diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index f418c73a984..b645b4ea781 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Core and builtins ----------------- - It is now possible to import from zipfiles containing additional - data bytes before the zip compatible archive. Zipfiles containing a + data bytes before the zip compatible archive. Zipfiles containing a comment at the end are still unsupported. Extension modules @@ -28,15 +28,30 @@ Extension modules caused an instance of the bound .read() method to be leaked on every call. +- Fixed some leaks in the locale module. + Library ------- +- Lib/encodings/rot_13.py when used as a script, now more properly + uses the first Python interpreter on your path. + +- Removed caching of TimeRE (and thus LocaleTime) in _strptime.py to + fix a locale related bug in the test suite. Although another patch + was needed to actually fix the problem, the cache code was not + restored. + Tools/Demos ----------- +- Calltips patches in IDLE. + Build ----- +- For MacOSX, added -mno-fused-madd to BASECFLAGS to fix test_coercion + on Panther (OSX 10.3). + C API ----- @@ -46,9 +61,18 @@ Windows - The tempfile module could do insane imports on Windows if PYTHONCASEOK was set, making temp file creation impossible. Repaired. +- Add a patch to workaround pthread_sigmask() bugs in Cygwin. + Mac --- +- Various fixes to pimp. + +- Scripts runs with pythonw no longer had full window manager access. + +- Don't force boot-disk-only install, for reasons unknown it causes + more problems than it solves. + What's New in Python 2.3 release candidate 1? =============================================