diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index eeb23af9766..b9bdc598ebc 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION        10
 #define PY_MICRO_VERSION        0
 #define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_ALPHA
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       1
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       2
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION              "3.10.0a1+"
+#define PY_VERSION              "3.10.0a2"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
index 1fdb1ae859e..b424b1d0f9b 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Mon Oct  5 18:27:28 2020
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Tue Nov  3 00:01:01 2020
 topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
            '\n'
@@ -433,11 +433,9 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
           '\n'
           'Execution of Python coroutines can be suspended and resumed at '
           'many\n'
-          'points (see *coroutine*).  Inside the body of a coroutine '
-          'function,\n'
-          '"await" and "async" identifiers become reserved keywords; "await"\n'
-          'expressions, "async for" and "async with" can only be used in\n'
-          'coroutine function bodies.\n'
+          'points (see *coroutine*). "await" expressions, "async for" and '
+          '"async\n'
+          'with" can only be used in the body of a coroutine function.\n'
           '\n'
           'Functions defined with "async def" syntax are always coroutine\n'
           'functions, even if they do not contain "await" or "async" '
@@ -453,6 +451,10 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
           '       do_stuff()\n'
           '       await some_coroutine()\n'
           '\n'
+          'Changed in version 3.7: "await" and "async" are now keywords;\n'
+          'previously they were only treated as such inside the body of a\n'
+          'coroutine function.\n'
+          '\n'
           '\n'
           'The "async for" statement\n'
           '=========================\n'
@@ -700,6 +702,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      'syntax or\n'
                      '     built-in functions. See Special method lookup.\n'
                      '\n'
+                     '   For certain sensitive attribute accesses, raises an '
+                     'auditing event\n'
+                     '   "object.__getattr__" with arguments "obj" and '
+                     '"name".\n'
+                     '\n'
                      'object.__setattr__(self, name, value)\n'
                      '\n'
                      '   Called when an attribute assignment is attempted.  '
@@ -716,6 +723,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      'for example,\n'
                      '   "object.__setattr__(self, name, value)".\n'
                      '\n'
+                     '   For certain sensitive attribute assignments, raises '
+                     'an auditing\n'
+                     '   event "object.__setattr__" with arguments "obj", '
+                     '"name", "value".\n'
+                     '\n'
                      'object.__delattr__(self, name)\n'
                      '\n'
                      '   Like "__setattr__()" but for attribute deletion '
@@ -724,6 +736,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      'obj.name" is\n'
                      '   meaningful for the object.\n'
                      '\n'
+                     '   For certain sensitive attribute deletions, raises an '
+                     'auditing event\n'
+                     '   "object.__delattr__" with arguments "obj" and '
+                     '"name".\n'
+                     '\n'
                      'object.__dir__(self)\n'
                      '\n'
                      '   Called when "dir()" is called on the object. A '
@@ -1464,8 +1481,8 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                    '\n'
                    '   Called when the instance is “called” as a function; if '
                    'this method\n'
-                   '   is defined, "x(arg1, arg2, ...)" is a shorthand for\n'
-                   '   "x.__call__(arg1, arg2, ...)".\n',
+                   '   is defined, "x(arg1, arg2, ...)" roughly translates to\n'
+                   '   "type(x).__call__(x, arg1, ...)".\n',
  'calls': 'Calls\n'
           '*****\n'
           '\n'
@@ -2766,20 +2783,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
              'parameter list.  These annotations can be any valid Python '
              'expression.\n'
              'The presence of annotations does not change the semantics of a\n'
-             'function.  The annotation values are available as values of a\n'
+             'function.  The annotation values are available as string values '
+             'in a\n'
              'dictionary keyed by the parameters’ names in the '
              '"__annotations__"\n'
-             'attribute of the function object.  If the "annotations" import '
-             'from\n'
-             '"__future__" is used, annotations are preserved as strings at '
-             'runtime\n'
-             'which enables postponed evaluation.  Otherwise, they are '
-             'evaluated\n'
-             'when the function definition is executed.  In this case '
-             'annotations\n'
-             'may be evaluated in a different order than they appear in the '
-             'source\n'
-             'code.\n'
+             'attribute of the function object.\n'
              '\n'
              'It is also possible to create anonymous functions (functions not '
              'bound\n'
@@ -2949,12 +2957,9 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
              '\n'
              'Execution of Python coroutines can be suspended and resumed at '
              'many\n'
-             'points (see *coroutine*).  Inside the body of a coroutine '
-             'function,\n'
-             '"await" and "async" identifiers become reserved keywords; '
-             '"await"\n'
-             'expressions, "async for" and "async with" can only be used in\n'
-             'coroutine function bodies.\n'
+             'points (see *coroutine*). "await" expressions, "async for" and '
+             '"async\n'
+             'with" can only be used in the body of a coroutine function.\n'
              '\n'
              'Functions defined with "async def" syntax are always coroutine\n'
              'functions, even if they do not contain "await" or "async" '
@@ -2970,6 +2975,10 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
              '       do_stuff()\n'
              '       await some_coroutine()\n'
              '\n'
+             'Changed in version 3.7: "await" and "async" are now keywords;\n'
+             'previously they were only treated as such inside the body of a\n'
+             'coroutine function.\n'
+             '\n'
              '\n'
              'The "async for" statement\n'
              '-------------------------\n'
@@ -3461,16 +3470,21 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   '   on the value to determine if the result is true or '
                   'false.\n'
                   '\n'
-                  '   By default, "__ne__()" delegates to "__eq__()" and '
-                  'inverts the\n'
-                  '   result unless it is "NotImplemented".  There are no '
-                  'other implied\n'
-                  '   relationships among the comparison operators, for '
-                  'example, the\n'
-                  '   truth of "(x<y or x==y)" does not imply "x<=y". To '
-                  'automatically\n'
-                  '   generate ordering operations from a single root '
-                  'operation, see\n'
+                  '   By default, "object" implements "__eq__()" by using '
+                  '"is", returning\n'
+                  '   "NotImplemented" in the case of a false comparison: '
+                  '"True if x is y\n'
+                  '   else NotImplemented". For "__ne__()", by default it '
+                  'delegates to\n'
+                  '   "__eq__()" and inverts the result unless it is '
+                  '"NotImplemented".\n'
+                  '   There are no other implied relationships among the '
+                  'comparison\n'
+                  '   operators or default implementations; for example, the '
+                  'truth of\n'
+                  '   "(x<y or x==y)" does not imply "x<=y". To automatically '
+                  'generate\n'
+                  '   ordering operations from a single root operation, see\n'
                   '   "functools.total_ordering()".\n'
                   '\n'
                   '   See the paragraph on "__hash__()" for some important '
@@ -5859,20 +5873,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
              'parameter list.  These annotations can be any valid Python '
              'expression.\n'
              'The presence of annotations does not change the semantics of a\n'
-             'function.  The annotation values are available as values of a\n'
+             'function.  The annotation values are available as string values '
+             'in a\n'
              'dictionary keyed by the parameters’ names in the '
              '"__annotations__"\n'
-             'attribute of the function object.  If the "annotations" import '
-             'from\n'
-             '"__future__" is used, annotations are preserved as strings at '
-             'runtime\n'
-             'which enables postponed evaluation.  Otherwise, they are '
-             'evaluated\n'
-             'when the function definition is executed.  In this case '
-             'annotations\n'
-             'may be evaluated in a different order than they appear in the '
-             'source\n'
-             'code.\n'
+             'attribute of the function object.\n'
              '\n'
              'It is also possible to create anonymous functions (functions not '
              'bound\n'
@@ -6395,8 +6400,8 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '\n'
            '* other future statements.\n'
            '\n'
-           'The only feature in Python 3.7 that requires using the future\n'
-           'statement is "annotations".\n'
+           'The only feature that requires using the future statement is\n'
+           '"annotations" (see **PEP 563**).\n'
            '\n'
            'All historical features enabled by the future statement are still\n'
            'recognized by Python 3.  The list includes "absolute_import",\n'
@@ -8242,16 +8247,21 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  '   on the value to determine if the result is true or '
                  'false.\n'
                  '\n'
-                 '   By default, "__ne__()" delegates to "__eq__()" and '
-                 'inverts the\n'
-                 '   result unless it is "NotImplemented".  There are no other '
-                 'implied\n'
-                 '   relationships among the comparison operators, for '
-                 'example, the\n'
-                 '   truth of "(x<y or x==y)" does not imply "x<=y". To '
-                 'automatically\n'
-                 '   generate ordering operations from a single root '
-                 'operation, see\n'
+                 '   By default, "object" implements "__eq__()" by using "is", '
+                 'returning\n'
+                 '   "NotImplemented" in the case of a false comparison: "True '
+                 'if x is y\n'
+                 '   else NotImplemented". For "__ne__()", by default it '
+                 'delegates to\n'
+                 '   "__eq__()" and inverts the result unless it is '
+                 '"NotImplemented".\n'
+                 '   There are no other implied relationships among the '
+                 'comparison\n'
+                 '   operators or default implementations; for example, the '
+                 'truth of\n'
+                 '   "(x<y or x==y)" does not imply "x<=y". To automatically '
+                 'generate\n'
+                 '   ordering operations from a single root operation, see\n'
                  '   "functools.total_ordering()".\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   See the paragraph on "__hash__()" for some important '
@@ -8481,6 +8491,10 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'syntax or\n'
                  '     built-in functions. See Special method lookup.\n'
                  '\n'
+                 '   For certain sensitive attribute accesses, raises an '
+                 'auditing event\n'
+                 '   "object.__getattr__" with arguments "obj" and "name".\n'
+                 '\n'
                  'object.__setattr__(self, name, value)\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Called when an attribute assignment is attempted.  This '
@@ -8497,6 +8511,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'example,\n'
                  '   "object.__setattr__(self, name, value)".\n'
                  '\n'
+                 '   For certain sensitive attribute assignments, raises an '
+                 'auditing\n'
+                 '   event "object.__setattr__" with arguments "obj", "name", '
+                 '"value".\n'
+                 '\n'
                  'object.__delattr__(self, name)\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Like "__setattr__()" but for attribute deletion instead '
@@ -8505,6 +8524,10 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'obj.name" is\n'
                  '   meaningful for the object.\n'
                  '\n'
+                 '   For certain sensitive attribute deletions, raises an '
+                 'auditing event\n'
+                 '   "object.__delattr__" with arguments "obj" and "name".\n'
+                 '\n'
                  'object.__dir__(self)\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Called when "dir()" is called on the object. A sequence '
@@ -9298,8 +9321,8 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Called when the instance is “called” as a function; if '
                  'this method\n'
-                 '   is defined, "x(arg1, arg2, ...)" is a shorthand for\n'
-                 '   "x.__call__(arg1, arg2, ...)".\n'
+                 '   is defined, "x(arg1, arg2, ...)" roughly translates to\n'
+                 '   "type(x).__call__(x, arg1, ...)".\n'
                  '\n'
                  '\n'
                  'Emulating container types\n'
@@ -11054,9 +11077,10 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
  'subscriptions': 'Subscriptions\n'
                   '*************\n'
                   '\n'
-                  'A subscription selects an item of a sequence (string, tuple '
-                  'or list)\n'
-                  'or mapping (dictionary) object:\n'
+                  'Subscription of a sequence (string, tuple or list) or '
+                  'mapping\n'
+                  '(dictionary) object usually selects an item from the '
+                  'collection:\n'
                   '\n'
                   '   subscription ::= primary "[" expression_list "]"\n'
                   '\n'
@@ -11107,7 +11131,13 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   '\n'
                   'A string’s items are characters.  A character is not a '
                   'separate data\n'
-                  'type but a string of exactly one character.\n',
+                  'type but a string of exactly one character.\n'
+                  '\n'
+                  'Subscription of certain *classes* or *types* creates a '
+                  'generic alias.\n'
+                  'In this case, user-defined classes can support subscription '
+                  'by\n'
+                  'providing a "__class_getitem__()" classmethod.\n',
  'truth': 'Truth Value Testing\n'
           '*******************\n'
           '\n'
@@ -11353,6 +11383,27 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
           'representation\n'
           '   in computers.\n'
           '\n'
+          '   The string representations of the numeric classes, computed by\n'
+          '   "__repr__()" and "__str__()", have the following properties:\n'
+          '\n'
+          '   * They are valid numeric literals which, when passed to their '
+          'class\n'
+          '     constructor, produce an object having the value of the '
+          'original\n'
+          '     numeric.\n'
+          '\n'
+          '   * The representation is in base 10, when possible.\n'
+          '\n'
+          '   * Leading zeros, possibly excepting a single zero before a '
+          'decimal\n'
+          '     point, are not shown.\n'
+          '\n'
+          '   * Trailing zeros, possibly excepting a single zero after a '
+          'decimal\n'
+          '     point, are not shown.\n'
+          '\n'
+          '   * A sign is shown only when the number is negative.\n'
+          '\n'
           '   Python distinguishes between integers, floating point numbers, '
           'and\n'
           '   complex numbers:\n'
@@ -12404,6 +12455,21 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'positional\n'
                  '   argument and a possibly empty set of keyword arguments.\n'
                  '\n'
+                 '   Dictionaries can be created by several means:\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   * Use a comma-separated list of "key: value" pairs within '
+                 'braces:\n'
+                 '     "{\'jack\': 4098, \'sjoerd\': 4127}" or "{4098: '
+                 "'jack', 4127:\n"
+                 '     \'sjoerd\'}"\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   * Use a dict comprehension: "{}", "{x: x ** 2 for x in '
+                 'range(10)}"\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   * Use the type constructor: "dict()", "dict([(\'foo\', '
+                 "100), ('bar',\n"
+                 '     200)])", "dict(foo=100, bar=200)"\n'
+                 '\n'
                  '   If no positional argument is given, an empty dictionary '
                  'is created.\n'
                  '   If a positional argument is given and it is a mapping '
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a2.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a3c909df866
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.10.0a2.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,912 @@
+.. bpo: 42103
+.. date: 2020-10-23-19-19-30
+.. nonce: cILT66
+.. release date: 2020-11-03
+.. section: Security
+
+Prevented potential DoS attack via CPU and RAM exhaustion when processing
+malformed Apple Property List files in binary format.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42051
+.. date: 2020-10-19-10-56-27
+.. nonce: EU_B7u
+.. section: Security
+
+The :mod:`plistlib` module no longer accepts entity declarations in XML
+plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. This should not affect users as
+entity declarations are not used in regular plist files.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42236
+.. date: 2020-11-01-21-21-38
+.. nonce: MPx-NK
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+If the ``nl_langinfo(CODESET)`` function returns an empty string, Python now
+uses UTF-8 as the filesystem encoding. Patch by Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42218
+.. date: 2020-10-31-17-50-23
+.. nonce: Dp_Z3v
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed a bug in the PEG parser that was causing crashes in debug mode. Now
+errors are checked in left-recursive rules to avoid cases where such errors
+do not get handled in time and appear as long-distance crashes in other
+places.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42214
+.. date: 2020-10-30-22-16-30
+.. nonce: lXskM_
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed a possible crash in the PEG parser when checking for the '!=' token in
+the ``barry_as_flufl`` rule. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42206
+.. date: 2020-10-30-13-11-01
+.. nonce: xxssR8
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Propagate and raise the errors caused by :c:func:`PyAST_Validate` in the
+parser.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41796
+.. date: 2020-10-29-12-49-08
+.. nonce: tkGdHq
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The :mod:`ast` module internal state is now per interpreter. Patch by Victor
+Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42143
+.. date: 2020-10-27-21-34-05
+.. nonce: N6KXUO
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix handling of errors during creation of ``PyFunctionObject``, which
+resulted in operations on uninitialized memory. Patch by Yonatan
+Goldschmidt.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41659
+.. date: 2020-10-27-18-32-49
+.. nonce: d4a-8o
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a bug in the parser, where a curly brace following a `primary` didn't
+fail immediately. This led to invalid expressions like `a {b}` to throw a
+:exc:`SyntaxError` with a wrong offset, or invalid expressions ending with a
+curly brace like `a {` to not fail immediately in the REPL.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42150
+.. date: 2020-10-25-21-14-18
+.. nonce: b70u_T
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix possible buffer overflow in the new parser when checking for
+continuation lines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42123
+.. date: 2020-10-23-02-43-24
+.. nonce: 64gJWC
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Run the parser two times. On the first run, disable all the rules that only
+generate better error messages to gain performance. If there's a parse
+failure, run the parser a second time with those enabled.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41910
+.. date: 2020-10-21-14-40-54
+.. nonce: CzBMit
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Document the default implementation of `object.__eq__`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42093
+.. date: 2020-10-20-04-24-07
+.. nonce: ooZZNh
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The ``LOAD_ATTR`` instruction now uses new "per opcode cache" mechanism and
+it is about 36% faster now. Patch by Pablo Galindo and Yury Selivanov.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42030
+.. date: 2020-10-15-21-55-32
+.. nonce: PmU2CA
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Support for the legacy AIX-specific shared library loading support has been
+removed. All versions of AIX since 4.3 have supported and defaulted to using
+the common Unix mechanism instead.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41984
+.. date: 2020-10-14-16-19-43
+.. nonce: SEtKMr
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The garbage collector now tracks all user-defined classes. Patch by Brandt
+Bucher.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41993
+.. date: 2020-10-10-13-53-52
+.. nonce: YMzixQ
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed potential issues with removing not completely initialized module from
+``sys.modules`` when import fails.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41979
+.. date: 2020-10-09-10-55-50
+.. nonce: ImXIk2
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Star-unpacking is now allowed for with item's targets in the PEG parser.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41974
+.. date: 2020-10-08-09-58-19
+.. nonce: 8B-q8O
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Removed special methods ``__int__``, ``__float__``, ``__floordiv__``,
+``__mod__``, ``__divmod__``, ``__rfloordiv__``, ``__rmod__`` and
+``__rdivmod__`` of the :class:`complex` class.  They always raised a
+:exc:`TypeError`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41902
+.. date: 2020-10-02-13-32-05
+.. nonce: ZKTxzW
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Micro optimization when compute :c:member:`~PySequenceMethods.sq_item` and
+:c:member:`~PyMappingMethods.mp_subscript` of :class:`range`. Patch by
+Dong-hee Na.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41894
+.. date: 2020-10-02-11-35-33
+.. nonce: ffmtOt
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+When loading a native module and a load failure occurs, prevent a possible
+UnicodeDecodeError when not running in a UTF-8 locale by decoding the load
+error message using the current locale's encoding.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41902
+.. date: 2020-10-01-22-44-23
+.. nonce: iLoMVF
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Micro optimization for range.index if step is 1. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41435
+.. date: 2020-08-07-13-42-48
+.. nonce: qPWjJA
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Add `sys._current_exceptions()` function to retrieve a dictionary mapping
+each thread's identifier to the topmost exception currently active in that
+thread at the time the function is called.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38605
+.. date: 2020-05-27-16-08-16
+.. nonce: rcs2uK
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Enable ``from __future__ import annotations`` (:pep:`563`) by default. The
+values found in :attr:`__annotations__` dicts are now strings, e.g. ``{"x":
+"int"}`` instead of ``{"x": int}``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35455
+.. date: 2020-11-02-14-10-48
+.. nonce: Q1xTIo
+.. section: Library
+
+On Solaris, :func:`~time.thread_time` is now implemented with
+``gethrvtime()`` because ``clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID)`` is not
+always available. Patch by Jakub Kulik.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42233
+.. date: 2020-11-02-01-31-15
+.. nonce: YxRj-h
+.. section: Library
+
+The :func:`repr` of :mod:`typing` types containing :ref:`Generic Alias Types
+<types-genericalias>` previously did not show the parameterized types in the
+``GenericAlias``.  They have now been changed to do so.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29566
+.. date: 2020-10-31-13-28-36
+.. nonce: 6aDbty
+.. section: Library
+
+``binhex.binhex()`` consisently writes macOS 9 line endings.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 26789
+.. date: 2020-10-31-01-16-49
+.. nonce: 9BdNAt
+.. section: Library
+
+The :class:`logging.FileHandler` class now keeps a reference to the builtin
+:func:`open` function to be able to open or reopen the file during Python
+finalization. Fix errors like: ``NameError: name 'open' is not defined``.
+Patch by Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42157
+.. date: 2020-10-26-23-29-16
+.. nonce: 4wuwTe
+.. section: Library
+
+Removed the ``unicodedata.ucnhash_CAPI`` attribute which was an internal
+PyCapsule object. The related private ``_PyUnicode_Name_CAPI`` structure was
+moved to the internal C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42157
+.. date: 2020-10-26-19-08-07
+.. nonce: Bdpa04
+.. section: Library
+
+Convert the :mod:`unicodedata` extension module to the multiphase
+initialization API (:pep:`489`) and convert the ``unicodedata.UCD`` static
+type to a heap type. Patch by Mohamed Koubaa and Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42146
+.. date: 2020-10-25-19-25-02
+.. nonce: 6A8uvS
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix memory leak in :func:`subprocess.Popen` in case an uid (gid) specified
+in `user` (`group`, `extra_groups`) overflows `uid_t` (`gid_t`).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42103
+.. date: 2020-10-23-19-20-14
+.. nonce: C5obK2
+.. section: Library
+
+:exc:`~plistlib.InvalidFileException` and :exc:`RecursionError` are now the
+only errors caused by loading malformed binary Plist file (previously
+ValueError and TypeError could be raised in some specific cases).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41490
+.. date: 2020-10-23-08-54-47
+.. nonce: -Yk6OD
+.. section: Library
+
+In ``importlib.resources``, ``.path`` method is more aggressive about
+releasing handles to zipfile objects early, enabling use-cases like certifi
+to leave the context open but delete the underlying zip file.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41052
+.. date: 2020-10-21-23-45-02
+.. nonce: 3N7J2J
+.. section: Library
+
+Pickling heap types implemented in C with protocols 0 and 1 raises now an
+error instead of producing incorrect data.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42089
+.. date: 2020-10-19-16-53-19
+.. nonce: R1dthW
+.. section: Library
+
+In ``importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError``, make reference to the
+package metadata being missing to improve the user experience.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41491
+.. date: 2020-10-19-14-02-09
+.. nonce: d1BUWH
+.. section: Library
+
+plistlib: fix parsing XML plists with hexadecimal integer values
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42065
+.. date: 2020-10-17-23-17-18
+.. nonce: 85BsRA
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix an incorrectly formatted error from :meth:`_codecs.charmap_decode` when
+called with a mapped value outside the range of valid Unicode code points.
+PR by Max Bernstein.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41966
+.. date: 2020-10-17-07-52-53
+.. nonce: gwEQRZ
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix pickling pure Python :class:`datetime.time` subclasses. Patch by Dean
+Inwood.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 19270
+.. date: 2020-10-16-22-48-01
+.. nonce: jd_gkA
+.. section: Library
+
+:meth:`sched.scheduler.cancel()` will now cancel the correct event, if two
+events with same priority are scheduled for the same time. Patch by Bar
+Harel.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28660
+.. date: 2020-10-16-16-08-04
+.. nonce: eX9pvD
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`textwrap.wrap` now attempts to break long words after hyphens when
+``break_long_words=True`` and ``break_on_hyphens=True``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35823
+.. date: 2020-10-16-07-45-35
+.. nonce: SNQo56
+.. section: Library
+
+Use ``vfork()`` instead of ``fork()`` for :func:`subprocess.Popen` on Linux
+to improve performance in cases where it is deemed safe.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42043
+.. date: 2020-10-15-17-20-37
+.. nonce: OS0p_v
+.. section: Library
+
+Add support for ``zipfile.Path`` inheritance. ``zipfile.Path.is_file()`` now
+returns False for non-existent names. ``zipfile.Path`` objects now expose a
+``.filename`` attribute and rely on that to resolve ``.name`` and
+``.parent`` when the ``Path`` object is at the root of the zipfile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42021
+.. date: 2020-10-12-21-21-24
+.. nonce: 8yv_8-
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix possible ref leaks in :mod:`sqlite3` module init.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39101
+.. date: 2020-10-11-21-43-03
+.. nonce: -I49Pm
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed tests using IsolatedAsyncioTestCase from hanging on BaseExceptions.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41976
+.. date: 2020-10-08-18-22-28
+.. nonce: Svm0wb
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed a bug that was causing :func:`ctypes.util.find_library` to return
+``None`` when triying to locate a library in an environment when gcc>=9 is
+available and ``ldconfig`` is not. Patch by Pablo Galindo
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41943
+.. date: 2020-10-07-18-36-03
+.. nonce: Pt55fT
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix bug where TestCase.assertLogs doesn't correctly filter messages by
+level.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41923
+.. date: 2020-10-03-23-14-50
+.. nonce: Buonw9
+.. section: Library
+
+Implement :pep:`613`, introducing :data:`typing.TypeAlias` annotation.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41905
+.. date: 2020-10-01-21-11-03
+.. nonce: _JpjR4
+.. section: Library
+
+A new function in abc: *update_abstractmethods* to re-calculate an abstract
+class's abstract status. In addition, *dataclass* has been changed to call
+this function.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 23706
+.. date: 2020-09-30-11-05-11
+.. nonce: dHTGjF
+.. section: Library
+
+Added *newline* parameter to ``pathlib.Path.write_text()``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41876
+.. date: 2020-09-29-16-23-54
+.. nonce: QicdDU
+.. section: Library
+
+Tkinter font class repr uses font name
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41831
+.. date: 2020-09-22-11-07-50
+.. nonce: k-Eop_
+.. section: Library
+
+``str()`` for the ``type`` attribute of the ``tkinter.Event`` object always
+returns now the numeric code returned by Tk instead of the name of the event
+type.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39337
+.. date: 2020-09-13-02-02-18
+.. nonce: L3NXTt
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`encodings.normalize_encoding` now ignores non-ASCII characters.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41747
+.. date: 2020-09-08-23-41-29
+.. nonce: M6wLKv
+.. section: Library
+
+Ensure all methods that generated from :func:`dataclasses.dataclass` objects
+now have the proper ``__qualname__`` attribute referring to the class they
+belong to. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 30681
+.. date: 2020-09-04-17-33-04
+.. nonce: LR4fnY
+.. section: Library
+
+Handle exceptions caused by unparseable date headers when using email
+"default" policy.  Patch by Tim Bell, Georges Toth
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41586
+.. date: 2020-08-19-08-32-13
+.. nonce: IYjmjK
+.. section: Library
+
+Add F_SETPIPE_SZ and F_GETPIPE_SZ to fcntl module. Allow setting pipesize on
+subprocess.Popen.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41229
+.. date: 2020-07-19-20-10-41
+.. nonce: p8rJa2
+.. section: Library
+
+Add ``contextlib.aclosing`` for deterministic cleanup of async generators
+which is analogous to ``contextlib.closing`` for non-async generators. Patch
+by Joongi Kim and John Belmonte.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 16936
+.. date: 2020-07-08-09-45-00
+.. nonce: z8o8Pn
+.. section: Library
+
+Allow ``ctypes.wintypes`` to be imported on non-Windows systems.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 4356
+.. date: 2020-05-31-10-48-47
+.. nonce: P8kXqp
+.. section: Library
+
+Add a key function to the bisect module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40592
+.. date: 2020-05-14-16-01-34
+.. nonce: Cmk855
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`shutil.which` now ignores empty entries in :envvar:`PATHEXT` instead
+of treating them as a match.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40492
+.. date: 2020-05-04-12-16-00
+.. nonce: ONk9Na
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ``--outfile`` for :mod:`cProfile` / :mod:`profile` not writing the
+output file in the original directory when the program being profiled
+changes the working directory.  PR by Anthony Sottile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34204
+.. date: 2020-04-21-17-18-33
+.. nonce: 9wXTtY
+.. section: Library
+
+The :mod:`shelve` module now uses :data:`pickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL` by default
+instead of :mod:`pickle` protocol ``3``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 27321
+.. date: 2020-01-19-18-40-26
+.. nonce: 8e6SpM
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed KeyError exception when flattening an email to a string attempts to
+replace a non-existent Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38976
+.. date: 2019-12-05-05-22-49
+.. nonce: 5MG7Uu
+.. section: Library
+
+The :mod:`http.cookiejar` module now supports the parsing of cookies in
+CURL-style cookiejar files through MozillaCookieJar on all platforms.
+Previously, such cookie entries would be silently ignored when loading a
+cookiejar with such entries.
+
+Additionally, the HTTP Only attribute is persisted in the object, and will
+be correctly written to file if the MozillaCookieJar object is subsequently
+dumped.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42061
+.. date: 2020-10-28-21-39-45
+.. nonce: _x-0sg
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Document __format__ functionality for IP addresses.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42010
+.. date: 2020-10-21-02-21-14
+.. nonce: 76vJ0u
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Clarify that subscription expressions are also valid for certain
+:term:`classes <class>` and :term:`types <type>` in the standard library,
+and for user-defined classes and types if the classmethod
+:meth:`__class_getitem__` is provided.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41805
+.. date: 2020-10-10-01-36-37
+.. nonce: l-CGv5
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Documented :ref:`generic alias type <types-genericalias>` and
+:data:`types.GenericAlias`. Also added an entry in glossary for
+:term:`generic types <generic type>`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39693
+.. date: 2020-02-24-09-02-05
+.. nonce: QXw0Fm
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Fix tarfile's extractfile documentation
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39416
+.. date: 2020-01-22-05-14-53
+.. nonce: uYjhEm
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Document some restrictions on the default string representations of numeric
+classes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41739
+.. date: 2020-10-12-00-11-47
+.. nonce: wSCc4K
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix test_logging.test_race_between_set_target_and_flush(): the test now
+waits until all threads complete to avoid leaking running threads.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41970
+.. date: 2020-10-08-14-00-17
+.. nonce: aZ8QFf
+.. section: Tests
+
+Avoid a test failure in ``test_lib2to3`` if the module has already imported
+at the time the test executes. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41944
+.. date: 2020-10-05-17-43-46
+.. nonce: rf1dYb
+.. section: Tests
+
+Tests for CJK codecs no longer call ``eval()`` on content received via HTTP.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41306
+.. date: 2020-08-03-13-44-37
+.. nonce: VDoWXI
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fixed a failure in ``test_tk.test_widgets.ScaleTest`` happening when
+executing the test with Tk 8.6.10.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38980
+.. date: 2020-10-21-18-31-54
+.. nonce: xz7BNd
+.. section: Build
+
+Add ``-fno-semantic-interposition`` to both the compile and link line when
+building with ``--enable-optimizations``. Patch by Victor Stinner and Pablo
+Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38439
+.. date: 2020-10-20-13-19-42
+.. nonce: eMLi-t
+.. section: Windows
+
+Updates the icons for IDLE in the Windows Store package.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38252
+.. date: 2020-10-18-18-43-45
+.. nonce: 7Nlepg
+.. section: Windows
+
+Use 8-byte step to detect ASCII sequence in 64-bit Windows build.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39107
+.. date: 2020-09-24-23-09-40
+.. nonce: GbUZvD
+.. section: Windows
+
+Update Tcl and Tk to 8.6.10 in Windows installer.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41557
+.. date: 2020-08-26-09-35-06
+.. nonce: vt00cQ
+.. section: Windows
+
+Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.33.0.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38324
+.. date: 2020-05-30-02-46-43
+.. nonce: 476M-5
+.. section: Windows
+
+Avoid Unicode errors when accessing certain locale data on Windows.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41471
+.. date: 2020-10-19-12-25-19
+.. nonce: gwA7un
+.. section: macOS
+
+Ignore invalid prefix lengths in system proxy excludes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33987
+.. date: 2020-10-24-21-27-37
+.. nonce: fIh9JL
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Mostly finish using ttk widgets, mainly for editor, settings, and searches.
+Some patches by Mark Roseman.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40511
+.. date: 2020-06-16-12-16-13
+.. nonce: XkihpM
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Typing opening and closing parentheses inside the parentheses of a function
+call will no longer cause unnecessary "flashing" off and on of an existing
+open call-tip, e.g. when typed in a string literal.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38439
+.. date: 2020-04-22-09-37-40
+.. nonce: ieXL-c
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Add a 256×256 pixel IDLE icon to the Windows .ico file. Created by Andrew
+Clover. Remove the low-color gif variations from the .ico file.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42157
+.. date: 2020-10-16-10-47-17
+.. nonce: e3BcPM
+.. section: C API
+
+The private ``_PyUnicode_Name_CAPI`` structure of the PyCapsule API
+``unicodedata.ucnhash_CAPI`` has been moved to the internal C API. Patch by
+Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42015
+.. date: 2020-10-12-20-13-58
+.. nonce: X4H2_V
+.. section: C API
+
+Fix potential crash in deallocating method objects when dynamically
+allocated `PyMethodDef`'s lifetime is managed through the ``self`` argument
+of a `PyCFunction`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40423
+.. date: 2020-10-11-19-17-44
+.. nonce: GsmgEj
+.. section: C API
+
+The :mod:`subprocess` module and ``os.closerange`` will now use the
+``close_range(low, high, flags)`` syscall when it is available for more
+efficient closing of ranges of descriptors.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41845
+.. date: 2020-10-11-05-05-53
+.. nonce: ZFvuQM
+.. section: C API
+
+:c:func:`PyObject_GenericGetDict` is available again in the limited API when
+targeting 3.10 or later.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40422
+.. date: 2020-10-10-14-05-24
+.. nonce: sh8IDY
+.. section: C API
+
+Add `_Py_closerange` function to provide performant closing of a range of
+file descriptors.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41986
+.. date: 2020-10-09-22-50-46
+.. nonce: JUPE59
+.. section: C API
+
+:c:data:`Py_FileSystemDefaultEncodeErrors` and :c:data:`Py_UTF8Mode` are
+available again in limited API.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41756
+.. date: 2020-09-28-14-31-07
+.. nonce: ZZ5wJG
+.. section: C API
+
+Add `PyIter_Send` function to allow sending value into
+generator/coroutine/iterator without raising StopIteration exception to
+signal return.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41784
+.. date: 2020-09-14-10-17-00
+.. nonce: Yl4gI2
+.. section: C API
+
+Added ``PyUnicode_AsUTF8AndSize`` to the limited C API.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-10-21-18-31-54.bpo-38980.xz7BNd.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-10-21-18-31-54.bpo-38980.xz7BNd.rst
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-Add ``-fno-semantic-interposition`` to both the compile and link line when
-building with ``--enable-optimizations``. Patch by Victor Stinner and Pablo
-Galindo.
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-generator/coroutine/iterator without raising StopIteration exception to
-signal return.
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-:c:data:`Py_FileSystemDefaultEncodeErrors` and :c:data:`Py_UTF8Mode` are
-available again in limited API.
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-when targeting 3.10 or later.
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-``close_range(low, high, flags)`` syscall when it is available for more
-efficient closing of ranges of descriptors.
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-Fix potential crash in deallocating method objects when dynamically
-allocated `PyMethodDef`'s lifetime is managed through the ``self``
-argument of a `PyCFunction`.
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-The private ``_PyUnicode_Name_CAPI`` structure of the PyCapsule API
-``unicodedata.ucnhash_CAPI`` has been moved to the internal C API.
-Patch by Victor Stinner.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-05-27-16-08-16.bpo-38605.rcs2uK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-05-27-16-08-16.bpo-38605.rcs2uK.rst
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-Enable ``from __future__ import annotations`` (:pep:`563`) by default.
-The values found in :attr:`__annotations__` dicts are now strings, e.g.
-``{"x": "int"}`` instead of ``{"x": int}``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-08-07-13-42-48.bpo-41435.qPWjJA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-08-07-13-42-48.bpo-41435.qPWjJA.rst
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-Add `sys._current_exceptions()` function to retrieve a dictionary mapping each thread's identifier to the topmost exception currently active in that thread at the time the function is called.
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-Micro optimization for range.index if step is 1. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-02-11-35-33.bpo-41894.ffmtOt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-02-11-35-33.bpo-41894.ffmtOt.rst
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-When loading a native module and a load failure occurs, prevent a possible
-UnicodeDecodeError when not running in a UTF-8 locale by decoding the load
-error message using the current locale's encoding.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-02-13-32-05.bpo-41902.ZKTxzW.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-02-13-32-05.bpo-41902.ZKTxzW.rst
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-Micro optimization when compute :c:member:`~PySequenceMethods.sq_item` and
-:c:member:`~PyMappingMethods.mp_subscript` of :class:`range`. Patch by
-Dong-hee Na.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-08-09-58-19.bpo-41974.8B-q8O.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-08-09-58-19.bpo-41974.8B-q8O.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Removed special methods ``__int__``, ``__float__``, ``__floordiv__``,
-``__mod__``, ``__divmod__``, ``__rfloordiv__``, ``__rmod__`` and
-``__rdivmod__`` of the :class:`complex` class.  They always raised
-a :exc:`TypeError`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-09-10-55-50.bpo-41979.ImXIk2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-09-10-55-50.bpo-41979.ImXIk2.rst
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-Star-unpacking is now allowed for with item's targets in the PEG parser.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-10-13-53-52.bpo-41993.YMzixQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-10-13-53-52.bpo-41993.YMzixQ.rst
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-Fixed potential issues with removing not completely initialized module from
-``sys.modules`` when import fails.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-14-16-19-43.bpo-41984.SEtKMr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-14-16-19-43.bpo-41984.SEtKMr.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-The garbage collector now tracks all user-defined classes. Patch by Brandt
-Bucher.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-15-21-55-32.bpo-42030.PmU2CA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-15-21-55-32.bpo-42030.PmU2CA.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Support for the legacy AIX-specific shared library loading support has been
-removed. All versions of AIX since 4.3 have supported and defaulted to using
-the common Unix mechanism instead.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-20-04-24-07.bpo-42093.ooZZNh.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-20-04-24-07.bpo-42093.ooZZNh.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-20-04-24-07.bpo-42093.ooZZNh.rst	
+++ /dev/null
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-The ``LOAD_ATTR`` instruction now uses new "per opcode cache" mechanism and
-it is about 36% faster now. Patch by Pablo Galindo and Yury Selivanov.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-21-14-40-54.bpo-41910.CzBMit.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-21-14-40-54.bpo-41910.CzBMit.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Document the default implementation of `object.__eq__`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-23-02-43-24.bpo-42123.64gJWC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-23-02-43-24.bpo-42123.64gJWC.rst
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-Run the parser two times. On the first run, disable all the rules that only
-generate better error messages to gain performance. If there's a parse
-failure, run the parser a second time with those enabled.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-25-21-14-18.bpo-42150.b70u_T.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-25-21-14-18.bpo-42150.b70u_T.rst
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-Fix possible buffer overflow in the new parser when checking for
-continuation lines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-27-18-32-49.bpo-41659.d4a-8o.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-27-18-32-49.bpo-41659.d4a-8o.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fix a bug in the parser, where a curly brace following a `primary` didn't fail immediately.
-This led to invalid expressions like `a {b}` to throw a :exc:`SyntaxError` with a wrong offset,
-or invalid expressions ending with a curly brace like `a {` to not fail immediately in the REPL.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-27-21-34-05.bpo-42143.N6KXUO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-27-21-34-05.bpo-42143.N6KXUO.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fix handling of errors during creation of ``PyFunctionObject``, which resulted
-in operations on uninitialized memory. Patch by Yonatan Goldschmidt.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-29-12-49-08.bpo-41796.tkGdHq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-29-12-49-08.bpo-41796.tkGdHq.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The :mod:`ast` module internal state is now per interpreter. Patch by Victor
-Stinner.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-30-13-11-01.bpo-42206.xxssR8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-30-13-11-01.bpo-42206.xxssR8.rst
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-Propagate and raise the errors caused by :c:func:`PyAST_Validate` in the
-parser.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-30-22-16-30.bpo-42214.lXskM_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-30-22-16-30.bpo-42214.lXskM_.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fixed a possible crash in the PEG parser when checking for the '!=' token in
-the ``barry_as_flufl`` rule. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-31-17-50-23.bpo-42218.Dp_Z3v.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-31-17-50-23.bpo-42218.Dp_Z3v.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fixed a bug in the PEG parser that was causing crashes in debug mode. Now errors are checked
-in left-recursive rules to avoid cases where such errors do not get handled in time and appear
-as long-distance crashes in other places.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-01-21-21-38.bpo-42236.MPx-NK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-01-21-21-38.bpo-42236.MPx-NK.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-01-21-21-38.bpo-42236.MPx-NK.rst	
+++ /dev/null
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-If the ``nl_langinfo(CODESET)`` function returns an empty string, Python now
-uses UTF-8 as the filesystem encoding. Patch by Victor Stinner.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-22-05-14-53.bpo-39416.uYjhEm.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-22-05-14-53.bpo-39416.uYjhEm.rst
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-Document some restrictions on the default string representations of numeric classes.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-24-09-02-05.bpo-39693.QXw0Fm.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-24-09-02-05.bpo-39693.QXw0Fm.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-24-09-02-05.bpo-39693.QXw0Fm.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Fix tarfile's extractfile documentation
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-10-10-01-36-37.bpo-41805.l-CGv5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-10-10-01-36-37.bpo-41805.l-CGv5.rst
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-Documented :ref:`generic alias type <types-genericalias>` and
-:data:`types.GenericAlias`. Also added an entry in glossary for
-:term:`generic types <generic type>`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-10-21-02-21-14.bpo-42010.76vJ0u.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-10-21-02-21-14.bpo-42010.76vJ0u.rst
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-Clarify that subscription expressions are also valid for certain
-:term:`classes <class>` and :term:`types <type>` in the standard library, and
-for user-defined classes and types if the classmethod
-:meth:`__class_getitem__` is provided.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-10-28-21-39-45.bpo-42061._x-0sg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-10-28-21-39-45.bpo-42061._x-0sg.rst
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-Document __format__ functionality for IP addresses.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-04-22-09-37-40.bpo-38439.ieXL-c.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-04-22-09-37-40.bpo-38439.ieXL-c.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Add a 256×256 pixel IDLE icon to the Windows .ico file. Created by Andrew
-Clover. Remove the low-color gif variations from the .ico file.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-06-16-12-16-13.bpo-40511.XkihpM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-06-16-12-16-13.bpo-40511.XkihpM.rst
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-Typing opening and closing parentheses inside the parentheses of a function
-call will no longer cause unnecessary "flashing" off and on of an existing
-open call-tip, e.g. when typed in a string literal.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-10-24-21-27-37.bpo-33987.fIh9JL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-10-24-21-27-37.bpo-33987.fIh9JL.rst
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-Mostly finish using ttk widgets, mainly for editor, settings,
-and searches.  Some patches by Mark Roseman.
-
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-05-05-22-49.bpo-38976.5MG7Uu.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-05-05-22-49.bpo-38976.5MG7Uu.rst
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-The :mod:`http.cookiejar` module now supports the parsing of cookies in CURL-style cookiejar files through MozillaCookieJar 
-on all platforms.  Previously, such cookie entries would be silently ignored when loading a cookiejar with such entries.
-
-Additionally, the HTTP Only attribute is persisted in the object, and will be correctly written to file if the MozillaCookieJar object is subsequently dumped.
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-Fixed KeyError exception when flattening an email to a string attempts to
-replace a non-existent Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-04-21-17-18-33.bpo-34204.9wXTtY.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-04-21-17-18-33.bpo-34204.9wXTtY.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-The :mod:`shelve` module now uses :data:`pickle.DEFAULT_PROTOCOL` by default
-instead of :mod:`pickle` protocol ``3``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-04-12-16-00.bpo-40492.ONk9Na.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-04-12-16-00.bpo-40492.ONk9Na.rst
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-Fix ``--outfile`` for :mod:`cProfile` / :mod:`profile` not writing the output
-file in the original directory when the program being profiled changes the
-working directory.  PR by Anthony Sottile.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-14-16-01-34.bpo-40592.Cmk855.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-14-16-01-34.bpo-40592.Cmk855.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-:func:`shutil.which` now ignores empty entries in :envvar:`PATHEXT` instead of treating them as a match.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-31-10-48-47.bpo-4356.P8kXqp.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-31-10-48-47.bpo-4356.P8kXqp.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Add a key function to the bisect module.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-07-08-09-45-00.bpo-16936.z8o8Pn.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-07-08-09-45-00.bpo-16936.z8o8Pn.rst
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-Allow ``ctypes.wintypes`` to be imported on non-Windows systems.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-07-19-20-10-41.bpo-41229.p8rJa2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-07-19-20-10-41.bpo-41229.p8rJa2.rst
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-Add ``contextlib.aclosing`` for deterministic cleanup of async generators
-which is analogous to ``contextlib.closing`` for non-async generators.
-Patch by Joongi Kim and John Belmonte.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-08-19-08-32-13.bpo-41586.IYjmjK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-08-19-08-32-13.bpo-41586.IYjmjK.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Add F_SETPIPE_SZ and F_GETPIPE_SZ to fcntl module. Allow setting pipesize on
-subprocess.Popen.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-04-17-33-04.bpo-30681.LR4fnY.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-04-17-33-04.bpo-30681.LR4fnY.rst
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-Handle exceptions caused by unparseable date headers when using email
-"default" policy.  Patch by Tim Bell, Georges Toth
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-08-23-41-29.bpo-41747.M6wLKv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-08-23-41-29.bpo-41747.M6wLKv.rst
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-Ensure all methods that generated from :func:`dataclasses.dataclass`
-objects now have the proper ``__qualname__`` attribute referring to
-the class they belong to. Patch by Batuhan Taskaya.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-13-02-02-18.bpo-39337.L3NXTt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-13-02-02-18.bpo-39337.L3NXTt.rst
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-:func:`encodings.normalize_encoding` now ignores non-ASCII characters.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-22-11-07-50.bpo-41831.k-Eop_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-22-11-07-50.bpo-41831.k-Eop_.rst
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-``str()`` for the ``type`` attribute of the ``tkinter.Event`` object always
-returns now the numeric code returned by Tk instead of the name of the event
-type.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-29-16-23-54.bpo-41876.QicdDU.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-29-16-23-54.bpo-41876.QicdDU.rst
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-Tkinter font class repr uses font name
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-30-11-05-11.bpo-23706.dHTGjF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-30-11-05-11.bpo-23706.dHTGjF.rst
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-Added *newline* parameter to ``pathlib.Path.write_text()``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-01-21-11-03.bpo-41905._JpjR4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-01-21-11-03.bpo-41905._JpjR4.rst
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-A new function in abc: *update_abstractmethods* to re-calculate an abstract class's abstract status. In addition, *dataclass* has been changed to call this function.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-03-23-14-50.bpo-41923.Buonw9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-03-23-14-50.bpo-41923.Buonw9.rst
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-Implement :pep:`613`, introducing :data:`typing.TypeAlias` annotation.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-07-18-36-03.bpo-41943.Pt55fT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-07-18-36-03.bpo-41943.Pt55fT.rst
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-Fix bug where TestCase.assertLogs doesn't correctly filter messages by level.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-08-18-22-28.bpo-41976.Svm0wb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-08-18-22-28.bpo-41976.Svm0wb.rst
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-Fixed a bug that was causing :func:`ctypes.util.find_library` to return
-``None`` when triying to locate a library in an environment when gcc>=9 is
-available and ``ldconfig`` is not. Patch by Pablo Galindo
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-11-21-43-03.bpo-39101.-I49Pm.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-11-21-43-03.bpo-39101.-I49Pm.rst
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-Fixed tests using IsolatedAsyncioTestCase from hanging on BaseExceptions.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-12-21-21-24.bpo-42021.8yv_8-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-12-21-21-24.bpo-42021.8yv_8-.rst
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-Fix possible ref leaks in :mod:`sqlite3` module init.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-15-17-20-37.bpo-42043.OS0p_v.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-15-17-20-37.bpo-42043.OS0p_v.rst
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-Add support for ``zipfile.Path`` inheritance. ``zipfile.Path.is_file()`` now
-returns False for non-existent names. ``zipfile.Path`` objects now expose a
-``.filename`` attribute and rely on that to resolve ``.name`` and
-``.parent`` when the ``Path`` object is at the root of the zipfile.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-16-07-45-35.bpo-35823.SNQo56.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-16-07-45-35.bpo-35823.SNQo56.rst
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-Use ``vfork()`` instead of ``fork()`` for :func:`subprocess.Popen` on Linux
-to improve performance in cases where it is deemed safe.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-16-16-08-04.bpo-28660.eX9pvD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-16-16-08-04.bpo-28660.eX9pvD.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-:func:`textwrap.wrap` now attempts to break long words after hyphens when ``break_long_words=True`` and ``break_on_hyphens=True``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-16-22-48-01.bpo-19270.jd_gkA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-16-22-48-01.bpo-19270.jd_gkA.rst
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-:meth:`sched.scheduler.cancel()` will now cancel the correct event, if two
-events with same priority are scheduled for the same time. Patch by Bar Harel.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-17-07-52-53.bpo-41966.gwEQRZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-17-07-52-53.bpo-41966.gwEQRZ.rst
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-Fix pickling pure Python :class:`datetime.time` subclasses. Patch by Dean
-Inwood.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-17-23-17-18.bpo-42065.85BsRA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-17-23-17-18.bpo-42065.85BsRA.rst
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-Fix an incorrectly formatted error from :meth:`_codecs.charmap_decode` when
-called with a mapped value outside the range of valid Unicode code points.
-PR by Max Bernstein.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-19-14-02-09.bpo-41491.d1BUWH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-19-14-02-09.bpo-41491.d1BUWH.rst
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-plistlib: fix parsing XML plists with hexadecimal integer values
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-19-16-53-19.bpo-42089.R1dthW.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-19-16-53-19.bpo-42089.R1dthW.rst
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-In ``importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError``, make reference to the
-package metadata being missing to improve the user experience.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-21-23-45-02.bpo-41052.3N7J2J.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-21-23-45-02.bpo-41052.3N7J2J.rst
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-Pickling heap types implemented in C with protocols 0 and 1 raises now an
-error instead of producing incorrect data.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-23-08-54-47.bpo-41490.-Yk6OD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-23-08-54-47.bpo-41490.-Yk6OD.rst
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-In ``importlib.resources``, ``.path`` method is more aggressive about
-releasing handles to zipfile objects early, enabling use-cases like certifi
-to leave the context open but delete the underlying zip file.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-23-19-20-14.bpo-42103.C5obK2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-23-19-20-14.bpo-42103.C5obK2.rst
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-:exc:`~plistlib.InvalidFileException` and :exc:`RecursionError` are now
-the only errors caused by loading malformed binary Plist file (previously
-ValueError and TypeError could be raised in some specific cases).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-25-19-25-02.bpo-42146.6A8uvS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-25-19-25-02.bpo-42146.6A8uvS.rst
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-Fix memory leak in :func:`subprocess.Popen` in case an uid (gid) specified in
-`user` (`group`, `extra_groups`) overflows `uid_t` (`gid_t`).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-26-19-08-07.bpo-42157.Bdpa04.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-26-19-08-07.bpo-42157.Bdpa04.rst
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-Convert the :mod:`unicodedata` extension module to the multiphase
-initialization API (:pep:`489`) and convert the ``unicodedata.UCD``
-static type to a heap type.
-Patch by Mohamed Koubaa and Victor Stinner.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-26-23-29-16.bpo-42157.4wuwTe.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-26-23-29-16.bpo-42157.4wuwTe.rst
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Removed the ``unicodedata.ucnhash_CAPI`` attribute which was an internal
-PyCapsule object. The related private ``_PyUnicode_Name_CAPI`` structure was
-moved to the internal C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-31-01-16-49.bpo-26789.9BdNAt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-31-01-16-49.bpo-26789.9BdNAt.rst
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-The :class:`logging.FileHandler` class now keeps a reference to the builtin
-:func:`open` function to be able to open or reopen the file during Python
-finalization. Fix errors like: ``NameError: name 'open' is not defined``. Patch
-by Victor Stinner.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-31-13-28-36.bpo-29566.6aDbty.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-31-13-28-36.bpo-29566.6aDbty.rst
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-``binhex.binhex()`` consisently writes macOS 9 line endings.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-02-01-31-15.bpo-42233.YxRj-h.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-02-01-31-15.bpo-42233.YxRj-h.rst
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-The :func:`repr` of :mod:`typing` types containing 
-:ref:`Generic Alias Types <types-genericalias>` previously did not show the 
-parameterized types in the ``GenericAlias``.  They have now been changed to do so.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-02-14-10-48.bpo-35455.Q1xTIo.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-02-14-10-48.bpo-35455.Q1xTIo.rst
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-On Solaris, :func:`~time.thread_time` is now implemented with
-``gethrvtime()`` because ``clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID)`` is not
-always available. Patch by Jakub Kulik.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2020-10-19-10-56-27.bpo-42051.EU_B7u.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2020-10-19-10-56-27.bpo-42051.EU_B7u.rst
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-The :mod:`plistlib` module no longer accepts entity declarations in XML
-plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. This should not affect users as
-entity declarations are not used in regular plist files.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2020-10-23-19-19-30.bpo-42103.cILT66.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2020-10-23-19-19-30.bpo-42103.cILT66.rst
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-Prevented potential DoS attack via CPU and RAM exhaustion when processing
-malformed Apple Property List files in binary format.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-08-03-13-44-37.bpo-41306.VDoWXI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-08-03-13-44-37.bpo-41306.VDoWXI.rst
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-Fixed a failure in ``test_tk.test_widgets.ScaleTest`` happening when executing the test with Tk 8.6.10.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-10-05-17-43-46.bpo-41944.rf1dYb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-10-05-17-43-46.bpo-41944.rf1dYb.rst
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-Tests for CJK codecs no longer call ``eval()`` on content received via HTTP.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-10-08-14-00-17.bpo-41970.aZ8QFf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-10-08-14-00-17.bpo-41970.aZ8QFf.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Avoid a test failure in ``test_lib2to3`` if the module has already imported
-at the time the test executes. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-10-12-00-11-47.bpo-41739.wSCc4K.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-10-12-00-11-47.bpo-41739.wSCc4K.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fix test_logging.test_race_between_set_target_and_flush(): the test now
-waits until all threads complete to avoid leaking running threads.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-05-30-02-46-43.bpo-38324.476M-5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-05-30-02-46-43.bpo-38324.476M-5.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-05-30-02-46-43.bpo-38324.476M-5.rst
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-Avoid Unicode errors when accessing certain locale data on Windows.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-08-26-09-35-06.bpo-41557.vt00cQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-08-26-09-35-06.bpo-41557.vt00cQ.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-08-26-09-35-06.bpo-41557.vt00cQ.rst
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-Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.33.0.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-09-24-23-09-40.bpo-39107.GbUZvD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-09-24-23-09-40.bpo-39107.GbUZvD.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-09-24-23-09-40.bpo-39107.GbUZvD.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Update Tcl and Tk to 8.6.10 in Windows installer.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-10-18-18-43-45.bpo-38252.7Nlepg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-10-18-18-43-45.bpo-38252.7Nlepg.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-10-18-18-43-45.bpo-38252.7Nlepg.rst
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-Use 8-byte step to detect ASCII sequence in 64-bit Windows build.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-10-20-13-19-42.bpo-38439.eMLi-t.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-10-20-13-19-42.bpo-38439.eMLi-t.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-10-20-13-19-42.bpo-38439.eMLi-t.rst
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-Updates the icons for IDLE in the Windows Store package.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-10-19-12-25-19.bpo-41471.gwA7un.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-10-19-12-25-19.bpo-41471.gwA7un.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-10-19-12-25-19.bpo-41471.gwA7un.rst
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-Ignore invalid prefix lengths in system proxy excludes.
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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--- a/README.rst
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-This is Python version 3.10.0 alpha 1
+This is Python version 3.10.0 alpha 2
 =====================================
 
 .. image:: https://travis-ci.com/python/cpython.svg?branch=master