diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index cea35de9493..87ab8ed17e5 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION        3
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION        7
 #define PY_MICRO_VERSION        0
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_ALPHA
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       4
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_BETA
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       1
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION              "3.7.0a4+"
+#define PY_VERSION              "3.7.0b1"
 /*--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 dc9591adc78..a979931e266 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 Jan  8 21:23:03 2018
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Tue Jan 30 18:36:07 2018
 topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
            '\n'
@@ -629,6 +629,18 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      'dictionary) is\n'
                      '  unaffected.\n'
                      '\n'
+                     'Changed in version 3.5: "__class__" module attribute is '
+                     'now writable.\n'
+                     '\n'
+                     'New in version 3.7: "__getattr__" and "__dir__" module '
+                     'attributes.\n'
+                     '\n'
+                     'See also:\n'
+                     '\n'
+                     '  **PEP 562** - Module __getattr__ and __dir__\n'
+                     '     Describes the "__getattr__" and "__dir__" functions '
+                     'on modules.\n'
+                     '\n'
                      '\n'
                      'Implementing Descriptors\n'
                      '========================\n'
@@ -2512,17 +2524,23 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
              'have\n'
              '"return" annotation of the form ""-> expression"" after the '
              'parameter\n'
-             'list.  These annotations can be any valid Python expression and '
-             'are\n'
-             'evaluated when the function definition is executed.  Annotations '
-             'may\n'
-             'be evaluated in a different order than they appear in the source '
-             'code.\n'
-             'The presence of annotations does not change the semantics of a\n'
-             'function.  The annotation values are available as values of a\n'
-             "dictionary keyed by the parameters' names in the "
-             '"__annotations__"\n'
-             'attribute of the function object.\n'
+             'list.  These annotations can be any valid Python expression.  '
+             'The\n'
+             'presence of annotations does not change the semantics of a '
+             'function.\n'
+             'The annotation values are available as values of a dictionary '
+             'keyed by\n'
+             'the parameters\' names in the "__annotations__" attribute of '
+             'the\n'
+             'function object.  If the "annotations" import from "__future__" '
+             'is\n'
+             'used, annotations are preserved as strings at runtime which '
+             'enables\n'
+             'postponed evaluation.  Otherwise, they are evaluated when the '
+             'function\n'
+             'definition is executed.  In this case annotations may be '
+             'evaluated in\n'
+             'a different order than they appear in the source code.\n'
              '\n'
              'It is also possible to create anonymous functions (functions not '
              'bound\n'
@@ -2554,6 +2572,21 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
              '  **PEP 3107** - Function Annotations\n'
              '     The original specification for function annotations.\n'
              '\n'
+             '  **PEP 484** - Type Hints\n'
+             '     Definition of a standard meaning for annotations: type '
+             'hints.\n'
+             '\n'
+             '  **PEP 526** - Syntax for Variable Annotations\n'
+             '     Ability to type hint variable declarations, including '
+             'class\n'
+             '     variables and instance variables\n'
+             '\n'
+             '  **PEP 563** - Postponed Evaluation of Annotations\n'
+             '     Support for forward references within annotations by '
+             'preserving\n'
+             '     annotations in a string form at runtime instead of eager\n'
+             '     evaluation.\n'
+             '\n'
              '\n'
              'Class definitions\n'
              '=================\n'
@@ -3748,33 +3781,30 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
              '      (com) end\n'
              '      (Pdb)\n'
              '\n'
-             '   To remove all commands from a breakpoint, type commands and '
-             'follow\n'
-             '   it immediately with "end"; that is, give no commands.\n'
+             '   To remove all commands from a breakpoint, type "commands" '
+             'and\n'
+             '   follow it immediately with "end"; that is, give no commands.\n'
              '\n'
-             '   With no *bpnumber* argument, commands refers to the last '
-             'breakpoint\n'
-             '   set.\n'
+             '   With no *bpnumber* argument, "commands" refers to the last\n'
+             '   breakpoint set.\n'
              '\n'
              '   You can use breakpoint commands to start your program up '
              'again.\n'
-             '   Simply use the continue command, or step, or any other '
-             'command that\n'
-             '   resumes execution.\n'
+             '   Simply use the "continue" command, or "step", or any other '
+             'command\n'
+             '   that resumes execution.\n'
              '\n'
              '   Specifying any command resuming execution (currently '
-             'continue,\n'
-             '   step, next, return, jump, quit and their abbreviations) '
-             'terminates\n'
-             '   the command list (as if that command was immediately followed '
-             'by\n'
-             '   end). This is because any time you resume execution (even '
-             'with a\n'
-             '   simple next or step), you may encounter another '
-             'breakpoint—which\n'
-             '   could have its own command list, leading to ambiguities about '
-             'which\n'
-             '   list to execute.\n'
+             '"continue",\n'
+             '   "step", "next", "return", "jump", "quit" and their '
+             'abbreviations)\n'
+             '   terminates the command "list" (as if that command was '
+             'immediately\n'
+             '   followed by end). This is because any time you resume '
+             'execution\n'
+             '   (even with a simple next or step), you may encounter another\n'
+             '   breakpoint—which could have its own command list, leading to\n'
+             '   ambiguities about which list to execute.\n'
              '\n'
              "   If you use the 'silent' command in the command list, the "
              'usual\n'
@@ -5506,17 +5536,23 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
              'have\n'
              '"return" annotation of the form ""-> expression"" after the '
              'parameter\n'
-             'list.  These annotations can be any valid Python expression and '
-             'are\n'
-             'evaluated when the function definition is executed.  Annotations '
-             'may\n'
-             'be evaluated in a different order than they appear in the source '
-             'code.\n'
-             'The presence of annotations does not change the semantics of a\n'
-             'function.  The annotation values are available as values of a\n'
-             "dictionary keyed by the parameters' names in the "
-             '"__annotations__"\n'
-             'attribute of the function object.\n'
+             'list.  These annotations can be any valid Python expression.  '
+             'The\n'
+             'presence of annotations does not change the semantics of a '
+             'function.\n'
+             'The annotation values are available as values of a dictionary '
+             'keyed by\n'
+             'the parameters\' names in the "__annotations__" attribute of '
+             'the\n'
+             'function object.  If the "annotations" import from "__future__" '
+             'is\n'
+             'used, annotations are preserved as strings at runtime which '
+             'enables\n'
+             'postponed evaluation.  Otherwise, they are evaluated when the '
+             'function\n'
+             'definition is executed.  In this case annotations may be '
+             'evaluated in\n'
+             'a different order than they appear in the source code.\n'
              '\n'
              'It is also possible to create anonymous functions (functions not '
              'bound\n'
@@ -5546,7 +5582,22 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
              'See also:\n'
              '\n'
              '  **PEP 3107** - Function Annotations\n'
-             '     The original specification for function annotations.\n',
+             '     The original specification for function annotations.\n'
+             '\n'
+             '  **PEP 484** - Type Hints\n'
+             '     Definition of a standard meaning for annotations: type '
+             'hints.\n'
+             '\n'
+             '  **PEP 526** - Syntax for Variable Annotations\n'
+             '     Ability to type hint variable declarations, including '
+             'class\n'
+             '     variables and instance variables\n'
+             '\n'
+             '  **PEP 563** - Postponed Evaluation of Annotations\n'
+             '     Support for forward references within annotations by '
+             'preserving\n'
+             '     annotations in a string form at runtime instead of eager\n'
+             '     evaluation.\n',
  'global': 'The "global" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
            '\n'
@@ -6019,11 +6070,16 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '\n'
            '* other future statements.\n'
            '\n'
-           'The features recognized by Python 3.0 are "absolute_import",\n'
-           '"division", "generators", "unicode_literals", "print_function",\n'
-           '"nested_scopes" and "with_statement".  They are all redundant '
-           'because\n'
-           'they are always enabled, and only kept for backwards '
+           'The only feature in Python 3.7 that requires using the future\n'
+           'statement is "annotations".\n'
+           '\n'
+           'All historical features enabled by the future statement are still\n'
+           'recognized by Python 3.  The list includes "absolute_import",\n'
+           '"division", "generators", "generator_stop", "unicode_literals",\n'
+           '"print_function", "nested_scopes" and "with_statement".  They are '
+           'all\n'
+           'redundant because they are always enabled, and only kept for '
+           'backwards\n'
            'compatibility.\n'
            '\n'
            'A future statement is recognized and treated specially at compile\n'
@@ -8146,6 +8202,18 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'dictionary) is\n'
                  '  unaffected.\n'
                  '\n'
+                 'Changed in version 3.5: "__class__" module attribute is now '
+                 'writable.\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 'New in version 3.7: "__getattr__" and "__dir__" module '
+                 'attributes.\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 'See also:\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '  **PEP 562** - Module __getattr__ and __dir__\n'
+                 '     Describes the "__getattr__" and "__dir__" functions on '
+                 'modules.\n'
+                 '\n'
                  '\n'
                  'Implementing Descriptors\n'
                  '------------------------\n'
@@ -9547,6 +9615,27 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                    '   formatting options that can be specified in format '
                    'strings.\n'
                    '\n'
+                   '   Note: When formatting a number ("int", "float", "float" '
+                   'and\n'
+                   '     subclasses) with the "n" type (ex: '
+                   '"\'{:n}\'.format(1234)"), the\n'
+                   '     function sets temporarily the "LC_CTYPE" locale to '
+                   'the\n'
+                   '     "LC_NUMERIC" locale to decode "decimal_point" and '
+                   '"thousands_sep"\n'
+                   '     fields of "localeconv()" if they are non-ASCII or '
+                   'longer than 1\n'
+                   '     byte, and the "LC_NUMERIC" locale is different than '
+                   'the\n'
+                   '     "LC_CTYPE" locale. This temporary change affects '
+                   'other threads.\n'
+                   '\n'
+                   '   Changed in version 3.7: When formatting a number with '
+                   'the "n" type,\n'
+                   '   the function sets temporarily the "LC_CTYPE" locale to '
+                   'the\n'
+                   '   "LC_NUMERIC" locale in some cases.\n'
+                   '\n'
                    'str.format_map(mapping)\n'
                    '\n'
                    '   Similar to "str.format(**mapping)", except that '
@@ -9598,6 +9687,16 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                    'Unicode\n'
                    '   Standard.\n'
                    '\n'
+                   'str.isascii()\n'
+                   '\n'
+                   '   Return true if the string is empty or all characters in '
+                   'the string\n'
+                   '   are ASCII, false otherwise. ASCII characters have code '
+                   'points in\n'
+                   '   the range U+0000-U+007F.\n'
+                   '\n'
+                   '   New in version 3.7.\n'
+                   '\n'
                    'str.isdecimal()\n'
                    '\n'
                    '   Return true if all characters in the string are decimal '
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0b1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0b1.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4f7bfee85cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0b1.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,888 @@
+.. bpo: 32703
+.. date: 2018-01-29-01-15-17
+.. nonce: mwrF4-
+.. release date: 2018-01-30
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix coroutine's ResourceWarning when there's an active error set when it's
+being finalized.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32650
+.. date: 2018-01-28-23-01-39
+.. nonce: Bbi7ek
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Pdb and other debuggers dependent on bdb.py will correctly step over (next
+command) native coroutines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28685
+.. date: 2018-01-28-15-09-33
+.. nonce: cHThLM
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Optimize list.sort() and sorted() by using type specialized comparisons when
+possible.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32685
+.. date: 2018-01-28-12-25-06
+.. nonce: nGctze
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Improve suggestion when the Python 2 form of print statement is either
+present on the same line as the header of a compound statement or else
+terminated by a semi-colon instead of a newline. Patch by Nitish Chandra.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32697
+.. date: 2018-01-28-09-52-12
+.. nonce: RHlu6k
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Python now explicitly preserves the definition order of keyword-only
+parameters.  It's always preserved their order, but this behavior was never
+guaranteed before; this behavior is now guaranteed and tested.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32690
+.. date: 2018-01-28-09-26-07
+.. nonce: 8i9g5P
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The locals() dictionary now displays in the lexical order that variables
+were defined.  Previously, the order was reversed.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32677
+.. date: 2018-01-26-20-11-09
+.. nonce: xTGfCq
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Add ``.isascii()`` method to ``str``, ``bytes`` and ``bytearray``. It can be
+used to test that string contains only ASCII characters.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32670
+.. date: 2018-01-25-17-03-46
+.. nonce: YsqJUC
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Enforce :pep:`479` for all code.
+
+This means that manually raising a StopIteration exception from a generator
+is prohibited for all code, regardless of whether 'from __future__ import
+generator_stop' was used or not.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32591
+.. date: 2018-01-20-00-50-33
+.. nonce: 666kl6
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Added built-in support for tracking the origin of coroutine objects; see
+sys.set_coroutine_origin_tracking_depth and CoroutineType.cr_origin. This
+replaces the asyncio debug mode's use of coroutine wrapping for native
+coroutine objects.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31368
+.. date: 2018-01-19-01-54-22
+.. nonce: kzKqUR
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Expose preadv and pwritev system calls in the os module. Patch by Pablo
+Galindo
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32544
+.. date: 2018-01-16-18-51-58
+.. nonce: ga-cFE
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+``hasattr(obj, name)`` and ``getattr(obj, name, default)`` are about 4 times
+faster than before when ``name`` is not found and ``obj`` doesn't override
+``__getattr__`` or ``__getattribute__``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 26163
+.. date: 2018-01-14-20-32-47
+.. nonce: xv9Iuv
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Improved frozenset() hash to create more distinct hash values when faced
+with datasets containing many similar values.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32550
+.. date: 2018-01-14-12-42-17
+.. nonce: k0EK-4
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Remove the STORE_ANNOTATION bytecode.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 20104
+.. date: 2018-01-06-01-14-53
+.. nonce: 9DkKb8
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Expose posix_spawn as a low level API in the os module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 24340
+.. date: 2018-01-01-21-59-31
+.. nonce: hmKBvg
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed estimation of the code stack size.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32436
+.. date: 2017-12-28-00-20-42
+.. nonce: H159Jv
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Implement :pep:`567` Context Variables.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 18533
+.. date: 2017-12-13-16-46-23
+.. nonce: Dlk8d7
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+``repr()`` on a dict containing its own ``values()`` or ``items()`` no
+longer raises ``RecursionError``; OrderedDict similarly.  Instead, use
+``...``, as for other recursive structures.  Patch by Ben North.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 20891
+.. date: 2017-12-04-18-34-11
+.. nonce: C2TsfR
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Py_Initialize() now creates the GIL. The GIL is no longer created "on
+demand" to fix a race condition when PyGILState_Ensure() is called in a non-
+Python thread.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32028
+.. date: 2017-12-03-22-29-13
+.. nonce: KC2w4Q
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Leading whitespace is now correctly ignored when generating suggestions for
+converting Py2 print statements to Py3 builtin print function calls. Patch
+by Sanyam Khurana.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31356
+.. date: 2017-11-02-00-34-42
+.. nonce: 54Lb8U
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Add a new contextmanager to the gc module that temporarily disables the GC
+and restores the previous state. The implementation is done in C to assure
+atomicity and speed.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31179
+.. date: 2017-08-10-17-32-48
+.. nonce: XcgLYI
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Make dict.copy() up to 5.5 times faster.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31113
+.. date: 2017-08-07-16-46-56
+.. nonce: XgNEFg
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Get rid of recursion in the compiler for normal control flow.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 25988
+.. date: 2018-01-28-23-48-45
+.. nonce: I9uBct
+.. section: Library
+
+Deprecate exposing the contents of collections.abc in the regular
+collections module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31429
+.. date: 2018-01-28-22-40-05
+.. nonce: qNt8rQ
+.. section: Library
+
+The default cipher suite selection of the ssl module now uses a blacklist
+approach rather than a hard-coded whitelist. Python no longer re-enables
+ciphers that have been blocked by OpenSSL security update. Default cipher
+suite selection can be configured on compile time.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 30306
+.. date: 2018-01-28-14-10-51
+.. nonce: TmKMXi
+.. section: Library
+
+contextlib.contextmanager now releases the arguments passed to the
+underlying generator as soon as the context manager is entered. Previously
+it would keep them alive for as long as the context manager was alive, even
+when not being used as a function decorator. Patch by Martin Teichmann.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 21417
+.. date: 2018-01-28-07-55-10
+.. nonce: JFnV99
+.. section: Library
+
+Added support for setting the compression level for zipfile.ZipFile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32251
+.. date: 2018-01-28-01-21-47
+.. nonce: fOA5qB
+.. section: Library
+
+Implement asyncio.BufferedProtocol (provisional API).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32513
+.. date: 2018-01-27-11-20-16
+.. nonce: ak-iD2
+.. section: Library
+
+In dataclasses, allow easier overriding of dunder methods without specifying
+decorator parameters.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32660
+.. date: 2018-01-26-01-26-00
+.. nonce: tVJIWV
+.. section: Library
+
+:mod:`termios` makes available ``FIONREAD``, ``FIONCLEX``, ``FIOCLEX``,
+``FIOASYNC`` and ``FIONBIO`` also under Solaris/derivatives.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 27931
+.. date: 2018-01-25-21-04-11
+.. nonce: e4r52t
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix email address header parsing error when the username is an empty quoted
+string. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32659
+.. date: 2018-01-25-03-46-00
+.. nonce: VHYoON
+.. section: Library
+
+Under Solaris and derivatives, :class:`os.stat_result` provides a st_fstype
+attribute.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32662
+.. date: 2018-01-25-01-45-30
+.. nonce: oabhd8
+.. section: Library
+
+Implement Server.start_serving(), Server.serve_forever(), and
+Server.is_serving() methods.  Add 'start_serving' keyword parameter to
+loop.create_server() and loop.create_unix_server().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32391
+.. date: 2018-01-24-15-20-12
+.. nonce: 0f8MY9
+.. section: Library
+
+Implement :meth:`asyncio.StreamWriter.wait_closed` and
+:meth:`asyncio.StreamWriter.is_closing` methods
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32643
+.. date: 2018-01-24-00-32-58
+.. nonce: VWipsW
+.. section: Library
+
+Make Task._step, Task._wakeup and Future._schedule_callbacks methods
+private.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32630
+.. date: 2018-01-23-01-57-36
+.. nonce: 6KRHBs
+.. section: Library
+
+Refactor decimal module to use contextvars to store decimal context.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32622
+.. date: 2018-01-22-18-18-44
+.. nonce: A1D6FP
+.. section: Library
+
+Add :meth:`asyncio.AbstractEventLoop.sendfile` method.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32304
+.. date: 2018-01-21-16-33-53
+.. nonce: TItrNv
+.. section: Library
+
+distutils' upload command no longer corrupts tar files ending with a CR
+byte, and no longer tries to convert CR to CRLF in any of the upload text
+fields.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32502
+.. date: 2018-01-20-17-15-34
+.. nonce: OXJfn7
+.. section: Library
+
+uuid.uuid1 no longer raises an exception if a 64-bit hardware address is
+encountered.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32596
+.. date: 2018-01-19-19-57-45
+.. nonce: 4aVIie
+.. section: Library
+
+``concurrent.futures`` imports ``ThreadPoolExecutor`` and
+``ProcessPoolExecutor`` lazily (using :pep:`562`). It makes ``import
+asyncio`` about 15% faster because asyncio uses only ``ThreadPoolExecutor``
+by default.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31801
+.. date: 2018-01-18-13-47-40
+.. nonce: 3UGH1h
+.. section: Library
+
+Add ``_ignore_`` to ``Enum`` so temporary variables can be used during class
+construction without being turned into members.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32576
+.. date: 2018-01-17-13-04-16
+.. nonce: iDL09t
+.. section: Library
+
+Use queue.SimpleQueue() in places where it can be invoked from a weakref
+callback.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32574
+.. date: 2018-01-16-20-37-28
+.. nonce: ru8eZ9
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix memory leak in asyncio.Queue, when the queue has limited size and it is
+full, the cancelation of queue.put() can cause a memory leak. Patch by: José
+Melero.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32521
+.. date: 2018-01-15-12-53-13
+.. nonce: IxX4Ba
+.. section: Library
+
+The nis module is now compatible with new libnsl and headers location.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32467
+.. date: 2018-01-11-00-33-42
+.. nonce: YVEOv6
+.. section: Library
+
+collections.abc.ValuesView now inherits from collections.abc.Collection.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32473
+.. date: 2018-01-10-20-37-59
+.. nonce: mP_yJG
+.. section: Library
+
+Improve ABCMeta._dump_registry() output readability
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32102
+.. date: 2018-01-10-18-04-21
+.. nonce: 9-CZgD
+.. section: Library
+
+New argument ``capture_output`` for subprocess.run
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32521
+.. date: 2018-01-08-18-02-33
+.. nonce: Kh-KoN
+.. section: Library
+
+glibc has removed Sun RPC. Use replacement libtirpc headers and library in
+nis module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32493
+.. date: 2018-01-08-15-53-37
+.. nonce: vTXxGN
+.. section: Library
+
+UUID module fixes build for FreeBSD/OpenBSD
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32503
+.. date: 2018-01-07-09-22-26
+.. nonce: ViMxpD
+.. section: Library
+
+Pickling with protocol 4 no longer creates too small frames.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29237
+.. date: 2018-01-04-14-45-33
+.. nonce: zenYA6
+.. section: Library
+
+Create enum for pstats sorting options
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32454
+.. date: 2017-12-30-10-38-05
+.. nonce: wsZnl-
+.. section: Library
+
+Add close(fd) function to the socket module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 25942
+.. date: 2017-12-27-20-15-51
+.. nonce: Giyr8v
+.. section: Library
+
+The subprocess module is now more graceful when handling a Ctrl-C
+KeyboardInterrupt during subprocess.call, subprocess.run, or a Popen context
+manager.  It now waits a short amount of time for the child (presumed to
+have also gotten the SIGINT) to exit, before continuing the
+KeyboardInterrupt exception handling.  This still includes a SIGKILL in the
+call() and run() APIs, but at least the child had a chance first.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32433
+.. date: 2017-12-27-20-09-27
+.. nonce: vmxsVI
+.. section: Library
+
+The hmac module now has hmac.digest(), which provides an optimized HMAC
+digest.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28134
+.. date: 2017-12-24-20-01-09
+.. nonce: HJ8Beb
+.. section: Library
+
+Sockets now auto-detect family, type and protocol from file descriptor by
+default.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32404
+.. date: 2017-12-23-14-54-05
+.. nonce: yJqtlJ
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix bug where :meth:`datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp` did not call __new__
+in :class:`datetime.datetime` subclasses.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32403
+.. date: 2017-12-23-14-51-46
+.. nonce: CVFapH
+.. section: Library
+
+Improved speed of :class:`datetime.date` and :class:`datetime.datetime`
+alternate constructors.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32228
+.. date: 2017-12-22-16-47-41
+.. nonce: waPx3q
+.. section: Library
+
+Ensure that ``truncate()`` preserves the file position (as reported by
+``tell()``) after writes longer than the buffer size.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32410
+.. date: 2017-12-22-16-05-01
+.. nonce: 8JzhvH
+.. section: Library
+
+Implement ``loop.sock_sendfile`` for asyncio event loop.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 22908
+.. date: 2017-12-21-22-00-11
+.. nonce: cVm89I
+.. section: Library
+
+Added seek and tell to the ZipExtFile class. This only works if the file
+object used to open the zipfile is seekable.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32373
+.. date: 2017-12-19-09-23-46
+.. nonce: 8qAkoW
+.. section: Library
+
+Add socket.getblocking() method.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32248
+.. date: 2017-12-15-15-34-12
+.. nonce: zmO8G2
+.. section: Library
+
+Add :mod:`importlib.resources` and :class:`importlib.abc.ResourceReader` as
+the unified API for reading resources contained within packages.  Loaders
+wishing to support resource reading must implement the
+:meth:`get_resource_reader()` method.  File-based and zipimport-based
+loaders both implement these APIs.  :class:`importlib.abc.ResourceLoader` is
+deprecated in favor of these new APIs.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32320
+.. date: 2017-12-14-01-36-25
+.. nonce: jwOZlr
+.. section: Library
+
+collections.namedtuple() now supports default values.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29302
+.. date: 2017-12-11-15-14-55
+.. nonce: Nczj9l
+.. section: Library
+
+Add contextlib.AsyncExitStack. Patch by Alexander Mohr and Ilya Kulakov.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31961
+.. date: 2017-11-08-03-38-20
+.. nonce: x5Sv0R
+.. section: Library
+
+The *args* argument of subprocess.Popen can now be a :term:`path-like
+object`. If *args* is given as a sequence, it's first element can now be a
+:term:`path-like object` as well.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31900
+.. date: 2017-10-30-15-55-32
+.. nonce: -S9xc4
+.. section: Library
+
+The :func:`locale.localeconv` function now sets temporarily the ``LC_CTYPE``
+locale to the ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale to decode ``decimal_point`` and
+``thousands_sep`` byte strings if they are non-ASCII or longer than 1 byte,
+and the ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale is different than the ``LC_CTYPE`` locale.
+This temporary change affects other threads.
+
+Same change for the :meth:`str.format` method when formatting a number
+(:class:`int`, :class:`float`, :class:`float` and subclasses) with the ``n``
+type (ex: ``'{:n}'.format(1234)``).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31853
+.. date: 2017-10-23-22-55-51
+.. nonce: h5fjrP
+.. section: Library
+
+Use super().method instead of socket.method in SSLSocket.  They were there
+most likely for legacy reasons.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31399
+.. date: 2017-09-08-14-05-33
+.. nonce: FtBrrt
+.. section: Library
+
+The ssl module now uses OpenSSL's X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_host() and
+X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_ip() API to verify hostname and IP addresses. Subject
+common name fallback can be disabled with
+SSLContext.hostname_checks_common_name.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 14976
+.. date: 2017-09-07-19-12-47
+.. nonce: dx0Zxb
+.. section: Library
+
+Add a queue.SimpleQueue class, an unbounded FIFO queue with a reentrant C
+implementation of put().
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32724
+.. date: 2018-01-30-09-00-19
+.. nonce: qPIaM-
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Add references to some commands in the documentation of Pdb. Patch by
+Stéphane Wirtel
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32649
+.. date: 2018-01-27-23-36-31
+.. nonce: o7qOjF
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Complete the C API documentation, profiling and tracing part with the newly
+added per-opcode events.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 17799
+.. date: 2018-01-22-21-13-46
+.. nonce: rdZ-Vk
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Explain real behaviour of sys.settrace and sys.setprofile and their C-API
+counterparts regarding which type of events are received in each function.
+Patch by Pablo Galindo Salgado.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32721
+.. date: 2018-01-29-21-30-44
+.. nonce: 2Bebm1
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix test_hashlib to not fail if the _md5 module is not built.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28414
+.. date: 2018-01-28-21-19-13
+.. nonce: a6Onzt
+.. section: Tests
+
+Add test cases for IDNA 2003 and 2008 host names. IDNA 2003
+internationalized host names are working since bpo-31399 has landed. IDNA
+2008 are still broken.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32604
+.. date: 2018-01-26-21-29-09
+.. nonce: 7iazNx
+.. section: Tests
+
+Add a new "_xxsubinterpreters" extension module that exposes the existing
+subinterpreter C-API and a new cross-interpreter data sharing mechanism. The
+module is primarily intended for more thorough testing of the existing
+subinterpreter support.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32602
+.. date: 2018-01-19-20-47-11
+.. nonce: dz41pq
+.. section: Tests
+
+Add test certs and test for ECDSA cert and EC/RSA dual mode.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32549
+.. date: 2018-01-14-11-40-22
+.. nonce: fLwbVA
+.. section: Tests
+
+On Travis CI, Python now Compiles and uses a local copy of OpenSSL 1.1.0g
+for testing.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32635
+.. date: 2018-01-23-15-33-40
+.. nonce: qHwIZy
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix segfault of the crypt module when libxcrypt is provided instead of
+libcrypt at the system.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32598
+.. date: 2018-01-19-14-50-19
+.. nonce: hP7bMV
+.. section: Build
+
+Use autoconf to detect OpenSSL libs, headers and supported features. The
+ax_check_openssl M4 macro uses pkg-config to locate OpenSSL and falls back
+to manual search.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32593
+.. date: 2018-01-18-11-10-52
+.. nonce: XIrf3v
+.. section: Build
+
+Drop support of FreeBSD 9 and older.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29708
+.. date: 2018-01-16-08-32-49
+.. nonce: YCaHEx
+.. section: Build
+
+If the :envvar:`SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` environment variable is set,
+:mod:`py_compile` will always create hash-based ``.pyc`` files.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32588
+.. date: 2018-01-18-14-56-45
+.. nonce: vHww6F
+.. section: Windows
+
+Create standalone _distutils_findvs module and add missing _queue module to
+installer.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29911
+.. date: 2018-01-07-12-33-21
+.. nonce: ewSJKb
+.. section: Windows
+
+Ensure separate Modify and Uninstall buttons are displayed.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32507
+.. date: 2018-01-07-12-32-49
+.. nonce: vB4gxk
+.. section: Windows
+
+Use app-local UCRT install rather than the proper update for old versions of
+Windows.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32726
+.. date: 2018-01-30-07-13-10
+.. nonce: tcARLK
+.. section: macOS
+
+Provide an additional, more modern macOS installer variant that supports
+macOS 10.9+ systems in 64-bit mode only.  Upgrade the supplied third-party
+libraries to OpenSSL 1.1.0g and to SQLite 3.22.0.  The 10.9+ installer now
+links with and supplies its own copy of Tcl/Tk 8.6.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28440
+.. date: 2018-01-30-04-40-12
+.. nonce: W_BUWU
+.. section: macOS
+
+No longer add /Library/Python/3.x/site-packages to sys.path for macOS
+framework builds to avoid future conflicts.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32681
+.. date: 2018-01-26-17-29-29
+.. nonce: N1ruWa
+.. section: C API
+
+Fix uninitialized variable 'res' in the C implementation of os.dup2. Patch
+by Stéphane Wirtel
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 10381
+.. date: 2017-12-28-15-22-05
+.. nonce: a1E6aF
+.. section: C API
+
+Add C API access to the ``datetime.timezone`` constructor and
+``datetime.timzone.UTC`` singleton.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-16-08-32-49.bpo-29708.YCaHEx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-16-08-32-49.bpo-29708.YCaHEx.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-16-08-32-49.bpo-29708.YCaHEx.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-If the :envvar:`SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH` environment variable is set,
-:mod:`py_compile` will always create hash-based ``.pyc`` files.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-18-11-10-52.bpo-32593.XIrf3v.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-18-11-10-52.bpo-32593.XIrf3v.rst
deleted file mode 100644
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-18-11-10-52.bpo-32593.XIrf3v.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Drop support of FreeBSD 9 and older.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-19-14-50-19.bpo-32598.hP7bMV.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-19-14-50-19.bpo-32598.hP7bMV.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-19-14-50-19.bpo-32598.hP7bMV.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Use autoconf to detect OpenSSL libs, headers and supported features. The
-ax_check_openssl M4 macro uses pkg-config to locate OpenSSL and falls back
-to manual search.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-23-15-33-40.bpo-32635.qHwIZy.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-23-15-33-40.bpo-32635.qHwIZy.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-23-15-33-40.bpo-32635.qHwIZy.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix segfault of the crypt module when libxcrypt is provided instead of
-libcrypt at the system.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2017-12-28-15-22-05.bpo-10381.a1E6aF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2017-12-28-15-22-05.bpo-10381.a1E6aF.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2017-12-28-15-22-05.bpo-10381.a1E6aF.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Add C API access to the ``datetime.timezone`` constructor and
-``datetime.timzone.UTC`` singleton.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-01-26-17-29-29.bpo-32681.N1ruWa.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-01-26-17-29-29.bpo-32681.N1ruWa.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-01-26-17-29-29.bpo-32681.N1ruWa.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix uninitialized variable 'res' in the C implementation of os.dup2. Patch
-by Stéphane Wirtel
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-08-07-16-46-56.bpo-31113.XgNEFg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-08-07-16-46-56.bpo-31113.XgNEFg.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-08-07-16-46-56.bpo-31113.XgNEFg.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Get rid of recursion in the compiler for normal control flow.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-08-10-17-32-48.bpo-31179.XcgLYI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-08-10-17-32-48.bpo-31179.XcgLYI.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-08-10-17-32-48.bpo-31179.XcgLYI.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Make dict.copy() up to 5.5 times faster.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-11-02-00-34-42.bpo-31356.54Lb8U.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-11-02-00-34-42.bpo-31356.54Lb8U.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-11-02-00-34-42.bpo-31356.54Lb8U.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Add a new contextmanager to the gc module that temporarily disables the GC
-and restores the previous state. The implementation is done in C to assure
-atomicity and speed.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-03-22-29-13.bpo-32028.KC2w4Q.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-03-22-29-13.bpo-32028.KC2w4Q.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-03-22-29-13.bpo-32028.KC2w4Q.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Leading whitespace is now correctly ignored when generating suggestions
-for converting Py2 print statements to Py3 builtin print function calls.
-Patch by Sanyam Khurana.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-04-18-34-11.bpo-20891.C2TsfR.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-04-18-34-11.bpo-20891.C2TsfR.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-04-18-34-11.bpo-20891.C2TsfR.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Py_Initialize() now creates the GIL. The GIL is no longer created "on demand"
-to fix a race condition when PyGILState_Ensure() is called in a non-Python
-thread.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-13-16-46-23.bpo-18533.Dlk8d7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-13-16-46-23.bpo-18533.Dlk8d7.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-13-16-46-23.bpo-18533.Dlk8d7.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-``repr()`` on a dict containing its own ``values()`` or ``items()`` no
-longer raises ``RecursionError``; OrderedDict similarly.  Instead, use
-``...``, as for other recursive structures.  Patch by Ben North.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-28-00-20-42.bpo-32436.H159Jv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-28-00-20-42.bpo-32436.H159Jv.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-28-00-20-42.bpo-32436.H159Jv.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Implement PEP 567
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-01-21-59-31.bpo-24340.hmKBvg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-01-21-59-31.bpo-24340.hmKBvg.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-01-21-59-31.bpo-24340.hmKBvg.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fixed estimation of the code stack size.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-06-01-14-53.bpo-20104.9DkKb8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-06-01-14-53.bpo-20104.9DkKb8.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-06-01-14-53.bpo-20104.9DkKb8.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Expose posix_spawn as a low level API in the os module.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-14-12-42-17.bpo-32550.k0EK-4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-14-12-42-17.bpo-32550.k0EK-4.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-14-12-42-17.bpo-32550.k0EK-4.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Remove the STORE_ANNOTATION bytecode.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-14-20-32-47.bpo-26163.xv9Iuv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-14-20-32-47.bpo-26163.xv9Iuv.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-14-20-32-47.bpo-26163.xv9Iuv.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Improved frozenset() hash to create more distinct hash values when faced
-with datasets containing many similar values.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-16-18-51-58.bpo-32544.ga-cFE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-16-18-51-58.bpo-32544.ga-cFE.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-16-18-51-58.bpo-32544.ga-cFE.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-``hasattr(obj, name)`` and ``getattr(obj, name, default)`` are about 4 times
-faster than before when ``name`` is not found and ``obj`` doesn't override
-``__getattr__`` or ``__getattribute__``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-19-01-54-22.bpo-31368.kzKqUR.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-19-01-54-22.bpo-31368.kzKqUR.rst
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-Expose preadv and pwritev system calls in the os module. Patch by Pablo Galindo
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-20-00-50-33.bpo-32591.666kl6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-20-00-50-33.bpo-32591.666kl6.rst
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-Added built-in support for tracking the origin of coroutine objects; see
-sys.set_coroutine_origin_tracking_depth and CoroutineType.cr_origin. This
-replaces the asyncio debug mode's use of coroutine wrapping for native
-coroutine objects.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-25-17-03-46.bpo-32670.YsqJUC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-25-17-03-46.bpo-32670.YsqJUC.rst
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-Enforce PEP 479 for all code.
-
-This means that manually raising a StopIteration exception from a generator
-is prohibited for all code, regardless of whether 'from __future__ import
-generator_stop' was used or not.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-26-20-11-09.bpo-32677.xTGfCq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-26-20-11-09.bpo-32677.xTGfCq.rst
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-Add ``.isascii()`` method to ``str``, ``bytes`` and ``bytearray``.
-It can be used to test that string contains only ASCII characters.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-28-09-26-07.bpo-32690.8i9g5P.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-28-09-26-07.bpo-32690.8i9g5P.rst
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-The locals() dictionary now displays in the lexical order that variables
-were defined.  Previously, the order was reversed.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-28-09-52-12.bpo-32697.RHlu6k.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-28-09-52-12.bpo-32697.RHlu6k.rst
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-Python now explicitly preserves the definition order of keyword-only
-parameters.  It's always preserved their order, but this behavior was never
-guaranteed before; this behavior is now guaranteed and tested.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-28-12-25-06.bpo-32685.nGctze.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-28-12-25-06.bpo-32685.nGctze.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Improve suggestion when the Python 2 form of print statement is either
-present on the same line as the header of a compound statement or else
-terminated by a semi-colon instead of a newline. Patch by Nitish Chandra.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-28-15-09-33.bpo-28685.cHThLM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-28-15-09-33.bpo-28685.cHThLM.rst
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-Optimize list.sort() and sorted() by using type specialized comparisons when
-possible.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-28-23-01-39.bpo-32650.Bbi7ek.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-28-23-01-39.bpo-32650.Bbi7ek.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Pdb and other debuggers dependent on bdb.py will correctly step over (next
-command) native coroutines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-29-01-15-17.bpo-32703.mwrF4-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-01-29-01-15-17.bpo-32703.mwrF4-.rst
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-Fix coroutine's ResourceWarning when there's an active error set when it's
-being finalized.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-01-22-21-13-46.bpo-17799.rdZ-Vk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-01-22-21-13-46.bpo-17799.rdZ-Vk.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Explain real behaviour of sys.settrace and sys.setprofile and their C-API counterparts
-regarding which type of events are received in each function. Patch by Pablo Galindo Salgado.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-01-27-23-36-31.bpo-32649.o7qOjF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-01-27-23-36-31.bpo-32649.o7qOjF.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Complete the C API documentation, profiling and tracing part with the newly
-added per-opcode events.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-01-30-09-00-19.bpo-32724.qPIaM-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-01-30-09-00-19.bpo-32724.qPIaM-.rst
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-Add references to some commands in the documentation of Pdb. Patch by
-Stéphane Wirtel
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-07-19-12-47.bpo-14976.dx0Zxb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-07-19-12-47.bpo-14976.dx0Zxb.rst
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-Add a queue.SimpleQueue class, an unbounded FIFO queue with a reentrant C
-implementation of put().
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-08-14-05-33.bpo-31399.FtBrrt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-08-14-05-33.bpo-31399.FtBrrt.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-The ssl module now uses OpenSSL's X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_host() and
-X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_ip() API to verify hostname and IP addresses. Subject
-common name fallback can be disabled with
-SSLContext.hostname_checks_common_name.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-23-22-55-51.bpo-31853.h5fjrP.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-23-22-55-51.bpo-31853.h5fjrP.rst
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-Use super().method instead of socket.method in SSLSocket.  They were
-there most likely for legacy reasons.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-30-15-55-32.bpo-31900.-S9xc4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-30-15-55-32.bpo-31900.-S9xc4.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-The :func:`locale.localeconv` function now sets temporarily the ``LC_CTYPE``
-locale to the ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale to decode ``decimal_point`` and
-``thousands_sep`` byte strings if they are non-ASCII or longer than 1 byte, and
-the ``LC_NUMERIC`` locale is different than the ``LC_CTYPE`` locale.  This
-temporary change affects other threads.
-
-Same change for the :meth:`str.format` method when formatting a number
-(:class:`int`, :class:`float`, :class:`float` and subclasses) with the ``n``
-type (ex: ``'{:n}'.format(1234)``).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-11-08-03-38-20.bpo-31961.x5Sv0R.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-11-08-03-38-20.bpo-31961.x5Sv0R.rst
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-The *args* argument of subprocess.Popen can now be a
-:term:`path-like object`. If *args* is given as a
-sequence, it's first element can now be a
-:term:`path-like object` as well.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-11-15-14-55.bpo-29302.Nczj9l.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-11-15-14-55.bpo-29302.Nczj9l.rst
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-Add contextlib.AsyncExitStack. Patch by Alexander Mohr and Ilya Kulakov.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-14-01-36-25.bpo-32320.jwOZlr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-14-01-36-25.bpo-32320.jwOZlr.rst
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-collections.namedtuple() now supports default values.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-15-15-34-12.bpo-32248.zmO8G2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-15-15-34-12.bpo-32248.zmO8G2.rst
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-Add :mod:`importlib.resources` and :class:`importlib.abc.ResourceReader` as
-the unified API for reading resources contained within packages.  Loaders
-wishing to support resource reading must implement the
-:meth:`get_resource_reader()` method.  File-based and zipimport-based loaders
-both implement these APIs.  :class:`importlib.abc.ResourceLoader` is
-deprecated in favor of these new APIs.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-19-09-23-46.bpo-32373.8qAkoW.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-19-09-23-46.bpo-32373.8qAkoW.rst
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-Add socket.getblocking() method.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-21-22-00-11.bpo-22908.cVm89I.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-21-22-00-11.bpo-22908.cVm89I.rst
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-Added seek and tell to the ZipExtFile class. This only works if the file
-object used to open the zipfile is seekable.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-22-16-05-01.bpo-32410.8JzhvH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-22-16-05-01.bpo-32410.8JzhvH.rst
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-Implement ``loop.sock_sendfile`` for asyncio event loop.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-22-16-47-41.bpo-32228.waPx3q.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-22-16-47-41.bpo-32228.waPx3q.rst
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-Ensure that ``truncate()`` preserves the file position (as reported by ``tell()``) after writes longer than the buffer size.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-23-14-51-46.bpo-32403.CVFapH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-23-14-51-46.bpo-32403.CVFapH.rst
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-Improved speed of :class:`datetime.date` and :class:`datetime.datetime`
-alternate constructors.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-23-14-54-05.bpo-32404.yJqtlJ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-23-14-54-05.bpo-32404.yJqtlJ.rst
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-Fix bug where :meth:`datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp` did not call __new__
-in :class:`datetime.datetime` subclasses.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-24-20-01-09.bpo-28134.HJ8Beb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-24-20-01-09.bpo-28134.HJ8Beb.rst
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-Sockets now auto-detect family, type and protocol from file descriptor by
-default.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-27-20-09-27.bpo-32433.vmxsVI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-27-20-09-27.bpo-32433.vmxsVI.rst
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-The hmac module now has hmac.digest(), which provides an optimized HMAC
-digest.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-27-20-15-51.bpo-25942.Giyr8v.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-12-27-20-15-51.bpo-25942.Giyr8v.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-The subprocess module is now more graceful when handling a Ctrl-C
-KeyboardInterrupt during subprocess.call, subprocess.run, or a Popen context
-manager.  It now waits a short amount of time for the child (presumed to
-have also gotten the SIGINT) to exit, before continuing the
-KeyboardInterrupt exception handling.  This still includes a SIGKILL in the
-call() and run() APIs, but at least the child had a chance first.
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-Add close(fd) function to the socket module.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-04-14-45-33.bpo-29237.zenYA6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-04-14-45-33.bpo-29237.zenYA6.rst
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-Create enum for pstats sorting options
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-07-09-22-26.bpo-32503.ViMxpD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-07-09-22-26.bpo-32503.ViMxpD.rst
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-Pickling with protocol 4 no longer creates too small frames.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-08-15-53-37.bpo-32493.vTXxGN.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-08-15-53-37.bpo-32493.vTXxGN.rst
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-UUID module fixes build for FreeBSD/OpenBSD
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-08-18-02-33.bpo-32521.Kh-KoN.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-08-18-02-33.bpo-32521.Kh-KoN.rst
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-glibc has removed Sun RPC. Use replacement libtirpc headers and library in
-nis module.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-10-18-04-21.bpo-32102.9-CZgD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-10-18-04-21.bpo-32102.9-CZgD.rst
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-New argument ``capture_output`` for subprocess.run
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-10-20-37-59.bpo-32473.mP_yJG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-10-20-37-59.bpo-32473.mP_yJG.rst
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-Improve ABCMeta._dump_registry() output readability
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-11-00-33-42.bpo-32467.YVEOv6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-11-00-33-42.bpo-32467.YVEOv6.rst
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-collections.abc.ValuesView now inherits from collections.abc.Collection.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-15-12-53-13.bpo-32521.IxX4Ba.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-15-12-53-13.bpo-32521.IxX4Ba.rst
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-The nis module is now compatible with new libnsl and headers location.
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-Fix memory leak in asyncio.Queue, when the queue has limited size and it is
-full, the cancelation of queue.put() can cause a memory leak. Patch by: José
-Melero.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-17-13-04-16.bpo-32576.iDL09t.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-17-13-04-16.bpo-32576.iDL09t.rst
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-Use queue.SimpleQueue() in places where it can be invoked from a weakref
-callback.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-18-13-47-40.bpo-31801.3UGH1h.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-18-13-47-40.bpo-31801.3UGH1h.rst
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-Add ``_ignore_`` to ``Enum`` so temporary variables can be used during class
-construction without being turned into members.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-19-19-57-45.bpo-32596.4aVIie.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-19-19-57-45.bpo-32596.4aVIie.rst
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-``concurrent.futures`` imports ``ThreadPoolExecutor`` and
-``ProcessPoolExecutor`` lazily (using :pep:`562`).
-It makes ``import asyncio`` about 15% faster because asyncio
-uses only ``ThreadPoolExecutor`` by default.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-20-17-15-34.bpo-32502.OXJfn7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-20-17-15-34.bpo-32502.OXJfn7.rst
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-uuid.uuid1 no longer raises an exception if a 64-bit hardware address is
-encountered.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-21-16-33-53.bpo-32304.TItrNv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-21-16-33-53.bpo-32304.TItrNv.rst
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-distutils' upload command no longer corrupts tar files ending with a CR byte,
-and no longer tries to convert CR to CRLF in any of the upload text fields.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-22-18-18-44.bpo-32622.A1D6FP.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-22-18-18-44.bpo-32622.A1D6FP.rst
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-Add :meth:`asyncio.AbstractEventLoop.sendfile` method.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-23-01-57-36.bpo-32630.6KRHBs.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-23-01-57-36.bpo-32630.6KRHBs.rst
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-Refactor decimal module to use contextvars to store decimal context.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-24-00-32-58.bpo-32643.VWipsW.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-24-00-32-58.bpo-32643.VWipsW.rst
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-Make Task._step, Task._wakeup and Future._schedule_callbacks methods
-private.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-24-15-20-12.bpo-32391.0f8MY9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-24-15-20-12.bpo-32391.0f8MY9.rst
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-Implement :meth:`asyncio.StreamWriter.wait_closed` and :meth:`asyncio.StreamWriter.is_closing` methods
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-25-01-45-30.bpo-32662.oabhd8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-25-01-45-30.bpo-32662.oabhd8.rst
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-Implement Server.start_serving(), Server.serve_forever(), and
-Server.is_serving() methods.  Add 'start_serving' keyword parameter to
-loop.create_server() and loop.create_unix_server().
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-25-03-46-00.bpo-32659.VHYoON.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-25-03-46-00.bpo-32659.VHYoON.rst
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-Under Solaris and derivatives, :class:`os.stat_result` provides a st_fstype attribute.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-25-21-04-11.bpo-27931.e4r52t.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-25-21-04-11.bpo-27931.e4r52t.rst
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-Fix email address header parsing error when the username is an empty quoted string. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-26-01-26-00.bpo-32660.tVJIWV.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-26-01-26-00.bpo-32660.tVJIWV.rst
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-:mod:`termios` makes available ``FIONREAD``, ``FIONCLEX``, ``FIOCLEX``,
-``FIOASYNC`` and ``FIONBIO`` also under Solaris/derivatives.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-27-11-20-16.bpo-32513.ak-iD2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-27-11-20-16.bpo-32513.ak-iD2.rst
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-In dataclasses, allow easier overriding of dunder methods without specifying
-decorator parameters.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-28-01-21-47.bpo-32251.fOA5qB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-28-01-21-47.bpo-32251.fOA5qB.rst
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-Implement asyncio.BufferedProtocol (provisional API).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-28-07-55-10.bpo-21417.JFnV99.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-28-07-55-10.bpo-21417.JFnV99.rst
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-Added support for setting the compression level for zipfile.ZipFile.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-28-14-10-51.bpo-30306.TmKMXi.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-28-14-10-51.bpo-30306.TmKMXi.rst
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-contextlib.contextmanager now releases the arguments passed to the
-underlying generator as soon as the context manager is entered. Previously
-it would keep them alive for as long as the context manager was alive, even
-when not being used as a function decorator. Patch by Martin Teichmann.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-28-22-40-05.bpo-31429.qNt8rQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-28-22-40-05.bpo-31429.qNt8rQ.rst
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-The default cipher suite selection of the ssl module now uses a blacklist
-approach rather than a hard-coded whitelist. Python no longer re-enables
-ciphers that have been blocked by OpenSSL security update. Default cipher
-suite selection can be configured on compile time.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-28-23-48-45.bpo-25988.I9uBct.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-01-28-23-48-45.bpo-25988.I9uBct.rst
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-Deprecate exposing the contents of collections.abc in the regular
-collections module.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-01-14-11-40-22.bpo-32549.fLwbVA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-01-14-11-40-22.bpo-32549.fLwbVA.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-On Travis CI, Python now Compiles and uses a local copy of OpenSSL 1.1.0g for testing.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-01-19-20-47-11.bpo-32602.dz41pq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-01-19-20-47-11.bpo-32602.dz41pq.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Add test certs and test for ECDSA cert and EC/RSA dual mode.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-01-26-21-29-09.bpo-32604.7iazNx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-01-26-21-29-09.bpo-32604.7iazNx.rst
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-Add a new "_xxsubinterpreters" extension module that exposes the existing
-subinterpreter C-API and a new cross-interpreter data sharing mechanism. The
-module is primarily intended for more thorough testing of the existing
-subinterpreter support.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-01-28-21-19-13.bpo-28414.a6Onzt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-01-28-21-19-13.bpo-28414.a6Onzt.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Add test cases for IDNA 2003 and 2008 host names. IDNA 2003
-internationalized host names are working since bpo-31399 has landed. IDNA
-2008 are still broken.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-01-29-21-30-44.bpo-32721.2Bebm1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-01-29-21-30-44.bpo-32721.2Bebm1.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fix test_hashlib to not fail if the _md5 module is not built.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-01-07-12-32-49.bpo-32507.vB4gxk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-01-07-12-32-49.bpo-32507.vB4gxk.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Use app-local UCRT install rather than the proper update for old versions of
-Windows.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-01-07-12-33-21.bpo-29911.ewSJKb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-01-07-12-33-21.bpo-29911.ewSJKb.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-01-07-12-33-21.bpo-29911.ewSJKb.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Ensure separate Modify and Uninstall buttons are displayed.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-01-18-14-56-45.bpo-32588.vHww6F.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-01-18-14-56-45.bpo-32588.vHww6F.rst
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-Create standalone _distutils_findvs module and add missing _queue module to
-installer.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-01-30-04-40-12.bpo-28440.W_BUWU.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-01-30-04-40-12.bpo-28440.W_BUWU.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-No longer add /Library/Python/3.x/site-packages to sys.path for macOS
-framework builds to avoid future conflicts.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-01-30-07-13-10.bpo-32726.tcARLK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-01-30-07-13-10.bpo-32726.tcARLK.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Provide an additional, more modern macOS installer variant that supports
-macOS 10.9+ systems in 64-bit mode only.  Upgrade the supplied third-party
-libraries to OpenSSL 1.1.0g and to SQLite 3.22.0.  The 10.9+ installer now
-links with and supplies its own copy of Tcl/Tk 8.6.
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index b6d744d19eb..17745568816 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-This is Python version 3.7.0 alpha 4+
-=====================================
+This is Python version 3.7.0 beta 1
+===================================
 
 .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython.svg?branch=master
    :alt: CPython build status on Travis CI