will be
  correctly enforced in 3.3.1.


What's New in Python 3.3.0 Release Candidate 1?
===============================================

*Release date: 25-Aug-2012*

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #15573: memoryview comparisons are now performed by value with full
  support for any valid struct module format definition.

- Issue #15316: When an item in the fromlist for `__import__()` doesn't exist,
  don't raise an error, but if an exception is raised as part of an import do
  let that propagate.

- Issue #15778: Ensure that ``str(ImportError(msg))`` returns a str even when
  msg isn't a str.

- Issue #2051: Source file permission bits are once again correctly copied to
  the cached bytecode file. (The migration to importlib reintroduced this
  problem because these was no regression test. A test has been added as part of
  this patch)

- Issue #15761: Fix crash when ``PYTHONEXECUTABLE`` is set on Mac OS X.

- Issue #15726: Fix incorrect bounds checking in PyState_FindModule.  Patch by
  Robin Schreiber.

- Issue #15604: Update uses of `PyObject_IsTrue()` to check for and handle
  errors correctly.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #14846: `importlib.FileFinder` now handles the case where the directory
  being searched is removed after a previous import attempt.

Library
-------

- Issue #13370: Ensure that ctypes works on Mac OS X when Python is compiled
  using the clang compiler.

- Issue #13072: The array module's 'u' format code is now deprecated and will be
  removed in Python 4.0.

- Issue #15544: Fix Decimal.__float__ to work with payload-carrying NaNs.

- Issue #15776: Allow pyvenv to work in existing directory with --clean.

- Issue #15249: email's BytesGenerator now correctly mangles From lines (when
  requested) even if the body contains undecodable bytes.

- Issue #15777: Fix a refleak in _posixsubprocess.

- Issue ##665194: Update `email.utils.localtime` to use datetime.astimezone and
  correctly handle historic changes in UTC offsets.

- Issue #15199: Fix JavaScript's default MIME type to application/javascript.
  Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.

- Issue #12643: `code.InteractiveConsole` now respects `sys.excepthook` when
  displaying exceptions.  Patch by Aaron Iles.

- Issue #13579: `string.Formatter` now understands the 'a' conversion specifier.

- Issue #15595: Fix ``subprocess.Popen(universal_newlines=True)`` for certain
  locales (utf-16 and utf-32 family). Patch by Chris Jerdonek.

- Issue #15477: In cmath and math modules, add workaround for platforms whose
  system-supplied log1p function doesn't respect signs of zeros.

- Issue #15715: `importlib.__import__()` will silence an ImportError when the
  use of fromlist leads to a failed import.

- Issue #14669: Fix pickling of connections and sockets on Mac OS X by
  sending/receiving an acknowledgment after file descriptor transfer.
  TestPicklingConnection has been reenabled for Mac OS X.

- Issue #11062: Fix adding a message from file to Babyl mailbox.

- Issue #15646: Prevent equivalent of a fork bomb when using `multiprocessing`
  on Windows without the ``if __name__ == '__main__'`` idiom.

IDLE
----

- Issue #15678: Fix IDLE menus when started from OS X command line (3.3.0b2
  regression).

Documentation
-------------

- Touched up the Python 2 to 3 porting guide.

- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the `json` module's standard compliance.
  Patch by Chris Rebert.

- Create a 'Concurrent Execution' section in the docs, and split up the
  'Optional Operating System Services' section to use a more user-centric
  classification scheme (splitting them across the new CE section, IPC and text
  processing). Operating system limitations can be reflected with the Sphinx
  ``:platform:`` tag, it doesn't make sense as part of the Table of Contents.

- Issue #4966: Bring the sequence docs up to date for the Py3k transition and
  the many language enhancements since they were original written.

- The "path importer" misnomer has been replaced with Eric Snow's
  more-awkward-but-at-least-not-wrong suggestion of "path based finder" in the
  import system reference docs.

- Issue #15640: Document `importlib.abc.Finder` as deprecated.

- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial.  Patch by
  Daniel Ellis.

Tests
-----

- Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the
  UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected tests in
  test_posix.py to account for this.

- Issue #15285: Refactor the approach for testing connect timeouts using two
  external hosts that have been configured specifically for this type of test.

- Issue #15743: Remove the deprecated method usage in `urllib` tests. Patch by
  Jeff Knupp.

- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the `json` module's handling of invalid input
  data.  Patch by Kushal Das.

Build
-----

- Output lib files for PGO build into PGO directory.

- Pick up 32-bit launcher from PGO directory on 64-bit PGO build.

- Drop ``PC\python_nt.h`` as it's not used.  Add input dependency on custom
  build step.

- Issue #15511: Drop explicit dependency on pythonxy.lib from _decimal amd64
  configuration.

- Add missing PGI/PGO configurations for pywlauncher.

- Issue #15645: Ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed.


What's New in Python 3.3.0 Beta 2?
==================================

*Release date: 12-Aug-2012*

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #15568: Fix the return value of ``yield from`` when StopIteration is
  raised by a custom iterator.

- Issue #13119: `sys.stdout` and `sys.stderr` are now using "\r\n" newline on
  Windows, as Python 2.

- Issue #15534: Fix the fast-search function for non-ASCII Unicode strings.

- Issue #15508: Fix the docstring for `__import__()` to have the proper default
  value of 0 for 'level' and to not mention negative levels since they are not
  supported.

- Issue #15425: Eliminated traceback noise from more situations involving
  importlib.

- Issue #14578: Support modules registered in the Windows registry again.

- Issue #15466: Stop using TYPE_INT64 in marshal, to make importlib.h (and other
  byte code files) equal between 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

- Issue #1692335: Move initial exception args assignment to
  `BaseException.__new__()` to help pickling of naive subclasses.

- Issue #12834: Fix `PyBuffer_ToContiguous()` for non-contiguous arrays.

- Issue #15456: Fix code `__sizeof__()` after #12399 change.  Patch by Serhiy
  Storchaka.

- Issue #15404: Refleak in PyMethodObject repr.

- Issue #15394: An issue in `PyModule_Create()` that caused references to be
  leaked on some error paths has been fixed.  Patch by Julia Lawall.

- Issue #15368: An issue that caused bytecode generation to be non-deterministic
  has been fixed.

- Issue #15202: Consistently use the name "follow_symlinks" for new parameters
  in os and shutil functions.

- Issue #15314: ``__main__.__loader__`` is now set correctly during interpreter
  startup.

- Issue #15111: When a module imported using 'from import' has an ImportError
  inside itself, don't mask that fact behind a generic ImportError for the
  module itself.

- Issue #15293: Add GC support to the AST base node type.

- Issue #15291: Fix a memory leak where AST nodes where not properly
  deallocated.

- Issue #15110: Fix the tracebacks generated by "import xxx" to not show the
  importlib stack frames.

- Issue #16369: Global PyTypeObjects not initialized with PyType_Ready(...).

- Issue #15020: The program name used to search for Python's path is now
  "python3" under Unix, not "python".

- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
  Patch by Felipe Cruz.

- Issue #15033: Fix the exit status bug when modules invoked using -m switch,
  return the proper failure return value (1). Patch contributed by Jeff Knupp.

- Issue #15229: An `OSError` subclass whose __init__ doesn't call back
  OSError.__init__ could produce incomplete instances, leading to crashes when
  calling str() on them.

- Issue #15307: Virtual environments now use symlinks with framework builds on
  Mac OS X, like other POSIX builds.

Library
-------

- Issue #14590: configparser now correctly strips inline comments when delimiter
  occurs earlier without preceding space.

- Issue #15424: Add a `__sizeof__()` implementation for array objects.  Patch by
  Ludwig Hähne.

- Issue #15576: Allow extension modules to act as a package's __init__ module.

- Issue #15502: Have `importlib.invalidate_caches()` work on `sys.meta_path`
  instead of `sys.path_importer_cache`.

- Issue #15163: Pydoc shouldn't list __loader__ as module data.

- Issue #15471: Do not use mutable objects as defaults for
  `importlib.__import__()`.

- Issue #15559: To avoid a problematic failure mode when passed to the bytes
  constructor, objects in the ipaddress module no longer implement `__index__()`
  (they still implement `__int__()` as appropriate).

- Issue #15546: Fix handling of pathological input data in the peek() and
  read1() methods of the BZ2File, GzipFile and LZMAFile classes.

- Issue #12655: Instead of requiring a custom type, `os.sched_getaffinity()` and
  `os.sched_setaffinity()` now use regular sets of integers to represent the
  CPUs a process is restricted to.

- Issue #15538: Fix compilation of the `socket.getnameinfo()` /
  `socket.getaddrinfo()` emulation code.  Patch by Philipp Hagemeister.

- Issue #15519: Properly expose WindowsRegistryFinder in importlib (and use the
  correct term for it).  Original patch by Eric Snow.

- Issue #15502: Bring the importlib ABCs into line with the current state of the
  import protocols given PEP 420.  Original patch by Eric Snow.

- Issue #15499: Launching a webbrowser in Unix used to sleep for a few seconds.
  Original patch by Anton Barkovsky.

- Issue #15463: The faulthandler module truncates strings to 500 characters,
  instead of 100, to be able to display long file paths.

- Issue #6056: Make `multiprocessing` use setblocking(True) on the sockets it
  uses.  Original patch by J Derek Wilson.

- Issue #15364: Fix sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir') to be an absolute path.

- Issue #15413: `os.times()` had disappeared under Windows.

- Issue #15402: An issue in the struct module that caused `sys.getsizeof()` to
  return incorrect results for struct.Struct instances has been fixed.  Initial
  patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #15232: When mangle_from is True, `email.Generator` now correctly
  mangles lines that start with 'From ' that occur in a MIME preamble or
  epilogue.

- Issue #15094: Incorrectly placed #endif in _tkinter.c.  Patch by Serhiy
  Storchaka.

- Issue #13922: `argparse` no longer incorrectly strips '--'s that appear after
  the first one.

- Issue #12353: `argparse` now correctly handles null argument values.

- Issue #10017, issue #14998: Fix TypeError using pprint on dictionaries with
  user-defined types as keys or other unorderable keys.

- Issue #15397: `inspect.getmodulename()` is now based directly on importlib via
  a new `importlib.machinery.all_suffixes()` API.

- Issue #14635: `telnetlib` will use poll() rather than select() when possible to
  avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.

- Issue #15180: Clarify posixpath.join() error message when mixing str & bytes.

- Issue #15343: pkgutil now includes an iter_importer_modules implementation for
  importlib.machinery.FileFinder (similar to the way it already handled
  zipimport.zipimporter).

- Issue #15314: runpy now sets __main__.__loader__ correctly.

- Issue #15357: The import emulation in pkgutil is now deprecated. pkgutil uses
  importlib internally rather than the emulation.

- Issue #15233: Python now guarantees that callables registered with the atexit
  module will be called in a deterministic order.

- Issue #15238: `shutil.copystat()` now copies Linux "extended attributes".

- Issue #15230: runpy.run_path now correctly sets __package__ as described in
  the documentation.

- Issue #15315: Support VS 2010 in distutils cygwincompiler.

- Issue #15294: Fix a regression in pkgutil.extend_path()'s handling of nested
  namespace packages.

- Issue #15056: `imp.cache_from_source()` and `imp.source_from_cache()` raise
  NotImplementedError when `sys.implementation.cache_tag` is set to None.

- Issue #15256: Grammatical mistake in exception raised by `imp.find_module()`.

- Issue #5931: `wsgiref` environ variable SERVER_SOFTWARE will specify an
  implementation specific term like CPython, Jython instead of generic "Python".

- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "max_buffer_size" of BufferedWriter and
  BufferedRWPair, from the io module.

- Issue #13248: Remove obsolete argument "version" of `argparse.ArgumentParser`.

- Issue #14814: Implement more consistent ordering and sorting behaviour for
  ipaddress objects.

- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` network objects correctly return NotImplemented when
  compared to arbitrary objects instead of raising TypeError.

- Issue #14990: Correctly fail with SyntaxError on invalid encoding declaration.

- Issue #14814: `ipaddress` now provides more informative error messages when
  constructing instances directly (changes permitted during beta due to
  provisional API status).

- Issue #15247: `io.FileIO` now raises an error when given a file descriptor
  pointing to a directory.

- Issue #15261: Stop os.stat(fd) crashing on Windows when fd not open.

- Issue #15166: Implement `imp.get_tag()` using `sys.implementation.cache_tag`.

- Issue #15210: Catch KeyError when `importlib.__init__()` can't find
  _frozen_importlib in sys.modules, not ImportError.

- Issue #15030: `importlib.abc.PyPycLoader` now supports the new source size
  header field in .pyc files.

- Issue #5346: Preserve permissions of mbox, MMDF and Babyl mailbox files on
  flush().

- Issue #10571: Fix the "--sign" option of distutils' upload command.  Patch by
  Jakub Wilk.

- Issue #9559: If messages were only added, a new file is no longer created and
  renamed over the old file when flush() is called on an mbox, MMDF or Babyl
  mailbox.

- Issue #10924: Fixed `crypt.mksalt()` to use a RNG that is suitable for
  cryptographic purpose.

- Issue #15184: Ensure consistent results of OS X configuration tailoring for
  universal builds by factoring out common OS X-specific customizations from
  sysconfig, distutils.sysconfig, distutils.util, and distutils.unixccompiler
  into a new module _osx_support.

C API
-----

- Issue #15610: `PyImport_ImportModuleEx()` now uses a 'level' of 0 instead of -1.

- Issue #15169, issue #14599: Strip out the C implementation of
  `imp.source_from_cache()` used by PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() and
  used the Python code instead. Leads to PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject() to not
  try to infer the source path from the bytecode path as
  PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() does.

Extension Modules
-----------------

- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields of
  type `ctypes.c_uint32` and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.

- Issue #15194: Update libffi to the 3.0.11 release.

IDLE
----

- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
  ended with ``\``.  Patch by Roger Serwy.

Tools/Demos
-----------

- Issue #15458: python-config gets a new option --configdir to print the $LIBPL
  value.

- Move importlib.test.benchmark to Tools/importbench.

- Issue #12605: The gdb hooks for debugging CPython (within Tools/gdb) have been
  enhanced to show information on more C frames relevant to CPython within the
  "py-bt" and "py-bt-full" commands:

  * C frames that are waiting on the GIL
  * C frames that are garbage-collecting
  * C frames that are due to the invocation of a PyCFunction

Documentation
-------------

- Issue #15041: Update "see also" list in tkinter documentation.

- Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names.  Patch by
  Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #15295: Reorganize and rewrite the documentation on the import system.

- Issue #15230: Clearly document some of the limitations of the runpy module and
  nudge readers towards importlib when appropriate.

- Issue #15053: Copy Python 3.3 import lock change notice to all relevant
  functions in imp instead of just at the top of the relevant section.

- Issue #15288: Link to the term "loader" in notes in pkgutil about how things
  won't work as expected in Python 3.3 and mark the requisite functions as
  "changed" since they will no longer work with modules directly imported by
  import itself.

- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to `exec()` or
  `execfile()`.

- Issue #15250: Document that `filecmp.dircmp()` compares files shallowly. Patch
  contributed by Chris Jerdonek.

- Issue #15442: Expose the default list of directories ignored by
  `filecmp.dircmp()` as a module attribute, and expand the list to more modern
  values.

Tests
-----

- Issue #15467: Move helpers for `__sizeof__()` tests into test_support.  Patch
  by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #15320: Make iterating the list of tests thread-safe when running tests
  in multiprocess mode. Patch by Chris Jerdonek.

- Issue #15168: Move `importlib.test` to `test.test_importlib`.

- Issue #15091: Reactivate a test on UNIX which was failing thanks to a
  forgotten `importlib.invalidate_caches()` call.

- Issue #15230: Adopted a more systematic approach in the runpy tests.

- Issue #15300: Ensure the temporary test working directories are in the same
  parent folder when running tests in multiprocess mode from a Python build.
  Patch by Chris Jerdonek.

- Issue #15284: Skip {send,recv}msg tests in test_socket when IPv6 is not
  enabled. Patch by Brian Brazil.

- Issue #15277: Fix a resource leak in support.py when IPv6 is disabled.  Patch
  by Brian Brazil.

Build
-----

- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development tools
  (dpkg-dev) installed.

- Issue #15037: Build OS X installers with local copy of ncurses 5.9 libraries
  to avoid curses.unget_wch bug present in older versions of ncurses such as
  those shipped with OS X.

- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK.  Also, for
  OS X installers, ensure consistent sqlite3 behavior and feature availability
  by building a local copy of libsqlite3 rather than depending on the wide range
  of versions supplied with various OS X releases.

- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds.

- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs.

- Issue #16256: OS X installer now sets correct permissions for doc directory.

- Issue #15431: Add _freeze_importlib project to regenerate importlib.h on
  Windows. Patch by Kristján Valur Jónsson.

- Issue #14197: For OS X framework builds, ensure links to the shared library
  are created with the proper ABI suffix.

- Issue #14330: For cross builds, don't use host python, use host search paths
  for host compiler.

- Issue #15235: Allow Berkley DB versions up to 5.3 to build the dbm module.

- Issue #15268: Search curses.h in /usr/include/ncursesw.


What's New in Python 3.3.0 Beta 1?
==================================

*Release date: 27-Jun-2012*

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Fix a (most likely) very rare memory leak when calling main() and not being
  able to decode a command-line argument.

- Issue #14815: Use Py_ssize_t instead of long for the object hash, to
  preserve all 64 bits of hash on Win64.

- Issue #12268: File readline, readlines and read() or readall() methods
  no longer lose data when an underlying read system call is interrupted.
  IOError is no longer raised due to a read system call returning EINTR
  from within these methods.

- Issue #11626: Add _SizeT functions to stable ABI.

- Issue #15142: Fix reference leak when deallocating instances of types
  created using PyType_FromSpec().

- Issue #10053: Don't close FDs when FileIO.__init__ fails. Loosely based on
  the work by Hirokazu Yamamoto.

- Issue #15096: Removed support for ur'' as the raw notation isn't
  compatible with Python 2.x's raw unicode strings.

- Issue #13783: Generator objects now use the identifier APIs internally

- Issue #14874: Restore charmap decoding speed to pre-PEP 393 levels.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #15026: utf-16 encoding is now significantly faster (up to 10x).
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #11022: open() and io.TextIOWrapper are now calling
  locale.getpreferredencoding(False) instead of locale.getpreferredencoding()
  in text mode if the encoding is not specified. Don't change temporary the
  locale encoding using locale.setlocale(), use the current locale encoding
  instead of the user preferred encoding.

- Issue #14673: Add Eric Snow's sys.implementation implementation.

- Issue #15038: Optimize python Locks on Windows.

Library
-------

- Issue #12288: Consider '0' and '0.0' as valid initialvalue
  for tkinter SimpleDialog.

- Issue #15512: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for parser.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #15469: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for deque objects.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #15489: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for BytesIO objects.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #15487: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for buffered I/O objects.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #15514: Correct __sizeof__ support for cpu_set.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #15177: Added dir_fd parameter to os.fwalk().

- Issue #15061: Re-implemented hmac.compare_digest() in C to prevent further
  timing analysis and to support all buffer protocol aware objects as well as
  ASCII only str instances safely.

- Issue #15164: Change return value of platform.uname() from a
  plain tuple to a collections.namedtuple.

- Support Mageia Linux in the platform module.

- Issue #11678: Support Arch linux in the platform module.

- Issue #15118: Change return value of os.uname() and os.times() from
  plain tuples to immutable iterable objects with named attributes
  (structseq objects).

- Speed up _decimal by another 10-15% by caching the thread local context
  that was last accessed. In the pi benchmark (64-bit platform, prec=9),
  _decimal is now only 1.5x slower than float.

- Remove the packaging module, which is not ready for prime time.

- Issue #15154: Add "dir_fd" parameter to os.rmdir, remove "rmdir"
  parameter from os.remove / os.unlink.

- Issue #4489: Add a shutil.rmtree that isn't susceptible to symlink attacks.
  It is used automatically on platforms supporting the necessary os.openat()
  and os.unlinkat() functions. Main code by Martin von Löwis.

- Issue #15156: HTMLParser now uses the new "html.entities.html5" dictionary.

- Issue #11113: add a new "html5" dictionary containing the named character
  references defined by the HTML5 standard and the equivalent Unicode
  character(s) to the html.entities module.

- Issue #15114: the strict mode of HTMLParser and the HTMLParseError exception
  are deprecated now that the parser is able to parse invalid markup.

- Issue #3665: \u and \U escapes are now supported in unicode regular
  expressions.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #15153: Added inspect.getgeneratorlocals to simplify white box
  testing of generator state updates

- Issue #13062: Added inspect.getclosurevars to simplify testing stateful
  closures

- Issue #11024: Fixes and additional tests for Time2Internaldate.

- Issue #14626: Large refactoring of functions / parameters in the os module.
  Many functions now support "dir_fd" and "follow_symlinks" parameters;
  some also support accepting an open file descriptor in place of a path
  string.  Added os.support_* collections as LBYL helpers.  Removed many
  functions only previously seen in 3.3 alpha releases (often starting with
  "f" or "l", or ending with "at").  Originally suggested by Serhiy Storchaka;
  implemented by Larry Hastings.

- Issue #15008: Implement PEP 362 "Signature Objects".
  Patch by Yury Selivanov.

- Issue: #15138: base64.urlsafe_{en,de}code() are now 3-4x faster.

- Issue #444582: Add shutil.which, for finding programs on the system path.
  Original patch by Erik Demaine, with later iterations by Jan Killian
  and Brian Curtin.

- Issue #14837: SSL errors now have ``library`` and ``reason`` attributes
  describing precisely what happened and in which OpenSSL submodule.  The
  str() of a SSLError is also enhanced accordingly.

- Issue #9527: datetime.astimezone() method will now supply a class
  timezone instance corresponding to the system local timezone when
  called with no arguments.

- Issue #14653: email.utils.mktime_tz() no longer relies on system
  mktime() when timezone offest is supplied.

- Issue #14684: zlib.compressobj() and zlib.decompressobj() now support the use
  of predefined compression dictionaries. Original patch by Sam Rushing.

- Fix GzipFile's handling of filenames given as bytes objects.

- Issue #14772: Return destination values from some shutil functions.

- Issue #15064: Implement context manager protocol for multiprocessing types

- Issue #15101: Make pool finalizer avoid joining current thread.

- Issue #14657: The frozen instance of importlib used for bootstrap is now
  also the module imported as importlib._bootstrap.

- Issue #14055: Add __sizeof__ support to _elementtree.

- Issue #15054: A bug in tokenize.tokenize that caused string literals
  with 'b' prefixes to be incorrectly tokenized has been fixed.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #15006: Allow equality comparison between naive and aware
  time or datetime objects.

- Issue #15036: Mailbox no longer throws an error if a flush is done
  between operations when removing or changing multiple items in mbox,
  MMDF, or Babyl mailboxes.

- Issue #14059: Implement multiprocessing.Barrier.

- Issue #15061: The inappropriately named hmac.secure_compare has been
  renamed to hmac.compare_digest, restricted to operating on bytes inputs
  only and had its documentation updated to more accurately reflect both its
  intent and its limitations

- Issue #13841: Make child processes exit using sys.exit() on Windows.

- Issue #14936: curses_panel was converted to PEP 3121 and PEP 384 API.
  Patch by Robin Schreiber.

- Issue #1667546: On platforms supporting tm_zone and tm_gmtoff fields
  in struct tm, time.struct_time objects returned by time.gmtime(),
  time.localtime() and time.strptime() functions now have tm_zone and
  tm_gmtoff attributes.  Original patch by Paul Boddie.

- Rename adjusted attribute to adjustable in time.get_clock_info() result.

- Issue #3518: Remove references to non-existent BaseManager.from_address()
  method.

- Issue #13857: Added textwrap.indent() function (initial patch by Ezra
  Berch)

- Issue #2736: Added datetime.timestamp() method.

- Issue #13854: Make multiprocessing properly handle non-integer
  non-string argument to SystemExit.

- Issue #12157: Make pool.map() empty iterables correctly.  Initial
  patch by mouad.

- Issue #11823: disassembly now shows argument counts on calls with keyword args.

- Issue #14711: os.stat_float_times() has been deprecated.

- LZMAFile now accepts the modes "rb"/"wb"/"ab" as synonyms of "r"/"w"/"a".

- The bz2 and lzma modules now each contain an open() function, allowing
  compressed files to readily be opened in text mode as well as binary mode.

- BZ2File.__init__() and LZMAFile.__init__() now accept a file object as their
  first argument, rather than requiring a separate "fileobj" argument.

- gzip.open() now accepts file objects as well as filenames.

- Issue #14992: os.makedirs(path, exist_ok=True) would raise an OSError
  when the path existed and had the S_ISGID mode bit set when it was
  not explicitly asked for.  This is no longer an exception as mkdir
  cannot control if the OS sets that bit for it or not.

- Issue #14989: Make the CGI enable option to http.server available via command
  line.

- Issue #14987: Add a missing import statement to inspect.

- Issue #1079: email.header.decode_header now correctly parses all the examples
  in RFC2047.  There is a necessary visible behavior change: the leading and/or
  trailing whitespace on ASCII parts is now preserved.

- Issue #14969: Better handling of exception chaining in contextlib.ExitStack

- Issue #14963: Convert contextlib.ExitStack.__exit__ to use an iterative
  algorithm (Patch by Alon Horev)

- Issue #14785: Add sys._debugmallocstats() to help debug low-level memory
  allocation issues

- Issue #14443: Ensure that .py files are byte-compiled with the correct Python
  executable within bdist_rpm even on older versions of RPM

C-API
-----

- Issue #15146: Add PyType_FromSpecWithBases. Patch by Robin Schreiber.

- Issue #15042: Add PyState_AddModule and PyState_RemoveModule. Add version
  guard for Py_LIMITED_API additions. Patch by Robin Schreiber.

- Issue #13783: Inadvertent additions to the public C API in the PEP 380
  implementation have either been removed or marked as private interfaces.

Extension Modules
-----------------

- Issue #15000: Support the "unique" x32 architecture in _posixsubprocess.c.

IDLE
----

- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
  Patch by Roger Serwy.

- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
  options.  Patch by Roger Serwy.

Documentation
-------------

- Issue #15176: Clarified behavior, documentation, and implementation
  of os.listdir().

- Issue #14982: Document that pkgutil's iteration functions require the
  non-standard iter_modules() method to be defined by an importer (something
  the importlib importers do not define).

- Issue #15081: Document PyState_FindModule.
  Patch by Robin Schreiber.

- Issue #14814: Added first draft of ipaddress module API reference

Tests
-----

- Issue #15187: Bugfix: remove temporary directories test_shutil was leaving
  behind.

- Issue #14769: test_capi now has SkipitemTest, which cleverly checks
  for "parity" between PyArg_ParseTuple() and the Python/getargs.c static
  function skipitem() for all possible "format units".

- test_nntplib now tolerates being run from behind NNTP gateways that add
  "X-Antivirus" headers to articles

- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
  block loading of the gdb hooks

- Issue #14963: Add test cases for exception handling behaviour
  in contextlib.ExitStack (Initial patch by Alon Horev)

Build
-----

- Issue #13590: Improve support for OS X Xcode 4:
    * Try to avoid building Python or extension modules with problematic
      llvm-gcc compiler.
    * Since Xcode 4 removes ppc support, extension module builds now
      check for ppc compiler support and automatically remove ppc and
      ppc64 archs when not available.
    * Since Xcode 4 no longer install SDKs in default locations,
      extension module builds now revert to using installed headers
      and libs if the SDK used to build the interpreter is not
      available.
    * Update ./configure to use better defaults for universal builds;
      in particular, --enable-universalsdk=yes uses the Xcode default
      SDK and --with-universal-archs now defaults to "intel" if ppc
      not available.

- Issue #14225: Fix Unicode support for curses (#12567) on OS X

- Issue #14928: Fix importlib bootstrap issues by using a custom executable
  (Modules/_freeze_importlib) to build Python/importlib.h.


What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 4?
===================================

*Release date: 31-May-2012*

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #14835: Make plistlib output empty arrays & dicts like OS X.
  Patch by Sidney San Martín.

- Issue #14744: Use the new _PyUnicodeWriter internal API to speed up
  str%args and str.format(args).

- Issue #14930: Make memoryview objects weakrefable.

- Issue #14775: Fix a potential quadratic dict build-up due to the garbage
  collector repeatedly trying to untrack dicts.

- Issue #14857: fix regression in references to PEP 3135 implicit __class__
  closure variable (Reopens issue #12370)

- Issue #14712 (PEP 405): Virtual environments. Implemented by Vinay Sajip.

- Issue #14660 (PEP 420): Namespace packages. Implemented by Eric Smith.

- Issue #14494: Fix __future__.py and its documentation to note that
  absolute imports are the default behavior in 3.0 instead of 2.7.
  Patch by Sven Marnach.

- Issue #9260: A finer-grained import lock.  Most of the import sequence
  now uses per-module locks rather than the global import lock, eliminating
  well-known issues with threads and imports.

- Issue #14624: UTF-16 decoding is now 3x to 4x faster on various inputs.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- asdl_seq and asdl_int_seq are now Py_ssize_t sized.

- Issue #14133 (PEP 415): Implement suppression of __context__ display with an
  attribute on BaseException. This replaces the original mechanism of PEP 409.

- Issue #14417: Mutating a dict during lookup now restarts the lookup instead
  of raising a RuntimeError (undoes issue #14205).

- Issue #14738: Speed-up UTF-8 decoding on non-ASCII data.  Patch by Serhiy
  Storchaka.

- Issue #14700: Fix two broken and undefined-behaviour-inducing overflow checks
  in old-style string formatting.

Library
-------

- Issue #14690: Use monotonic clock instead of system clock in the sched,
  subprocess and trace modules.

- Issue #14443: Tell rpmbuild to use the correct version of Python in
  bdist_rpm. Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.

- Issue #12515: email now registers a defect if it gets to EOF while parsing
  a MIME part without seeing the closing MIME boundary.

- Issue #1672568: email now always decodes base64 payloads, adding padding and
  ignoring non-base64-alphabet characters if needed, and registering defects
  for any such problems.

- Issue #14925: email now registers a defect when the parser decides that there
  is a missing header/body separator line.  MalformedHeaderDefect, which the
  existing code would never actually generate, is deprecated.

- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing even when
  the parent window is closed before the dialog. Patch by Roger Serwy.

- Issue #8739: Updated smtpd to support RFC 5321, and added support for the
  RFC 1870 SIZE extension.

- Issue #665194: Added a localtime function to email.utils to provide an
  aware local datetime for use in setting Date headers.

- Issue #12586: Added new provisional policies that implement convenient
  unicode support for email headers.  See What's New for details.

- Issue #14731: Refactored email Policy framework to support full backward
  compatibility with Python 3.2 by default yet allow for the introduction of
  new features through new policies.  Note that Policy.must_be_7bit is renamed
  to cte_type.

- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.

- Issue #14920: Fix the help(urllib.parse) failure on locale C on terminals.
  Have ascii characters in help.

- Issue #14548: Make multiprocessing finalizers check pid before
  running to cope with possibility of gc running just after fork.

- Issue #14036: Add an additional check to validate that port in urlparse does
  not go in illegal range and returns None.

- Issue #14862: Add missing names to os.__all__

- Issue #14875: Use float('inf') instead of float('1e66666') in the json module.

- Issue #13585: Added contextlib.ExitStack

- PEP 3144, Issue #14814: Added the ipaddress module

- Issue #14426: Correct the Date format in Expires attribute of Set-Cookie
  Header in Cookie.py.

- Issue #14588: The types module now provide new_class() and prepare_class()
  functions to support PEP 3115 compliant dynamic class creation. Patch by
  Daniel Urban and Nick Coghlan.

- Issue #13152: Allow to specify a custom tabsize for expanding tabs in
  textwrap. Patch by John Feuerstein.

- Issue #14721: Send the correct 'Content-length: 0' header when the body is an
  empty string ''. Initial Patch contributed by Arve Knudsen.

- Issue #14072: Fix parsing of 'tel' URIs in urlparse by making the check for
  ports stricter.

- Issue #9374: Generic parsing of query and fragment portions of url for any
  scheme. Supported both by RFC3986 and RFC2396.

- Issue #14798: Fix the functions in pyclbr to raise an ImportError
  when the first part of a dotted name is not a package. Patch by
  Xavier de Gaye.

- Issue #12098: multiprocessing on Windows now starts child processes
  using the same sys.flags as the current process.  Initial patch by
  Sergey Mezentsev.

- Issue #13031: Small speed-up for tarfile when unzipping tarfiles.
  Patch by Justin Peel.

- Issue #14780: urllib.request.urlopen() now has a ``cadefault`` argument
  to use the default certificate store.  Initial patch by James Oakley.

- Issue #14829: Fix bisect and range() indexing with large indices
  (>= 2 ** 32) under 64-bit Windows.

- Issue #14732: The _csv module now uses PEP 3121 module initialization.
  Patch by Robin Schreiber.

- Issue #14809: Add HTTP status codes introduced by RFC 6585 to http.server
  and http.client. Patch by EungJun Yi.

- Issue #14777: tkinter may return undecoded UTF-8 bytes as a string when
  accessing the Tk clipboard.  Modify clipboad_get() to first request type
  UTF8_STRING when no specific type is requested in an X11 windowing
  environment, falling back to the current default type STRING if that fails.
  Original patch by Thomas Kluyver.

- Issue #14773: Fix os.fwalk() failing on dangling symlinks.

- Issue #12541: Be lenient with quotes around Realm field of HTTP Basic
  Authentation in urllib2.

- Issue #14807: move undocumented tarfile.filemode() to stat.filemode() and add
  doc entry. Add tarfile.filemode alias with deprecation warning.

- Issue #13815: TarFile.extractfile() now returns io.BufferedReader objects.

- Issue #14532: Add a secure_compare() helper to the hmac module, to mitigate
  timing attacks. Patch by Jon Oberheide.

- Add importlib.util.resolve_name().

- Issue #14366: Support lzma compression in zip files.
  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #13959: Introduce importlib.find_loader() and document
  imp.find_module/load_module as deprecated.

- Issue #14082: shutil.copy2() now copies extended attributes, if possible.
  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.

- Issue #13959: Make importlib.abc.FileLoader.load_module()/get_filename() and
  importlib.machinery.ExtensionFileLoader.load_module() have their single
  argument be optional. Allows for the replacement (and thus deprecation) of
  imp.load_source()/load_package()/load_compiled().

- Issue #13959: imp.get_suffixes() has been deprecated in favour of the new
  attributes on importlib.machinery: SOURCE_SUFFIXES, DEBUG_BYTECODE_SUFFIXES,
  OPTIMIZED_BYTECODE_SUFFIXES, BYTECODE_SUFFIXES, and EXTENSION_SUFFIXES. This
  led to an indirect deprecation of inspect.getmoduleinfo().

- Issue #14662: Prevent shutil failures on OS X when destination does not
  support chflag operations.  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.

- Issue #14157: Fix time.strptime failing without a year on February 29th.
  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.

- Issue #14753: Make multiprocessing's handling of negative timeouts
  the same as it was in Python 3.2.

- Issue #14583: Fix importlib bug when a package's __init__.py would first
  import one of its modules then raise an error.

- Issue #14741: Fix missing support for Ellipsis ('...') in parser module.

- Issue #14697: Fix missing support for set displays and set comprehensions in
  parser module.

- Issue #14701: Fix missing support for 'raise ... from' in parser module.

- Add support for timeouts to the acquire() methods of
  multiprocessing's lock/semaphore/condition proxies.

- Issue #13989: Add support for text mode to gzip.open().

- Issue #14127: The os.stat() result object now provides three additional
  fields: st_ctime_ns, st_mtime_ns, and st_atime_ns, providing those times as an
  integer with nanosecond resolution.  The functions os.utime(), os.lutimes(),
  and os.futimes() now accept a new parameter, ns, which accepts mtime and atime
  as integers with nanosecond resolution.

- Issue #14127 and #10148: shutil.copystat now preserves exact mtime and atime
  on filesystems providing nanosecond resolution.

IDLE
----

- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and
  byte literals supported in Python 3.3.

- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.

- Issue #14929: Stop IDLE 3.x from closing on Unicode decode errors when
  grepping. Patch by Roger Serwy.

- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes IDLE.
  Other tooltipss have been corrected or improved and the number of tests
  has been tripled. Original patch by Roger Serwy.

Tools/Demos
-----------

- Issue #14695: Bring Tools/parser/unparse.py support up to date with
  the Python 3.3 Grammar.

Build
-----

- Issue #14472: Update .gitignore. Patch by Matej Cepl.

- Upgrade Windows library versions: bzip 1.0.6, OpenSSL 1.0.1c.

- Issue #14693: Under non-Windows platforms, hashlib's fallback modules are
  always compiled, even if OpenSSL is present at build time.

- Issue #13210: Windows build now uses VS2010, ported from VS2008.

C-API
-----

- Issue #14705: The PyArg_Parse() family of functions now support the 'p' format
  unit, which accepts a "boolean predicate" argument.  It converts any Python
  value into an integer--0 if it is "false", and 1 otherwise.

Documentation
-------------

- Issue #14863: Update the documentation of os.fdopen() to reflect the
  fact that it's only a thin wrapper around open() anymore.

- Issue #14588: The language reference now accurately documents the Python 3
  class definition process. Patch by Nick Coghlan.

- Issue #14943: Correct a default argument value for winreg.OpenKey
  and correctly list the argument names in the function's explanation.


What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 3?
===================================

*Release date: 01-May-2012*

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #14699: Fix calling the classmethod descriptor directly.

- Issue #14433: Prevent msvcrt crash in interactive prompt when stdin is closed.

- Issue #14521: Make result of float('nan') and float('-nan') more consistent
  across platforms.

- Issue #14646: __import__() sets __loader__ if the loader did not.

- Issue #14605: No longer have implicit entries in sys.meta_path. If
  sys.meta_path is found to be empty, raise ImportWarning.

- Issue #14605: No longer have implicit entries in sys.path_hooks. If
  sys.path_hooks is found to be empty, a warning will be raised. None is now
  inserted into sys.path_importer_cache if no finder was discovered. This also
  means imp.NullImporter is no longer implicitly used.

- Issue #13903: Implement PEP 412. Individual dictionary instances can now share
  their keys with other dictionaries. Classes take advantage of this to share
  their instance dictionary keys for improved memory and performance.

- Issue #11603 (again): Setting __repr__ to __str__ now raises a RuntimeError
  when repr() or str() is called on such an object.

- Issue #14658: Fix binding a special method to a builtin implementation of a
  special method with a different name.

- Issue #14630: Fix a memory access bug for instances of a subclass of int
  with value 0.

- Issue #14339: Speed improvements to bin, oct and hex functions.  Patch by
  Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #14385: It is now possible to use a custom type for the __builtins__
  namespace, instead of a dict. It can be used for sandboxing for example.
  Raise also a NameError instead of ImportError if __build_class__ name if not
  found in __builtins__.

- Issue #12599: Be more strict in accepting None compared to a false-like
  object for importlib.util.module_for_loader and
  importlib.machinery.PathFinder.

- Issue #14612: Fix jumping around with blocks by setting f_lineno.

- Issue #14592: Attempting a relative import w/o __package__ or __name__ set in
  globals raises a KeyError.

- Issue #14607: Fix keyword-only arguments which started with ``__``.

- Issue #10854: The ImportError raised when an extension module on Windows
  fails to import now uses the new path and name attributes from
  Issue #1559549.

- Issue #13889: Check and (if necessary) set FPU control word before calling
  any of the dtoa.c string <-> float conversion functions, on MSVC builds of
  Python.  This fixes issues when embedding Python in a Delphi app.

- __import__() now matches PEP 328 and documentation by defaulting 'index' to 0
  instead of -1 and removing support for negative values.

- Issue #2377: Make importlib the implementation of __import__().

- Issue #1559549: ImportError now has 'name' and 'path' attributes that are set
  using keyword arguments to its constructor. They are currently not set by
  import as they are meant for use by importlib.

- Issue #14474: Save and restore exception state in thread.start_new_thread()
  while writing error message if the thread leaves a unhandled exception.

- Issue #13019: Fix potential reference leaks in bytearray.extend().  Patch
  by Suman Saha.

Library
-------

- Issue #14768: os.path.expanduser('~/a') doesn't works correctly when HOME is '/'.

- Issue #14371: Support bzip2 in zipfile module.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

- Issue #13183: Fix pdb skipping frames after hitting a breakpoint and running
  step.  Patch by Xavier de Gaye.

- Issue #14696: Fix parser module to understand 'nonlocal' declarations.

- Issue #10941: Fix imaplib.Internaldate2tuple to produce correct result near
  the DST transition.  Patch by Joe Peterson.

- Issue #9154: Fix parser module to understand function annotations.

- Issue #6085: In http.server.py SimpleHTTPServer.address_string returns the
  client ip address instead client hostname. Patch by Charles-François Natali.

- Issue #14309: Deprecate time.clock(), use time.perf_counter() or
  time.process_time() instead.

- Issue #14428: Implement the PEP 418. Add time.get_clock_info(),
  time.perf_counter() and time.process_time() functions, and rename
  time.steady() to time.monotonic().

- Issue #14646: importlib.util.module_for_loader() now sets __loader__ and
  __package__ (when possible).

- Issue #14664: It is now possible to use @unittest.skip{If,Unless} on a
  test class that doesn't inherit from TestCase (i.e. a mixin).

- Issue #4892: multiprocessing Connections can now be transferred over
  multiprocessing Connections.  Patch by Richard Oudkerk (sbt).

- Issue #14160: TarFile.extractfile() failed to resolve symbolic links when
  the links were not located in an archive subdirectory.

- Issue #14638: pydoc now treats non-string __name__ values as if they
  were missing, instead of raising an error.

- Issue #13684: Fix httplib tunnel issue of infinite loops for certain sites
  which send EOF without trailing \r\n.

- Issue #14605: Add importlib.abc.FileLoader, importlib.machinery.(FileFinder,
  SourceFileLoader, SourcelessFileLoader, ExtensionFileLoader).

- Issue #13959: imp.cache_from_source()/source_from_cache() now follow
  os.path.join()/split() semantics for path manipulation instead of its prior,
  custom semantics of caring the right-most path separator forward in path
  joining.

- Issue #2193: Allow ":" character in Cookie NAME values.

- Issue #14629: tokenizer.detect_encoding will specify the filename in the
  SyntaxError exception if found at readline.__self__.name.

- Issue #14629: Raise SyntaxError in tokenizer.detect_encoding if the
  first two lines have non-UTF-8 characters without an encoding declaration.

- Issue #14308: Fix an exception when a "dummy" thread is in the threading
  module's active list after a fork().

- Issue #11750: The Windows API functions scattered in the _subprocess and
  _multiprocessing.win32 modules now live in a single module "_winapi".
  Patch by sbt.

- Issue #14087: multiprocessing: add Condition.wait_for(). Patch by sbt.

- Issue #14538: HTMLParser can now parse correctly start tags that contain
  a bare '/'.

- Issue #14452: SysLogHandler no longer inserts a UTF-8 BOM into the message.

- Issue #14386: Expose the dict_proxy internal type as types.MappingProxyType.

- Issue #13959: Make imp.reload() always use a module's __loader__ to perform
  the reload.

- Issue #13959: Add imp.py and rename the built-in module to _imp, allowing for
  re-implementing parts of the module in pure Python.

- Issue #13496: Fix potential overflow in bisect.bisect algorithm when applied
  to a collection of size > sys.maxsize / 2.

- Have importlib take advantage of ImportError's new 'name' and 'path'
  attributes.

- Issue #14399: zipfile now recognizes that the archive has been modified even
  if only the comment is changed.  In addition, the TypeError that results from
  trying to set a non-binary value as a comment is now raised at the time
  the comment is set rather than at the time the zipfile is written.

- trace.CoverageResults.is_ignored_filename() now ignores any name that starts
  with "<" and ends with ">" instead of special-casing "<string>" and
  "<doctest ".

- Issue #12537: The mailbox module no longer depends on knowledge of internal
  implementation details of the email package Message object.

- Issue #7978: socketserver now restarts the select() call when EINTR is
  returned.  This avoids crashing the server loop when a signal is received.
  Patch by Jerzy Kozera.

- Issue #14522: Avoid duplicating socket handles in multiprocessing.connection.
  Patch by sbt.

- Don't Py_DECREF NULL variable in io.IncrementalNewlineDecoder.

- Issue #3033: Add displayof parameter to tkinter font. Patch by Guilherme Polo.

- Issue #14482: Raise a ValueError, not a NameError, when trying to create
  a multiprocessing Client or Listener with an AF_UNIX type address under
  Windows.  Patch by Popa Claudiu.

- Issue #802310: Generate always unique tkinter font names if not directly passed.

- Issue #14151: Raise a ValueError, not a NameError, when trying to create
  a multiprocessing Client or Listener with an AF_PIPE type address under
  non-Windows platforms.  Patch by Popa Claudiu.

- Issue #14493: Use gvfs-open or xdg-open in webbrowser.

Build
-----

- "make touch" will now touch generated files that are checked into Mercurial,
  after a "hg update" which failed to bring the timestamps into the right order.

Tests
-----

- Issue #14026: In test_cmd_line_script, check that sys.argv is populated
  correctly for the various invocation approaches (Patch by Jason Yeo)

- Issue #14032: Fix incorrect variable name in test_cmd_line_script debugging
  message (Patch by Jason Yeo)

- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing
  a test failure in test_ssl.

- Issue #14355: Regrtest now supports the standard unittest test loading, and
  will use it if a test file contains no `test_main` method.

IDLE
----

- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
  Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.

- Issue #14496: Fix wrong name in idlelib/tabbedpages.py.
  Patch by Popa Claudiu.

Tools / Demos
-------------

- Issue #3561: The Windows installer now has an option, off by default, for
  placing the Python installation into the system "Path" environment variable.

- Issue #13165: stringbench is now available in the Tools/stringbench folder.
  It used to live in its own SVN project.

C-API
-----

- Issue #14098: New functions PyErr_GetExcInfo and PyErr_SetExcInfo.
  Patch by Stefan Behnel.


What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 2?
===================================

*Release date: 01-Apr-2012*

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #1683368: object.__new__ and object.__init__ raise a TypeError if they
  are passed arguments and their complementary method is not overridden.

- Issue #14378: Fix compiling ast.ImportFrom nodes with a "__future__" string as
  the module name that was not interned.

- Issue #14331: Use significantly less stack space when importing modules by
  allocating path buffers on the heap instead of the stack.

- Issue #14334: Prevent in a segfault in type.__getattribute__ when it was not
  passed strings.

- Issue #1469629: Allow cycles through an object's __dict__ slot to be
  collected. (For example if ``x.__dict__ is x``).

- Issue #14205: dict lookup raises a RuntimeError if the dict is modified
  during a lookup.

- Issue #14220: When a generator is delegating to another iterator with the
  yield from syntax, it needs to have its ``gi_running`` flag set to True.

- Issue #14435: Remove dedicated block allocator from floatobject.c and rely
  on the PyObject_Malloc() api like all other objects.

- Issue #14471: Fix a possible buffer overrun in the winreg module.

- Issue #14288: Allow the serialization of builtin iterators

Library
-------

- Issue #14300: Under Windows, sockets created using socket.dup() now allow
  overlapped I/O.  Patch by sbt.

- Issue #13872: socket.detach() now marks the socket closed (as mirrored
  in the socket repr()).  Patch by Matt Joiner.

- Issue #14406: Fix a race condition when using ``concurrent.futures.wait(
  return_when=ALL_COMPLETED)``.  Patch by Matt Joiner.

- Issue #5136: deprecate old, unused functions from tkinter.

- Issue #14416: syslog now defines the LOG_ODELAY and LOG_AUTHPRIV constants
  if they are defined in <syslog.h>.

- Issue #14295: Add unittest.mock

- Issue #7652: Add --with-system-libmpdec option to configure for linking
  the _decimal module against an installed libmpdec.

- Issue #14380: MIMEText now defaults to utf-8 when passed non-ASCII unicode
  with no charset specified.

- Issue #10340: asyncore - properly handle EINVAL in dispatcher constructor on
  OSX; avoid to call handle_connect in case of a disconnected socket which
  was not meant to connect.

- Issue #14204: The ssl module now has support for the Next Protocol
  Negotiation extension, if available in the underlying OpenSSL library.
  Patch by Colin Marc.

- Issue #3035: Unused functions from tkinter are marked as pending deprecated.

- Issue #12757: Fix the skipping of doctests when python is run with -OO so
  that it works in unittest's verbose mode as well as non-verbose mode.

- Issue #7652: Integrate the decimal floating point libmpdec library to speed
  up the decimal module. Performance gains of the new C implementation are
  between 10x and 100x, depending on the application.

- Issue #14269: SMTPD now conforms to the RFC and requires a HELO command
  before MAIL, RCPT, or DATA.

- Issue #13694: asynchronous connect in asyncore.dispatcher does not set addr
  attribute.

- Issue #14344: fixed the repr of email.policy objects.

- Issue #11686: Added missing entries to email package __all__ lists
  (mostly the new Bytes classes).

- Issue #14335: multiprocessing's custom Pickler subclass now inherits from
  the C-accelerated implementation.  Patch by sbt.

- Issue #10484: Fix the CGIHTTPServer's PATH_INFO handling problem.

- Issue #11199: Fix the with urllib which hangs on particular ftp urls.

- Improve the memory utilization and speed of functools.lru_cache.

- Issue #14222: Use the new time.steady() function instead of time.time() for
  timeout in queue and threading modules to not be affected of system time
  update.

- Issue #13248: Remove lib2to3.pytree.Base.get_prefix/set_prefix.

- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash
  table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a
  denial of service due to hash collisions.  Patch by David Malcolm with some
  modifications by the expat project.

- Issue #12818: format address no longer needlessly \ escapes ()s in names when
  the name ends up being quoted.

- Issue #14062: BytesGenerator now correctly folds Header objects,
  including using linesep when folding.

- Issue #13839: When invoked on the command-line, the pstats module now
  accepts several filenames of profile stat files and merges them all.
  Patch by Matt Joiner.

- Issue #14291: Email now defaults to utf-8 for non-ASCII unicode headers
  instead of raising an error.  This fixes a regression relative to 2.7.

- Issue #989712: Support using Tk without a mainloop.

- Issue #3835: Refuse to use unthreaded Tcl in threaded Python.

- Issue #2843: Add new Tk API to Tkinter.

- Issue #14184: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
  Mac OS X to avoid interpreter crashes when using threads on 10.7.

- Issue #14180: datetime.date.fromtimestamp(),
  datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp() and datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp()
  now raise an OSError instead of ValueError if localtime() or gmtime() failed.

- Issue #14180: time.ctime(), gmtime(), time.localtime(),
  datetime.date.fromtimestamp(), datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp() and
  datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp() now raises an OverflowError, instead of
  a ValueError, if the timestamp does not fit in time_t.

- Issue #14180: datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp() and
  datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp() now round microseconds towards zero
  instead of rounding to nearest with ties going away from zero.

- Issue #10543: Fix unittest test discovery with Jython bytecode files.

- Issue #1178863: Separate initialisation from setting when initializing
  Tkinter.Variables; harmonize exceptions to ValueError; only delete variables
  that have not been deleted; assert that variable names are strings.

- Issue #14104: Implement time.monotonic() on Mac OS X, patch written by
  Nicholas Riley.

- Issue #13394: the aifc module now uses warnings.warn() to signal warnings.

- Issue #14252: Fix subprocess.Popen.terminate() to not raise an error under
  Windows when the child process has already exited.

- Issue #14223: curses.addch() is no more limited to the range 0-255 when the
  Python curses is not linked to libncursesw. It was a regression introduced
  in Python 3.3a1.

- Issue #14168: Check for presence of Element._attrs in minidom before
  accessing it.

- Issue #12328: Fix multiprocessing's use of overlapped I/O on Windows.
  Also, add a multiprocessing.connection.wait(rlist, timeout=None) function
  for polling multiple objects at once.  Patch by sbt.

- Issue #14007: Accept incomplete TreeBuilder objects (missing start, end,
  data or close method) for the Python implementation as well.
  Drop the no-op TreeBuilder().xml() method from the C implementation.

- Issue #14210: pdb now has tab-completion not only for command names, but
  also for their arguments, wherever possible.

- Issue #14310: Sockets can now be with other processes on Windows using
  the api socket.socket.share() and socket.fromshare().

- Issue #10576: The gc module now has a 'callbacks' member that will get
  called when garbage collection takes place.

Build
-----

- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban.

- Issue #14387: Do not include accu.h from Python.h.

- Issue #14359: Only use O_CLOEXEC in _posixmodule.c if it is defined.
  Based on patch from Hervé Coatanhay.

- Issue #14321: Do not run pgen during the build if files are up to date.

Documentation
-------------

- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial.

- Issue #14324: Fix configure tests for cross builds.

- Issue #14327: Call AC_CANONICAL_HOST in configure.ac and check in
  config.{guess,sub}. Don't use uname calls for cross builds.

Extension Modules
-----------------

- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and
  ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the
  case of overflow has been fixed.

- Issue #14212: The re module didn't retain a reference to buffers it was
  scanning, resulting in segfaults.

- Issue #14259: The finditer() method of re objects did not take any
  keyword arguments, contrary to the documentation.

- Issue #10142: Support for SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA (for example, under ZFS).

Tests
-----

- Issue #14442: Add missing errno import in test_smtplib.

- Issue #8315: (partial fix) python -m unittest test.test_email now works.


What's New in Python 3.3.0 Alpha 1?
===================================

*Release date: 05-Mar-2012*

Core and Builtins
-----------------

- Issue #14172: Fix reference leak when marshalling a buffer-like object
  (other than a bytes object).

- Issue #13521: dict.setdefault() now does only one lookup for the given key,
  making it "atomic" for many purposes.  Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.

- PEP 409, Issue #6210: "raise X from None" is now supported as a means of
  suppressing the display of the chained exception context. The chained
  context still remains available as the __context__ attribute.

- Issue #10181: New memoryview implementation fixes multiple ownership
  and lifetime issues of dynamically allocated Py_buffer members (#9990)
  as well as crashes (#8305, #7433). Many new features have been added
  (See whatsnew/3.3), and the documentation has been updated extensively.
  The ndarray test object from _testbuffer.c implements all aspects of
  PEP-3118, so further development towards the complete implementation
  of the PEP can proceed in a test-driven manner.

  Thanks to Nick Coghlan, Antoine Pitrou and Pauli Virtanen for review
  and many ideas.

- Issue #12834: Fix incorrect results of memoryview.tobytes() for
  non-contiguous arrays.

- Issue #5231: Introduce memoryview.cast() method that allows changing
  format and shape without making a copy of the underlying memory.

- Issue #14084: Fix a file descriptor leak when importing a module with a
  bad encoding.

- Upgrade Unicode data to Unicode 6.1.

- Issue #14040: Remove rarely used file name suffixes for C extensions
  (under POSIX mainly).

- Issue #14051: Allow arbitrary attributes to be set of classmethod and
  staticmethod.

- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: Randomize hashes of str and bytes to protect
  against denial of service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and
  set types.  Patch by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner.

- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object
  fails.  Patch by Suman Saha.

- Issue #13908: Ready types returned from PyType_FromSpec.

- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose
  modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp.

- Issue #12705: A SyntaxError exception is now raised when attempting to
  compile multiple statements as a single interactive statement.

- Fix the builtin module initialization code to store the init function for
  future reinitialization.

- Issue #8052: The posix subprocess module would take a long time closing
  all possible file descriptors in the child process rather than just open
  file descriptors.  It now closes only the open fds if possible for the
  default close_fds=True behavior.

- Issue #13629: Renumber the tokens in token.h so that they match the indexes
  into _PyParser_TokenNames.

- Issue #13752: Add a casefold() method to str.

- Issue #13761: Add a "flush" keyword argument to the print() function,
  used to ensure flushing the output stream.

- Issue #13645: pyc files now contain the size of the corresponding source
  code, to avoid timestamp collisions (especially on filesystems with a low
  timestamp resolution) when checking for freshness of the bytecode.

- PEP 380, Issue #11682: Add "yield from <x>" to support easy delegation to
  subgenerators (initial patch by Greg Ewing, integration into 3.3 by
  Renaud Blanch, Ryan Kelly, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek and Nick Coghlan)

- Issue #13748: Raw bytes literals can now be written with the ``rb`` prefix
  as well as ``br``.

- Issue #12736: Use full unicode case mappings for upper, lower, and title case.

- Issue #12760: Add a create mode to open(). Patch by David Townshend.

- Issue #13738: Simplify implementation of bytes.lower() and bytes.upper().

- Issue #13577: Built-in methods and functions now have a __qualname__.
  Patch by sbt.

- Issue #6695: Full garbage collection runs now clear the freelist of set
  objects.  Initial patch by Matthias Troffaes.

- Fix OSError.__init__ and OSError.__new__ so that each of them can be
  overriden and take additional arguments (followup to issue #12555).

- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side
  effect of appearing to resolve the issue.  Thanks to Mark Shannon for
  noticing.

- Issue #13505: Pickle bytes objects in a way that is compatible with
  Python 2 when using protocols <= 2.

- Issue #11147: Fix an unused argument in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER.  (Fix
  given by Campbell Barton).

- Issue #13503: Use a more efficient reduction format for bytearrays with
  pickle protocol >= 3.  The old reduction format is kept with older protocols
  in order to allow unpickling under Python 2.  Patch by Irmen de Jong.

- Issue #7111: Python can now be run without a stdin, stdout or stderr
  stream.  It was already the case with Python 2.  However, the corresponding
  sys module entries are now set to None (instead of an unusable file object).

- Issue #11849: Ensure that free()d memory arenas are really released
  on POSIX systems supporting anonymous memory mappings.  Patch by
  Charles-François Natali.

- PEP 3155 / issue #13448: Qualified name for classes and functions.

- Issue #13436: Fix a bogus error message when an AST object was passed
  an invalid integer value.

- Issue #13411: memoryview objects are now hashable when the underlying
  object is hashable.

- Issue #13338: Handle all enumerations in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER
  to allow compiling extension modules with -Wswitch-enum on gcc.
  Initial patch by Floris Bruynooghe.

- Issue #10227: Add an allocation cache for a single slice object.  Patch by
  Stefan Behnel.

- Issue #13393: BufferedReader.read1() now asks the full requested size to
  the raw stream instead of limiting itself to the buffer size.

- Issue #13392: Writing a pyc file should now be atomic under Windows as well.

- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder
  already accepts them).

- Issue #13389: Full garbage collection passes now clear the freelists for
  list and dict objects.  They already cleared other freelists in the
  interpreter.

- Issue #13327: Remove the need for an explicit None as the second argument
  to os.utime, os.lutimes, os.futimes, os.futimens, os.futimesat, in
  order to update to the current time. Also added keyword argument
  handling to os.utimensat in order to remove the need for explicit None.

- Issue #13350: Simplify some C code by replacing most usages of
  PyUnicode_Format by PyUnicode_FromFormat.

- Issue #13342: input() used to ignore sys.stdin's and sys.stdout's unicode
  error handler in interactive mode (when calling into PyOS_Readline()).

- Issue #9896: Add start, stop, and step attributes to range objects.

- Issue #13343: Fix a SystemError when a lambda expression uses a global
  variable in the default value of a keyword-only argument: ``lambda *,
  arg=GLOBAL_NAME: None``

- Issue #12797: Added custom opener parameter to builtin open() and
  FileIO.open().

- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in
  setobject.c.

- Issue #10363: Deallocate global locks in Py_Finalize().

- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c.
  Patch by Suman Saha.

- Issue #13201: Define '==' and '!=' to compare range objects based on
  the sequence of values they define (instead of comparing based on
  object identity).

- Issue #1294232: In a few cases involving metaclass inheritance, the
  interpreter would sometimes invoke the wrong metaclass when building a new
  class object. These cases now behave correctly. Patch by Daniel Urban.

- Issue #12753: Add support for Unicode name aliases and named sequences.
  Both ``unicodedata.lookup()`` and '\N{...}' now resolve aliases,
  and ``unicodedata.lookup()`` resolves named sequences too.

- Issue #12170: The count(), find(), rfind(), index() and rindex() methods
  of bytes and bytearray objects now accept an integer between 0 and 255
  as their first argument.  Patch by Petri Lehtinen.

- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler
  warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen.

- Issue #12281: Rewrite the MBCS codec to handle correctly replace and ignore
  error handlers on all Windows versions. The MBCS codec is now supporting all
  error handlers, instead of only replace to encode and ignore to decode.

- Issue #13188: When called without an explicit traceback argument,
  generator.throw() now gets the traceback from the passed exception's
  ``__traceback__`` attribute.  Patch by Petri Lehtinen.

- Issue #13146: Writing a pyc file is now atomic under POSIX.

- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no
  longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some
  embedded situations.

- PEP 3151 / issue #12555: reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy.

- Add internal API for static strings (_Py_identifier et al.).

- Issue #13063: the Windows error ERROR_NO_DATA (numbered 232 and described
  as "The pipe is being closed") is now mapped to POSIX errno EPIPE
  (previously EINVAL).

- Issue #12911: Fix memory consumption when calculating the repr() of huge
  tuples or lists.

- PEP 393: flexible string representation. Thanks to Torsten Becker for the
  initial implementation, and Victor Stinner for various bug fixes.

- Issue #14081: The 'sep' and 'maxsplit' parameter to str.split, bytes.split,
  and bytearray.split may now be passed as keyword arguments.

- Issue #13012: The 'keepends' parameter to str.splitlines may now be passed
  as a keyword argument:  "my_string.splitlines(keepends=True)".  The same
  change also applies to bytes.splitlines and bytearray.splitlines.

- Issue #7732: Don't open a directory as a file anymore while importing a
  module. Ignore the direcotry if its name matchs the module name (e.g.
  "__init__.py") and raise a ImportError instead.

- Issue #13021: Missing decref on an error path.  Thanks to Suman Saha for
  finding the bug and providing a patch.

- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that relied on undefined behaviour in
  list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c).  These bugs
  caused test failures with recent versions of Clang.

- Issue #12904: os.utime, os.futimes, os.lutimes, and os.futimesat now write
  atime and mtime with nanosecond precision on modern POSIX platforms.

- Issue #12802: the Windows error ERROR_DIRECTORY (numbered 267) is now
  mapped to POSIX errno ENOTDIR (previously EINVAL).

- Issue #9200: The str.is* methods now work with strings that contain non-BMP
  characters even in narrow Unicode builds.

- Issue #12791: Break reference cycles early when a generator exits with
  an exception.

- Issue #12773: Make __doc__ mutable on user-defined classes.

- Issue #12766: Raise a ValueError when creating a class with a class variable
  that conflicts with a name in __slots__.

- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase
  titlecased and cased non-letter characters.

- Issue #12732: In narrow unicode builds, allow Unicode identifiers which fall
  outside the BMP.

- Issue #12575: Validate user-generated AST before it is compiled.

- Make type(None), type(Ellipsis), and type(NotImplemented) callable. They
  return the respective singleton instances.

- Forbid summing bytes with sum().

- Verify the types of AST strings and identifiers provided by the user before
  compiling them.

- Issue #12647: The None object now has a __bool__() method that returns False.
  Formerly, bool(None) returned False only because of special case logic
  in PyObject_IsTrue().

- Issue #12579: str.format_map() now raises a ValueError if used on a
  format string that contains positional fields. Initial patch by
  Julian Berman.

- Issue #10271: Allow warnings.showwarning() be any callable.

- Issue #11627: Fix segfault when __new__ on a exception returns a
  non-exception class.

- Issue #12149: Update the method cache after a type's dictionary gets
  cleared by the garbage collector.  This fixes a segfault when an instance
  and its type get caught in a reference cycle, and the instance's
  deallocator calls one of the methods on the type (e.g. when subclassing
  IOBase).  Diagnosis and patch by Davide Rizzo.

- Issue #9611, Issue #9015: FileIO.read() clamps the length to INT_MAX on Windows.

- Issue #9642: Uniformize the tests on the availability of the mbcs codec, add
  a new HAVE_MBCS define.

- Issue #9642: Fix filesystem encoding initialization: use the ANSI code page
  on Windows if the mbcs codec is not available, and fail with a fatal error if
  we cannot get the locale encoding (if nl_langinfo(CODESET) is not available)
  instead of using UTF-8.

- When a generator yields, do not retain the caller's exception state on the
  generator.

- Issue #12475: Prevent generators from leaking their exception state into the
  caller's frame as they return for the last time.

- Issue #12291: You can now load multiple marshalled objects from a stream,
  with other data interleaved between marshalled objects.

- Issue #12356: When required positional or keyword-only arguments are not
  given, produce a informative error message which includes the name(s) of the
  missing arguments.

- Issue #12370: Fix super with no arguments when __class__ is overriden in the
  class body.

- Issue #12084: os.stat on Windows now works properly with relative symbolic
  links when called from any directory.

- Loosen type restrictions on the __dir__ method. __dir__ can now return any
  sequence, which will be converted to a list and sorted by dir().

- Issue #12265: Make error messages produced by passing an invalid set of
  arguments to a function more informative.

- Issue #12225: Still allow Python to build if Python is not in its hg repo or
  mercurial is not installed.

- Issue #1195: my_fgets() now always clears errors before calling fgets(). Fix
  the following case: sys.stdin.read() stopped with CTRL+d (end of file),
  raw_input() interrupted by CTRL+c.

- Issue #12216: Allow unexpected EOF errors to happen on any line of the file.

- Issue #12199: The TryExcept and TryFinally and AST nodes have been unified
  into a Try node.

- Issue #9670: Increase the default stack size for secondary threads on
  Mac OS X and FreeBSD to reduce the chances of a crash instead of a
  "maximum recursion depth" RuntimeError exception.
  (patch by Ronald Oussoren)

- Issue #12106: The use of the multiple-with shorthand syntax is now reflected
  in the AST.

- Issue #12190: Try to use the same filename object when compiling unmarshalling
  a code objects in the same file.

- Issue #12166: Move implementations of dir() specialized for various types into
  the __dir__() methods of those types.

- Issue #5715: In socketserver, close the server socket in the child process.

- Correct lookup of __dir__ on objects. Among other things, this causes errors
  besides AttributeError found on lookup to be propagated.

- Issue #12060: Use sig_atomic_t type and volatile keyword in the signal
  module. Patch written by Charles-François Natali.

- Issue #1746656: Added the if_nameindex, if_indextoname, if_nametoindex
  methods to the socket module.

- Issue #12044: Fixed subprocess.Popen when used as a context manager to
  wait for the process to end when exiting the context to avoid unintentionally
  leaving zombie processes around.

- Issue #1195: Fix input() if it is interrupted by CTRL+d and then CTRL+c,
  clear the end-of-file indicator after CTRL+d.

- Issue #1856: Avoid crashes and lockups when daemon threads run while the
  interpreter is shutting down; instead, these threads are now killed when
  they try to take the GIL.

- Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
  the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
  Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
  str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.

- Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
  APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5.  Patch
  by Charles-François Natali.

- Issue #10914: Initialize correctly the filesystem codec when creating a new
  subinterpreter to fix a bootstrap issue with codecs implemented in Python, as
  the ISO-8859-15 codec.

- Issue #11918: OS/2 and VMS are no more supported because of the lack of
  maintainer.

- Issue #6780: fix starts/endswith error message to mention that tuples are
  accepted too.

- Issue #5057: fix a bug in the peepholer that led to non-portable pyc files
  between narrow and wide builds while optimizing BINARY_SUBSCR on non-BMP
  chars (e.g. "\U00012345"[0]).

- Issue #11845: Fix typo in rangeobject.c that caused a crash in
  compute_slice_indices.  Patch by Daniel Urban.

- Issue #5673: Added a `timeout` keyword argument to subprocess.Popen.wait,
  subprocess.Popen.communicated, subprocess.call, subprocess.check_call, and
  subprocess.check_output.  If the blocking operation takes more than `timeout`
  seconds, the `subprocess.TimeoutExpired` exception is raised.

- Issue #11650: PyOS_StdioReadline() retries fgets() if it was interrupted
  (EINTR), for example if the program is stopped with CTRL+z on Mac OS X. Patch
  written by Charles-Francois Natali.

- Issue #9319: Include the filename in "Non-UTF8 code ..." syntax error.

- Issue #10785: Store the filename as Unicode in the Python parser.

- Issue #11619: _PyImport_LoadDynamicModule() doesn't encode the path to bytes
  on Windows.

- Issue #10998: Remove mentions of -Q, sys.flags.division_warning and
  Py_DivisionWarningFlag left over from Python 2.

- Issue #11244: Remove an unnecessary peepholer check that was preventing
  negative zeros from being constant-folded properly.

- Issue #11395: io.FileIO().write() clamps the data length to 32,767 bytes on
  Windows if the file is a TTY to workaround a Windows bug. The Windows console
  returns an error (12: not enough space error) on writing into stdout if
  stdout mode is binary and the length is greater than 66,000 bytes (or less,
  depending on heap usage).

- Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to
  a possible crash when calling Py_SetPath().

- Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with
  3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin
  file descriptor would raise an exception. webbrowser.open would fail. fixed.

- Issue #9856: Change object.__format__ with a non-empty format string
  to be a DeprecationWarning. In 3.2 it was a PendingDeprecationWarning.
  In 3.4 it will be a TypeError.

- Issue #11244: The peephole optimizer is now able to constant-fold
  arbitrarily complex expressions.  This also fixes a 3.2 regression where
  operations involving negative numbers were not constant-folded.

- Issue #11450: Don't truncate hg version info in Py_GetBuildInfo() when
  there are many tags (e.g. when using mq).  Patch by Nadeem Vawda.

- Issue #11335: Fixed a memory leak in list.sort when the key function
  throws an exception.

- Issue #8923: When a string is encoded to UTF-8 in strict mode, the result is
  cached into the object. Examples: str.encode(), str.encode('utf-8'),
  PyUnicode_AsUTF8String() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(unicode, "utf-8",
  NULL).

- Issue #10829: Refactor PyUnicode_FromFormat(), use the same function to parse
  the format string in the 3 steps, fix crashs on invalid format strings.

- Issue #13007: whichdb should recognize gdbm 1.9 magic numbers.

- Issue #11286: Raise a ValueError from calling PyMemoryView_FromBuffer with
  a buffer struct having a NULL data pointer.

- Issue #11272: On Windows, input() strips '\r' (and not only '\n'), and
  sys.stdin uses universal newline (replace '\r\n' by '\n').

- Issue #11828: startswith and endswith now accept None as slice index.
  Patch by Torsten Becker.

- Issue #11168: Remove filename debug variable from PyEval_EvalFrameEx().
  It encoded the Unicode filename to UTF-8, but the encoding fails on
  undecodable filename (on surrogate characters) which raises an unexpected
  UnicodeEncodeError on recursion limit.

- Issue #11187: Remove bootstrap code (use ASCII) of
  PyUnicode_AsEncodedString(), it was replaced by a better fallback (use the
  locale encoding) in PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault().

- Check for NULL result in PyType_FromSpec.

- Issue #10516: New copy() and clear() methods for lists and bytearrays.

- Issue #11386: bytearray.pop() now throws IndexError when the bytearray is
  empty, instead of OverflowError.

- Issue #12380: The rjust, ljust and center methods of bytes and bytearray
  now accept a bytearray argument.

Library
-------

- Issue #14195: An issue that caused weakref.WeakSet instances to incorrectly
  return True for a WeakSet instance 'a' in both 'a < a' and 'a > a' has been
  fixed.

- Issue #14166: Pickler objects now have an optional ``dispatch_table``
  attribute which allows to set custom per-pickler reduction functions.
  Patch by sbt.

- Issue #14177: marshal.loads() now raises TypeError when given an unicode
  string.  Patch by Guilherme Gonçalves.

- Issue #13550: Remove the debug machinery from the threading module: remove
  verbose arguments from all threading classes and functions.

- Issue #14159: Fix the len() of weak containers (WeakSet, WeakKeyDictionary,
  WeakValueDictionary) to return a better approximation when some objects
  are dead or dying.  Moreover, the implementation is now O(1) rather than
  O(n).

- Issue #11841: Fix comparison bug with 'rc' versions in packaging.version.
  Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.

- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils
  on Windows.  Also fixed in packaging.

- Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions
  on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer.

- HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag.

- Issue #13641: Decoding functions in the base64 module now accept ASCII-only
  unicode strings.  Patch by Catalin Iacob.

- Issue #14043: Speed up importlib's _FileFinder by at least 8x, and add a
  new importlib.invalidate_caches() function.

- Issue #14001: CVE-2012-0845: xmlrpc: Fix an endless loop in
  SimpleXMLRPCServer upon malformed POST request.

- Issue #13961: Move importlib over to using os.replace() for atomic renaming.

- Do away with ambiguous level values (as suggested by PEP 328) in
  importlib.__import__() by raising ValueError when level < 0.

- Issue #2489: pty.spawn could consume 100% cpu when it encountered an EOF.

- Issue #13014: Fix a possible reference leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().

- Issue #13777: Add PF_SYSTEM sockets on OS X.
  Patch by Michael Goderbauer.

- Issue #13015: Fix a possible reference leak in defaultdict.__repr__.
  Patch by Suman Saha.

- Issue #1326113: distutils' and packaging's build_ext commands option now
  correctly parses multiple values (separated by whitespace or commas) given
  to their --libraries option.

- Issue #10287: nntplib now queries the server's CAPABILITIES first before
  sending MODE READER, and only sends it if not already in READER mode.
  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.

- Issue #13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags when
  strict=False.

- Issue #13930: lib2to3 now supports writing converted output files to another
  directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
  suffix.

- Issue #9750: Fix sqlite3.Connection.iterdump on tables and fields
  with a name that is a keyword or contains quotes. Patch by Marko
  Kohtala.

- Issue #10287: nntplib now queries the server's CAPABILITIES again after
  authenticating (since the result may change, according to RFC 4643).
  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.

- Issue #13590: On OS X 10.7 and 10.6 with Xcode 4.2, building
  Distutils-based packages with C extension modules may fail because
  Apple has removed gcc-4.2, the version used to build python.org
  64-bit/32-bit Pythons.  If the user does not explicitly override
  the default C compiler by setting the CC environment variable,
  Distutils will now attempt to compile extension modules with clang
  if gcc-4.2 is required but not found. Also as a convenience, if
  the user does explicitly set CC, substitute its value as the default
  compiler in the Distutils LDSHARED configuration variable for OS X.
  (Note, the python.org 32-bit-only Pythons use gcc-4.0 and the 10.4u
  SDK, neither of which are available in Xcode 4.  This change does not
  attempt to override settings to support their use with Xcode 4.)

- Issue #13960: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken comments when
  strict=False.

- When '' is a path (e.g. in sys.path), make sure __file__ uses the current
  working directory instead of '' in importlib.

- Issue #13609: Add two functions to query the terminal size:
  os.get_terminal_size (low level) and shutil.get_terminal_size (high level).
  Patch by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.

- Issue #13845: On Windows, time.time() now uses GetSystemTimeAsFileTime()
  instead of ftime() to have a resolution of 100 ns instead of 1 ms (the clock
  accuracy is between 0.5 ms and 15 ms).

- Issue #13846: Add time.monotonic(), monotonic clock.

- Issue #8184: multiprocessing: On Windows, don't set SO_REUSEADDR on
  Connection sockets, and set FILE_FLAG_FIRST_PIPE_INSTANCE on named pipes, to
  make sure two listeners can't bind to the same socket/pipe (or any existing
  socket/pipe).

- Issue #10811: Fix recursive usage of cursors. Instead of crashing,
  raise a ProgrammingError now.

- Issue #13734: Add os.fwalk(), a directory walking function yielding file
  descriptors.

- Issue #2945: Make the distutils upload command aware of bdist_rpm products.

- Issue #13712: pysetup create should not convert package_data to extra_files.

- Issue #11805: package_data in setup.cfg should allow more than one value.

- Issue #13676: Handle strings with embedded zeros correctly in sqlite3.

- Issue #8828: Add new function os.replace(), for cross-platform renaming
  with overwriting.

- Issue #13848: open() and the FileIO constructor now check for NUL
  characters in the file name.  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.

- Issue #13806: The size check in audioop decompression functions was too
  strict and could reject valid compressed data.  Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.

- Issue #13812: When a multiprocessing Process child raises an exception,
  flush stderr after printing the exception traceback.

- Issue #13885: CVE-2011-3389: the _ssl module would always disable the CBC
  IV attack countermeasure.

- Issue #13847: time.localtime() and time.gmtime() now raise an OSError instead
  of ValueError on failure. time.ctime() and time.asctime() now raises an
  OSError if localtime() failed. time.clock() now raises a RuntimeError if the
  processor time used is not available or its value cannot be represented

- Issue #13772: In os.symlink() under Windows, do not try to guess the link
  target's type (file or directory).  The detection was buggy and made the
  call non-atomic (therefore prone to race conditions).

- Issue #6631: Disallow relative file paths in urllib urlopen methods.

- Issue #13722: Avoid silencing ImportErrors when initializing the codecs
  registry.

- Issue #13781: Fix GzipFile bug that caused an exception to be raised when
  opening for writing using a fileobj returned by os.fdopen().

- Issue #13803: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness
  in the directory name.

- Issue #10278: Add time.wallclock() function, monotonic clock.

- Issue #13809: Fix regression where bz2 module wouldn't work when threads are
  disabled. Original patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.

- Issue #13589: Fix some serialization primitives in the aifc module.
  Patch by Oleg Plakhotnyuk.

- Issue #13642: Unquote before b64encoding user:password during Basic
  Authentication. Patch contributed by Joonas Kuorilehto.

- Issue #12364: Fix a hang in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.
  The hang would occur when retrieving the result of a scheduled future after
  the executor had been shut down.

- Issue #13502: threading: Fix a race condition in Event.wait() that made it
  return False when the event was set and cleared right after.

- Issue #9993: When the source and destination are on different filesystems,
  and the source is a symlink, shutil.move() now recreates a symlink on the
  destination instead of copying the file contents.  Patch by Jonathan Niehof
  and Hynek Schlawack.

- Issue #12926: Fix a bug in tarfile's link extraction.

- Issue #13696: Fix the 302 Relative URL Redirection problem.

- Issue #13636: Weak ciphers are now disabled by default in the ssl module
  (except when SSLv2 is explicitly asked for).

- Issue #12715: Add an optional symlinks argument to shutil functions
  (copyfile, copymode, copystat, copy, copy2).  When that parameter is
  true, symlinks aren't dereferenced and the operation instead acts on the
  symlink itself (or creates one, if relevant).  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.

- Add a flags parameter to select.epoll.

- Issue #13626: Add support for SSL Diffie-Hellman key exchange, through the
  SSLContext.load_dh_params() method and the ssl.OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option.

- Issue #11006: Don't issue low level warning in subprocess when pipe2() fails.

- Issue #13620: Support for Chrome browser in webbrowser.  Patch contributed
  by Arnaud Calmettes.

- Issue #11829: Fix code execution holes in inspect.getattr_static for
  metaclasses with metaclasses. Patch by Andreas Stührk.

- Issue #12708: Add starmap() and starmap_async() methods (similar to
  itertools.starmap()) to multiprocessing.Pool.  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.

- Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.

- Issue #13637: "a2b" functions in the binascii module now accept ASCII-only
  unicode strings.

- Issue #13634: Add support for querying and disabling SSL compression.

- Issue #13627: Add support for SSL Elliptic Curve-based Diffie-Hellman
  key exchange, through the SSLContext.set_ecdh_curve() method and the
  ssl.OP_SINGLE_ECDH_USE option.

- Issue #13635: Add ssl.OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE, so that SSL servers
  choose the cipher based on their own preferences, rather than on the
  client's.

- Issue #11813: Fix inspect.getattr_static for modules. Patch by Andreas
  Stührk.

- Issue #7502: Fix equality comparison for DocTestCase instances.  Patch by
  Cédric Krier.

- Issue #11870: threading: Properly reinitialize threads internal locks and
  condition variables to avoid deadlocks in child processes.

- Issue #8035: urllib: Fix a bug where the client could remain stuck after a
  redirection or an error.

- Issue #13560: os.strerror() now uses the current locale encoding instead of
  UTF-8.

- Issue #8373: The filesystem path of AF_UNIX sockets now uses the filesystem
  encoding and the surrogateescape error handler, rather than UTF-8.  Patch
  by David Watson.

- Issue #10350: Read and save errno before calling a function which might
  overwrite it.  Original patch by Hallvard B Furuseth.

- Issue #11610: Introduce a more general way to declare abstract properties.

- Issue #13591: A bug in importlib has been fixed that caused import_module
  to load a module twice.

- Issue #13449 sched.scheduler.run() method has a new "blocking" parameter which
  when set to False makes run() execute the scheduled events due to expire
  soonest (if any) and then return.  Patch by Giampaolo Rodolà.

- Issue #8684 sched.scheduler class can be safely used in multi-threaded
  environments.  Patch by Josiah Carlson and Giampaolo Rodolà.

- Alias resource.error to OSError ala PEP 3151.

- Issue #5689: Add support for lzma compression to the tarfile module.

- Issue #13248: Turn 3.2's PendingDeprecationWarning into 3.3's
  DeprecationWarning.  It covers 'cgi.escape', 'importlib.abc.PyLoader',
  'importlib.abc.PyPycLoader', 'nntplib.NNTP.xgtitle', 'nntplib.NNTP.xpath',
  and private attributes of 'smtpd.SMTPChannel'.

- Issue #5905, Issue #13560: time.strftime() is now using the current locale
  encoding, instead of UTF-8, if the wcsftime() function is not available.

- Issue #13464: Add a readinto() method to http.client.HTTPResponse.  Patch
  by Jon Kuhn.

- tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
  other than 900k.

- Issue #13439: Fix many errors in turtle docstrings.

- Issue #6715: Add a module 'lzma' for compression using the LZMA algorithm.
  Thanks to Per Øyvind Karlsen for the initial implementation.

- Issue #13487: Make inspect.getmodule robust against changes done to
  sys.modules while it is iterating over it.

- Issue #12618: Fix a bug that prevented py_compile from creating byte
  compiled files in the current directory.  Initial patch by Sjoerd de Vries.

- Issue #13444: When stdout has been closed explicitly, we should not attempt
  to flush it at shutdown and print an error.

- Issue #12567: The curses module uses Unicode functions for Unicode arguments
  when it is linked to the ncurses library. It encodes also Unicode strings to
  the locale encoding instead of UTF-8.

- Issue #12856: Ensure child processes do not inherit the parent's random
  seed for filename generation in the tempfile module.  Patch by Brian
  Harring.

- Issue #9957: SpooledTemporaryFile.truncate() now accepts an optional size
  parameter, as other file-like objects.  Patch by Ryan Kelly.

- Issue #13458: Fix a memory leak in the ssl module when decoding a
  certificate with a subjectAltName.  Patch by Robert Xiao.

- Issue #13415: os.unsetenv() doesn't ignore errors anymore.

- Issue #13245: sched.scheduler class constructor's timefunc and
  delayfunct parameters are now optional.
  scheduler.enter and scheduler.enterabs methods gained a new kwargs parameter.
  Patch contributed by Chris Clark.

- Issue #12328: Under Windows, refactor handling of Ctrl-C events and
  make _multiprocessing.win32.WaitForMultipleObjects interruptible when
  the wait_flag parameter is false.  Patch by sbt.

- Issue #13322: Fix BufferedWriter.write() to ensure that BlockingIOError is
  raised when the wrapped raw file is non-blocking and the write would block.
  Previous code assumed that the raw write() would raise BlockingIOError, but
  RawIOBase.write() is defined to returned None when the call would block.
  Patch by sbt.

- Issue #13358: HTMLParser now calls handle_data only once for each CDATA.

- Issue #4147: minidom's toprettyxml no longer adds whitespace around a text
  node when it is the only child of an element.  Initial patch by Dan
  Kenigsberg.

- Issue #13374: The Windows bytes API has been deprecated in the os module. Use
  Unicode filenames instead of bytes filenames to not depend on the ANSI code
  page anymore and to support any filename.

- Issue #13297: Use bytes type to send and receive binary data through XMLRPC.

- Issue #6397: Support "/dev/poll" polling objects in select module,
  under Solaris & derivatives.

- Issues #1745761, #755670, #13357, #12629, #1200313: HTMLParser now correctly
  handles non-valid attributes, including adjacent and unquoted attributes.

- Issue #13193: Fix distutils.filelist.FileList and packaging.manifest.Manifest
  under Windows.

- Issue #13384: Remove unnecessary __future__ import in Lib/random.py

- Issue #13149: Speed up append-only StringIO objects.

- Issue #13373: multiprocessing.Queue.get() could sometimes block indefinitely
  when called with a timeout.  Patch by Arnaud Ysmal.

- Issue #13254: Fix Maildir initialization so that maildir contents
  are read correctly.

- Issue #3067: locale.setlocale() now raises TypeError if the second
  argument is an invalid iterable. Its documentation and docstring
  were also updated. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.

- Issue #13140: Fix the daemon_threads attribute of ThreadingMixIn.

- Issue #13339: Fix compile error in posixmodule.c due to missing semicolon.
  Thanks to Robert Xiao.

- Byte compilation in packaging is now isolated from the calling Python -B or
  -O options, instead of being disallowed under -B or buggy under -O.

- Issue #10570: curses.putp() and curses.tparm() are now expecting a byte
  string, instead of a Unicode string.

- Issue #13295: http.server now produces valid HTML 4.01 strict.

- Issue #2892: preserve iterparse events in case of SyntaxError.

- Issue #13287: urllib.request and urllib.error now contains an __all__
  attribute to expose only relevant classes and functions.  Patch by Florent
  Xicluna.

- Issue #670664: Fix HTMLParser to correctly handle the content of
  ``<script>...</script>`` and ``<style>...</style>``.

- Issue #10817: Fix urlretrieve function to raise ContentTooShortError even
  when reporthook is None. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.

- Fix the xmlrpc.client user agent to return something similar to
  urllib.request user agent: "Python-xmlrpc/3.3".

- Issue #13293: Better error message when trying to marshal bytes using
  xmlrpc.client.

- Issue #13291: NameError in xmlrpc package.

- Issue #13258: Use callable() built-in in the standard library.

- Issue #13273: fix a bug that prevented HTMLParser to properly detect some
  tags when strict=False.

- Issue #11183: Add finer-grained exceptions to the ssl module, so that
  you don't have to inspect the exception's attributes in the common case.

- Issue #13216: Add cp65001 codec, the Windows UTF-8 (CP_UTF8).

- Issue #13226: Add RTLD_xxx constants to the os module. These constants can be
  used with sys.setdlopenflags().

- Issue #10278: Add clock_getres(), clock_gettime() and CLOCK_xxx constants to
  the time module. time.clock_gettime(time.CLOCK_MONOTONIC) provides a
  monotonic clock

- Issue #10332: multiprocessing: fix a race condition when a Pool is closed
  before all tasks have completed.

- Issue #13255: wrong docstrings in array module.

- Issue #8540: Remove deprecated Context._clamp attribute in Decimal module.

- Issue #13235: Added DeprecationWarning to logging.warn() method and function.

- Issue #9168: now smtpd is able to bind privileged port.

- Issue #12529: fix cgi.parse_header issue on strings with double-quotes and
  semicolons together. Patch by Ben Darnell and Petri Lehtinen.

- Issue #13227: functools.lru_cache() now has a option to distinguish
  calls with different argument types.

- Issue #6090: zipfile raises a ValueError when a document with a timestamp
  earlier than 1980 is provided. Patch contributed by Petri Lehtinen.

- Issue #13150: sysconfig no longer parses the Makefile and config.h files
  when imported, instead doing it at build time.  This makes importing
  sysconfig faster and reduces Python startup time by 20%.

- Issue #12448: smtplib now flushes stdout while running ``python -m smtplib``
  in order to display the prompt correctly.

- Issue #12454: The mailbox module is now using ASCII, instead of the locale
  encoding, to read and write .mh_sequences files.

- Issue #13194: zlib.compressobj().copy() and zlib.decompressobj().copy() are
  now available on Windows.

- Issue #1673007: urllib.request now supports HEAD request via new method argument.
  Patch contributions by David Stanek, Patrick Westerhoff and Ezio Melotti.

- Issue #12386: packaging does not fail anymore when writing the RESOURCES
  file.

- Issue #13158: Fix decoding and encoding of GNU tar specific base-256 number
  fields in tarfile.

- Issue #13025: mimetypes is now reading MIME types using the UTF-8 encoding,
  instead of the locale encoding.

- Issue #10653: On Windows, use strftime() instead of wcsftime() because
  wcsftime() doesn't format time zone correctly.

- Issue #13150: The tokenize module doesn't compile large regular expressions
  at startup anymore.

- Issue #11171: Fix distutils.sysconfig.get_makefile_filename when Python was
  configured with different prefix and exec-prefix.

- Issue #11254: Teach distutils and packaging to compile .pyc and .pyo files in
  PEP 3147-compliant __pycache__ directories.

- Issue #7367: Fix pkgutil.walk_paths to skip directories whose
  contents cannot be read.

- Issue #3163: The struct module gets new format characters 'n' and 'N'
  supporting C integer types ``ssize_t`` and ``size_t``, respectively.

- Issue #13099: Fix sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid under a Turkish locale.
  Reported and diagnosed by Thomas Kluyver.

- Issue #13087: BufferedReader.seek() now always raises UnsupportedOperation
  if the underlying raw stream is unseekable, even if the seek could be
  satisfied using the internal buffer.  Patch by John O'Connor.

- Issue #7689: Allow pickling of dynamically created classes when their
  metaclass is registered with copyreg.  Patch by Nicolas M. Thiéry and Craig
  Citro.

- Issue #13034: When decoding some SSL certificates, the subjectAltName
  extension could be unreported.

- Issue #12306: Expose the runtime version of the zlib C library as a constant,
  ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION, in the zlib module. Patch by Torsten Landschoff.

- Issue #12959: Add collections.ChainMap to collections.__all__.

- Issue #8933: distutils' PKG-INFO files and packaging's METADATA files will
  now correctly report Metadata-Version: 1.1 instead of 1.0 if a Classifier or
  Download-URL field is present.

- Issue #12567: Add curses.unget_wch() function. Push a character so the next
  get_wch() will return it.

- Issue #9561: distutils and packaging now writes egg-info files using UTF-8,
  instead of the locale encoding.

- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
  of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.

- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
  and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
  of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
  information was lost.

- Issue #12888: Fix a bug in HTMLParser.unescape that prevented it to escape
  more than 128 entities.  Patch by Peter Otten.

- Issue #12878: Expose a __dict__ attribute on io.IOBase and its subclasses.

- Issue #12494: On error, call(), check_call(), check_output() and
  getstatusoutput() functions of the subprocess module now kill the process,
  read its status (to avoid zombis) and close pipes.

- Issue #12720: Expose low-level Linux extended file attribute functions in os.

- Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
  now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.  The packaging commands
  were fixed too.

- Issue #12847: Fix a crash with negative PUT and LONG_BINPUT arguments in
  the C pickle implementation.

- Issue #11564: Avoid crashes when trying to pickle huge objects or containers
  (more than 2**31 items).  Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.

- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
  greater than FD_SETSIZE.

- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
  Fix by Richard M. Tew.

- Issue #9923: The mailcap module now correctly uses the platform path
  separator for the MAILCAP environment variable on non-POSIX platforms.

- Issue #12835: Follow up to #6560 that unconditionally prevents use of the
  unencrypted sendmsg/recvmsg APIs on SSL wrapped sockets. Patch by David
  Watson.

- Issue #12803: SSLContext.load_cert_chain() now accepts a password argument
  to be used if the private key is encrypted.  Patch by Adam Simpkins.

- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
  Pipe.

- Issue #12811: tabnanny.check() now promptly closes checked files. Patch by
  Anthony Briggs.

- Issue #6560: The sendmsg/recvmsg API is now exposed by the socket module
  when provided by the underlying platform, supporting processing of
  ancillary data in pure Python code. Patch by David Watson and Heiko Wundram.

- Issue #12326: On Linux, sys.platform doesn't contain the major version
  anymore. It is now always 'linux', instead of 'linux2' or 'linux3' depending
  on the Linux version used to build Python.

- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
  could appear on BufferedRandom streams.

- Issue #12778: Reduce memory consumption when JSON-encoding a large
  container of many small objects.

- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
  resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.

- Issue #12744: Fix inefficient representation of integers between 2**31 and
  2**63 on systems with a 64-bit C "long".

- Issue #12646: Add an 'eof' attribute to zlib.Decompress, to make it easier to
  detect truncated input streams.

- Issue #11513: Fix exception handling ``tarfile.TarFile.gzopen()`` when
  the file cannot be opened.

- Issue #12687: Fix a possible buffering bug when unpickling text mode
  (protocol 0, mostly) pickles.

- Issue #10087: Fix the html output format of the calendar module.

- Issue #13121: add support for inplace math operators to collections.Counter.

- Add support for unary plus and unary minus to collections.Counter.

- Issue #12683: urlparse updated to include svn as schemes that uses relative
  paths. (svn from 1.5 onwards support relative path).

- Issue #12655: Expose functions from sched.h in the os module: sched_yield(),
  sched_setscheduler(), sched_getscheduler(), sched_setparam(),
  sched_get_min_priority(), sched_get_max_priority(), sched_rr_get_interval(),
  sched_getaffinity(), sched_setaffinity().

- Add ThreadError to threading.__all__.

- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
  manually-maintained MANIFEST files.

- Issue #11281: smtplib.STMP gets source_address parameter, which adds the
  ability to bind to specific source address on a machine with multiple
  interfaces. Patch by Paulo Scardine.

- Issue #12464: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory.cleanup() should not follow
  symlinks: fix it. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.

- Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
  in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.

- Issue #10968: Remove indirection in threading.  The public names (Event,
  Condition, etc.) used to be factory functions returning instances of hidden
  classes (_Event, _Condition, etc.), because (if Guido recalls correctly) this
  code pre-dates the ability to subclass extension types.  It is now possible
  to inherit from these classes, without having to import the private
  underscored names like multiprocessing did.

- Issue #9723: Add shlex.quote functions, to escape filenames and command
  lines.

- Issue #12603: Fix pydoc.synopsis() on files with non-negative st_mtime.

- Issue #12514: Use try/finally to assure the timeit module restores garbage
  collections when it is done.

- Issue #12607: In subprocess, fix issue where if stdin, stdout or stderr is
  given as a low fd, it gets overwritten.

- Issue #12576: Fix urlopen behavior on sites which do not send (or obfuscates)
  ``Connection: close`` header.

- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.

- Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup under Turkish locales.

- Issue #12591: Improve support of "universal newlines" in the subprocess
  module: the piped streams can now be properly read from or written to.

- Issue #12591: Allow io.TextIOWrapper to work with raw IO objects (without
  a read1() method), and add a *write_through* parameter to mandate
  unbuffered writes.

- Issue #10883: Fix socket leaks in urllib.request when using FTP.

- Issue #12592: Make Python build on OpenBSD 5 (and future major releases).

- Issue #12372: POSIX semaphores are broken on AIX: don't use them.

- Issue #12551: Provide a get_channel_binding() method on SSL sockets so as
  to get channel binding data for the current SSL session (only the
  "tls-unique" channel binding is implemented).  This allows the implementation
  of certain authentication mechanisms such as SCRAM-SHA-1-PLUS.  Patch by
  Jacek Konieczny.

- Issue #665194: email.utils now has format_datetime and parsedate_to_datetime
  functions, allowing for round tripping of RFC2822 format dates.

- Issue #12571: Add a plat-linux3 directory mirroring the plat-linux2
  directory, so that "import DLFCN" and other similar imports work on
  Linux 3.0.

- Issue #7484: smtplib no longer puts <> around addresses in VRFY and EXPN
  commands; they aren't required and in fact postfix doesn't support that form.

- Issue #12273: Remove ast.__version__. AST changes can be accounted for by
  checking sys.version_info or sys._mercurial.

- Silence spurious "broken pipe" tracebacks when shutting down a
  ProcessPoolExecutor.

- Fix potential resource leaks in concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor
  by joining all queues and processes when shutdown() is called.

- Issue #11603: Fix a crash when __str__ is rebound as __repr__.  Patch by
  Andreas Stührk.

- Issue #11321: Fix a crash with multiple imports of the _pickle module when
  embedding Python.  Patch by Andreas Stührk.

- Issue #6755: Add get_wch() method to curses.window class. Patch by Iñigo
  Serna.

- Add cgi.closelog() function to close the log file.

- Issue #12502: asyncore: fix polling loop with AF_UNIX sockets.

- Issue #4376: ctypes now supports nested structures in a endian different than
  the parent structure. Patch by Vlad Riscutia.

- Raise ValueError when attempting to set the _CHUNK_SIZE attribute of a
  TextIOWrapper to a huge value, not TypeError.

- Issue #12504: Close file handles in a timely manner in packaging.database.
  This fixes a bug with the remove (uninstall) feature on Windows.

- Issues #12169 and #10510: Factor out code used by various packaging commands
  to make HTTP POST requests, and make sure it uses CRLF.

- Issue #12016: Multibyte CJK decoders now resynchronize faster. They only
  ignore the first byte of an invalid byte sequence. For example,
  b'\xff\n'.decode('gb2312', 'replace') gives '\ufffd\n' instead of '\ufffd'.

- Issue #12459: time.sleep() now raises a ValueError if the sleep length is
  negative, instead of an infinite sleep on Windows or raising an IOError on
  Linux for example, to have the same behaviour on all platforms.

- Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support
  Python scripts using a encoding different than UTF-8 (read the coding cookie
  of the script).

- Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
  if the process has only one pipe.

- Issue #12467: warnings: fix a race condition if a warning is emitted at
  shutdown, if globals()['__file__'] is None.

- Issue #12451: pydoc: importfile() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
  instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to avoid encoding issues.

- Issue #12451: runpy: run_path() now opens the Python script in binary mode,
  instead of text mode using the locale encoding, to support other encodings
  than UTF-8 (scripts using the coding cookie).

- Issue #12451: xml.dom.pulldom: parse() now opens files in binary mode instead
  of the text mode (using the locale encoding) to avoid encoding issues.

- Issue #12147: Adjust the new-in-3.2 smtplib.send_message method for better
  conformance to the RFCs:  correctly handle Sender and Resent- headers.

- Issue #12352: Fix a deadlock in multiprocessing.Heap when a block is freed by
  the garbage collector while the Heap lock is held.

- Issue #12462: time.sleep() now immediately calls the (Python) signal handler
  if it is interrupted by a signal, instead of having to wait until the next
  instruction.

- Issue #12442: new shutil.disk_usage function, providing total, used and free
  disk space statistics.

- Issue #12451: The XInclude default loader of xml.etree now decodes files from
  UTF-8 instead of the locale encoding if the encoding is not specified. It now
  also opens XML files for the parser in binary mode instead of the text mode
  to avoid encoding issues.

- Issue #12451: doctest.debug_script() doesn't create a temporary file
  anymore to avoid encoding issues.

- Issue #12451: pydoc.synopsis() now reads the encoding cookie if available,
  to read the Python script from the right encoding.

- Issue #12451: distutils now opens the setup script in binary mode to read the
  encoding cookie, instead of opening it in UTF-8.

- Issue #9516: On Mac OS X, change Distutils to no longer globally attempt to
  check or set the MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET environment variable for the
  interpreter process.  This could cause failures in non-Distutils subprocesses
  and was unreliable since tests or user programs could modify the interpreter
  environment after Distutils set it.  Instead, have Distutils set the
  deployment target only in the environment of each build subprocess.  It is
  still possible to globally override the default by setting
  MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET before launching the interpreter; its value must be
  greater or equal to the default value, the value with which the interpreter
  was built.  Also, implement the same handling in packaging.

- Issue #12422: In the copy module, don't store objects that are their own copy
  in the memo dict.

- Issue #12303: Add sigwaitinfo() and sigtimedwait() to the signal module.

- Issue #12404: Remove C89 incompatible code from mmap module. Patch by Akira
  Kitada.

- Issue #1874: email now detects and reports as a defect the presence of
  any CTE other than 7bit, 8bit, or binary on a multipart.

- Issue #12383: Fix subprocess module with env={}: don't copy the environment
  variables, start with an empty environment.

- Issue #11637: Fix support for importing packaging setup hooks from the
  project directory.

- Issue #6771: Moved the curses.wrapper function from the single-function
  wrapper module into __init__, eliminating the module.  Since __init__ was
  already importing the function to curses.wrapper, there is no API change.

- Issue #11584: email.header.decode_header no longer fails if the header
  passed to it is a Header object, and Header/make_header no longer fail
  if given binary unknown-8bit input.

- Issue #11700: mailbox proxy object close methods can now be called multiple
  times without error.

- Issue #11767: Correct file descriptor leak in mailbox's __getitem__ method.

- Issue #12133: AbstractHTTPHandler.do_open() of urllib.request closes the HTTP
  connection if its getresponse() method fails with a socket error. Patch
  written by Ezio Melotti.

- Issue #12240: Allow multiple setup hooks in packaging's setup.cfg files.
  Original patch by Erik Bray.

- Issue #9284: Allow inspect.findsource() to find the source of doctest
  functions.

- Issue #11595: Fix assorted bugs in packaging.util.cfg_to_args, a
  compatibility helper for the distutils-packaging transition.  Original patch
  by Erik Bray.

- Issue #12287: In ossaudiodev, check that the device isn't closed in several
  methods.

- Issue #12009: Fixed regression in netrc file comment handling.

- Issue #12246: Warn and fail when trying to install a third-party project from
  an uninstalled Python (built in a source checkout).  Original patch by
  Tshepang Lekhonkhobe.

- Issue #10694: zipfile now ignores garbage at the end of a zipfile.

- Issue #12283: Fixed regression in smtplib quoting of leading dots in DATA.

- Issue #10424: Argparse now includes the names of the missing required
  arguments in the missing arguments error message.

- Issue #12168: SysLogHandler now allows NUL termination to be controlled using
  a new 'append_nul' attribute on the handler.

- Issue #11583: Speed up os.path.isdir on Windows by using GetFileAttributes
  instead of os.stat.

- Issue #12021: Make mmap's read() method argument optional. Patch by Petri
  Lehtinen.

- Issue #9205: concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor now detects killed
  children and raises BrokenProcessPool in such a situation.  Previously it
  would reliably freeze/deadlock.

- Issue #12040: Expose a new attribute ``sentinel`` on instances of
  ``multiprocessing.Process``.  Also, fix Process.join() to not use polling
  anymore, when given a timeout.

- Issue #11893: Remove obsolete internal wrapper class ``SSLFakeFile`` in the
  smtplib module.  Patch by Catalin Iacob.

- Issue #12080: Fix a Decimal.power() case that took an unreasonably long time
  to compute.

- Issue #12221: Remove __version__ attributes from pyexpat, pickle, tarfile,
  pydoc, tkinter, and xml.parsers.expat. This were useless version constants
  left over from the Mercurial transition

- Named tuples now work correctly with vars().

- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
  constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
  written by Oleg Oshmyan.

- Issue #12028: Make threading._get_ident() public, rename it to
  threading.get_ident() and document it. This function was already used using
  _thread.get_ident().

- Issue #12171: IncrementalEncoder.reset() of CJK codecs (multibytecodec) calls
  encreset() instead of decreset().

- Issue #12218: Removed wsgiref.egg-info.

- Issue #12196: Add pipe2() to the os module.

- Issue #985064: Make plistlib more resilient to faulty input plists.
  Patch by Mher Movsisyan.

- Issue #1625: BZ2File and bz2.decompress() now support multi-stream files.
  Initial patch by Nir Aides.

- Issue #12175: BufferedReader.read(-1) now calls raw.readall() if available.

- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now only reads the file position and size
  once.

- Issue #12175: RawIOBase.readall() now returns None if read() returns None.

- Issue #12175: FileIO.readall() now raises a ValueError instead of an IOError
  if the file is closed.

- Issue #11109: New service_action method for BaseServer, used by ForkingMixin
  class for cleanup. Initial Patch by Justin Warkentin.

- Issue #12045: Avoid duplicate execution of command in
  ctypes.util._get_soname().  Patch by Sijin Joseph.

- Issue #10818: Remove the Tk GUI and the serve() function of the pydoc module,
  pydoc -g has been deprecated in Python 3.2 and it has a new enhanced web
  server.

- Issue #1441530: In imaplib, read the data in one chunk to speed up large
  reads and simplify code.

- Issue #12070: Fix the Makefile parser of the sysconfig module to handle
  correctly references to "bogus variable" (e.g. "prefix=$/opt/python").

- Issue #12100: Don't reset incremental encoders of CJK codecs at each call to
  their encode() method anymore, but continue to call the reset() method if the
  final argument is True.

- Issue #12049: Add RAND_bytes() and RAND_pseudo_bytes() functions to the ssl
  module.

- Issue #6501: os.device_encoding() returns None on Windows if the application
  has no console.

- Issue #12105: Add O_CLOEXEC to the os module.

- Issue #12079: Decimal('Infinity').fma(Decimal('0'), (3.91224318126786e+19+0j))
  now raises TypeError (reflecting the invalid type of the 3rd argument) rather
  than Decimal.InvalidOperation.

- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
  to be able to unload the module.

- Add the packaging module, an improved fork of distutils (also known as
  distutils2).

- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
  when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).

- Issue #8809: The SMTP_SSL constructor and SMTP.starttls() now support
  passing a ``context`` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
  Patch by Kasun Herath.

- Issue #9516: Issue #9516: avoid errors in sysconfig when MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
  is set in shell.

- Issue #8650: Make zlib module 64-bit clean. compress(), decompress() and
  their incremental counterparts now raise OverflowError if given an input
  larger than 4GB, instead of silently truncating the input and returning
  an incorrect result.

- Issue #12050: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now clears the unconsumed_tail
  attribute when called without a max_length argument.

- Issue #12062: Fix a flushing bug when doing a certain type of I/O sequence
  on a file opened in read+write mode (namely: reading, seeking a bit forward,
  writing, then seeking before the previous write but still within buffered
  data, and writing again).

- Issue #9971: Write an optimized implementation of BufferedReader.readinto().
  Patch by John O'Connor.

- Issue #11799: urllib.request Authentication Handlers will raise a ValueError
  when presented with an unsupported Authentication Scheme. Patch contributed
  by Yuval Greenfield.

- Issue #10419, #6011: build_scripts command of distutils handles correctly
  non-ASCII path (path to the Python executable). Open and write the script in
  binary mode, but ensure that the shebang is decodable from UTF-8 and from the
  encoding of the script.

- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
  order to accept exactly one connection.  Patch by Daniel Evers.

- Issue #12011: signal.signal() and signal.siginterrupt() raise an OSError,
  instead of a RuntimeError: OSError has an errno attribute.

- Issue #3709: add a flush_headers method to BaseHTTPRequestHandler, which
  manages the sending of headers to output stream and flushing the internal
  headers buffer. Patch contribution by Andrew Schaaf

- Issue #11743: Rewrite multiprocessing connection classes in pure Python.

- Issue #11164: Stop trying to use _xmlplus in the xml module.

- Issue #11888: Add log2 function to math module. Patch written by Mark
  Dickinson.

- Issue #12012: ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv2 becomes optional.

- Issue #8407: The signal handler writes the signal number as a single byte
  instead of a nul byte into the wakeup file descriptor. So it is possible to
  wait more than one signal and know which signals were raised.

- Issue #8407: Add pthread_kill(), sigpending() and sigwait() functions to the
  signal module.

- Issue #11927: SMTP_SSL now uses port 465 by default as documented.  Patch
  by Kasun Herath.

- Issue #12002: ftplib's abort() method raises TypeError.

- Issue #11916: Add a number of MacOSX specific definitions to the errno module.
  Patch by Pierre Carrier.

- Issue #11999: fixed sporadic sync failure mailbox.Maildir due to its trying to
  detect mtime changes by comparing to the system clock instead of to the
  previous value of the mtime.

- Issue #11072: added MLSD command (RFC-3659) support to ftplib.

- Issue #8808: The IMAP4_SSL constructor now allows passing an SSLContext
  parameter to control parameters of the secure channel.  Patch by Sijin
  Joseph.

- ntpath.samefile failed to notice that "a.txt" and "A.TXT" refer to the same
  file on Windows XP. As noticed in issue #10684.

- Issue #12000: When a SSL certificate has a subjectAltName without any
  dNSName entry, ssl.match_hostname() should use the subject's commonName.
  Patch by Nicolas Bareil.

- Issue #10775: assertRaises, assertRaisesRegex, assertWarns, and
  assertWarnsRegex now accept a keyword argument 'msg' when used as context
  managers.  Initial patch by Winston Ewert.

- Issue #10684: shutil.move used to delete a folder on case insensitive
  filesystems when the source and destination name where the same except
  for the case.

- Issue #11647: objects created using contextlib.contextmanager now support
  more than one call to the function when used as a decorator. Initial patch
  by Ysj Ray.

- Issue #11930: Removed deprecated time.accept2dyear variable.
  Removed year >= 1000 restriction from datetime.strftime.

- logging: don't define QueueListener if Python has no thread support.

- functools.cmp_to_key() now works with collections.Hashable().

- Issue #11277: mmap.mmap() calls fcntl(fd, F_FULLFSYNC) on Mac OS X to get
  around a mmap bug with sparse files. Patch written by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.

- Issue #8407: Add signal.pthread_sigmask() function to fetch and/or change the
  signal mask of the calling thread.

- Issue #11858: configparser.ExtendedInterpolation expected lower-case section
  names.

- Issue #11324: ConfigParser(interpolation=None) now works correctly.

- Issue #11811: ssl.get_server_certificate() is now IPv6-compatible.  Patch
  by Charles-François Natali.

- Issue #11763: don't use difflib in TestCase.assertMultiLineEqual if the
  strings are too long.

- Issue #11236: getpass.getpass responds to ctrl-c or ctrl-z on terminal.

- Issue #11856: Speed up parsing of JSON numbers.

- Issue #11005: threading.RLock()._release_save() raises a RuntimeError if the
  lock was not acquired.

- Issue #11258: Speed up ctypes.util.find_library() under Linux by a factor
  of 5 to 10.  Initial patch by Jonas H.

- Issue #11382: Trivial system calls, such as dup() or pipe(), needn't
  release the GIL.  Patch by Charles-François Natali.

- Issue #11223: Add threading._info() function providing informations about
  the thread implementation.

- Issue #11731: simplify/enhance email parser/generator API by introducing
  policy objects.

- Issue #11768: The signal handler of the signal module only calls
  Py_AddPendingCall() for the first signal to fix a deadlock on reentrant or
  parallel calls. PyErr_SetInterrupt() writes also into the wake up file.

- Issue #11492: fix several issues with header folding in the email package.

- Issue #11852: Add missing imports and update tests.

- Issue #11875: collections.OrderedDict's __reduce__ was temporarily
  mutating the object instead of just working on a copy.

- Issue #11467: Fix urlparse behavior when handling urls which contains scheme
  specific part only digits. Patch by Santoso Wijaya.

- collections.Counter().copy() now works correctly for subclasses.

- Issue #11474: Fix the bug with url2pathname() handling of '/C|/' on Windows.
  Patch by Santoso Wijaya.

- Issue #11684: complete email.parser bytes API by adding BytesHeaderParser.

- The bz2 module now handles 4GiB+ input buffers correctly.

- Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
  _json is not available.

- Issue #11830: Remove unnecessary introspection code in the decimal module.

- Issue #11703: urllib2.geturl() does not return correct url when the original
  url contains #fragment.

- Issue #10019: Fixed regression in json module where an indent of 0 stopped
  adding newlines and acted instead like 'None'.

- Issue #11186: pydoc ignores a module if its name contains a surrogate
  character in the index of modules.

- Issue #11815: Use a light-weight SimpleQueue for the result queue in
  concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor.

- Issue #5162: Treat services like frozen executables to allow child spawning
  from multiprocessing.forking on Windows.

- logging.basicConfig now supports an optional 'handlers' argument taking an
  iterable of handlers to be added to the root logger. Additional parameter
  checks were also added to basicConfig.

- Issue #11814: Fix likely typo in multiprocessing.Pool._terminate().

- Issue #11747: Fix range formatting in difflib.context_diff() and
  difflib.unified_diff().

- Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating
  worker processes: new processes would be spawned while the pool is being
  shut down.  Patch by Charles-François Natali.

- Issue #2650: re.escape() no longer escapes the '_'.

- Issue #11757: select.select() now raises ValueError when a negative timeout
  is passed (previously, a select.error with EINVAL would be raised).  Patch
  by Charles-François Natali.

- Issue #7311: fix html.parser to accept non-ASCII attribute values.

- Issue #11605: email.parser.BytesFeedParser was incorrectly converting
  multipart subparts with an 8-bit CTE into unicode instead of preserving the
  bytes.

- Issue #1690608: email.util.formataddr is now RFC 2047 aware:  it now has a
  charset parameter that defaults to utf-8 and is used as the charset for RFC
  2047 encoding when the realname contains non-ASCII characters.

- Issue #10963: Ensure that subprocess.communicate() never raises EPIPE.

- Issue #10791: Implement missing method GzipFile.read1(), allowing GzipFile
  to be wrapped in a TextIOWrapper.  Patch by Nadeem Vawda.

- Issue #11707: Added a fast C version of functools.cmp_to_key().
  Patch by Filip Gruszczyński.

- Issue #11688: Add sqlite3.Connection.set_trace_callback().  Patch by
  Torsten Landschoff.

- Issue #11746: Fix SSLContext.load_cert_chain() to accept elliptic curve
  private keys.

- Issue #5863: Rewrite BZ2File in pure Python, and allow it to accept
  file-like objects using a new ``fileobj`` constructor argument.  Patch by
  Nadeem Vawda.

- unittest.TestCase.assertSameElements has been removed.

- sys.getfilesystemencoding() raises a RuntimeError if initfsencoding() was not
  called yet: detect bootstrap (startup) issues earlier.

- Issue #11393: Add the new faulthandler module.

- Issue #11618: Fix the timeout logic in threading.Lock.acquire() under Windows.

- Removed the 'strict' argument to email.parser.Parser, which has been
  deprecated since Python 2.4.

- Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
  arguments.

- Issue #11696: Fix ID generation in msilib.

- itertools.accumulate now supports an optional *func* argument for
  a user-supplied binary function.

- Issue #11692: Remove unnecessary demo functions in subprocess module.

- Issue #9696: Fix exception incorrectly raised by xdrlib.Packer.pack_int when
  trying to pack a negative (in-range) integer.

- Issue #11675: multiprocessing.[Raw]Array objects created from an integer size
  are now zeroed on creation.  This matches the behaviour specified by the
  documentation.

- Issue #7639: Fix short file name generation in bdist_msi

- Issue #11635: Don't use polling in worker threads and processes launched by
  concurrent.futures.

- Issue #5845: Automatically read readline configuration to enable completion
  in interactive mode.

- Issue #6811: Allow importlib to change a code object's co_filename attribute
  to match the path to where the source code currently is, not where the code
  object originally came from.

- Issue #8754: Have importlib use the repr of a module name in error messages.

- Issue #11591: Prevent "import site" from modifying sys.path when python
  was started with -S.

- collections.namedtuple() now adds a _source attribute to the generated
  class.  This make the source more accessible than the outdated
  "verbose" option which prints to stdout but doesn't make the source
  string available.

- Issue #11371: Mark getopt error messages as localizable.  Patch by Filip
  Gruszczyński.

- Issue #11333: Add __slots__ to collections ABCs.

- Issue #11628: cmp_to_key generated class should use __slots__.

- Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
  that start with a leading underscore.

- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
  scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).

- Issue #5537: Fix time2isoz() and time2netscape() functions of
  httplib.cookiejar for expiration year greater than 2038 on 32-bit systems.

- Issue #4391: Use proper gettext plural forms in optparse.

- Issue #11127: Raise a TypeError when trying to pickle a socket object.

- Issue #11563: ``Connection: close`` header is sent by requests using URLOpener
  class which helps in closing of sockets after connection is over. Patch
  contributions by Jeff McNeil and Nadeem Vawda.

- Issue #11459: A ``bufsize`` value of 0 in subprocess.Popen() really creates
  unbuffered pipes, such that select() works properly on them.

- Issue #5421: Fix misleading error message when one of socket.sendto()'s
  arguments has the wrong type.  Patch by Nikita Vetoshkin.

- Issue #10812: Add some extra posix functions to the os module.

- Issue #10979: unittest stdout buffering now works with class and module
  setup and teardown.

- Issue #11243: fix the parameter querying methods of Message to work if
  the headers contain un-encoded non-ASCII data.

- Issue #11401: fix handling of headers with no value; this fixes a regression
  relative to Python2 and the result is now the same as it was in Python2.

- Issue #9298: base64 bodies weren't being folded to line lengths less than 78,
  which was a regression relative to Python2.  Unlike Python2, the last line
  of the folded body now ends with a carriage return.

- Issue #11560: shutil.unpack_archive now correctly handles the format
  parameter. Patch by Evan Dandrea.

- Issue #5870: Add `subprocess.DEVNULL` constant.

- Issue #11133: fix two cases where inspect.getattr_static can trigger code
  execution. Patch by Andreas Stührk.

- Issue #11569: use absolute path to the sysctl command in multiprocessing to
  ensure that it will be found regardless of the shell PATH. This ensures
  that multiprocessing.cpu_count works on default installs of MacOSX.

- Issue #11501: disutils.archive_utils.make_zipfile no longer fails if zlib is
  not installed. Instead, the zipfile.ZIP_STORED compression is used to create
  the ZipFile. Patch by Natalia B. Bidart.

- Issue #11289: `smtp.SMTP` class is now a context manager so it can be used
  in a `with` statement.  Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola.

- Issue #11554: Fixed support for Japanese codecs; previously the body output
  encoding was not done if euc-jp or shift-jis was specified as the charset.

- Issue #11407: `TestCase.run` returns the result object used or created.
  Contributed by Janathan Hartley.

- Issue #11500: Fixed a bug in the OS X proxy bypass code for fully qualified
  IP addresses in the proxy exception list.

- Issue #11491: dbm.error is no longer raised when dbm.open is called with
  the "n" as the flag argument and the file exists. The behavior matches
  the documentation and general logic.

- Issue #1162477: Postel Principle adjustment to email date parsing: handle the
  fact that some non-compliant MUAs use '.' instead of ':' in time specs.

- Issue #11131: Fix sign of zero in decimal.Decimal plus and minus
  operations when the rounding mode is ROUND_FLOOR.

- Issue #9935: Speed up pickling of instances of user-defined classes.

- Issue #5622: Fix curses.wrapper to raise correct exception if curses
  initialization fails.

- Issue #11408: In threading.Lock.acquire(), only call gettimeofday() when
  really necessary.  Patch by Charles-François Natali.

- Issue #11391: Writing to a mmap object created with
  ``mmap.PROT_READ|mmap.PROT_EXEC`` would segfault instead of raising a
  TypeError.  Patch by Charles-François Natali.

- Issue #9795: add context manager protocol support for nntplib.NNTP class.

- Issue #11306: mailbox in certain cases adapts to an inability to open
  certain files in read-write mode.  Previously it detected this by
  checking for EACCES, now it also checks for EROFS.

- Issue #11265: asyncore now correctly handles EPIPE, EBADF and EAGAIN errors
  on accept(), send() and recv().

- Issue #11377: Deprecate platform.popen() and reimplement it with os.popen().

- Issue #8513: On UNIX, subprocess supports bytes command string.

- Issue #10866: Add socket.sethostname().  Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.

- Issue #11140: Lock.release() now raises a RuntimeError when attempting
  to release an unacquired lock, as claimed in the threading documentation.
  The _thread.error exception is now an alias of RuntimeError.  Patch by
  Filip Gruszczyński.  Patch for _dummy_thread by Aymeric Augustin.

- Issue #8594: ftplib now provides a source_address parameter to specify which
  (address, port) to bind to before connecting.

- Issue #11326: Add the missing connect_ex() implementation for SSL sockets,
  and make it work for non-blocking connects.

- Issue #11297: Add collections.ChainMap().

- Issue #10755: Add the posix.flistdir() function.  Patch by Ross Lagerwall.

- Issue #4761: Add the ``*at()`` family of functions (openat(), etc.) to the
  posix module.  Patch by Ross Lagerwall.

- Issue #7322: Trying to read from a socket's file-like object after a timeout
  occurred now raises an error instead of silently losing data.

- Issue #11291: poplib.POP no longer suppresses errors on quit().

- Issue #11177: asyncore's create_socket() arguments can now be omitted.

- Issue #6064: Add a ``daemon`` keyword argument to the threading.Thread
  and multiprocessing.Process constructors in order to override the
  default behaviour of inheriting the daemonic property from the current
  thread/process.

- Issue #10956: Buffered I/O classes retry reading or writing after a signal
  has arrived and the handler returned successfully.

- Issue #10784: New os.getpriority() and os.setpriority() functions.

- Issue #11114: Fix catastrophic performance of tell() on text files (up
  to 1000x faster in some cases).  It is still one to two order of magnitudes
  slower than binary tell().

- Issue #10882: Add os.sendfile function.

- Issue #10868: Allow usage of the register method of an ABC as a class
  decorator.

- Issue #11224: Fixed a regression in tarfile that affected the file-like
  objects returned by TarFile.extractfile() regarding performance, memory
  consumption and failures with the stream interface.

- Issue #10924: Adding salt and Modular Crypt Format to crypt library.
  Moved old C wrapper to _crypt, and added a Python wrapper with
  enhanced salt generation and simpler API for password generation.

- Issue #11074: Make 'tokenize' so it can be reloaded.

- Issue #11085: Moved collections abstract base classes into a separate
  module called collections.abc, following the pattern used by importlib.abc.
  For backwards compatibility, the names are imported into the collections
  module.

- Issue #4681: Allow mmap() to work on file sizes and offsets larger than
  4GB, even on 32-bit builds.  Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall, adapted for
  32-bit Windows.

- Issue #11169: compileall module uses repr() to format filenames and paths to
  escape surrogate characters and show spaces.

- Issue #11089: Fix performance issue limiting the use of ConfigParser()
  with large config files.

- Issue #10276: Fix the results of zlib.crc32() and zlib.adler32() on buffers
  larger than 4GB.  Patch by Nadeem Vawda.

- Issue #11388: Added a clear() method to MutableSequence

- Issue #11174: Add argparse.MetavarTypeHelpFormatter, which uses type names
  for the names of optional and positional arguments in help messages.

- Issue #9348: Raise an early error if argparse nargs and metavar don't match.

- Issue #9026: Fix order of argparse sub-commands in help messages.

- Issue #9347: Fix formatting for tuples in argparse type= error messages.

- Issue #12191: Added shutil.chown() to change user and/or group owner of a
  given path also specifying their names.

- Issue #13988: The _elementtree accelerator is used whenever available.
  Now xml.etree.cElementTree becomes a deprecated alias to ElementTree.

Build
-----

- Issue #6807: Run msisupport.mak earlier.

- Issue #10580: Minor grammar change in Windows installer.

- Issue #13326: Clean __pycache__ directories correctly on OpenBSD.

- PEP 393: the configure option --with-wide-unicode is removed.

- Issue #12852: Set _XOPEN_SOURCE to 700, instead of 600, to get POSIX 2008
  functions on OpenBSD (e.g. fdopendir).

- Issue #11863: Remove support for legacy systems deprecated in Python 3.2
  (following PEP 11).  These systems are systems using Mach C Threads,
  SunOS lightweight processes, GNU pth threads and IRIX threads.

- Issue #8746: Correct faulty configure checks so that os.chflags() and
  os.lchflags() are once again built on systems that support these
  functions (BSD and OS X).  Also add new stat file flags for OS X
  (UF_HIDDEN and UF_COMPRESSED).

- Issue #10645: Installing Python no longer creates a
  Python-X.Y.Z-pyX.Y.egg-info file in the lib-dynload directory.

- Do not accidentally include the directory containing sqlite.h twice when
  building sqlite3.

- Issue #11217: For 64-bit/32-bit Mac OS X universal framework builds,
  ensure "make install" creates symlinks in --prefix bin for the "-32"
  files in the framework bin directory like the installer does.

- Issue #11347: Use --no-as-needed when linking libpython3.so.

- Issue #11411: Fix 'make DESTDIR=' with a relative destination.

- Issue #11268: Prevent Mac OS X Installer failure if Documentation
  package had previously been installed.

- Issue #11495: OSF support is eliminated. It was deprecated in Python 3.2.

IDLE
----

- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window
  when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and
  has to use the built-in default key bindings.
  There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.

- IDLE can be launched as python -m idlelib

- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args
  (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)

- Issue #14200: IDLE shell crash on printing non-BMP unicode character.

- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.

- Issue #964437: Make IDLE help window non-modal.
  Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.

- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported
  module, like hashlib.  (Patch by Roger Serwy)

- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.
  Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.

- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint files,
  display a message popup and continue rather than crash.  Original patch by
  Roger Serwy.

- Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
  Patch by Tal Einat.

- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.
  (Patch by Roger Serwy)

- Issue #9871: Prevent IDLE 3 crash when given byte stings
  with invalid hex escape sequences, like b'\x0'.
  (Original patch by Claudiu Popa.)

- Issue #12636: IDLE reads the coding cookie when executing a Python script.

- Issue #12540: Prevent zombie IDLE processes on Windows due to changes
  in os.kill().

- Issue #12590: IDLE editor window now always displays the first line
  when opening a long file.  With Tk 8.5, the first line was hidden.

- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
  with Tk 8.5.

- Issue #1028: Tk returns invalid Unicode null in %A: UnicodeDecodeError.
  With Tk < 8.5 _tkinter.c:PythonCmd() raised UnicodeDecodeError, caused
  IDLE to exit.  Converted to valid Unicode null in PythonCmd().

- Issue #11718: IDLE's open module dialog couldn't find the __init__.py
  file in a package.

Tools/Demos
-----------

- Issue #14053: patchcheck.py ("make patchcheck") now works with MQ patches.
  Patch by Francisco Martín Brugué.

- Issue #13930: 2to3 is now able to write its converted output files to another
  directory tree as well as copying unchanged files and altering the file
  suffix.  See its new -o, -W and --add-suffix options.  This makes it more
  useful in many automated code translation workflows.

- Issue #13628: python-gdb.py is now able to retrieve more frames in the Python
  traceback if Python is optimized.

- Issue #11996: libpython (gdb), replace "py-bt" command by "py-bt-full" and
  add a smarter "py-bt" command printing a classic Python traceback.

- Issue #11179: Make ccbench work under Python 3.1 and 2.7 again.

- Issue #10639: reindent.py no longer converts newlines and will raise
  an error if attempting to convert a file with mixed newlines.
  "--newline" option added to specify new line character.

Extension Modules
-----------------

- Issue #16847: Fixed improper use of _PyUnicode_CheckConsistency() in
  non-pydebug builds. Several extension modules now compile cleanly when
  assert()s are enabled in standard builds (-DDEBUG flag).

- Issue #13840: The error message produced by ctypes.create_string_buffer
  when given a Unicode string has been fixed.

- Issue #9975: socket: Fix incorrect use of flowinfo and scope_id. Patch by
  Vilmos Nebehaj.

- Issue #7777: socket: Add Reliable Datagram Sockets (PF_RDS) support.

- Issue #13159: FileIO and BZ2Compressor/BZ2Decompressor now use a linear-time
  buffer growth strategy instead of a quadratic-time one.

- Issue #10141: socket: Add SocketCAN (PF_CAN) support. Initial patch by
  Matthias Fuchs, updated by Tiago Gonçalves.

- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
  would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
  writer got cleared by the GC.

- Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.

- Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by
  Thomas Jarosch.

- Issue #13013: ctypes: Fix a reference leak in PyCArrayType_from_ctype.
  Thanks to Suman Saha for finding the bug and providing a patch.

- Issue #13022: Fix: _multiprocessing.recvfd() doesn't check that
  file descriptor was actually received.

- Issue #1172711: Add 'long long' support to the array module.
  Initial patch by Oren Tirosh and Hirokazu Yamamoto.

- Issue #12483: ctypes: Fix a crash when the destruction of a callback
  object triggers the garbage collector.

- Issue #12950: Fix passing file descriptors in multiprocessing, under
  OpenIndiana/Illumos.

- Issue #12764: Fix a crash in ctypes when the name of a Structure field is not
  a string.

- Issue #11241: subclasses of ctypes.Array can now be subclassed.

- Issue #9651: Fix a crash when ctypes.create_string_buffer(0) was passed to
  some functions like file.write().

- Issue #10309: Define _GNU_SOURCE so that mremap() gets the proper
  signature.  Without this, architectures where sizeof void* != sizeof int are
  broken.  Patch given by Hallvard B Furuseth.

- Issue #12051: Fix segfault in json.dumps() while encoding highly-nested
  objects using the C accelerations.

- Issue #12017: Fix segfault in json.loads() while decoding highly-nested
  objects using the C accelerations.

- Issue #1838: Prevent segfault in ctypes, when _as_parameter_ on a class is set
  to an instance of the class.

Tests
-----

- Issue #13125: Silence spurious test_lib2to3 output when in non-verbose mode.
  Patch by Mikhail Novikov.

- Issue #13447: Add a test file to host regression tests for bugs in the
  scripts found in the Tools directory.

- Issue #10881: Fix test_site failure with OS X framework builds.

- Issue #13901: Prevent test_distutils failures on OS X with --enable-shared.

- Issue #13862: Fix spurious failure in test_zlib due to runtime/compile time
  minor versions not matching.

- Issue #12804: Fix test_socket and test_urllib2net failures when running tests
  on a system without internet access.

- Issue #13726: Fix the ambiguous -S flag in regrtest. It is -o/--slow for slow
  tests.

- Issue #11659: Fix ResourceWarning in test_subprocess introduced by #11459.
  Patch by Ben Hayden.

- Issue #11577: fix ResourceWarning triggered by improved binhex test coverage

- Issue #11509: Significantly increase test coverage of fileinput.
  Patch by Denver Coneybeare at PyCon 2011 Sprints.

- Issue #11689: Fix a variable scoping error in an sqlite3 test

- Issue #13786: Remove unimplemented 'trace' long option from regrtest.py.

- Issue #13725: Fix regrtest to recognize the documented -d flag.
  Patch by Erno Tukia.

- Issue #13304: Skip test case if user site-packages disabled (-s or
  PYTHONNOUSERSITE).  (Patch by Carl Meyer)

- Issue #5661: Add a test for ECONNRESET/EPIPE handling to test_asyncore. Patch
  by Xavier de Gaye.

- Issue #13218: Fix test_ssl failures on Debian/Ubuntu.

- Re-enable lib2to3's test_parser.py tests, though with an expected failure
  (see issue 13125).

- Issue #12656: Add tests for IPv6 and Unix sockets to test_asyncore.

- Issue #6484: Add unit tests for mailcap module (patch by Gregory Nofi)

- Issue #11651: Improve the Makefile test targets to run more of the test suite
  more quickly. The --multiprocess option is now enabled by default, reducing
  the amount of time needed to run the tests. "make test" and "make quicktest"
  now include some resource-intensive tests, but no longer run the test suite
  twice to check for bugs in .pyc generation. Tools/scripts/run_test.py provides
  an easy platform-independent way to run test suite with sensible defaults.

- Issue #12331: The test suite for the packaging module can now run from an
  installed Python.

- Issue #12331: The test suite for lib2to3 can now run from an installed
  Python.

- Issue #12626: In regrtest, allow to filter tests using a glob filter
  with the ``-m`` (or ``--match``) option.  This works with all test cases
  using the unittest module.  This is useful with long test suites
  such as test_io or test_subprocess.

- Issue #12624: It is now possible to fail after the first failure when
  running in verbose mode (``-v`` or ``-W``), by using the ``--failfast``
  (or ``-G``) option to regrtest.  This is useful with long test suites
  such as test_io or test_subprocess.

- Issue #12587: Correct faulty test file and reference in test_tokenize.
  (Patch by Robert Xiao)

- Issue #12573: Add resource checks for dangling Thread and Process objects.

- Issue #12549: Correct test_platform to not fail when OS X returns 'x86_64'
  as the processor type on some Mac systems.

- Skip network tests when getaddrinfo() returns EAI_AGAIN, meaning a temporary
  failure in name resolution.

- Issue #11812: Solve transient socket failure to connect to 'localhost'
  in test_telnetlib.py.

- Solved a potential deadlock in test_telnetlib.py. Related to issue #11812.

- Avoid failing in test_robotparser when mueblesmoraleda.com is flaky and
  an overzealous DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) redirects to a placeholder
  Web site.

- Avoid failing in test_urllibnet.test_bad_address when some overzealous
  DNS service (e.g. OpenDNS) resolves a non-existent domain name.  The test
  is now skipped instead.

- Issue #12440: When testing whether some bits in SSLContext.options can be
  reset, check the version of the OpenSSL headers Python was compiled against,
  rather than the runtime version of the OpenSSL library.

- Issue #11512: Add a test suite for the cgitb module. Patch by Robbie Clemons.

- Issue #12497: Install test/data to prevent failures of the various codecmaps
  tests.

- Issue #12496: Install test/capath directory to prevent test_connect_capath
  testcase failure in test_ssl.

- Issue #12469: Run wakeup and pending signal tests in a subprocess to run the
  test in a fresh process with only one thread and to not change signal
  handling of the parent process.

- Issue #8716: Avoid crashes caused by Aqua Tk on OSX when attempting to run
  test_tk or test_ttk_guionly under a username that is not currently logged
  in to the console windowserver (as may be the case under buildbot or ssh).

- Issue #12407: Explicitly skip test_capi.EmbeddingTest under Windows.

- Issue #12400: regrtest -W doesn't rerun the tests twice anymore, but captures
  the output and displays it on failure instead. regrtest -v doesn't print the
  error twice anymore if there is only one error.

- Issue #12141: Install copies of template C module file so that
  test_build_ext of test_distutils and test_command_build_ext of
  test_packaging are no longer silently skipped when
  run outside of a build directory.

- Issue #8746: Add additional tests for os.chflags() and os.lchflags().
  Patch by Garrett Cooper.

- Issue #10736: Fix test_ttk test_widgets failures with Cocoa Tk 8.5.9
  2.8 +  on Mac OS X.  (Patch by Ronald Oussoren)

- Issue #12057: Add tests for ISO 2022 codecs (iso2022_jp, iso2022_jp_2,
  iso2022_kr).

- Issue #12096: Fix a race condition in test_threading.test_waitfor(). Patch
  written by Charles-François Natali.

- Issue #11614: import __hello__ prints "Hello World!". Patch written by
  Andreas Stührk.

- Issue #5723: Improve json tests to be executed with and without accelerations.

- Issue #12041: Make test_wait3 more robust.

- Issue #11873: Change regex in test_compileall to fix occasional failures when
  when the randomly generated temporary path happened to match the regex.

- Issue #11958: Fix FTP tests for IPv6, bind to "::1" instead of "localhost".
  Patch written by Charles-Francois Natali.

- Issue #8407, #11859: Fix tests of test_io using threads and an alarm: use
  pthread_sigmask() to ensure that the SIGALRM signal is received by the main
  thread.

- Issue #11811: Factor out detection of IPv6 support on the current host
  and make it available as ``test.support.IPV6_ENABLED``.  Patch by
  Charles-François Natali.

- Issue #10914: Add a minimal embedding test to test_capi.

- Issue #11223: Skip test_lock_acquire_interruption() and
  test_rlock_acquire_interruption() of test_threadsignals if a thread lock is
  implemented using a POSIX mutex and a POSIX condition variable. A POSIX
  condition variable cannot be interrupted by a signal (e.g. on Linux, the
  futex system call is restarted).

- Issue #11790: Fix sporadic failures in test_multiprocessing.WithProcessesTestCondition.

- Fix possible "file already exists" error when running the tests in parallel.

- Issue #11719: Fix message about unexpected test_msilib skip on non-Windows
  platforms. Patch by Nadeem Vawda.

- Issue #11727: Add a --timeout option to regrtest: if a test takes more than
  TIMEOUT seconds, dumps the traceback of all threads and exits.

- Issue #11653: fix -W with -j in regrtest.

- The email test suite now lives in the Lib/test/test_email package.  The test
  harness code has also been modernized to allow use of new unittest features.

- regrtest now discovers test packages as well as test modules.

- Issue #11577: improve test coverage of binhex.py. Patch by Arkady Koplyarov.

- New test_crashers added to exercise the scripts in the Lib/test/crashers
  directory and confirm they fail as expected

- Issue #11578: added test for the timeit module.  Patch by Michael Henry.

- Issue #11503: improve test coverage of posixpath.py. Patch by Evan Dandrea.

- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py, increases granularity of
  string.Formatter tests. Initial patch by Alicia Arlen.

- Issue #11548: Improve test coverage of the shutil module. Patch by
  Evan Dandrea.

- Issue #11554: Reactivated test_email_codecs.

- Issue #11505: improves test coverage of string.py. Patch by Alicia
  Arlen

- Issue #11490: test_subprocess.test_leaking_fds_on_error no longer gives a
  false positive if the last directory in the path is inaccessible.

- Issue #11223: Fix test_threadsignals to fail, not hang, when the
  non-semaphore implementation of locks is used under POSIX.

- Issue #10911: Add tests on CGI with non-ASCII characters. Patch written by
  Pierre Quentel.

- Issue #9931: Fix hangs in GUI tests under Windows in certain conditions.
  Patch by Hirokazu Yamamoto.

- Issue #10512: Properly close sockets under test.test_cgi.

- Issue #10992: Make tests pass under coverage.

- Issue #10826: Prevent sporadic failure in test_subprocess on Solaris due
  to open door files.

- Issue #10990: Prevent tests from clobbering a set trace function.

C-API
-----

- Issue #13452: PyUnicode_EncodeDecimal() doesn't support error handlers
  different than "strict" anymore. The caller was unable to compute the
  size of the output buffer: it depends on the error handler.

- Issue #13560: Add PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(), PyUnicode_DecodeLocaleAndSize()
  and PyUnicode_EncodeLocale() functions to the C API to decode/encode from/to
  the current locale encoding.

- Issue #10831: PyUnicode_FromFormat() supports %li, %lli and %zi formats.

- Issue #11246: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormat("%V") to decode the byte string from
  UTF-8 (with replace error handler) instead of ISO-8859-1 (in strict mode).
  Patch written by Ray Allen.

- Issue #10830: Fix PyUnicode_FromFormatV("%c") for non-BMP characters on
  narrow build.

- Add PyObject_GenericGetDict and PyObject_GeneriSetDict. They are generic
  implementations for the getter and setter of a ``__dict__`` descriptor of C
  types.

- Issue #13727: Add 3 macros to access PyDateTime_Delta members:
  PyDateTime_DELTA_GET_DAYS, PyDateTime_DELTA_GET_SECONDS,
  PyDateTime_DELTA_GET_MICROSECONDS.

- Issue #10542: Add 4 macros to work with surrogates: Py_UNICODE_IS_SURROGATE,
  Py_UNICODE_IS_HIGH_SURROGATE, Py_UNICODE_IS_LOW_SURROGATE,
  Py_UNICODE_JOIN_SURROGATES.

- Issue #12724: Add Py_RETURN_NOTIMPLEMENTED macro for returning NotImplemented.

- PY_PATCHLEVEL_REVISION has been removed, since it's meaningless with
  Mercurial.

- Issue #12173: The first argument of PyImport_ImportModuleLevel is now `const
  char *` instead of `char *`.

- Issue #12380: PyArg_ParseTuple now accepts a bytearray for the 'c' format.

Documentation
-------------

- Issue #13989: Document that GzipFile does not support text mode, and give a
  more helpful error message when opened with an invalid mode string.

- Issue #13921: Undocument and clean up sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode,
  which is obsolete in Python 3.x. It's now aliased to str for
  backwards compatibility.

- Issue #12102: Document that buffered files must be flushed before being used
  with mmap. Patch by Steffen Daode Nurpmeso.

- Issue #8982: Improve the documentation for the argparse Namespace object.

- Issue #9343: Document that argparse parent parsers must be configured before
  their children.

- Issue #13498: Clarify docs of os.makedirs()'s exist_ok argument.  Done with
  great native-speaker help from R. David Murray.

- Issues #13491 and #13995: Fix many errors in sqlite3 documentation.
  Initial patch for #13491 by Johannes Vogel.

- Issue #13402: Document absoluteness of sys.executable.

- Issue #13883: PYTHONCASEOK also works on OS X.

- Issue #9021: Add an introduction to the copy module documentation.

- Issue #6005: Examples in the socket library documentation use sendall, where
  relevant, instead send method.

- Issue #12798: Updated the mimetypes documentation.

- Issue #12949: Document the kwonlyargcount argument for the PyCode_New
  C API function.

- Issue #13513: Fix io.IOBase documentation to correctly link to the
  io.IOBase.readline method instead of the readline module.

- Issue #13237: Reorganise subprocess documentation to emphasise convenience
  functions and the most commonly needed arguments to Popen.

- Issue #13141: Demonstrate recommended style for socketserver examples.

- Issue #11818: Fix tempfile examples for Python 3.


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