diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index 2243329744c..1a51847c554 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
 /*--start constants--*/
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION        3
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION        9
-#define PY_MICRO_VERSION        0
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       0
+#define PY_MICRO_VERSION        1
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_GAMMA
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       1
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION              "3.9.0+"
+#define PY_VERSION              "3.9.1rc1"
 /*--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 40b4579f4c7..6411c8cd6be 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Sun Oct  4 19:26:28 2020
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Tue Nov 24 17:42:56 2020
 topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
            '\n'
@@ -700,6 +700,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      'syntax or\n'
                      '     built-in functions. See Special method lookup.\n'
                      '\n'
+                     '   For certain sensitive attribute accesses, raises an '
+                     'auditing event\n'
+                     '   "object.__getattr__" with arguments "obj" and '
+                     '"name".\n'
+                     '\n'
                      'object.__setattr__(self, name, value)\n'
                      '\n'
                      '   Called when an attribute assignment is attempted.  '
@@ -716,6 +721,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      'for example,\n'
                      '   "object.__setattr__(self, name, value)".\n'
                      '\n'
+                     '   For certain sensitive attribute assignments, raises '
+                     'an auditing\n'
+                     '   event "object.__setattr__" with arguments "obj", '
+                     '"name", "value".\n'
+                     '\n'
                      'object.__delattr__(self, name)\n'
                      '\n'
                      '   Like "__setattr__()" but for attribute deletion '
@@ -724,6 +734,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                      'obj.name" is\n'
                      '   meaningful for the object.\n'
                      '\n'
+                     '   For certain sensitive attribute deletions, raises an '
+                     'auditing event\n'
+                     '   "object.__delattr__" with arguments "obj" and '
+                     '"name".\n'
+                     '\n'
                      'object.__dir__(self)\n'
                      '\n'
                      '   Called when "dir()" is called on the object. A '
@@ -1464,8 +1479,8 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                    '\n'
                    '   Called when the instance is “called” as a function; if '
                    'this method\n'
-                   '   is defined, "x(arg1, arg2, ...)" is a shorthand for\n'
-                   '   "x.__call__(arg1, arg2, ...)".\n',
+                   '   is defined, "x(arg1, arg2, ...)" roughly translates to\n'
+                   '   "type(x).__call__(x, arg1, ...)".\n',
  'calls': 'Calls\n'
           '*****\n'
           '\n'
@@ -3461,16 +3476,21 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   '   on the value to determine if the result is true or '
                   'false.\n'
                   '\n'
-                  '   By default, "__ne__()" delegates to "__eq__()" and '
-                  'inverts the\n'
-                  '   result unless it is "NotImplemented".  There are no '
-                  'other implied\n'
-                  '   relationships among the comparison operators, for '
-                  'example, the\n'
-                  '   truth of "(x<y or x==y)" does not imply "x<=y". To '
-                  'automatically\n'
-                  '   generate ordering operations from a single root '
-                  'operation, see\n'
+                  '   By default, "object" implements "__eq__()" by using '
+                  '"is", returning\n'
+                  '   "NotImplemented" in the case of a false comparison: '
+                  '"True if x is y\n'
+                  '   else NotImplemented". For "__ne__()", by default it '
+                  'delegates to\n'
+                  '   "__eq__()" and inverts the result unless it is '
+                  '"NotImplemented".\n'
+                  '   There are no other implied relationships among the '
+                  'comparison\n'
+                  '   operators or default implementations; for example, the '
+                  'truth of\n'
+                  '   "(x<y or x==y)" does not imply "x<=y". To automatically '
+                  'generate\n'
+                  '   ordering operations from a single root operation, see\n'
                   '   "functools.total_ordering()".\n'
                   '\n'
                   '   See the paragraph on "__hash__()" for some important '
@@ -6395,8 +6415,8 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '\n'
            '* other future statements.\n'
            '\n'
-           'The only feature in Python 3.7 that requires using the future\n'
-           'statement is "annotations".\n'
+           'The only feature that requires using the future statement is\n'
+           '"annotations" (see **PEP 563**).\n'
            '\n'
            'All historical features enabled by the future statement are still\n'
            'recognized by Python 3.  The list includes "absolute_import",\n'
@@ -6928,13 +6948,14 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   '\n'
                   '     If the right operand’s type is a subclass of the left '
                   'operand’s\n'
-                  '     type and that subclass provides the reflected method '
-                  'for the\n'
-                  '     operation, this method will be called before the left '
-                  'operand’s\n'
-                  '     non-reflected method.  This behavior allows subclasses '
-                  'to\n'
-                  '     override their ancestors’ operations.\n'
+                  '     type and that subclass provides a different '
+                  'implementation of the\n'
+                  '     reflected method for the operation, this method will '
+                  'be called\n'
+                  '     before the left operand’s non-reflected method. This '
+                  'behavior\n'
+                  '     allows subclasses to override their ancestors’ '
+                  'operations.\n'
                   '\n'
                   'object.__iadd__(self, other)\n'
                   'object.__isub__(self, other)\n'
@@ -8251,16 +8272,21 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  '   on the value to determine if the result is true or '
                  'false.\n'
                  '\n'
-                 '   By default, "__ne__()" delegates to "__eq__()" and '
-                 'inverts the\n'
-                 '   result unless it is "NotImplemented".  There are no other '
-                 'implied\n'
-                 '   relationships among the comparison operators, for '
-                 'example, the\n'
-                 '   truth of "(x<y or x==y)" does not imply "x<=y". To '
-                 'automatically\n'
-                 '   generate ordering operations from a single root '
-                 'operation, see\n'
+                 '   By default, "object" implements "__eq__()" by using "is", '
+                 'returning\n'
+                 '   "NotImplemented" in the case of a false comparison: "True '
+                 'if x is y\n'
+                 '   else NotImplemented". For "__ne__()", by default it '
+                 'delegates to\n'
+                 '   "__eq__()" and inverts the result unless it is '
+                 '"NotImplemented".\n'
+                 '   There are no other implied relationships among the '
+                 'comparison\n'
+                 '   operators or default implementations; for example, the '
+                 'truth of\n'
+                 '   "(x<y or x==y)" does not imply "x<=y". To automatically '
+                 'generate\n'
+                 '   ordering operations from a single root operation, see\n'
                  '   "functools.total_ordering()".\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   See the paragraph on "__hash__()" for some important '
@@ -8490,6 +8516,10 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'syntax or\n'
                  '     built-in functions. See Special method lookup.\n'
                  '\n'
+                 '   For certain sensitive attribute accesses, raises an '
+                 'auditing event\n'
+                 '   "object.__getattr__" with arguments "obj" and "name".\n'
+                 '\n'
                  'object.__setattr__(self, name, value)\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Called when an attribute assignment is attempted.  This '
@@ -8506,6 +8536,11 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'example,\n'
                  '   "object.__setattr__(self, name, value)".\n'
                  '\n'
+                 '   For certain sensitive attribute assignments, raises an '
+                 'auditing\n'
+                 '   event "object.__setattr__" with arguments "obj", "name", '
+                 '"value".\n'
+                 '\n'
                  'object.__delattr__(self, name)\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Like "__setattr__()" but for attribute deletion instead '
@@ -8514,6 +8549,10 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'obj.name" is\n'
                  '   meaningful for the object.\n'
                  '\n'
+                 '   For certain sensitive attribute deletions, raises an '
+                 'auditing event\n'
+                 '   "object.__delattr__" with arguments "obj" and "name".\n'
+                 '\n'
                  'object.__dir__(self)\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Called when "dir()" is called on the object. A sequence '
@@ -9307,8 +9346,8 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  '\n'
                  '   Called when the instance is “called” as a function; if '
                  'this method\n'
-                 '   is defined, "x(arg1, arg2, ...)" is a shorthand for\n'
-                 '   "x.__call__(arg1, arg2, ...)".\n'
+                 '   is defined, "x(arg1, arg2, ...)" roughly translates to\n'
+                 '   "type(x).__call__(x, arg1, ...)".\n'
                  '\n'
                  '\n'
                  'Emulating container types\n'
@@ -9641,13 +9680,14 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  '\n'
                  '     If the right operand’s type is a subclass of the left '
                  'operand’s\n'
-                 '     type and that subclass provides the reflected method '
-                 'for the\n'
-                 '     operation, this method will be called before the left '
-                 'operand’s\n'
-                 '     non-reflected method.  This behavior allows subclasses '
-                 'to\n'
-                 '     override their ancestors’ operations.\n'
+                 '     type and that subclass provides a different '
+                 'implementation of the\n'
+                 '     reflected method for the operation, this method will be '
+                 'called\n'
+                 '     before the left operand’s non-reflected method. This '
+                 'behavior\n'
+                 '     allows subclasses to override their ancestors’ '
+                 'operations.\n'
                  '\n'
                  'object.__iadd__(self, other)\n'
                  'object.__isub__(self, other)\n'
@@ -11072,9 +11112,10 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
  'subscriptions': 'Subscriptions\n'
                   '*************\n'
                   '\n'
-                  'A subscription selects an item of a sequence (string, tuple '
-                  'or list)\n'
-                  'or mapping (dictionary) object:\n'
+                  'Subscription of a sequence (string, tuple or list) or '
+                  'mapping\n'
+                  '(dictionary) object usually selects an item from the '
+                  'collection:\n'
                   '\n'
                   '   subscription ::= primary "[" expression_list "]"\n'
                   '\n'
@@ -11125,7 +11166,13 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                   '\n'
                   'A string’s items are characters.  A character is not a '
                   'separate data\n'
-                  'type but a string of exactly one character.\n',
+                  'type but a string of exactly one character.\n'
+                  '\n'
+                  'Subscription of certain *classes* or *types* creates a '
+                  'generic alias.\n'
+                  'In this case, user-defined classes can support subscription '
+                  'by\n'
+                  'providing a "__class_getitem__()" classmethod.\n',
  'truth': 'Truth Value Testing\n'
           '*******************\n'
           '\n'
@@ -11371,6 +11418,27 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
           'representation\n'
           '   in computers.\n'
           '\n'
+          '   The string representations of the numeric classes, computed by\n'
+          '   "__repr__()" and "__str__()", have the following properties:\n'
+          '\n'
+          '   * They are valid numeric literals which, when passed to their '
+          'class\n'
+          '     constructor, produce an object having the value of the '
+          'original\n'
+          '     numeric.\n'
+          '\n'
+          '   * The representation is in base 10, when possible.\n'
+          '\n'
+          '   * Leading zeros, possibly excepting a single zero before a '
+          'decimal\n'
+          '     point, are not shown.\n'
+          '\n'
+          '   * Trailing zeros, possibly excepting a single zero after a '
+          'decimal\n'
+          '     point, are not shown.\n'
+          '\n'
+          '   * A sign is shown only when the number is negative.\n'
+          '\n'
           '   Python distinguishes between integers, floating point numbers, '
           'and\n'
           '   complex numbers:\n'
@@ -12422,6 +12490,21 @@ topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
                  'positional\n'
                  '   argument and a possibly empty set of keyword arguments.\n'
                  '\n'
+                 '   Dictionaries can be created by several means:\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   * Use a comma-separated list of "key: value" pairs within '
+                 'braces:\n'
+                 '     "{\'jack\': 4098, \'sjoerd\': 4127}" or "{4098: '
+                 "'jack', 4127:\n"
+                 '     \'sjoerd\'}"\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   * Use a dict comprehension: "{}", "{x: x ** 2 for x in '
+                 'range(10)}"\n'
+                 '\n'
+                 '   * Use the type constructor: "dict()", "dict([(\'foo\', '
+                 "100), ('bar',\n"
+                 '     200)])", "dict(foo=100, bar=200)"\n'
+                 '\n'
                  '   If no positional argument is given, an empty dictionary '
                  'is created.\n'
                  '   If a positional argument is given and it is a mapping '
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.1rc1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.1rc1.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0524f85e7a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.1rc1.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,948 @@
+.. bpo: 42103
+.. date: 2020-10-23-19-19-30
+.. nonce: cILT66
+.. release date: 2020-11-24
+.. section: Security
+
+Prevented potential DoS attack via CPU and RAM exhaustion when processing
+malformed Apple Property List files in binary format.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42051
+.. date: 2020-10-19-10-56-27
+.. nonce: EU_B7u
+.. section: Security
+
+The :mod:`plistlib` module no longer accepts entity declarations in XML
+plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. This should not affect users as
+entity declarations are not used in regular plist files.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40791
+.. date: 2020-05-28-06-06-47
+.. nonce: QGZClX
+.. section: Security
+
+Add ``volatile`` to the accumulator variable in ``hmac.compare_digest``,
+making constant-time-defeating optimizations less likely.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41686
+.. date: 2020-11-17-16-25-50
+.. nonce: hX77kL
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+On Windows, the ``SIGINT`` event, ``_PyOS_SigintEvent()``, is now created
+even if Python is configured to not install signal handlers (if
+:c:member:`PyConfig.install_signal_handlers` equals to 0, or
+``Py_InitializeEx(0)``).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42381
+.. date: 2020-11-16-23-45-56
+.. nonce: G4AWxL
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Allow assignment expressions in set literals and set comprehensions as per
+PEP 572. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42374
+.. date: 2020-11-16-17-57-09
+.. nonce: t7np1E
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a regression introduced by the new parser, where an unparenthesized
+walrus operator was not allowed within generator expressions.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42296
+.. date: 2020-11-13-13-53-11
+.. nonce: DuGrLJ
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+On Windows, fix a regression in signal handling which prevented to interrupt
+a program using CTRL+C. The signal handler can be run in a thread different
+than the Python thread, in which case the test deciding if the thread can
+handle signals is wrong.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42332
+.. date: 2020-11-12-23-16-14
+.. nonce: fEQIdk
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+:class:`types.GenericAlias` objects can now be the targets of weakrefs.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42218
+.. date: 2020-10-31-17-50-23
+.. nonce: Dp_Z3v
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed a bug in the PEG parser that was causing crashes in debug mode. Now
+errors are checked in left-recursive rules to avoid cases where such errors
+do not get handled in time and appear as long-distance crashes in other
+places.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42214
+.. date: 2020-10-30-22-16-30
+.. nonce: lXskM_
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed a possible crash in the PEG parser when checking for the '!=' token in
+the ``barry_as_flufl`` rule. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42143
+.. date: 2020-10-27-21-34-05
+.. nonce: N6KXUO
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix handling of errors during creation of ``PyFunctionObject``, which
+resulted in operations on uninitialized memory. Patch by Yonatan
+Goldschmidt.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41659
+.. date: 2020-10-27-18-32-49
+.. nonce: d4a-8o
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a bug in the parser, where a curly brace following a `primary` didn't
+fail immediately. This led to invalid expressions like `a {b}` to throw a
+:exc:`SyntaxError` with a wrong offset, or invalid expressions ending with a
+curly brace like `a {` to not fail immediately in the REPL.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42150
+.. date: 2020-10-25-21-14-18
+.. nonce: b70u_T
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix possible buffer overflow in the new parser when checking for
+continuation lines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42123
+.. date: 2020-10-23-02-43-24
+.. nonce: 64gJWC
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Run the parser two times. On the first run, disable all the rules that only
+generate better error messages to gain performance. If there's a parse
+failure, run the parser a second time with those enabled.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41910
+.. date: 2020-10-21-14-40-54
+.. nonce: CzBMit
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Document the default implementation of `object.__eq__`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42057
+.. date: 2020-10-20-11-36-14
+.. nonce: BI-OoV
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix peephole optimizer misoptimize conditional jump + JUMP_IF_NOT_EXC_MATCH
+pair.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41984
+.. date: 2020-10-14-16-19-43
+.. nonce: SEtKMr
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The garbage collector now tracks all user-defined classes. Patch by Brandt
+Bucher.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41993
+.. date: 2020-10-10-13-53-52
+.. nonce: YMzixQ
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed potential issues with removing not completely initialized module from
+``sys.modules`` when import fails.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41979
+.. date: 2020-10-09-10-55-50
+.. nonce: ImXIk2
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Star-unpacking is now allowed for with item's targets in the PEG parser.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41909
+.. date: 2020-10-04-10-55-12
+.. nonce: BqHPcm
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fixed stack overflow in :func:`issubclass` and :func:`isinstance` when
+getting the ``__bases__`` attribute leads to infinite recursion.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41894
+.. date: 2020-10-02-11-35-33
+.. nonce: ffmtOt
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+When loading a native module and a load failure occurs, prevent a possible
+UnicodeDecodeError when not running in a UTF-8 locale by decoding the load
+error message using the current locale's encoding.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39934
+.. date: 2020-09-24-12-15-45
+.. nonce: YVHTCF
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Correctly count control blocks in 'except' in compiler. Ensures that a
+syntax error, rather a fatal error, occurs for deeply nested, named
+exception handlers.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42328
+.. date: 2020-11-15-17-02-00
+.. nonce: bqpPlR
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed :meth:`tkinter.ttk.Style.map`. The function accepts now the
+representation of the default state as empty sequence (as returned by
+``Style.map()``). The structure of the result is now the same on all
+platform and does not depend on the value of ``wantobjects``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42345
+.. date: 2020-11-15-15-23-34
+.. nonce: hiIR7x
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix various issues with ``typing.Literal`` parameter handling (flatten,
+deduplicate, use type to cache key). Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42350
+.. date: 2020-11-13-18-53-50
+.. nonce: rsql7V
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix the :class:`threading.Thread` class at fork: do nothing if the thread is
+already stopped (ex: fork called at Python exit). Previously, an error was
+logged in the child process.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42014
+.. date: 2020-11-10-15-40-56
+.. nonce: ShM37l
+.. section: Library
+
+The ``onerror`` callback from ``shutil.rmtree`` now receives correct
+function when ``os.open`` fails.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42237
+.. date: 2020-11-10-14-27-49
+.. nonce: F363jO
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix `os.sendfile()` on illumos.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42249
+.. date: 2020-11-03-09-22-56
+.. nonce: vfNO2u
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed writing binary Plist files larger than 4 GiB.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35455
+.. date: 2020-11-02-14-10-48
+.. nonce: Q1xTIo
+.. section: Library
+
+On Solaris, :func:`~time.thread_time` is now implemented with
+``gethrvtime()`` because ``clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID)`` is not
+always available. Patch by Jakub Kulik.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42233
+.. date: 2020-11-02-01-31-15
+.. nonce: YxRj-h
+.. section: Library
+
+The :func:`repr` of :mod:`typing` types containing :ref:`Generic Alias Types
+<types-genericalias>` previously did not show the parameterized types in the
+``GenericAlias``.  They have now been changed to do so.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41754
+.. date: 2020-11-01-15-07-20
+.. nonce: DraSZh
+.. section: Library
+
+webbrowser: Ignore *NotADirectoryError* when calling ``xdg-settings``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29566
+.. date: 2020-10-31-13-28-36
+.. nonce: 6aDbty
+.. section: Library
+
+``binhex.binhex()`` consisently writes macOS 9 line endings.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42183
+.. date: 2020-10-29-11-17-35
+.. nonce: 50ZcIi
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix a stack overflow error for asyncio Task or Future repr().
+
+The overflow occurs under some circumstances when a Task or Future
+recursively returns itself.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42146
+.. date: 2020-10-25-19-25-02
+.. nonce: 6A8uvS
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix memory leak in :func:`subprocess.Popen` in case an uid (gid) specified
+in `user` (`group`, `extra_groups`) overflows `uid_t` (`gid_t`).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42140
+.. date: 2020-10-24-04-02-36
+.. nonce: miLqvb
+.. section: Library
+
+Improve asyncio.wait function to create the futures set just one time.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42103
+.. date: 2020-10-23-19-20-14
+.. nonce: C5obK2
+.. section: Library
+
+:exc:`~plistlib.InvalidFileException` and :exc:`RecursionError` are now the
+only errors caused by loading malformed binary Plist file (previously
+ValueError and TypeError could be raised in some specific cases).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41052
+.. date: 2020-10-21-23-45-02
+.. nonce: 3N7J2J
+.. section: Library
+
+Pickling heap types implemented in C with protocols 0 and 1 raises now an
+error instead of producing incorrect data.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41491
+.. date: 2020-10-19-14-02-09
+.. nonce: d1BUWH
+.. section: Library
+
+plistlib: fix parsing XML plists with hexadecimal integer values
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42065
+.. date: 2020-10-17-23-17-18
+.. nonce: 85BsRA
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix an incorrectly formatted error from :meth:`_codecs.charmap_decode` when
+called with a mapped value outside the range of valid Unicode code points.
+PR by Max Bernstein.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41966
+.. date: 2020-10-17-07-52-53
+.. nonce: gwEQRZ
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix pickling pure Python :class:`datetime.time` subclasses. Patch by Dean
+Inwood.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41976
+.. date: 2020-10-08-18-22-28
+.. nonce: Svm0wb
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed a bug that was causing :func:`ctypes.util.find_library` to return
+``None`` when triying to locate a library in an environment when gcc>=9 is
+available and ``ldconfig`` is not. Patch by Pablo Galindo
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41900
+.. date: 2020-10-01-10-50-12
+.. nonce: Cho7oh
+.. section: Library
+
+C14N 2.0 serialisation in xml.etree.ElementTree failed for unprefixed
+attributes when a default namespace was defined.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41840
+.. date: 2020-09-23-23-17-59
+.. nonce: QRFr4L
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix a bug in the :mod:`symtable` module that was causing module-scope global
+variables to not be reported as both local and global. Patch by Pablo
+Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41831
+.. date: 2020-09-22-11-07-50
+.. nonce: k-Eop_
+.. section: Library
+
+``str()`` for the ``type`` attribute of the ``tkinter.Event`` object always
+returns now the numeric code returned by Tk instead of the name of the event
+type.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41817
+.. date: 2020-09-22-00-23-30
+.. nonce: bnh-VG
+.. section: Library
+
+fix `tkinter.EventType` Enum so all members are strings, and none are tuples
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41815
+.. date: 2020-09-19-23-14-54
+.. nonce: RNpuX3
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix SQLite3 segfault when backing up closed database. Patch contributed by
+Peter David McCormick.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41316
+.. date: 2020-07-28-12-08-58
+.. nonce: bSCbK4
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix the :mod:`tarfile` module to write only basename of TAR file to GZIP
+compression header.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 16936
+.. date: 2020-07-08-09-45-00
+.. nonce: z8o8Pn
+.. section: Library
+
+Allow ``ctypes.wintypes`` to be imported on non-Windows systems.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40592
+.. date: 2020-05-14-16-01-34
+.. nonce: Cmk855
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`shutil.which` now ignores empty entries in :envvar:`PATHEXT` instead
+of treating them as a match.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40550
+.. date: 2020-05-08-21-30-54
+.. nonce: i7GWkb
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix time-of-check/time-of-action issue in subprocess.Popen.send_signal.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40492
+.. date: 2020-05-04-12-16-00
+.. nonce: ONk9Na
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ``--outfile`` for :mod:`cProfile` / :mod:`profile` not writing the
+output file in the original directory when the program being profiled
+changes the working directory.  PR by Anthony Sottile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40105
+.. date: 2020-04-03-16-13-59
+.. nonce: hfM2c0
+.. section: Library
+
+ZipFile truncates files to avoid corruption when a shorter comment is
+provided in append ("a") mode. Patch by Jan Mazur.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 27321
+.. date: 2020-01-19-18-40-26
+.. nonce: 8e6SpM
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed KeyError exception when flattening an email to a string attempts to
+replace a non-existent Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42153
+.. date: 2020-11-15-13-46-31
+.. nonce: KjBhx3
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Fix the URL for the IMAP protocol documents.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42061
+.. date: 2020-10-28-21-39-45
+.. nonce: _x-0sg
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Document __format__ functionality for IP addresses.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42010
+.. date: 2020-10-21-02-21-14
+.. nonce: 76vJ0u
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Clarify that subscription expressions are also valid for certain
+:term:`classes <class>` and :term:`types <type>` in the standard library,
+and for user-defined classes and types if the classmethod
+:meth:`__class_getitem__` is provided.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41805
+.. date: 2020-10-10-01-36-37
+.. nonce: l-CGv5
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Documented :ref:`generic alias type <types-genericalias>` and
+:data:`types.GenericAlias`. Also added an entry in glossary for
+:term:`generic types <generic type>`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41774
+.. date: 2020-09-24-15-35-13
+.. nonce: 5IqdGP
+.. section: Documentation
+
+In Programming FAQ "Sequences (Tuples/Lists)" section, add "How do you
+remove multiple items from a list".
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35293
+.. date: 2020-09-12-17-37-13
+.. nonce: _cOwPD
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Fix RemovedInSphinx40Warning when building the documentation. Patch by
+Dong-hee Na.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41726
+.. date: 2020-09-08-16-57-09
+.. nonce: g0UXrn
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Update the refcounts info of ``PyType_FromModuleAndSpec``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39693
+.. date: 2020-02-24-09-02-05
+.. nonce: QXw0Fm
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Fix tarfile's extractfile documentation
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39416
+.. date: 2020-01-22-05-14-53
+.. nonce: uYjhEm
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Document some restrictions on the default string representations of numeric
+classes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40754
+.. date: 2020-11-13-21-51-34
+.. nonce: Ekoxkg
+.. section: Tests
+
+Include ``_testinternalcapi`` module in Windows installer for test suite
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41739
+.. date: 2020-10-12-00-11-47
+.. nonce: wSCc4K
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix test_logging.test_race_between_set_target_and_flush(): the test now
+waits until all threads complete to avoid leaking running threads.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41970
+.. date: 2020-10-08-14-00-17
+.. nonce: aZ8QFf
+.. section: Tests
+
+Avoid a test failure in ``test_lib2to3`` if the module has already imported
+at the time the test executes. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41944
+.. date: 2020-10-05-17-43-46
+.. nonce: rf1dYb
+.. section: Tests
+
+Tests for CJK codecs no longer call ``eval()`` on content received via HTTP.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41939
+.. date: 2020-10-05-09-37-43
+.. nonce: P4OlbA
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix test_site.test_license_exists_at_url(): call
+``urllib.request.urlcleanup()`` to reset the global
+``urllib.request._opener``. Patch by Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41561
+.. date: 2020-09-18-16-14-03
+.. nonce: uPnwrW
+.. section: Tests
+
+test_ssl: skip test_min_max_version_mismatch when TLS 1.0 is not available
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41602
+.. date: 2020-08-25-19-25-36
+.. nonce: Z64s0I
+.. section: Tests
+
+Add tests for SIGINT handling in the runpy module.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41306
+.. date: 2020-08-03-13-44-37
+.. nonce: VDoWXI
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fixed a failure in ``test_tk.test_widgets.ScaleTest`` happening when
+executing the test with Tk 8.6.10.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42398
+.. date: 2020-11-18-11-58-44
+.. nonce: Yt5wO8
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix a race condition in "make regen-all" when make -jN option is used to run
+jobs in parallel. The clinic.py script now only use atomic write to write
+files. Moveover, generated files are now left unchanged if the content does
+not change, to not change the file modification time.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41617
+.. date: 2020-11-13-15-04-53
+.. nonce: 98_oaE
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix building ``pycore_bitutils.h`` internal header on old clang version
+without ``__builtin_bswap16()`` (ex: Xcode 4.6.3 on Mac OS X 10.7). Patch by
+Joshua Root and Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38249
+.. date: 2020-09-28-21-56-51
+.. nonce: uzMCaZ
+.. section: Build
+
+Update :c:macro:`Py_UNREACHABLE` to use __builtin_unreachable() if only the
+compiler is able to use it. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40998
+.. date: 2020-06-17-09-05-02
+.. nonce: sgqmg9
+.. section: Build
+
+Addressed three compiler warnings found by undefined behavior sanitizer
+(ubsan).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42120
+.. date: 2020-11-16-22-41-02
+.. nonce: 9scgko
+.. section: Windows
+
+Remove macro definition of ``copysign`` (to ``_copysign``) in headers.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38439
+.. date: 2020-10-20-13-19-42
+.. nonce: eMLi-t
+.. section: Windows
+
+Updates the icons for IDLE in the Windows Store package.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41744
+.. date: 2020-09-11-17-59-33
+.. nonce: e_ugDQ
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fixes automatic import of props file when using the Nuget package.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41557
+.. date: 2020-08-26-09-35-06
+.. nonce: vt00cQ
+.. section: Windows
+
+Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.33.0.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38324
+.. date: 2020-05-30-02-46-43
+.. nonce: 476M-5
+.. section: Windows
+
+Avoid Unicode errors when accessing certain locale data on Windows.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41116
+.. date: 2020-11-15-16-43-45
+.. nonce: oCkbrF
+.. section: macOS
+
+Ensure distutils.unixxcompiler.find_library_file can find system provided
+libraries on macOS 11.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41100
+.. date: 2020-11-01-16-40-23
+.. nonce: BApztP
+.. section: macOS
+
+Add support for macOS 11 and Apple Silicon systems.
+
+It is now possible to build "Universal 2" binaries using
+"--enable-universalsdk --with-universal-archs=universal2".
+
+Binaries build on later macOS versions can be deployed back to older
+versions (tested up to macOS 10.9), when using the correct deployment
+target. This is tested using Xcode 11 and later.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38443
+.. date: 2020-10-23-10-26-53
+.. nonce: vu64tl
+.. section: macOS
+
+The ``--enable-universalsdk`` and ``--with-universal-archs`` options for the
+configure script now check that the specified architectures can be used.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41471
+.. date: 2020-10-19-12-25-19
+.. nonce: gwA7un
+.. section: macOS
+
+Ignore invalid prefix lengths in system proxy excludes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41557
+.. date: 2020-08-26-09-31-37
+.. nonce: mcQ75z
+.. section: macOS
+
+Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.33.0.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42426
+.. date: 2020-11-21-17-21-21
+.. nonce: kNnPoC
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Fix reporting offset of the RE error in searchengine.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42415
+.. date: 2020-11-20-01-30-27
+.. nonce: CyD-va
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Get docstrings for IDLE calltips more often by using inspect.getdoc.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33987
+.. date: 2020-10-24-21-27-37
+.. nonce: fIh9JL
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Mostly finish using ttk widgets, mainly for editor, settings, and searches.
+Some patches by Mark Roseman.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41775
+.. date: 2020-09-24-14-31-16
+.. nonce: sB8Vre
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Use 'IDLE Shell' as shell title
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35764
+.. date: 2020-09-22-11-13-45
+.. nonce: VoNa8y
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Rewrite the Calltips doc section.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40181
+.. date: 2020-09-22-00-45-40
+.. nonce: hhQi3z
+.. section: IDLE
+
+In calltips, stop reminding that '/' marks the end of positional-only
+arguments.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40511
+.. date: 2020-06-16-12-16-13
+.. nonce: XkihpM
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Typing opening and closing parentheses inside the parentheses of a function
+call will no longer cause unnecessary "flashing" off and on of an existing
+open call-tip, e.g. when typed in a string literal.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38439
+.. date: 2020-04-22-09-37-40
+.. nonce: ieXL-c
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Add a 256×256 pixel IDLE icon to the Windows .ico file. Created by Andrew
+Clover. Remove the low-color gif variations from the .ico file.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42015
+.. date: 2020-10-12-20-13-58
+.. nonce: X4H2_V
+.. section: C API
+
+Fix potential crash in deallocating method objects when dynamically
+allocated `PyMethodDef`'s lifetime is managed through the ``self`` argument
+of a `PyCFunction`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41986
+.. date: 2020-10-09-22-50-46
+.. nonce: JUPE59
+.. section: C API
+
+:c:data:`Py_FileSystemDefaultEncodeErrors` and :c:data:`Py_UTF8Mode` are
+available again in limited API.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-06-17-09-05-02.bpo-40998.sgqmg9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-06-17-09-05-02.bpo-40998.sgqmg9.rst
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index c268e4fd0d9..00000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-06-17-09-05-02.bpo-40998.sgqmg9.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Addressed three compiler warnings found by undefined behavior sanitizer
-(ubsan).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-09-28-21-56-51.bpo-38249.uzMCaZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-09-28-21-56-51.bpo-38249.uzMCaZ.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-09-28-21-56-51.bpo-38249.uzMCaZ.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Update :c:macro:`Py_UNREACHABLE` to use __builtin_unreachable() if only the
-compiler is able to use it. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-11-13-15-04-53.bpo-41617.98_oaE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-11-13-15-04-53.bpo-41617.98_oaE.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-11-13-15-04-53.bpo-41617.98_oaE.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fix building ``pycore_bitutils.h`` internal header on old clang version
-without ``__builtin_bswap16()`` (ex: Xcode 4.6.3 on Mac OS X 10.7). Patch by
-Joshua Root and Victor Stinner.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-11-18-11-58-44.bpo-42398.Yt5wO8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-11-18-11-58-44.bpo-42398.Yt5wO8.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-11-18-11-58-44.bpo-42398.Yt5wO8.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fix a race condition in "make regen-all" when make -jN option is used to run
-jobs in parallel. The clinic.py script now only use atomic write to write
-files. Moveover, generated files are now left unchanged if the content does not
-change, to not change the file modification time.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2020-10-09-22-50-46.bpo-41986.JUPE59.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2020-10-09-22-50-46.bpo-41986.JUPE59.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2020-10-09-22-50-46.bpo-41986.JUPE59.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-:c:data:`Py_FileSystemDefaultEncodeErrors` and :c:data:`Py_UTF8Mode` are
-available again in limited API.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2020-10-12-20-13-58.bpo-42015.X4H2_V.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2020-10-12-20-13-58.bpo-42015.X4H2_V.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2020-10-12-20-13-58.bpo-42015.X4H2_V.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fix potential crash in deallocating method objects when dynamically
-allocated `PyMethodDef`'s lifetime is managed through the ``self``
-argument of a `PyCFunction`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-09-24-12-15-45.bpo-39934.YVHTCF.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-09-24-12-15-45.bpo-39934.YVHTCF.rst
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Correctly count control blocks in 'except' in compiler. Ensures that a
-syntax error, rather a fatal error, occurs for deeply nested, named
-exception handlers.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-02-11-35-33.bpo-41894.ffmtOt.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-02-11-35-33.bpo-41894.ffmtOt.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-When loading a native module and a load failure occurs, prevent a possible
-UnicodeDecodeError when not running in a UTF-8 locale by decoding the load
-error message using the current locale's encoding.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-04-10-55-12.bpo-41909.BqHPcm.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-04-10-55-12.bpo-41909.BqHPcm.rst
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@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fixed stack overflow in :func:`issubclass` and :func:`isinstance` when
-getting the ``__bases__`` attribute leads to infinite recursion.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-09-10-55-50.bpo-41979.ImXIk2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-09-10-55-50.bpo-41979.ImXIk2.rst
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Star-unpacking is now allowed for with item's targets in the PEG parser.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-10-13-53-52.bpo-41993.YMzixQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-10-13-53-52.bpo-41993.YMzixQ.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fixed potential issues with removing not completely initialized module from
-``sys.modules`` when import fails.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-14-16-19-43.bpo-41984.SEtKMr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-14-16-19-43.bpo-41984.SEtKMr.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The garbage collector now tracks all user-defined classes. Patch by Brandt
-Bucher.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-20-11-36-14.bpo-42057.BI-OoV.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-20-11-36-14.bpo-42057.BI-OoV.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fix peephole optimizer misoptimize conditional jump + JUMP_IF_NOT_EXC_MATCH
-pair.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-21-14-40-54.bpo-41910.CzBMit.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-21-14-40-54.bpo-41910.CzBMit.rst
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-Document the default implementation of `object.__eq__`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-23-02-43-24.bpo-42123.64gJWC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-23-02-43-24.bpo-42123.64gJWC.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Run the parser two times. On the first run, disable all the rules that only
-generate better error messages to gain performance. If there's a parse
-failure, run the parser a second time with those enabled.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-25-21-14-18.bpo-42150.b70u_T.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-25-21-14-18.bpo-42150.b70u_T.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix possible buffer overflow in the new parser when checking for
-continuation lines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-27-18-32-49.bpo-41659.d4a-8o.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-27-18-32-49.bpo-41659.d4a-8o.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fix a bug in the parser, where a curly brace following a `primary` didn't fail immediately.
-This led to invalid expressions like `a {b}` to throw a :exc:`SyntaxError` with a wrong offset,
-or invalid expressions ending with a curly brace like `a {` to not fail immediately in the REPL.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-27-21-34-05.bpo-42143.N6KXUO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-27-21-34-05.bpo-42143.N6KXUO.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix handling of errors during creation of ``PyFunctionObject``, which resulted
-in operations on uninitialized memory. Patch by Yonatan Goldschmidt.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-30-22-16-30.bpo-42214.lXskM_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-30-22-16-30.bpo-42214.lXskM_.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fixed a possible crash in the PEG parser when checking for the '!=' token in
-the ``barry_as_flufl`` rule. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-31-17-50-23.bpo-42218.Dp_Z3v.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-10-31-17-50-23.bpo-42218.Dp_Z3v.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed a bug in the PEG parser that was causing crashes in debug mode. Now errors are checked
-in left-recursive rules to avoid cases where such errors do not get handled in time and appear
-as long-distance crashes in other places.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-12-23-16-14.bpo-42332.fEQIdk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-12-23-16-14.bpo-42332.fEQIdk.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-:class:`types.GenericAlias` objects can now be the targets of weakrefs.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-13-13-53-11.bpo-42296.DuGrLJ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-13-13-53-11.bpo-42296.DuGrLJ.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-13-13-53-11.bpo-42296.DuGrLJ.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-On Windows, fix a regression in signal handling which prevented to interrupt
-a program using CTRL+C. The signal handler can be run in a thread different
-than the Python thread, in which case the test deciding if the thread can
-handle signals is wrong.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-16-17-57-09.bpo-42374.t7np1E.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-16-17-57-09.bpo-42374.t7np1E.rst
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-Fix a regression introduced by the new parser, where an unparenthesized walrus operator
-was not allowed within generator expressions.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-16-23-45-56.bpo-42381.G4AWxL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-16-23-45-56.bpo-42381.G4AWxL.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Allow assignment expressions in set literals and set comprehensions as per
-PEP 572. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-17-16-25-50.bpo-41686.hX77kL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-17-16-25-50.bpo-41686.hX77kL.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-On Windows, the ``SIGINT`` event, ``_PyOS_SigintEvent()``, is now created
-even if Python is configured to not install signal handlers (if
-:c:member:`PyConfig.install_signal_handlers` equals to 0, or
-``Py_InitializeEx(0)``).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-22-05-14-53.bpo-39416.uYjhEm.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-22-05-14-53.bpo-39416.uYjhEm.rst
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-Document some restrictions on the default string representations of numeric classes.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-24-09-02-05.bpo-39693.QXw0Fm.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-24-09-02-05.bpo-39693.QXw0Fm.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-02-24-09-02-05.bpo-39693.QXw0Fm.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Fix tarfile's extractfile documentation
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-09-08-16-57-09.bpo-41726.g0UXrn.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-09-08-16-57-09.bpo-41726.g0UXrn.rst
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-Update the refcounts info of ``PyType_FromModuleAndSpec``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-09-12-17-37-13.bpo-35293._cOwPD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-09-12-17-37-13.bpo-35293._cOwPD.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fix RemovedInSphinx40Warning when building the documentation. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-09-24-15-35-13.bpo-41774.5IqdGP.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-09-24-15-35-13.bpo-41774.5IqdGP.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-In Programming FAQ "Sequences (Tuples/Lists)" section, add "How do you
-remove multiple items from a list".
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-10-10-01-36-37.bpo-41805.l-CGv5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-10-10-01-36-37.bpo-41805.l-CGv5.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Documented :ref:`generic alias type <types-genericalias>` and
-:data:`types.GenericAlias`. Also added an entry in glossary for
-:term:`generic types <generic type>`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-10-21-02-21-14.bpo-42010.76vJ0u.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-10-21-02-21-14.bpo-42010.76vJ0u.rst
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-Clarify that subscription expressions are also valid for certain
-:term:`classes <class>` and :term:`types <type>` in the standard library, and
-for user-defined classes and types if the classmethod
-:meth:`__class_getitem__` is provided.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-10-28-21-39-45.bpo-42061._x-0sg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-10-28-21-39-45.bpo-42061._x-0sg.rst
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-Document __format__ functionality for IP addresses.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-11-15-13-46-31.bpo-42153.KjBhx3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-11-15-13-46-31.bpo-42153.KjBhx3.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-11-15-13-46-31.bpo-42153.KjBhx3.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Fix the URL for the IMAP protocol documents.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-04-22-09-37-40.bpo-38439.ieXL-c.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-04-22-09-37-40.bpo-38439.ieXL-c.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-04-22-09-37-40.bpo-38439.ieXL-c.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Add a 256×256 pixel IDLE icon to the Windows .ico file. Created by Andrew
-Clover. Remove the low-color gif variations from the .ico file.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-06-16-12-16-13.bpo-40511.XkihpM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-06-16-12-16-13.bpo-40511.XkihpM.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-06-16-12-16-13.bpo-40511.XkihpM.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Typing opening and closing parentheses inside the parentheses of a function
-call will no longer cause unnecessary "flashing" off and on of an existing
-open call-tip, e.g. when typed in a string literal.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-09-22-00-45-40.bpo-40181.hhQi3z.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-09-22-00-45-40.bpo-40181.hhQi3z.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-In calltips, stop reminding that '/' marks the end of positional-only
-arguments.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-09-22-11-13-45.bpo-35764.VoNa8y.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-09-22-11-13-45.bpo-35764.VoNa8y.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-09-22-11-13-45.bpo-35764.VoNa8y.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Rewrite the Calltips doc section.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-09-24-14-31-16.bpo-41775.sB8Vre.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-09-24-14-31-16.bpo-41775.sB8Vre.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-09-24-14-31-16.bpo-41775.sB8Vre.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Use 'IDLE Shell' as shell title
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-10-24-21-27-37.bpo-33987.fIh9JL.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-10-24-21-27-37.bpo-33987.fIh9JL.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-10-24-21-27-37.bpo-33987.fIh9JL.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Mostly finish using ttk widgets, mainly for editor, settings,
-and searches.  Some patches by Mark Roseman.
-
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-11-20-01-30-27.bpo-42415.CyD-va.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-11-20-01-30-27.bpo-42415.CyD-va.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Get docstrings for IDLE calltips more often by using inspect.getdoc.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-11-21-17-21-21.bpo-42426.kNnPoC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-11-21-17-21-21.bpo-42426.kNnPoC.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fix reporting offset of the RE error in searchengine.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-19-18-40-26.bpo-27321.8e6SpM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-19-18-40-26.bpo-27321.8e6SpM.rst
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-Fixed KeyError exception when flattening an email to a string attempts to
-replace a non-existent Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-04-03-16-13-59.bpo-40105.hfM2c0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-04-03-16-13-59.bpo-40105.hfM2c0.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-ZipFile truncates files to avoid corruption when a shorter comment is provided
-in append ("a") mode. Patch by Jan Mazur.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-04-12-16-00.bpo-40492.ONk9Na.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-04-12-16-00.bpo-40492.ONk9Na.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fix ``--outfile`` for :mod:`cProfile` / :mod:`profile` not writing the output
-file in the original directory when the program being profiled changes the
-working directory.  PR by Anthony Sottile.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-08-21-30-54.bpo-40550.i7GWkb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-08-21-30-54.bpo-40550.i7GWkb.rst
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-Fix time-of-check/time-of-action issue in subprocess.Popen.send_signal.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-14-16-01-34.bpo-40592.Cmk855.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-14-16-01-34.bpo-40592.Cmk855.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-05-14-16-01-34.bpo-40592.Cmk855.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-:func:`shutil.which` now ignores empty entries in :envvar:`PATHEXT` instead of treating them as a match.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-07-08-09-45-00.bpo-16936.z8o8Pn.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-07-08-09-45-00.bpo-16936.z8o8Pn.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Allow ``ctypes.wintypes`` to be imported on non-Windows systems.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-07-28-12-08-58.bpo-41316.bSCbK4.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-07-28-12-08-58.bpo-41316.bSCbK4.rst
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-Fix the :mod:`tarfile` module to write only basename of TAR file to GZIP compression header.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-19-23-14-54.bpo-41815.RNpuX3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-19-23-14-54.bpo-41815.RNpuX3.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fix SQLite3 segfault when backing up closed database. Patch contributed by
-Peter David McCormick.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-22-00-23-30.bpo-41817.bnh-VG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-22-00-23-30.bpo-41817.bnh-VG.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-fix `tkinter.EventType` Enum so all members are strings, and none are tuples
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-22-11-07-50.bpo-41831.k-Eop_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-22-11-07-50.bpo-41831.k-Eop_.rst
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-``str()`` for the ``type`` attribute of the ``tkinter.Event`` object always
-returns now the numeric code returned by Tk instead of the name of the event
-type.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-23-23-17-59.bpo-41840.QRFr4L.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-09-23-23-17-59.bpo-41840.QRFr4L.rst
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-Fix a bug in the :mod:`symtable` module that was causing module-scope global
-variables to not be reported as both local and global. Patch by Pablo
-Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-01-10-50-12.bpo-41900.Cho7oh.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-01-10-50-12.bpo-41900.Cho7oh.rst
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-C14N 2.0 serialisation in xml.etree.ElementTree failed for unprefixed attributes
-when a default namespace was defined.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-08-18-22-28.bpo-41976.Svm0wb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-08-18-22-28.bpo-41976.Svm0wb.rst
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed a bug that was causing :func:`ctypes.util.find_library` to return
-``None`` when triying to locate a library in an environment when gcc>=9 is
-available and ``ldconfig`` is not. Patch by Pablo Galindo
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-17-07-52-53.bpo-41966.gwEQRZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-17-07-52-53.bpo-41966.gwEQRZ.rst
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-Fix pickling pure Python :class:`datetime.time` subclasses. Patch by Dean
-Inwood.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-17-23-17-18.bpo-42065.85BsRA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-17-23-17-18.bpo-42065.85BsRA.rst
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-Fix an incorrectly formatted error from :meth:`_codecs.charmap_decode` when
-called with a mapped value outside the range of valid Unicode code points.
-PR by Max Bernstein.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-19-14-02-09.bpo-41491.d1BUWH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-19-14-02-09.bpo-41491.d1BUWH.rst
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-plistlib: fix parsing XML plists with hexadecimal integer values
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-21-23-45-02.bpo-41052.3N7J2J.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-21-23-45-02.bpo-41052.3N7J2J.rst
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-Pickling heap types implemented in C with protocols 0 and 1 raises now an
-error instead of producing incorrect data.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-23-19-20-14.bpo-42103.C5obK2.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-23-19-20-14.bpo-42103.C5obK2.rst
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-:exc:`~plistlib.InvalidFileException` and :exc:`RecursionError` are now
-the only errors caused by loading malformed binary Plist file (previously
-ValueError and TypeError could be raised in some specific cases).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-24-04-02-36.bpo-42140.miLqvb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-24-04-02-36.bpo-42140.miLqvb.rst
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Improve asyncio.wait function to create the futures set just one time.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-25-19-25-02.bpo-42146.6A8uvS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-25-19-25-02.bpo-42146.6A8uvS.rst
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-Fix memory leak in :func:`subprocess.Popen` in case an uid (gid) specified in
-`user` (`group`, `extra_groups`) overflows `uid_t` (`gid_t`).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-29-11-17-35.bpo-42183.50ZcIi.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-29-11-17-35.bpo-42183.50ZcIi.rst
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-Fix a stack overflow error for asyncio Task or Future repr().
-
-The overflow occurs under some circumstances when a Task or Future
-recursively returns itself.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-31-13-28-36.bpo-29566.6aDbty.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-10-31-13-28-36.bpo-29566.6aDbty.rst
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-``binhex.binhex()`` consisently writes macOS 9 line endings.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-01-15-07-20.bpo-41754.DraSZh.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-01-15-07-20.bpo-41754.DraSZh.rst
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-webbrowser: Ignore *NotADirectoryError* when calling ``xdg-settings``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-02-01-31-15.bpo-42233.YxRj-h.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-02-01-31-15.bpo-42233.YxRj-h.rst
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-The :func:`repr` of :mod:`typing` types containing 
-:ref:`Generic Alias Types <types-genericalias>` previously did not show the 
-parameterized types in the ``GenericAlias``.  They have now been changed to do so.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-02-14-10-48.bpo-35455.Q1xTIo.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-02-14-10-48.bpo-35455.Q1xTIo.rst
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-On Solaris, :func:`~time.thread_time` is now implemented with
-``gethrvtime()`` because ``clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID)`` is not
-always available. Patch by Jakub Kulik.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-03-09-22-56.bpo-42249.vfNO2u.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-03-09-22-56.bpo-42249.vfNO2u.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fixed writing binary Plist files larger than 4 GiB.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-10-14-27-49.bpo-42237.F363jO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-10-14-27-49.bpo-42237.F363jO.rst
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-Fix `os.sendfile()` on illumos.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-10-15-40-56.bpo-42014.ShM37l.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-10-15-40-56.bpo-42014.ShM37l.rst
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-The ``onerror`` callback from ``shutil.rmtree`` now receives correct function when ``os.open`` fails.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-13-18-53-50.bpo-42350.rsql7V.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-13-18-53-50.bpo-42350.rsql7V.rst
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-Fix the :class:`threading.Thread` class at fork: do nothing if the thread is
-already stopped (ex: fork called at Python exit). Previously, an error was
-logged in the child process.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-15-15-23-34.bpo-42345.hiIR7x.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-15-15-23-34.bpo-42345.hiIR7x.rst
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-Fix various issues with ``typing.Literal`` parameter handling (flatten,
-deduplicate, use type to cache key). Patch provided by Yurii Karabas.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-15-17-02-00.bpo-42328.bqpPlR.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-15-17-02-00.bpo-42328.bqpPlR.rst
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-Fixed :meth:`tkinter.ttk.Style.map`. The function accepts now the
-representation of the default state as empty sequence (as returned by
-``Style.map()``). The structure of the result is now the same on all platform
-and does not depend on the value of ``wantobjects``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2020-05-28-06-06-47.bpo-40791.QGZClX.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2020-05-28-06-06-47.bpo-40791.QGZClX.rst
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-Add ``volatile`` to the accumulator variable in ``hmac.compare_digest``, making constant-time-defeating optimizations less likely.
\ No newline at end of file
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+++ /dev/null
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-The :mod:`plistlib` module no longer accepts entity declarations in XML
-plist files to avoid XML vulnerabilities. This should not affect users as
-entity declarations are not used in regular plist files.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2020-10-23-19-19-30.bpo-42103.cILT66.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2020-10-23-19-19-30.bpo-42103.cILT66.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Prevented potential DoS attack via CPU and RAM exhaustion when processing
-malformed Apple Property List files in binary format.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-08-03-13-44-37.bpo-41306.VDoWXI.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-08-03-13-44-37.bpo-41306.VDoWXI.rst
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-Fixed a failure in ``test_tk.test_widgets.ScaleTest`` happening when executing the test with Tk 8.6.10.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-08-25-19-25-36.bpo-41602.Z64s0I.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-08-25-19-25-36.bpo-41602.Z64s0I.rst
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-Add tests for SIGINT handling in the runpy module.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-09-18-16-14-03.bpo-41561.uPnwrW.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-09-18-16-14-03.bpo-41561.uPnwrW.rst
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-test_ssl: skip test_min_max_version_mismatch when TLS 1.0 is not available
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-10-05-09-37-43.bpo-41939.P4OlbA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-10-05-09-37-43.bpo-41939.P4OlbA.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-10-05-09-37-43.bpo-41939.P4OlbA.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fix test_site.test_license_exists_at_url(): call
-``urllib.request.urlcleanup()`` to reset the global
-``urllib.request._opener``. Patch by Victor Stinner.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-10-05-17-43-46.bpo-41944.rf1dYb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-10-05-17-43-46.bpo-41944.rf1dYb.rst
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-Tests for CJK codecs no longer call ``eval()`` on content received via HTTP.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-10-08-14-00-17.bpo-41970.aZ8QFf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-10-08-14-00-17.bpo-41970.aZ8QFf.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-10-08-14-00-17.bpo-41970.aZ8QFf.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Avoid a test failure in ``test_lib2to3`` if the module has already imported
-at the time the test executes. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-10-12-00-11-47.bpo-41739.wSCc4K.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-10-12-00-11-47.bpo-41739.wSCc4K.rst
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-Fix test_logging.test_race_between_set_target_and_flush(): the test now
-waits until all threads complete to avoid leaking running threads.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-11-13-21-51-34.bpo-40754.Ekoxkg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-11-13-21-51-34.bpo-40754.Ekoxkg.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-11-13-21-51-34.bpo-40754.Ekoxkg.rst
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-Include ``_testinternalcapi`` module in Windows installer for test suite
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-05-30-02-46-43.bpo-38324.476M-5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-05-30-02-46-43.bpo-38324.476M-5.rst
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-Avoid Unicode errors when accessing certain locale data on Windows.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-08-26-09-35-06.bpo-41557.vt00cQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-08-26-09-35-06.bpo-41557.vt00cQ.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-08-26-09-35-06.bpo-41557.vt00cQ.rst
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-Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.33.0.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-09-11-17-59-33.bpo-41744.e_ugDQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-09-11-17-59-33.bpo-41744.e_ugDQ.rst
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-Fixes automatic import of props file when using the Nuget package.
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-Updates the icons for IDLE in the Windows Store package.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-11-16-22-41-02.bpo-42120.9scgko.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-11-16-22-41-02.bpo-42120.9scgko.rst
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-Remove macro definition of ``copysign`` (to ``_copysign``) in headers.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-08-26-09-31-37.bpo-41557.mcQ75z.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-08-26-09-31-37.bpo-41557.mcQ75z.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-08-26-09-31-37.bpo-41557.mcQ75z.rst
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-Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.33.0.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-10-19-12-25-19.bpo-41471.gwA7un.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-10-19-12-25-19.bpo-41471.gwA7un.rst
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-Ignore invalid prefix lengths in system proxy excludes.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-10-23-10-26-53.bpo-38443.vu64tl.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-10-23-10-26-53.bpo-38443.vu64tl.rst
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-The ``--enable-universalsdk`` and ``--with-universal-archs`` options for the
-configure script now check that the specified architectures can be used.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-11-01-16-40-23.bpo-41100.BApztP.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-11-01-16-40-23.bpo-41100.BApztP.rst
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-Add support for macOS 11 and Apple Silicon systems.
-
-It is now possible to build "Universal 2" binaries using
-"--enable-universalsdk --with-universal-archs=universal2".
-
-Binaries build on later macOS versions can be deployed back to older
-versions (tested up to macOS 10.9), when using the correct deployment
-target. This is tested using Xcode 11 and later.
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-Ensure distutils.unixxcompiler.find_library_file can find system provided libraries on macOS 11.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 64885138f8b..18dd74caf23 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-This is Python version 3.9.0
-============================
+This is Python version 3.9.1rc1
+===============================
 
 .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython.svg?branch=3.9
    :alt: CPython build status on Travis CI