diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 7895e7531d7..e9e736c0315 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -88,6 +88,15 @@ Extensions Modules Library ------- +- Issue #2315: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now accounts for + daylight savings time in calculating the next rollover. + +- Issue #2316: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now calculates + rollovers correctly even when nothing is logged for a while. + +- Issue #2317: logging.handlers: TimedRotatingFileHandler now uses improved + logic for removing old files. + - Issue #2495: tokenize.untokenize now inserts a space between two consecutive string literals; previously, ["" ""] was rendered as [""""], which is incorrect python code. @@ -209,7 +218,7 @@ Build C API ----- -- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and +- Patch #2477: Added PyParser_ParseFileFlagsEx() and PyParser_ParseStringFlagsFilenameEx() What's New in Python 2.6 alpha 1? @@ -227,7 +236,7 @@ Core and builtins - Patch #1759: Backport of PEP 3129 class decorators. -- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see +- Issue #1881: An internal parser limit has been increased. Also see issue 215555 for a discussion. - Added the future_builtins module, which contains hex() and oct(). @@ -254,8 +263,8 @@ Core and builtins - Fixed several potential crashes, all caused by specially crafted __del__ methods exploiting objects in temporarily inconsistent state. -- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also - prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access a slot +- Issue #2115: Important speedup in setting __slot__ attributes. Also + prevent a possible crash: an Abstract Base Class would try to access a slot on a registered virtual subclass. - Fixed repr() and str() of complex numbers with infinity or nan as real or @@ -298,7 +307,7 @@ Core and builtins generator. - Issue #1920: "while 0" statements were completely removed by the compiler, - even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is supposed to be run when + even in the presence of an "else" clause, which is supposed to be run when the condition is false. Now the compiler correctly emits bytecode for the "else" suite. @@ -1836,10 +1845,10 @@ C API limit is a macro ``PyName_MAXFREELIST`` inside an #ifndef block. - ``PySet_Add()`` can now modify a newly created frozenset. Similarly to - ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new frozenset; but + ``PyTuple_SetItem``, it can be used to populate a brand new frozenset; but it does not steal a reference to the added item. -- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API. +- Added ``PySet_Check()`` and ``PyFrozenSet_Check()`` to the set API. - Backport of PyUnicode_FromString(), _FromStringAndSize(), _Format and _FormatV from Python 3.0. Made PyLong_AsSsize_t and PyLong_FromSsize_t @@ -1892,7 +1901,7 @@ C API Windows ------- -- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now requires +- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now requires Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION macros are set to Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64 builds.