diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index e9edf462b14..610c8a98edd 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION        8
 #define PY_MICRO_VERSION        0
 #define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_ALPHA
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       2
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       3
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION              "3.8.0a2+"
+#define PY_VERSION              "3.8.0a3"
 /*--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 c2f9fa8e2fa..3e11f54fd78 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 Feb 25 13:03:43 2019
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Mon Mar 25 20:32:23 2019
 topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
            '\n'
@@ -11436,15 +11436,6 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
           'is\n'
           '      the original function object.\n'
           '\n'
-          '      When a user-defined method object is created by retrieving\n'
-          '      another method object from a class or instance, the behaviour '
-          'is\n'
-          '      the same as for a function object, except that the '
-          '"__func__"\n'
-          '      attribute of the new instance is not the original method '
-          'object\n'
-          '      but its "__func__" attribute.\n'
-          '\n'
           '      When an instance method object is created by retrieving a '
           'class\n'
           '      method object from a class or instance, its "__self__" '
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a3.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4962464a10b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.0a3.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,871 @@
+.. bpo: 36216
+.. date: 2019-03-06-09-38-40
+.. nonce: 6q1m4a
+.. release date: 2019-03-25
+.. section: Security
+
+Changes urlsplit() to raise ValueError when the URL contains characters that
+decompose under IDNA encoding (NFKC-normalization) into characters that
+affect how the URL is parsed.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35121
+.. date: 2018-10-31-15-39-17
+.. nonce: EgHv9k
+.. section: Security
+
+Don't send cookies of domain A without Domain attribute to domain B when
+domain A is a suffix match of domain B while using a cookiejar with
+:class:`http.cookiejar.DefaultCookiePolicy` policy. Patch by Karthikeyan
+Singaravelan.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36421
+.. date: 2019-03-24-21-33-22
+.. nonce: gJ2Pv9
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a possible double decref in _ctypes.c's ``PyCArrayType_new()``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36412
+.. date: 2019-03-23-19-51-09
+.. nonce: C7acGn
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a possible crash when creating a new dictionary.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36398
+.. date: 2019-03-21-22-19-38
+.. nonce: B_jXGe
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a possible crash in ``structseq_repr()``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 12477
+.. date: 2019-03-21-00-24-18
+.. nonce: OZHa0t
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix bug in parsermodule when parsing a state in a DFA that has two or more
+arcs with labels of the same type. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36365
+.. date: 2019-03-19-15-58-23
+.. nonce: jHaErz
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+repr(structseq) is no longer limited to 512 bytes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36374
+.. date: 2019-03-19-15-46-42
+.. nonce: EWKMZE
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a possible null pointer dereference in ``merge_consts_recursive()``.
+Patch by Zackery Spytz.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36236
+.. date: 2019-03-19-03-08-26
+.. nonce: 5qN9qK
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+At Python initialization, the current directory is no longer prepended to
+:data:`sys.path` if it has been removed.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36352
+.. date: 2019-03-19-02-36-40
+.. nonce: qj2trz
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Python initialization now fails with an error, rather than silently
+truncating paths, if a path is too long.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36301
+.. date: 2019-03-19-00-54-31
+.. nonce: xvOCJb
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Python initialization now fails if decoding ``pybuilddir.txt`` configuration
+file fails at startup.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36333
+.. date: 2019-03-18-10-56-53
+.. nonce: 4dqemZ
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix leak in _PyRuntimeState_Fini. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36332
+.. date: 2019-03-18-09-27-54
+.. nonce: yEC-Vz
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The builtin :func:`compile` can now handle AST objects that contain
+assignment expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36282
+.. date: 2019-03-13-22-47-28
+.. nonce: zs7RKP
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Improved error message for too much positional arguments in some builtin
+functions.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 30040
+.. date: 2019-03-11-22-30-56
+.. nonce: W9z8X7
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+New empty dict uses fewer memory for now.  It used more memory than empty
+dict created by ``dict.clear()``.  And empty dict creation and deletion is
+about 2x faster.  Patch by Inada Naoki.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36262
+.. date: 2019-03-11-15-37-33
+.. nonce: v3N6Fz
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix an unlikely memory leak on conversion from string to float in the
+function ``_Py_dg_strtod()`` used by ``float(str)``, ``complex(str)``,
+:func:`pickle.load`, :func:`marshal.load`, etc.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36252
+.. date: 2019-03-09-15-47-05
+.. nonce: sCQFKq
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Update Unicode databases to version 12.0.0.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36218
+.. date: 2019-03-07-13-05-43
+.. nonce: dZemNt
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a segfault occuring when sorting a list of heterogeneous values. Patch
+contributed by Rémi Lapeyre and Elliot Gorokhovsky.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36188
+.. date: 2019-03-04-18-05-31
+.. nonce: EuUZNz
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Cleaned up left-over vestiges of Python 2 unbound method handling in method
+objects and documentation. Patch by Martijn Pieters
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36124
+.. date: 2019-03-01-13-48-01
+.. nonce: Blzxq1
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Add a new interpreter-specific dict and expose it in the C-API via
+PyInterpreterState_GetDict().  This parallels PyThreadState_GetDict().
+However, extension modules should continue using PyModule_GetState() for
+their own internal per-interpreter state.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35975
+.. date: 2019-02-27-16-49-08
+.. nonce: IescLY
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Add a ``feature_version`` flag to ``ast.parse()`` (documented) and
+``compile()`` (hidden) that allows tweaking the parser to support older
+versions of the grammar. In particular, if ``feature_version`` is 5 or 6,
+the hacks for the ``async`` and ``await`` keyword from PEP 492 are
+reinstated. (For 7 or higher, these are unconditionally treated as keywords,
+but they are still special tokens rather than ``NAME`` tokens that the
+parser driver recognizes.)
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31904
+.. date: 2019-02-26-17-34-49
+.. nonce: R4KSj6
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Use UTF-8 as the system encoding on VxWorks.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36048
+.. date: 2019-02-20-08-51-04
+.. nonce: I3LJt9
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The :meth:`~object.__index__` special method will be used instead of
+:meth:`~object.__int__` for implicit conversion of Python numbers to C
+integers.  Using the ``__int__()`` method in implicit conversions has been
+deprecated.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 11814
+.. date: 2019-02-11-00-50-03
+.. nonce: M12CMH
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Retire pgen and use a modified version of pgen2 to generate the parser.
+Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36401
+.. date: 2019-03-23-10-25-07
+.. nonce: hYpVBS
+.. section: Library
+
+The class documentation created by pydoc now has a separate section for
+readonly properties.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36320
+.. date: 2019-03-18-01-08-14
+.. nonce: -06b9_
+.. section: Library
+
+The typing.NamedTuple() class has deprecated the _field_types attribute in
+favor of the __annotations__ attribute which carried the same information.
+Also, both attributes were converted from OrderedDict to a regular dict.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34745
+.. date: 2019-03-17-16-43-29
+.. nonce: nOfm7_
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix :mod:`asyncio` ssl memory issues caused by circular references
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36324
+.. date: 2019-03-17-01-17-45
+.. nonce: dvNrRe
+.. section: Library
+
+Add method to statistics.NormalDist for computing the inverse cumulative
+normal distribution.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36321
+.. date: 2019-03-16-13-40-59
+.. nonce: s6crQx
+.. section: Library
+
+collections.namedtuple() misspelled the name of an attribute.  To be
+consistent with typing.NamedTuple, the attribute name should have been
+"_field_defaults" instead of "_fields_defaults".  For backwards
+compatibility, both spellings are now created.  The misspelled version may
+be removed in the future.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36297
+.. date: 2019-03-15-21-41-22
+.. nonce: Gz9ZfU
+.. section: Library
+
+"unicode_internal" codec is removed.  It was deprecated since Python 3.3.
+Patch by Inada Naoki.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36298
+.. date: 2019-03-15-13-54-07
+.. nonce: amEVK2
+.. section: Library
+
+Raise ModuleNotFoundError in pyclbr when a module can't be found. Thanks to
+'mental' for the bug report.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36268
+.. date: 2019-03-14-16-25-17
+.. nonce: MDXLw6
+.. section: Library
+
+Switch the default format used for writing tars with mod:`tarfile` to the
+modern POSIX.1-2001 pax standard, from the vendor-specific GNU. Contributed
+by C.A.M. Gerlach.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36285
+.. date: 2019-03-14-01-09-59
+.. nonce: G-usj8
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix integer overflows in the array module. Patch by Stephan Hohe.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31904
+.. date: 2019-03-13-14-55-02
+.. nonce: 834kfY
+.. section: Library
+
+Add _signal module support for VxWorks.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36272
+.. date: 2019-03-13-14-14-36
+.. nonce: f3l2IG
+.. section: Library
+
+:mod:`logging` does not silently ignore RecursionError anymore. Patch
+contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36280
+.. date: 2019-03-12-21-02-55
+.. nonce: mOd3iH
+.. section: Library
+
+Add a kind field to ast.Constant. It is 'u' if the literal has a 'u' prefix
+(i.e. a Python 2 style unicode literal), else None.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35931
+.. date: 2019-03-11-22-06-36
+.. nonce: Qp_Tbe
+.. section: Library
+
+The :mod:`pdb` ``debug`` command now gracefully handles all exceptions.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36251
+.. date: 2019-03-09-18-01-24
+.. nonce: zOp9l0
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix format strings used for stderrprinter and re.Match reprs. Patch by
+Stephan Hohe.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36235
+.. date: 2019-03-08-13-32-21
+.. nonce: _M72wU
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ``CFLAGS`` in ``customize_compiler()`` of ``distutils.sysconfig``: when
+the ``CFLAGS`` environment variable is defined, don't override ``CFLAGS``
+variable with the ``OPT`` variable anymore. Initial patch written by David
+Malcolm.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35807
+.. date: 2019-03-06-13-21-33
+.. nonce: W7mmu3
+.. section: Library
+
+Update ensurepip to install pip 19.0.3 and setuptools 40.8.0.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36139
+.. date: 2019-03-06-13-07-29
+.. nonce: 6kedum
+.. section: Library
+
+Release GIL when closing :class:`~mmap.mmap` objects.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36179
+.. date: 2019-03-04-10-42-46
+.. nonce: jEyuI-
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix two unlikely reference leaks in _hashopenssl. The leaks only occur in
+out-of-memory cases.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36169
+.. date: 2019-03-03-11-37-09
+.. nonce: 8nWJy7
+.. section: Library
+
+Add overlap() method to statistics.NormalDist.  Computes the overlapping
+coefficient for two normal distributions.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36103
+.. date: 2019-03-01-16-10-01
+.. nonce: n6VgXL
+.. section: Library
+
+Default buffer size used by ``shutil.copyfileobj()`` is changed from 16 KiB
+to 64 KiB on non-Windows platform to reduce system call overhead.
+Contributed by Inada Naoki.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36130
+.. date: 2019-02-26-22-41-38
+.. nonce: _BnZOo
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ``pdb`` with ``skip=...`` when stepping into a frame without a
+``__name__`` global.  Patch by Anthony Sottile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35652
+.. date: 2019-02-26-11-34-44
+.. nonce: 6KRJu_
+.. section: Library
+
+shutil.copytree(copy_function=...) erroneously pass DirEntry instead of a
+path string.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35178
+.. date: 2019-02-25-23-04-00
+.. nonce: NA_rXa
+.. section: Library
+
+Ensure custom :func:`warnings.formatwarning` function can receive `line` as
+positional argument. Based on patch by Tashrif Billah.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36106
+.. date: 2019-02-25-13-21-43
+.. nonce: VuhEiQ
+.. section: Library
+
+Resolve potential name clash with libm's sinpi(). Patch by Dmitrii
+Pasechnik.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36091
+.. date: 2019-02-23-06-49-06
+.. nonce: 26o4Lc
+.. section: Library
+
+Clean up reference to async generator in Lib/types. Patch by Henry Chen.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36043
+.. date: 2019-02-19-19-53-46
+.. nonce: l867v0
+.. section: Library
+
+:class:`FileCookieJar` supports :term:`path-like object`. Contributed by
+Stéphane Wirtel
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35899
+.. date: 2019-02-16-07-11-02
+.. nonce: cjfn5a
+.. section: Library
+
+Enum has been fixed to correctly handle empty strings and strings with
+non-Latin characters (ie. 'α', 'א') without crashing. Original patch
+contributed by Maxwell. Assisted by Stéphane Wirtel.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 21269
+.. date: 2019-02-10-16-49-16
+.. nonce: Fqi7VH
+.. section: Library
+
+Add ``args`` and ``kwargs`` properties to mock call objects. Contributed by
+Kumar Akshay.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 30670
+.. date: 2019-02-06-12-07-46
+.. nonce: yffB3F
+.. section: Library
+
+`pprint.pp` has been added to pretty-print objects with dictionary keys
+being sorted with their insertion order by default. Parameter *sort_dicts*
+has been added to `pprint.pprint`, `pprint.pformat` and
+`pprint.PrettyPrinter`. Contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35843
+.. date: 2019-01-28-10-19-40
+.. nonce: 7rXGQE
+.. section: Library
+
+Implement ``__getitem__`` for ``_NamespacePath``.  Patch by Anthony Sottile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35802
+.. date: 2019-01-21-13-56-55
+.. nonce: 6633PE
+.. section: Library
+
+Clean up code which checked presence of ``os.stat`` / ``os.lstat`` /
+``os.chmod`` which are always present.  Patch by Anthony Sottile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35715
+.. date: 2019-01-11-08-47-58
+.. nonce: Wi3gl0
+.. section: Library
+
+Librates the return value of a ProcessPoolExecutor _process_worker after
+it's no longer needed to free memory
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35493
+.. date: 2019-01-09-23-43-08
+.. nonce: kEcRGE
+.. section: Library
+
+Use :func:`multiprocessing.connection.wait` instead of polling each 0.2
+seconds for worker updates in :class:`multiprocessing.Pool`. Patch by Pablo
+Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35661
+.. date: 2019-01-05-16-16-20
+.. nonce: H_UOXc
+.. section: Library
+
+Store the venv prompt in pyvenv.cfg.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35121
+.. date: 2018-12-30-14-35-19
+.. nonce: oWmiGU
+.. section: Library
+
+Don't set cookie for a request when the request path is a prefix match of
+the cookie's path attribute but doesn't end with "/". Patch by Karthikeyan
+Singaravelan.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 21478
+.. date: 2018-12-21-09-54-30
+.. nonce: 5gsXtc
+.. section: Library
+
+Calls to a child function created with :func:`unittest.mock.create_autospec`
+should propagate to the parent. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35198
+.. date: 2018-11-09-12-45-28
+.. nonce: EJ8keW
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix C++ extension compilation on AIX
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36329
+.. date: 2019-03-17-20-01-41
+.. nonce: L5dJPD
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Declare the path of the Python binary for the usage of
+``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` when executing ``make -C Doc/ serve``.
+Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36138
+.. date: 2019-03-02-00-40-57
+.. nonce: yfjNzG
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Improve documentation about converting datetime.timedelta to scalars.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 21314
+.. date: 2018-11-21-23-01-37
+.. nonce: PG33VT
+.. section: Documentation
+
+A new entry was added to the Core Language Section of the Programming FAQ,
+which explaines the usage of slash(/) in the signature of a function. Patch
+by Lysandros Nikolaou
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36234
+.. date: 2019-03-08-12-53-37
+.. nonce: NRVK6W
+.. section: Tests
+
+test_posix.PosixUidGidTests: add tests for invalid uid/gid type (str).
+Initial patch written by David Malcolm.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29571
+.. date: 2019-02-28-18-33-29
+.. nonce: r6b9fr
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix ``test_re.test_locale_flag()``:  use ``locale.getpreferredencoding()``
+rather than ``locale.getlocale()`` to get the locale encoding. With some
+locales, ``locale.getlocale()`` returns the wrong encoding.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36123
+.. date: 2019-02-26-12-51-35
+.. nonce: QRhhRS
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix race condition in test_socket.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36356
+.. date: 2019-03-18-23-49-15
+.. nonce: WNrwYI
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix leaks that led to build failure when configured with address sanitizer.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36146
+.. date: 2019-03-01-17-49-22
+.. nonce: VeoyG7
+.. section: Build
+
+Add ``TEST_EXTENSIONS`` constant to ``setup.py`` to allow to not build test
+extensions like ``_testcapi``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36146
+.. date: 2019-02-28-18-09-01
+.. nonce: IwPJVT
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix setup.py on macOS: only add ``/usr/include/ffi`` to include directories
+of _ctypes, not for all extensions.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 31904
+.. date: 2019-02-21-14-48-31
+.. nonce: J82jY2
+.. section: Build
+
+Enable build system to cross-build for VxWorks RTOS.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36312
+.. date: 2019-03-16-16-51-17
+.. nonce: Niwm-T
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fixed decoders for the following code pages: 50220, 50221, 50222, 50225,
+50227, 50229, 57002 through 57011, 65000 and 42.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36264
+.. date: 2019-03-11-09-33-47
+.. nonce: rTzWce
+.. section: Windows
+
+Don't honor POSIX ``HOME`` in ``os.path.expanduser`` on windows.  Patch by
+Anthony Sottile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 24643
+.. date: 2019-02-24-07-52-39
+.. nonce: PofyiS
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fix name collisions due to ``#define timezone _timezone`` in PC/pyconfig.h.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36405
+.. date: 2019-03-23-01-45-56
+.. nonce: m7Wv1F
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Use dict unpacking in idlelib.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36396
+.. date: 2019-03-21-22-43-21
+.. nonce: xSTX-I
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Remove fgBg param of idlelib.config.GetHighlight(). This param was only used
+twice and changed the return type.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36176
+.. date: 2019-03-10-00-07-46
+.. nonce: jk_vv6
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Fix IDLE autocomplete & calltip popup colors. Prevent conflicts with Linux
+dark themes (and slightly darken calltip background).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 23205
+.. date: 2019-03-06-14-47-57
+.. nonce: Vv0gfH
+.. section: IDLE
+
+For the grep module, add tests for findfiles, refactor findfiles to be a
+module-level function, and refactor findfiles to use os.walk.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 23216
+.. date: 2019-03-02-19-39-53
+.. nonce: ZA7H8H
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Add docstrings to IDLE search modules.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36152
+.. date: 2019-02-28-18-52-40
+.. nonce: 9pkHIU
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Remove colorizer.ColorDelegator.close_when_done and the corresponding
+argument of .close().  In IDLE, both have always been None or False since
+2007.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32129
+.. date: 2019-02-25-11-40-14
+.. nonce: 4qVCzD
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Avoid blurry IDLE application icon on macOS with Tk 8.6. Patch by Kevin
+Walzer.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36096
+.. date: 2019-02-23-17-53-53
+.. nonce: mN5Ly3
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Refactor class variables to instance variables in colorizer.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 30348
+.. date: 2018-06-27-21-18-41
+.. nonce: WbaRJW
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Increase test coverage of idlelib.autocomplete by 30%.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35132
+.. date: 2019-03-04-02-09-09
+.. nonce: 1R_pnL
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+Fix py-list and py-bt commands of python-gdb.py on gdb7.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32217
+.. date: 2017-12-19-20-42-36
+.. nonce: axXcjA
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+Fix freeze script on Windows.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36381
+.. date: 2019-03-20-22-02-40
+.. nonce: xlzDJ2
+.. section: C API
+
+Raise ``DeprecationWarning`` when '#' formats are used for building or
+parsing values without ``PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36142
+.. date: 2019-03-01-03-23-48
+.. nonce: 7F6wJd
+.. section: C API
+
+The whole coreconfig.h header is now excluded from Py_LIMITED_API. Move
+functions definitions into a new internal pycore_coreconfig.h header.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-02-21-14-48-31.bpo-31904.J82jY2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-02-21-14-48-31.bpo-31904.J82jY2.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 1292193b729..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-02-21-14-48-31.bpo-31904.J82jY2.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Enable build system to cross-build for VxWorks RTOS.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-02-28-18-09-01.bpo-36146.IwPJVT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-02-28-18-09-01.bpo-36146.IwPJVT.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 93c1e1afac8..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-02-28-18-09-01.bpo-36146.IwPJVT.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix setup.py on macOS: only add ``/usr/include/ffi`` to include
-directories of _ctypes, not for all extensions.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-03-01-17-49-22.bpo-36146.VeoyG7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-03-01-17-49-22.bpo-36146.VeoyG7.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index f32a821302c..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-03-01-17-49-22.bpo-36146.VeoyG7.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Add ``TEST_EXTENSIONS`` constant to ``setup.py`` to allow to not build test
-extensions like ``_testcapi``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-03-18-23-49-15.bpo-36356.WNrwYI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-03-18-23-49-15.bpo-36356.WNrwYI.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index d30f5d586b7..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-03-18-23-49-15.bpo-36356.WNrwYI.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix leaks that led to build failure when configured with address sanitizer.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-03-01-03-23-48.bpo-36142.7F6wJd.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-03-01-03-23-48.bpo-36142.7F6wJd.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 0005270c22d..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-03-01-03-23-48.bpo-36142.7F6wJd.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The whole coreconfig.h header is now excluded from Py_LIMITED_API. Move
-functions definitions into a new internal pycore_coreconfig.h header.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-03-20-22-02-40.bpo-36381.xlzDJ2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-03-20-22-02-40.bpo-36381.xlzDJ2.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 66982aa7eaf..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2019-03-20-22-02-40.bpo-36381.xlzDJ2.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Raise ``DeprecationWarning`` when '#' formats are used for building or
-parsing values without ``PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-02-11-00-50-03.bpo-11814.M12CMH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-02-11-00-50-03.bpo-11814.M12CMH.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index b3bec728d9d..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-02-11-00-50-03.bpo-11814.M12CMH.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Retire pgen and use a modified version of pgen2 to generate the parser.
-Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-02-20-08-51-04.bpo-36048.I3LJt9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-02-20-08-51-04.bpo-36048.I3LJt9.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index d032e84341c..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-02-20-08-51-04.bpo-36048.I3LJt9.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-The :meth:`~object.__index__` special method will be used instead of
-:meth:`~object.__int__` for implicit conversion of Python numbers to C
-integers.  Using the ``__int__()`` method in implicit conversions has been
-deprecated.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-02-26-17-34-49.bpo-31904.R4KSj6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-02-26-17-34-49.bpo-31904.R4KSj6.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 29514952fd7..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-02-26-17-34-49.bpo-31904.R4KSj6.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Use UTF-8 as the system encoding on VxWorks.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-02-27-16-49-08.bpo-35975.IescLY.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-02-27-16-49-08.bpo-35975.IescLY.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 3bbfc74469c..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-02-27-16-49-08.bpo-35975.IescLY.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-Add a ``feature_version`` flag to ``ast.parse()`` (documented) and
-``compile()`` (hidden) that allows tweaking the parser to support older
-versions of the grammar. In particular, if ``feature_version`` is 5 or 6,
-the hacks for the ``async`` and ``await`` keyword from PEP 492 are
-reinstated. (For 7 or higher, these are unconditionally treated as keywords,
-but they are still special tokens rather than ``NAME`` tokens that the
-parser driver recognizes.)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-01-13-48-01.bpo-36124.Blzxq1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-01-13-48-01.bpo-36124.Blzxq1.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index ee9b0c11024..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-01-13-48-01.bpo-36124.Blzxq1.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Add a new interpreter-specific dict and expose it in the C-API via
-PyInterpreterState_GetDict().  This parallels PyThreadState_GetDict().
-However, extension modules should continue using PyModule_GetState() for
-their own internal per-interpreter state.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-04-18-05-31.bpo-36188.EuUZNz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-04-18-05-31.bpo-36188.EuUZNz.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index f018e31ede9..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-04-18-05-31.bpo-36188.EuUZNz.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Cleaned up left-over vestiges of Python 2 unbound method handling in method objects and documentation.
-Patch by Martijn Pieters
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-07-13-05-43.bpo-36218.dZemNt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-07-13-05-43.bpo-36218.dZemNt.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index ab6d207f37e..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-07-13-05-43.bpo-36218.dZemNt.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix a segfault occuring when sorting a list of heterogeneous values. Patch
-contributed by Rémi Lapeyre and Elliot Gorokhovsky.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-09-15-47-05.bpo-36252.sCQFKq.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-09-15-47-05.bpo-36252.sCQFKq.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index b79bc493f4f..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-09-15-47-05.bpo-36252.sCQFKq.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update Unicode databases to version 12.0.0.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-11-15-37-33.bpo-36262.v3N6Fz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-11-15-37-33.bpo-36262.v3N6Fz.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index b5ccc95fd70..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-11-15-37-33.bpo-36262.v3N6Fz.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fix an unlikely memory leak on conversion from string to float in the function
-``_Py_dg_strtod()`` used by ``float(str)``, ``complex(str)``,
-:func:`pickle.load`, :func:`marshal.load`, etc.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-11-22-30-56.bpo-30040.W9z8X7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-11-22-30-56.bpo-30040.W9z8X7.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 0975dba1f37..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-11-22-30-56.bpo-30040.W9z8X7.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-New empty dict uses fewer memory for now.  It used more memory than empty
-dict created by ``dict.clear()``.  And empty dict creation and deletion
-is about 2x faster.  Patch by Inada Naoki.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-13-22-47-28.bpo-36282.zs7RKP.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-13-22-47-28.bpo-36282.zs7RKP.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index f9ec51e381d..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-13-22-47-28.bpo-36282.zs7RKP.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Improved error message for too much positional arguments in some builtin
-functions.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-18-09-27-54.bpo-36332.yEC-Vz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-18-09-27-54.bpo-36332.yEC-Vz.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 2c69c1c5652..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-18-09-27-54.bpo-36332.yEC-Vz.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The builtin :func:`compile` can now handle AST objects that contain
-assignment expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-18-10-56-53.bpo-36333.4dqemZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-18-10-56-53.bpo-36333.4dqemZ.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index e5af44fda40..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-18-10-56-53.bpo-36333.4dqemZ.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix leak in _PyRuntimeState_Fini. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-19-00-54-31.bpo-36301.xvOCJb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-19-00-54-31.bpo-36301.xvOCJb.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 84e4b8a8523..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-19-00-54-31.bpo-36301.xvOCJb.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Python initialization now fails if decoding ``pybuilddir.txt`` configuration
-file fails at startup.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-19-02-36-40.bpo-36352.qj2trz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-19-02-36-40.bpo-36352.qj2trz.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 148201cd1b6..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-19-02-36-40.bpo-36352.qj2trz.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Python initialization now fails with an error, rather than silently
-truncating paths, if a path is too long.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-19-03-08-26.bpo-36236.5qN9qK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-19-03-08-26.bpo-36236.5qN9qK.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index e1c1182d181..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-19-03-08-26.bpo-36236.5qN9qK.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-At Python initialization, the current directory is no longer prepended to
-:data:`sys.path` if it has been removed.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-19-15-46-42.bpo-36374.EWKMZE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-19-15-46-42.bpo-36374.EWKMZE.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 2eac3013685..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-19-15-46-42.bpo-36374.EWKMZE.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix a possible null pointer dereference in ``merge_consts_recursive()``.
-Patch by Zackery Spytz.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-19-15-58-23.bpo-36365.jHaErz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-19-15-58-23.bpo-36365.jHaErz.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 206de56f08f..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-19-15-58-23.bpo-36365.jHaErz.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-repr(structseq) is no longer limited to 512 bytes.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-21-00-24-18.bpo-12477.OZHa0t.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-21-00-24-18.bpo-12477.OZHa0t.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index aada7f912a6..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-21-00-24-18.bpo-12477.OZHa0t.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix bug in parsermodule when parsing a state in a DFA that has two or more
-arcs with labels of the same type. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-21-22-19-38.bpo-36398.B_jXGe.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-21-22-19-38.bpo-36398.B_jXGe.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 2b00283096f..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-21-22-19-38.bpo-36398.B_jXGe.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix a possible crash in ``structseq_repr()``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-23-19-51-09.bpo-36412.C7acGn.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-23-19-51-09.bpo-36412.C7acGn.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 0146988151e..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-23-19-51-09.bpo-36412.C7acGn.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix a possible crash when creating a new dictionary.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-24-21-33-22.bpo-36421.gJ2Pv9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-24-21-33-22.bpo-36421.gJ2Pv9.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 2577511de2e..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-03-24-21-33-22.bpo-36421.gJ2Pv9.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix a possible double decref in _ctypes.c's ``PyCArrayType_new()``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-11-21-23-01-37.bpo-21314.PG33VT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-11-21-23-01-37.bpo-21314.PG33VT.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 83080a3a580..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-11-21-23-01-37.bpo-21314.PG33VT.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-A new entry was added to the Core Language Section of the Programming FAQ,
-which explaines the usage of slash(/) in the signature of a function. Patch
-by Lysandros Nikolaou
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-03-02-00-40-57.bpo-36138.yfjNzG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-03-02-00-40-57.bpo-36138.yfjNzG.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index f5352bb3958..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-03-02-00-40-57.bpo-36138.yfjNzG.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Improve documentation about converting datetime.timedelta to scalars.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-03-17-20-01-41.bpo-36329.L5dJPD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-03-17-20-01-41.bpo-36329.L5dJPD.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 94e5884cc9a..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-03-17-20-01-41.bpo-36329.L5dJPD.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Declare the path of the Python binary for the usage of
-``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` when executing ``make -C Doc/ serve``.
-Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-06-27-21-18-41.bpo-30348.WbaRJW.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-06-27-21-18-41.bpo-30348.WbaRJW.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index f665241670c..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-06-27-21-18-41.bpo-30348.WbaRJW.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Increase test coverage of idlelib.autocomplete by 30%.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-02-23-17-53-53.bpo-36096.mN5Ly3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-02-23-17-53-53.bpo-36096.mN5Ly3.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index cd6f76e9ac2..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-02-23-17-53-53.bpo-36096.mN5Ly3.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Refactor class variables to instance variables in colorizer.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-02-25-11-40-14.bpo-32129.4qVCzD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-02-25-11-40-14.bpo-32129.4qVCzD.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 54a5c724414..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-02-25-11-40-14.bpo-32129.4qVCzD.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Avoid blurry IDLE application icon on macOS with Tk 8.6. Patch by Kevin
-Walzer.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-02-28-18-52-40.bpo-36152.9pkHIU.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-02-28-18-52-40.bpo-36152.9pkHIU.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index b75ae89ef30..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-02-28-18-52-40.bpo-36152.9pkHIU.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Remove colorizer.ColorDelegator.close_when_done and the
-corresponding argument of .close().  In IDLE, both have
-always been None or False since 2007.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-03-02-19-39-53.bpo-23216.ZA7H8H.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-03-02-19-39-53.bpo-23216.ZA7H8H.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index ec091615a19..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-03-02-19-39-53.bpo-23216.ZA7H8H.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add docstrings to IDLE search modules.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-03-06-14-47-57.bpo-23205.Vv0gfH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-03-06-14-47-57.bpo-23205.Vv0gfH.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e7c222ffc4..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-03-06-14-47-57.bpo-23205.Vv0gfH.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-For the grep module, add tests for findfiles, refactor findfiles to be a
-module-level function, and refactor findfiles to use os.walk.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-03-10-00-07-46.bpo-36176.jk_vv6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-03-10-00-07-46.bpo-36176.jk_vv6.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 5998c6fadfc..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-03-10-00-07-46.bpo-36176.jk_vv6.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix IDLE autocomplete & calltip popup colors. Prevent conflicts with Linux
-dark themes (and slightly darken calltip background).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-03-21-22-43-21.bpo-36396.xSTX-I.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-03-21-22-43-21.bpo-36396.xSTX-I.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 1d142b5c30f..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-03-21-22-43-21.bpo-36396.xSTX-I.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Remove fgBg param of idlelib.config.GetHighlight(). This param was only used
-twice and changed the return type.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-03-23-01-45-56.bpo-36405.m7Wv1F.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-03-23-01-45-56.bpo-36405.m7Wv1F.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index bef438d5a5a..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-03-23-01-45-56.bpo-36405.m7Wv1F.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Use dict unpacking in idlelib.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-09-12-45-28.bpo-35198.EJ8keW.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-09-12-45-28.bpo-35198.EJ8keW.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ce7a7e3423..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-11-09-12-45-28.bpo-35198.EJ8keW.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix C++ extension compilation on AIX
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-21-09-54-30.bpo-21478.5gsXtc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-21-09-54-30.bpo-21478.5gsXtc.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 1000748c9c4..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-21-09-54-30.bpo-21478.5gsXtc.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Calls to a child function created with :func:`unittest.mock.create_autospec`
-should propagate to the parent. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-30-14-35-19.bpo-35121.oWmiGU.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-30-14-35-19.bpo-35121.oWmiGU.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 032e1e2c00b..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-12-30-14-35-19.bpo-35121.oWmiGU.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Don't set cookie for a request when the request path is a prefix match of
-the cookie's path attribute but doesn't end with "/". Patch by Karthikeyan
-Singaravelan.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-05-16-16-20.bpo-35661.H_UOXc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-05-16-16-20.bpo-35661.H_UOXc.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 43189868611..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-05-16-16-20.bpo-35661.H_UOXc.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Store the venv prompt in pyvenv.cfg.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-09-23-43-08.bpo-35493.kEcRGE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-09-23-43-08.bpo-35493.kEcRGE.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index fa408c8163b..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-09-23-43-08.bpo-35493.kEcRGE.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Use :func:`multiprocessing.connection.wait` instead of polling each 0.2
-seconds for worker updates in :class:`multiprocessing.Pool`. Patch by Pablo
-Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-11-08-47-58.bpo-35715.Wi3gl0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-11-08-47-58.bpo-35715.Wi3gl0.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c1ec6b53fd..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-11-08-47-58.bpo-35715.Wi3gl0.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Librates the return value of a ProcessPoolExecutor _process_worker after it's no longer needed to free memory
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-21-13-56-55.bpo-35802.6633PE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-21-13-56-55.bpo-35802.6633PE.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b73d2bd585..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-21-13-56-55.bpo-35802.6633PE.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Clean up code which checked presence of ``os.stat`` / ``os.lstat`` /
-``os.chmod`` which are always present.  Patch by Anthony Sottile.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-28-10-19-40.bpo-35843.7rXGQE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-28-10-19-40.bpo-35843.7rXGQE.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a9eaf0d139..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-01-28-10-19-40.bpo-35843.7rXGQE.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Implement ``__getitem__`` for ``_NamespacePath``.  Patch by Anthony Sottile.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-06-12-07-46.bpo-30670.yffB3F.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-06-12-07-46.bpo-30670.yffB3F.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 63cdbb363f7..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-06-12-07-46.bpo-30670.yffB3F.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-`pprint.pp` has been added to pretty-print objects with dictionary
-keys being sorted with their insertion order by default. Parameter
-*sort_dicts* has been added to `pprint.pprint`, `pprint.pformat` and
-`pprint.PrettyPrinter`. Contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-10-16-49-16.bpo-21269.Fqi7VH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-10-16-49-16.bpo-21269.Fqi7VH.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 15ad636a5e8..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-10-16-49-16.bpo-21269.Fqi7VH.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add ``args`` and ``kwargs`` properties to mock call objects. Contributed by Kumar Akshay.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-16-07-11-02.bpo-35899.cjfn5a.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-16-07-11-02.bpo-35899.cjfn5a.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 73d4fa17b33..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-16-07-11-02.bpo-35899.cjfn5a.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Enum has been fixed to correctly handle empty strings and strings with non-Latin characters (ie. 'α', 'א') without crashing. Original patch contributed by Maxwell. Assisted by Stéphane Wirtel.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-19-19-53-46.bpo-36043.l867v0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-19-19-53-46.bpo-36043.l867v0.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index f4911a0c8d0..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-19-19-53-46.bpo-36043.l867v0.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-:class:`FileCookieJar` supports :term:`path-like object`. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-23-06-49-06.bpo-36091.26o4Lc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-23-06-49-06.bpo-36091.26o4Lc.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 582be449376..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-23-06-49-06.bpo-36091.26o4Lc.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Clean up reference to async generator in Lib/types. Patch by Henry Chen.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-25-13-21-43.bpo-36106.VuhEiQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-25-13-21-43.bpo-36106.VuhEiQ.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 36e17508cd4..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-25-13-21-43.bpo-36106.VuhEiQ.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Resolve potential name clash with libm's sinpi(). Patch by Dmitrii Pasechnik.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-25-23-04-00.bpo-35178.NA_rXa.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-25-23-04-00.bpo-35178.NA_rXa.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 2593199cfe9..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-25-23-04-00.bpo-35178.NA_rXa.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Ensure custom :func:`warnings.formatwarning` function can receive `line` as
-positional argument. Based on patch by Tashrif Billah.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-26-11-34-44.bpo-35652.6KRJu_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-26-11-34-44.bpo-35652.6KRJu_.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index c247e1706a3..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-26-11-34-44.bpo-35652.6KRJu_.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-shutil.copytree(copy_function=...) erroneously pass DirEntry instead of a
-path string.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-26-22-41-38.bpo-36130._BnZOo.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-26-22-41-38.bpo-36130._BnZOo.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 3bab152871f..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-02-26-22-41-38.bpo-36130._BnZOo.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix ``pdb`` with ``skip=...`` when stepping into a frame without a
-``__name__`` global.  Patch by Anthony Sottile.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-01-16-10-01.bpo-36103.n6VgXL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-01-16-10-01.bpo-36103.n6VgXL.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f7330597e7..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-01-16-10-01.bpo-36103.n6VgXL.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Default buffer size used by ``shutil.copyfileobj()`` is changed from 16 KiB
-to 64 KiB on non-Windows platform to reduce system call overhead. Contributed
-by Inada Naoki.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-03-11-37-09.bpo-36169.8nWJy7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-03-11-37-09.bpo-36169.8nWJy7.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 49afa2eed29..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-03-11-37-09.bpo-36169.8nWJy7.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Add overlap() method to statistics.NormalDist.  Computes the overlapping
-coefficient for two normal distributions.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-04-10-42-46.bpo-36179.jEyuI-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-04-10-42-46.bpo-36179.jEyuI-.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 61a98778b78..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-04-10-42-46.bpo-36179.jEyuI-.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix two unlikely reference leaks in _hashopenssl. The leaks only occur in
-out-of-memory cases.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-06-13-07-29.bpo-36139.6kedum.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-06-13-07-29.bpo-36139.6kedum.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 9dcd857cd25..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-06-13-07-29.bpo-36139.6kedum.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Release GIL when closing :class:`~mmap.mmap` objects.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-06-13-21-33.bpo-35807.W7mmu3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-06-13-21-33.bpo-35807.W7mmu3.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 1109fbed3f9..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-06-13-21-33.bpo-35807.W7mmu3.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Update ensurepip to install pip 19.0.3 and setuptools 40.8.0.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-08-13-32-21.bpo-36235._M72wU.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-08-13-32-21.bpo-36235._M72wU.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 59df98c101a..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-08-13-32-21.bpo-36235._M72wU.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fix ``CFLAGS`` in ``customize_compiler()`` of ``distutils.sysconfig``: when
-the ``CFLAGS`` environment variable is defined, don't override ``CFLAGS``
-variable with the ``OPT`` variable anymore. Initial patch written by David
-Malcolm.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-09-18-01-24.bpo-36251.zOp9l0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-09-18-01-24.bpo-36251.zOp9l0.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 5138b0a0cb8..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-09-18-01-24.bpo-36251.zOp9l0.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix format strings used for stderrprinter and re.Match reprs. Patch by
-Stephan Hohe.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-11-22-06-36.bpo-35931.Qp_Tbe.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-11-22-06-36.bpo-35931.Qp_Tbe.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 68c57e2e69d..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-11-22-06-36.bpo-35931.Qp_Tbe.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-The :mod:`pdb` ``debug`` command now gracefully handles all exceptions.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-12-21-02-55.bpo-36280.mOd3iH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-12-21-02-55.bpo-36280.mOd3iH.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index e97285431e5..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-12-21-02-55.bpo-36280.mOd3iH.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Add a kind field to ast.Constant. It is 'u' if the literal has a 'u' prefix
-(i.e. a Python 2 style unicode literal), else None.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-13-14-14-36.bpo-36272.f3l2IG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-13-14-14-36.bpo-36272.f3l2IG.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 2f2f7905c01..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-13-14-14-36.bpo-36272.f3l2IG.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-:mod:`logging` does not silently ignore RecursionError anymore. Patch
-contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-13-14-55-02.bpo-31904.834kfY.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-13-14-55-02.bpo-31904.834kfY.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index d859446b90a..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-13-14-55-02.bpo-31904.834kfY.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add _signal module support for VxWorks.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-14-01-09-59.bpo-36285.G-usj8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-14-01-09-59.bpo-36285.G-usj8.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index bf16170c5f6..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-14-01-09-59.bpo-36285.G-usj8.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix integer overflows in the array module. Patch by Stephan Hohe.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-14-16-25-17.bpo-36268.MDXLw6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-14-16-25-17.bpo-36268.MDXLw6.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 55f4e0f0d05..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-14-16-25-17.bpo-36268.MDXLw6.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Switch the default format used for writing tars with mod:`tarfile` to
-the modern POSIX.1-2001 pax standard, from the vendor-specific GNU.
-Contributed by C.A.M. Gerlach.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-15-13-54-07.bpo-36298.amEVK2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-15-13-54-07.bpo-36298.amEVK2.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 14be079ddb9..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-15-13-54-07.bpo-36298.amEVK2.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Raise ModuleNotFoundError in pyclbr when a module can't be found.
-Thanks to 'mental' for the bug report.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-15-21-41-22.bpo-36297.Gz9ZfU.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-15-21-41-22.bpo-36297.Gz9ZfU.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index f633feea5ca..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-15-21-41-22.bpo-36297.Gz9ZfU.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-"unicode_internal" codec is removed.  It was deprecated since Python 3.3.
-Patch by Inada Naoki.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-16-13-40-59.bpo-36321.s6crQx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-16-13-40-59.bpo-36321.s6crQx.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index eea6f541848..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-16-13-40-59.bpo-36321.s6crQx.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-collections.namedtuple() misspelled the name of an attribute.  To be
-consistent with typing.NamedTuple, the attribute name should have been
-"_field_defaults" instead of "_fields_defaults".  For backwards
-compatibility, both spellings are now created.  The misspelled version may
-be removed in the future.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-17-01-17-45.bpo-36324.dvNrRe.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-17-01-17-45.bpo-36324.dvNrRe.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 536b2b8739d..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-17-01-17-45.bpo-36324.dvNrRe.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Add method to statistics.NormalDist for computing the inverse cumulative
-normal distribution.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-17-16-43-29.bpo-34745.nOfm7_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-17-16-43-29.bpo-34745.nOfm7_.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index d88f36a6d21..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-17-16-43-29.bpo-34745.nOfm7_.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix :mod:`asyncio` ssl memory issues caused by circular references
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-18-01-08-14.bpo-36320.-06b9_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-18-01-08-14.bpo-36320.-06b9_.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e9495f46b7..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-18-01-08-14.bpo-36320.-06b9_.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-The typing.NamedTuple() class has deprecated the _field_types attribute in
-favor of the __annotations__ attribute which carried the same information.
-Also, both attributes were converted from OrderedDict to a regular dict.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-23-10-25-07.bpo-36401.hYpVBS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-23-10-25-07.bpo-36401.hYpVBS.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index cf097d7ed4a..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-23-10-25-07.bpo-36401.hYpVBS.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The class documentation created by pydoc now has a separate section for
-readonly properties.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-10-31-15-39-17.bpo-35121.EgHv9k.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-10-31-15-39-17.bpo-35121.EgHv9k.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index d2eb8f1f352..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-10-31-15-39-17.bpo-35121.EgHv9k.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Don't send cookies of domain A without Domain attribute to domain B
-when domain A is a suffix match of domain B while using a cookiejar
-with :class:`http.cookiejar.DefaultCookiePolicy` policy. Patch by
-Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-03-06-09-38-40.bpo-36216.6q1m4a.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-03-06-09-38-40.bpo-36216.6q1m4a.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 5546394157f..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-03-06-09-38-40.bpo-36216.6q1m4a.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Changes urlsplit() to raise ValueError when the URL contains characters that
-decompose under IDNA encoding (NFKC-normalization) into characters that
-affect how the URL is parsed.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-02-26-12-51-35.bpo-36123.QRhhRS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-02-26-12-51-35.bpo-36123.QRhhRS.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a7e5bb8f43..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-02-26-12-51-35.bpo-36123.QRhhRS.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix race condition in test_socket.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-02-28-18-33-29.bpo-29571.r6b9fr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-02-28-18-33-29.bpo-29571.r6b9fr.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 0f40c98514c..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-02-28-18-33-29.bpo-29571.r6b9fr.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fix ``test_re.test_locale_flag()``:  use ``locale.getpreferredencoding()``
-rather than ``locale.getlocale()`` to get the locale encoding. With some
-locales, ``locale.getlocale()`` returns the wrong encoding.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-03-08-12-53-37.bpo-36234.NRVK6W.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-03-08-12-53-37.bpo-36234.NRVK6W.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 33178b6c389..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-03-08-12-53-37.bpo-36234.NRVK6W.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-test_posix.PosixUidGidTests: add tests for invalid uid/gid type (str).
-Initial patch written by David Malcolm.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2017-12-19-20-42-36.bpo-32217.axXcjA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2017-12-19-20-42-36.bpo-32217.axXcjA.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 67feb9e9c3c..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2017-12-19-20-42-36.bpo-32217.axXcjA.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix freeze script on Windows.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2019-03-04-02-09-09.bpo-35132.1R_pnL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2019-03-04-02-09-09.bpo-35132.1R_pnL.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index d73452df429..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2019-03-04-02-09-09.bpo-35132.1R_pnL.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix py-list and py-bt commands of python-gdb.py on gdb7.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-02-24-07-52-39.bpo-24643.PofyiS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-02-24-07-52-39.bpo-24643.PofyiS.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 7bc62d8b8fe..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-02-24-07-52-39.bpo-24643.PofyiS.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix name collisions due to ``#define timezone _timezone`` in PC/pyconfig.h.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-03-11-09-33-47.bpo-36264.rTzWce.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-03-11-09-33-47.bpo-36264.rTzWce.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index aae59865811..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-03-11-09-33-47.bpo-36264.rTzWce.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Don't honor POSIX ``HOME`` in ``os.path.expanduser`` on windows.  Patch by
-Anthony Sottile.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-03-16-16-51-17.bpo-36312.Niwm-T.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-03-16-16-51-17.bpo-36312.Niwm-T.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b325db3a98..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2019-03-16-16-51-17.bpo-36312.Niwm-T.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fixed decoders for the following code pages: 50220, 50221, 50222, 50225,
-50227, 50229, 57002 through 57011, 65000 and 42.
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 11f5d0b5d3c..65cca826dd2 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is Python version 3.8.0 alpha 2
+This is Python version 3.8.0 alpha 3
 ====================================
 
 .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython.svg?branch=master