
Changelog
*********


Python 3.6.1 release candidate 1
================================

*Release date: 2017-03-04*


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-28893: Set correct __cause__ for errors about invalid
  awaitables returned from __aiter__ and __anext__.

* bpo-29683: Fixes to memory allocation in _PyCode_SetExtra.  Patch
  by Brian Coleman.

* bpo-29684: Fix minor regression of PyEval_CallObjectWithKeywords.
  It should raise TypeError when kwargs is not a dict.  But it might
  cause segv when args=NULL and kwargs is not a dict.

* bpo-28598: Support __rmod__ for subclasses of str being called
  before str.__mod__.  Patch by Martijn Pieters.

* bpo-29572: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL
  1.0.2k.

* bpo-29607: Fix stack_effect computation for CALL_FUNCTION_EX.
  Patch by Matthieu Dartiailh.

* bpo-29602: Fix incorrect handling of signed zeros in complex
  constructor for complex subclasses and for inputs having a
  __complex__ method. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

* bpo-29347: Fixed possibly dereferencing undefined pointers when
  creating weakref objects.

* bpo-29438: Fixed use-after-free problem in key sharing dict.

* bpo-29319: Prevent RunMainFromImporter overwriting sys.path[0].

* bpo-29337: Fixed possible BytesWarning when compare the code
  objects. Warnings could be emitted at compile time.

* bpo-29327: Fixed a crash when pass the iterable keyword argument
  to sorted().

* bpo-29034: Fix memory leak and use-after-free in os module
  (path_converter).

* bpo-29159: Fix regression in bytes(x) when x.__index__() raises
  Exception.

* bpo-28932: Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist.

* bpo-25677: Correct the positioning of the syntax error caret for
  indented blocks.  Based on patch by Michael Layzell.

* bpo-29000: Fixed bytes formatting of octals with zero padding in
  alternate form.

* bpo-26919: On Android, operating system data is now always
  encoded/decoded to/from UTF-8, instead of the locale encoding to
  avoid inconsistencies with os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() which are
  already using UTF-8.

* bpo-28991:  functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure
  reentrancy bug triggerable by a monkey-patched len() function.

* bpo-28739: f-string expressions are no longer accepted as
  docstrings and by ast.literal_eval() even if they do not include
  expressions.

* bpo-28512: Fixed setting the offset attribute of SyntaxError by
  PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx() and PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject().

* bpo-28918: Fix the cross compilation of xxlimited when Python has
  been built with Py_DEBUG defined.

* bpo-28731: Optimize _PyDict_NewPresized() to create correct size
  dict. Improve speed of dict literal with constant keys up to 30%.


Extension Modules
-----------------

* bpo-29169: Update zlib to 1.2.11.


Library
-------

* bpo-29623: Allow use of path-like object as a single argument in
  ConfigParser.read().  Patch by David Ellis.

* bpo-28963: Fix out of bound iteration in
  asyncio.Future.remove_done_callback implemented in C.

* bpo-29704: asyncio.subprocess.SubprocessStreamProtocol no longer
  closes before all pipes are closed.

* bpo-29271: Fix Task.current_task and Task.all_tasks implemented in
  C to accept None argument as their pure Python implementation.

* bpo-29703: Fix asyncio to support instantiation of new event loops
  in child processes.

* bpo-29376: Fix assertion error in
  threading._DummyThread.is_alive().

* bpo-28624: Add a test that checks that cwd parameter of Popen()
  accepts PathLike objects.  Patch by Sayan Chowdhury.

* bpo-28518: Start a transaction implicitly before a DML statement.
  Patch by Aviv Palivoda.

* bpo-29532: Altering a kwarg dictionary passed to
  functools.partial() no longer affects a partial object after
  creation.

* bpo-29110: Fix file object leak in aifc.open() when file is given
  as a filesystem path and is not in valid AIFF format. Patch by
  Anthony Zhang.

* bpo-28556: Various updates to typing module: typing.Counter,
  typing.ChainMap, improved ABC caching, etc. Original PRs by Jelle
  Zijlstra, Ivan Levkivskyi, Manuel Krebber, and Łukasz Langa.

* bpo-29100: Fix datetime.fromtimestamp() regression introduced in
  Python 3.6.0: check minimum and maximum years.

* bpo-29519: Fix weakref spewing exceptions during interpreter
  shutdown when used with a rare combination of multiprocessing and
  custom codecs.

* bpo-29416: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.Path.mkdir

* bpo-29444: Fixed out-of-bounds buffer access in the group() method
  of the match object.  Based on patch by WGH.

* bpo-29335: Fix subprocess.Popen.wait() when the child process has
  exited to a stopped instead of terminated state (ex: when under
  ptrace).

* bpo-29290: Fix a regression in argparse that help messages would
  wrap at non-breaking spaces.

* bpo-28735: Fixed the comparison of mock.MagickMock with mock.ANY.

* bpo-29316: Restore the provisional status of typing module, add
  corresponding note to documentation. Patch by Ivan L.

* bpo-29219: Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of uninitialized
  ctypes.CDLL instances.

* bpo-29011:  Fix an important omission by adding Deque to the
  typing module.

* bpo-28969: Fixed race condition in C implementation of
  functools.lru_cache. KeyError could be raised when cached function
  with full cache was simultaneously called from differen threads with
  the same uncached arguments.

* bpo-29142: In urllib.request, suffixes in no_proxy environment
  variable with leading dots could match related hostnames again (e.g.
  .b.c matches a.b.c). Patch by Milan Oberkirch.

* bpo-28961: Fix unittest.mock._Call helper: don't ignore the name
  parameter anymore. Patch written by Jiajun Huang.

* bpo-29203:  functools.lru_cache() now respects PEP 468 and
  preserves the order of keyword arguments.  f(a=1, b=2) is now cached
  separately from f(b=2, a=1) since both calls could potentially give
  different results.

* bpo-15812: inspect.getframeinfo() now correctly shows the first
  line of a context.  Patch by Sam Breese.

* bpo-29094: Offsets in a ZIP file created with extern file object
  and modes "w" and "x" now are relative to the start of the file.

* bpo-29085: Allow random.Random.seed() to use high quality OS
  randomness rather than the pid and time.

* bpo-29061: Fixed bug in secrets.randbelow() which would hang when
  given a negative input.  Patch by Brendan Donegan.

* bpo-29079: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.resolve() on Windows

* bpo-13051: Fixed recursion errors in large or resized
  curses.textpad.Textbox.  Based on patch by Tycho Andersen.

* bpo-29119: Fix weakrefs in the pure python version of
  collections.OrderedDict move_to_end() method. Contributed by Andra
  Bogildea.

* bpo-9770: curses.ascii predicates now work correctly with negative
  integers.

* bpo-28427: old keys should not remove new values from
  WeakValueDictionary when collecting from another thread.

* Issue 28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.

* bpo-29055:  Neaten-up empty population error on random.choice() by
  suppressing the upstream exception.

* bpo-28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.

* bpo-19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and
  WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another
  thread.

* bpo-20191: Fixed a crash in resource.prlimit() when passing a
  sequence that doesn't own its elements as limits.

* bpo-28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash
  the forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some
  multiprocessing objects such as locks.

* bpo-28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no
  longer writes the index file when it is not changed.

* bpo-26937: The chown() method of the tarfile.TarFile class does
  not fail now when the grp module cannot be imported, as for example
  on Android platforms.


Windows
-------

* bpo-29579: Removes readme.txt from the installer

* bpo-29326: Ignores blank lines in ._pth files (Patch by Alexey
  Izbyshev)

* bpo-28164: Correctly handle special console filenames (patch by
  Eryk Sun)

* bpo-29409: Implement PEP 529 for io.FileIO (Patch by Eryk Sun)

* bpo-29392: Prevent crash when passing invalid arguments into
  msvcrt module.

* bpo-25778: winreg does not truncate string correctly (Patch by
  Eryk Sun)

* bpo-28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder and disable it by
  default.


C API
-----

* bpo-27867: Function PySlice_GetIndicesEx() is replaced with a
  macro if Py_LIMITED_API is not set or set to the value between
  0x03050400 and 0x03060000 (not including) or 0x03060100 or higher.

* bpo-29083: Fixed the declaration of some public API functions.
  PyArg_VaParse() and PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords() were not
  available in limited API.  PyArg_ValidateKeywordArguments(),
  PyArg_UnpackTuple() and Py_BuildValue() were not available in
  limited API of version < 3.3 when PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN is defined.

* bpo-29058: All stable API extensions added after Python 3.2 are
  now available only when Py_LIMITED_API is set to the PY_VERSION_HEX
  value of the minimum Python version supporting this API.


Documentation
-------------

* bpo-28929: Link the documentation to its source file on GitHub.

* bpo-25008: Document smtpd.py as effectively deprecated and add a
  pointer to aiosmtpd, a third-party asyncio-based replacement.

* bpo-26355: Add canonical header link on each page to corresponding
  major version of the documentation. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.

* bpo-29349: Fix Python 2 syntax in code for building the
  documentation.


Tests
-----

* bpo-28087: Skip test_asyncore and test_eintr poll failures on
  macOS. Skip some tests of select.poll when running on macOS due to
  unresolved issues with the underlying system poll function on some
  macOS versions.

* bpo-29571: to match the behaviour of the "re.LOCALE" flag,
  test_re.test_locale_flag now uses
  "locale.getpreferredencoding(False)" to determine the candidate
  encoding for the test regex (allowing it to correctly skip the test
  when the default locale encoding is a multi-byte encoding)

* bpo-28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l in regrtest
  command line arguments.

* bpo-28683: Fix the tests that bind() a unix socket and raise
  PermissionError on Android for a non-root user.

* bpo-26939: Add the support.setswitchinterval() function to fix
  test_functools hanging on the Android armv7 qemu emulator.


Build
-----

* bpo-27593: sys.version and the platform module python_build(),
  python_branch(), and python_revision() functions now use git
  information rather than hg when building from a repo.

* bpo-29572: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL
  1.0.2k.

* bpo-26851: Set Android compilation and link flags.

* bpo-28768: Fix implicit declaration of function _setmode. Patch by
  Masayuki Yamamoto

* bpo-29080: Removes hard dependency on hg.exe from
  PCBuild/build.bat

* bpo-23903: Added missed names to PC/python3.def.

* bpo-28762: lockf() is available on Android API level 24, but the
  F_LOCK macro is not defined in android-ndk-r13.

* bpo-28538: Fix the compilation error that occurs because
  if_nameindex() is available on Android API level 24, but the
  if_nameindex structure is not defined.

* bpo-20211: Do not add the directory for installing C header files
  and the directory for installing object code libraries to the cross
  compilation search paths. Original patch by Thomas Petazzoni.

* bpo-28849: Do not define sys.implementation._multiarch on Android.


Python 3.6.0
============

*Release date: 2016-12-23*

* No changes since release candidate 2


Python 3.6.0 release candidate 2
================================

*Release date: 2016-12-16*


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-28147: Fix a memory leak in split-table dictionaries:
  setattr() must not convert combined table into split table. Patch
  written by INADA Naoki.

* bpo-28990: Fix asyncio SSL hanging if connection is closed before
  handshake is completed. (Patch by HoHo-Ho)


Tools/Demos
-----------

* bpo-28770: Fix python-gdb.py for fastcalls.


Windows
-------

* bpo-28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder.


Build
-----

* bpo-28898: Prevent gdb build errors due to HAVE_LONG_LONG
  redefinition.


Python 3.6.0 release candidate 1
================================

*Release date: 2016-12-06*


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-23722: Rather than silently producing a class that doesn't
  support zero-argument "super()" in methods, failing to pass the new
  "__classcell__" namespace entry up to "type.__new__" now results in
  a "DeprecationWarning" and a class that supports zero-argument
  "super()".

* bpo-28797: Modifying the class __dict__ inside the __set_name__
  method of a descriptor that is used inside that class no longer
  prevents calling the __set_name__ method of other descriptors.

* bpo-28782: Fix a bug in the implementation "yield from" when
  checking if the next instruction is YIELD_FROM. Regression
  introduced by WORDCODE (bpo-26647).


Library
-------

* bpo-27030: Unknown escapes in re.sub() replacement template are
  allowed again.  But they still are deprecated and will be disabled
  in 3.7.

* bpo-28835: Fix a regression introduced in
  warnings.catch_warnings(): call warnings.showwarning() if it was
  overriden inside the context manager.

* bpo-27172: To assist with upgrades from 2.7, the previously
  documented deprecation of "inspect.getfullargspec()" has been
  reversed. This decision may be revisited again after the Python 2.7
  branch is no longer officially supported.

* bpo-26273: Add new "socket.TCP_CONGESTION" (Linux 2.6.13) and
  "socket.TCP_USER_TIMEOUT" (Linux 2.6.37) constants. Patch written by
  Omar Sandoval.

* bpo-24142: Reading a corrupt config file left configparser in an
  invalid state.  Original patch by Florian Höch.

* bpo-28843: Fix asyncio C Task to handle exceptions __traceback__.


C API
-----

* bpo-28808: PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString() now never raises
  exceptions.


Documentation
-------------

* bpo-23722: The data model reference and the porting section in the
  What's New guide now cover the additional "__classcell__" handling
  needed for custom metaclasses to fully support PEP 487 and zero-
  argument "super()".


Tools/Demos
-----------

* bpo-28023: Fix python-gdb.py didn't support new dict
  implementation.


Python 3.6.0 beta 4
===================

*Release date: 2016-11-21*


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-28532: Show sys.version when -V option is supplied twice.

* bpo-27100: The with-statement now checks for __enter__ before it
  checks for __exit__.  This gives less confusing error messages when
  both methods are missing. Patch by Jonathan Ellington.

* bpo-28746: Fix the set_inheritable() file descriptor method on
  platforms that do not have the ioctl FIOCLEX and FIONCLEX commands.

* bpo-26920: Fix not getting the locale's charset upon initializing
  the interpreter, on platforms that do not have langinfo.

* bpo-28648: Fixed crash in Py_DecodeLocale() in debug build on Mac
  OS X when decode astral characters.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-19398: Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in
  case of empty compile-time PYTHONPATH components.

* bpo-28665:  Improve speed of the STORE_DEREF opcode by 40%.

* bpo-28583: PyDict_SetDefault didn't combine split table when
  needed. Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-27243: Change PendingDeprecationWarning -> DeprecationWarning.
  As it was agreed in the issue, __aiter__ returning an awaitable
  should result in PendingDeprecationWarning in 3.5 and in
  DeprecationWarning in 3.6.

* bpo-26182: Fix a refleak in code that raises DeprecationWarning.

* bpo-28721: Fix asynchronous generators aclose() and athrow() to
  handle StopAsyncIteration propagation properly.


Library
-------

* bpo-28752: Restored the __reduce__() methods of datetime objects.

* bpo-28727: Regular expression patterns, _sre.SRE_Pattern objects
  created by re.compile(), become comparable (only x==y and x!=y
  operators). This change should fix the bpo-18383: don't duplicate
  warning filters when the warnings module is reloaded (thing usually
  only done in unit tests).

* bpo-20572: The subprocess.Popen.wait method's undocumented endtime
  parameter now raises a DeprecationWarning.

* bpo-25659: In ctypes, prevent a crash calling the from_buffer()
  and from_buffer_copy() methods on abstract classes like Array.

* bpo-19717: Makes Path.resolve() succeed on paths that do not
  exist. Patch by Vajrasky Kok

* bpo-28563: Fixed possible DoS and arbitrary code execution when
  handle plural form selections in the gettext module.  The expression
  parser now supports exact syntax supported by GNU gettext.

* bpo-28387: Fixed possible crash in _io.TextIOWrapper deallocator
  when the garbage collector is invoked in other thread.  Based on
  patch by Sebastian Cufre.

* bpo-28600: Optimize loop.call_soon.

* bpo-28613: Fix get_event_loop() return the current loop if called
  from coroutines/callbacks.

* bpo-28634: Fix asyncio.isfuture() to support unittest.Mock.

* bpo-26081: Fix refleak in _asyncio.Future.__iter__().throw.

* bpo-28639: Fix inspect.isawaitable to always return bool Patch by
  Justin Mayfield.

* bpo-28652: Make loop methods reject socket kinds they do not
  support.

* bpo-28653: Fix a refleak in functools.lru_cache.

* bpo-28703: Fix asyncio.iscoroutinefunction to handle Mock objects.

* bpo-28704: Fix create_unix_server to support Path-like objects
  (PEP 519).

* bpo-28720: Add collections.abc.AsyncGenerator.


Documentation
-------------

* bpo-28513: Documented command-line interface of zipfile.


Tests
-----

* bpo-28666: Now test.support.rmtree is able to remove unwritable or
  unreadable directories.

* bpo-23839: Various caches now are cleared before running every
  test file.


Build
-----

* bpo-10656: Fix out-of-tree building on AIX.  Patch by Tristan
  Carel and Michael Haubenwallner.

* bpo-26359: Rename --with-optimiations to --enable-optimizations.

* bpo-28676: Prevent missing 'getentropy' declaration warning on
  macOS. Patch by Gareth Rees.


Python 3.6.0 beta 3
===================

*Release date: 2016-10-31*


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-28128: Deprecation warning for invalid str and byte escape
  sequences now prints better information about where the error
  occurs. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka and Eric Smith.

* bpo-28509: dict.update() no longer allocate unnecessary large
  memory.

* bpo-28426: Fixed potential crash in PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject() in
  debug build.

* bpo-28517: Fixed of-by-one error in the peephole optimizer that
  caused keeping unreachable code.

* bpo-28214: Improved exception reporting for problematic
  __set_name__ attributes.

* bpo-23782: Fixed possible memory leak in _PyTraceback_Add() and
  exception loss in PyTraceBack_Here().

* bpo-28471: Fix "Python memory allocator called without holding the
  GIL" crash in socket.setblocking.


Library
-------

* bpo-27517: LZMA compressor and decompressor no longer raise
  exceptions if given empty data twice.  Patch by Benjamin Fogle.

* bpo-28549: Fixed segfault in curses's addch() with ncurses6.

* bpo-28449: tarfile.open() with mode "r" or "r:" now tries to open
  a tar file with compression before trying to open it without
  compression.  Otherwise it had 50% chance failed with
  ignore_zeros=True.

* bpo-23262: The webbrowser module now supports Firefox 36+ and
  derived browsers.  Based on patch by Oleg Broytman.

* bpo-27939: Fixed bugs in tkinter.ttk.LabeledScale and
  tkinter.Scale caused by representing the scale as float value
  internally in Tk. tkinter.IntVar now works if float value is set to
  underlying Tk variable.

* bpo-18844: The various ways of specifying weights for
  random.choices() now produce the same result sequences.

* bpo-28255: calendar.TextCalendar().prmonth() no longer prints a
  space at the start of new line after printing a month's calendar.
  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-20491: The textwrap.TextWrapper class now honors non-breaking
  spaces. Based on patch by Kaarle Ritvanen.

* bpo-28353: os.fwalk() no longer fails on broken links.

* bpo-28430: Fix iterator of C implemented asyncio.Future doesn't
  accept non-None value is passed to it.send(val).

* bpo-27025: Generated names for Tkinter widgets now start by the
  "!" prefix for readability (was "`").

* bpo-25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by
  addin a workaround to Tix library bug.

* bpo-28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer adds entry "./" to ZIP
  archive.

* bpo-25953: re.sub() now raises an error for invalid numerical
  group reference in replacement template even if the pattern is not
  found in the string.  Error message for invalid group reference now
  includes the group index and the position of the reference. Based on
  patch by SilentGhost.

* bpo-18219: Optimize csv.DictWriter for large number of columns.
  Patch by Mariatta Wijaya.

* bpo-28448: Fix C implemented asyncio.Future didn't work on
  Windows.

* bpo-28480: Fix error building socket module when multithreading is
  disabled.

* bpo-24452: Make webbrowser support Chrome on Mac OS X.

* bpo-20766: Fix references leaked by pdb in the handling of SIGINT
  handlers.

* bpo-28492: Fix how StopIteration exception is raised in
  _asyncio.Future.

* bpo-28500: Fix asyncio to handle async gens GC from another
  thread.

* bpo-26923: Fix asyncio.Gather to refuse being cancelled once all
  children are done. Patch by Johannes Ebke.

* bpo-26796: Don't configure the number of workers for default
  threadpool executor. Initial patch by Hans Lawrenz.

* bpo-28544: Implement asyncio.Task in C.


Windows
-------

* bpo-28522: Fixes mishandled buffer reallocation in getpathp.c


Build
-----

* bpo-28444: Fix missing extensions modules when cross compiling.

* bpo-28208: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use SQLite
  3.14.2.

* bpo-28248: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL
  1.0.2j.


Tests
-----

* bpo-26944: Fix test_posix for Android where 'id -G' is entirely
  wrong or missing the effective gid.

* bpo-28409: regrtest: fix the parser of command line arguments.


Python 3.6.0 beta 2
===================

*Release date: 2016-10-10*


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-28183: Optimize and cleanup dict iteration.

* bpo-26081: Added C implementation of asyncio.Future. Original
  patch by Yury Selivanov.

* bpo-28379: Added sanity checks and tests for
  PyUnicode_CopyCharacters(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-28376: The type of long range iterator is now registered as
  Iterator. Patch by Oren Milman.

* bpo-28376: Creating instances of range_iterator by calling
  range_iterator type now is deprecated.  Patch by Oren Milman.

* bpo-28376: The constructor of range_iterator now checks that step
  is not 0. Patch by Oren Milman.

* bpo-26906: Resolving special methods of uninitialized type now
  causes implicit initialization of the type instead of a fail.

* bpo-18287: PyType_Ready() now checks that tp_name is not NULL.
  Original patch by Niklas Koep.

* bpo-24098: Fixed possible crash when AST is changed in process of
  compiling it.

* bpo-28201: Dict reduces possibility of 2nd conflict in hash table
  when hashes have same lower bits.

* bpo-28350: String constants with null character no longer
  interned.

* bpo-26617: Fix crash when GC runs during weakref callbacks.

* bpo-27942: String constants now interned recursively in tuples and
  frozensets.

* bpo-21578: Fixed misleading error message when ImportError called
  with invalid keyword args.

* bpo-28203: Fix incorrect type in complex(1.0, {2:3}) error
  message. Patch by Soumya Sharma.

* bpo-28086: Single var-positional argument of tuple subtype was
  passed unscathed to the C-defined function.  Now it is converted to
  exact tuple.

* bpo-28214: Now __set_name__ is looked up on the class instead of
  the instance.

* bpo-27955: Fallback on reading /dev/urandom device when the
  getrandom() syscall fails with EPERM, for example when blocked by
  SECCOMP.

* bpo-28192: Don't import readline in isolated mode.

* Upgrade internal unicode databases to Unicode version 9.0.0.

* bpo-28131: Fix a regression in zipimport's compile_source().
  zipimport should use the same optimization level as the interpreter.

* bpo-28126: Replace Py_MEMCPY with memcpy(). Visual Studio can
  properly optimize memcpy().

* bpo-28120: Fix dict.pop() for splitted dictionary when trying to
  remove a "pending key" (Not yet inserted in split-table). Patch by
  Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-26182: Raise DeprecationWarning when async and await keywords
  are used as variable/attribute/class/function name.


Library
-------

* bpo-27998: Fixed bytes path support in os.scandir() on Windows.
  Patch by Eryk Sun.

* bpo-28317: The disassembler now decodes FORMAT_VALUE argument.

* bpo-26293: Fixed writing ZIP files that starts not from the start
  of the file.  Offsets in ZIP file now are relative to the start of
  the archive in conforming to the specification.

* bpo-28380: unittest.mock Mock autospec functions now properly
  support assert_called, assert_not_called, and assert_called_once.

* bpo-27181 remove statistics.geometric_mean and defer until 3.7.

* bpo-28229: lzma module now supports pathlib.

* bpo-28321: Fixed writing non-BMP characters with binary format in
  plistlib.

* bpo-28225: bz2 module now supports pathlib.  Initial patch by
  Ethan Furman.

* bpo-28227: gzip now supports pathlib.  Patch by Ethan Furman.

* bpo-27358: Optimized merging var-keyword arguments and improved
  error message when passing a non-mapping as a var-keyword argument.

* bpo-28257: Improved error message when passing a non-iterable as a
  var-positional argument.  Added opcode BUILD_TUPLE_UNPACK_WITH_CALL.

* bpo-28322: Fixed possible crashes when unpickle itertools objects
  from incorrect pickle data.  Based on patch by John Leitch.

* bpo-28228: imghdr now supports pathlib.

* bpo-28226: compileall now supports pathlib.

* bpo-28314: Fix function declaration (C flags) for the
  getiterator() method of xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.

* bpo-28148: Stop using localtime() and gmtime() in the time module.

  Introduced platform independent _PyTime_localtime API that is
  similar to POSIX localtime_r, but available on all platforms.  Patch
  by Ed Schouten.

* bpo-28253: Fixed calendar functions for extreme months: 0001-01
  and 9999-12.

  Methods itermonthdays() and itermonthdays2() are reimplemented so
  that they don't call itermonthdates() which can cause datetime.date
  under/overflow.

* bpo-28275: Fixed possible use after free in the decompress()
  methods of the LZMADecompressor and BZ2Decompressor classes.
  Original patch by John Leitch.

* bpo-27897: Fixed possible crash in
  sqlite3.Connection.create_collation() if pass invalid string-like
  object as a name.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-18844: random.choices() now has k as a keyword-only argument
  to improve the readability of common cases and come into line with
  the signature used in other languages.

* bpo-18893: Fix invalid exception handling in
  Lib/ctypes/macholib/dyld.py. Patch by Madison May.

* bpo-27611: Fixed support of default root window in the tkinter.tix
  module. Added the master parameter in the DisplayStyle constructor.

* bpo-27348: In the traceback module, restore the formatting of
  exception messages like "Exception: None".  This fixes a regression
  introduced in 3.5a2.

* bpo-25651: Allow falsy values to be used for msg parameter of
  subTest().

* bpo-27778: Fix a memory leak in os.getrandom() when the
  getrandom() is interrupted by a signal and a signal handler raises a
  Python exception.

* bpo-28200: Fix memory leak on Windows in the os module (fix
  path_converter() function).

* bpo-25400: RobotFileParser now correctly returns default values
  for crawl_delay and request_rate.  Initial patch by Peter Wirtz.

* bpo-27932: Prevent memory leak in win32_ver().

* Fix UnboundLocalError in socket._sendfile_use_sendfile.

* bpo-28075: Check for ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in Windows implementation
  of os.stat().  Patch by Eryk Sun.

* bpo-22493: Warning message emitted by using inline flags in the
  middle of regular expression now contains a (truncated) regex
  pattern. Patch by Tim Graham.

* bpo-25270: Prevent codecs.escape_encode() from raising SystemError
  when an empty bytestring is passed.

* bpo-28181: Get antigravity over HTTPS. Patch by Kaartic Sivaraam.

* bpo-25895: Enable WebSocket URL schemes in urllib.parse.urljoin.
  Patch by Gergely Imreh and Markus Holtermann.

* bpo-28114: Fix a crash in parse_envlist() when env contains byte
  strings. Patch by Eryk Sun.

* bpo-27599: Fixed buffer overrun in binascii.b2a_qp() and
  binascii.a2b_qp().

* bpo-27906: Fix socket accept exhaustion during high TCP traffic.
  Patch by Kevin Conway.

* bpo-28174: Handle when SO_REUSEPORT isn't properly supported.
  Patch by Seth Michael Larson.

* bpo-26654: Inspect functools.partial in asyncio.Handle.__repr__.
  Patch by iceboy.

* bpo-26909: Fix slow pipes IO in asyncio. Patch by INADA Naoki.

* bpo-28176: Fix callbacks race in
  asyncio.SelectorLoop.sock_connect.

* bpo-27759: Fix selectors incorrectly retain invalid file
  descriptors. Patch by Mark Williams.

* bpo-28368: Refuse monitoring processes if the child watcher has no
  loop attached. Patch by Vincent Michel.

* bpo-28369: Raise RuntimeError when transport's FD is used with
  add_reader, add_writer, etc.

* bpo-28370: Speedup asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly. Patch by
  Коренберг Марк.

* bpo-28371: Deprecate passing asyncio.Handles to run_in_executor.

* bpo-28372: Fix asyncio to support formatting of non-python
  coroutines.

* bpo-28399: Remove UNIX socket from FS before binding. Patch by
  Коренберг Марк.

* bpo-27972: Prohibit Tasks to await on themselves.


Windows
-------

* bpo-28402: Adds signed catalog files for stdlib on Windows.

* bpo-28333: Enables Unicode for ps1/ps2 and input() prompts. (Patch
  by Eryk Sun)

* bpo-28251: Improvements to help manuals on Windows.

* bpo-28110: launcher.msi has different product codes between 32-bit
  and 64-bit

* bpo-28161: Opening CON for write access fails

* bpo-28162: WindowsConsoleIO readall() fails if first line starts
  with Ctrl+Z

* bpo-28163: WindowsConsoleIO fileno() passes wrong flags to
  _open_osfhandle

* bpo-28164: _PyIO_get_console_type fails for various paths

* bpo-28137: Renames Windows path file to ._pth

* bpo-28138: Windows ._pth file should allow import site


C API
-----

* bpo-28426: Deprecated undocumented functions
  PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject(), PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject(),
  PyUnicode_AsDecodedUnicode() and PyUnicode_AsEncodedUnicode().


Build
-----

* bpo-28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale (python-config and
  distclean targets in Makefile).  Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar
  Arahesis.

* bpo-26661: setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch
  wrapper.

* bpo-15819: Remove redundant include search directory option for
  building outside the source tree.


Tests
-----

* bpo-28217: Adds _testconsole module to test console input.


Python 3.6.0 beta 1
===================

*Release date: 2016-09-12*


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-23722: The __class__ cell used by zero-argument super() is now
  initialized from type.__new__ rather than __build_class__, so class
  methods relying on that will now work correctly when called from
  metaclass methods during class creation. Patch by Martin Teichmann.

* bpo-25221: Fix corrupted result from PyLong_FromLong(0) when
  Python is compiled with NSMALLPOSINTS = 0.

* bpo-27080: Implement formatting support for PEP 515.  Initial
  patch by Chris Angelico.

* bpo-27199: In tarfile, expose copyfileobj bufsize to improve
  throughput. Patch by Jason Fried.

* bpo-27948: In f-strings, only allow backslashes inside the braces
  (where the expressions are).  This is a breaking change from the 3.6
  alpha releases, where backslashes are allowed anywhere in an
  f-string.  Also, require that expressions inside f-strings be
  enclosed within literal braces, and not escapes like f'x7b"hi"x7d'.

* bpo-28046: Remove platform-specific directories from sys.path.

* bpo-28071: Add early-out for differencing from an empty set.

* bpo-25758: Prevents zipimport from unnecessarily encoding a
  filename (patch by Eryk Sun)

* bpo-25856: The __module__ attribute of extension classes and
  functions now is interned. This leads to more compact pickle data
  with protocol 4.

* bpo-27213: Rework CALL_FUNCTION* opcodes to produce shorter and
  more efficient bytecode. Patch by Demur Rumed, design by Serhiy
  Storchaka, reviewed by Serhiy Storchaka and Victor Stinner.

* bpo-26331: Implement tokenizing support for PEP 515. Patch by
  Georg Brandl.

* bpo-27999: Make "global after use" a SyntaxError, and ditto for
  nonlocal. Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi.

* bpo-28003: Implement PEP 525 -- Asynchronous Generators.

* bpo-27985: Implement PEP 526 -- Syntax for Variable Annotations.
  Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi.

* bpo-26058: Add a new private version to the builtin dict type,
  incremented at each dictionary creation and at each dictionary
  change. Implementation of the PEP 509.

* bpo-27364: A backslash-character pair that is not a valid escape
  sequence now generates a DeprecationWarning.  Patch by Emanuel
  Barry.

* bpo-27350: "dict" implementation is changed like PyPy. It is more
  compact and preserves insertion order. (Concept developed by Raymond
  Hettinger and patch by Inada Naoki.)

* bpo-27911: Remove unnecessary error checks in
  "exec_builtin_or_dynamic()".

* bpo-27078: Added BUILD_STRING opcode.  Optimized f-strings
  evaluation.

* bpo-17884: Python now requires systems with inttypes.h and
  stdint.h

* bpo-27961: Require platforms to support "long long". Python hasn't
  compiled without "long long" for years, so this is basically a
  formality.

* bpo-27355: Removed support for Windows CE.  It was never finished,
  and Windows CE is no longer a relevant platform for Python.

* Implement PEP 523.

* bpo-27870: A left shift of zero by a large integer no longer
  attempts to allocate large amounts of memory.

* bpo-25402: In int-to-decimal-string conversion, improve the
  estimate of the intermediate memory required, and remove an
  unnecessarily strict overflow check. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

* bpo-27214: In long_invert, be more careful about modifying object
  returned by long_add, and remove an unnecessary check for small
  longs. Thanks Oren Milman for analysis and patch.

* bpo-27506: Support passing the bytes/bytearray.translate()
  "delete" argument by keyword.

* bpo-27812: Properly clear out a generator's frame's backreference
  to the generator to prevent crashes in frame.clear().

* bpo-27811: Fix a crash when a coroutine that has not been awaited
  is finalized with warnings-as-errors enabled.

* bpo-27587: Fix another issue found by PVS-Studio: Null pointer
  check after use of 'def' in _PyState_AddModule(). Initial patch by
  Christian Heimes.

* bpo-27792: The modulo operation applied to "bool" and other "int"
  subclasses now always returns an "int". Previously the return type
  depended on the input values. Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-26984: int() now always returns an instance of exact int.

* bpo-25604: Fix a minor bug in integer true division; this bug
  could potentially have caused off-by-one-ulp results on platforms
  with unreliable ldexp implementations.

* bpo-24254: Make class definition namespace ordered by default.

* bpo-27662: Fix an overflow check in "List_New": the original code
  was checking against "Py_SIZE_MAX" instead of the correct upper
  bound of "Py_SSIZE_T_MAX". Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-27782: Multi-phase extension module import now correctly
  allows the "m_methods" field to be used to add module level
  functions to instances of non-module types returned from
  "Py_create_mod". Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-27936: The round() function accepted a second None argument
  for some types but not for others.  Fixed the inconsistency by
  accepting None for all numeric types.

* bpo-27487: Warn if a submodule argument to "python -m" or
  runpy.run_module() is found in sys.modules after parent packages are
  imported, but before the submodule is executed.

* bpo-27157: Make only type() itself accept the one-argument form.
  Patch by Eryk Sun and Emanuel Barry.

* bpo-27558: Fix a SystemError in the implementation of "raise"
  statement. In a brand new thread, raise a RuntimeError since there
  is no active exception to reraise. Patch written by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-28008: Implement PEP 530 -- asynchronous comprehensions.

* bpo-27942: Fix memory leak in codeobject.c


Library
-------

* bpo-28732: Fix crash in os.spawnv() with no elements in args

* bpo-28485: Always raise ValueError for negative
  compileall.compile_dir(workers=...) parameter, even when
  multithreading is unavailable.

* bpo-28037: Use sqlite3_get_autocommit() instead of setting
  Connection->inTransaction manually.

* bpo-25283: Attributes tm_gmtoff and tm_zone are now available on
  all platforms in the return values of time.localtime() and
  time.gmtime().

* bpo-24454: Regular expression match object groups are now
  accessible using __getitem__.  "mo[x]" is equivalent to
  "mo.group(x)".

* bpo-10740: sqlite3 no longer implicitly commit an open transaction
  before DDL statements.

* bpo-17941: Add a *module* parameter to collections.namedtuple().

* bpo-22493: Inline flags now should be used only at the start of
  the regular expression.  Deprecation warning is emitted if uses them
  in the middle of the regular expression.

* bpo-26885: xmlrpc now supports unmarshalling additional data types
  used by Apache XML-RPC implementation for numerics and None.

* bpo-28070: Fixed parsing inline verbose flag in regular
  expressions.

* bpo-19500: Add client-side SSL session resumption to the ssl
  module.

* bpo-28022: Deprecate ssl-related arguments in favor of SSLContext.
  The deprecation include manual creation of SSLSocket and
  certfile/keyfile (or similar) in ftplib, httplib, imaplib, smtplib,
  poplib and urllib.

* bpo-28043: SSLContext has improved default settings: OP_NO_SSLv2,
  OP_NO_SSLv3, OP_NO_COMPRESSION, OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE,
  OP_SINGLE_DH_USE, OP_SINGLE_ECDH_USE and HIGH ciphers without MD5.

* bpo-24693: Changed some RuntimeError's in the zipfile module to
  more appropriate types. Improved some error messages and debugging
  output.

* bpo-17909: "json.load" and "json.loads" now support binary input
  encoded as UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

* bpo-27137: the pure Python fallback implementation of
  "functools.partial" now matches the behaviour of its accelerated C
  counterpart for subclassing, pickling and text representation
  purposes. Patch by Emanuel Barry and Serhiy Storchaka.

* Fix possible integer overflows and crashes in the mmap module with
  unusual usage patterns.

* bpo-1703178: Fix the ability to pass the --link-objects option to
  the distutils build_ext command.

* bpo-28019: itertools.count() no longer rounds non-integer step in
  range between 1.0 and 2.0 to 1.

* bpo-18401: Pdb now supports the 'readrc' keyword argument to
  control whether .pdbrc files should be read.  Patch by Martin
  Matusiak and Sam Kimbrel.

* bpo-25969: Update the lib2to3 grammar to handle the unpacking
  generalizations added in 3.5.

* bpo-14977: mailcap now respects the order of the lines in the
  mailcap files ("first match"), as required by RFC 1542.  Patch by
  Michael Lazar.

* bpo-28082: Convert re flag constants to IntFlag.

* bpo-28025: Convert all ssl module constants to IntEnum and
  IntFlags. SSLContext properties now return flags and enums.

* bpo-23591: Add Flag, IntFlag, and auto() to enum module.

* bpo-433028: Added support of modifier spans in regular
  expressions.

* bpo-24594: Validates persist parameter when opening MSI database

* bpo-17582: xml.etree.ElementTree nows preserves whitespaces in
  attributes (Patch by Duane Griffin.  Reviewed and approved by Stefan
  Behnel.)

* bpo-28047: Fixed calculation of line length used for the base64
  CTE in the new email policies.

* bpo-27576: Fix call order in OrderedDict.__init__().

* email.generator.DecodedGenerator now supports the policy keyword.

* bpo-28027: Remove undocumented modules from "Lib/plat-*": IN,
  CDROM, DLFCN, TYPES, CDIO, and STROPTS.

* bpo-27445: Don't pass str(_charset) to MIMEText.set_payload().
  Patch by Claude Paroz.

* bpo-24277: The new email API is no longer provisional, and the
  docs have been reorganized and rewritten to emphasize the new API.

* bpo-22450: urllib now includes an "Accept: */*" header among the
  default headers.  This makes the results of REST API requests more
  consistent and predictable especially when proxy servers are
  involved.

* lib2to3.pgen3.driver.load_grammar() now creates a stable cache
  file between runs given the same Grammar.txt input regardless of the
  hash randomization setting.

* bpo-28005: Allow ImportErrors in encoding implementation to
  propagate.

* bpo-26667: Support path-like objects in importlib.util.

* bpo-27570: Avoid zero-length memcpy() etc calls with null source
  pointers in the "ctypes" and "array" modules.

* bpo-22233: Break email header lines *only* on the RFC specified CR
  and LF characters, not on arbitrary unicode line breaks.  This also
  fixes a bug in HTTP header parsing.

* Issue 27331: The email.mime classes now all accept an optional
  policy keyword.

* Issue 27988: Fix email iter_attachments incorrect mutation of
  payload list.

* bpo-16113: Add SHA-3 and SHAKE support to hashlib module.

* Eliminate a tautological-pointer-compare warning in _scproxy.c.

* bpo-27776: The "os.urandom()" function does now block on Linux
  3.17 and newer until the system urandom entropy pool is initialized
  to increase the security. This change is part of the **PEP 524**.

* bpo-27778: Expose the Linux "getrandom()" syscall as a new
  "os.getrandom()" function. This change is part of the **PEP 524**.

* bpo-27691: Fix ssl module's parsing of GEN_RID subject alternative
  name fields in X.509 certs.

* bpo-18844: Add random.choices().

* bpo-25761: Improved error reporting about truncated pickle data in
  C implementation of unpickler.  UnpicklingError is now raised
  instead of AttributeError and ValueError in some cases.

* bpo-26798: Add BLAKE2 (blake2b and blake2s) to hashlib.

* bpo-26032: Optimized globbing in pathlib by using os.scandir(); it
  is now about 1.5--4 times faster.

* bpo-25596: Optimized glob() and iglob() functions in the glob
  module; they are now about 3--6 times faster.

* bpo-27928: Add scrypt (password-based key derivation function) to
  hashlib module (requires OpenSSL 1.1.0).

* bpo-27850: Remove 3DES from ssl module's default cipher list to
  counter measure sweet32 attack (CVE-2016-2183).

* bpo-27766: Add ChaCha20 Poly1305 to ssl module's default ciper
  list. (Required OpenSSL 1.1.0 or LibreSSL).

* bpo-25387: Check return value of winsound.MessageBeep.

* bpo-27866: Add SSLContext.get_ciphers() method to get a list of
  all enabled ciphers.

* bpo-27744: Add AF_ALG (Linux Kernel crypto) to socket module.

* bpo-26470: Port ssl and hashlib module to OpenSSL 1.1.0.

* bpo-11620: Fix support for SND_MEMORY in winsound.PlaySound.
  Based on a patch by Tim Lesher.

* bpo-11734: Add support for IEEE 754 half-precision floats to the
  struct module. Based on a patch by Eli Stevens.

* bpo-27919: Deprecated "extra_path" distribution option in
  distutils packaging.

* bpo-23229: Add new "cmath" constants: "cmath.inf" and "cmath.nan"
  to match "math.inf" and "math.nan", and also "cmath.infj" and
  "cmath.nanj" to match the format used by complex repr.

* bpo-27842: The csv.DictReader now returns rows of type
  OrderedDict. (Contributed by Steve Holden.)

* Remove support for passing a file descriptor to os.access. It
  never worked but previously didn't raise.

* bpo-12885: Fix error when distutils encounters symlink.

* bpo-27881: Fixed possible bugs when setting
  sqlite3.Connection.isolation_level. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-27861: Fixed a crash in sqlite3.Connection.cursor() when a
  factory creates not a cursor.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-19884: Avoid spurious output on OS X with Gnu Readline.

* bpo-27706: Restore deterministic behavior of
  random.Random().seed() for string seeds using seeding version 1.
  Allows sequences of calls to random() to exactly match those
  obtained in Python 2. Patch by Nofar Schnider.

* bpo-10513: Fix a regression in Connection.commit().  Statements
  should not be reset after a commit.

* bpo-12319: Chunked transfer encoding support added to
  http.client.HTTPConnection requests.  The
  urllib.request.AbstractHTTPHandler class does not enforce a Content-
  Length header any more.  If a HTTP request has a file or iterable
  body, but no Content-Length header, the library now falls back to
  use chunked transfer- encoding.

* A new version of typing.py from https://github.com/python/typing:
  - Collection (only for 3.6) (bpo-27598) - Add FrozenSet to __all__
  (upstream #261) - fix crash in _get_type_vars() (upstream #259) -
  Remove the dict constraint in ForwardRef._eval_type (upstream #252)

* bpo-27832: Make "_normalize" parameter to "Fraction" constuctor
  keyword-only, so that "Fraction(2, 3, 4)" now raises "TypeError".

* bpo-27539: Fix unnormalised "Fraction.__pow__" result in the case
  of negative exponent and negative base.

* bpo-21718: cursor.description is now available for queries using
  CTEs.

* bpo-27819: In distutils sdists, simply produce the "gztar"
  (gzipped tar format) distributions on all platforms unless "formats"
  is supplied.

* bpo-2466: posixpath.ismount now correctly recognizes mount points
  which the user does not have permission to access.

* bpo-9998: On Linux, ctypes.util.find_library now looks in
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH for shared libraries.

* bpo-27573: exit message for code.interact is now configurable.

* bpo-27930: Improved behaviour of logging.handlers.QueueListener.
  Thanks to Paulo Andrade and Petr Viktorin for the analysis and
  patch.

* bpo-6766: Distributed reference counting added to multiprocessing
  to support nesting of shared values / proxy objects.

* bpo-21201: Improves readability of multiprocessing error message.
  Thanks to Wojciech Walczak for patch.

* asyncio: Add set_protocol / get_protocol to Transports.

* bpo-27456: asyncio: Set TCP_NODELAY by default.


IDLE
----

* bpo-15308: Add 'interrupt execution' (^C) to Shell menu. Patch by
  Roger Serwy, updated by Bayard Randel.

* bpo-27922: Stop IDLE tests from 'flashing' gui widgets on the
  screen.

* bpo-27891: Consistently group and sort imports within idlelib
  modules.

* bpo-17642: add larger font sizes for classroom projection.

* Add version to title of IDLE help window.

* bpo-25564: In section on IDLE -- console differences, mention that
  using exec means that __builtins__ is defined for each statement.

* bpo-27821: Fix 3.6.0a3 regression that prevented custom key sets
  from being selected when no custom theme was defined.


C API
-----

* bpo-26900: Excluded underscored names and other private API from
  limited API.

* bpo-26027: Add support for path-like objects in
  PyUnicode_FSConverter() & PyUnicode_FSDecoder().


Tests
-----

* bpo-27427: Additional tests for the math module. Patch by
  Francisco Couzo.

* bpo-27953: Skip math and cmath tests that fail on OS X 10.4 due to
  a poor libm implementation of tan.

* bpo-26040: Improve test_math and test_cmath coverage and rigour.
  Patch by Jeff Allen.

* bpo-27787: Call gc.collect() before checking each test for
  "dangling threads", since the dangling threads are weak references.


Build
-----

* bpo-27566: Fix clean target in freeze makefile (patch by Lisa
  Roach)

* bpo-27705: Update message in validate_ucrtbase.py

* bpo-27976: Deprecate building _ctypes with the bundled copy of
  libffi on non-OSX UNIX platforms.

* bpo-27983: Cause lack of llvm-profdata tool when using clang as
  required for PGO linking to be a configure time error rather than
  make time when --with-optimizations is enabled.  Also improve our
  ability to find the llvm-profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes.

* bpo-21590: Support for DTrace and SystemTap probes.

* bpo-26307: The profile-opt build now applies PGO to the built-in
  modules.

* bpo-26359: Add the --with-optimizations flag to turn on LTO and
  PGO build support when available.

* bpo-27917: Set platform triplets for Android builds.

* bpo-25825: Update references to the $(LIBPL) installation path on
  AIX. This path was changed in 3.2a4.

* Update OS X installer to use SQLite 3.14.1 and XZ 5.2.2.

* bpo-21122: Fix LTO builds on OS X.

* bpo-17128: Build OS X installer with a private copy of OpenSSL.
  Also provide a sample Install Certificates command script to install
  a set of root certificates from the third-party certifi module.


Tools/Demos
-----------

* bpo-27952: Get Tools/scripts/fixcid.py working with Python 3 and
  the current "re" module, avoid invalid Python backslash escapes, and
  fix a bug parsing escaped C quote signs.


Windows
-------

* bpo-28065: Update xz dependency to 5.2.2 and build it from source.

* bpo-25144: Ensures TargetDir is set before continuing with custom
  install.

* bpo-1602: Windows console doesn't input or print Unicode (PEP 528)

* bpo-27781: Change file system encoding on Windows to UTF-8 (PEP
  529)

* bpo-27731: Opt-out of MAX_PATH on Windows 10

* bpo-6135: Adds encoding and errors parameters to subprocess.

* bpo-27959: Adds oem encoding, alias ansi to mbcs, move aliasmbcs
  to codec lookup.

* bpo-27982: The functions of the winsound module now accept keyword
  arguments.

* bpo-20366: Build full text search support into SQLite on Windows.

* bpo-27756: Adds new icons for Python files and processes on
  Windows. Designs by Cherry Wang.

* bpo-27883: Update sqlite to 3.14.1.0 on Windows.


Python 3.6.0 alpha 4
====================

*Release date: 2016-08-15*


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-27704: Optimized creating bytes and bytearray from byte-like
  objects and iterables.  Speed up to 3 times for short objects.
  Original patch by Naoki Inada.

* bpo-26823: Large sections of repeated lines in tracebacks are now
  abbreviated as "[Previous line repeated {count} more times]" by the
  builtin traceback rendering. Patch by Emanuel Barry.

* bpo-27574: Decreased an overhead of parsing keyword arguments in
  functions implemented with using Argument Clinic.

* bpo-22557: Now importing already imported modules is up to 2.5
  times faster.

* bpo-17596: Include <wincrypt.h> to help with Min GW building.

* bpo-17599: On Windows, rename the privately defined
  REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER structure to avoid conflicting with the
  definition from Min GW.

* bpo-27507: Add integer overflow check in bytearray.extend().
  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-27581: Don't rely on wrapping for overflow check in
  PySequence_Tuple().  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-1621: Avoid signed integer overflow in list and tuple
  operations. Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-27419: Standard __import__() no longer look up "__import__" in
  globals or builtins for importing submodules or "from import". Fixed
  a crash if raise a warning about unabling to resolve package from
  __spec__ or __package__.

* bpo-27083: Respect the PYTHONCASEOK environment variable under
  Windows.

* bpo-27514: Make having too many statically nested blocks a
  SyntaxError instead of SystemError.

* bpo-27366: Implemented PEP 487 (Simpler customization of class
  creation). Upon subclassing, the __init_subclass__ classmethod is
  called on the base class. Descriptors are initialized with
  __set_name__ after class creation.


Library
-------

* bpo-26027, #27524: Add PEP 519/__fspath__() support to the os and
  os.path modules. Includes code from Jelle Zijlstra.

* bpo-27598: Add Collections to collections.abc. Patch by Ivan
  Levkivskyi, docs by Neil Girdhar.

* bpo-25958: Support "anti-registration" of special methods from
  various ABCs, like __hash__, __iter__ or __len__.  All these (and
  several more) can be set to None in an implementation class and the
  behavior will be as if the method is not defined at all.
  (Previously, this mechanism existed only for __hash__, to make
  mutable classes unhashable.)  Code contributed by Andrew Barnert and
  Ivan Levkivskyi.

* bpo-16764: Support keyword arguments to zlib.decompress().  Patch
  by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-27736: Prevent segfault after interpreter re-initialization
  due to ref count problem introduced in code for bpo-27038 in
  3.6.0a3. Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-25628:  The *verbose* and *rename* parameters for
  collections.namedtuple are now keyword-only.

* bpo-12345: Add mathematical constant tau to math and cmath. See
  also PEP 628.

* bpo-26823: traceback.StackSummary.format now abbreviates large
  sections of repeated lines as "[Previous line repeated {count} more
  times]" (this change then further affects other traceback display
  operations in the module). Patch by Emanuel Barry.

* bpo-27664: Add to concurrent.futures.thread.ThreadPoolExecutor()
  the ability to specify a thread name prefix.

* bpo-27181: Add geometric_mean and harmonic_mean to statistics
  module.

* bpo-27573: code.interact now prints an message when exiting.

* bpo-6422: Add autorange method to timeit.Timer objects.

* bpo-27773: Correct some memory management errors server_hostname
  in _ssl.wrap_socket().

* bpo-26750: unittest.mock.create_autospec() now works properly for
  subclasses of property() and other data descriptors.  Removes the
  never publicly used, never documented unittest.mock.DescriptorTypes
  tuple.

* bpo-26754: Undocumented support of general bytes-like objects as
  path in compile() and similar functions is now deprecated.

* bpo-26800: Undocumented support of general bytes-like objects as
  paths in os functions is now deprecated.

* bpo-26981: Add _order_ compatibility shim to enum.Enum for Python
  2/3 code bases.

* bpo-27661: Added tzinfo keyword argument to datetime.combine.

* In the curses module, raise an error if window.getstr() or
  window.instr() is passed a negative value.

* bpo-27783: Fix possible usage of uninitialized memory in
  operator.methodcaller.

* bpo-27774: Fix possible Py_DECREF on unowned object in _sre.

* bpo-27760: Fix possible integer overflow in binascii.b2a_qp.

* bpo-27758: Fix possible integer overflow in the _csv module for
  large record lengths.

* bpo-27568: Prevent HTTPoxy attack (CVE-2016-1000110). Ignore the
  HTTP_PROXY variable when REQUEST_METHOD environment is set, which
  indicates that the script is in CGI mode.

* bpo-7063: Remove dead code from the "array" module's slice
  handling. Patch by Chuck.

* bpo-27656: Do not assume sched.h defines any SCHED_* constants.

* bpo-27130: In the "zlib" module, fix handling of large buffers
  (typically 4 GiB) when compressing and decompressing.  Previously,
  inputs were limited to 4 GiB, and compression and decompression
  operations did not properly handle results of 4 GiB.

* bpo-24773: Implemented PEP 495 (Local Time Disambiguation).

* Expose the EPOLLEXCLUSIVE constant (when it is defined) in the
  select module.

* bpo-27567: Expose the EPOLLRDHUP and POLLRDHUP constants in the
  select module.

* bpo-1621: Avoid signed int negation overflow in the "audioop"
  module.

* bpo-27533: Release GIL in nt._isdir

* bpo-17711: Fixed unpickling by the persistent ID with protocol 0.
  Original patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.

* bpo-27522: Avoid an unintentional reference cycle in
  email.feedparser.

* bpo-27512: Fix a segfault when os.fspath() called an __fspath__()
  method that raised an exception. Patch by Xiang Zhang.


IDLE
----

* bpo-27714: text_textview and test_autocomplete now pass when re-
  run in the same process.  This occurs when test_idle fails when run
  with the -w option but without -jn.  Fix warning from test_config.

* bpo-27621: Put query response validation error messages in the
  query box itself instead of in a separate massagebox.  Redo tests to
  match. Add Mac OSX refinements.  Original patch by Mark Roseman.

* bpo-27620: Escape key now closes Query box as cancelled.

* bpo-27609: IDLE: tab after initial whitespace should tab, not
  autocomplete. This fixes problem with writing docstrings at least
  twice indented.

* bpo-27609: Explicitly return None when there are also non-None
  returns. In a few cases, reverse a condition and eliminate a return.

* bpo-25507: IDLE no longer runs buggy code because of its tkinter
  imports. Users must include the same imports required to run
  directly in Python.

* bpo-27173: Add 'IDLE Modern Unix' to the built-in key sets. Make
  the default key set depend on the platform. Add tests for the
  changes to the config module.

* bpo-27452: add line counter and crc to IDLE configHandler test
  dump.


Tests
-----

* bpo-25805: Skip a test in test_pkgutil as needed that doesn't work
  when "__name__ == __main__". Patch by SilentGhost.

* bpo-27472: Add test.support.unix_shell as the path to the default
  shell.

* bpo-27369: In test_pyexpat, avoid testing an error message detail
  that changed in Expat 2.2.0.

* bpo-27594: Prevent assertion error when running test_ast with
  coverage enabled: ensure code object has a valid first line number.
  Patch suggested by Ivan Levkivskyi.


Windows
-------

* bpo-27647: Update bundled Tcl/Tk to 8.6.6.

* bpo-27610: Adds PEP 514 metadata to Windows installer

* bpo-27469: Adds a shell extension to the launcher so that drag and
  drop works correctly.

* bpo-27309: Enables proper Windows styles in python[w].exe
  manifest.


Build
-----

* bpo-27713: Suppress spurious build warnings when updating
  importlib's bootstrap files.  Patch by Xiang Zhang

* bpo-25825: Correct the references to Modules/python.exp, which is
  required on AIX.  The references were accidentally changed in
  3.5.0a1.

* bpo-27453: CPP invocation in configure must use CPPFLAGS. Patch by
  Chi Hsuan Yen.

* bpo-27641: The configure script now inserts comments into the
  makefile to prevent the pgen and _freeze_importlib executables from
  being cross- compiled.

* bpo-26662: Set PYTHON_FOR_GEN in configure as the Python program
  to be used for file generation during the build.

* bpo-10910: Avoid C++ compilation errors on FreeBSD and OS X. Also
  update FreedBSD version checks for the original ctype UTF-8
  workaround.


Python 3.6.0 alpha 3
====================

*Release date: 2016-07-11*


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-27473: Fixed possible integer overflow in bytes and bytearray
  concatenations.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-23034: The output of a special Python build with defined
  COUNT_ALLOCS, SHOW_ALLOC_COUNT or SHOW_TRACK_COUNT macros is now off
  by  default.  It can be re-enabled using the "-X showalloccount"
  option.  It now outputs to stderr instead of stdout.

* bpo-27443: __length_hint__() of bytearray iterators no longer
  return a negative integer for a resized bytearray.

* bpo-27007: The fromhex() class methods of bytes and bytearray
  subclasses now return an instance of corresponding subclass.


Library
-------

* bpo-26844: Fix error message for imp.find_module() to refer to
  'path' instead of 'name'. Patch by Lev Maximov.

* bpo-23804: Fix SSL zero-length recv() calls to not block and not
  raise an error about unclean EOF.

* bpo-27466: Change time format returned by
  http.cookie.time2netscape, confirming the netscape cookie format and
  making it consistent with documentation.

* bpo-21708: Deprecated dbm.dumb behavior that differs from common
  dbm behavior: creating a database in 'r' and 'w' modes and modifying
  a database in 'r' mode.

* bpo-26721: Change the socketserver.StreamRequestHandler.wfile
  attribute to implement BufferedIOBase. In particular, the write()
  method no longer does partial writes.

* bpo-22115: Added methods trace_add, trace_remove and trace_info in
  the tkinter.Variable class.  They replace old methods
  trace_variable, trace, trace_vdelete and trace_vinfo that use
  obsolete Tcl commands and might not work in future versions of Tcl.
  Fixed old tracing methods: trace_vdelete() with wrong mode no longer
  break tracing, trace_vinfo() now always returns a list of pairs of
  strings, tracing in the "u" mode now works.

* bpo-26243: Only the level argument to zlib.compress() is keyword
  argument now.  The first argument is positional-only.

* bpo-27038: Expose the DirEntry type as os.DirEntry. Code patch by
  Jelle Zijlstra.

* bpo-27186: Update os.fspath()/PyOS_FSPath() to check the return
  value of __fspath__() to be either str or bytes.

* bpo-18726: All optional parameters of the dump(), dumps(), load()
  and loads() functions and JSONEncoder and JSONDecoder class
  constructors in the json module are now keyword-only.

* bpo-27319: Methods selection_set(), selection_add(),
  selection_remove() and selection_toggle() of ttk.TreeView now allow
  passing multiple items as multiple arguments instead of passing them
  as a tuple.  Deprecated undocumented ability of calling the
  selection() method with arguments.

* bpo-27079: Fixed curses.ascii functions isblank(), iscntrl() and
  ispunct().

* bpo-27294: Numerical state in the repr for Tkinter event objects
  is now represented as a combination of known flags.

* bpo-27177: Match objects in the re module now support index-like
  objects as group indices.  Based on patches by Jeroen Demeyer and
  Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-26754: Some functions (compile() etc) accepted a filename
  argument encoded as an iterable of integers. Now only strings and
  byte-like objects are accepted.

* bpo-26536: socket.ioctl now supports SIO_LOOPBACK_FAST_PATH. Patch
  by Daniel Stokes.

* bpo-27048: Prevents distutils failing on Windows when environment
  variables contain non-ASCII characters

* bpo-27330: Fixed possible leaks in the ctypes module.

* bpo-27238: Got rid of bare excepts in the turtle module.  Original
  patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

* bpo-27122: When an exception is raised within the context being
  managed by a contextlib.ExitStack() and one of the exit stack
  generators catches and raises it in a chain, do not re-raise the
  original exception when exiting, let the new chained one through.
  This avoids the PEP 479 bug described in issue25782.

* [Security] bpo-27278: Fix os.urandom() implementation using
  getrandom() on Linux.  Truncate size to INT_MAX and loop until we
  collected enough random bytes, instead of casting a directly
  Py_ssize_t to int.

* bpo-16864: sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid now supports REPLACE
  statement. Initial patch by Alex LordThorsen.

* bpo-26386: Fixed ttk.TreeView selection operations with item id's
  containing spaces.

* bpo-8637: Honor a pager set by the env var MANPAGER (in preference
  to one set by the env var PAGER).

* [Security] bpo-22636: Avoid shell injection problems with
  ctypes.util.find_library().

* bpo-16182: Fix various functions in the "readline" module to use
  the locale encoding, and fix get_begidx() and get_endidx() to return
  code point indexes.

* bpo-27392: Add loop.connect_accepted_socket(). Patch by Jim
  Fulton.


IDLE
----

* bpo-27477: IDLE search dialogs now use ttk widgets.

* bpo-27173: Add 'IDLE Modern Unix' to the built-in key sets. Make
  the default key set depend on the platform. Add tests for the
  changes to the config module.

* bpo-27452: make command line "idle-test> python test_help.py"
  work. __file__ is relative when python is started in the file's
  directory.

* bpo-27452: add line counter and crc to IDLE configHandler test
  dump.

* bpo-27380: IDLE: add query.py with base Query dialog and ttk
  widgets. Module had subclasses SectionName, ModuleName, and
  HelpSource, which are used to get information from users by
  configdialog and file =>Load Module. Each subclass has itw own
  validity checks.  Using ModuleName allows users to edit bad module
  names instead of starting over. Add tests and delete the two files
  combined into the new one.

* bpo-27372: Test_idle no longer changes the locale.

* bpo-27365: Allow non-ascii chars in IDLE NEWS.txt, for contributor
  names.

* bpo-27245: IDLE: Cleanly delete custom themes and key bindings.
  Previously, when IDLE was started from a console or by import, a
  cascade of warnings was emitted.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

* bpo-24137: Run IDLE, test_idle, and htest with tkinter default
  root disabled.  Fix code and tests that fail with this restriction.
  Fix htests to not create a second and redundant root and mainloop.

* bpo-27310: Fix IDLE.app failure to launch on OS X due to vestigial
  import.


C API
-----

* bpo-26754: PyUnicode_FSDecoder() accepted a filename argument
  encoded as an iterable of integers. Now only strings and byte-like
  objects are accepted.


Build
-----

* bpo-28066: Fix the logic that searches build directories for
  generated include files when building outside the source tree.

* bpo-27442: Expose the Android API level that python was built
  against, in sysconfig.get_config_vars() as 'ANDROID_API_LEVEL'.

* bpo-27434: The interpreter that runs the cross-build, found in
  PATH, must now be of the same feature version (e.g. 3.6) as the
  source being built.

* bpo-26930: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2h.

* bpo-23968: Rename the platform directory from plat-$(MACHDEP) to
  plat-$(PLATFORM_TRIPLET). Rename the config directory (LIBPL) from
  config-$(LDVERSION) to config-$(LDVERSION)-$(PLATFORM_TRIPLET).
  Install the platform specifc _sysconfigdata module into the platform
  directory and rename it to include the ABIFLAGS.

* Don't use largefile support for GNU/Hurd.


Tools/Demos
-----------

* bpo-27332: Fixed the type of the first argument of module-level
  functions generated by Argument Clinic.  Patch by Petr Viktorin.

* bpo-27418: Fixed Tools/importbench/importbench.py.


Documentation
-------------

* bpo-19489: Moved the search box from the sidebar to the header and
  footer of each page.  Patch by Ammar Askar.

* bpo-27285: Update documentation to reflect the deprecation of
  "pyvenv" and normalize on the term "virtual environment". Patch by
  Steve Piercy.


Tests
-----

* bpo-27027: Added test.support.is_android that is True when this is
  an Android build.


Python 3.6.0 alpha 2
====================

*Release date: 2016-06-13*


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-27095: Simplified MAKE_FUNCTION and removed MAKE_CLOSURE
  opcodes. Patch by Demur Rumed.

* bpo-27190: Raise NotSupportedError if sqlite3 is older than 3.3.1.
  Patch by Dave Sawyer.

* bpo-27286: Fixed compiling BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL opcode.
  Calling function with generalized unpacking (PEP 448) and
  conflicting keyword names could cause undefined behavior.

* bpo-27140: Added BUILD_CONST_KEY_MAP opcode.

* bpo-27186: Add support for os.PathLike objects to open() (part of
  PEP 519).

* bpo-27066: Fixed SystemError if a custom opener (for open())
  returns a negative number without setting an exception.

* bpo-26983: float() now always return an instance of exact float.
  The deprecation warning is emitted if __float__ returns an instance
  of a strict subclass of float.  In a future versions of Python this
  can be an error.

* bpo-27097: Python interpreter is now about 7% faster due to
  optimized instruction decoding.  Based on patch by Demur Rumed.

* bpo-26647: Python interpreter now uses 16-bit wordcode instead of
  bytecode. Patch by Demur Rumed.

* bpo-23275: Allow assigning to an empty target list in round
  brackets: () = iterable.

* bpo-27243: Update the __aiter__ protocol: instead of returning an
  awaitable that resolves to an asynchronous iterator, the
  asynchronous iterator should be returned directly.  Doing the former
  will trigger a PendingDeprecationWarning.


Library
-------

* Comment out socket (SO_REUSEPORT) and posix (O_SHLOCK, O_EXLOCK)
  constants exposed on the API which are not implemented on GNU/Hurd.
  They would not work at runtime anyway.

* bpo-27025: Generated names for Tkinter widgets are now more
  meanful and recognizirable.

* bpo-25455: Fixed crashes in repr of recursive ElementTree.Element
  and functools.partial objects.

* bpo-27294: Improved repr for Tkinter event objects.

* bpo-20508: Improve exception message of
  IPv{4,6}Network.__getitem__. Patch by Gareth Rees.

* [Security] bpo-26556: Update expat to 2.1.1, fixes CVE-2015-1283.

* [Security] Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smtplib,
  CVE-2016-0772. Reported by Team Oststrom.

* bpo-21386: Implement missing IPv4Address.is_global property.  It
  was documented since 07a5610bae9d.  Initial patch by Roger Luethi.

* bpo-27029: Removed deprecated support of universal newlines mode
  from ZipFile.open().

* bpo-27030: Unknown escapes consisting of "'\'" and an ASCII letter
  in regular expressions now are errors.  The re.LOCALE flag now can
  be used only with bytes patterns.

* bpo-27186: Add os.PathLike support to DirEntry (part of PEP 519).
  Initial patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

* bpo-20900: distutils register command now decodes HTTP responses
  correctly.  Initial patch by ingrid.

* bpo-27186: Add os.PathLike support to pathlib, removing its
  provisional status (part of PEP 519). Initial patch by Dusty
  Phillips.

* bpo-27186: Add support for os.PathLike objects to os.fsencode()
  and os.fsdecode() (part of PEP 519).

* bpo-27186: Introduce os.PathLike and os.fspath() (part of PEP
  519).

* A new version of typing.py provides several new classes and
  features: @overload outside stubs, Reversible, DefaultDict, Text,
  ContextManager, Type[], NewType(), TYPE_CHECKING, and numerous bug
  fixes (note that some of the new features are not yet implemented in
  mypy or other static analyzers).  Also classes for PEP 492
  (Awaitable, AsyncIterable, AsyncIterator) have been added (in fact
  they made it into 3.5.1 but were never mentioned).

* bpo-25738: Stop http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.send_error()
  from sending a message body for 205 Reset Content.  Also, don't send
  Content header fields in responses that don't have a body.  Patch by
  Susumu Koshiba.

* bpo-21313: Fix the "platform" module to tolerate when sys.version
  contains truncated build information.

* [Security] bpo-26839: On Linux, "os.urandom()" now calls
  "getrandom()" with "GRND_NONBLOCK" to fall back on reading
  "/dev/urandom" if the urandom entropy pool is not initialized yet.
  Patch written by Colm Buckley.

* bpo-23883: Added missing APIs to __all__ to match the documented
  APIs for the following modules: cgi, mailbox, mimetypes, plistlib
  and smtpd. Patches by Jacek Kołodziej.

* bpo-27164: In the zlib module, allow decompressing raw Deflate
  streams with a predefined zdict.  Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-24291: Fix wsgiref.simple_server.WSGIRequestHandler to
  completely write data to the client.  Previously it could do partial
  writes and truncate data.  Also, wsgiref.handler.ServerHandler can
  now handle stdout doing partial writes, but this is deprecated.

* bpo-21272: Use _sysconfigdata.py to initialize
  distutils.sysconfig.

* bpo-19611: "inspect" now reports the implicit ".0" parameters
  generated by the compiler for comprehension and generator expression
  scopes as if they were positional-only parameters called
  "implicit0". Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

* bpo-26809: Add "__all__" to "string".  Patch by Emanuel Barry.

* bpo-26373: subprocess.Popen.communicate now correctly ignores
  BrokenPipeError when the child process dies before .communicate() is
  called in more/all circumstances.

* signal, socket, and ssl module IntEnum constant name lookups now
  return a consistent name for values having multiple names.  Ex:
  signal.Signals(6) now refers to itself as signal.SIGALRM rather than
  flipping between that and signal.SIGIOT based on the interpreter's
  hash randomization seed.

* bpo-27167: Clarify the subprocess.CalledProcessError error message
  text when the child process died due to a signal.

* bpo-25931: Don't define socketserver.Forking* names on platforms
  such as Windows that do not support os.fork().

* bpo-21776: distutils.upload now correctly handles HTTPError.
  Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-26526: Replace custom parse tree validation in the parser
  module with a simple DFA validator.

* bpo-27114: Fix SSLContext._load_windows_store_certs fails with
  PermissionError

* bpo-18383: Avoid creating duplicate filters when using
  filterwarnings and simplefilter.  Based on patch by Alex Shkop.

* bpo-23026: winreg.QueryValueEx() now return an integer for
  REG_QWORD type.

* bpo-26741: subprocess.Popen destructor now emits a ResourceWarning
  warning if the child process is still running.

* bpo-27056: Optimize pickle.load() and pickle.loads(), up to 10%
  faster to deserialize a lot of small objects.

* bpo-21271: New keyword only parameters in reset_mock call.


IDLE
----

* bpo-5124: Paste with text selected now replaces the selection on
  X11. This matches how paste works on Windows, Mac, most modern Linux
  apps, and ttk widgets.  Original patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

* bpo-24750: Switch all scrollbars in IDLE to ttk versions. Where
  needed, minimal tests are added to cover changes.

* bpo-24759: IDLE requires tk 8.5 and availability ttk widgets.
  Delete now unneeded tk version tests and code for older versions.
  Add test for IDLE syntax colorizoer.

* bpo-27239: idlelib.macosx.isXyzTk functions initialize as needed.

* bpo-27262: move Aqua unbinding code, which enable context menus,
  to maxosx.

* bpo-24759: Make clear in idlelib.idle_test.__init__ that the
  directory is a private implementation of test.test_idle and tool for
  maintainers.

* bpo-27196: Stop 'ThemeChanged' warnings when running IDLE tests.
  These persisted after other warnings were suppressed in #20567.
  Apply Serhiy Storchaka's update_idletasks solution to four test
  files. Record this additional advice in idle_test/README.txt

* bpo-20567: Revise idle_test/README.txt with advice about avoiding
  tk warning messages from tests.  Apply advice to several IDLE tests.

* bpo-24225: Update idlelib/README.txt with new file names and event
  handlers.

* bpo-27156: Remove obsolete code not used by IDLE.  Replacements:
  1. help.txt, replaced by help.html, is out-of-date and should not be
  used. Its dedicated viewer has be replaced by the html viewer in
  help.py. 2. "import idlever; I = idlever.IDLE_VERSION" is the same
  as "import sys; I = version[:version.index(' ')]" 3. After "ob =
  stackviewer.VariablesTreeItem(*args)", "ob.keys() ==
  list(ob.object.keys)". 4. In macosc, runningAsOSXAPP == isAquaTk;
  idCarbonAquaTk == isCarbonTk

* bpo-27117: Make colorizer htest and turtledemo work with dark
  themes. Move code for configuring text widget colors to a new
  function.

* bpo-24225: Rename many "idlelib/*.py" and "idle_test/test_*.py"
  files. Edit files to replace old names with new names when the old
  name referred to the module rather than the class it contained. See
  the issue and IDLE section in What's New in 3.6 for more.

* bpo-26673: When tk reports font size as 0, change to size 10. Such
  fonts on Linux prevented the configuration dialog from opening.

* bpo-21939: Add test for IDLE's percolator. Original patch by
  Saimadhav Heblikar.

* bpo-21676: Add test for IDLE's replace dialog. Original patch by
  Saimadhav Heblikar.

* bpo-18410: Add test for IDLE's search dialog. Original patch by
  Westley Martínez.

* bpo-21703: Add test for undo delegator.  Patch mostly by Saimadhav
  Heblikar .

* bpo-27044: Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory
  leaks.

* bpo-23977: Add more asserts to test_delegator.


Documentation
-------------

* bpo-16484: Change the default PYTHONDOCS URL to "https:", and fix
  the resulting links to use lowercase.  Patch by Sean Rodman, test by
  Kaushik Nadikuditi.

* bpo-24136: Document the new PEP 448 unpacking syntax of 3.5.

* bpo-22558: Add remaining doc links to source code for Python-coded
  modules. Patch by Yoni Lavi.


Tests
-----

* bpo-25285: regrtest now uses subprocesses when the -j1 command
  line option is used: each test file runs in a fresh child process.
  Before, the -j1 option was ignored.

* bpo-25285: Tools/buildbot/test.bat script now uses -j1 by default
  to run each test file in fresh child process.


Windows
-------

* bpo-27064: The py.exe launcher now defaults to Python 3. The
  Windows launcher "py.exe" no longer prefers an installed Python 2
  version over Python 3 by default when used interactively.


Build
-----

* bpo-27229: Fix the cross-compiling pgen rule for in-tree builds.
  Patch by Xavier de Gaye.

* bpo-26930: Update OS X 10.5+ 32-bit-only installer to build and
  link with OpenSSL 1.0.2h.


Misc
----

* bpo-17500, and https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/945:
  Remove unused and outdated icons.


C API
-----

* bpo-27186: Add the PyOS_FSPath() function (part of PEP 519).

* bpo-26282: PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() now supports positional-
  only parameters.


Tools/Demos
-----------

* bpo-26282: Argument Clinic now supports positional-only and
  keyword parameters in the same function.


Python 3.6.0 alpha 1
====================

Release date: 2016-05-16


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-20041: Fixed TypeError when frame.f_trace is set to None.
  Patch by Xavier de Gaye.

* bpo-26168: Fixed possible refleaks in failing Py_BuildValue() with
  the "N" format unit.

* bpo-26991: Fix possible refleak when creating a function with
  annotations.

* bpo-27039: Fixed bytearray.remove() for values greater than 127.
  Based on patch by Joe Jevnik.

* bpo-23640: int.from_bytes() no longer bypasses constructors for
  subclasses.

* bpo-27005: Optimized the float.fromhex() class method for exact
  float. It is now 2 times faster.

* bpo-18531: Single var-keyword argument of dict subtype was passed
  unscathed to the C-defined function.  Now it is converted to exact
  dict.

* bpo-26811: gc.get_objects() no longer contains a broken tuple with
  NULL pointer.

* bpo-20120: Use RawConfigParser for .pypirc parsing, removing
  support for interpolation unintentionally added with move to Python
  3. Behavior no longer does any interpolation in .pypirc files,
  matching behavior in Python 2.7 and Setuptools 19.0.

* bpo-26249: Memory functions of the "PyMem_Malloc()" domain
  ("PYMEM_DOMAIN_MEM") now use the pymalloc allocator rather than
  system "malloc()". Applications calling "PyMem_Malloc()" without
  holding the GIL can now crash: use "PYTHONMALLOC=debug" environment
  variable to validate the usage of memory allocators in your
  application.

* bpo-26802: Optimize function calls only using unpacking like
  "func(*tuple)" (no other positional argument, no keyword): avoid
  copying the tuple. Patch written by Joe Jevnik.

* bpo-26659: Make the builtin slice type support cycle collection.

* bpo-26718: super.__init__ no longer leaks memory if called
  multiple times. NOTE: A direct call of super.__init__ is not
  endorsed!

* bpo-27138: Fix the doc comment for FileFinder.find_spec().

* bpo-27147: Mention PEP 420 in the importlib docs.

* bpo-25339: PYTHONIOENCODING now has priority over locale in
  setting the error handler for stdin and stdout.

* bpo-26494: Fixed crash on iterating exhausting iterators. Affected
  classes are generic sequence iterators, iterators of str, bytes,
  bytearray, list, tuple, set, frozenset, dict, OrderedDict,
  corresponding views and os.scandir() iterator.

* bpo-26574: Optimize "bytes.replace(b'', b'.')" and
  "bytearray.replace(b'', b'.')". Patch written by Josh Snider.

* bpo-26581: If coding cookie is specified multiple times on a line
  in Python source code file, only the first one is taken to account.

* bpo-19711: Add tests for reloading namespace packages.

* bpo-21099: Switch applicable importlib tests to use PEP 451 API.

* bpo-26563: Debug hooks on Python memory allocators now raise a
  fatal error if functions of the "PyMem_Malloc()" family are called
  without holding the GIL.

* bpo-26564: On error, the debug hooks on Python memory allocators
  now use the "tracemalloc" module to get the traceback where a memory
  block was allocated.

* bpo-26558: The debug hooks on Python memory allocator
  "PyObject_Malloc()" now detect when functions are called without
  holding the GIL.

* bpo-26516: Add "PYTHONMALLOC" environment variable to set the
  Python memory allocators and/or install debug hooks.

* bpo-26516: The "PyMem_SetupDebugHooks()" function can now also be
  used on Python compiled in release mode.

* bpo-26516: The "PYTHONMALLOCSTATS" environment variable can now
  also be used on Python compiled in release mode. It now has no
  effect if set to an empty string.

* bpo-26516: In debug mode, debug hooks are now also installed on
  Python memory allocators when Python is configured without pymalloc.

* bpo-26464: Fix str.translate() when string is ASCII and first
  replacements removes character, but next replacement uses a non-
  ASCII character or a string longer than 1 character. Regression
  introduced in Python 3.5.0.

* bpo-22836: Ensure exception reports from PyErr_Display() and
  PyErr_WriteUnraisable() are sensible even when formatting them
  produces secondary errors.  This affects the reports produced by
  sys.__excepthook__() and when __del__() raises an exception.

* bpo-26302: Correct behavior to reject comma as a legal character
  for cookie names.

* bpo-26136: Upgrade the warning when a generator raises
  StopIteration from PendingDeprecationWarning to DeprecationWarning.
  Patch by Anish Shah.

* bpo-26204: The compiler now ignores all constant statements:
  bytes, str, int, float, complex, name constants (None, False, True),
  Ellipsis and ast.Constant; not only str and int. For example, "1.0"
  is now ignored in "def f(): 1.0".

* bpo-4806: Avoid masking the original TypeError exception when
  using star (*) unpacking in function calls.  Based on patch by Hagen
  Fürstenau and Daniel Urban.

* bpo-26146: Add a new kind of AST node: "ast.Constant". It can be
  used by external AST optimizers, but the compiler does not emit
  directly such node.

* bpo-23601:  Sped-up allocation of dict key objects by using
  Python's small object allocator.  (Contributed by Julian Taylor.)

* bpo-18018: Import raises ImportError instead of SystemError if a
  relative import is attempted without a known parent package.

* bpo-25843: When compiling code, don't merge constants if they are
  equal but have a different types. For example, "f1, f2 = lambda: 1,
  lambda: 1.0" is now correctly compiled to two different functions:
  "f1()" returns "1" ("int") and "f2()" returns "1.0" ("float"), even
  if "1" and "1.0" are equal.

* bpo-26107: The format of the "co_lnotab" attribute of code objects
  changes to support negative line number delta.

* bpo-26154: Add a new private _PyThreadState_UncheckedGet()
  function to get the current Python thread state, but don't issue a
  fatal error if it is NULL. This new function must be used instead of
  accessing directly the _PyThreadState_Current variable.  The
  variable is no more exposed since Python 3.5.1 to hide the exact
  implementation of atomic C types, to avoid compiler issues.

* bpo-25791: If __package__ != __spec__.parent or if neither
  __package__ or __spec__ are defined then ImportWarning is raised.

* bpo-22995: [UPDATE] Comment out the one of the pickleability tests
  in _PyObject_GetState() due to regressions observed in Cython-based
  projects.

* bpo-25961: Disallowed null characters in the type name.

* bpo-25973: Fix segfault when an invalid nonlocal statement binds a
  name starting with two underscores.

* bpo-22995: Instances of extension types with a state that aren't
  subclasses of list or dict and haven't implemented any pickle-
  related methods (__reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __getnewargs__,
  __getnewargs_ex__, or __getstate__), can no longer be pickled.
  Including memoryview.

* bpo-20440: Massive replacing unsafe attribute setting code with
  special macro Py_SETREF.

* bpo-25766: Special method __bytes__() now works in str subclasses.

* bpo-25421: __sizeof__ methods of builtin types now use dynamic
  basic size. This allows sys.getsize() to work correctly with their
  subclasses with __slots__ defined.

* bpo-25709: Fixed problem with in-place string concatenation and
  utf-8 cache.

* bpo-5319: New Py_FinalizeEx() API allowing Python to set an exit
  status of 120 on failure to flush buffered streams.

* bpo-25485: telnetlib.Telnet is now a context manager.

* bpo-24097: Fixed crash in object.__reduce__() if slot name is
  freed inside __getattr__.

* bpo-24731: Fixed crash on converting objects with special methods
  __bytes__, __trunc__, and __float__ returning instances of
  subclasses of bytes, int, and float to subclasses of bytes, int, and
  float correspondingly.

* bpo-25630: Fix a possible segfault during argument parsing in
  functions that accept filesystem paths.

* bpo-23564: Fixed a partially broken sanity check in the
  _posixsubprocess internals regarding how fds_to_pass were passed to
  the child.  The bug had no actual impact as subprocess.py already
  avoided it.

* bpo-25388: Fixed tokenizer crash when processing undecodable
  source code with a null byte.

* bpo-25462: The hash of the key now is calculated only once in most
  operations in C implementation of OrderedDict.

* bpo-22995: Default implementation of __reduce__ and __reduce_ex__
  now rejects builtin types with not defined __new__.

* bpo-24802: Avoid buffer overreads when int(), float(), compile(),
  exec() and eval() are passed bytes-like objects.  These objects are
  not necessarily terminated by a null byte, but the functions assumed
  they were.

* bpo-25555: Fix parser and AST: fill lineno and col_offset of "arg"
  node when compiling AST from Python objects.

* bpo-24726: Fixed a crash and leaking NULL in repr() of OrderedDict
  that was mutated by direct calls of dict methods.

* bpo-25449: Iterating OrderedDict with keys with unstable hash now
  raises KeyError in C implementations as well as in Python
  implementation.

* bpo-25395: Fixed crash when highly nested OrderedDict structures
  were garbage collected.

* bpo-25401: Optimize bytes.fromhex() and bytearray.fromhex(): they
  are now between 2x and 3.5x faster.

* bpo-25399: Optimize bytearray % args using the new private
  _PyBytesWriter API. Formatting is now between 2.5 and 5 times
  faster.

* bpo-25274: sys.setrecursionlimit() now raises a RecursionError if
  the new recursion limit is too low depending at the current
  recursion depth. Modify also the "lower-water mark" formula to make
  it monotonic. This mark is used to decide when the overflowed flag
  of the thread state is reset.

* bpo-24402: Fix input() to prompt to the redirected stdout when
  sys.stdout.fileno() fails.

* bpo-25349: Optimize bytes % args using the new private
  _PyBytesWriter API. Formatting is now up to 2 times faster.

* bpo-24806: Prevent builtin types that are not allowed to be
  subclassed from being subclassed through multiple inheritance.

* bpo-25301: The UTF-8 decoder is now up to 15 times as fast for
  error handlers: "ignore", "replace" and "surrogateescape".

* bpo-24848: Fixed a number of bugs in UTF-7 decoding of misformed
  data.

* bpo-25267: The UTF-8 encoder is now up to 75 times as fast for
  error handlers: "ignore", "replace", "surrogateescape",
  "surrogatepass". Patch co-written with Serhiy Storchaka.

* bpo-25280: Import trace messages emitted in verbose (-v) mode are
  no longer formatted twice.

* bpo-25227: Optimize ASCII and latin1 encoders with the
  "surrogateescape" error handler: the encoders are now up to 3 times
  as fast. Initial patch written by Serhiy Storchaka.

* bpo-25003: On Solaris 11.3 or newer, os.urandom() now uses the
  getrandom() function instead of the getentropy() function. The
  getentropy() function is blocking to generate very good quality
  entropy, os.urandom() doesn't need such high-quality entropy.

* bpo-9232: Modify Python's grammar to allow trailing commas in the
  argument list of a function declaration.  For example, "def f(*, a =
  3,): pass" is now legal. Patch from Mark Dickinson.

* bpo-24965: Implement PEP 498 "Literal String Interpolation". This
  allows you to embed expressions inside f-strings, which are
  converted to normal strings at run time. Given x=3, then
  f'value={x}' == 'value=3'. Patch by Eric V. Smith.

* bpo-26478: Fix semantic bugs when using binary operators with
  dictionary views and tuples.

* bpo-26171: Fix possible integer overflow and heap corruption in
  zipimporter.get_data().

* bpo-25660: Fix TAB key behaviour in REPL with readline.

* bpo-26288: Optimize PyLong_AsDouble.

* Issues #26289 and #26315: Optimize floor and modulo division for
  single-digit longs.  Microbenchmarks show 2-2.5x improvement. Built-
  in 'divmod' function is now also ~10% faster.

* bpo-25887: Raise a RuntimeError when a coroutine object is awaited
  more than once.


Library
-------

* bpo-27057: Fix os.set_inheritable() on Android, ioctl() is blocked
  by SELinux and fails with EACCESS. The function now falls back to
  fcntl(). Patch written by Michał Bednarski.

* bpo-27014: Fix infinite recursion using typing.py.  Thanks to
  Kalle Tuure!

* bpo-27031: Removed dummy methods in Tkinter widget classes:
  tk_menuBar() and tk_bindForTraversal().

* bpo-14132: Fix urllib.request redirect handling when the target
  only has a query string.  Original fix by Ján Janech.

* bpo-17214: The "urllib.request" module now percent-encodes non-
  ASCII bytes found in redirect target URLs.  Some servers send
  Location header fields with non-ASCII bytes, but "http.client"
  requires the request target to be ASCII-encodable, otherwise a
  UnicodeEncodeError is raised.  Based on patch by Christian Heimes.

* bpo-27033: The default value of the decode_data parameter for
  smtpd.SMTPChannel and smtpd.SMTPServer constructors is changed to
  False.

* bpo-27034: Removed deprecated class asynchat.fifo.

* bpo-26870: Added readline.set_auto_history(), which can stop
  entries being automatically added to the history list.  Based on
  patch by Tyler Crompton.

* bpo-26039: zipfile.ZipFile.open() can now be used to write data
  into a ZIP file, as well as for extracting data.  Patch by Thomas
  Kluyver.

* bpo-26892: Honor debuglevel flag in urllib.request.HTTPHandler.
  Patch contributed by Chi Hsuan Yen.

* bpo-22274: In the subprocess module, allow stderr to be redirected
  to stdout even when stdout is not redirected.  Patch by Akira Li.

* bpo-26807: mock_open 'files' no longer error on readline at end of
  file. Patch from Yolanda Robla.

* bpo-25745: Fixed leaking a userptr in curses panel destructor.

* bpo-26977: Removed unnecessary, and ignored, call to sum of
  squares helper in statistics.pvariance.

* bpo-26002: Use bisect in statistics.median instead of a linear
  search. Patch by Upendra Kuma.

* bpo-25974: Make use of new Decimal.as_integer_ratio() method in
  statistics module. Patch by Stefan Krah.

* bpo-26996: Add secrets module as described in PEP 506.

* bpo-26881: The modulefinder module now supports extended opcode
  arguments.

* bpo-23815: Fixed crashes related to directly created instances of
  types in _tkinter and curses.panel modules.

* bpo-17765: weakref.ref() no longer silently ignores keyword
  arguments. Patch by Georg Brandl.

* bpo-26873: xmlrpc now raises ResponseError on unsupported type
  tags instead of silently return incorrect result.

* bpo-26915:  The __contains__ methods in the collections ABCs now
  check for identity before checking equality.  This better matches
  the behavior of the concrete classes, allows sensible handling of
  NaNs, and makes it easier to reason about container invariants.

* bpo-26711: Fixed the comparison of plistlib.Data with other types.

* bpo-24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in "ctypes.util".

  The bug only occurs on SunOS when the ctypes implementation searches
  for the "crle" program.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.  Tested on SunOS by
  Kees Bos.

* bpo-26864: In urllib.request, change the proxy bypass host
  checking against no_proxy to be case-insensitive, and to not match
  unrelated host names that happen to have a bypassed hostname as a
  suffix. Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-24902: Print server URL on http.server startup.  Initial patch
  by Felix Kaiser.

* bpo-25788: fileinput.hook_encoded() now supports an "errors"
  argument for passing to open.  Original patch by Joseph Hackman.

* bpo-26634: recursive_repr() now sets __qualname__ of wrapper.
  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-26804: urllib.request will prefer lower_case proxy environment
  variables over UPPER_CASE or Mixed_Case ones. Patch contributed by
  Hans-Peter Jansen.

* bpo-26837: assertSequenceEqual() now correctly outputs non-
  stringified differing items (like bytes in the -b mode).  This
  affects assertListEqual() and assertTupleEqual().

* bpo-26041: Remove "will be removed in Python 3.7" from deprecation
  messages of platform.dist() and platform.linux_distribution(). Patch
  by Kumaripaba Miyurusara Athukorala.

* bpo-26822: itemgetter, attrgetter and methodcaller objects no
  longer silently ignore keyword arguments.

* bpo-26733: Disassembling a class now disassembles class and static
  methods. Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-26801: Fix error handling in "shutil.get_terminal_size()",
  catch "AttributeError" instead of "NameError". Patch written by
  Emanuel Barry.

* bpo-24838: tarfile's ustar and gnu formats now correctly calculate
  name and link field limits for multibyte character encodings like
  utf-8.

* [Security] bpo-26657: Fix directory traversal vulnerability with
  http.server on Windows.  This fixes a regression that was introduced
  in 3.3.4rc1 and 3.4.0rc1.  Based on patch by Philipp Hagemeister.

* bpo-26717: Stop encoding Latin-1-ized WSGI paths with UTF-8.
  Patch by Anthony Sottile.

* bpo-26782: Add STARTUPINFO to subprocess.__all__ on Windows.

* bpo-26404: Add context manager to socketserver.  Patch by Aviv
  Palivoda.

* bpo-26735: Fix "os.urandom()" on Solaris 11.3 and newer when
  reading more than 1,024 bytes: call "getrandom()" multiple times
  with a limit of 1024 bytes per call.

* bpo-26585: Eliminate http.server._quote_html() and use
  html.escape(quote=False).  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-26685: Raise OSError if closing a socket fails.

* bpo-16329: Add .webm to mimetypes.types_map.  Patch by Giampaolo
  Rodola'.

* bpo-13952: Add .csv to mimetypes.types_map.  Patch by Geoff
  Wilson.

* bpo-26587: the site module now allows .pth files to specify files
  to be added to sys.path (e.g. zip files).

* bpo-25609: Introduce contextlib.AbstractContextManager and
  typing.ContextManager.

* bpo-26709: Fixed Y2038 problem in loading binary PLists.

* bpo-23735: Handle terminal resizing with Readline 6.3+ by
  installing our own SIGWINCH handler.  Patch by Eric Price.

* bpo-25951: Change SSLSocket.sendall() to return None, as
  explicitly documented for plain socket objects.  Patch by Aviv
  Palivoda.

* bpo-26586: In http.server, respond with "413 Request header fields
  too large" if there are too many header fields to parse, rather than
  killing the connection and raising an unhandled exception.  Patch by
  Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-26676: Added missing XMLPullParser to ElementTree.__all__.

* bpo-22854: Change BufferedReader.writable() and
  BufferedWriter.readable() to always return False.

* bpo-26492: Exhausted iterator of array.array now conforms with the
  behavior of iterators of other mutable sequences: it lefts exhausted
  even if iterated array is extended.

* bpo-26641: doctest.DocFileTest and doctest.testfile() now support
  packages (module splitted into multiple directories) for the package
  parameter.

* bpo-25195: Fix a regression in mock.MagicMock. _Call is a subclass
  of tuple (changeset 3603bae63c13 only works for classes) so we need
  to implement __ne__ ourselves.  Patch by Andrew Plummer.

* bpo-26644: Raise ValueError rather than SystemError when a
  negative length is passed to SSLSocket.recv() or read().

* bpo-23804: Fix SSL recv(0) and read(0) methods to return zero
  bytes instead of up to 1024.

* bpo-26616: Fixed a bug in datetime.astimezone() method.

* bpo-26637: The "importlib" module now emits an "ImportError"
  rather than a "TypeError" if "__import__()" is tried during the
  Python shutdown process but "sys.path" is already cleared (set to
  "None").

* bpo-21925: "warnings.formatwarning()" now catches exceptions when
  calling "linecache.getline()" and
  "tracemalloc.get_object_traceback()" to be able to log
  "ResourceWarning" emitted late during the Python shutdown process.

* bpo-23848: On Windows, faulthandler.enable() now also installs an
  exception handler to dump the traceback of all Python threads on any
  Windows exception, not only on UNIX signals (SIGSEGV, SIGFPE,
  SIGABRT).

* bpo-26530: Add C functions "_PyTraceMalloc_Track()" and
  "_PyTraceMalloc_Untrack()" to track memory blocks using the
  "tracemalloc" module. Add "_PyTraceMalloc_GetTraceback()" to get the
  traceback of an object.

* bpo-26588: The _tracemalloc now supports tracing memory
  allocations of multiple address spaces (domains).

* bpo-24266: Ctrl+C during Readline history search now cancels the
  search mode when compiled with Readline 7.

* bpo-26590: Implement a safe finalizer for the _socket.socket type.
  It now releases the GIL to close the socket.

* bpo-18787: spwd.getspnam() now raises a PermissionError if the
  user doesn't have privileges.

* bpo-26560: Avoid potential ValueError in
  BaseHandler.start_response. Initial patch by Peter Inglesby.

* bpo-26567: Add a new function "PyErr_ResourceWarning()" function
  to pass the destroyed object. Add a *source* attribute to
  "warnings.WarningMessage". Add warnings._showwarnmsg() which uses
  tracemalloc to get the traceback where source object was allocated.

* [Security] bpo-26313: ssl.py _load_windows_store_certs fails if
  windows cert store is empty. Patch by Baji.

* bpo-26569: Fix "pyclbr.readmodule()" and "pyclbr.readmodule_ex()"
  to support importing packages.

* bpo-26499: Account for remaining Content-Length in
  HTTPResponse.readline() and read1().  Based on patch by Silent
  Ghost. Also document that HTTPResponse now supports these methods.

* bpo-25320: Handle sockets in directories unittest discovery is
  scanning. Patch from Victor van den Elzen.

* bpo-16181: cookiejar.http2time() now returns None if year is
  higher than datetime.MAXYEAR.

* bpo-26513: Fixes platform module detection of Windows Server

* bpo-23718: Fixed parsing time in week 0 before Jan 1.  Original
  patch by Tamás Bence Gedai.

* bpo-26323: Add Mock.assert_called() and Mock.assert_called_once()
  methods to unittest.mock. Patch written by Amit Saha.

* bpo-20589: Invoking Path.owner() and Path.group() on Windows now
  raise NotImplementedError instead of ImportError.

* bpo-26177: Fixed the keys() method for Canvas and Scrollbar
  widgets.

* bpo-15068: Got rid of excessive buffering in fileinput. The
  bufsize parameter is now deprecated and ignored.

* bpo-19475: Added an optional argument timespec to the datetime
  isoformat() method to choose the precision of the time component.

* bpo-2202: Fix UnboundLocalError in
  AbstractDigestAuthHandler.get_algorithm_impls.  Initial patch by
  Mathieu Dupuy.

* bpo-26167: Minimized overhead in copy.copy() and copy.deepcopy().
  Optimized copying and deepcopying bytearrays, NotImplemented,
  slices, short lists, tuples, dicts, sets.

* bpo-25718: Fixed pickling and copying the accumulate() iterator
  with total is None.

* bpo-26475: Fixed debugging output for regular expressions with the
  (?x) flag.

* bpo-26482: Allowed pickling recursive dequeues.

* bpo-26335: Make mmap.write() return the number of bytes written
  like other write methods.  Patch by Jakub Stasiak.

* bpo-26457: Fixed the subnets() methods in IP network classes for
  the case when resulting prefix length is equal to maximal prefix
  length. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-26385: Remove the file if the internal open() call in
  NamedTemporaryFile() fails.  Patch by Silent Ghost.

* bpo-26402: Fix XML-RPC client to retry when the server shuts down
  a persistent connection.  This was a regression related to the new
  http.client.RemoteDisconnected exception in 3.5.0a4.

* bpo-25913: Leading "<~" is optional now in base64.a85decode() with
  adobe=True.  Patch by Swati Jaiswal.

* bpo-26186: Remove an invalid type check in
  importlib.util.LazyLoader.

* bpo-26367: importlib.__import__() raises ImportError like
  builtins.__import__() when "level" is specified but without an
  accompanying package specified.

* bpo-26309: In the "socketserver" module, shut down the request
  (closing the connected socket) when verify_request() returns false.
  Patch by Aviv Palivoda.

* bpo-23430: Change the socketserver module to only catch exceptions
  raised from a request handler that are derived from Exception
  (instead of BaseException).  Therefore SystemExit and
  KeyboardInterrupt no longer trigger the handle_error() method, and
  will now to stop a single-threaded server.

* [Security] bpo-25939: On Windows open the cert store readonly in
  ssl.enum_certificates.

* bpo-25995: os.walk() no longer uses FDs proportional to the tree
  depth.

* bpo-25994: Added the close() method and the support of the context
  manager protocol for the os.scandir() iterator.

* bpo-23992: multiprocessing: make MapResult not fail-fast upon
  exception.

* bpo-26243: Support keyword arguments to zlib.compress().  Patch by
  Aviv Palivoda.

* bpo-26117: The os.scandir() iterator now closes file descriptor
  not only when the iteration is finished, but when it was failed with
  error.

* bpo-25949: __dict__ for an OrderedDict instance is now created
  only when needed.

* bpo-25911: Restored support of bytes paths in os.walk() on
  Windows.

* bpo-26045: Add UTF-8 suggestion to error message when posting a
  non- Latin-1 string with http.client.

* bpo-26039: Added zipfile.ZipInfo.from_file() and
  zipinfo.ZipInfo.is_dir(). Patch by Thomas Kluyver.

* bpo-12923: Reset FancyURLopener's redirect counter even if there
  is an exception.  Based on patches by Brian Brazil and Daniel Rocco.

* bpo-25945: Fixed a crash when unpickle the functools.partial
  object with wrong state.  Fixed a leak in failed functools.partial
  constructor. "args" and "keywords" attributes of functools.partial
  have now always types tuple and dict correspondingly.

* bpo-26202: copy.deepcopy() now correctly copies range() objects
  with non-atomic attributes.

* bpo-23076: Path.glob() now raises a ValueError if it's called with
  an invalid pattern.  Patch by Thomas Nyberg.

* bpo-19883: Fixed possible integer overflows in zipimport.

* bpo-26227: On Windows, getnameinfo(), gethostbyaddr() and
  gethostbyname_ex() functions of the socket module now decode the
  hostname from the ANSI code page rather than UTF-8.

* bpo-26099: The site module now writes an error into stderr if
  sitecustomize module can be imported but executing the module raise
  an ImportError. Same change for usercustomize.

* bpo-26147: xmlrpc now works with strings not encodable with used
  non-UTF-8 encoding.

* bpo-25935: Garbage collector now breaks reference loops with
  OrderedDict.

* bpo-16620: Fixed AttributeError in msilib.Directory.glob().

* bpo-26013: Added compatibility with broken protocol 2 pickles
  created in old Python 3 versions (3.4.3 and lower).

* bpo-26129: Deprecated accepting non-integers in grp.getgrgid().

* bpo-25850: Use cross-compilation by default for 64-bit Windows.

* bpo-25822: Add docstrings to the fields of urllib.parse results.
  Patch contributed by Swati Jaiswal.

* bpo-22642: Convert trace module option parsing mechanism to
  argparse. Patch contributed by SilentGhost.

* bpo-24705: Fix sysconfig._parse_makefile not expanding ${} vars
  appearing before $() vars.

* bpo-26069: Remove the deprecated apis in the trace module.

* bpo-22138: Fix mock.patch behavior when patching descriptors.
  Restore original values after patching. Patch contributed by Sean
  McCully.

* bpo-25672: In the ssl module, enable the SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
  mode option if it is safe to do so.

* bpo-26012: Don't traverse into symlinks for ** pattern in
  pathlib.Path.[r]glob().

* bpo-24120: Ignore PermissionError when traversing a tree with
  pathlib.Path.[r]glob().  Patch by Ulrich Petri.

* bpo-21815: Accept ] characters in the data portion of imap
  responses, in order to handle the flags with square brackets
  accepted and produced by servers such as gmail.

* bpo-25447: fileinput now uses sys.stdin as-is if it does not have
  a buffer attribute (restores backward compatibility).

* bpo-25971: Optimized creating Fractions from floats by 2 times and
  from Decimals by 3 times.

* bpo-25802: Document as deprecated the remaining implementations of
  importlib.abc.Loader.load_module().

* bpo-25928: Add Decimal.as_integer_ratio().

* bpo-25447: Copying the lru_cache() wrapper object now always
  works, independently from the type of the wrapped object (by
  returning the original object unchanged).

* bpo-25768: Have the functions in compileall return booleans
  instead of ints and add proper documentation and tests for the
  return values.

* bpo-24103: Fixed possible use after free in
  ElementTree.XMLPullParser.

* bpo-25860: os.fwalk() no longer skips remaining directories when
  error occurs.  Original patch by Samson Lee.

* bpo-25914: Fixed and simplified OrderedDict.__sizeof__.

* bpo-25869: Optimized deepcopying ElementTree; it is now 20 times
  faster.

* bpo-25873: Optimized iterating ElementTree.  Iterating elements
  Element.iter() is now 40% faster, iterating text Element.itertext()
  is now up to 2.5 times faster.

* bpo-25902: Fixed various refcount issues in ElementTree iteration.

* bpo-22227: The TarFile iterator is reimplemented using generator.
  This implementation is simpler that using class.

* bpo-25638: Optimized ElementTree.iterparse(); it is now 2x faster.
  Optimized ElementTree parsing; it is now 10% faster.

* bpo-25761: Improved detecting errors in broken pickle data.

* bpo-25717: Restore the previous behaviour of tolerating most
  fstat() errors when opening files.  This was a regression in 3.5a1,
  and stopped anonymous temporary files from working in special cases.

* bpo-24903: Fix regression in number of arguments compileall
  accepts when '-d' is specified.  The check on the number of
  arguments has been dropped completely as it never worked correctly
  anyway.

* bpo-25764: In the subprocess module, preserve any exception caused
  by fork() failure when preexec_fn is used.

* bpo-25771: Tweak the exception message for
  importlib.util.resolve_name() when 'package' isn't specified but
  necessary.

* bpo-6478: _strptime's regexp cache now is reset after changing
  timezone with time.tzset().

* bpo-14285: When executing a package with the "python -m package"
  option, and package initialization fails, a proper traceback is now
  reported.  The "runpy" module now lets exceptions from package
  initialization pass back to the caller, rather than raising
  ImportError.

* bpo-19771: Also in runpy and the "-m" option, omit the irrelevant
  message ". . . is a package and cannot be directly executed" if the
  package could not even be initialized (e.g. due to a bad "*.pyc"
  file).

* bpo-25177: Fixed problem with the mean of very small and very
  large numbers. As a side effect, statistics.mean and
  statistics.variance should be significantly faster.

* bpo-25718: Fixed copying object with state with boolean value is
  false.

* bpo-10131: Fixed deep copying of minidom documents.  Based on
  patch by Marian Ganisin.

* bpo-7990: dir() on ElementTree.Element now lists properties:
  "tag", "text", "tail" and "attrib".  Original patch by Santoso
  Wijaya.

* bpo-25725: Fixed a reference leak in pickle.loads() when
  unpickling invalid data including tuple instructions.

* bpo-25663: In the Readline completer, avoid listing duplicate
  global names, and search the global namespace before searching
  builtins.

* bpo-25688: Fixed file leak in ElementTree.iterparse() raising an
  error.

* bpo-23914: Fixed SystemError raised by unpickler on broken pickle
  data.

* bpo-25691: Fixed crash on deleting ElementTree.Element attributes.

* bpo-25624: ZipFile now always writes a ZIP_STORED header for
  directory entries.  Patch by Dingyuan Wang.

* bpo-25626: Change three zlib functions to accept sizes that fit in
  Py_ssize_t, but internally cap those sizes to UINT_MAX.  This
  resolves a regression in 3.5 where GzipFile.read() failed to read
  chunks larger than 2 or 4 GiB.  The change affects the
  zlib.Decompress.decompress() max_length parameter, the
  zlib.decompress() bufsize parameter, and the zlib.Decompress.flush()
  length parameter.

* bpo-25583: Avoid incorrect errors raised by
  os.makedirs(exist_ok=True) when the OS gives priority to errors such
  as EACCES over EEXIST.

* bpo-25593: Change semantics of EventLoop.stop() in asyncio.

* bpo-6973: When we know a subprocess.Popen process has died, do not
  allow the send_signal(), terminate(), or kill() methods to do
  anything as they could potentially signal a different process.

* bpo-23883: Added missing APIs to __all__ to match the documented
  APIs for the following modules: calendar, csv, enum, fileinput,
  ftplib, logging, optparse, tarfile, threading and wave.  Also added
  a test.support.check__all__() helper.  Patches by Jacek Kołodziej,
  Mauro S. M. Rodrigues and Joel Taddei.

* bpo-25590: In the Readline completer, only call getattr() once per
  attribute.  Also complete names of attributes such as properties and
  slots which are listed by dir() but not yet created on an instance.

* bpo-25498: Fix a crash when garbage-collecting ctypes objects
  created by wrapping a memoryview.  This was a regression made in
  3.5a1.  Based on patch by Eryksun.

* bpo-25584: Added "escape" to the __all__ list in the glob module.

* bpo-25584: Fixed recursive glob() with patterns starting with
  '**'.

* bpo-25446: Fix regression in smtplib's AUTH LOGIN support.

* bpo-18010: Fix the pydoc web server's module search function to
  handle exceptions from importing packages.

* bpo-25554: Got rid of circular references in regular expression
  parsing.

* bpo-18973: Command-line interface of the calendar module now uses
  argparse instead of optparse.

* bpo-25510: fileinput.FileInput.readline() now returns b'' instead
  of '' at the end if the FileInput was opened with binary mode. Patch
  by Ryosuke Ito.

* bpo-25503: Fixed inspect.getdoc() for inherited docstrings of
  properties. Original patch by John Mark Vandenberg.

* bpo-25515: Always use os.urandom as a source of randomness in
  uuid.uuid4.

* bpo-21827: Fixed textwrap.dedent() for the case when largest
  common whitespace is a substring of smallest leading whitespace.
  Based on patch by Robert Li.

* bpo-25447: The lru_cache() wrapper objects now can be copied and
  pickled (by returning the original object unchanged).

* bpo-25390: typing: Don't crash on Union[str, Pattern].

* bpo-25441: asyncio: Raise error from drain() when socket is
  closed.

* bpo-25410: Cleaned up and fixed minor bugs in C implementation of
  OrderedDict.

* bpo-25411: Improved Unicode support in SMTPHandler through better
  use of the email package. Thanks to user simon04 for the patch.

* Move the imp module from a PendingDeprecationWarning to
  DeprecationWarning.

* bpo-25407: Remove mentions of the formatter module being removed
  in Python 3.6.

* bpo-25406: Fixed a bug in C implementation of
  OrderedDict.move_to_end() that caused segmentation fault or hang in
  iterating after moving several items to the start of ordered dict.

* bpo-25382: pickletools.dis() now outputs implicit memo index for
  the MEMOIZE opcode.

* bpo-25357: Add an optional newline paramer to
  binascii.b2a_base64(). base64.b64encode() uses it to avoid a memory
  copy.

* bpo-24164: Objects that need calling "__new__" with keyword
  arguments, can now be pickled using pickle protocols older than
  protocol version 4.

* bpo-25364: zipfile now works in threads disabled builds.

* bpo-25328: smtpd's SMTPChannel now correctly raises a ValueError
  if both decode_data and enable_SMTPUTF8 are set to true.

* bpo-16099: RobotFileParser now supports Crawl-delay and Request-
  rate extensions.  Patch by Nikolay Bogoychev.

* bpo-25316: distutils raises OSError instead of
  DistutilsPlatformError when MSVC is not installed.

* bpo-25380: Fixed protocol for the STACK_GLOBAL opcode in
  pickletools.opcodes.

* bpo-23972: Updates asyncio datagram create method allowing
  reuseport and reuseaddr socket options to be set prior to binding
  the socket. Mirroring the existing asyncio create_server method the
  reuseaddr option for datagram sockets defaults to True if the O/S is
  'posix' (except if the platform is Cygwin). Patch by Chris Laws.

* bpo-25304: Add asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe().  This lets you
  submit a coroutine to a loop from another thread, returning a
  concurrent.futures.Future.  By Vincent Michel.

* bpo-25232: Fix CGIRequestHandler to split the query from the URL
  at the first question mark (?) rather than the last. Patch from
  Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-24657: Prevent CGIRequestHandler from collapsing slashes in
  the query part of the URL as if it were a path. Patch from Xiang
  Zhang.

* bpo-25287: Don't add crypt.METHOD_CRYPT to crypt.methods if it's
  not supported. Check if it is supported, it may not be supported on
  OpenBSD for example.

* bpo-23600: Default implementation of tzinfo.fromutc() was
  returning wrong results in some cases.

* bpo-25203: Failed readline.set_completer_delims() no longer left
  the module in inconsistent state.

* bpo-25011: rlcompleter now omits private and special attribute
  names unless the prefix starts with underscores.

* bpo-25209: rlcompleter now can add a space or a colon after
  completed keyword.

* bpo-22241: timezone.utc name is now plain 'UTC', not 'UTC-00:00'.

* bpo-23517: fromtimestamp() and utcfromtimestamp() methods of
  datetime.datetime now round microseconds to nearest with ties going
  to nearest even integer (ROUND_HALF_EVEN), as round(float), instead
  of rounding towards -Infinity (ROUND_FLOOR).

* bpo-23552: Timeit now warns when there is substantial (4x)
  variance between best and worst times. Patch from Serhiy Storchaka.

* bpo-24633: site-packages/README -> README.txt.

* bpo-24879: help() and pydoc can now list named tuple fields in the
  order they were defined rather than alphabetically.  The ordering is
  determined by the _fields attribute if present.

* bpo-24874: Improve speed of itertools.cycle() and make its pickle
  more compact.

* Fix crash in itertools.cycle.__setstate__() when the first
  argument wasn't a list.

* bpo-20059: urllib.parse raises ValueError on all invalid ports.
  Patch by Martin Panter.

* bpo-24360: Improve __repr__ of argparse.Namespace() for invalid
  identifiers.  Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.

* bpo-23426: run_setup was broken in distutils. Patch from Alexander
  Belopolsky.

* bpo-13938: 2to3 converts StringTypes to a tuple. Patch from Mark
  Hammond.

* bpo-2091: open() accepted a 'U' mode string containing '+', but
  'U' can only be used with 'r'. Patch from Jeff Balogh and John
  O'Connor.

* bpo-8585: improved tests for zipimporter2. Patch from Mark
  Lawrence.

* bpo-18622: unittest.mock.mock_open().reset_mock would recurse
  infinitely. Patch from Nicola Palumbo and Laurent De Buyst.

* bpo-24426: Fast searching optimization in regular expressions now
  works for patterns that starts with capturing groups.  Fast
  searching optimization now can't be disabled at compile time.

* bpo-23661: unittest.mock side_effects can now be exceptions again.
  This was a regression vs Python 3.4. Patch from Ignacio Rossi

* bpo-13248: Remove deprecated inspect.getmoduleinfo function.

* bpo-25578: Fix (another) memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercer().

* bpo-25530: Disable the vulnerable SSLv3 protocol by default when
  creating ssl.SSLContext.

* bpo-25569: Fix memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().

* bpo-25471: Sockets returned from accept() shouldn't appear to be
  nonblocking.

* bpo-25319: When threading.Event is reinitialized, the underlying
  condition should use a regular lock rather than a recursive lock.

* Skip getaddrinfo if host is already resolved. Patch by A. Jesse
  Jiryu Davis.

* bpo-26050: Add asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil() method. Patch by
  Марк Коренберг.

* bpo-25924: Avoid unnecessary serialization of getaddrinfo(3) calls
  on OS X versions 10.5 or higher.  Original patch by A. Jesse Jiryu
  Davis.

* bpo-26406: Avoid unnecessary serialization of getaddrinfo(3) calls
  on current versions of OpenBSD and NetBSD.  Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu
  Davis.

* bpo-26848: Fix asyncio/subprocess.communicate() to handle empty
  input. Patch by Jack O'Connor.

* bpo-27040: Add loop.get_exception_handler method

* bpo-27041: asyncio: Add loop.create_future method


IDLE
----

* bpo-20640: Add tests for idlelib.configHelpSourceEdit. Patch by
  Saimadhav Heblikar.

* In the 'IDLE-console differences' section of the IDLE doc, clarify
  how running with IDLE affects sys.modules and the standard streams.

* bpo-25507: fix incorrect change in IOBinding that prevented
  printing. Augment IOBinding htest to include all major IOBinding
  functions.

* bpo-25905: Revert unwanted conversion of ' to ’ RIGHT SINGLE
  QUOTATION MARK in README.txt and open this and NEWS.txt with
  'ascii'. Re-encode CREDITS.txt to utf-8 and open it with 'utf-8'.

* bpo-15348: Stop the debugger engine (normally in a user process)
  before closing the debugger window (running in the IDLE process).
  This prevents the RuntimeErrors that were being caught and ignored.

* bpo-24455: Prevent IDLE from hanging when a) closing the shell
  while the debugger is active (15347); b) closing the debugger with
  the [X] button (15348); and c) activating the debugger when already
  active (24455). The patch by Mark Roseman does this by making two
  changes. 1. Suspend and resume the gui.interaction method with the
  tcl vwait mechanism intended for this purpose (instead of
  root.mainloop & .quit). 2. In gui.run, allow any existing
  interaction to terminate first.

* Change 'The program' to 'Your program' in an IDLE 'kill program?'
  message to make it clearer that the program referred to is the
  currently running user program, not IDLE itself.

* bpo-24750: Improve the appearance of the IDLE editor window status
  bar. Patch by Mark Roseman.

* bpo-25313: Change the handling of new built-in text color themes
  to better address the compatibility problem introduced by the
  addition of IDLE Dark. Consistently use the revised
  idleConf.CurrentTheme everywhere in idlelib.

* bpo-24782: Extension configuration is now a tab in the IDLE
  Preferences dialog rather than a separate dialog.  The former tabs
  are now a sorted list.  Patch by Mark Roseman.

* bpo-22726: Re-activate the config dialog help button with some
  content about the other buttons and the new IDLE Dark theme.

* bpo-24820: IDLE now has an 'IDLE Dark' built-in text color theme.
  It is more or less IDLE Classic inverted, with a cobalt blue
  background. Strings, comments, keywords, ... are still green, red,
  orange, ... . To use it with IDLEs released before November 2015,
  hit the 'Save as New Custom Theme' button and enter a new name, such
  as 'Custom Dark'.  The custom theme will work with any IDLE release,
  and can be modified.

* bpo-25224: README.txt is now an idlelib index for IDLE developers
  and curious users.  The previous user content is now in the IDLE doc
  chapter. 'IDLE' now means 'Integrated Development and Learning
  Environment'.

* bpo-24820: Users can now set breakpoint colors in Settings ->
  Custom Highlighting.  Original patch by Mark Roseman.

* bpo-24972: Inactive selection background now matches active
  selection background, as configured by users, on all systems.  Found
  items are now always highlighted on Windows.  Initial patch by Mark
  Roseman.

* bpo-24570: Idle: make calltip and completion boxes appear on Macs
  affected by a tk regression.  Initial patch by Mark Roseman.

* bpo-24988: Idle ScrolledList context menus (used in debugger) now
  work on Mac Aqua.  Patch by Mark Roseman.

* bpo-24801: Make right-click for context menu work on Mac Aqua.
  Patch by Mark Roseman.

* bpo-25173: Associate tkinter messageboxes with a specific widget.
  For Mac OSX, make them a 'sheet'.  Patch by Mark Roseman.

* bpo-25198: Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help.
  * Properly indent fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman). * Give
  code snippet a very Sphinx-like light blueish-gray background. * Re-
  use initial width and height set by users for shell and editor. *
  When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used, put the section
  header at the top of the screen.

* bpo-25225: Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors.

* bpo-21995: Explain some differences between IDLE and console
  Python.

* bpo-22820: Explain need for *print* when running file from Idle
  editor.

* bpo-25224: Doc: augment Idle feature list and no-subprocess
  section.

* bpo-25219: Update doc for Idle command line options. Some were
  missing and notes were not correct.

* bpo-24861: Most of idlelib is private and subject to change. Use
  idleib.idle.* to start Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__.

* bpo-25199: Idle: add synchronization comments for future
  maintainers.

* bpo-16893: Replace help.txt with help.html for Idle doc display.
  The new idlelib/help.html is rstripped
  Doc/build/html/library/idle.html. It looks better than help.txt and
  will better document Idle as released. The tkinter html viewer that
  works for this file was written by Rose Roseman. The now unused
  EditorWindow.HelpDialog class and helt.txt file are deprecated.

* bpo-24199: Deprecate unused idlelib.idlever with possible removal
  in 3.6.

* bpo-24790: Remove extraneous code (which also create 2 & 3
  conflicts).


Documentation
-------------

* bpo-26736: Used HTTPS for external links in the documentation if
  possible.

* bpo-6953: Rework the Readline module documentation to group
  related functions together, and add more details such as what
  underlying Readline functions and variables are accessed.

* bpo-23606: Adds note to ctypes documentation regarding
  cdll.msvcrt.

* bpo-24952: Clarify the default size argument of stack_size() in
  the "threading" and "_thread" modules. Patch from Mattip.

* bpo-26014: Update 3.x packaging documentation: * "See also" links
  to the new docs are now provided in the legacy pages * links to
  setuptools documentation have been updated


Tests
-----

* bpo-21916: Added tests for the turtle module.  Patch by ingrid,
  Gregory Loyse and Jelle Zijlstra.

* bpo-26295: When using "python3 -m test --testdir=TESTDIR",
  regrtest doesn't add "test." prefix to test module names.

* bpo-26523: The multiprocessing thread pool
  (multiprocessing.dummy.Pool) was untested.

* bpo-26015: Added new tests for pickling iterators of mutable
  sequences.

* bpo-26325: Added test.support.check_no_resource_warning() to check
  that no ResourceWarning is emitted.

* bpo-25940: Changed test_ssl to use its internal local server more.
  This avoids relying on svn.python.org, which recently changed root
  certificate.

* bpo-25616: Tests for OrderedDict are extracted from
  test_collections into separate file test_ordered_dict.

* bpo-25449: Added tests for OrderedDict subclasses.

* bpo-25188: Add -P/--pgo to test.regrtest to suppress error output
  when running the test suite for the purposes of a PGO build. Initial
  patch by Alecsandru Patrascu.

* bpo-22806: Add "python -m test --list-tests" command to list
  tests.

* bpo-18174: "python -m test --huntrleaks ..." now also checks for
  leak of file descriptors. Patch written by Richard Oudkerk.

* bpo-25260: Fix "python -m test --coverage" on Windows. Remove the
  list of ignored directories.

* "PCbuild\rt.bat" now accepts an unlimited number of arguments to
  pass along to regrtest.py.  Previously there was a limit of 9.

* bpo-26583: Skip test_timestamp_overflow in test_import if bytecode
  files cannot be written.


Build
-----

* bpo-21277: Don't try to link _ctypes with a ffi_convenience
  library.

* bpo-26884: Fix linking extension modules for cross builds. Patch
  by Xavier de Gaye.

* bpo-26932: Fixed support of RTLD_* constants defined as enum
  values, not via macros (in particular on Android).  Patch by Chi
  Hsuan Yen.

* bpo-22359: Disable the rules for running _freeze_importlib and
  pgen when cross-compiling.  The output of these programs is normally
  saved with the source code anyway, and is still regenerated when
  doing a native build. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.

* bpo-21668: Link audioop, _datetime, _ctypes_test modules to libm,
  except on Mac OS X. Patch written by Chi Hsuan Yen.

* bpo-25702: A --with-lto configure option has been added that will
  enable link time optimizations at build time during a make profile-
  opt. Some compilers and toolchains are known to not produce stable
  code when using LTO, be sure to test things thoroughly before
  relying on it. It can provide a few % speed up over profile-opt
  alone.

* bpo-26624: Adds validation of ucrtbase[d].dll version with warning
  for old versions.

* bpo-17603: Avoid error about nonexistant fileblocks.o file by
  using a lower-level check for st_blocks in struct stat.

* bpo-26079: Fixing the build output folder for tix-8.4.3.6. Patch
  by Bjoern Thiel.

* bpo-26465: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2g.

* bpo-25348: Added "--pgo" and "--pgo-job" arguments to
  "PCbuild\build.bat" for building with Profile-Guided Optimization.
  The old "PCbuild\build_pgo.bat" script is removed.

* bpo-25827: Add support for building with ICC to "configure",
  including a new "--with-icc" flag.

* bpo-25696: Fix installation of Python on UNIX with make -j9.

* bpo-24986: It is now possible to build Python on Windows without
  errors when external libraries are not available.

* bpo-24421: Compile Modules/_math.c once, before building
  extensions. Previously it could fail to compile properly if the math
  and cmath builds were concurrent.

* bpo-26465: Update OS X 10.5+ 32-bit-only installer to build and
  link with OpenSSL 1.0.2g.

* bpo-26268: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2f.

* bpo-25136: Support Apple Xcode 7's new textual SDK stub libraries.

* bpo-24324: Do not enable unreachable code warnings when using gcc
  as the option does not work correctly in older versions of gcc and
  has been silently removed as of gcc-4.5.


Windows
-------

* bpo-27053: Updates make_zip.py to correctly generate library ZIP
  file.

* bpo-26268: Update the prepare_ssl.py script to handle OpenSSL
  releases that don't include the contents of the include directory
  (that is, 1.0.2e and later).

* bpo-26071: bdist_wininst created binaries fail to start and find
  32bit Python

* bpo-26073: Update the list of magic numbers in launcher

* bpo-26065: Excludes venv from library when generating embeddable
  distro.

* bpo-25022: Removed very outdated PC/example_nt/ directory.


Tools/Demos
-----------

* bpo-26799: Fix python-gdb.py: don't get C types once when the
  Python code is loaded, but get C types on demand. The C types can
  change if python-gdb.py is loaded before the Python executable.
  Patch written by Thomas Ilsche.

* bpo-26271: Fix the Freeze tool to properly use flags passed
  through configure. Patch by Daniel Shaulov.

* bpo-26489: Add dictionary unpacking support to
  Tools/parser/unparse.py. Patch by Guo Ci Teo.

* bpo-26316: Fix variable name typo in Argument Clinic.

* bpo-25440: Fix output of python-config --extension-suffix.

* bpo-25154: The pyvenv script has been deprecated in favour of
  "python3 -m venv".


C API
-----

* bpo-26312: SystemError is now raised in all programming bugs with
  using PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords().  RuntimeError did raised before
  in some programming bugs.

* bpo-26198: ValueError is now raised instead of TypeError on buffer
  overflow in parsing "es#" and "et#" format units.  SystemError is
  now raised instead of TypeError on programmical error in parsing
  format string.


Python 3.5.3
============

Release date: 2017-01-17

There were no code changes between 3.5.3rc1 and 3.5.3 final.


Python 3.5.3 release candidate 1
================================

Release date: 2017-01-02


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-29073: bytearray formatting no longer truncates on first null
  byte.

* bpo-28932: Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist.

* bpo-28147: Fix a memory leak in split-table dictionaries:
  setattr() must not convert combined table into split table.

* bpo-25677: Correct the positioning of the syntax error caret for
  indented blocks.  Based on patch by Michael Layzell.

* bpo-29000: Fixed bytes formatting of octals with zero padding in
  alternate form.

* bpo-28512: Fixed setting the offset attribute of SyntaxError by
  PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx() and PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject().

* bpo-28991:  functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure
  reentrancy bug caused by a monkey-patched len() function.

* bpo-28648: Fixed crash in Py_DecodeLocale() in debug build on Mac
  OS X when decode astral characters.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-19398: Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in
  case of empty compile-time PYTHONPATH components.

* bpo-28426: Fixed potential crash in PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject() in
  debug build.

* bpo-23782: Fixed possible memory leak in _PyTraceback_Add() and
  exception loss in PyTraceBack_Here().

* bpo-28379: Added sanity checks and tests for
  PyUnicode_CopyCharacters(). Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-28376: The type of long range iterator is now registered as
  Iterator. Patch by Oren Milman.

* bpo-28376: The constructor of range_iterator now checks that step
  is not 0. Patch by Oren Milman.

* bpo-26906: Resolving special methods of uninitialized type now
  causes implicit initialization of the type instead of a fail.

* bpo-18287: PyType_Ready() now checks that tp_name is not NULL.
  Original patch by Niklas Koep.

* bpo-24098: Fixed possible crash when AST is changed in process of
  compiling it.

* bpo-28350: String constants with null character no longer
  interned.

* bpo-26617: Fix crash when GC runs during weakref callbacks.

* bpo-27942: String constants now interned recursively in tuples and
  frozensets.

* bpo-21578: Fixed misleading error message when ImportError called
  with invalid keyword args.

* bpo-28203: Fix incorrect type in error message from "complex(1.0,
  {2:3})". Patch by Soumya Sharma.

* bpo-27955: Fallback on reading /dev/urandom device when the
  getrandom() syscall fails with EPERM, for example when blocked by
  SECCOMP.

* bpo-28131: Fix a regression in zipimport's compile_source().
  zipimport should use the same optimization level as the interpreter.

* bpo-25221: Fix corrupted result from PyLong_FromLong(0) when
  Python is compiled with NSMALLPOSINTS = 0.

* bpo-25758: Prevents zipimport from unnecessarily encoding a
  filename (patch by Eryk Sun)

* bpo-28189: dictitems_contains no longer swallows compare errors.
  (Patch by Xiang Zhang)

* bpo-27812: Properly clear out a generator's frame's backreference
  to the generator to prevent crashes in frame.clear().

* bpo-27811: Fix a crash when a coroutine that has not been awaited
  is finalized with warnings-as-errors enabled.

* bpo-27587: Fix another issue found by PVS-Studio: Null pointer
  check after use of 'def' in _PyState_AddModule(). Initial patch by
  Christian Heimes.

* bpo-26020: set literal evaluation order did not match documented
  behaviour.

* bpo-27782: Multi-phase extension module import now correctly
  allows the "m_methods" field to be used to add module level
  functions to instances of non-module types returned from
  "Py_create_mod". Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-27936: The round() function accepted a second None argument
  for some types but not for others.  Fixed the inconsistency by
  accepting None for all numeric types.

* bpo-27487: Warn if a submodule argument to "python -m" or
  runpy.run_module() is found in sys.modules after parent packages are
  imported, but before the submodule is executed.

* bpo-27558: Fix a SystemError in the implementation of "raise"
  statement. In a brand new thread, raise a RuntimeError since there
  is no active exception to reraise. Patch written by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-27419: Standard __import__() no longer look up "__import__" in
  globals or builtins for importing submodules or "from import". Fixed
  handling an error of non-string package name.

* bpo-27083: Respect the PYTHONCASEOK environment variable under
  Windows.

* bpo-27514: Make having too many statically nested blocks a
  SyntaxError instead of SystemError.

* bpo-27473: Fixed possible integer overflow in bytes and bytearray
  concatenations.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-27507: Add integer overflow check in bytearray.extend().
  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-27581: Don't rely on wrapping for overflow check in
  PySequence_Tuple().  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-27443: __length_hint__() of bytearray iterators no longer
  return a negative integer for a resized bytearray.

* bpo-27942: Fix memory leak in codeobject.c


Library
-------

* bpo-15812: inspect.getframeinfo() now correctly shows the first
  line of a context.  Patch by Sam Breese.

* bpo-29094: Offsets in a ZIP file created with extern file object
  and modes "w" and "x" now are relative to the start of the file.

* bpo-13051: Fixed recursion errors in large or resized
  curses.textpad.Textbox.  Based on patch by Tycho Andersen.

* bpo-29119: Fix weakrefs in the pure python version of
  collections.OrderedDict move_to_end() method. Contributed by Andra
  Bogildea.

* bpo-9770: curses.ascii predicates now work correctly with negative
  integers.

* bpo-28427: old keys should not remove new values from
  WeakValueDictionary when collecting from another thread.

* Issue 28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.

* bpo-28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.

* bpo-19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and
  WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another
  thread.

* bpo-20191: Fixed a crash in resource.prlimit() when pass a
  sequence that doesn't own its elements as limits.

* bpo-28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash
  the forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some
  multiprocessing objects such as locks.

* bpo-28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no
  longer writes the index file when it is not changed.

* bpo-25659: In ctypes, prevent a crash calling the from_buffer()
  and from_buffer_copy() methods on abstract classes like Array.

* bpo-28732: Fix crash in os.spawnv() with no elements in args

* bpo-28485: Always raise ValueError for negative
  compileall.compile_dir(workers=...) parameter, even when
  multithreading is unavailable.

* bpo-28387: Fixed possible crash in _io.TextIOWrapper deallocator
  when the garbage collector is invoked in other thread.  Based on
  patch by Sebastian Cufre.

* bpo-27517: LZMA compressor and decompressor no longer raise
  exceptions if given empty data twice.  Patch by Benjamin Fogle.

* bpo-28549: Fixed segfault in curses's addch() with ncurses6.

* bpo-28449: tarfile.open() with mode "r" or "r:" now tries to open
  a tar file with compression before trying to open it without
  compression.  Otherwise it had 50% chance failed with
  ignore_zeros=True.

* bpo-23262: The webbrowser module now supports Firefox 36+ and
  derived browsers.  Based on patch by Oleg Broytman.

* bpo-27939: Fixed bugs in tkinter.ttk.LabeledScale and
  tkinter.Scale caused by representing the scale as float value
  internally in Tk. tkinter.IntVar now works if float value is set to
  underlying Tk variable.

* bpo-28255: calendar.TextCalendar().prmonth() no longer prints a
  space at the start of new line after printing a month's calendar.
  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-20491: The textwrap.TextWrapper class now honors non-breaking
  spaces. Based on patch by Kaarle Ritvanen.

* bpo-28353: os.fwalk() no longer fails on broken links.

* bpo-25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by
  addin a workaround to Tix library bug.

* bpo-28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer add entry "./" to ZIP
  archive.

* bpo-24452: Make webbrowser support Chrome on Mac OS X.

* bpo-20766: Fix references leaked by pdb in the handling of SIGINT
  handlers.

* bpo-26293: Fixed writing ZIP files that starts not from the start
  of the file.  Offsets in ZIP file now are relative to the start of
  the archive in conforming to the specification.

* bpo-28321: Fixed writing non-BMP characters with binary format in
  plistlib.

* bpo-28322: Fixed possible crashes when unpickle itertools objects
  from incorrect pickle data.  Based on patch by John Leitch.

* Fix possible integer overflows and crashes in the mmap module with
  unusual usage patterns.

* bpo-1703178: Fix the ability to pass the --link-objects option to
  the distutils build_ext command.

* bpo-28253: Fixed calendar functions for extreme months: 0001-01
  and 9999-12.

  Methods itermonthdays() and itermonthdays2() are reimplemented so
  that they don't call itermonthdates() which can cause datetime.date
  under/overflow.

* bpo-28275: Fixed possible use after free in the decompress()
  methods of the LZMADecompressor and BZ2Decompressor classes.
  Original patch by John Leitch.

* bpo-27897: Fixed possible crash in
  sqlite3.Connection.create_collation() if pass invalid string-like
  object as a name.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-18893: Fix invalid exception handling in
  Lib/ctypes/macholib/dyld.py. Patch by Madison May.

* bpo-27611: Fixed support of default root window in the tkinter.tix
  module.

* bpo-27348: In the traceback module, restore the formatting of
  exception messages like "Exception: None".  This fixes a regression
  introduced in 3.5a2.

* bpo-25651: Allow falsy values to be used for msg parameter of
  subTest().

* bpo-27932: Prevent memory leak in win32_ver().

* Fix UnboundLocalError in socket._sendfile_use_sendfile.

* bpo-28075: Check for ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in Windows implementation
  of os.stat().  Patch by Eryk Sun.

* bpo-25270: Prevent codecs.escape_encode() from raising SystemError
  when an empty bytestring is passed.

* bpo-28181: Get antigravity over HTTPS. Patch by Kaartic Sivaraam.

* bpo-25895: Enable WebSocket URL schemes in urllib.parse.urljoin.
  Patch by Gergely Imreh and Markus Holtermann.

* bpo-27599: Fixed buffer overrun in binascii.b2a_qp() and
  binascii.a2b_qp().

* bpo-19003:m email.generator now replaces only r and/or n line
  endings, per the RFC, instead of all unicode line endings.

* bpo-28019: itertools.count() no longer rounds non-integer step in
  range between 1.0 and 2.0 to 1.

* bpo-25969: Update the lib2to3 grammar to handle the unpacking
  generalizations added in 3.5.

* bpo-14977: mailcap now respects the order of the lines in the
  mailcap files ("first match"), as required by RFC 1542.  Patch by
  Michael Lazar.

* bpo-24594: Validates persist parameter when opening MSI database

* bpo-17582: xml.etree.ElementTree nows preserves whitespaces in
  attributes (Patch by Duane Griffin.  Reviewed and approved by Stefan
  Behnel.)

* bpo-28047: Fixed calculation of line length used for the base64
  CTE in the new email policies.

* bpo-27445: Don't pass str(_charset) to MIMEText.set_payload().
  Patch by Claude Paroz.

* bpo-22450: urllib now includes an "Accept: */*" header among the
  default headers.  This makes the results of REST API requests more
  consistent and predictable especially when proxy servers are
  involved.

* lib2to3.pgen3.driver.load_grammar() now creates a stable cache
  file between runs given the same Grammar.txt input regardless of the
  hash randomization setting.

* bpo-27570: Avoid zero-length memcpy() etc calls with null source
  pointers in the "ctypes" and "array" modules.

* bpo-22233: Break email header lines *only* on the RFC specified CR
  and LF characters, not on arbitrary unicode line breaks.  This also
  fixes a bug in HTTP header parsing.

* Issue 27988: Fix email iter_attachments incorrect mutation of
  payload list.

* bpo-27691: Fix ssl module's parsing of GEN_RID subject alternative
  name fields in X.509 certs.

* bpo-27850: Remove 3DES from ssl module's default cipher list to
  counter measure sweet32 attack (CVE-2016-2183).

* bpo-27766: Add ChaCha20 Poly1305 to ssl module's default ciper
  list. (Required OpenSSL 1.1.0 or LibreSSL).

* bpo-26470: Port ssl and hashlib module to OpenSSL 1.1.0.

* Remove support for passing a file descriptor to os.access. It
  never worked but previously didn't raise.

* bpo-12885: Fix error when distutils encounters symlink.

* bpo-27881: Fixed possible bugs when setting
  sqlite3.Connection.isolation_level. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-27861: Fixed a crash in sqlite3.Connection.cursor() when a
  factory creates not a cursor.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-19884: Avoid spurious output on OS X with Gnu Readline.

* bpo-27706: Restore deterministic behavior of
  random.Random().seed() for string seeds using seeding version 1.
  Allows sequences of calls to random() to exactly match those
  obtained in Python 2. Patch by Nofar Schnider.

* bpo-10513: Fix a regression in Connection.commit().  Statements
  should not be reset after a commit.

* A new version of typing.py from https://github.com/python/typing:
  - Collection (only for 3.6) (bpo-27598) - Add FrozenSet to __all__
  (upstream #261) - fix crash in _get_type_vars() (upstream #259) -
  Remove the dict constraint in ForwardRef._eval_type (upstream #252)

* bpo-27539: Fix unnormalised "Fraction.__pow__" result in the case
  of negative exponent and negative base.

* bpo-21718: cursor.description is now available for queries using
  CTEs.

* bpo-2466: posixpath.ismount now correctly recognizes mount points
  which the user does not have permission to access.

* bpo-27773: Correct some memory management errors server_hostname
  in _ssl.wrap_socket().

* bpo-26750: unittest.mock.create_autospec() now works properly for
  subclasses of property() and other data descriptors.

* In the curses module, raise an error if window.getstr() or
  window.instr() is passed a negative value.

* bpo-27783: Fix possible usage of uninitialized memory in
  operator.methodcaller.

* bpo-27774: Fix possible Py_DECREF on unowned object in _sre.

* bpo-27760: Fix possible integer overflow in binascii.b2a_qp.

* bpo-27758: Fix possible integer overflow in the _csv module for
  large record lengths.

* bpo-27568: Prevent HTTPoxy attack (CVE-2016-1000110). Ignore the
  HTTP_PROXY variable when REQUEST_METHOD environment is set, which
  indicates that the script is in CGI mode.

* bpo-27656: Do not assume sched.h defines any SCHED_* constants.

* bpo-27130: In the "zlib" module, fix handling of large buffers
  (typically 4 GiB) when compressing and decompressing.  Previously,
  inputs were limited to 4 GiB, and compression and decompression
  operations did not properly handle results of 4 GiB.

* bpo-27533: Release GIL in nt._isdir

* bpo-17711: Fixed unpickling by the persistent ID with protocol 0.
  Original patch by Alexandre Vassalotti.

* bpo-27522: Avoid an unintentional reference cycle in
  email.feedparser.

* bpo-26844: Fix error message for imp.find_module() to refer to
  'path' instead of 'name'. Patch by Lev Maximov.

* bpo-23804: Fix SSL zero-length recv() calls to not block and not
  raise an error about unclean EOF.

* bpo-27466: Change time format returned by
  http.cookie.time2netscape, confirming the netscape cookie format and
  making it consistent with documentation.

* bpo-26664: Fix activate.fish by removing mis-use of "$".

* bpo-22115: Fixed tracing Tkinter variables: trace_vdelete() with
  wrong mode no longer break tracing, trace_vinfo() now always returns
  a list of pairs of strings, tracing in the "u" mode now works.

* Fix a scoping issue in importlib.util.LazyLoader which triggered
  an UnboundLocalError when lazy-loading a module that was already put
  into sys.modules.

* bpo-27079: Fixed curses.ascii functions isblank(), iscntrl() and
  ispunct().

* bpo-26754: Some functions (compile() etc) accepted a filename
  argument encoded as an iterable of integers. Now only strings and
  byte-like objects are accepted.

* bpo-27048: Prevents distutils failing on Windows when environment
  variables contain non-ASCII characters

* bpo-27330: Fixed possible leaks in the ctypes module.

* bpo-27238: Got rid of bare excepts in the turtle module.  Original
  patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

* bpo-27122: When an exception is raised within the context being
  managed by a contextlib.ExitStack() and one of the exit stack
  generators catches and raises it in a chain, do not re-raise the
  original exception when exiting, let the new chained one through.
  This avoids the PEP 479 bug described in issue25782.

* [Security] bpo-27278: Fix os.urandom() implementation using
  getrandom() on Linux.  Truncate size to INT_MAX and loop until we
  collected enough random bytes, instead of casting a directly
  Py_ssize_t to int.

* bpo-26386: Fixed ttk.TreeView selection operations with item id's
  containing spaces.

* [Security] bpo-22636: Avoid shell injection problems with
  ctypes.util.find_library().

* bpo-16182: Fix various functions in the "readline" module to use
  the locale encoding, and fix get_begidx() and get_endidx() to return
  code point indexes.

* bpo-27392: Add loop.connect_accepted_socket(). Patch by Jim
  Fulton.

* bpo-27930: Improved behaviour of logging.handlers.QueueListener.
  Thanks to Paulo Andrade and Petr Viktorin for the analysis and
  patch.

* bpo-21201: Improves readability of multiprocessing error message.
  Thanks to Wojciech Walczak for patch.

* bpo-27456: asyncio: Set TCP_NODELAY by default.

* bpo-27906: Fix socket accept exhaustion during high TCP traffic.
  Patch by Kevin Conway.

* bpo-28174: Handle when SO_REUSEPORT isn't properly supported.
  Patch by Seth Michael Larson.

* bpo-26654: Inspect functools.partial in asyncio.Handle.__repr__.
  Patch by iceboy.

* bpo-26909: Fix slow pipes IO in asyncio. Patch by INADA Naoki.

* bpo-28176: Fix callbacks race in
  asyncio.SelectorLoop.sock_connect.

* bpo-27759: Fix selectors incorrectly retain invalid file
  descriptors. Patch by Mark Williams.

* bpo-28368: Refuse monitoring processes if the child watcher has no
  loop attached. Patch by Vincent Michel.

* bpo-28369: Raise RuntimeError when transport's FD is used with
  add_reader, add_writer, etc.

* bpo-28370: Speedup asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly. Patch by
  Коренберг Марк.

* bpo-28371: Deprecate passing asyncio.Handles to run_in_executor.

* bpo-28372: Fix asyncio to support formatting of non-python
  coroutines.

* bpo-28399: Remove UNIX socket from FS before binding. Patch by
  Коренберг Марк.

* bpo-27972: Prohibit Tasks to await on themselves.

* bpo-26923: Fix asyncio.Gather to refuse being cancelled once all
  children are done. Patch by Johannes Ebke.

* bpo-26796: Don't configure the number of workers for default
  threadpool executor. Initial patch by Hans Lawrenz.

* bpo-28600: Optimize loop.call_soon().

* bpo-28613: Fix get_event_loop() return the current loop if called
  from coroutines/callbacks.

* bpo-28639: Fix inspect.isawaitable to always return bool Patch by
  Justin Mayfield.

* bpo-28652: Make loop methods reject socket kinds they do not
  support.

* bpo-28653: Fix a refleak in functools.lru_cache.

* bpo-28703: Fix asyncio.iscoroutinefunction to handle Mock objects.

* bpo-24142: Reading a corrupt config file left the parser in an
  invalid state.  Original patch by Florian Höch.

* bpo-28990: Fix SSL hanging if connection is closed before
  handshake completed. (Patch by HoHo-Ho)


IDLE
----

* bpo-15308: Add 'interrupt execution' (^C) to Shell menu. Patch by
  Roger Serwy, updated by Bayard Randel.

* bpo-27922: Stop IDLE tests from 'flashing' gui widgets on the
  screen.

* Add version to title of IDLE help window.

* bpo-25564: In section on IDLE -- console differences, mention that
  using exec means that __builtins__ is defined for each statement.

* bpo-27714: text_textview and test_autocomplete now pass when re-
  run in the same process.  This occurs when test_idle fails when run
  with the -w option but without -jn.  Fix warning from test_config.

* bpo-25507: IDLE no longer runs buggy code because of its tkinter
  imports. Users must include the same imports required to run
  directly in Python.

* bpo-27452: add line counter and crc to IDLE configHandler test
  dump.

* bpo-27365: Allow non-ascii chars in IDLE NEWS.txt, for contributor
  names.

* bpo-27245: IDLE: Cleanly delete custom themes and key bindings.
  Previously, when IDLE was started from a console or by import, a
  cascade of warnings was emitted.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.


C API
-----

* bpo-28808: PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString() now never raises
  exceptions.

* bpo-26754: PyUnicode_FSDecoder() accepted a filename argument
  encoded as an iterable of integers. Now only strings and bytes-like
  objects are accepted.


Documentation
-------------

* bpo-28513: Documented command-line interface of zipfile.


Tests
-----

* bpo-28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l/-M in regrtest
  command line arguments.

* bpo-28666: Now test.support.rmtree is able to remove unwritable or
  unreadable directories.

* bpo-23839: Various caches now are cleared before running every
  test file.

* bpo-28409: regrtest: fix the parser of command line arguments.

* bpo-27787: Call gc.collect() before checking each test for
  "dangling threads", since the dangling threads are weak references.

* bpo-27369: In test_pyexpat, avoid testing an error message detail
  that changed in Expat 2.2.0.


Tools/Demos
-----------

* bpo-27952: Get Tools/scripts/fixcid.py working with Python 3 and
  the current "re" module, avoid invalid Python backslash escapes, and
  fix a bug parsing escaped C quote signs.

* bpo-27332: Fixed the type of the first argument of module-level
  functions generated by Argument Clinic.  Patch by Petr Viktorin.

* bpo-27418: Fixed Tools/importbench/importbench.py.


Windows
-------

* bpo-28251: Improvements to help manuals on Windows.

* bpo-28110: launcher.msi has different product codes between 32-bit
  and 64-bit

* bpo-25144: Ensures TargetDir is set before continuing with custom
  install.

* bpo-27469: Adds a shell extension to the launcher so that drag and
  drop works correctly.

* bpo-27309: Enabled proper Windows styles in python[w].exe
  manifest.


Build
-----

* bpo-29080: Removes hard dependency on hg.exe from
  PCBuild/build.bat

* bpo-23903: Added missed names to PC/python3.def.

* bpo-10656: Fix out-of-tree building on AIX.  Patch by Tristan
  Carel and Michael Haubenwallner.

* bpo-26359: Rename --with-optimiations to --enable-optimizations.

* bpo-28444: Fix missing extensions modules when cross compiling.

* bpo-28248: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL
  1.0.2j.

* bpo-28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale (python-config and
  distclean targets in Makefile).  Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar
  Arahesis.

* bpo-26661: setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch
  wrapper.

* bpo-28066: Fix the logic that searches build directories for
  generated include files when building outside the source tree.

* bpo-15819: Remove redundant include search directory option for
  building outside the source tree.

* bpo-27566: Fix clean target in freeze makefile (patch by Lisa
  Roach)

* bpo-27705: Update message in validate_ucrtbase.py

* bpo-27983: Cause lack of llvm-profdata tool when using clang as
  required for PGO linking to be a configure time error rather than
  make time when --with-optimizations is enabled.  Also improve our
  ability to find the llvm-profdata tool on MacOS and some Linuxes.

* bpo-26307: The profile-opt build now applies PGO to the built-in
  modules.

* bpo-26359: Add the --with-optimizations configure flag.

* bpo-27713: Suppress spurious build warnings when updating
  importlib's bootstrap files.  Patch by Xiang Zhang

* bpo-25825: Correct the references to Modules/python.exp and
  ld_so_aix, which are required on AIX.  This updates references to an
  installation path that was changed in 3.2a4, and undoes changed
  references to the build tree that were made in 3.5.0a1.

* bpo-27453: CPP invocation in configure must use CPPFLAGS. Patch by
  Chi Hsuan Yen.

* bpo-27641: The configure script now inserts comments into the
  makefile to prevent the pgen and _freeze_importlib executables from
  being cross- compiled.

* bpo-26662: Set PYTHON_FOR_GEN in configure as the Python program
  to be used for file generation during the build.

* bpo-10910: Avoid C++ compilation errors on FreeBSD and OS X. Also
  update FreedBSD version checks for the original ctype UTF-8
  workaround.

* bpo-28676: Prevent missing 'getentropy' declaration warning on
  macOS. Patch by Gareth Rees.


Python 3.5.2
============

Release date: 2016-06-26


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-26930: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2h.


Tests
-----

* bpo-26867: Ubuntu's openssl OP_NO_SSLv3 is forced on by default;
  fix test.


IDLE
----

* bpo-27365: Allow non-ascii in idlelib/NEWS.txt - minimal part for
  3.5.2.


Python 3.5.2 release candidate 1
================================

Release date: 2016-06-12


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-27066: Fixed SystemError if a custom opener (for open())
  returns a negative number without setting an exception.

* bpo-20041: Fixed TypeError when frame.f_trace is set to None.
  Patch by Xavier de Gaye.

* bpo-26168: Fixed possible refleaks in failing Py_BuildValue() with
  the "N" format unit.

* bpo-26991: Fix possible refleak when creating a function with
  annotations.

* bpo-27039: Fixed bytearray.remove() for values greater than 127.
  Patch by Joe Jevnik.

* bpo-23640: int.from_bytes() no longer bypasses constructors for
  subclasses.

* bpo-26811: gc.get_objects() no longer contains a broken tuple with
  NULL pointer.

* bpo-20120: Use RawConfigParser for .pypirc parsing, removing
  support for interpolation unintentionally added with move to Python
  3. Behavior no longer does any interpolation in .pypirc files,
  matching behavior in Python 2.7 and Setuptools 19.0.

* bpo-26659: Make the builtin slice type support cycle collection.

* bpo-26718: super.__init__ no longer leaks memory if called
  multiple times. NOTE: A direct call of super.__init__ is not
  endorsed!

* bpo-25339: PYTHONIOENCODING now has priority over locale in
  setting the error handler for stdin and stdout.

* bpo-26494: Fixed crash on iterating exhausting iterators. Affected
  classes are generic sequence iterators, iterators of str, bytes,
  bytearray, list, tuple, set, frozenset, dict, OrderedDict,
  corresponding views and os.scandir() iterator.

* bpo-26581: If coding cookie is specified multiple times on a line
  in Python source code file, only the first one is taken to account.

* bpo-26464: Fix str.translate() when string is ASCII and first
  replacements removes character, but next replacement uses a non-
  ASCII character or a string longer than 1 character. Regression
  introduced in Python 3.5.0.

* bpo-22836: Ensure exception reports from PyErr_Display() and
  PyErr_WriteUnraisable() are sensible even when formatting them
  produces secondary errors.  This affects the reports produced by
  sys.__excepthook__() and when __del__() raises an exception.

* bpo-26302: Correct behavior to reject comma as a legal character
  for cookie names.

* bpo-4806: Avoid masking the original TypeError exception when
  using star (*) unpacking in function calls.  Based on patch by Hagen
  Fürstenau and Daniel Urban.

* bpo-27138: Fix the doc comment for FileFinder.find_spec().

* bpo-26154: Add a new private _PyThreadState_UncheckedGet()
  function to get the current Python thread state, but don't issue a
  fatal error if it is NULL. This new function must be used instead of
  accessing directly the _PyThreadState_Current variable.  The
  variable is no more exposed since Python 3.5.1 to hide the exact
  implementation of atomic C types, to avoid compiler issues.

* bpo-26194:  Deque.insert() gave odd results for bounded deques
  that had reached their maximum size.  Now an IndexError will be
  raised when attempting to insert into a full deque.

* bpo-25843: When compiling code, don't merge constants if they are
  equal but have a different types. For example, "f1, f2 = lambda: 1,
  lambda: 1.0" is now correctly compiled to two different functions:
  "f1()" returns "1" ("int") and "f2()" returns "1.0" ("int"), even if
  "1" and "1.0" are equal.

* bpo-22995: [UPDATE] Comment out the one of the pickleability tests
  in _PyObject_GetState() due to regressions observed in Cython-based
  projects.

* bpo-25961: Disallowed null characters in the type name.

* bpo-25973: Fix segfault when an invalid nonlocal statement binds a
  name starting with two underscores.

* bpo-22995: Instances of extension types with a state that aren't
  subclasses of list or dict and haven't implemented any pickle-
  related methods (__reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __getnewargs__,
  __getnewargs_ex__, or __getstate__), can no longer be pickled.
  Including memoryview.

* bpo-20440: Massive replacing unsafe attribute setting code with
  special macro Py_SETREF.

* bpo-25766: Special method __bytes__() now works in str subclasses.

* bpo-25421: __sizeof__ methods of builtin types now use dynamic
  basic size. This allows sys.getsize() to work correctly with their
  subclasses with __slots__ defined.

* bpo-25709: Fixed problem with in-place string concatenation and
  utf-8 cache.

* bpo-27147: Mention PEP 420 in the importlib docs.

* bpo-24097: Fixed crash in object.__reduce__() if slot name is
  freed inside __getattr__.

* bpo-24731: Fixed crash on converting objects with special methods
  __bytes__, __trunc__, and __float__ returning instances of
  subclasses of bytes, int, and float to subclasses of bytes, int, and
  float correspondingly.

* bpo-26478: Fix semantic bugs when using binary operators with
  dictionary views and tuples.

* bpo-26171: Fix possible integer overflow and heap corruption in
  zipimporter.get_data().

* bpo-25660: Fix TAB key behaviour in REPL with readline.

* bpo-25887: Raise a RuntimeError when a coroutine object is awaited
  more than once.

* bpo-27243: Update the __aiter__ protocol: instead of returning an
  awaitable that resolves to an asynchronous iterator, the
  asynchronous iterator should be returned directly.  Doing the former
  will trigger a PendingDeprecationWarning.


Library
-------

* [Security] bpo-26556: Update expat to 2.1.1, fixes CVE-2015-1283.

* [Security] Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smtplib,
  CVE-2016-0772. Reported by Team Oststrom

* bpo-21386: Implement missing IPv4Address.is_global property.  It
  was documented since 07a5610bae9d.  Initial patch by Roger Luethi.

* bpo-20900: distutils register command now decodes HTTP responses
  correctly.  Initial patch by ingrid.

* A new version of typing.py provides several new classes and
  features: @overload outside stubs, Reversible, DefaultDict, Text,
  ContextManager, Type[], NewType(), TYPE_CHECKING, and numerous bug
  fixes (note that some of the new features are not yet implemented in
  mypy or other static analyzers).  Also classes for PEP 492
  (Awaitable, AsyncIterable, AsyncIterator) have been added (in fact
  they made it into 3.5.1 but were never mentioned).

* bpo-25738: Stop http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.send_error()
  from sending a message body for 205 Reset Content.  Also, don't send
  Content header fields in responses that don't have a body.  Patch by
  Susumu Koshiba.

* bpo-21313: Fix the "platform" module to tolerate when sys.version
  contains truncated build information.

* [Security] bpo-26839: On Linux, "os.urandom()" now calls
  "getrandom()" with "GRND_NONBLOCK" to fall back on reading
  "/dev/urandom" if the urandom entropy pool is not initialized yet.
  Patch written by Colm Buckley.

* bpo-27164: In the zlib module, allow decompressing raw Deflate
  streams with a predefined zdict.  Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-24291: Fix wsgiref.simple_server.WSGIRequestHandler to
  completely write data to the client.  Previously it could do partial
  writes and truncate data.  Also, wsgiref.handler.ServerHandler can
  now handle stdout doing partial writes, but this is deprecated.

* bpo-26809: Add "__all__" to "string".  Patch by Emanuel Barry.

* bpo-26373: subprocess.Popen.communicate now correctly ignores
  BrokenPipeError when the child process dies before .communicate() is
  called in more/all circumstances.

* bpo-21776: distutils.upload now correctly handles HTTPError.
  Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-27114: Fix SSLContext._load_windows_store_certs fails with
  PermissionError

* bpo-18383: Avoid creating duplicate filters when using
  filterwarnings and simplefilter.  Based on patch by Alex Shkop.

* bpo-27057: Fix os.set_inheritable() on Android, ioctl() is blocked
  by SELinux and fails with EACCESS. The function now falls back to
  fcntl(). Patch written by Michał Bednarski.

* bpo-27014: Fix infinite recursion using typing.py.  Thanks to
  Kalle Tuure!

* bpo-14132: Fix urllib.request redirect handling when the target
  only has a query string.  Original fix by Ján Janech.

* bpo-17214: The "urllib.request" module now percent-encodes non-
  ASCII bytes found in redirect target URLs.  Some servers send
  Location header fields with non-ASCII bytes, but "http.client"
  requires the request target to be ASCII-encodable, otherwise a
  UnicodeEncodeError is raised.  Based on patch by Christian Heimes.

* bpo-26892: Honor debuglevel flag in urllib.request.HTTPHandler.
  Patch contributed by Chi Hsuan Yen.

* bpo-22274: In the subprocess module, allow stderr to be redirected
  to stdout even when stdout is not redirected.  Patch by Akira Li.

* bpo-26807: mock_open 'files' no longer error on readline at end of
  file. Patch from Yolanda Robla.

* bpo-25745: Fixed leaking a userptr in curses panel destructor.

* bpo-26977: Removed unnecessary, and ignored, call to sum of
  squares helper in statistics.pvariance.

* bpo-26881: The modulefinder module now supports extended opcode
  arguments.

* bpo-23815: Fixed crashes related to directly created instances of
  types in _tkinter and curses.panel modules.

* bpo-17765: weakref.ref() no longer silently ignores keyword
  arguments. Patch by Georg Brandl.

* bpo-26873: xmlrpc now raises ResponseError on unsupported type
  tags instead of silently return incorrect result.

* bpo-26711: Fixed the comparison of plistlib.Data with other types.

* bpo-24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in "ctypes.util".

  The bug only occurs on SunOS when the ctypes implementation searches
  for the "crle" program.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.  Tested on SunOS by
  Kees Bos.

* bpo-26864: In urllib.request, change the proxy bypass host
  checking against no_proxy to be case-insensitive, and to not match
  unrelated host names that happen to have a bypassed hostname as a
  suffix. Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-26634: recursive_repr() now sets __qualname__ of wrapper.
  Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-26804: urllib.request will prefer lower_case proxy environment
  variables over UPPER_CASE or Mixed_Case ones. Patch contributed by
  Hans-Peter Jansen.

* bpo-26837: assertSequenceEqual() now correctly outputs non-
  stringified differing items (like bytes in the -b mode).  This
  affects assertListEqual() and assertTupleEqual().

* bpo-26041: Remove "will be removed in Python 3.7" from deprecation
  messages of platform.dist() and platform.linux_distribution(). Patch
  by Kumaripaba Miyurusara Athukorala.

* bpo-26822: itemgetter, attrgetter and methodcaller objects no
  longer silently ignore keyword arguments.

* bpo-26733: Disassembling a class now disassembles class and static
  methods. Patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-26801: Fix error handling in "shutil.get_terminal_size()",
  catch "AttributeError" instead of "NameError". Patch written by
  Emanuel Barry.

* bpo-24838: tarfile's ustar and gnu formats now correctly calculate
  name and link field limits for multibyte character encodings like
  utf-8.

* [Security] bpo-26657: Fix directory traversal vulnerability with
  http.server on Windows.  This fixes a regression that was introduced
  in 3.3.4rc1 and 3.4.0rc1.  Based on patch by Philipp Hagemeister.

* bpo-26717: Stop encoding Latin-1-ized WSGI paths with UTF-8.
  Patch by Anthony Sottile.

* bpo-26735: Fix "os.urandom()" on Solaris 11.3 and newer when
  reading more than 1,024 bytes: call "getrandom()" multiple times
  with a limit of 1024 bytes per call.

* bpo-16329: Add .webm to mimetypes.types_map.  Patch by Giampaolo
  Rodola'.

* bpo-13952: Add .csv to mimetypes.types_map.  Patch by Geoff
  Wilson.

* bpo-26709: Fixed Y2038 problem in loading binary PLists.

* bpo-23735: Handle terminal resizing with Readline 6.3+ by
  installing our own SIGWINCH handler.  Patch by Eric Price.

* bpo-26586: In http.server, respond with "413 Request header fields
  too large" if there are too many header fields to parse, rather than
  killing the connection and raising an unhandled exception.  Patch by
  Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-22854: Change BufferedReader.writable() and
  BufferedWriter.readable() to always return False.

* bpo-25195: Fix a regression in mock.MagicMock. _Call is a subclass
  of tuple (changeset 3603bae63c13 only works for classes) so we need
  to implement __ne__ ourselves.  Patch by Andrew Plummer.

* bpo-26644: Raise ValueError rather than SystemError when a
  negative length is passed to SSLSocket.recv() or read().

* bpo-23804: Fix SSL recv(0) and read(0) methods to return zero
  bytes instead of up to 1024.

* bpo-26616: Fixed a bug in datetime.astimezone() method.

* bpo-21925: "warnings.formatwarning()" now catches exceptions on
  "linecache.getline(...)" to be able to log "ResourceWarning" emitted
  late during the Python shutdown process.

* bpo-24266: Ctrl+C during Readline history search now cancels the
  search mode when compiled with Readline 7.

* bpo-26560: Avoid potential ValueError in
  BaseHandler.start_response. Initial patch by Peter Inglesby.

* [Security] bpo-26313: ssl.py _load_windows_store_certs fails if
  windows cert store is empty. Patch by Baji.

* bpo-26569: Fix "pyclbr.readmodule()" and "pyclbr.readmodule_ex()"
  to support importing packages.

* bpo-26499: Account for remaining Content-Length in
  HTTPResponse.readline() and read1().  Based on patch by Silent
  Ghost. Also document that HTTPResponse now supports these methods.

* bpo-25320: Handle sockets in directories unittest discovery is
  scanning. Patch from Victor van den Elzen.

* bpo-16181: cookiejar.http2time() now returns None if year is
  higher than datetime.MAXYEAR.

* bpo-26513: Fixes platform module detection of Windows Server

* bpo-23718: Fixed parsing time in week 0 before Jan 1.  Original
  patch by Tamás Bence Gedai.

* bpo-20589: Invoking Path.owner() and Path.group() on Windows now
  raise NotImplementedError instead of ImportError.

* bpo-26177: Fixed the keys() method for Canvas and Scrollbar
  widgets.

* bpo-15068: Got rid of excessive buffering in the fileinput module.
  The bufsize parameter is no longer used.

* bpo-2202: Fix UnboundLocalError in
  AbstractDigestAuthHandler.get_algorithm_impls.  Initial patch by
  Mathieu Dupuy.

* bpo-25718: Fixed pickling and copying the accumulate() iterator
  with total is None.

* bpo-26475: Fixed debugging output for regular expressions with the
  (?x) flag.

* bpo-26457: Fixed the subnets() methods in IP network classes for
  the case when resulting prefix length is equal to maximal prefix
  length. Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-26385: Remove the file if the internal open() call in
  NamedTemporaryFile() fails.  Patch by Silent Ghost.

* bpo-26402: Fix XML-RPC client to retry when the server shuts down
  a persistent connection.  This was a regression related to the new
  http.client.RemoteDisconnected exception in 3.5.0a4.

* bpo-25913: Leading "<~" is optional now in base64.a85decode() with
  adobe=True.  Patch by Swati Jaiswal.

* bpo-26186: Remove an invalid type check in
  importlib.util.LazyLoader.

* bpo-26367: importlib.__import__() raises SystemError like
  builtins.__import__() when "level" is specified but without an
  accompanying package specified.

* bpo-26309: In the "socketserver" module, shut down the request
  (closing the connected socket) when verify_request() returns false.
  Patch by Aviv Palivoda.

* [Security] bpo-25939: On Windows open the cert store readonly in
  ssl.enum_certificates.

* bpo-25995: os.walk() no longer uses FDs proportional to the tree
  depth.

* bpo-26117: The os.scandir() iterator now closes file descriptor
  not only when the iteration is finished, but when it was failed with
  error.

* bpo-25911: Restored support of bytes paths in os.walk() on
  Windows.

* bpo-26045: Add UTF-8 suggestion to error message when posting a
  non- Latin-1 string with http.client.

* bpo-12923: Reset FancyURLopener's redirect counter even if there
  is an exception.  Based on patches by Brian Brazil and Daniel Rocco.

* bpo-25945: Fixed a crash when unpickle the functools.partial
  object with wrong state.  Fixed a leak in failed functools.partial
  constructor. "args" and "keywords" attributes of functools.partial
  have now always types tuple and dict correspondingly.

* bpo-26202: copy.deepcopy() now correctly copies range() objects
  with non-atomic attributes.

* bpo-23076: Path.glob() now raises a ValueError if it's called with
  an invalid pattern.  Patch by Thomas Nyberg.

* bpo-19883: Fixed possible integer overflows in zipimport.

* bpo-26227: On Windows, getnameinfo(), gethostbyaddr() and
  gethostbyname_ex() functions of the socket module now decode the
  hostname from the ANSI code page rather than UTF-8.

* bpo-26147: xmlrpc now works with strings not encodable with used
  non-UTF-8 encoding.

* bpo-25935: Garbage collector now breaks reference loops with
  OrderedDict.

* bpo-16620: Fixed AttributeError in msilib.Directory.glob().

* bpo-26013: Added compatibility with broken protocol 2 pickles
  created in old Python 3 versions (3.4.3 and lower).

* bpo-25850: Use cross-compilation by default for 64-bit Windows.

* bpo-17633: Improve zipimport's support for namespace packages.

* bpo-24705: Fix sysconfig._parse_makefile not expanding ${} vars
  appearing before $() vars.

* bpo-22138: Fix mock.patch behavior when patching descriptors.
  Restore original values after patching. Patch contributed by Sean
  McCully.

* bpo-25672: In the ssl module, enable the SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
  mode option if it is safe to do so.

* bpo-26012: Don't traverse into symlinks for ** pattern in
  pathlib.Path.[r]glob().

* bpo-24120: Ignore PermissionError when traversing a tree with
  pathlib.Path.[r]glob().  Patch by Ulrich Petri.

* bpo-25447: fileinput now uses sys.stdin as-is if it does not have
  a buffer attribute (restores backward compatibility).

* bpo-25447: Copying the lru_cache() wrapper object now always
  works, independedly from the type of the wrapped object (by
  returning the original object unchanged).

* bpo-24103: Fixed possible use after free in
  ElementTree.XMLPullParser.

* bpo-25860: os.fwalk() no longer skips remaining directories when
  error occurs.  Original patch by Samson Lee.

* bpo-25914: Fixed and simplified OrderedDict.__sizeof__.

* bpo-25902: Fixed various refcount issues in ElementTree iteration.

* bpo-25717: Restore the previous behaviour of tolerating most
  fstat() errors when opening files.  This was a regression in 3.5a1,
  and stopped anonymous temporary files from working in special cases.

* bpo-24903: Fix regression in number of arguments compileall
  accepts when '-d' is specified.  The check on the number of
  arguments has been dropped completely as it never worked correctly
  anyway.

* bpo-25764: In the subprocess module, preserve any exception caused
  by fork() failure when preexec_fn is used.

* bpo-6478: _strptime's regexp cache now is reset after changing
  timezone with time.tzset().

* bpo-14285: When executing a package with the "python -m package"
  option, and package initialization fails, a proper traceback is now
  reported.  The "runpy" module now lets exceptions from package
  initialization pass back to the caller, rather than raising
  ImportError.

* bpo-19771: Also in runpy and the "-m" option, omit the irrelevant
  message ". . . is a package and cannot be directly executed" if the
  package could not even be initialized (e.g. due to a bad "*.pyc"
  file).

* bpo-25177: Fixed problem with the mean of very small and very
  large numbers. As a side effect, statistics.mean and
  statistics.variance should be significantly faster.

* bpo-25718: Fixed copying object with state with boolean value is
  false.

* bpo-10131: Fixed deep copying of minidom documents.  Based on
  patch by Marian Ganisin.

* bpo-25725: Fixed a reference leak in pickle.loads() when
  unpickling invalid data including tuple instructions.

* bpo-25663: In the Readline completer, avoid listing duplicate
  global names, and search the global namespace before searching
  builtins.

* bpo-25688: Fixed file leak in ElementTree.iterparse() raising an
  error.

* bpo-23914: Fixed SystemError raised by unpickler on broken pickle
  data.

* bpo-25691: Fixed crash on deleting ElementTree.Element attributes.

* bpo-25624: ZipFile now always writes a ZIP_STORED header for
  directory entries.  Patch by Dingyuan Wang.

* Skip getaddrinfo if host is already resolved. Patch by A. Jesse
  Jiryu Davis.

* bpo-26050: Add asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil() method. Patch by
  Марк Коренберг.

* bpo-25924: Avoid unnecessary serialization of getaddrinfo(3) calls
  on OS X versions 10.5 or higher.  Original patch by A. Jesse Jiryu
  Davis.

* bpo-26406: Avoid unnecessary serialization of getaddrinfo(3) calls
  on current versions of OpenBSD and NetBSD.  Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu
  Davis.

* bpo-26848: Fix asyncio/subprocess.communicate() to handle empty
  input. Patch by Jack O'Connor.

* bpo-27040: Add loop.get_exception_handler method

* bpo-27041: asyncio: Add loop.create_future method

* bpo-27223: asyncio: Fix _read_ready and _write_ready to respect
  _conn_lost. Patch by Łukasz Langa.

* bpo-22970: asyncio: Fix inconsistency cancelling Condition.wait.
  Patch by David Coles.


IDLE
----

* bpo-5124: Paste with text selected now replaces the selection on
  X11. This matches how paste works on Windows, Mac, most modern Linux
  apps, and ttk widgets.  Original patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

* bpo-24759: Make clear in idlelib.idle_test.__init__ that the
  directory is a private implementation of test.test_idle and tool for
  maintainers.

* bpo-27196: Stop 'ThemeChanged' warnings when running IDLE tests.
  These persisted after other warnings were suppressed in #20567.
  Apply Serhiy Storchaka's update_idletasks solution to four test
  files. Record this additional advice in idle_test/README.txt

* bpo-20567: Revise idle_test/README.txt with advice about avoiding
  tk warning messages from tests.  Apply advice to several IDLE tests.

* bpo-27117: Make colorizer htest and turtledemo work with dark
  themes. Move code for configuring text widget colors to a new
  function.

* bpo-26673: When tk reports font size as 0, change to size 10. Such
  fonts on Linux prevented the configuration dialog from opening.

* bpo-21939: Add test for IDLE's percolator. Original patch by
  Saimadhav Heblikar.

* bpo-21676: Add test for IDLE's replace dialog. Original patch by
  Saimadhav Heblikar.

* bpo-18410: Add test for IDLE's search dialog. Original patch by
  Westley Martínez.

* bpo-21703: Add test for IDLE's undo delegator. Original patch by
  Saimadhav Heblikar .

* bpo-27044: Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory
  leaks.

* bpo-23977: Add more asserts to test_delegator.

* bpo-20640: Add tests for idlelib.configHelpSourceEdit. Patch by
  Saimadhav Heblikar.

* In the 'IDLE-console differences' section of the IDLE doc, clarify
  how running with IDLE affects sys.modules and the standard streams.

* bpo-25507: fix incorrect change in IOBinding that prevented
  printing. Augment IOBinding htest to include all major IOBinding
  functions.

* bpo-25905: Revert unwanted conversion of ' to ’ RIGHT SINGLE
  QUOTATION MARK in README.txt and open this and NEWS.txt with
  'ascii'. Re-encode CREDITS.txt to utf-8 and open it with 'utf-8'.


Documentation
-------------

* bpo-19489: Moved the search box from the sidebar to the header and
  footer of each page.  Patch by Ammar Askar.

* bpo-24136: Document the new PEP 448 unpacking syntax of 3.5.

* bpo-26736: Used HTTPS for external links in the documentation if
  possible.

* bpo-6953: Rework the Readline module documentation to group
  related functions together, and add more details such as what
  underlying Readline functions and variables are accessed.

* bpo-23606: Adds note to ctypes documentation regarding
  cdll.msvcrt.

* bpo-25500: Fix documentation to not claim that __import__ is
  searched for in the global scope.

* bpo-26014: Update 3.x packaging documentation: * "See also" links
  to the new docs are now provided in the legacy pages * links to
  setuptools documentation have been updated


Tests
-----

* bpo-21916: Added tests for the turtle module.  Patch by ingrid,
  Gregory Loyse and Jelle Zijlstra.

* bpo-26523: The multiprocessing thread pool
  (multiprocessing.dummy.Pool) was untested.

* bpo-26015: Added new tests for pickling iterators of mutable
  sequences.

* bpo-26325: Added test.support.check_no_resource_warning() to check
  that no ResourceWarning is emitted.

* bpo-25940: Changed test_ssl to use self-signed.pythontest.net.
  This avoids relying on svn.python.org, which recently changed root
  certificate.

* bpo-25616: Tests for OrderedDict are extracted from
  test_collections into separate file test_ordered_dict.

* bpo-26583: Skip test_timestamp_overflow in test_import if bytecode
  files cannot be written.


Build
-----

* bpo-26884: Fix linking extension modules for cross builds. Patch
  by Xavier de Gaye.

* bpo-22359: Disable the rules for running _freeze_importlib and
  pgen when cross-compiling.  The output of these programs is normally
  saved with the source code anyway, and is still regenerated when
  doing a native build. Patch by Xavier de Gaye.

* bpo-27229: Fix the cross-compiling pgen rule for in-tree builds.
  Patch by Xavier de Gaye.

* bpo-21668: Link audioop, _datetime, _ctypes_test modules to libm,
  except on Mac OS X. Patch written by Xavier de Gaye.

* bpo-25702: A --with-lto configure option has been added that will
  enable link time optimizations at build time during a make profile-
  opt. Some compilers and toolchains are known to not produce stable
  code when using LTO, be sure to test things thoroughly before
  relying on it. It can provide a few % speed up over profile-opt
  alone.

* bpo-26624: Adds validation of ucrtbase[d].dll version with warning
  for old versions.

* bpo-17603: Avoid error about nonexistant fileblocks.o file by
  using a lower-level check for st_blocks in struct stat.

* bpo-26079: Fixing the build output folder for tix-8.4.3.6. Patch
  by Bjoern Thiel.

* bpo-26465: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2g.

* bpo-24421: Compile Modules/_math.c once, before building
  extensions. Previously it could fail to compile properly if the math
  and cmath builds were concurrent.

* bpo-25348: Added "--pgo" and "--pgo-job" arguments to
  "PCbuild\build.bat" for building with Profile-Guided Optimization.
  The old "PCbuild\build_pgo.bat" script is now deprecated, and simply
  calls "PCbuild\build.bat --pgo %*".

* bpo-25827: Add support for building with ICC to "configure",
  including a new "--with-icc" flag.

* bpo-25696: Fix installation of Python on UNIX with make -j9.

* bpo-26930: Update OS X 10.5+ 32-bit-only installer to build and
  link with OpenSSL 1.0.2h.

* bpo-26268: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2f.

* bpo-25136: Support Apple Xcode 7's new textual SDK stub libraries.

* bpo-24324: Do not enable unreachable code warnings when using gcc
  as the option does not work correctly in older versions of gcc and
  has been silently removed as of gcc-4.5.


Windows
-------

* bpo-27053: Updates make_zip.py to correctly generate library ZIP
  file.

* bpo-26268: Update the prepare_ssl.py script to handle OpenSSL
  releases that don't include the contents of the include directory
  (that is, 1.0.2e and later).

* bpo-26071: bdist_wininst created binaries fail to start and find
  32bit Python

* bpo-26073: Update the list of magic numbers in launcher

* bpo-26065: Excludes venv from library when generating embeddable
  distro.


Tools/Demos
-----------

* bpo-26799: Fix python-gdb.py: don't get C types once when the
  Python code is loaded, but get C types on demand. The C types can
  change if python-gdb.py is loaded before the Python executable.
  Patch written by Thomas Ilsche.

* bpo-26271: Fix the Freeze tool to properly use flags passed
  through configure. Patch by Daniel Shaulov.

* bpo-26489: Add dictionary unpacking support to
  Tools/parser/unparse.py. Patch by Guo Ci Teo.

* bpo-26316: Fix variable name typo in Argument Clinic.


Misc
----

* bpo-17500, and https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/945:
  Remove unused and outdated icons.


Python 3.5.1 final
==================

Release date: 2015-12-06


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-25709: Fixed problem with in-place string concatenation and
  utf-8 cache.


Windows
-------

* bpo-25715: Python 3.5.1 installer shows wrong upgrade path and
  incorrect logic for launcher detection.


Python 3.5.1 release candidate 1
================================

Release date: 2015-11-22


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-25630: Fix a possible segfault during argument parsing in
  functions that accept filesystem paths.

* bpo-23564: Fixed a partially broken sanity check in the
  _posixsubprocess internals regarding how fds_to_pass were passed to
  the child.  The bug had no actual impact as subprocess.py already
  avoided it.

* bpo-25388: Fixed tokenizer crash when processing undecodable
  source code with a null byte.

* bpo-25462: The hash of the key now is calculated only once in most
  operations in C implementation of OrderedDict.

* bpo-22995: Default implementation of __reduce__ and __reduce_ex__
  now rejects builtin types with not defined __new__.

* bpo-25555: Fix parser and AST: fill lineno and col_offset of "arg"
  node when compiling AST from Python objects.

* bpo-24802: Avoid buffer overreads when int(), float(), compile(),
  exec() and eval() are passed bytes-like objects.  These objects are
  not necessarily terminated by a null byte, but the functions assumed
  they were.

* bpo-24726: Fixed a crash and leaking NULL in repr() of OrderedDict
  that was mutated by direct calls of dict methods.

* bpo-25449: Iterating OrderedDict with keys with unstable hash now
  raises KeyError in C implementations as well as in Python
  implementation.

* bpo-25395: Fixed crash when highly nested OrderedDict structures
  were garbage collected.

* bpo-25274: sys.setrecursionlimit() now raises a RecursionError if
  the new recursion limit is too low depending at the current
  recursion depth. Modify also the "lower-water mark" formula to make
  it monotonic. This mark is used to decide when the overflowed flag
  of the thread state is reset.

* bpo-24402: Fix input() to prompt to the redirected stdout when
  sys.stdout.fileno() fails.

* bpo-24806: Prevent builtin types that are not allowed to be
  subclassed from being subclassed through multiple inheritance.

* bpo-24848: Fixed a number of bugs in UTF-7 decoding of misformed
  data.

* bpo-25280: Import trace messages emitted in verbose (-v) mode are
  no longer formatted twice.

* bpo-25003: On Solaris 11.3 or newer, os.urandom() now uses the
  getrandom() function instead of the getentropy() function. The
  getentropy() function is blocking to generate very good quality
  entropy, os.urandom() doesn't need such high-quality entropy.

* bpo-25182: The stdprinter (used as sys.stderr before the io module
  is imported at startup) now uses the backslashreplace error handler.

* bpo-25131: Make the line number and column offset of set/dict
  literals and comprehensions correspond to the opening brace.

* bpo-25150: Hide the private _Py_atomic_xxx symbols from the public
  Python.h header to fix a compilation error with OpenMP.
  PyThreadState_GET() becomes an alias to PyThreadState_Get() to avoid
  ABI incompatibilies.


Library
-------

* bpo-25626: Change three zlib functions to accept sizes that fit in
  Py_ssize_t, but internally cap those sizes to UINT_MAX.  This
  resolves a regression in 3.5 where GzipFile.read() failed to read
  chunks larger than 2 or 4 GiB.  The change affects the
  zlib.Decompress.decompress() max_length parameter, the
  zlib.decompress() bufsize parameter, and the zlib.Decompress.flush()
  length parameter.

* bpo-25583: Avoid incorrect errors raised by
  os.makedirs(exist_ok=True) when the OS gives priority to errors such
  as EACCES over EEXIST.

* bpo-25593: Change semantics of EventLoop.stop() in asyncio.

* bpo-6973: When we know a subprocess.Popen process has died, do not
  allow the send_signal(), terminate(), or kill() methods to do
  anything as they could potentially signal a different process.

* bpo-25590: In the Readline completer, only call getattr() once per
  attribute.

* bpo-25498: Fix a crash when garbage-collecting ctypes objects
  created by wrapping a memoryview.  This was a regression made in
  3.5a1.  Based on patch by Eryksun.

* bpo-25584: Added "escape" to the __all__ list in the glob module.

* bpo-25584: Fixed recursive glob() with patterns starting with
  '**'.

* bpo-25446: Fix regression in smtplib's AUTH LOGIN support.

* bpo-18010: Fix the pydoc web server's module search function to
  handle exceptions from importing packages.

* bpo-25554: Got rid of circular references in regular expression
  parsing.

* bpo-25510: fileinput.FileInput.readline() now returns b'' instead
  of '' at the end if the FileInput was opened with binary mode. Patch
  by Ryosuke Ito.

* bpo-25503: Fixed inspect.getdoc() for inherited docstrings of
  properties. Original patch by John Mark Vandenberg.

* bpo-25515: Always use os.urandom as a source of randomness in
  uuid.uuid4.

* bpo-21827: Fixed textwrap.dedent() for the case when largest
  common whitespace is a substring of smallest leading whitespace.
  Based on patch by Robert Li.

* bpo-25447: The lru_cache() wrapper objects now can be copied and
  pickled (by returning the original object unchanged).

* bpo-25390: typing: Don't crash on Union[str, Pattern].

* bpo-25441: asyncio: Raise error from drain() when socket is
  closed.

* bpo-25410: Cleaned up and fixed minor bugs in C implementation of
  OrderedDict.

* bpo-25411: Improved Unicode support in SMTPHandler through better
  use of the email package. Thanks to user simon04 for the patch.

* bpo-25407: Remove mentions of the formatter module being removed
  in Python 3.6.

* bpo-25406: Fixed a bug in C implementation of
  OrderedDict.move_to_end() that caused segmentation fault or hang in
  iterating after moving several items to the start of ordered dict.

* bpo-25364: zipfile now works in threads disabled builds.

* bpo-25328: smtpd's SMTPChannel now correctly raises a ValueError
  if both decode_data and enable_SMTPUTF8 are set to true.

* bpo-25316: distutils raises OSError instead of
  DistutilsPlatformError when MSVC is not installed.

* bpo-25380: Fixed protocol for the STACK_GLOBAL opcode in
  pickletools.opcodes.

* bpo-23972: Updates asyncio datagram create method allowing
  reuseport and reuseaddr socket options to be set prior to binding
  the socket. Mirroring the existing asyncio create_server method the
  reuseaddr option for datagram sockets defaults to True if the O/S is
  'posix' (except if the platform is Cygwin). Patch by Chris Laws.

* bpo-25304: Add asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe().  This lets you
  submit a coroutine to a loop from another thread, returning a
  concurrent.futures.Future.  By Vincent Michel.

* bpo-25232: Fix CGIRequestHandler to split the query from the URL
  at the first question mark (?) rather than the last. Patch from
  Xiang Zhang.

* bpo-24657: Prevent CGIRequestHandler from collapsing slashes in
  the query part of the URL as if it were a path. Patch from Xiang
  Zhang.

* bpo-24483: C implementation of functools.lru_cache() now
  calculates key's hash only once.

* bpo-22958: Constructor and update method of
  weakref.WeakValueDictionary now accept the self and the dict keyword
  arguments.

* bpo-22609: Constructor of collections.UserDict now accepts the
  self keyword argument.

* bpo-25111: Fixed comparison of traceback.FrameSummary.

* bpo-25262: Added support for BINBYTES8 opcode in Python
  implementation of unpickler.  Highest 32 bits of 64-bit size for
  BINUNICODE8 and BINBYTES8 opcodes no longer silently ignored on
  32-bit platforms in C implementation.

* bpo-25034: Fix string.Formatter problem with auto-numbering and
  nested format_specs. Patch by Anthon van der Neut.

* bpo-25233: Rewrite the guts of asyncio.Queue and asyncio.Semaphore
  to be more understandable and correct.

* bpo-25203: Failed readline.set_completer_delims() no longer left
  the module in inconsistent state.

* bpo-23600: Default implementation of tzinfo.fromutc() was
  returning wrong results in some cases.

* bpo-23329: Allow the ssl module to be built with older versions of
  LibreSSL.

* Prevent overflow in _Unpickler_Read.

* bpo-25047: The XML encoding declaration written by Element Tree
  now respects the letter case given by the user. This restores the
  ability to write encoding names in uppercase like "UTF-8", which
  worked in Python 2.

* bpo-25135: Make deque_clear() safer by emptying the deque before
  clearing. This helps avoid possible reentrancy issues.

* bpo-19143: platform module now reads Windows version from
  kernel32.dll to avoid compatibility shims.

* bpo-25092: Fix datetime.strftime() failure when errno was already
  set to EINVAL.

* bpo-23517: Fix rounding in fromtimestamp() and utcfromtimestamp()
  methods of datetime.datetime: microseconds are now rounded to
  nearest with ties going to nearest even integer (ROUND_HALF_EVEN),
  instead of being rounding towards minus infinity (ROUND_FLOOR). It's
  important that these methods use the same rounding mode than
  datetime.timedelta to keep the property: (datetime(1970,1,1) +
  timedelta(seconds=t)) == datetime.utcfromtimestamp(t). It also the
  rounding mode used by round(float) for example.

* bpo-25155: Fix datetime.datetime.now() and
  datetime.datetime.utcnow() on Windows to support date after year
  2038. It was a regression introduced in Python 3.5.0.

* bpo-25108: Omitted internal frames in traceback functions
  print_stack(), format_stack(), and extract_stack() called without
  arguments.

* bpo-25118: Fix a regression of Python 3.5.0 in os.waitpid() on
  Windows.

* bpo-24684: socket.socket.getaddrinfo() now calls
  PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() instead of calling the encode() method
  of the host, to handle correctly custom string with an encode()
  method which doesn't return a byte string. The encoder of the IDNA
  codec is now called directly instead of calling the encode() method
  of the string.

* bpo-25060: Correctly compute stack usage of the BUILD_MAP opcode.

* bpo-24857: Comparing call_args to a long sequence now correctly
  returns a boolean result instead of raising an exception.  Patch by
  A Kaptur.

* bpo-23144: Make sure that HTMLParser.feed() returns all the data,
  even when convert_charrefs is True.

* bpo-24982: shutil.make_archive() with the "zip" format now adds
  entries for directories (including empty directories) in ZIP file.

* bpo-25019: Fixed a crash caused by setting non-string key of expat
  parser. Based on patch by John Leitch.

* bpo-16180: Exit pdb if file has syntax error, instead of trapping
  user in an infinite loop.  Patch by Xavier de Gaye.

* bpo-24891: Fix a race condition at Python startup if the file
  descriptor of stdin (0), stdout (1) or stderr (2) is closed while
  Python is creating sys.stdin, sys.stdout and sys.stderr objects.
  These attributes are now set to None if the creation of the object
  failed, instead of raising an OSError exception. Initial patch
  written by Marco Paolini.

* bpo-24992: Fix error handling and a race condition (related to
  garbage collection) in collections.OrderedDict constructor.

* bpo-24881: Fixed setting binary mode in Python implementation of
  FileIO on Windows and Cygwin.  Patch from Akira Li.

* bpo-25578: Fix (another) memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercer().

* bpo-25530: Disable the vulnerable SSLv3 protocol by default when
  creating ssl.SSLContext.

* bpo-25569: Fix memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().

* bpo-25471: Sockets returned from accept() shouldn't appear to be
  nonblocking.

* bpo-25319: When threading.Event is reinitialized, the underlying
  condition should use a regular lock rather than a recursive lock.

* bpo-21112: Fix regression in unittest.expectedFailure on
  subclasses. Patch from Berker Peksag.

* bpo-24764: cgi.FieldStorage.read_multi() now ignores the Content-
  Length header in part headers. Patch written by Peter Landry and
  reviewed by Pierre Quentel.

* bpo-24913: Fix overrun error in deque.index(). Found by John
  Leitch and Bryce Darling.

* bpo-24774: Fix docstring in http.server.test. Patch from Chiu-
  Hsiang Hsu.

* bpo-21159: Improve message in
  configparser.InterpolationMissingOptionError. Patch from Łukasz
  Langa.

* bpo-20362: Honour TestCase.longMessage correctly in assertRegex.
  Patch from Ilia Kurenkov.

* bpo-23572: Fixed functools.singledispatch on classes with falsy
  metaclasses.  Patch by Ethan Furman.

* asyncio: ensure_future() now accepts awaitable objects.


IDLE
----

* bpo-15348: Stop the debugger engine (normally in a user process)
  before closing the debugger window (running in the IDLE process).
  This prevents the RuntimeErrors that were being caught and ignored.

* bpo-24455: Prevent IDLE from hanging when a) closing the shell
  while the debugger is active (15347); b) closing the debugger with
  the [X] button (15348); and c) activating the debugger when already
  active (24455). The patch by Mark Roseman does this by making two
  changes. 1. Suspend and resume the gui.interaction method with the
  tcl vwait mechanism intended for this purpose (instead of
  root.mainloop & .quit). 2. In gui.run, allow any existing
  interaction to terminate first.

* Change 'The program' to 'Your program' in an IDLE 'kill program?'
  message to make it clearer that the program referred to is the
  currently running user program, not IDLE itself.

* bpo-24750: Improve the appearance of the IDLE editor window status
  bar. Patch by Mark Roseman.

* bpo-25313: Change the handling of new built-in text color themes
  to better address the compatibility problem introduced by the
  addition of IDLE Dark. Consistently use the revised
  idleConf.CurrentTheme everywhere in idlelib.

* bpo-24782: Extension configuration is now a tab in the IDLE
  Preferences dialog rather than a separate dialog.  The former tabs
  are now a sorted list.  Patch by Mark Roseman.

* bpo-22726: Re-activate the config dialog help button with some
  content about the other buttons and the new IDLE Dark theme.

* bpo-24820: IDLE now has an 'IDLE Dark' built-in text color theme.
  It is more or less IDLE Classic inverted, with a cobalt blue
  background. Strings, comments, keywords, ... are still green, red,
  orange, ... . To use it with IDLEs released before November 2015,
  hit the 'Save as New Custom Theme' button and enter a new name, such
  as 'Custom Dark'.  The custom theme will work with any IDLE release,
  and can be modified.

* bpo-25224: README.txt is now an idlelib index for IDLE developers
  and curious users.  The previous user content is now in the IDLE doc
  chapter. 'IDLE' now means 'Integrated Development and Learning
  Environment'.

* bpo-24820: Users can now set breakpoint colors in Settings ->
  Custom Highlighting.  Original patch by Mark Roseman.

* bpo-24972: Inactive selection background now matches active
  selection background, as configured by users, on all systems.  Found
  items are now always highlighted on Windows.  Initial patch by Mark
  Roseman.

* bpo-24570: Idle: make calltip and completion boxes appear on Macs
  affected by a tk regression.  Initial patch by Mark Roseman.

* bpo-24988: Idle ScrolledList context menus (used in debugger) now
  work on Mac Aqua.  Patch by Mark Roseman.

* bpo-24801: Make right-click for context menu work on Mac Aqua.
  Patch by Mark Roseman.

* bpo-25173: Associate tkinter messageboxes with a specific widget.
  For Mac OSX, make them a 'sheet'.  Patch by Mark Roseman.

* bpo-25198: Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help.
  * Properly indent fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman). * Give
  code snippet a very Sphinx-like light blueish-gray background. * Re-
  use initial width and height set by users for shell and editor. *
  When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used, put the section
  header at the top of the screen.

* bpo-25225: Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors.

* bpo-21995: Explain some differences between IDLE and console
  Python.

* bpo-22820: Explain need for *print* when running file from Idle
  editor.

* bpo-25224: Doc: augment Idle feature list and no-subprocess
  section.

* bpo-25219: Update doc for Idle command line options. Some were
  missing and notes were not correct.

* bpo-24861: Most of idlelib is private and subject to change. Use
  idleib.idle.* to start Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__.

* bpo-25199: Idle: add synchronization comments for future
  maintainers.

* bpo-16893: Replace help.txt with help.html for Idle doc display.
  The new idlelib/help.html is rstripped
  Doc/build/html/library/idle.html. It looks better than help.txt and
  will better document Idle as released. The tkinter html viewer that
  works for this file was written by Mark Roseman. The now unused
  EditorWindow.HelpDialog class and helt.txt file are deprecated.

* bpo-24199: Deprecate unused idlelib.idlever with possible removal
  in 3.6.

* bpo-24790: Remove extraneous code (which also create 2 & 3
  conflicts).


Documentation
-------------

* bpo-22558: Add remaining doc links to source code for Python-coded
  modules. Patch by Yoni Lavi.

* bpo-12067: Rewrite Comparisons section in the Expressions chapter
  of the language reference. Some of the details of comparing mixed
  types were incorrect or ambiguous. NotImplemented is only relevant
  at a lower level than the Expressions chapter. Added details of
  comparing range() objects, and default behaviour and consistency
  suggestions for user-defined classes. Patch from Andy Maier.

* bpo-24952: Clarify the default size argument of stack_size() in
  the "threading" and "_thread" modules. Patch from Mattip.

* bpo-23725: Overhaul tempfile docs. Note deprecated status of
  mktemp. Patch from Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek.

* bpo-24808: Update the types of some PyTypeObject fields.  Patch by
  Joseph Weston.

* bpo-22812: Fix unittest discovery examples. Patch from Pam
  McA'Nulty.


Tests
-----

* bpo-25449: Added tests for OrderedDict subclasses.

* bpo-25099: Make test_compileall not fail when an entry on sys.path
  cannot be written to (commonly seen in administrative installs on
  Windows).

* bpo-23919: Prevents assert dialogs appearing in the test suite.

* "PCbuild\rt.bat" now accepts an unlimited number of arguments to
  pass along to regrtest.py.  Previously there was a limit of 9.


Build
-----

* bpo-24915: Add LLVM support for PGO builds and use the test suite
  to generate the profile data. Initial patch by Alecsandru Patrascu
  of Intel.

* bpo-24910: Windows MSIs now have unique display names.

* bpo-24986: It is now possible to build Python on Windows without
  errors when external libraries are not available.


Windows
-------

* bpo-25450: Updates shortcuts to start Python in installation
  directory.

* bpo-25164: Changes default all-users install directory to match
  per- user directory.

* bpo-25143: Improves installer error messages for unsupported
  platforms.

* bpo-25163: Display correct directory in installer when using non-
  default settings.

* bpo-25361: Disables use of SSE2 instructions in Windows 32-bit
  build

* bpo-25089: Adds logging to installer for case where launcher is
  not selected on upgrade.

* bpo-25165: Windows uninstallation should not remove launcher if
  other versions remain

* bpo-25112: py.exe launcher is missing icons

* bpo-25102: Windows installer does not precompile for -O or -OO.

* bpo-25081: Makes Back button in installer go back to upgrade page
  when upgrading.

* bpo-25091: Increases font size of the installer.

* bpo-25126: Clarifies that the non-web installer will download some
  components.

* bpo-25213: Restores requestedExecutionLevel to manifest to disable
  UAC virtualization.

* bpo-25022: Removed very outdated PC/example_nt/ directory.


Tools/Demos
-----------

* bpo-25440: Fix output of python-config --extension-suffix.


Python 3.5.0 final
==================

Release date: 2015-09-13


Build
-----

* bpo-25071: Windows installer should not require TargetDir
  parameter when installing quietly.


Python 3.5.0 release candidate 4
================================

Release date: 2015-09-09


Library
-------

* bpo-25029: Fixes MemoryError in test_strptime.


Build
-----

* bpo-25027: Reverts partial-static build options and adds
  vcruntime140.dll to Windows installation.


Python 3.5.0 release candidate 3
================================

Release date: 2015-09-07


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-24305: Prevent import subsystem stack frames from being
  counted by the warnings.warn(stacklevel=) parameter.

* bpo-24912: Prevent __class__ assignment to immutable built-in
  objects.

* bpo-24975: Fix AST compilation for PEP 448 syntax.


Library
-------

* bpo-24917: time_strftime() buffer over-read.

* bpo-24748: To resolve a compatibility problem found with py2exe
  and pywin32, imp.load_dynamic() once again ignores previously loaded
  modules to support Python modules replacing themselves with
  extension modules. Patch by Petr Viktorin.

* bpo-24635: Fixed a bug in typing.py where isinstance([],
  typing.Iterable) would return True once, then False on subsequent
  calls.

* bpo-24989: Fixed buffer overread in BytesIO.readline() if a
  position is set beyond size.  Based on patch by John Leitch.

* bpo-24913: Fix overrun error in deque.index(). Found by John
  Leitch and Bryce Darling.


Python 3.5.0 release candidate 2
================================

Release date: 2015-08-25


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-24769: Interpreter now starts properly when dynamic loading is
  disabled.  Patch by Petr Viktorin.

* bpo-21167: NAN operations are now handled correctly when python is
  compiled with ICC even if -fp-model strict is not specified.

* bpo-24492: A "package" lacking a __name__ attribute when trying to
  perform a "from .. import ..." statement will trigger an ImportError
  instead of an AttributeError.


Library
-------

* bpo-24847: Removes vcruntime140.dll dependency from Tcl/Tk.

* bpo-24839: platform._syscmd_ver raises DeprecationWarning

* bpo-24867: Fix Task.get_stack() for 'async def' coroutines


Python 3.5.0 release candidate 1
================================

Release date: 2015-08-09


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-24667: Resize odict in all cases that the underlying dict
  resizes.


Library
-------

* bpo-24824: Signatures of codecs.encode() and codecs.decode() now
  are compatible with pydoc.

* bpo-24634: Importing uuid should not try to load libc on Windows

* bpo-24798: _msvccompiler.py doesn't properly support manifests

* bpo-4395: Better testing and documentation of binary operators.
  Patch by Martin Panter.

* bpo-23973: Update typing.py from GitHub repo.

* bpo-23004: mock_open() now reads binary data correctly when the
  type of read_data is bytes.  Initial patch by Aaron Hill.

* bpo-23888: Handle fractional time in cookie expiry. Patch by ssh.

* bpo-23652: Make it possible to compile the select module against
  the libc headers from the Linux Standard Base, which do not include
  some EPOLL macros.  Patch by Matt Frank.

* bpo-22932: Fix timezones in email.utils.formatdate. Patch from
  Dmitry Shachnev.

* bpo-23779: imaplib raises TypeError if authenticator tries to
  abort. Patch from Craig Holmquist.

* bpo-23319: Fix ctypes.BigEndianStructure, swap correctly bytes.
  Patch written by Matthieu Gautier.

* bpo-23254: Document how to close the TCPServer listening socket.
  Patch from Martin Panter.

* bpo-19450: Update Windows and OS X installer builds to use SQLite
  3.8.11.

* bpo-17527: Add PATCH to wsgiref.validator. Patch from Luca
  Sbardella.

* bpo-24791: Fix grammar regression for call syntax: 'g(*a or b)'.


IDLE
----

* bpo-23672: Allow Idle to edit and run files with astral chars in
  name. Patch by Mohd Sanad Zaki Rizvi.

* bpo-24745: Idle editor default font. Switch from Courier to
  platform-sensitive TkFixedFont.  This should not affect current
  customized font selections.  If there is a problem, edit
  $HOME/.idlerc/config-main.cfg and remove 'fontxxx' entries from
  [Editor Window].  Patch by Mark Roseman.

* bpo-21192: Idle editor. When a file is run, put its name in the
  restart bar. Do not print false prompts. Original patch by Adnan
  Umer.

* bpo-13884: Idle menus. Remove tearoff lines. Patch by Roger Serwy.


Documentation
-------------

* bpo-24129: Clarify the reference documentation for name
  resolution. This includes removing the assumption that readers will
  be familiar with the name resolution scheme Python used prior to the
  introduction of lexical scoping for function namespaces. Patch by
  Ivan Levkivskyi.

* bpo-20769: Improve reload() docs. Patch by Dorian Pula.

* bpo-23589: Remove duplicate sentence from the FAQ.  Patch by
  Yongzhi Pan.

* bpo-24729: Correct IO tutorial to match implementation regarding
  encoding parameter to open function.


Tests
-----

* bpo-24751: When running regrtest with the "-w" command line
  option, a test run is no longer marked as a failure if all tests
  succeed when re-run.


Python 3.5.0 beta 4
===================

Release date: 2015-07-26


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-23573: Restored optimization of bytes.rfind() and
  bytearray.rfind() for single-byte argument on Linux.

* bpo-24569: Make PEP 448 dictionary evaluation more consistent.

* bpo-24583: Fix crash when set is mutated while being updated.

* bpo-24407: Fix crash when dict is mutated while being updated.

* bpo-24619: New approach for tokenizing async/await. As a
  consequence, it is now possible to have one-line 'async def foo():
  await ..' functions.

* bpo-24687: Plug refleak on SyntaxError in function parameters
  annotations.

* bpo-15944: memoryview: Allow arbitrary formats when casting to
  bytes. Patch by Martin Panter.


Library
-------

* bpo-23441: rcompleter now prints a tab character instead of
  displaying possible completions for an empty word.  Initial patch by
  Martin Sekera.

* bpo-24683: Fixed crashes in _json functions called with arguments
  of inappropriate type.

* bpo-21697: shutil.copytree() now correctly handles symbolic links
  that point to directories.  Patch by Eduardo Seabra and Thomas
  Kluyver.

* bpo-14373: Fixed segmentation fault when gc.collect() is called
  during constructing lru_cache (C implementation).

* bpo-24695: Fix a regression in traceback.print_exception().  If
  exc_traceback is None we shouldn't print a traceback header like
  described in the documentation.

* bpo-24620: Random.setstate() now validates the value of state last
  element.

* bpo-22485: Fixed an issue that caused "inspect.getsource" to
  return incorrect results on nested functions.

* bpo-22153: Improve unittest docs. Patch from Martin Panter and
  evilzero.

* bpo-24580: Symbolic group references to open group in re patterns
  now are explicitly forbidden as well as numeric group references.

* bpo-24206: Fixed __eq__ and __ne__ methods of inspect classes.

* bpo-24631: Fixed regression in the timeit module with multiline
  setup.

* bpo-18622: unittest.mock.mock_open().reset_mock would recurse
  infinitely. Patch from Nicola Palumbo and Laurent De Buyst.

* bpo-23661: unittest.mock side_effects can now be exceptions again.
  This was a regression vs Python 3.4. Patch from Ignacio Rossi

* bpo-24608: chunk.Chunk.read() now always returns bytes, not str.

* bpo-18684: Fixed reading out of the buffer in the re module.

* bpo-24259: tarfile now raises a ReadError if an archive is
  truncated inside a data segment.

* bpo-15014: SMTP.auth() and SMTP.login() now support RFC 4954's
  optional initial-response argument to the SMTP AUTH command.

* bpo-24669: Fix inspect.getsource() for 'async def' functions.
  Patch by Kai Groner.

* bpo-24688: ast.get_docstring() for 'async def' functions.


Build
-----

* bpo-24603: Update Windows builds and OS X 10.5 installer to use
  OpenSSL 1.0.2d.


Python 3.5.0 beta 3
===================

Release date: 2015-07-05


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-24467: Fixed possible buffer over-read in bytearray. The
  bytearray object now always allocates place for trailing null byte
  and it's buffer now is always null-terminated.

* Upgrade to Unicode 8.0.0.

* bpo-24345: Add Py_tp_finalize slot for the stable ABI.

* bpo-24400: Introduce a distinct type for PEP 492 coroutines; add
  types.CoroutineType, inspect.getcoroutinestate,
  inspect.getcoroutinelocals; coroutines no longer use CO_GENERATOR
  flag; sys.set_coroutine_wrapper works only for 'async def'
  coroutines; inspect.iscoroutine no longer uses
  collections.abc.Coroutine, it's intended to test for pure 'async
  def' coroutines only; add new opcode: GET_YIELD_FROM_ITER; fix
  generators wrapper used in types.coroutine to be instance of
  collections.abc.Generator; collections.abc.Awaitable and
  collections.abc.Coroutine can no longer be used to detect generator-
  based coroutines--use inspect.isawaitable instead.

* bpo-24450: Add gi_yieldfrom to generators and cr_await to
  coroutines. Contributed by Benno Leslie and Yury Selivanov.

* bpo-19235: Add new RecursionError exception. Patch by Georg
  Brandl.


Library
-------

* bpo-21750: mock_open.read_data can now be read from each instance,
  as it could in Python 3.3.

* bpo-24552: Fix use after free in an error case of the _pickle
  module.

* bpo-24514: tarfile now tolerates number fields consisting of only
  whitespace.

* bpo-19176: Fixed doctype() related bugs in C implementation of
  ElementTree. A deprecation warning no longer issued by XMLParser
  subclass with default doctype() method.  Direct call of doctype()
  now issues a warning.  Parser's doctype() now is not called if
  target's doctype() is called.  Based on patch by Martin Panter.

* bpo-20387: Restore semantic round-trip correctness in
  tokenize/untokenize for tab-indented blocks.

* bpo-24456: Fixed possible buffer over-read in adpcm2lin() and
  lin2adpcm() functions of the audioop module.

* bpo-24336: The contextmanager decorator now works with functions
  with keyword arguments called "func" and "self".  Patch by Martin
  Panter.

* bpo-24522: Fix possible integer overflow in json accelerator
  module.

* bpo-24489: ensure a previously set C errno doesn't disturb
  cmath.polar().

* bpo-24408: Fixed AttributeError in measure() and metrics() methods
  of tkinter.Font.

* bpo-14373: C implementation of functools.lru_cache() now can be
  used with methods.

* bpo-24347: Set KeyError if PyDict_GetItemWithError returns NULL.

* bpo-24348: Drop superfluous incref/decref.

* bpo-24359: Check for changed OrderedDict size during iteration.

* bpo-24368: Support keyword arguments in OrderedDict methods.

* bpo-24362: Simplify the C OrderedDict fast nodes resize logic.

* bpo-24377: Fix a ref leak in OrderedDict.__repr__.

* bpo-24369: Defend against key-changes during iteration.


Tests
-----

* bpo-24373: _testmultiphase and xxlimited now use tp_traverse and
  tp_finalize to avoid reference leaks encountered when combining
  tp_dealloc with PyType_FromSpec (see bpo-16690 for details)


Documentation
-------------

* bpo-24458: Update documentation to cover multi-phase
  initialization for extension modules (PEP 489). Patch by Petr
  Viktorin.

* bpo-24351: Clarify what is meant by "identifier" in the context of
  string.Template instances.


Build
-----

* bpo-24432: Update Windows builds and OS X 10.5 installer to use
  OpenSSL 1.0.2c.


Python 3.5.0 beta 2
===================

Release date: 2015-05-31


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-24284: The startswith and endswith methods of the str class no
  longer return True when finding the empty string and the indexes are
  completely out of range.

* bpo-24115: Update uses of PyObject_IsTrue(), PyObject_Not(),
  PyObject_IsInstance(), PyObject_RichCompareBool() and
  _PyDict_Contains() to check for and handle errors correctly.

* bpo-24328: Fix importing one character extension modules.

* bpo-11205: In dictionary displays, evaluate the key before the
  value.

* bpo-24285: Fixed regression that prevented importing extension
  modules from inside packages. Patch by Petr Viktorin.


Library
-------

* bpo-23247: Fix a crash in the StreamWriter.reset() of CJK codecs.

* bpo-24270: Add math.isclose() and cmath.isclose() functions as per
  PEP 485. Contributed by Chris Barker and Tal Einat.

* bpo-5633: Fixed timeit when the statement is a string and the
  setup is not.

* bpo-24326: Fixed audioop.ratecv() with non-default weightB
  argument. Original patch by David Moore.

* bpo-16991: Add a C implementation of OrderedDict.

* bpo-23934: Fix inspect.signature to fail correctly for builtin
  types lacking signature information.  Initial patch by James Powell.


Python 3.5.0 beta 1
===================

Release date: 2015-05-24


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-24276: Fixed optimization of property descriptor getter.

* bpo-24268: PEP 489: Multi-phase extension module initialization.
  Patch by Petr Viktorin.

* bpo-23955: Add pyvenv.cfg option to suppress registry/environment
  lookup for generating sys.path on Windows.

* bpo-24257: Fixed system error in the comparison of faked
  types.SimpleNamespace.

* bpo-22939: Fixed integer overflow in iterator object.  Patch by
  Clement Rouault.

* bpo-23985: Fix a possible buffer overrun when deleting a slice
  from the front of a bytearray and then appending some other bytes
  data.

* bpo-24102: Fixed exception type checking in standard error
  handlers.

* bpo-15027: The UTF-32 encoder is now 3x to 7x faster.

* bpo-23290: Optimize set_merge() for cases where the target is
  empty. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka.)

* bpo-2292: PEP 448: Additional Unpacking Generalizations.

* bpo-24096: Make warnings.warn_explicit more robust against
  mutation of the warnings.filters list.

* bpo-23996: Avoid a crash when a delegated generator raises an
  unnormalized StopIteration exception.  Patch by Stefan Behnel.

* bpo-23910: Optimize property() getter calls.  Patch by Joe Jevnik.

* bpo-23911: Move path-based importlib bootstrap code to a separate
  frozen module.

* bpo-24192: Fix namespace package imports.

* bpo-24022: Fix tokenizer crash when processing undecodable source
  code.

* bpo-9951: Added a hex() method to bytes, bytearray, and
  memoryview.

* bpo-22906: PEP 479: Change StopIteration handling inside
  generators.

* bpo-24017: PEP 492: Coroutines with async and await syntax.


Library
-------

* bpo-14373: Added C implementation of functools.lru_cache().  Based
  on patches by Matt Joiner and Alexey Kachayev.

* bpo-24230: The tempfile module now accepts bytes for prefix,
  suffix and dir parameters and returns bytes in such situations
  (matching the os module APIs).

* bpo-22189: collections.UserString now supports __getnewargs__(),
  __rmod__(), casefold(), format_map(), isprintable(), and
  maketrans(). Patch by Joe Jevnik.

* bpo-24244: Prevents termination when an invalid format string is
  encountered on Windows in strftime.

* bpo-23973: PEP 484: Add the typing module.

* bpo-23086: The collections.abc.Sequence() abstract base class
  added *start* and *stop* parameters to the index() mixin. Patch by
  Devin Jeanpierre.

* bpo-20035: Replaced the "tkinter._fix" module used for setting up
  the Tcl/Tk environment on Windows with a private function in the
  "_tkinter" module that makes no permanent changes to the
  environment.

* bpo-24257: Fixed segmentation fault in sqlite3.Row constructor
  with faked cursor type.

* bpo-15836: assertRaises(), assertRaisesRegex(), assertWarns() and
  assertWarnsRegex() assertments now check the type of the first
  argument to prevent possible user error.  Based on patch by Daniel
  Wagner-Hall.

* bpo-9858: Add missing method stubs to _io.RawIOBase.  Patch by
  Laura Rupprecht.

* bpo-22955: attrgetter, itemgetter and methodcaller objects in the
  operator module now support pickling.  Added readable and evaluable
  repr for these objects.  Based on patch by Josh Rosenberg.

* bpo-22107: tempfile.gettempdir() and tempfile.mkdtemp() now try
  again when a directory with the chosen name already exists on
  Windows as well as on Unix.  tempfile.mkstemp() now fails early if
  parent directory is not valid (not exists or is a file) on Windows.

* bpo-23780: Improved error message in os.path.join() with single
  argument.

* bpo-6598: Increased time precision and random number range in
  email.utils.make_msgid() to strengthen the uniqueness of the message
  ID.

* bpo-24091: Fixed various crashes in corner cases in C
  implementation of ElementTree.

* bpo-21931: msilib.FCICreate() now raises TypeError in the case of
  a bad argument instead of a ValueError with a bogus FCI error
  number. Patch by Jeffrey Armstrong.

* bpo-13866: *quote_via* argument added to urllib.parse.urlencode.

* bpo-20098: New mangle_from policy option for email, default True
  for compat32, but False for all other policies.

* bpo-24211: The email library now supports RFC 6532: it can
  generate headers using utf-8 instead of encoded words.

* bpo-16314: Added support for the LZMA compression in distutils.

* bpo-21804: poplib now supports RFC 6856 (UTF8).

* bpo-18682: Optimized pprint functions for builtin scalar types.

* bpo-22027: smtplib now supports RFC 6531 (SMTPUTF8).

* bpo-23488: Random generator objects now consume 2x less memory on
  64-bit.

* bpo-1322: platform.dist() and platform.linux_distribution()
  functions are now deprecated.  Initial patch by Vajrasky Kok.

* bpo-22486: Added the math.gcd() function.  The fractions.gcd()
  function now is deprecated.  Based on patch by Mark Dickinson.

* bpo-24064: Property() docstrings are now writeable. (Patch by
  Berker Peksag.)

* bpo-22681: Added support for the koi8_t encoding.

* bpo-22682: Added support for the kz1048 encoding.

* bpo-23796: peek and read1 methods of BufferedReader now raise
  ValueError if they called on a closed object. Patch by John
  Hergenroeder.

* bpo-21795: smtpd now supports the 8BITMIME extension whenever the
  new *decode_data* constructor argument is set to False.

* bpo-24155: optimize heapq.heapify() for better cache performance
  when heapifying large lists.

* bpo-21800: imaplib now supports RFC 5161 (enable), RFC 6855
  (utf8/internationalized email) and automatically encodes non-ASCII
  usernames and passwords to UTF8.

* bpo-20274: When calling a _sqlite.Connection, it now complains if
  passed any keyword arguments.  Previously it silently ignored them.

* bpo-20274: Remove ignored and erroneous "kwargs" parameters from
  three METH_VARARGS methods on _sqlite.Connection.

* bpo-24134: assertRaises(), assertRaisesRegex(), assertWarns() and
  assertWarnsRegex() checks now emits a deprecation warning when
  callable is None or keyword arguments except msg is passed in the
  context manager mode.

* bpo-24018: Add a collections.abc.Generator abstract base class.
  Contributed by Stefan Behnel.

* bpo-23880: Tkinter's getint() and getdouble() now support Tcl_Obj.
  Tkinter's getdouble() now supports any numbers (in particular int).

* bpo-22619: Added negative limit support in the traceback module.
  Based on patch by Dmitry Kazakov.

* bpo-24094: Fix possible crash in json.encode with poorly behaved
  dict subclasses.

* bpo-9246: On POSIX, os.getcwd() now supports paths longer than
  1025 bytes. Patch written by William Orr.

* bpo-17445: add difflib.diff_bytes() to support comparison of byte
  strings (fixes a regression from Python 2).

* bpo-23917: Fall back to sequential compilation when
  ProcessPoolExecutor doesn't exist.  Patch by Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-23008: Fixed resolving attributes with boolean value is False
  in pydoc.

* Fix asyncio issue 235: LifoQueue and PriorityQueue's put didn't
  increment unfinished tasks (this bug was introduced when
  JoinableQueue was merged with Queue).

* bpo-23908: os functions now reject paths with embedded null
  character on Windows instead of silently truncating them.

* bpo-23728: binascii.crc_hqx() could return an integer outside of
  the range 0-0xffff for empty data.

* bpo-23887: urllib.error.HTTPError now has a proper repr()
  representation. Patch by Berker Peksag.

* asyncio: New event loop APIs: set_task_factory() and
  get_task_factory().

* asyncio: async() function is deprecated in favour of
  ensure_future().

* bpo-24178: asyncio.Lock, Condition, Semaphore, and
  BoundedSemaphore support new 'async with' syntax.  Contributed by
  Yury Selivanov.

* bpo-24179: Support 'async for' for asyncio.StreamReader.
  Contributed by Yury Selivanov.

* bpo-24184: Add AsyncIterator and AsyncIterable ABCs to
  collections.abc.  Contributed by Yury Selivanov.

* bpo-22547: Implement informative __repr__ for
  inspect.BoundArguments. Contributed by Yury Selivanov.

* bpo-24190: Implement inspect.BoundArgument.apply_defaults()
  method. Contributed by Yury Selivanov.

* bpo-20691: Add 'follow_wrapped' argument to
  inspect.Signature.from_callable() and inspect.signature().
  Contributed by Yury Selivanov.

* bpo-24248: Deprecate inspect.Signature.from_function() and
  inspect.Signature.from_builtin().

* bpo-23898: Fix inspect.classify_class_attrs() to support
  attributes with overloaded __eq__ and __bool__.  Patch by Mike
  Bayer.

* bpo-24298: Fix inspect.signature() to correctly unwrap wrappers
  around bound methods.


IDLE
----

* bpo-23184: remove unused names and imports in idlelib. Initial
  patch by Al Sweigart.


Tests
-----

* bpo-21520: test_zipfile no longer fails if the word 'bad' appears
  anywhere in the name of the current directory.

* bpo-9517: Move script_helper into the support package. Patch by
  Christie Wilson.


Documentation
-------------

* bpo-22155: Add File Handlers subsection with createfilehandler to
  tkinter doc.  Remove obsolete example from FAQ.  Patch by Martin
  Panter.

* bpo-24029: Document the name binding behavior for submodule
  imports.

* bpo-24077: Fix typo in man page for -I command option: -s, not -S


Tools/Demos
-----------

* bpo-24000: Improved Argument Clinic's mapping of converters to
  legacy "format units".  Updated the documentation to match.

* bpo-24001: Argument Clinic converters now use accept={type}
  instead of types={'type'} to specify the types the converter
  accepts.

* bpo-23330: h2py now supports arbitrary filenames in #include.

* bpo-24031: make patchcheck now supports git checkouts, too.


Python 3.5.0 alpha 4
====================

Release date: 2015-04-19


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-22980: Under Linux, GNU/KFreeBSD and the Hurd, C extensions
  now include the architecture triplet in the extension name, to make
  it easy to test builds for different ABIs in the same working tree.
  Under OS X, the extension name now includes PEP 3149-style
  information.

* bpo-22631: Added Linux-specific socket constant CAN_RAW_FD_FRAMES.
  Patch courtesy of Joe Jevnik.

* bpo-23731: Implement PEP 488: removal of .pyo files.

* bpo-23726: Don't enable GC for user subclasses of non-GC types
  that don't add any new fields.  Patch by Eugene Toder.

* bpo-23309: Avoid a deadlock at shutdown if a daemon thread is
  aborted while it is holding a lock to a buffered I/O object, and the
  main thread tries to use the same I/O object (typically stdout or
  stderr).  A fatal error is emitted instead.

* bpo-22977: Fixed formatting Windows error messages on Wine. Patch
  by Martin Panter.

* bpo-23466: %c, %o, %x, and %X in bytes formatting now raise
  TypeError on non-integer input.

* bpo-24044: Fix possible null pointer dereference in list.sort in
  out of memory conditions.

* bpo-21354: PyCFunction_New function is exposed by python DLL
  again.


Library
-------

* bpo-23840: tokenize.open() now closes the temporary binary file on
  error to fix a resource warning.

* bpo-16914: new debuglevel 2 in smtplib adds timestamps to debug
  output.

* bpo-7159: urllib.request now supports sending auth credentials
  automatically after the first 401.  This enhancement is a superset
  of the enhancement from bpo-19494 and supersedes that change.

* bpo-23703: Fix a regression in urljoin() introduced in
  901e4e52b20a. Patch by Demian Brecht.

* bpo-4254: Adds _curses.update_lines_cols().  Patch by Arnon Yaari

* bpo-19933: Provide default argument for ndigits in round. Patch by
  Vajrasky Kok.

* bpo-23193: Add a numeric_owner parameter to
  tarfile.TarFile.extract and tarfile.TarFile.extractall. Patch by
  Michael Vogt and Eric Smith.

* bpo-23342: Add a subprocess.run() function than returns a
  CalledProcess instance for a more consistent API than the existing
  call* functions.

* bpo-21217: inspect.getsourcelines() now tries to compute the start
  and end lines from the code object, fixing an issue when a lambda
  function is used as decorator argument. Patch by Thomas Ballinger
  and Allison Kaptur.

* bpo-24521: Fix possible integer overflows in the pickle module.

* bpo-22931: Allow '[' and ']' in cookie values.

* The keywords attribute of functools.partial is now always a
  dictionary.

* bpo-23811: Add missing newline to the PyCompileError error
  message. Patch by Alex Shkop.

* bpo-21116: Avoid blowing memory when allocating a multiprocessing
  shared array that's larger than 50% of the available RAM.  Patch by
  Médéric Boquien.

* bpo-22982: Improve BOM handling when seeking to multiple positions
  of a writable text file.

* bpo-23464: Removed deprecated asyncio JoinableQueue.

* bpo-23529: Limit the size of decompressed data when reading from
  GzipFile, BZ2File or LZMAFile.  This defeats denial of service
  attacks using compressed bombs (i.e. compressed payloads which
  decompress to a huge size).  Patch by Martin Panter and Nikolaus
  Rath.

* bpo-21859: Added Python implementation of io.FileIO.

* bpo-23865: close() methods in multiple modules now are idempotent
  and more robust at shutdown. If they need to release multiple
  resources, all are released even if errors occur.

* bpo-23400: Raise same exception on both Python 2 and 3 if sem_open
  is not available.  Patch by Davin Potts.

* bpo-10838: The subprocess now module includes SubprocessError and
  TimeoutError in its list of exported names for the users wild enough
  to use "from subprocess import *".

* bpo-23411: Added DefragResult, ParseResult, SplitResult,
  DefragResultBytes, ParseResultBytes, and SplitResultBytes to
  urllib.parse.__all__. Patch by Martin Panter.

* bpo-23881: urllib.request.ftpwrapper constructor now closes the
  socket if the FTP connection failed to fix a ResourceWarning.

* bpo-23853: "socket.socket.sendall()" does no more reset the socket
  timeout each time data is sent successfully. The socket timeout is
  now the maximum total duration to send all data.

* bpo-22721: An order of multiline pprint output of set or dict
  containing orderable and non-orderable elements no longer depends on
  iteration order of set or dict.

* bpo-15133: _tkinter.tkapp.getboolean() now supports Tcl_Obj and
  always returns bool.  tkinter.BooleanVar now validates input values
  (accepted bool, int, str, and Tcl_Obj).  tkinter.BooleanVar.get()
  now always returns bool.

* bpo-10590: xml.sax.parseString() now supports string argument.

* bpo-23338: Fixed formatting ctypes error messages on Cygwin. Patch
  by Makoto Kato.

* bpo-15582: inspect.getdoc() now follows inheritance chains.

* bpo-2175: SAX parsers now support a character stream of
  InputSource object.

* bpo-16840: Tkinter now supports 64-bit integers added in Tcl 8.4
  and arbitrary precision integers added in Tcl 8.5.

* bpo-23834: Fix socket.sendto(), use the C Py_ssize_t type to store
  the result of sendto() instead of the C int type.

* bpo-23618: "socket.socket.connect()" now waits until the
  connection completes instead of raising "InterruptedError" if the
  connection is interrupted by signals, signal handlers don't raise an
  exception and the socket is blocking or has a timeout.
  "socket.socket.connect()" still raise "InterruptedError" for non-
  blocking sockets.

* bpo-21526: Tkinter now supports new boolean type in Tcl 8.5.

* bpo-23836: Fix the faulthandler module to handle reentrant calls
  to its signal handlers.

* bpo-23838: linecache now clears the cache and returns an empty
  result on MemoryError.

* bpo-10395: Added os.path.commonpath(). Implemented in posixpath
  and ntpath. Based on patch by Rafik Draoui.

* bpo-23611: Serializing more "lookupable" objects (such as unbound
  methods or nested classes) now are supported with pickle protocols <
  4.

* bpo-13583: sqlite3.Row now supports slice indexing.

* bpo-18473: Fixed 2to3 and 3to2 compatible pickle mappings.  Fixed
  ambigious reverse mappings.  Added many new mappings.  Import
  mapping is no longer applied to modules already mapped with full
  name mapping.

* bpo-23485: select.select() is now retried automatically with the
  recomputed timeout when interrupted by a signal, except if the
  signal handler raises an exception. This change is part of the PEP
  475.

* bpo-23752: When built from an existing file descriptor,
  io.FileIO() now only calls fstat() once. Before fstat() was called
  twice, which was not necessary.

* bpo-23704: collections.deque() objects now support __add__,
  __mul__, and __imul__().

* bpo-23171: csv.Writer.writerow() now supports arbitrary iterables.

* bpo-23745: The new email header parser now handles duplicate MIME
  parameter names without error, similar to how get_param behaves.

* bpo-22117: Fix os.utime(), it now rounds the timestamp towards
  minus infinity (-inf) instead of rounding towards zero.

* bpo-23310: Fix MagicMock's initializer to work with __methods__,
  just like configure_mock().  Patch by Kasia Jachim.


Build
-----

* bpo-23817: FreeBSD now uses "1.0" in the SOVERSION as other
  operating systems, instead of just "1".

* bpo-23501: Argument Clinic now generates code into separate files
  by default.


Tests
-----

* bpo-23799: Added test.support.start_threads() for running and
  cleaning up multiple threads.

* bpo-22390: test.regrtest now emits a warning if temporary files or
  directories are left after running a test.


Tools/Demos
-----------

* bpo-18128: pygettext now uses standard +NNNN format in the POT-
  Creation-Date header.

* bpo-23935: Argument Clinic's understanding of format units
  accepting bytes, bytearrays, and buffers is now consistent with both
  the documentation and the implementation.

* bpo-23944: Argument Clinic now wraps long impl prototypes at
  column 78.

* bpo-20586: Argument Clinic now ensures that functions without
  docstrings have signatures.

* bpo-23492: Argument Clinic now generates argument parsing code
  with PyArg_Parse instead of PyArg_ParseTuple if possible.

* bpo-23500: Argument Clinic is now smarter about generating the
  "#ifndef" (empty) definition of the methoddef macro: it's only
  generated once, even if Argument Clinic processes the same symbol
  multiple times, and it's emitted at the end of all processing rather
  than immediately after the first use.


C API
-----

* bpo-23998: PyImport_ReInitLock() now checks for lock allocation
  error


Python 3.5.0 alpha 3
====================

Release date: 2015-03-28


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-23573: Increased performance of string search operations
  (str.find, str.index, str.count, the in operator, str.split,
  str.partition) with arguments of different kinds (UCS1, UCS2, UCS4).

* bpo-23753: Python doesn't support anymore platforms without stat()
  or fstat(), these functions are always required.

* bpo-23681: The -b option now affects comparisons of bytes with
  int.

* bpo-23632: Memoryviews now allow tuple indexing (including for
  multi-dimensional memoryviews).

* bpo-23192: Fixed generator lambdas.  Patch by Bruno Cauet.

* bpo-23629: Fix the default __sizeof__ implementation for variable-
  sized objects.


Library
-------

* bpo-14260: The groupindex attribute of regular expression pattern
  object now is non-modifiable mapping.

* bpo-23792: Ignore KeyboardInterrupt when the pydoc pager is
  active. This mimics the behavior of the standard unix pagers, and
  prevents pipepager from shutting down while the pager itself is
  still running.

* bpo-23775: pprint() of OrderedDict now outputs the same
  representation as repr().

* bpo-23765: Removed IsBadStringPtr calls in ctypes

* bpo-22364: Improved some re error messages using regex for hints.

* bpo-23742: ntpath.expandvars() no longer loses unbalanced single
  quotes.

* bpo-21717: The zipfile.ZipFile.open function now supports 'x'
  (exclusive creation) mode.

* bpo-21802: The reader in BufferedRWPair now is closed even when
  closing writer failed in BufferedRWPair.close().

* bpo-23622: Unknown escapes in regular expressions that consist of
  "'\'" and ASCII letter now raise a deprecation warning and will be
  forbidden in Python 3.6.

* bpo-23671: string.Template now allows specifying the "self"
  parameter as a keyword argument.  string.Formatter now allows
  specifying the "self" and the "format_string" parameters as keyword
  arguments.

* bpo-23502: The pprint module now supports mapping proxies.

* bpo-17530: pprint now wraps long bytes objects and bytearrays.

* bpo-22687: Fixed some corner cases in breaking words in tetxtwrap.
  Got rid of quadratic complexity in breaking long words.

* bpo-4727: The copy module now uses pickle protocol 4 (PEP 3154)
  and supports copying of instances of classes whose __new__ method
  takes keyword-only arguments.

* bpo-23491: Added a zipapp module to support creating executable
  zip file archives of Python code. Registered ".pyz" and ".pyzw"
  extensions on Windows for these archives (PEP 441).

* bpo-23657: Avoid explicit checks for str in zipapp, adding support
  for pathlib.Path objects as arguments.

* bpo-23688: Added support of arbitrary bytes-like objects and
  avoided unnecessary copying of memoryview in gzip.GzipFile.write().
  Original patch by Wolfgang Maier.

* bpo-23252: Added support for writing ZIP files to unseekable
  streams.

* bpo-23647: Increase impalib's MAXLINE to accommodate modern
  mailbox sizes.

* bpo-23539: If body is None, http.client.HTTPConnection.request now
  sets Content-Length to 0 for PUT, POST, and PATCH headers to avoid
  411 errors from some web servers.

* bpo-22351: The nntplib.NNTP constructor no longer leaves the
  connection and socket open until the garbage collector cleans them
  up.  Patch by Martin Panter.

* bpo-23704: collections.deque() objects now support methods for
  index(), insert(), and copy().  This allows deques to be registered
  as a MutableSequence and it improves their substitutability for
  lists.

* bpo-23715: "signal.sigwaitinfo()" and "signal.sigtimedwait()" are
  now retried when interrupted by a signal not in the *sigset*
  parameter, if the signal handler does not raise an exception.
  signal.sigtimedwait() recomputes the timeout with a monotonic clock
  when it is retried.

* bpo-23001: Few functions in modules mmap, ossaudiodev, socket,
  ssl, and codecs, that accepted only read-only bytes-like object now
  accept writable bytes-like object too.

* bpo-23646: If time.sleep() is interrupted by a signal, the sleep
  is now retried with the recomputed delay, except if the signal
  handler raises an exception (PEP 475).

* bpo-23136: _strptime now uniformly handles all days in week 0,
  including Dec 30 of previous year.  Based on patch by Jim Carroll.

* bpo-23700: Iterator of NamedTemporaryFile now keeps a reference to
  NamedTemporaryFile instance.  Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.

* bpo-22903: The fake test case created by unittest.loader when it
  fails importing a test module is now picklable.

* bpo-22181: On Linux, os.urandom() now uses the new getrandom()
  syscall if available, syscall introduced in the Linux kernel 3.17.
  It is more reliable and more secure, because it avoids the need of a
  file descriptor and waits until the kernel has enough entropy.

* bpo-2211: Updated the implementation of the http.cookies.Morsel
  class. Setting attributes key, value and coded_value directly now is
  deprecated. update() and setdefault() now transform and check keys.
  Comparing for equality now takes into account attributes key, value
  and coded_value. copy() now returns a Morsel, not a dict.  repr()
  now contains all attributes. Optimized checking keys and quoting
  values.  Added new tests. Original patch by Demian Brecht.

* bpo-18983: Allow selection of output units in timeit. Patch by
  Julian Gindi.

* bpo-23631: Fix traceback.format_list when a traceback has been
  mutated.

* bpo-23568: Add rdivmod support to MagicMock() objects. Patch by
  Håkan Lövdahl.

* bpo-2052: Add charset parameter to HtmlDiff.make_file().

* bpo-23668: Support os.truncate and os.ftruncate on Windows.

* bpo-23138: Fixed parsing cookies with absent keys or values in
  cookiejar. Patch by Demian Brecht.

* bpo-23051: multiprocessing.Pool methods imap() and
  imap_unordered() now handle exceptions raised by an iterator.  Patch
  by Alon Diamant and Davin Potts.

* bpo-23581: Add matmul support to MagicMock. Patch by Håkan
  Lövdahl.

* bpo-23566: enable(), register(), dump_traceback() and
  dump_traceback_later() functions of faulthandler now accept file
  descriptors. Patch by Wei Wu.

* bpo-22928: Disabled HTTP header injections in http.client.
  Original patch by Demian Brecht.

* bpo-23615: Modules bz2, tarfile and tokenize now can be reloaded
  with imp.reload().  Patch by Thomas Kluyver.

* bpo-23605: os.walk() now calls os.scandir() instead of
  os.listdir(). The usage of os.scandir() reduces the number of calls
  to os.stat(). Initial patch written by Ben Hoyt.


Build
-----

* bpo-23585: make patchcheck will ensure the interpreter is built.


Tests
-----

* bpo-23583: Added tests for standard IO streams in IDLE.

* bpo-22289: Prevent test_urllib2net failures due to ftp connection
  timeout.


Tools/Demos
-----------

* bpo-22826: The result of open() in Tools/freeze/bkfile.py is now
  better compatible with regular files (in particular it now supports
  the context management protocol).


Python 3.5 alpha 2
==================

Release date: 2015-03-09


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-23571: PyObject_Call() and PyCFunction_Call() now raise a
  SystemError if a function returns a result and raises an exception.
  The SystemError is chained to the previous exception.


Library
-------

* bpo-22524: New os.scandir() function, part of the PEP 471:
  "os.scandir() function -- a better and faster directory iterator".
  Patch written by Ben Hoyt.

* bpo-23103: Reduced the memory consumption of IPv4Address and
  IPv6Address.

* bpo-21793: BaseHTTPRequestHandler again logs response code as
  numeric, not as stringified enum.  Patch by Demian Brecht.

* bpo-23476: In the ssl module, enable OpenSSL's
  X509_V_FLAG_TRUSTED_FIRST flag on certificate stores when it is
  available.

* bpo-23576: Avoid stalling in SSL reads when EOF has been reached
  in the SSL layer but the underlying connection hasn't been closed.

* bpo-23504: Added an __all__ to the types module.

* bpo-23563: Optimized utility functions in urllib.parse.

* bpo-7830: Flatten nested functools.partial.

* bpo-20204: Added the __module__ attribute to _tkinter classes.

* bpo-19980: Improved help() for non-recognized strings.  help('')
  now shows the help on str.  help('help') now shows the help on
  help(). Original patch by Mark Lawrence.

* bpo-23521: Corrected pure python implementation of timedelta
  division.

   * Eliminated OverflowError from timedelta * float for some
     floats;

   * Corrected rounding in timedlta true division.

* bpo-21619: Popen objects no longer leave a zombie after exit in
  the with statement if the pipe was broken.  Patch by Martin Panter.

* bpo-22936: Make it possible to show local variables in tracebacks
  for both the traceback module and unittest.

* bpo-15955: Add an option to limit the output size in
  bz2.decompress(). Patch by Nikolaus Rath.

* bpo-6639: Module-level turtle functions no longer raise TclError
  after closing the window.

* Issues #814253, #9179: Group references and conditional group
  references now work in lookbehind assertions in regular expressions.

* bpo-23215: Multibyte codecs with custom error handlers that
  ignores errors consumed too much memory and raised SystemError or
  MemoryError. Original patch by Aleksi Torhamo.

* bpo-5700: io.FileIO() called flush() after closing the file.
  flush() was not called in close() if closefd=False.

* bpo-23374: Fixed pydoc failure with non-ASCII files when stdout
  encoding differs from file system encoding (e.g. on Mac OS).

* bpo-23481: Remove RC4 from the SSL module's default cipher list.

* bpo-21548: Fix pydoc.synopsis() and pydoc.apropos() on modules
  with empty docstrings.

* bpo-22885: Fixed arbitrary code execution vulnerability in the
  dbm.dumb module.  Original patch by Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-23239: ssl.match_hostname() now supports matching of IP
  addresses.

* bpo-23146: Fix mishandling of absolute Windows paths with forward
  slashes in pathlib.

* bpo-23096: Pickle representation of floats with protocol 0 now is
  the same for both Python and C implementations.

* bpo-19105: pprint now more efficiently uses free space at the
  right.

* bpo-14910: Add allow_abbrev parameter to argparse.ArgumentParser.
  Patch by Jonathan Paugh, Steven Bethard, paul j3 and Daniel
  Eriksson.

* bpo-21717: tarfile.open() now supports 'x' (exclusive creation)
  mode.

* bpo-23344: marshal.dumps() is now 20-25% faster on average.

* bpo-20416: marshal.dumps() with protocols 3 and 4 is now 40-50%
  faster on average.

* bpo-23421: Fixed compression in tarfile CLI.  Patch by wdv4758h.

* bpo-23367: Fix possible overflows in the unicodedata module.

* bpo-23361: Fix possible overflow in Windows subprocess creation
  code.

* logging.handlers.QueueListener now takes a respect_handler_level
  keyword argument which, if set to True, will pass messages to
  handlers taking handler levels into account.

* bpo-19705: turtledemo now has a visual sorting algorithm demo.
  Original patch from Jason Yeo.

* bpo-23801: Fix issue where cgi.FieldStorage did not always ignore
  the entire preamble to a multipart body.


Build
-----

* bpo-23445: pydebug builds now use "gcc -Og" where possible, to
  make the resulting executable faster.

* bpo-23686: Update OS X 10.5 installer build to use OpenSSL 1.0.2a.


C API
-----

* bpo-20204: Deprecation warning is now raised for builtin types
  without the __module__ attribute.


Windows
-------

* bpo-23465: Implement PEP 486 - Make the Python Launcher aware of
  virtual environments. Patch by Paul Moore.

* bpo-23437: Make user scripts directory versioned on Windows. Patch
  by Paul Moore.


Python 3.5 alpha 1
==================

Release date: 2015-02-08


Core and Builtins
-----------------

* bpo-23285: PEP 475 - EINTR handling.

* bpo-22735: Fix many edge cases (including crashes) involving
  custom mro() implementations.

* bpo-22896: Avoid using PyObject_AsCharBuffer(),
  PyObject_AsReadBuffer() and PyObject_AsWriteBuffer().

* bpo-21295: Revert some changes (bpo-16795) to AST line numbers and
  column offsets that constituted a regression.

* bpo-22986: Allow changing an object's __class__ between a dynamic
  type and static type in some cases.

* bpo-15859: PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(), PyUnicode_EncodeMBCS() and
  PyUnicode_EncodeCodePage() now raise an exception if the object is
  not a Unicode object. For PyUnicode_EncodeFSDefault(), it was
  already the case on platforms other than Windows. Patch written by
  Campbell Barton.

* bpo-21408: The default __ne__() now returns NotImplemented if
  __eq__() returned NotImplemented.  Original patch by Martin Panter.

* bpo-23321: Fixed a crash in str.decode() when error handler
  returned replacment string longer than mailformed input data.

* bpo-22286: The "backslashreplace" error handlers now works with
  decoding and translating.

* bpo-23253: Delay-load ShellExecute[AW] in os.startfile for reduced
  startup overhead on Windows.

* bpo-22038: pyatomic.h now uses stdatomic.h or GCC built-in
  functions for atomic memory access if available. Patch written by
  Vitor de Lima and Gustavo Temple.

* bpo-20284: %-interpolation (aka printf) formatting added for bytes
  and bytearray.

* bpo-23048: Fix jumping out of an infinite while loop in the pdb.

* bpo-20335: bytes constructor now raises TypeError when encoding or
  errors is specified with non-string argument.  Based on patch by
  Renaud Blanch.

* bpo-22834: If the current working directory ends up being set to a
  non-existent directory then import will no longer raise
  FileNotFoundError.

* bpo-22869: Move the interpreter startup & shutdown code to a new
  dedicated pylifecycle.c module

* bpo-22847: Improve method cache efficiency.

* bpo-22335: Fix crash when trying to enlarge a bytearray to
  0x7fffffff bytes on a 32-bit platform.

* bpo-22653: Fix an assertion failure in debug mode when doing a
  reentrant dict insertion in debug mode.

* bpo-22643: Fix integer overflow in Unicode case operations (upper,
  lower, title, swapcase, casefold).

* bpo-17636: Circular imports involving relative imports are now
  supported.

* bpo-22604: Fix assertion error in debug mode when dividing a
  complex number by (nan+0j).

* bpo-21052: Do not raise ImportWarning when sys.path_hooks or
  sys.meta_path are set to None.

* bpo-16518: Use 'bytes-like object required' in error messages that
  previously used the far more cryptic "'x' does not support the
  buffer protocol.

* bpo-22470: Fixed integer overflow issues in "backslashreplace",
  "xmlcharrefreplace", and "surrogatepass" error handlers.

* bpo-22540: speed up "PyObject_IsInstance" and
  "PyObject_IsSubclass" in the common case that the second argument
  has metaclass "type".

* bpo-18711: Add a new "PyErr_FormatV" function, similar to
  "PyErr_Format" but accepting a "va_list" argument.

* bpo-22520: Fix overflow checking when generating the repr of a
  unicode object.

* bpo-22519: Fix overflow checking in PyBytes_Repr.

* bpo-22518: Fix integer overflow issues in latin-1 encoding.

* bpo-16324: _charset parameter of MIMEText now also accepts
  email.charset.Charset instances. Initial patch by Claude Paroz.

* bpo-1764286: Fix inspect.getsource() to support decorated
  functions. Patch by Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-18554: os.__all__ includes posix functions.

* bpo-21391: Use os.path.abspath in the shutil module.

* bpo-11471: avoid generating a JUMP_FORWARD instruction at the end
  of an if-block if there is no else-clause.  Original patch by Eugene
  Toder.

* bpo-22215: Now ValueError is raised instead of TypeError when str
  or bytes argument contains not permitted null character or byte.

* bpo-22258: Fix the internal function set_inheritable() on Illumos.
  This platform exposes the function "ioctl(FIOCLEX)", but calling it
  fails with errno is ENOTTY: "Inappropriate ioctl for device".
  set_inheritable() now falls back to the slower "fcntl()" ("F_GETFD"
  and then "F_SETFD").

* bpo-21389: Displaying the __qualname__ of the underlying function
  in the repr of a bound method.

* bpo-22206: Using pthread, PyThread_create_key() now sets errno to
  ENOMEM and returns -1 (error) on integer overflow.

* bpo-20184: Argument Clinic based signature introspection added for
  30 of the builtin functions.

* bpo-22116: C functions and methods (of the
  'builtin_function_or_method' type) can now be weakref'ed.  Patch by
  Wei Wu.

* bpo-22077: Improve index error messages for bytearrays, bytes,
  lists, and tuples by adding 'or slices'. Added ', not <typename>'
  for bytearrays. Original patch by Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-20179: Apply Argument Clinic to bytes and bytearray. Patch by
  Tal Einat.

* bpo-22082: Clear interned strings in slotdefs.

* Upgrade Unicode database to Unicode 7.0.0.

* bpo-21897: Fix a crash with the f_locals attribute with closure
  variables when frame.clear() has been called.

* bpo-21205: Add a new "__qualname__" attribute to generator, the
  qualified name, and use it in the representation of a generator
  ("repr(gen)"). The default name of the generator ("__name__"
  attribute) is now get from the function instead of the code. Use
  "gen.gi_code.co_name" to get the name of the code.

* bpo-21669: With the aid of heuristics in SyntaxError.__init__, the
  parser now attempts to generate more meaningful (or at least more
  search engine friendly) error messages when "exec" and "print" are
  used as statements.

* bpo-21642: In the conditional if-else expression, allow an integer
  written with no space between itself and the "else" keyword (e.g.
  "True if 42else False") to be valid syntax.

* bpo-21523: Fix over-pessimistic computation of the stack effect of
  some opcodes in the compiler.  This also fixes a quadratic
  compilation time issue noticeable when compiling code with a large
  number of "and" and "or" operators.

* bpo-21418: Fix a crash in the builtin function super() when called
  without argument and without current frame (ex: embedded Python).

* bpo-21425: Fix flushing of standard streams in the interactive
  interpreter.

* bpo-21435: In rare cases, when running finalizers on objects in
  cyclic trash a bad pointer dereference could occur due to a subtle
  flaw in internal iteration logic.

* bpo-21377: PyBytes_Concat() now tries to concatenate in-place when
  the first argument has a reference count of 1.  Patch by Nikolaus
  Rath.

* bpo-20355: -W command line options now have higher priority than
  the PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable.  Patch by Arfrever.

* bpo-21274: Define PATH_MAX for GNU/Hurd in Python/pythonrun.c.

* bpo-20904: Support setting FPU precision on m68k.

* bpo-21209: Fix sending tuples to custom generator objects with the
  yield from syntax.

* bpo-21193: pow(a, b, c) now raises ValueError rather than
  TypeError when b is negative.  Patch by Josh Rosenberg.

* PEP 465 and bpo-21176: Add the '@' operator for matrix
  multiplication.

* bpo-21134: Fix segfault when str is called on an uninitialized
  UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, or UnicodeTranslateError
  object.

* bpo-19537: Fix PyUnicode_DATA() alignment under m68k.  Patch by
  Andreas Schwab.

* bpo-20929: Add a type cast to avoid shifting a negative number.

* bpo-20731: Properly position in source code files even if they are
  opened in text mode. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

* bpo-20637: Key-sharing now also works for instance dictionaries of
  subclasses.  Patch by Peter Ingebretson.

* bpo-8297: Attributes missing from modules now include the module
  name in the error text.  Original patch by ysj.ray.

* bpo-19995: %c, %o, %x, and %X now raise TypeError on non-integer
  input.

* bpo-19655: The ASDL parser - used by the build process to generate
  code for managing the Python AST in C - was rewritten. The new
  parser is self contained and does not require to carry long the
  spark.py parser-generator library; spark.py was removed from the
  source base.

* bpo-12546: Allow "\x00" to be used as a fill character when using
  str, int, float, and complex __format__ methods.

* bpo-20480: Add ipaddress.reverse_pointer. Patch by Leon Weber.

* bpo-13598: Modify string.Formatter to support auto-numbering of
  replacement fields. It now matches the behavior of str.format() in
  this regard. Patches by Phil Elson and Ramchandra Apte.

* bpo-8931: Make alternate formatting ('#') for type 'c' raise an
  exception. In versions prior to 3.5, '#' with 'c' had no effect. Now
  specifying it is an error.  Patch by Torsten Landschoff.

* bpo-23165: Perform overflow checks before allocating memory in the
  _Py_char2wchar function.


Library
-------

* bpo-23399: pyvenv creates relative symlinks where possible.

* bpo-20289: cgi.FieldStorage() now supports the context management
  protocol.

* bpo-13128: Print response headers for CONNECT requests when
  debuglevel > 0. Patch by Demian Brecht.

* bpo-15381: Optimized io.BytesIO to make less allocations and
  copyings.

* bpo-22818: Splitting on a pattern that could match an empty string
  now raises a warning.  Patterns that can only match empty strings
  are now rejected.

* bpo-23099: Closing io.BytesIO with exported buffer is rejected now
  to prevent corrupting exported buffer.

* bpo-23326: Removed __ne__ implementations.  Since fixing default
  __ne__ implementation in bpo-21408 they are redundant.

* bpo-23363: Fix possible overflow in itertools.permutations.

* bpo-23364: Fix possible overflow in itertools.product.

* bpo-23366: Fixed possible integer overflow in
  itertools.combinations.

* bpo-23369: Fixed possible integer overflow in
  _json.encode_basestring_ascii.

* bpo-23353: Fix the exception handling of generators in
  PyEval_EvalFrameEx(). At entry, save or swap the exception state
  even if PyEval_EvalFrameEx() is called with throwflag=0. At exit,
  the exception state is now always restored or swapped, not only if
  why is WHY_YIELD or WHY_RETURN. Patch co-written with Antoine
  Pitrou.

* bpo-14099: Restored support of writing ZIP files to tellable but
  non-seekable streams.

* bpo-14099: Writing to ZipFile and reading multiple ZipExtFiles is
  threadsafe now.

* bpo-19361: JSON decoder now raises JSONDecodeError instead of
  ValueError.

* bpo-18518: timeit now rejects statements which can't be compiled
  outside a function or a loop (e.g. "return" or "break").

* bpo-23094: Fixed readline with frames in Python implementation of
  pickle.

* bpo-23268: Fixed bugs in the comparison of ipaddress classes.

* bpo-21408: Removed incorrect implementations of __ne__() which
  didn't returned NotImplemented if __eq__() returned NotImplemented.
  The default __ne__() now works correctly.

* bpo-19996: "email.feedparser.FeedParser" now handles (malformed)
  headers with no key rather than assuming the body has started.

* bpo-20188: Support Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN)
  in the ssl module.

* bpo-23133: Pickling of ipaddress objects now produces more compact
  and portable representation.

* bpo-23248: Update ssl error codes from latest OpenSSL git master.

* bpo-23266: Much faster implementation of
  ipaddress.collapse_addresses() when there are many non-consecutive
  addresses.

* bpo-23098: 64-bit dev_t is now supported in the os module.

* bpo-21817: When an exception is raised in a task submitted to a
  ProcessPoolExecutor, the remote traceback is now displayed in the
  parent process.  Patch by Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-15955: Add an option to limit output size when decompressing
  LZMA data.  Patch by Nikolaus Rath and Martin Panter.

* bpo-23250: In the http.cookies module, capitalize "HttpOnly" and
  "Secure" as they are written in the standard.

* bpo-23063: In the disutils' check command, fix parsing of reST
  with code or code-block directives.

* bpo-23209, #23225: selectors.BaseSelector.get_key() now raises a
  RuntimeError if the selector is closed. And
  selectors.BaseSelector.close() now clears its internal reference to
  the selector mapping to break a reference cycle. Initial patch
  written by Martin Richard.

* bpo-17911: Provide a way to seed the linecache for a PEP-302
  module without actually loading the code.

* bpo-17911: Provide a new object API for traceback, including the
  ability to not lookup lines at all until the traceback is actually
  rendered, without any trace of the original objects being kept
  alive.

* bpo-19777: Provide a home() classmethod on Path objects.
  Contributed by Victor Salgado and Mayank Tripathi.

* bpo-23206: Make "json.dumps(..., ensure_ascii=False)" as fast as
  the default case of "ensure_ascii=True".  Patch by Naoki Inada.

* bpo-23185: Add math.inf and math.nan constants.

* bpo-23186: Add ssl.SSLObject.shared_ciphers() and
  ssl.SSLSocket.shared_ciphers() to fetch the client's list ciphers
  sent at handshake.

* bpo-23143: Remove compatibility with OpenSSLs older than 0.9.8.

* bpo-23132: Improve performance and introspection support of
  comparison methods created by functool.total_ordering.

* bpo-19776: Add an expanduser() method on Path objects.

* bpo-23112: Fix SimpleHTTPServer to correctly carry the query
  string and fragment when it redirects to add a trailing slash.

* bpo-21793: Added http.HTTPStatus enums (i.e. HTTPStatus.OK,
  HTTPStatus.NOT_FOUND).  Patch by Demian Brecht.

* bpo-23093: In the io, module allow more operations to work on
  detached streams.

* bpo-23111: In the ftplib, make ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23 the default
  protocol version.

* bpo-22585: On OpenBSD 5.6 and newer, os.urandom() now calls
  getentropy(), instead of reading /dev/urandom, to get pseudo-random
  bytes.

* bpo-19104: pprint now produces evaluable output for wrapped
  strings.

* bpo-23071: Added missing names to codecs.__all__.  Patch by Martin
  Panter.

* bpo-22783: Pickling now uses the NEWOBJ opcode instead of the
  NEWOBJ_EX opcode if possible.

* bpo-15513: Added a __sizeof__ implementation for pickle classes.

* bpo-19858: pickletools.optimize() now aware of the MEMOIZE opcode,
  can produce more compact result and no longer produces invalid
  output if input data contains MEMOIZE opcodes together with PUT or
  BINPUT opcodes.

* bpo-22095: Fixed HTTPConnection.set_tunnel with default port.  The
  port value in the host header was set to "None".  Patch by Demian
  Brecht.

* bpo-23016: A warning no longer produces an AttributeError when the
  program is run with pythonw.exe.

* bpo-21775: shutil.copytree(): fix crash when copying to VFAT. An
  exception handler assumed that OSError objects always have a
  'winerror' attribute. That is not the case, so the exception handler
  itself raised AttributeError when run on Linux (and, presumably, any
  other non-Windows OS). Patch by Greg Ward.

* bpo-1218234: Fix inspect.getsource() to load updated source of
  reloaded module. Initial patch by Berker Peksag.

* bpo-21740: Support wrapped callables in doctest. Patch by Claudiu
  Popa.

* bpo-23009: Make sure selectors.EpollSelecrtor.select() works when
  no FD is registered.

* bpo-22959: In the constructor of http.client.HTTPSConnection,
  prefer the context's check_hostname attribute over the
  *check_hostname* parameter.

* bpo-22696: Add function "sys.is_finalizing()" to know about
  interpreter shutdown.

* bpo-16043: Add a default limit for the amount of data
  xmlrpclib.gzip_decode will return. This resolves CVE-2013-1753.

* bpo-14099: ZipFile.open() no longer reopen the underlying file.
  Objects returned by ZipFile.open() can now operate independently of
  the ZipFile even if the ZipFile was created by passing in a file-
  like object as the first argument to the constructor.

* bpo-22966: Fix __pycache__ pyc file name clobber when pyc_compile
  is asked to compile a source file containing multiple dots in the
  source file name.

* bpo-21971: Update turtledemo doc and add module to the index.

* bpo-21032: Fixed socket leak if HTTPConnection.getresponse()
  fails. Original patch by Martin Panter.

* bpo-22407: Deprecated the use of re.LOCALE flag with str patterns
  or re.ASCII. It was newer worked.

* bpo-22902: The "ip" command is now used on Linux to determine MAC
  address in uuid.getnode().  Pach by Bruno Cauet.

* bpo-22960: Add a context argument to xmlrpclib.ServerProxy
  constructor.

* bpo-22389: Add contextlib.redirect_stderr().

* bpo-21356: Make ssl.RAND_egd() optional to support LibreSSL. The
  availability of the function is checked during the compilation.
  Patch written by Bernard Spil.

* bpo-22915: SAX parser now supports files opened with file
  descriptor or bytes path.

* bpo-22609: Constructors and update methods of mapping classes in
  the collections module now accept the self keyword argument.

* bpo-22940: Add readline.append_history_file.

* bpo-19676: Added the "namereplace" error handler.

* bpo-22788: Add *context* parameter to
  logging.handlers.HTTPHandler.

* bpo-22921: Allow SSLContext to take the *hostname* parameter even
  if OpenSSL doesn't support SNI.

* bpo-22894: TestCase.subTest() would cause the test suite to be
  stopped when in failfast mode, even in the absence of failures.

* bpo-22796: HTTP cookie parsing is now stricter, in order to
  protect against potential injection attacks.

* bpo-22370: Windows detection in pathlib is now more robust.

* bpo-22841: Reject coroutines in asyncio add_signal_handler().
  Patch by Ludovic.Gasc.

* bpo-19494: Added urllib.request.HTTPBasicPriorAuthHandler. Patch
  by Matej Cepl.

* bpo-22578: Added attributes to the re.error class.

* bpo-22849: Fix possible double free in the io.TextIOWrapper
  constructor.

* bpo-12728: Different Unicode characters having the same uppercase
  but different lowercase are now matched in case-insensitive regular
  expressions.

* bpo-22821: Fixed fcntl() with integer argument on 64-bit big-
  endian platforms.

* bpo-21650: Add an "--sort-keys" option to json.tool CLI.

* bpo-22824: Updated reprlib output format for sets to use set
  literals. Patch contributed by Berker Peksag.

* bpo-22824: Updated reprlib output format for arrays to display
  empty arrays without an unnecessary empty list.  Suggested by Serhiy
  Storchaka.

* bpo-22406: Fixed the uu_codec codec incorrectly ported to 3.x.
  Based on patch by Martin Panter.

* bpo-17293: uuid.getnode() now determines MAC address on AIX using
  netstat. Based on patch by Aivars Kalvāns.

* bpo-22769: Fixed ttk.Treeview.tag_has() when called without
  arguments.

* bpo-22417: Verify certificates by default in httplib (PEP 476).

* bpo-22775: Fixed unpickling of http.cookies.SimpleCookie with
  protocol 2 and above.  Patch by Tim Graham.

* bpo-22776: Brought excluded code into the scope of a try block in
  SysLogHandler.emit().

* bpo-22665: Add missing get_terminal_size and SameFileError to
  shutil.__all__.

* bpo-6623: Remove deprecated Netrc class in the ftplib module.
  Patch by Matt Chaput.

* bpo-17381: Fixed handling of case-insensitive ranges in regular
  expressions.

* bpo-22410: Module level functions in the re module now cache
  compiled locale-dependent regular expressions taking into account
  the locale.

* bpo-22759: Query methods on pathlib.Path() (exists(), is_dir(),
  etc.) now return False when the underlying stat call raises
  NotADirectoryError.

* bpo-8876: distutils now falls back to copying files when hard
  linking doesn't work.  This allows use with special filesystems such
  as VirtualBox shared folders.

* bpo-22217: Implemented reprs of classes in the zipfile module.

* bpo-22457: Honour load_tests in the start_dir of discovery.

* bpo-18216: gettext now raises an error when a .mo file has an
  unsupported major version number.  Patch by Aaron Hill.

* bpo-13918: Provide a locale.delocalize() function which can remove
  locale-specific number formatting from a string representing a
  number, without then converting it to a specific type.  Patch by
  Cédric Krier.

* bpo-22676: Make the pickling of global objects which don't have a
  __module__ attribute less slow.

* bpo-18853: Fixed ResourceWarning in shlex.__nain__.

* bpo-9351: Defaults set with set_defaults on an argparse subparser
  are no longer ignored when also set on the parent parser.

* bpo-7559: unittest test loading ImportErrors are reported as
  import errors with their import exception rather than as attribute
  errors after the import has already failed.

* bpo-19746: Make it possible to examine the errors from unittest
  discovery without executing the test suite. The new "errors"
  attribute on TestLoader exposes these non-fatal errors encountered
  during discovery.

* bpo-21991: Make email.headerregistry's header 'params' attributes
  be read-only (MappingProxyType).  Previously the dictionary was
  modifiable but a new one was created on each access of the
  attribute.

* bpo-22638: SSLv3 is now disabled throughout the standard library.
  It can still be enabled by instantiating a SSLContext manually.

* bpo-22641: In asyncio, the default SSL context for client
  connections is now created using ssl.create_default_context(), for
  stronger security.

* bpo-17401: Include closefd in io.FileIO repr.

* bpo-21338: Add silent mode for compileall. quiet parameters of
  compile_{dir, file, path} functions now have a multilevel value.
  Also, -q option of the CLI now have a multilevel value. Patch by
  Thomas Kluyver.

* bpo-20152: Convert the array and cmath modules to Argument Clinic.

* bpo-18643: Add socket.socketpair() on Windows.

* bpo-22435: Fix a file descriptor leak when socketserver bind
  fails.

* bpo-13096: Fixed segfault in CTypes POINTER handling of large
  values.

* bpo-11694: Raise ConversionError in xdrlib as documented.  Patch
  by Filip Gruszczyński and Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-19380: Optimized parsing of regular expressions.

* bpo-1519638: Now unmatched groups are replaced with empty strings
  in re.sub() and re.subn().

* bpo-18615: sndhdr.what/whathdr now return a namedtuple.

* bpo-22462: Fix pyexpat's creation of a dummy frame to make it
  appear in exception tracebacks.

* bpo-21965: Add support for in-memory SSL to the ssl module.  Patch
  by Geert Jansen.

* bpo-21173: Fix len() on a WeakKeyDictionary when .clear() was
  called with an iterator alive.

* bpo-11866: Eliminated race condition in the computation of names
  for new threads.

* bpo-21905: Avoid RuntimeError in pickle.whichmodule() when
  sys.modules is mutated while iterating.  Patch by Olivier Grisel.

* bpo-11271: concurrent.futures.Executor.map() now takes a
  *chunksize* argument to allow batching of tasks in child processes
  and improve performance of ProcessPoolExecutor.  Patch by Dan
  O'Reilly.

* bpo-21883: os.path.join() and os.path.relpath() now raise a
  TypeError with more helpful error message for unsupported or
  mismatched types of arguments.

* bpo-22219: The zipfile module CLI now adds entries for directories
  (including empty directories) in ZIP file.

* bpo-22449: In the ssl.SSLContext.load_default_certs, consult the
  environmental variables SSL_CERT_DIR and SSL_CERT_FILE on Windows.

* bpo-22508: The email.__version__ variable has been removed; the
  email code is no longer shipped separately from the stdlib, and
  __version__ hasn't been updated in several releases.

* bpo-20076: Added non derived UTF-8 aliases to locale aliases
  table.

* bpo-20079: Added locales supported in glibc 2.18 to locale alias
  table.

* bpo-20218: Added convenience methods read_text/write_text and
  read_bytes/ write_bytes to pathlib.Path objects.

* bpo-22396: On 32-bit AIX platform, don't expose os.posix_fadvise()
  nor os.posix_fallocate() because their prototypes in system headers
  are wrong.

* bpo-22517: When an io.BufferedRWPair object is deallocated, clear
  its weakrefs.

* bpo-22437: Number of capturing groups in regular expression is no
  longer limited by 100.

* bpo-17442: InteractiveInterpreter now displays the full chained
  traceback in its showtraceback method, to match the built in
  interactive interpreter.

* bpo-23392: Added tests for marshal C API that works with FILE*.

* bpo-10510: distutils register and upload methods now use HTML
  standards compliant CRLF line endings.

* bpo-9850: Fixed macpath.join() for empty first component.  Patch
  by Oleg Oshmyan.

* bpo-5309: distutils' build and build_ext commands now accept a
  "-j" option to enable parallel building of extension modules.

* bpo-22448: Improve canceled timer handles cleanup to prevent
  unbound memory usage. Patch by Joshua Moore-Oliva.

* bpo-22427: TemporaryDirectory no longer attempts to clean up twice
  when used in the with statement in generator.

* bpo-22362: Forbidden ambiguous octal escapes out of range 0-0o377
  in regular expressions.

* bpo-20912: Now directories added to ZIP file have correct Unix and
  MS-DOS directory attributes.

* bpo-21866: ZipFile.close() no longer writes ZIP64 central
  directory records if allowZip64 is false.

* bpo-22278: Fix urljoin problem with relative urls, a regression
  observed after changes to issue22118 were submitted.

* bpo-22415: Fixed debugging output of the GROUPREF_EXISTS opcode in
  the re module.  Removed trailing spaces in debugging output.

* bpo-22423: Unhandled exception in thread no longer causes
  unhandled AttributeError when sys.stderr is None.

* bpo-21332: Ensure that "bufsize=1" in subprocess.Popen() selects
  line buffering, rather than block buffering.  Patch by Akira Li.

* bpo-21091: Fix API bug: email.message.EmailMessage.is_attachment
  is now a method.

* bpo-21079: Fix email.message.EmailMessage.is_attachment to return
  the correct result when the header has parameters as well as a
  value.

* bpo-22247: Add NNTPError to nntplib.__all__.

* bpo-22366: urllib.request.urlopen will accept a context object
  (SSLContext) as an argument which will then be used for HTTPS
  connection. Patch by Alex Gaynor.

* bpo-4180: The warnings registries are now reset when the filters
  are modified.

* bpo-22419: Limit the length of incoming HTTP request in wsgiref
  server to 65536 bytes and send a 414 error code for higher lengths.
  Patch contributed by Devin Cook.

* Lax cookie parsing in http.cookies could be a security issue when
  combined with non-standard cookie handling in some Web browsers.
  Reported by Sergey Bobrov.

* bpo-20537: logging methods now accept an exception instance as
  well as a Boolean value or exception tuple. Thanks to Yury Selivanov
  for the patch.

* bpo-22384: An exception in Tkinter callback no longer crashes the
  program when it is run with pythonw.exe.

* bpo-22168: Prevent turtle AttributeError with non-default Canvas
  on OS X.

* bpo-21147: sqlite3 now raises an exception if the request contains
  a null character instead of truncating it.  Based on patch by Victor
  Stinner.

* bpo-13968: The glob module now supports recursive search in
  subdirectories using the "**" pattern.

* bpo-21951: Fixed a crash in Tkinter on AIX when called Tcl command
  with empty string or tuple argument.

* bpo-21951: Tkinter now most likely raises MemoryError instead of
  crash if the memory allocation fails.

* bpo-22338: Fix a crash in the json module on memory allocation
  failure.

* bpo-12410: imaplib.IMAP4 now supports the context management
  protocol. Original patch by Tarek Ziadé.

* bpo-21270: We now override tuple methods in mock.call objects so
  that they can be used as normal call attributes.

* bpo-16662: load_tests() is now unconditionally run when it is
  present in a package's __init__.py. TestLoader.loadTestsFromModule()
  still accepts use_load_tests, but it is deprecated and ignored.  A
  new keyword-only attribute "pattern" is added and documented.  Patch
  given by Robert Collins, tweaked by Barry Warsaw.

* bpo-22226: First letter no longer is stripped from the "status"
  key in the result of Treeview.heading().

* bpo-19524: Fixed resource leak in the HTTP connection when an
  invalid response is received.  Patch by Martin Panter.

* bpo-20421: Add a .version() method to SSL sockets exposing the
  actual protocol version in use.

* bpo-19546: configparser exceptions no longer expose implementation
  details. Chained KeyErrors are removed, which leads to cleaner
  tracebacks.  Patch by Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-22051: turtledemo no longer reloads examples to re-run them.
  Initialization of variables and gui setup should be done in main(),
  which is called each time a demo is run, but not on import.

* bpo-21933: Turtledemo users can change the code font size with a
  menu selection or control(command) '-' or '+' or control-mousewheel.
  Original patch by Lita Cho.

* bpo-21597: The separator between the turtledemo text pane and the
  drawing canvas can now be grabbed and dragged with a mouse.  The
  code text pane can be widened to easily view or copy the full width
  of the text.  The canvas can be widened on small screens.  Original
  patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho.

* bpo-18132: Turtledemo buttons no longer disappear when the window
  is shrunk.  Original patches by Jan Kanis and Lita Cho.

* bpo-22043: time.monotonic() is now always available.
  "threading.Lock.acquire()", "threading.RLock.acquire()" and socket
  operations now use a monotonic clock, instead of the system clock,
  when a timeout is used.

* bpo-21527: Add a default number of workers to ThreadPoolExecutor
  equal to 5 times the number of CPUs.  Patch by Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-22216: smtplib now resets its state more completely after a
  quit.  The most obvious consequence of the previous behavior was a
  STARTTLS failure during a connect/starttls/quit/connect/starttls
  sequence.

* bpo-22098: ctypes' BigEndianStructure and LittleEndianStructure
  now define an empty __slots__ so that subclasses don't always get an
  instance dict.  Patch by Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-22185: Fix an occasional RuntimeError in
  threading.Condition.wait() caused by mutation of the waiters queue
  without holding the lock.  Patch by Doug Zongker.

* bpo-22287: On UNIX, _PyTime_gettimeofday() now uses
  clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME) if available. As a side effect, Python
  now depends on the librt library on Solaris and on Linux (only with
  glibc older than 2.17).

* bpo-22182: Use e.args to unpack exceptions correctly in
  distutils.file_util.move_file. Patch by Claudiu Popa.

* The webbrowser module now uses subprocess's start_new_session=True
  rather than a potentially risky preexec_fn=os.setsid call.

* bpo-22042: signal.set_wakeup_fd(fd) now raises an exception if the
  file descriptor is in blocking mode.

* bpo-16808: inspect.stack() now returns a named tuple instead of a
  tuple. Patch by Daniel Shahaf.

* bpo-22236: Fixed Tkinter images copying operations in
  NoDefaultRoot mode.

* bpo-2527: Add a *globals* argument to timeit functions, in order
  to override the globals namespace in which the timed code is
  executed. Patch by Ben Roberts.

* bpo-22118: Switch urllib.parse to use RFC 3986 semantics for the
  resolution of relative URLs, rather than RFCs 1808 and 2396. Patch
  by Demian Brecht.

* bpo-21549: Added the "members" parameter to TarFile.list().

* bpo-19628: Allow compileall recursion depth to be specified with a
  -r option.

* bpo-15696: Add a __sizeof__ implementation for mmap objects on
  Windows.

* bpo-22068: Avoided reference loops with Variables and Fonts in
  Tkinter.

* bpo-22165: SimpleHTTPRequestHandler now supports undecodable file
  names.

* bpo-15381: Optimized line reading in io.BytesIO.

* bpo-8797: Raise HTTPError on failed Basic Authentication
  immediately. Initial patch by Sam Bull.

* bpo-20729: Restored the use of lazy
  iterkeys()/itervalues()/iteritems() in the mailbox module.

* bpo-21448: Changed FeedParser feed() to avoid O(N**2) behavior
  when parsing long line.  Original patch by Raymond Hettinger.

* bpo-22184: The functools LRU Cache decorator factory now gives an
  earlier and clearer error message when the user forgets the required
  parameters.

* bpo-17923: glob() patterns ending with a slash no longer match
  non- dirs on AIX.  Based on patch by Delhallt.

* bpo-21725: Added support for RFC 6531 (SMTPUTF8) in smtpd.

* bpo-22176: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.1.  This
  release adds support for the Linux AArch64 and POWERPC ELF ABIv2
  little endian architectures.

* bpo-5411: Added support for the "xztar" format in the shutil
  module.

* bpo-21121: Don't force 3rd party C extensions to be built with
  -Werror=declaration-after-statement.

* bpo-21975: Fixed crash when using uninitialized sqlite3.Row (in
  particular when unpickling pickled sqlite3.Row).  sqlite3.Row is now
  initialized in the __new__() method.

* bpo-20170: Convert posixmodule to use Argument Clinic.

* bpo-21539: Add an *exists_ok* argument to "Pathlib.mkdir()" to
  mimic "mkdir -p" and "os.makedirs()" functionality.  When true,
  ignore FileExistsErrors.  Patch by Berker Peksag.

* bpo-22127: Bypass IDNA for pure-ASCII host names in the socket
  module (in particular for numeric IPs).

* bpo-21047: set the default value for the *convert_charrefs*
  argument of HTMLParser to True.  Patch by Berker Peksag.

* Add an __all__ to html.entities.

* bpo-15114: the strict mode and argument of HTMLParser,
  HTMLParser.error, and the HTMLParserError exception have been
  removed.

* bpo-22085: Dropped support of Tk 8.3 in Tkinter.

* bpo-21580: Now Tkinter correctly handles bytes arguments passed to
  Tk. In particular this allows initializing images from binary data.

* bpo-22003: When initialized from a bytes object, io.BytesIO() now
  defers making a copy until it is mutated, improving performance and
  memory use on some use cases.  Patch by David Wilson.

* bpo-22018: On Windows, signal.set_wakeup_fd() now also supports
  sockets. A side effect is that Python depends to the WinSock
  library.

* bpo-22054: Add os.get_blocking() and os.set_blocking() functions
  to get and set the blocking mode of a file descriptor (False if the
  O_NONBLOCK flag is set, True otherwise). These functions are not
  available on Windows.

* bpo-17172: Make turtledemo start as active on OS X even when run
  with subprocess.  Patch by Lita Cho.

* bpo-21704: Fix build error for _multiprocessing when semaphores
  are not available.  Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.

* bpo-20173: Convert sha1, sha256, sha512 and md5 to ArgumentClinic.
  Patch by Vajrasky Kok.

* Fix repr(_socket.socket) on Windows 64-bit: don't fail with
  OverflowError on closed socket. repr(socket.socket) already works
  fine.

* bpo-22033: Reprs of most Python implemened classes now contain
  actual class name instead of hardcoded one.

* bpo-21947: The dis module can now disassemble generator-iterator
  objects based on their gi_code attribute. Patch by Clement Rouault.

* bpo-16133: The asynchat.async_chat.handle_read() method now
  ignores BlockingIOError exceptions.

* bpo-22044: Fixed premature DECREF in call_tzinfo_method. Patch by
  Tom Flanagan.

* bpo-19884: readline: Disable the meta modifier key if stdout is
  not a terminal to not write the ANSI sequence ""\033[1034h"" into
  stdout. This sequence is used on some terminal (ex: TERM=xterm-
  256color") to enable support of 8 bit characters.

* bpo-4350: Removed a number of out-of-dated and non-working for a
  long time Tkinter methods.

* bpo-6167: Scrollbar.activate() now returns the name of active
  element if the argument is not specified.  Scrollbar.set() now
  always accepts only 2 arguments.

* bpo-15275: Clean up and speed up the ntpath module.

* bpo-21888: plistlib's load() and loads() now work if the fmt
  parameter is specified.

* bpo-22032: __qualname__ instead of __name__ is now always used to
  format fully qualified class names of Python implemented classes.

* bpo-22031: Reprs now always use hexadecimal format with the "0x"
  prefix when contain an id in form " at 0x...".

* bpo-22018: signal.set_wakeup_fd() now raises an OSError instead of
  a ValueError on "fstat()" failure.

* bpo-21044: tarfile.open() now handles fileobj with an integer
  'name' attribute.  Based on patch by Antoine Pietri.

* bpo-21966: Respect -q command-line option when code module is ran.

* bpo-19076: Don't pass the redundant 'file' argument to
  self.error().

* bpo-16382: Improve exception message of warnings.warn() for bad
  category. Initial patch by Phil Elson.

* bpo-21932: os.read() now uses a "Py_ssize_t()" type instead of
  "int" for the size to support reading more than 2 GB at once. On
  Windows, the size is truncted to INT_MAX. As any call to os.read(),
  the OS may read less bytes than the number of requested bytes.

* bpo-21942: Fixed source file viewing in pydoc's server mode on
  Windows.

* bpo-11259: asynchat.async_chat().set_terminator() now raises a
  ValueError if the number of received bytes is negative.

* bpo-12523: asynchat.async_chat.push() now raises a TypeError if it
  doesn't get a bytes string

* bpo-21707: Add missing kwonlyargcount argument to
  ModuleFinder.replace_paths_in_code().

* bpo-20639: calling Path.with_suffix('') allows removing the suffix
  again.  Patch by July Tikhonov.

* bpo-21714: Disallow the construction of invalid paths using
  Path.with_name().  Original patch by Antony Lee.

* bpo-15014: Added 'auth' method to smtplib to make implementing
  auth mechanisms simpler, and used it internally in the login method.

* bpo-21151: Fixed a segfault in the winreg module when "None" is
  passed as a "REG_BINARY" value to SetValueEx.  Patch by John
  Ehresman.

* bpo-21090: io.FileIO.readall() does not ignore I/O errors anymore.
  Before, it ignored I/O errors if at least the first C call read()
  succeed.

* bpo-5800: headers parameter of wsgiref.headers.Headers is now
  optional. Initial patch by Pablo Torres Navarrete and SilentGhost.

* bpo-21781: ssl.RAND_add() now supports strings longer than 2 GB.

* bpo-21679: Prevent extraneous fstat() calls during open().  Patch
  by Bohuslav Kabrda.

* bpo-21863: cProfile now displays the module name of C extension
  functions, in addition to their own name.

* bpo-11453: asyncore: emit a ResourceWarning when an unclosed
  file_wrapper object is destroyed. The destructor now closes the file
  if needed. The close() method can now be called twice: the second
  call does nothing.

* bpo-21858: Better handling of Python exceptions in the sqlite3
  module.

* bpo-21476: Make sure the email.parser.BytesParser TextIOWrapper is
  discarded after parsing, so the input file isn't unexpectedly
  closed.

* bpo-20295: imghdr now recognizes OpenEXR format images.

* bpo-21729: Used the "with" statement in the dbm.dumb module to
  ensure files closing.  Patch by Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-21491: socketserver: Fix a race condition in child processes
  reaping.

* bpo-21719: Added the "st_file_attributes" field to os.stat_result
  on Windows.

* bpo-21832: Require named tuple inputs to be exact strings.

* bpo-21722: The distutils "upload" command now exits with a non-
  zero return code when uploading fails.  Patch by Martin Dengler.

* bpo-21723: asyncio.Queue: support any type of number (ex: float)
  for the maximum size. Patch written by Vajrasky Kok.

* bpo-21711: support for "site-python" directories has now been
  removed from the site module (it was deprecated in 3.4).

* bpo-17552: new socket.sendfile() method allowing a file to be sent
  over a socket by using high-performance os.sendfile() on UNIX. Patch
  by Giampaolo Rodola'.

* bpo-18039: dbm.dump.open() now always creates a new database when
  the flag has the value 'n'.  Patch by Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-21326: Add a new is_closed() method to asyncio.BaseEventLoop.
  run_forever() and run_until_complete() methods of
  asyncio.BaseEventLoop now raise an exception if the event loop was
  closed.

* bpo-21766: Prevent a security hole in CGIHTTPServer by URL
  unquoting paths before checking for a CGI script at that path.

* bpo-21310: Fixed possible resource leak in failed open().

* bpo-21256: Printout of keyword args should be in deterministic
  order in a mock function call. This will help to write better
  doctests.

* bpo-21677: Fixed chaining nonnormalized exceptions in io close()
  methods.

* bpo-11709: Fix the pydoc.help function to not fail when sys.stdin
  is not a valid file.

* bpo-21515: tempfile.TemporaryFile now uses os.O_TMPFILE flag is
  available.

* bpo-13223: Fix pydoc.writedoc so that the HTML documentation for
  methods that use 'self' in the example code is generated correctly.

* bpo-21463: In urllib.request, fix pruning of the FTP cache.

* bpo-21618: The subprocess module could fail to close open fds that
  were inherited by the calling process and already higher than POSIX
  resource limits would otherwise allow.  On systems with a
  functioning /proc/self/fd or /dev/fd interface the max is now
  ignored and all fds are closed.

* bpo-20383: Introduce importlib.util.module_from_spec() as the
  preferred way to create a new module.

* bpo-21552: Fixed possible integer overflow of too long string
  lengths in the tkinter module on 64-bit platforms.

* bpo-14315: The zipfile module now ignores extra fields in the
  central directory that are too short to be parsed instead of letting
  a struct.unpack error bubble up as this "bad data" appears in many
  real world zip files in the wild and is ignored by other zip tools.

* bpo-13742: Added "key" and "reverse" parameters to heapq.merge().
  (First draft of patch contributed by Simon Sapin.)

* bpo-21402: tkinter.ttk now works when default root window is not
  set.

* bpo-3015: _tkinter.create() now creates tkapp object with
  wantobject=1 by default.

* bpo-10203: sqlite3.Row now truly supports sequence protocol.  In
  particular it supports reverse() and negative indices.  Original
  patch by Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-18807: If copying (no symlinks) specified for a venv, then the
  python interpreter aliases (python, python3) are now created by
  copying rather than symlinking.

* bpo-20197: Added support for the WebP image type in the imghdr
  module. Patch by Fabrice Aneche and Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-21513: Speedup some properties of IP addresses (IPv4Address,
  IPv6Address) such as .is_private or .is_multicast.

* bpo-21137: Improve the repr for threading.Lock() and its variants
  by showing the "locked" or "unlocked" status.  Patch by Berker
  Peksag.

* bpo-21538: The plistlib module now supports loading of binary
  plist files when reference or offset size is not a power of two.

* bpo-21455: Add a default backlog to socket.listen().

* bpo-21525: Most Tkinter methods which accepted tuples now accept
  lists too.

* bpo-22166: With the assistance of a new internal
  _codecs._forget_codec helping function, test_codecs now clears the
  encoding caches to avoid the appearance of a reference leak

* bpo-22236: Tkinter tests now don't reuse default root window.  New
  root window is created for every test class.

* bpo-10744: Fix PEP 3118 format strings on ctypes objects with a
  nontrivial shape.

* bpo-20826: Optimize ipaddress.collapse_addresses().

* bpo-21487: Optimize ipaddress.summarize_address_range() and
  ipaddress.{IPv4Network,IPv6Network}.subnets().

* bpo-21486: Optimize parsing of netmasks in ipaddress.IPv4Network
  and ipaddress.IPv6Network.

* bpo-13916: Disallowed the surrogatepass error handler for non
  UTF-* encodings.

* bpo-20998: Fixed re.fullmatch() of repeated single character
  pattern with ignore case.  Original patch by Matthew Barnett.

* bpo-21075: fileinput.FileInput now reads bytes from standard
  stream if binary mode is specified.  Patch by Sam Kimbrel.

* bpo-19775: Add a samefile() method to pathlib Path objects.
  Initial patch by Vajrasky Kok.

* bpo-21226: Set up modules properly in
  PyImport_ExecCodeModuleObject (and friends).

* bpo-21398: Fix a unicode error in the pydoc pager when the
  documentation contains characters not encodable to the stdout
  encoding.

* bpo-16531: ipaddress.IPv4Network and ipaddress.IPv6Network now
  accept an (address, netmask) tuple argument, so as to easily
  construct network objects from existing addresses.

* bpo-21156: importlib.abc.InspectLoader.source_to_code() is now a
  staticmethod.

* bpo-21424: Simplified and optimized heaqp.nlargest() and
  nmsmallest() to make fewer tuple comparisons.

* bpo-21396: Fix TextIOWrapper(..., write_through=True) to not force
  a flush() on the underlying binary stream.  Patch by akira.

* bpo-18314: Unlink now removes junctions on Windows. Patch by Kim
  Gräsman

* bpo-21088: Bugfix for curses.window.addch() regression in 3.4.0.
  In porting to Argument Clinic, the first two arguments were
  reversed.

* bpo-21407: _decimal: The module now supports function signatures.

* bpo-10650: Remove the non-standard 'watchexp' parameter from the
  Decimal.quantize() method in the Python version.  It had never been
  present in the C version.

* bpo-21469: Reduced the risk of false positives in robotparser by
  checking to make sure that robots.txt has been read or does not
  exist prior to returning True in can_fetch().

* bpo-19414: Have the OrderedDict mark deleted links as unusable.
  This gives an early failure if the link is deleted during iteration.

* bpo-21421: Add __slots__ to the MappingViews ABC. Patch by Josh
  Rosenberg.

* bpo-21101: Eliminate double hashing in the C speed-up code for
  collections.Counter().

* bpo-21321: itertools.islice() now releases the reference to the
  source iterator when the slice is exhausted.  Patch by Anton
  Afanasyev.

* bpo-21057: TextIOWrapper now allows the underlying binary stream's
  read() or read1() method to return an arbitrary bytes-like object
  (such as a memoryview).  Patch by Nikolaus Rath.

* bpo-20951: SSLSocket.send() now raises either SSLWantReadError or
  SSLWantWriteError on a non-blocking socket if the operation would
  block. Previously, it would return 0.  Patch by Nikolaus Rath.

* bpo-13248: removed previously deprecated asyncore.dispatcher
  __getattr__ cheap inheritance hack.

* bpo-9815: assertRaises now tries to clear references to local
  variables in the exception's traceback.

* bpo-19940: ssl.cert_time_to_seconds() now interprets the given
  time string in the UTC timezone (as specified in RFC 5280), not the
  local timezone.

* bpo-13204: Calling sys.flags.__new__ would crash the interpreter,
  now it raises a TypeError.

* bpo-19385: Make operations on a closed dbm.dumb database always
  raise the same exception.

* bpo-21207: Detect when the os.urandom cached fd has been closed or
  replaced, and open it anew.

* bpo-21291: subprocess's Popen.wait() is now thread safe so that
  multiple threads may be calling wait() or poll() on a Popen instance
  at the same time without losing the Popen.returncode value.

* bpo-21127: Path objects can now be instantiated from str subclass
  instances (such as "numpy.str_").

* bpo-15002: urllib.response object to use _TemporaryFileWrapper
  (and _TemporaryFileCloser) facility. Provides a better way to handle
  file descriptor close. Patch contributed by Christian Theune.

* bpo-12220: mindom now raises a custom ValueError indicating it
  doesn't support spaces in URIs instead of letting a 'split'
  ValueError bubble up.

* bpo-21068: The ssl.PROTOCOL* constants are now enum members.

* bpo-21276: posixmodule: Don't define USE_XATTRS on KFreeBSD and
  the Hurd.

* bpo-21262: New method assert_not_called for Mock. It raises
  AssertionError if the mock has been called.

* bpo-21238: New keyword argument "unsafe" to Mock. It raises
  "AttributeError" incase of an attribute startswith assert or assret.

* bpo-20896: ssl.get_server_certificate() now uses PROTOCOL_SSLv23,
  not PROTOCOL_SSLv3, for maximum compatibility.

* bpo-21239: patch.stopall() didn't work deterministically when the
  same name was patched more than once.

* bpo-21203: Updated fileConfig and dictConfig to remove
  inconsistencies. Thanks to Jure Koren for the patch.

* bpo-21222: Passing name keyword argument to mock.create_autospec
  now works.

* bpo-21197: Add lib64 -> lib symlink in venvs on 64-bit non-OS X
  POSIX.

* bpo-17498: Some SMTP servers disconnect after certain errors,
  violating strict RFC conformance.  Instead of losing the error code
  when we issue the subsequent RSET, smtplib now returns the error
  code and defers raising the SMTPServerDisconnected error until the
  next command is issued.

* bpo-17826: setting an iterable side_effect on a mock function
  created by create_autospec now works. Patch by Kushal Das.

* bpo-7776: Fix "Host:" header and reconnection when using
  http.client.HTTPConnection.set_tunnel(). Patch by Nikolaus Rath.

* bpo-20968: unittest.mock.MagicMock now supports division. Patch by
  Johannes Baiter.

* bpo-21529 (CVE-2014-4616): Fix arbitrary memory access in
  JSONDecoder.raw_decode with a negative second parameter. Bug
  reported by Guido Vranken.

* bpo-21169: getpass now handles non-ascii characters that the input
  stream encoding cannot encode by re-encoding using the replace error
  handler.

* bpo-21171: Fixed undocumented filter API of the rot13 codec. Patch
  by Berker Peksag.

* bpo-20539: Improved math.factorial error message for large
  positive inputs and changed exception type (OverflowError ->
  ValueError) for large negative inputs.

* bpo-21172: isinstance check relaxed from dict to
  collections.Mapping.

* bpo-21155: asyncio.EventLoop.create_unix_server() now raises a
  ValueError if path and sock are specified at the same time.

* bpo-21136: Avoid unnecessary normalization of Fractions resulting
  from power and other operations.  Patch by Raymond Hettinger.

* bpo-17621: Introduce importlib.util.LazyLoader.

* bpo-21076: signal module constants were turned into enums. Patch
  by Giampaolo Rodola'.

* bpo-20636: Improved the repr of Tkinter widgets.

* bpo-19505: The items, keys, and values views of OrderedDict now
  support reverse iteration using reversed().

* bpo-21149: Improved thread-safety in logging cleanup during
  interpreter shutdown. Thanks to Devin Jeanpierre for the patch.

* bpo-21058: Fix a leak of file descriptor in
  "tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()", close the file descriptor if
  "io.open()" fails

* bpo-21200: Return None from pkgutil.get_loader() when __spec__ is
  missing.

* bpo-21013: Enhance ssl.create_default_context() when used for
  server side sockets to provide better security by default.

* bpo-20145: "assertRaisesRegex" and "assertWarnsRegex" now raise a
  TypeError if the second argument is not a string or compiled regex.

* bpo-20633: Replace relative import by absolute import.

* bpo-20980: Stop wrapping exception when using ThreadPool.

* bpo-21082: In os.makedirs, do not set the process-wide umask. Note
  this changes behavior of makedirs when exist_ok=True.

* bpo-20990: Fix issues found by pyflakes for multiprocessing.

* bpo-21015: SSL contexts will now automatically select an elliptic
  curve for ECDH key exchange on OpenSSL 1.0.2 and later, and
  otherwise default to "prime256v1".

* bpo-21000: Improve the command-line interface of json.tool.

* bpo-20995: Enhance default ciphers used by the ssl module to
  enable better security and prioritize perfect forward secrecy.

* bpo-20884: Don't assume that __file__ is defined on
  importlib.__init__.

* bpo-21499: Ignore __builtins__ in several test_importlib.test_api
  tests.

* bpo-20627: xmlrpc.client.ServerProxy is now a context manager.

* bpo-19165: The formatter module now raises DeprecationWarning
  instead of PendingDeprecationWarning.

* bpo-13936: Remove the ability of datetime.time instances to be
  considered false in boolean contexts.

* bpo-18931: selectors module now supports /dev/poll on Solaris.
  Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.

* bpo-19977: When the "LC_TYPE" locale is the POSIX locale ("C"
  locale), "sys.stdin" and "sys.stdout" are now using the
  "surrogateescape" error handler, instead of the "strict" error
  handler.

* bpo-20574: Implement incremental decoder for cp65001 code (Windows
  code page 65001, Microsoft UTF-8).

* bpo-20879: Delay the initialization of encoding and decoding
  tables for base32, ascii85 and base85 codecs in the base64 module,
  and delay the initialization of the unquote_to_bytes() table of the
  urllib.parse module, to not waste memory if these modules are not
  used.

* bpo-19157: Include the broadcast address in the usuable hosts for
  IPv6 in ipaddress.

* bpo-11599: When an external command (e.g. compiler) fails,
  distutils now prints out the whole command line (instead of just the
  command name) if the environment variable DISTUTILS_DEBUG is set.

* bpo-4931: distutils should not produce unhelpful "error: None"
  messages anymore.  distutils.util.grok_environment_error is kept but
  doc-deprecated.

* bpo-20875: Prevent possible gzip "'read' is not defined"
  NameError. Patch by Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-11558: "email.message.Message.attach" now returns a more
  useful error message if "attach" is called on a message for which
  "is_multipart" is False.

* bpo-20283: RE pattern methods now accept the string keyword
  parameters as documented.  The pattern and source keyword parameters
  are left as deprecated aliases.

* bpo-20778: Fix modulefinder to work with bytecode-only modules.

* bpo-20791: copy.copy() now doesn't make a copy when the input is a
  bytes object.  Initial patch by Peter Otten.

* bpo-19748: On AIX, time.mktime() now raises an OverflowError for
  year outsize range [1902; 2037].

* bpo-19573: inspect.signature: Use enum for parameter kind
  constants.

* bpo-20726: inspect.signature: Make Signature and Parameter
  picklable.

* bpo-17373: Add inspect.Signature.from_callable method.

* bpo-20378: Improve repr of inspect.Signature and
  inspect.Parameter.

* bpo-20816: Fix inspect.getcallargs() to raise correct TypeError
  for missing keyword-only arguments. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.

* bpo-20817: Fix inspect.getcallargs() to fail correctly if more
  than 3 arguments are missing. Patch by Jeremiah Lowin.

* bpo-6676: Ensure a meaningful exception is raised when attempting
  to parse more than one XML document per pyexpat xmlparser instance.
  (Original patches by Hirokazu Yamamoto and Amaury Forgeot d'Arc,
  with suggested wording by David Gutteridge)

* bpo-21117: Fix inspect.signature to better support
  functools.partial. Due to the specifics of functools.partial
  implementation, positional-or-keyword arguments passed as keyword
  arguments become keyword-only.

* bpo-20334: inspect.Signature and inspect.Parameter are now
  hashable. Thanks to Antony Lee for bug reports and suggestions.

* bpo-15916: doctest.DocTestSuite returns an empty
  unittest.TestSuite instead of raising ValueError if it finds no
  tests

* bpo-21209: Fix asyncio.tasks.CoroWrapper to workaround a bug in
  yield-from implementation in CPythons prior to 3.4.1.

* asyncio: Add gi_{frame,running,code} properties to CoroWrapper
  (upstream bpo-163).

* bpo-21311: Avoid exception in _osx_support with non-standard
  compiler configurations.  Patch by John Szakmeister.

* bpo-11571: Ensure that the turtle window becomes the topmost
  window when launched on OS X.

* bpo-21801: Validate that __signature__ is None or an instance of
  Signature.

* bpo-21923: Prevent AttributeError in
  distutils.sysconfig.customize_compiler due to possible uninitialized
  _config_vars.

* bpo-21323: Fix http.server to again handle scripts in CGI
  subdirectories, broken by the fix for security bpo-19435.  Patch by
  Zach Byrne.

* bpo-22733: Fix ffi_prep_args not zero-extending argument values
  correctly on 64-bit Windows.

* bpo-23302: Default to TCP_NODELAY=1 upon establishing an
  HTTPConnection. Removed use of hard-coded MSS as it's an
  optimization that's no longer needed with Nagle disabled.


IDLE
----

* bpo-20577: Configuration of the max line length for the
  FormatParagraph extension has been moved from the General tab of the
  Idle preferences dialog to the FormatParagraph tab of the Config
  Extensions dialog. Patch by Tal Einat.

* bpo-16893: Update Idle doc chapter to match current Idle and add
  new information.

* bpo-3068: Add Idle extension configuration dialog to Options menu.
  Changes are written to HOME/.idlerc/config-extensions.cfg. Original
  patch by Tal Einat.

* bpo-16233: A module browser (File : Class Browser, Alt+C) requires
  an editor window with a filename.  When Class Browser is requested
  otherwise, from a shell, output window, or 'Untitled' editor, Idle
  no longer displays an error box.  It now pops up an Open Module box
  (Alt+M). If a valid name is entered and a module is opened, a
  corresponding browser is also opened.

* bpo-4832: Save As to type Python files automatically adds .py to
  the name you enter (even if your system does not display it).  Some
  systems automatically add .txt when type is Text files.

* bpo-21986: Code objects are not normally pickled by the pickle
  module. To match this, they are no longer pickled when running under
  Idle.

* bpo-17390: Adjust Editor window title; remove 'Python', move
  version to end.

* bpo-14105: Idle debugger breakpoints no longer disappear when
  inserting or deleting lines.

* bpo-17172: Turtledemo can now be run from Idle. Currently, the
  entry is on the Help menu, but it may move to Run. Patch by
  Ramchandra Apt and Lita Cho.

* bpo-21765: Add support for non-ascii identifiers to HyperParser.

* bpo-21940: Add unittest for WidgetRedirector. Initial patch by
  Saimadhav Heblikar.

* bpo-18592: Add unittest for SearchDialogBase. Patch by Phil
  Webster.

* bpo-21694: Add unittest for ParenMatch. Patch by Saimadhav
  Heblikar.

* bpo-21686: add unittest for HyperParser. Original patch by
  Saimadhav Heblikar.

* bpo-12387: Add missing upper(lower)case versions of default
  Windows key bindings for Idle so Caps Lock does not disable them.
  Patch by Roger Serwy.

* bpo-21695: Closing a Find-in-files output window while the search
  is still in progress no longer closes Idle.

* bpo-18910: Add unittest for textView. Patch by Phil Webster.

* bpo-18292: Add unittest for AutoExpand. Patch by Saihadhav
  Heblikar.

* bpo-18409: Add unittest for AutoComplete. Patch by Phil Webster.

* bpo-21477: htest.py - Improve framework, complete set of tests.
  Patches by Saimadhav Heblikar

* bpo-18104: Add idlelib/idle_test/htest.py with a few sample tests
  to begin consolidating and improving human-validated tests of Idle.
  Change other files as needed to work with htest.  Running the module
  as __main__ runs all tests.

* bpo-21139: Change default paragraph width to 72, the PEP 8
  recommendation.

* bpo-21284: Paragraph reformat test passes after user changes
  reformat width.

* bpo-17654: Ensure IDLE menus are customized properly on OS X for
  non-framework builds and for all variants of Tk.

* bpo-23180: Rename IDLE "Windows" menu item to "Window". Patch by
  Al Sweigart.


Build
-----

* bpo-15506: Use standard PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG autoconf macro in the
  configure script.

* bpo-22935: Allow the ssl module to be compiled if openssl doesn't
  support SSL 3.

* bpo-22592: Drop support of the Borland C compiler to build Python.
  The distutils module still supports it to build extensions.

* bpo-22591: Drop support of MS-DOS, especially of the DJGPP
  compiler (MS-DOS port of GCC).

* bpo-16537: Check whether self.extensions is empty in setup.py.
  Patch by Jonathan Hosmer.

* bpo-22359: Remove incorrect uses of recursive make.  Patch by
  Jonas Wagner.

* bpo-21958: Define HAVE_ROUND when building with Visual Studio 2013
  and above.  Patch by Zachary Turner.

* bpo-18093: the programs that embed the CPython runtime are now in
  a separate "Programs" directory, rather than being kept in the
  Modules directory.

* bpo-15759: "make suspicious", "make linkcheck" and "make doctest"
  in Doc/ now display special message when and only when there are
  failures.

* bpo-21141: The Windows build process no longer attempts to find
  Perl, instead relying on OpenSSL source being configured and ready
  to build.  The "PCbuild\build_ssl.py" script has been re-written and
  re-named to "PCbuild\prepare_ssl.py", and takes care of configuring
  OpenSSL source for both 32 and 64 bit platforms.  OpenSSL sources
  obtained from svn.python.org will always be pre-configured and ready
  to build.

* bpo-21037: Add a build option to enable AddressSanitizer support.

* bpo-19962: The Windows build process now creates "python.bat" in
  the root of the source tree, which passes all arguments through to
  the most recently built interpreter.

* bpo-21285: Refactor and fix curses configure check to always
  search in a ncursesw directory.

* bpo-15234: For BerkelyDB and Sqlite, only add the found library
  and include directories if they aren't already being searched. This
  avoids an explicit runtime library dependency.

* bpo-17861: Tools/scripts/generate_opcode_h.py automatically
  regenerates Include/opcode.h from Lib/opcode.py if the latter gets
  any change.

* bpo-20644: OS X installer build support for documentation build
  changes in 3.4.1: assume externally supplied sphinx-build is
  available in /usr/bin.

* bpo-20022: Eliminate use of deprecated bundlebuilder in OS X
  builds.

* bpo-15968: Incorporated Tcl, Tk, and Tix builds into the Windows
  build solution.

* bpo-17095: Fix Modules/Setup *shared* support.

* bpo-21811: Anticipated fixes to support OS X versions > 10.9.

* bpo-21166: Prevent possible segfaults and other random failures of
  python --generate-posix-vars in pybuilddir.txt build target.

* bpo-18096: Fix library order returned by python-config.

* bpo-17219: Add library build dir for Python extension cross-
  builds.

* bpo-22919: Windows build updated to support VC 14.0 (Visual Studio
  2015), which will be used for the official release.

* bpo-21236: Build _msi.pyd with cabinet.lib instead of fci.lib

* bpo-17128: Use private version of OpenSSL for OS X 10.5+
  installer.


C API
-----

* bpo-14203: Remove obsolete support for view==NULL in
  PyBuffer_FillInfo(), bytearray_getbuffer(), bytesiobuf_getbuffer()
  and array_buffer_getbuf(). All functions now raise BufferError in
  that case.

* bpo-22445: PyBuffer_IsContiguous() now implements precise
  contiguity tests, compatible with NumPy's
  NPY_RELAXED_STRIDES_CHECKING compilation flag.  Previously the
  function reported false negatives for corner cases.

* bpo-22079: PyType_Ready() now checks that statically allocated
  type has no dynamically allocated bases.

* bpo-22453: Removed non-documented macro PyObject_REPR().

* bpo-18395: Rename "_Py_char2wchar()" to "Py_DecodeLocale()",
  rename "_Py_wchar2char()" to "Py_EncodeLocale()", and document these
  functions.

* bpo-21233: Add new C functions: PyMem_RawCalloc(), PyMem_Calloc(),
  PyObject_Calloc(), _PyObject_GC_Calloc(). bytes(int) is now using
  "calloc()" instead of "malloc()" for large objects which is faster
  and use less memory.

* bpo-20942: PyImport_ImportFrozenModuleObject() no longer sets
  __file__ to match what importlib does; this affects
  _frozen_importlib as well as any module loaded using
  imp.init_frozen().


Documentation
-------------

* bpo-19548: Update the codecs module documentation to better cover
  the distinction between text encodings and other codecs, together
  with other clarifications. Patch by Martin Panter.

* bpo-22394: Doc/Makefile now supports "make venv PYTHON=../python"
  to create a venv for generating the documentation, e.g., "make html
  PYTHON=venv/bin/python3".

* bpo-21514: The documentation of the json module now refers to new
  JSON RFC 7159 instead of obsoleted RFC 4627.

* bpo-21777: The binary sequence methods on bytes and bytearray are
  now documented explicitly, rather than assuming users will be able
  to derive the expected behaviour from the behaviour of the
  corresponding str methods.

* bpo-6916: undocument deprecated asynchat.fifo class.

* bpo-17386: Expanded functionality of the "Doc/make.bat" script to
  make it much more comparable to "Doc/Makefile".

* bpo-21312: Update the thread_foobar.h template file to include
  newer threading APIs.  Patch by Jack McCracken.

* bpo-21043: Remove the recommendation for specific CA organizations
  and to mention the ability to load the OS certificates.

* bpo-20765: Add missing documentation for PurePath.with_name() and
  PurePath.with_suffix().

* bpo-19407: New package installation and distribution guides based
  on the Python Packaging Authority tools. Existing guides have been
  retained as legacy links from the distutils docs, as they still
  contain some required reference material for tool developers that
  isn't recorded anywhere else.

* bpo-19697: Document cases where __main__.__spec__ is None.


Tests
-----

* bpo-18982: Add tests for CLI of the calendar module.

* bpo-19548: Added some additional checks to test_codecs to ensure
  that statements in the updated documentation remain accurate. Patch
  by Martin Panter.

* bpo-22838: All test_re tests now work with unittest test
  discovery.

* bpo-22173: Update lib2to3 tests to use unittest test discovery.

* bpo-16000: Convert test_curses to use unittest.

* bpo-21456: Skip two tests in test_urllib2net.py if _ssl module not
  present. Patch by Remi Pointel.

* bpo-20746: Fix test_pdb to run in refleak mode (-R).  Patch by
  Xavier de Gaye.

* bpo-22060: test_ctypes has been somewhat cleaned up and
  simplified; it now uses unittest test discovery to find its tests.

* bpo-22104: regrtest.py no longer holds a reference to the suite of
  tests loaded from test modules that don't define test_main().

* bpo-22111: Assorted cleanups in test_imaplib.  Patch by Milan
  Oberkirch.

* bpo-22002: Added "load_package_tests" function to test.support and
  used it to implement/augment test discovery in test_asyncio,
  test_email, test_importlib, test_json, and test_tools.

* bpo-21976: Fix test_ssl to accept LibreSSL version strings.
  Thanks to William Orr.

* bpo-21918: Converted test_tools from a module to a package
  containing separate test files for each tested script.

* bpo-9554: Use modern unittest features in test_argparse. Initial
  patch by Denver Coneybeare and Radu Voicilas.

* bpo-20155: Changed HTTP method names in failing tests in
  test_httpservers so that packet filtering software (specifically
  Windows Base Filtering Engine) does not interfere with the
  transaction semantics expected by the tests.

* bpo-19493: Refactored the ctypes test package to skip tests
  explicitly rather than silently.

* bpo-18492: All resources are now allowed when tests are not run by
  regrtest.py.

* bpo-21634: Fix pystone micro-benchmark: use floor division instead
  of true division to benchmark integers instead of floating point
  numbers. Set pystone version to 1.2. Patch written by Lennart
  Regebro.

* bpo-21605: Added tests for Tkinter images.

* bpo-21493: Added test for ntpath.expanduser().  Original patch by
  Claudiu Popa.

* bpo-19925: Added tests for the spwd module. Original patch by
  Vajrasky Kok.

* bpo-21522: Added Tkinter tests for Listbox.itemconfigure(),
  PanedWindow.paneconfigure(), and Menu.entryconfigure().

* bpo-17756: Fix test_code test when run from the installed
  location.

* bpo-17752: Fix distutils tests when run from the installed
  location.

* bpo-18604: Consolidated checks for GUI availability.  All
  platforms now at least check whether Tk can be instantiated when the
  GUI resource is requested.

* bpo-21275: Fix a socket test on KFreeBSD.

* bpo-21223: Pass test_site/test_startup_imports when some of the
  extensions are built as builtins.

* bpo-20635: Added tests for Tk geometry managers.

* Add test case for freeze.

* bpo-20743: Fix a reference leak in test_tcl.

* bpo-21097: Move test_namespace_pkgs into test_importlib.

* bpo-21503: Use test_both() consistently in test_importlib.

* bpo-20939: Avoid various network test failures due to new redirect
  of http://www.python.org/ to https://www.python.org: use
  http://www.example.com instead.

* bpo-20668: asyncio tests no longer rely on tests.txt file. (Patch
  by Vajrasky Kok)

* bpo-21093: Prevent failures of ctypes test_macholib on OS X if a
  copy of libz exists in $HOME/lib or /usr/local/lib.

* bpo-22770: Prevent some Tk segfaults on OS X when running gui
  tests.

* bpo-23211: Workaround test_logging failure on some OS X 10.6
  systems.

* bpo-23345: Prevent test_ssl failures with large OpenSSL patch
  level values (like 0.9.8zc).


Tools/Demos
-----------

* bpo-22314: pydoc now works when the LINES environment variable is
  set.

* bpo-22615: Argument Clinic now supports the "type" argument for
  the int converter.  This permits using the int converter with enums
  and typedefs.

* bpo-20076: The makelocalealias.py script no longer ignores UTF-8
  mapping.

* bpo-20079: The makelocalealias.py script now can parse the
  SUPPORTED file from glibc sources and supports command line options
  for source paths.

* bpo-22201: Command-line interface of the zipfile module now
  correctly extracts ZIP files with directory entries.  Patch by Ryan
  Wilson.

* bpo-22120: For functions using an unsigned integer return
  converter, Argument Clinic now generates a cast to that type for the
  comparison to -1 in the generated code.  (This suppresses a
  compilation warning.)

* bpo-18974: Tools/scripts/diff.py now uses argparse instead of
  optparse.

* bpo-21906: Make Tools/scripts/md5sum.py work in Python 3. Patch by
  Zachary Ware.

* bpo-21629: Fix Argument Clinic's "--converters" feature.

* Add support for "yield from" to 2to3.

* Add support for the PEP 465 matrix multiplication operator to
  2to3.

* bpo-16047: Fix module exception list and __file__ handling in
  freeze. Patch by Meador Inge.

* bpo-11824: Consider ABI tags in freeze. Patch by Meador Inge.

* bpo-20535: PYTHONWARNING no longer affects the run_tests.py
  script. Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.


Windows
-------

* bpo-23260: Update Windows installer

* The bundled version of Tcl/Tk has been updated to 8.6.3.  The most
  visible result of this change is the addition of new native file
  dialogs when running on Windows Vista or newer.  See Tcl/Tk's TIP
  432 for more information.  Also, this version of Tcl/Tk includes
  support for Windows 10.

* bpo-17896: The Windows build scripts now expect external library
  sources to be in "PCbuild\..\externals" rather than "PCbuild\..\..".

* bpo-17717: The Windows build scripts now use a copy of NASM pulled
  from svn.python.org to build OpenSSL.

* bpo-21907: Improved the batch scripts provided for building
  Python.

* bpo-22644: The bundled version of OpenSSL has been updated to
  1.0.1j.

* bpo-10747: Use versioned labels in the Windows start menu. Patch
  by Olive Kilburn.

* bpo-22980: .pyd files with a version and platform tag (for
  example, ".cp35-win32.pyd") will now be loaded in preference to
  those without tags.

**(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**
