From 2ee776bcea795f0ef2247be9708251b3485a80a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Georg Brandl Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:37:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix merging mistake. --- Misc/NEWS | 318 ------------------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 318 deletions(-) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index eec93ed86c7..228db08c6f0 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -2429,324 +2429,6 @@ Library - Issue #8033: sqlite3: Fix 64-bit integer handling in user functions on 32-bit architectures. Initial patch by Philippe Devalkeneer. -Extension Modules ------------------ - -- Issue #15676: Now "mmap" check for empty files before doing the - offset check. Patch by Steven Willis. - -- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields - of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed. - -- Issue #15000: Support the "unique" x32 architecture in _posixsubprocess.c. - -- Issue #9041: An issue in ctypes.c_longdouble, ctypes.c_double, and - ctypes.c_float that caused an incorrect exception to be returned in the - case of overflow has been fixed. - -- Issue #14212: The re module didn't retain a reference to buffers it was - scanning, resulting in segfaults. - -Tests ------ - -- Issue #15304: Fix warning message when os.chdir() fails inside - test.support.temp_cwd(). Patch by Chris Jerdonek. - -- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in TestMaildir.test_create_tmp. Patch - by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #15747: ZFS always returns EOPNOTSUPP when attempting to set the - UF_IMMUTABLE flag (via either chflags or lchflags); refactor affected - tests in test_posix.py to account for this. - -- Issue #15285: Refactor the approach for testing connect timeouts using - two external hosts that have been configured specifically for this type - of test. - -- Issue #15615: Add some tests for the json module's handling of invalid - input data. Patch by Kushal Das. - -- Issue #15496: Add directory removal helpers for tests on Windows. - Patch by Jeremy Kloth. - -- Issue #15467: Move helpers for __sizeof__ tests into test_support. - Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #15320: Make iterating the list of tests thread-safe when running - tests in multiprocess mode. Patch by Chris Jerdonek. - -- Issue #15230: Adopted a more systematic approach in the runpy tests - -- Issue #15300: Ensure the temporary test working directories are in the same - parent folder when running tests in multiprocess mode from a Python build. - Patch by Chris Jerdonek. - -- test_nntplib now tolerates being run from behind NNTP gateways that add - "X-Antivirus" headers to articles - -- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings - block loading of the gdb hooks - -- Issue #14026: In test_cmd_line_script, check that sys.argv is populated - correctly for the various invocation approaches (Patch by Jason Yeo) - -- Issue #14032: Fix incorrect variable name in test_cmd_line_script debugging - message (Patch by Jason Yeo) - -- Issue #14589: Update certificate chain for sha256.tbs-internet.com, fixing - a test failure in test_ssl. - -Build ------ - -- Issue #15923: fix a mistake in asdl_c.py that resulted in a TypeError after - 2801bf875a24 (see #15801). - -- Issue #11715: Fix multiarch detection without having Debian development - tools (dpkg-dev) installed. - -- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a readonly - source directory. (Somewhat related to Issue #9860.) - -- Issue #15822: Ensure 2to3 grammar pickles are properly installed. - -- Issue #15560: Fix building _sqlite3 extension on OS X with an SDK. - -- Issue #8847: Disable COMDAT folding in Windows PGO builds. - -- Issue #14197: For OS X framework builds, ensure links to the shared - library are created with the proper ABI suffix. - -- Issue #14472: Update .gitignore. Patch by Matej Cepl. - -- The Windows build now uses OpenSSL 1.0.0j and bzip2 1.0.6. - -- Issue #14557: Fix extensions build on HP-UX. Patch by Adi Roiban. - -- Issue #14437: Fix building the _io module under Cygwin. - -- Issue #14387: Do not include accu.h from Python.h. - -- Issue #14359: Only use O_CLOEXEC in _posixmodule.c if it is defined. - Based on patch from Hervé Coatanhay. - -- Issue #14018: Fix OS X Tcl/Tk framework checking when using OS X SDKs. - -Documentation -------------- - -- Issue #16115: Improve subprocess.Popen() documentation around args, shell, - and executable arguments. - -- Issue #13498: Clarify docs of os.makedirs()'s exist_ok argument. Done with - great native-speaker help from R. David Murray. - -- Issue #15533: Clarify docs and add tests for subprocess.Popen()'s cwd - argument. - -- Issue #15979: Improve timeit documentation. - -- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in int()'s signature and - arguments. - -- Issue #15935: Clarification of argparse docs, re: add_argument() type and - default arguments. Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek. - -- Issue #11964: Document a change in v3.2 to the behavior of the indent - parameter of json encoding operations. - -- Issue #14674: Add a discussion of the json module's standard compliance. - Patch by Chris Rebert. - -- Issue #15630: Add an example for "continue" stmt in the tutorial. Patch by - Daniel Ellis. - -- Issue #15444: Use proper spelling for non-ASCII contributor names. Patch - by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue 15482: Properly document the default 'level' value for __import__() - while warning about using negative values. - -- Issue #15230: Clearly document some of the limitations of the runpy - module and nudge readers towards importlib when appropriate. - -- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or - execfile(). - -- Issue #8799: Fix and improve the threading.Condition documentation. - -- Issue #14943: Correct a default argument value for winreg.OpenKey - and correctly list the argument names in the function's explanation. - -- Issue #14034: added the argparse tutorial. - -- Issue #15250: Document that filecmp.dircmp compares files shallowly. Patch - contributed by Chris Jerdonek. - -Tools/Demos ------------ - -- Issue #15378: Fix Tools/unicode/comparecodecs.py. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. - -- Issue #14695: Fix missing support for starred assignments in - Tools/parser/unparse.py. - - -What's New in Python 3.2.3? -=========================== - -*Release date: 10-Apr-2012* - -Build ------ - -- Issue #14387: Work around a problem building extension modules under Windows - by undefining ``small`` before use in the Python headers. - - -What's New in Python 3.2.3 release candidate 2? -=============================================== - -*Release date: 18-Mar-2012* - -Library -------- - -- Issue #6884: Fix long-standing bugs with MANIFEST.in parsing in distutils - on Windows. - -Extension Modules ------------------ - -- Issue #14234: CVE-2012-0876: Randomize hashes of xml attributes in the hash - table internal to the pyexpat module's copy of the expat library to avoid a - denial of service due to hash collisions. Patch by David Malcolm with some - modifications by the expat project. - - -What's New in Python 3.2.3 release candidate 1? -=============================================== - -*Release date: 24-Feb-2012* - -Core and Builtins ------------------ - -- Issue #13703: oCERT-2011-003: add -R command-line option and PYTHONHASHSEED - environment variable, to provide an opt-in way to protect against denial of - service attacks due to hash collisions within the dict and set types. Patch - by David Malcolm, based on work by Victor Stinner. - -- Issue #14084: Fix a file descriptor leak when importing a module with a - bad encoding. - -- Issue #13020: Fix a reference leak when allocating a structsequence object - fails. Patch by Suman Saha. - -- Issue #13908: Ready types returned from PyType_FromSpec. - -- Issue #11235: Fix OverflowError when trying to import a source file whose - modification time doesn't fit in a 32-bit timestamp. - -- Fix the builtin module initialization code to store the init function for - future reinitialization. - -- Issue #8052: The posix subprocess module would take a long time closing - all possible file descriptors in the child process rather than just open - file descriptors. It now closes only the open fds if possible for the - default close_fds=True behavior. - -- Issue #13629: Renumber the tokens in token.h so that they match the indexes - into _PyParser_TokenNames. - -- Fix the fix for issue #12149: it was incorrect, although it had the side - effect of appearing to resolve the issue. Thanks to Mark Shannon for - noticing. - -- Issue #13505: Pickle bytes objects in a way that is compatible with - Python 2 when using protocols <= 2. - -- Issue #11147: Fix an unused argument in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER. (Fix - given by Campbell Barton). - -- Issue #7111: Python can now be run without a stdin, stdout or stderr - stream. It was already the case with Python 2. However, the corresponding - sys module entries are now set to None (instead of an unusable file object). - -- Issue #13436: Fix a bogus error message when an AST object was passed - an invalid integer value. - -- Issue #13338: Handle all enumerations in _Py_ANNOTATE_MEMORY_ORDER - to allow compiling extension modules with -Wswitch-enum on gcc. - Initial patch by Floris Bruynooghe. - -- Issue #13333: The UTF-7 decoder now accepts lone surrogates (the encoder - already accepts them). - -- Issue #13342: input() used to ignore sys.stdin's and sys.stdout's unicode - error handler in interactive mode (when calling into PyOS_Readline()). - -- Issue #13343: Fix a SystemError when a lambda expression uses a global - variable in the default value of a keyword-only argument: - (lambda *, arg=GLOBAL_NAME: None) - -- Issue #10519: Avoid unnecessary recursive function calls in - setobject.c. - -- Issue #10363: Deallocate global locks in Py_Finalize(). - -- Issue #13018: Fix reference leaks in error paths in dictobject.c. - Patch by Suman Saha. - -- Issue #1294232: In a few cases involving metaclass inheritance, the - interpreter would sometimes invoke the wrong metaclass when building a new - class object. These cases now behave correctly. Patch by Daniel Urban. - -- Issue #12604: VTRACE macro expanded to no-op in _sre.c to avoid compiler - warnings. Patch by Josh Triplett and Petri Lehtinen. - -- Issue #13188: When called without an explicit traceback argument, - generator.throw() now gets the traceback from the passed exception's - ``__traceback__`` attribute. Patch by Petri Lehtinen. - -- Issue #7833: Extension modules built using distutils on Windows will no - longer include a "manifest" to prevent them failing at import time in some - embedded situations. - -- Issue #13063: the Windows error ERROR_NO_DATA (numbered 232 and described - as "The pipe is being closed") is now mapped to POSIX errno EPIPE - (previously EINVAL). - -- Issue #12911: Fix memory consumption when calculating the repr() of huge - tuples or lists. - -- Issue #7732: Don't open a directory as a file anymore while importing a - module. Ignore the direcotry if its name matchs the module name (e.g. - "__init__.py") and raise a ImportError instead. - -- Issue #13021: Missing decref on an error path. Thanks to Suman Saha for - finding the bug and providing a patch. - -- Issue #12973: Fix overflow checks that relied on undefined behaviour in - list_repeat (listobject.c) and islice_next (itertoolsmodule.c). These bugs - caused test failures with recent versions of Clang. - -- Issue #12802: the Windows error ERROR_DIRECTORY (numbered 267) is now - mapped to POSIX errno ENOTDIR (previously EINVAL). - -- Issue #9200: The str.is* methods now work with strings that contain non-BMP - characters even in narrow Unicode builds. - -- Issue #12791: Break reference cycles early when a generator exits with - an exception. - -- Issue #12266: Fix str.capitalize() to correctly uppercase/lowercase - titlecased and cased non-letter characters. - -Library -------- - - HTMLParser is now able to handle slashes in the start tag. - Issue #13641: Decoding functions in the base64 module now accept ASCII-only