.. bpo: 36742 .. date: 2019-04-29-15-34-59 .. nonce: QCUY0i .. release date: 2019-05-06 .. section: Security Fixes mishandling of pre-normalization characters in urlsplit(). .. .. bpo: 30458 .. date: 2019-04-10-08-53-30 .. nonce: 51E-DA .. section: Security Address CVE-2019-9740 by disallowing URL paths with embedded whitespace or control characters through into the underlying http client request. Such potentially malicious header injection URLs now cause an http.client.InvalidURL exception to be raised. .. .. bpo: 35755 .. date: 2019-01-17-10-03-48 .. nonce: GmllIs .. section: Security :func:`shutil.which` now uses ``os.confstr("CS_PATH")`` if available and if the :envvar:`PATH` environment variable is not set. Remove also the current directory from :data:`posixpath.defpath`. On Unix, :func:`shutil.which` and the :mod:`subprocess` module no longer search the executable in the current directory if the :envvar:`PATH` environment variable is not set. .. .. bpo: 36722 .. date: 2019-04-25-21-02-40 .. nonce: 8NApVM .. section: Core and Builtins In debug build, import now also looks for C extensions compiled in release mode and for C extensions compiled in the stable ABI. .. .. bpo: 32849 .. date: 2019-04-16-11-56-12 .. nonce: aeSg-D .. section: Core and Builtins Fix Python Initialization code on FreeBSD to detect properly when stdin file descriptor (fd 0) is invalid. .. .. bpo: 36623 .. date: 2019-04-13-02-08-44 .. nonce: HR_xhB .. section: Core and Builtins Remove parser headers and related function declarations that lack implementations after the removal of pgen. .. .. bpo: 20180 .. date: 2019-04-12-15-49-15 .. nonce: KUqVk7 .. section: Core and Builtins ``dict.pop()`` is now up to 33% faster thanks to Argument Clinic. Patch by Inada Naoki. .. .. bpo: 36611 .. date: 2019-04-12-12-32-39 .. nonce: zbo9WQ .. section: Core and Builtins Debug memory allocators: disable serialno field by default from debug hooks on Python memory allocators to reduce the memory footprint by 5%. Enable :mod:`tracemalloc` to get the traceback where a memory block has been allocated when a fatal memory error is logged to decide where to put a breakpoint. Compile Python with ``PYMEM_DEBUG_SERIALNO`` defined to get back the field. .. .. bpo: 36588 .. date: 2019-04-11-14-36-55 .. nonce: wejLoC .. section: Core and Builtins On AIX, :attr:`sys.platform` doesn't contain the major version anymore. Always return ``'aix'``, instead of ``'aix3'`` .. ``'aix7'``. Since older Python versions include the version number, it is recommended to always use ``sys.platform.startswith('aix')``. Contributed by M. Felt. .. .. bpo: 36549 .. date: 2019-04-11-12-41-31 .. nonce: QSp8of .. section: Core and Builtins Change str.capitalize to use titlecase for the first character instead of uppercase. .. .. bpo: 36540 .. date: 2019-04-06-20-59-19 .. nonce: SzVUfC .. section: Core and Builtins Implement :pep:`570` (Python positional-only parameters). Patch by Pablo Galindo. .. .. bpo: 36475 .. date: 2019-04-02-20-02-22 .. nonce: CjRps3 .. section: Core and Builtins :c:func:`PyEval_AcquireLock` and :c:func:`PyEval_AcquireThread` now terminate the current thread if called while the interpreter is finalizing, making them consistent with :c:func:`PyEval_RestoreThread`, :c:func:`Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS`, and :c:func:`PyGILState_Ensure`. .. .. bpo: 36504 .. date: 2019-04-02-04-10-32 .. nonce: k_V8Bm .. section: Core and Builtins Fix signed integer overflow in _ctypes.c's ``PyCArrayType_new()``. .. .. bpo: 20844 .. date: 2019-03-29-18-47-50 .. nonce: ge-7SM .. section: Core and Builtins Fix running script with encoding cookie and LF line ending may fail on Windows. .. .. bpo: 24214 .. date: 2019-03-28-15-22-45 .. nonce: tZ6lYU .. section: Core and Builtins Fixed support of the surrogatepass error handler in the UTF-8 incremental decoder. .. .. bpo: 36452 .. date: 2019-03-27-23-53-00 .. nonce: xhK2lT .. section: Core and Builtins Changing ``dict`` keys during iteration of the dict itself, ``keys()``, ``values()``, or ``items()`` will now be detected in certain corner cases where keys are deleted/added so that the number of keys isn't changed. A `RuntimeError` will be raised after ``len(dict)`` iterations. Contributed by Thomas Perl. .. .. bpo: 36459 .. date: 2019-03-27-22-35-16 .. nonce: UAvkKp .. section: Core and Builtins Fix a possible double ``PyMem_FREE()`` due to tokenizer.c's ``tok_nextc()``. .. .. bpo: 36433 .. date: 2019-03-26-17-23-02 .. nonce: -8XzZf .. section: Core and Builtins Fixed TypeError message in classmethoddescr_call. .. .. bpo: 36430 .. date: 2019-03-25-23-37-26 .. nonce: sd9xxQ .. section: Core and Builtins Fix a possible reference leak in :func:`itertools.count`. .. .. bpo: 36440 .. date: 2019-03-25-13-45-19 .. nonce: gkvzhi .. section: Core and Builtins Include node names in ``ParserError`` messages, instead of numeric IDs. Patch by A. Skrobov. .. .. bpo: 36143 .. date: 2019-03-20-00-37-24 .. nonce: fnKoKo .. section: Core and Builtins Regenerate :mod:`keyword` from the Grammar and Tokens file using pgen. Patch by Pablo Galindo. .. .. bpo: 18372 .. date: 2018-12-08-03-40-43 .. nonce: DT1nR0 .. section: Core and Builtins Add missing :c:func:`PyObject_GC_Track` calls in the :mod:`pickle` module. Patch by Zackery Spytz. .. .. bpo: 35952 .. date: 2019-04-29-11-47-06 .. nonce: 3uNuyo .. section: Library Fix pythoninfo when the compiler is missing. .. .. bpo: 28238 .. date: 2019-04-28-15-01-29 .. nonce: gdk38f .. section: Library The ``.find*()`` methods of xml.etree.ElementTree can now search for wildcards like ``{*}tag`` and ``{ns}*`` that match a tag in any namespace or all tags in a namespace. Patch by Stefan Behnel. .. .. bpo: 26978 .. date: 2019-04-28-01-52-39 .. nonce: Lpm-SI .. section: Library `pathlib.path.link_to()` is now implemented. It creates a hard link pointing to a path. .. .. bpo: 1613500 .. date: 2019-04-27-21-09-33 .. nonce: Ogp4P0 .. section: Library :class:`fileinput.FileInput` now uses the input file mode to correctly set the output file mode (previously it was hardcoded to ``'w'``) when ``inplace=True`` is passed to its constructor. .. .. bpo: 36734 .. date: 2019-04-26-17-14-20 .. nonce: p2MaiN .. section: Library Fix compilation of ``faulthandler.c`` on HP-UX. Initialize ``stack_t current_stack`` to zero using ``memset()``. .. .. bpo: 13611 .. date: 2019-04-26-10-10-34 .. nonce: XEF4bg .. section: Library The xml.etree.ElementTree packages gained support for C14N 2.0 serialisation. Patch by Stefan Behnel. .. .. bpo: 36669 .. date: 2019-04-24-17-08-45 .. nonce: X4g0fu .. section: Library Add missing matrix multiplication operator support to weakref.proxy. .. .. bpo: 36676 .. date: 2019-04-20-13-10-34 .. nonce: XF4Egb .. section: Library The XMLParser() in xml.etree.ElementTree provides namespace prefix context to the parser target if it defines the callback methods "start_ns()" and/or "end_ns()". Patch by Stefan Behnel. .. .. bpo: 36673 .. date: 2019-04-20-09-50-32 .. nonce: XF4Egb .. section: Library The TreeBuilder and XMLPullParser in xml.etree.ElementTree gained support for parsing comments and processing instructions. Patch by Stefan Behnel. .. .. bpo: 36650 .. date: 2019-04-19-15-29-55 .. nonce: _EVdrz .. section: Library The C version of functools.lru_cache() was treating calls with an empty ``**kwargs`` dictionary as being distinct from calls with no keywords at all. This did not result in an incorrect answer, but it did trigger an unexpected cache miss. .. .. bpo: 28552 .. date: 2019-04-18-16-10-29 .. nonce: MW1TLt .. section: Library Fix :mod:`distutils.sysconfig` if :data:`sys.executable` is ``None`` or an empty string: use :func:`os.getcwd` to initialize ``project_base``. Fix also the distutils build command: don't use :data:`sys.executable` if it is ``None`` or an empty string. .. .. bpo: 35755 .. date: 2019-04-16-17-50-39 .. nonce: Fg4EXb .. section: Library :func:`shutil.which` and :func:`distutils.spawn.find_executable` now use ``os.confstr("CS_PATH")`` if available instead of :data:`os.defpath`, if the ``PATH`` environment variable is not set. Moreover, don't use ``os.confstr("CS_PATH")`` nor :data:`os.defpath` if the ``PATH`` environment variable is set to an empty string. .. .. bpo: 25430 .. date: 2019-04-15-12-22-09 .. nonce: 7_8kqc .. section: Library improve performance of ``IPNetwork.__contains__()`` .. .. bpo: 30485 .. date: 2019-04-13-23-42-33 .. nonce: JHhjJS .. section: Library Path expressions in xml.etree.ElementTree can now avoid explicit namespace prefixes for tags (or the "{namespace}tag" notation) by passing a default namespace with an empty string prefix. .. .. bpo: 36613 .. date: 2019-04-12-13-52-15 .. nonce: hqT1qn .. section: Library Fix :mod:`asyncio` wait() not removing callback if exception .. .. bpo: 36598 .. date: 2019-04-11-22-11-24 .. nonce: hfzDUl .. section: Library Fix ``isinstance`` check for Mock objects with spec when the code is executed under tracing. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan. .. .. bpo: 18748 .. date: 2019-04-11-16-09-42 .. nonce: QW7upB .. section: Library In development mode (:option:`-X` ``dev``) and in debug build, the :class:`io.IOBase` destructor now logs ``close()`` exceptions. These exceptions are silent by default in release mode. .. .. bpo: 36575 .. date: 2019-04-09-22-40-52 .. nonce: Vg_p92 .. section: Library The ``_lsprof`` module now uses internal timer same to ``time.perf_counter()`` by default. ``gettimeofday(2)`` was used on Unix. New timer has better resolution on most Unix platforms and timings are no longer impacted by system clock updates since ``perf_counter()`` is monotonic. Patch by Inada Naoki. .. .. bpo: 33461 .. date: 2019-04-09-14-46-28 .. nonce: SYJM-E .. section: Library ``json.loads`` now emits ``DeprecationWarning`` when ``encoding`` option is specified. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier. .. .. bpo: 36559 .. date: 2019-04-09-12-02-35 .. nonce: LbDRrw .. section: Library The random module now prefers the lean internal _sha512 module over hashlib for seed(version=2) to optimize import time. .. .. bpo: 17561 .. date: 2019-04-09-04-08-46 .. nonce: hOhVnh .. section: Library Set backlog=None as the default for socket.create_server. .. .. bpo: 34373 .. date: 2019-04-08-14-41-22 .. nonce: lEAl_- .. section: Library Fix :func:`time.mktime` error handling on AIX for year before 1970. .. .. bpo: 36232 .. date: 2019-04-06-20-25-25 .. nonce: SClmhb .. section: Library Improve error message when trying to open existing DBM database that actually doesn't exist. Patch by Marco Rougeth. .. .. bpo: 36546 .. date: 2019-04-06-14-23-00 .. nonce: YXjbyY .. section: Library Add statistics.quantiles() .. .. bpo: 36050 .. date: 2019-04-05-21-29-53 .. nonce: x9DRKE .. section: Library Optimized ``http.client.HTTPResponse.read()`` for large response. Patch by Inada Naoki. .. .. bpo: 36522 .. date: 2019-04-03-20-46-47 .. nonce: g5x3By .. section: Library If *debuglevel* is set to >0 in :mod:`http.client`, print all values for headers with multiple values for the same header name. Patch by Matt Houglum. .. .. bpo: 36492 .. date: 2019-03-31-10-21-54 .. nonce: f7vyUs .. section: Library Deprecated passing required arguments like *func* as keyword arguments in functions which should accept arbitrary keyword arguments and pass them to other function. Arbitrary keyword arguments (even with names "self" and "func") can now be passed to these functions if the required arguments are passed as positional arguments. .. .. bpo: 27181 .. date: 2019-03-31-01-18-52 .. nonce: LVUWcc .. section: Library Add statistics.geometric_mean(). .. .. bpo: 30427 .. date: 2019-03-28-21-17-08 .. nonce: lxzvbw .. section: Library ``os.path.normcase()`` relies on ``os.fspath()`` to check the type of its argument. Redundant checks have been removed from its ``posixpath.normcase()`` and ``ntpath.normcase()`` implementations. Patch by Wolfgang Maier. .. .. bpo: 36385 .. date: 2019-03-27-02-09-22 .. nonce: we2F45 .. section: Library Stop rejecting IPv4 octets for being ambiguously octal. Leading zeros are ignored, and no longer are assumed to specify octal octets. Octets are always decimal numbers. Octets must still be no more than three digits, including leading zeroes. .. .. bpo: 36434 .. date: 2019-03-26-14-20-59 .. nonce: PTdidw .. section: Library Errors during writing to a ZIP file no longer prevent to properly close it. .. .. bpo: 36407 .. date: 2019-03-23-17-16-15 .. nonce: LG3aC4 .. section: Library Fixed wrong indentation writing for CDATA section in xml.dom.minidom. Patch by Vladimir Surjaninov. .. .. bpo: 36326 .. date: 2019-03-22-13-47-52 .. nonce: WCnEI5 .. section: Library inspect.getdoc() can now find docstrings for member objects when __slots__ is a dictionary. .. .. bpo: 36366 .. date: 2019-03-20-15-13-18 .. nonce: n0eav_ .. section: Library Calling ``stop()`` on an unstarted or stopped :func:`unittest.mock.patch` object will now return `None` instead of raising :exc:`RuntimeError`, making the method idempotent. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan. .. .. bpo: 36348 .. date: 2019-03-18-16-16-55 .. nonce: E0w_US .. section: Library The :meth:`imap.IMAP4.logout` method no longer ignores silently arbitrary exceptions. .. .. bpo: 31904 .. date: 2019-03-13-16-48-42 .. nonce: 9sjd38 .. section: Library Add time module support and fix test_time faiures for VxWorks. .. .. bpo: 36227 .. date: 2019-03-07-20-02-18 .. nonce: i2Z1XR .. section: Library Added support for keyword arguments `default_namespace` and `xml_declaration` in functions ElementTree.tostring() and ElementTree.tostringlist(). .. .. bpo: 36004 .. date: 2019-02-17-12-55-51 .. nonce: hCt_KK .. section: Library Added new alternate constructors :meth:`datetime.date.fromisocalendar` and :meth:`datetime.datetime.fromisocalendar`, which construct date objects from ISO year, week number and weekday; these are the inverse of each class's ``isocalendar`` method. Patch by Paul Ganssle. .. .. bpo: 35936 .. date: 2019-02-16-22-19-32 .. nonce: Ay5WtD .. section: Library :mod:`modulefinder` no longer depends on the deprecated :mod:`imp` module, and the initializer for :class:`modulefinder.ModuleFinder` now has immutable default arguments. Patch by Brandt Bucher. .. .. bpo: 35376 .. date: 2019-02-13-18-56-27 .. nonce: UFhYLj .. section: Library :mod:`modulefinder` correctly handles modules that have the same name as a bad package. Patch by Brandt Bucher. .. .. bpo: 17396 .. date: 2019-02-13-18-56-22 .. nonce: oKRkrD .. section: Library :mod:`modulefinder` no longer crashes when encountering syntax errors in followed imports. Patch by Brandt Bucher. .. .. bpo: 35934 .. date: 2019-02-07-20-25-39 .. nonce: QmfNmY .. section: Library Added :meth:`~socket.create_server()` and :meth:`~socket.has_dualstack_ipv6()` convenience functions to automate the necessary tasks usually involved when creating a server socket, including accepting both IPv4 and IPv6 connections on the same socket. (Contributed by Giampaolo Rodola in :issue:`17561`.) .. .. bpo: 23078 .. date: 2019-01-18-23-10-10 .. nonce: l4dFoj .. section: Library Add support for :func:`classmethod` and :func:`staticmethod` to :func:`unittest.mock.create_autospec`. Initial patch by Felipe Ochoa. .. .. bpo: 35416 .. date: 2018-12-05-09-55-05 .. nonce: XALKZG .. section: Library Fix potential resource warnings in distutils. Patch by Mickaël Schoentgen. .. .. bpo: 25451 .. date: 2018-11-07-23-44-25 .. nonce: re_8db .. section: Library Add transparency methods to :class:`tkinter.PhotoImage`. Patch by Zackery Spytz. .. .. bpo: 35082 .. date: 2018-10-27-11-54-12 .. nonce: HDj1nr .. section: Library Don't return deleted attributes when calling dir on a :class:`unittest.mock.Mock`. .. .. bpo: 34547 .. date: 2018-10-05-16-01-00 .. nonce: abbaa .. section: Library :class:`wsgiref.handlers.BaseHandler` now handles abrupt client connection terminations gracefully. Patch by Petter Strandmark. .. .. bpo: 31658 .. date: 2018-07-30-12-00-15 .. nonce: _bx7a_ .. section: Library :func:`xml.sax.parse` now supports :term:`path-like `. Patch by Mickaël Schoentgen. .. .. bpo: 34139 .. date: 2018-07-18-11-25-34 .. nonce: tKbmW7 .. section: Library Remove stale unix datagram socket before binding .. .. bpo: 33530 .. date: 2018-05-29-18-34-53 .. nonce: _4Q_bi .. section: Library Implemented Happy Eyeballs in `asyncio.create_connection()`. Added two new arguments, *happy_eyeballs_delay* and *interleave*, to specify Happy Eyeballs behavior. .. .. bpo: 33291 .. date: 2018-04-11-11-41-52 .. nonce: -xLGf8 .. section: Library Do not raise AttributeError when calling the inspect functions isgeneratorfunction, iscoroutinefunction, isasyncgenfunction on a method created from an arbitrary callable. Instead, return False. .. .. bpo: 31310 .. date: 2018-04-06-11-06-23 .. nonce: eq9ky0 .. section: Library Fix the multiprocessing.semaphore_tracker so it is reused by child processes .. .. bpo: 31292 .. date: 2017-08-30-20-27-00 .. nonce: dKIaZb .. section: Library Fix ``setup.py check --restructuredtext`` for files containing ``include`` directives. .. .. bpo: 36625 .. date: 2019-04-15-12-02-45 .. nonce: x3LMCF .. section: Documentation Remove obsolete comments from docstrings in fractions.Fraction .. .. bpo: 30840 .. date: 2019-04-14-19-46-21 .. nonce: R-JFzw .. section: Documentation Document relative imports .. .. bpo: 36523 .. date: 2019-04-04-19-11-47 .. nonce: sG1Tr4 .. section: Documentation Add docstring for io.IOBase.writelines(). .. .. bpo: 36425 .. date: 2019-03-27-22-46-00 .. nonce: kG9gx1 .. section: Documentation New documentation translation: `Simplified Chinese `_. .. .. bpo: 36345 .. date: 2019-03-26-14-58-34 .. nonce: r2stx3 .. section: Documentation Avoid the duplication of code from ``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` in using the :rst:dir:`literalinclude` directive for the basic wsgiref-based web server in the documentation of :mod:`wsgiref`. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel. .. .. bpo: 36345 .. date: 2019-03-23-09-25-12 .. nonce: L704Zv .. section: Documentation Using the code of the ``Tools/scripts/serve.py`` script as an example in the :mod:`wsgiref` documentation. Contributed by Stéphane Wirtel. .. .. bpo: 36157 .. date: 2019-03-08-15-39-47 .. nonce: nF1pP1 .. section: Documentation Added Documention for PyInterpreterState_Main(). .. .. bpo: 33043 .. date: 2019-02-24-03-15-10 .. nonce: 8knWTS .. section: Documentation Updates the docs.python.org page with the addition of a 'Contributing to Docs' link at the end of the page (between 'Reporting Bugs' and 'About Documentation'). Updates the 'Found a Bug' page with additional links and information in the Documentation Bugs section. .. .. bpo: 35581 .. date: 2018-12-25-12-56-57 .. nonce: aA7r6T .. section: Documentation @typing.type_check_only now allows type stubs to mark functions and classes not available during runtime. .. .. bpo: 33832 .. date: 2018-06-15-15-57-37 .. nonce: xBFhKw .. section: Documentation Add glossary entry for 'magic method'. .. .. bpo: 32913 .. date: 2018-02-22-15-48-16 .. nonce: f3utho .. section: Documentation Added re.Match.groupdict example to regex HOWTO. .. .. bpo: 36719 .. date: 2019-04-26-09-02-49 .. nonce: ys2uqH .. section: Tests regrtest now always detects uncollectable objects. Previously, the check was only enabled by ``--findleaks``. The check now also works with ``-jN/--multiprocess N``. ``--findleaks`` becomes a deprecated alias to ``--fail-env-changed``. .. .. bpo: 36725 .. date: 2019-04-26-04-12-29 .. nonce: B8-ghi .. section: Tests When using multiprocessing mode (-jN), regrtest now better reports errors if a worker process fails, and it exits immediately on a worker thread failure or when interrupted. .. .. bpo: 36454 .. date: 2019-04-23-17-48-11 .. nonce: 0q4lQz .. section: Tests Change test_time.test_monotonic() to test only the lower bound of elapsed time after a sleep command rather than the upper bound. This prevents unnecessary test failures on slow buildbots. Patch by Victor Stinner. .. .. bpo: 32424 .. date: 2019-04-21-17-55-18 .. nonce: yDy49h .. section: Tests Improve test coverage for xml.etree.ElementTree. Patch by Gordon P. Hemsley. .. .. bpo: 32424 .. date: 2019-04-21-17-53-50 .. nonce: Q4rBmn .. section: Tests Fix typo in test_cyclic_gc() test for xml.etree.ElementTree. Patch by Gordon P. Hemsley. .. .. bpo: 36635 .. date: 2019-04-15-16-55-49 .. nonce: __FTq9 .. section: Tests Add a new :mod:`_testinternalcapi` module to test the internal C API. .. .. bpo: 36629 .. date: 2019-04-15-11-57-39 .. nonce: ySnaL3 .. section: Tests Fix ``test_imap4_host_default_value()`` of ``test_imaplib``: catch also :data:`errno.ENETUNREACH` error. .. .. bpo: 36611 .. date: 2019-04-12-12-44-42 .. nonce: UtorXL .. section: Tests Fix ``test_sys.test_getallocatedblocks()`` when :mod:`tracemalloc` is enabled. .. .. bpo: 36560 .. date: 2019-04-09-14-08-02 .. nonce: _ejeOr .. section: Tests Fix reference leak hunting in regrtest: compute also deltas (of reference count, allocated memory blocks, file descriptor count) during warmup, to ensure that everything is initialized before starting to hunt reference leaks. .. .. bpo: 36565 .. date: 2019-04-08-19-01-21 .. nonce: 2bxgtU .. section: Tests Fix reference hunting (``python3 -m test -R 3:3``) when Python has no built-in abc module. .. .. bpo: 31904 .. date: 2019-04-08-09-24-36 .. nonce: ab03ea .. section: Tests Port test_resource to VxWorks: skip tests cases setting RLIMIT_FSIZE and RLIMIT_CPU. .. .. bpo: 31904 .. date: 2019-04-01-16-06-36 .. nonce: peaceF .. section: Tests Fix test_tabnanny on VxWorks: adjust ENOENT error message. .. .. bpo: 36436 .. date: 2019-03-26-13-49-21 .. nonce: yAtN0V .. section: Tests Fix ``_testcapi.pymem_buffer_overflow()``: handle memory allocation failure. .. .. bpo: 31904 .. date: 2019-03-19-17-39-25 .. nonce: QxhhRx .. section: Tests Fix test_utf8_mode on VxWorks: Python always use UTF-8 on VxWorks. .. .. bpo: 36341 .. date: 2019-03-18-10-47-45 .. nonce: UXlY0P .. section: Tests Fix tests that may fail with PermissionError upon calling bind() on AF_UNIX sockets. .. .. bpo: 36747 .. date: 2019-04-29-09-57-20 .. nonce: 1YEyu- .. section: Build Remove the stale scriptsinstall Makefile target. .. .. bpo: 21536 .. date: 2019-04-25-01-51-52 .. nonce: ACQkiC .. section: Build On Unix, C extensions are no longer linked to libpython except on Android and Cygwin. It is now possible for a statically linked Python to load a C extension built using a shared library Python. When Python is embedded, ``libpython`` must not be loaded with ``RTLD_LOCAL``, but ``RTLD_GLOBAL`` instead. Previously, using ``RTLD_LOCAL``, it was already not possible to load C extensions which were not linked to ``libpython``, such as C extensions of the standard library built by the ``*shared*`` section of ``Modules/Setup``. distutils, python-config and python-config.py have been modified. .. .. bpo: 36707 .. date: 2019-04-24-02-29-15 .. nonce: 8ZNB67 .. section: Build ``./configure --with-pymalloc`` no longer adds the ``m`` flag to SOABI (sys.implementation.cache_tag). Enabling or disabling pymalloc has no impact on the ABI. .. .. bpo: 36635 .. date: 2019-04-16-13-58-52 .. nonce: JKlzkf .. section: Build Change ``PyAPI_FUNC(type)``, ``PyAPI_DATA(type)`` and ``PyMODINIT_FUNC`` macros of ``pyport.h`` when ``Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULE`` is defined. The ``Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULE`` define must be now be used to build a C extension as a dynamic library accessing Python internals: export the PyInit_xxx() function in DLL exports on Windows. .. .. bpo: 31904 .. date: 2019-04-15-15-01-29 .. nonce: 38fdkg .. section: Build Don't build the ``_crypt`` extension on VxWorks. .. .. bpo: 36618 .. date: 2019-04-12-19-49-10 .. nonce: gcI9iq .. section: Build Add ``-fmax-type-align=8`` to CFLAGS when clang compiler is detected. The pymalloc memory allocator aligns memory on 8 bytes. On x86-64, clang expects alignment on 16 bytes by default and so uses MOVAPS instruction which can lead to segmentation fault. Instruct clang that Python is limited to alignment on 8 bytes to use MOVUPS instruction instead: slower but don't trigger a SIGSEGV if the memory is not aligned on 16 bytes. Sadly, the flag must be added to ``CFLAGS`` and not just ``CFLAGS_NODIST``, since third party C extensions can have the same issue. .. .. bpo: 36605 .. date: 2019-04-11-18-50-58 .. nonce: gk5czf .. section: Build ``make tags`` and ``make TAGS`` now also parse ``Modules/_io/*.c`` and ``Modules/_io/*.h``. .. .. bpo: 36465 .. date: 2019-04-09-18-19-43 .. nonce: -w6vx6 .. section: Build Release builds and debug builds are now ABI compatible: defining the ``Py_DEBUG`` macro no longer implies the ``Py_TRACE_REFS`` macro, which introduces the only ABI incompatibility. The ``Py_TRACE_REFS`` macro, which adds the :func:`sys.getobjects` function and the :envvar:`PYTHONDUMPREFS` environment variable, can be set using the new ``./configure --with-trace-refs`` build option. .. .. bpo: 36577 .. date: 2019-04-09-17-31-47 .. nonce: 34kuUW .. section: Build setup.py now correctly reports missing OpenSSL headers and libraries again. .. .. bpo: 36544 .. date: 2019-04-06-18-53-03 .. nonce: hJr2_a .. section: Build Fix regression introduced in bpo-36146 refactoring setup.py .. .. bpo: 36508 .. date: 2019-04-02-17-01-23 .. nonce: SN5Y6N .. section: Build ``python-config --ldflags`` no longer includes flags of the ``LINKFORSHARED`` variable. The ``LINKFORSHARED`` variable must only be used to build executables. .. .. bpo: 36503 .. date: 2019-04-02-09-25-23 .. nonce: 0xzfkQ .. section: Build Remove references to "aix3" and "aix4". Patch by M. Felt. .. .. bpo: 35920 .. date: 2019-04-22-16-59-20 .. nonce: VSfGOI .. section: Windows Added platform.win32_edition() and platform.win32_is_iot(). Added support for cross-compiling packages for Windows ARM32. Skip tests that are not expected to work on Windows IoT Core ARM32. .. .. bpo: 36649 .. date: 2019-04-17-11-39-24 .. nonce: arbzIo .. section: Windows Remove trailing spaces for registry keys when installed via the Store. .. .. bpo: 34144 .. date: 2019-04-10-04-35-31 .. nonce: _KzB5z .. section: Windows Fixed activate.bat to correctly update codepage when chcp.com returns dots in output. Patch by Lorenz Mende. .. .. bpo: 36509 .. date: 2019-04-02-10-11-18 .. nonce: DdaM67 .. section: Windows Added preset-iot layout for Windows IoT ARM containers. This layout doesn't contain UI components like tkinter or IDLE. It also doesn't contain files to support on-target builds since Windows ARM32 builds must be cross-compiled when using MSVC. .. .. bpo: 35941 .. date: 2019-03-28-03-51-16 .. nonce: UnlAEE .. section: Windows enum_certificates function of the ssl module now returns certificates from all available certificate stores inside windows in a query instead of returning only certificates from the system wide certificate store. This includes certificates from these certificate stores: local machine, local machine enterprise, local machine group policy, current user, current user group policy, services, users. ssl.enum_crls() function is changed in the same way to return all certificate revocation lists inside the windows certificate revocation list stores. .. .. bpo: 36441 .. date: 2019-03-26-11-46-15 .. nonce: lYjGF1 .. section: Windows Fixes creating a venv when debug binaries are installed. .. .. bpo: 36085 .. date: 2019-03-18-11-44-49 .. nonce: mLfxfc .. section: Windows Enable better DLL resolution on Windows by using safe DLL search paths and adding :func:`os.add_dll_directory`. .. .. bpo: 36010 .. date: 2019-03-16-10-24-58 .. nonce: dttWfp .. section: Windows Add the venv standard library module to the nuget distribution for Windows. .. .. bpo: 29515 .. date: 2019-03-05-18-09-43 .. nonce: vwUTv0 .. section: Windows Add the following socket module constants on Windows: IPPROTO_AH IPPROTO_CBT IPPROTO_DSTOPTS IPPROTO_EGP IPPROTO_ESP IPPROTO_FRAGMENT IPPROTO_GGP IPPROTO_HOPOPTS IPPROTO_ICLFXBM IPPROTO_ICMPV6 IPPROTO_IDP IPPROTO_IGMP IPPROTO_IGP IPPROTO_IPV4 IPPROTO_IPV6 IPPROTO_L2TP IPPROTO_MAX IPPROTO_ND IPPROTO_NONE IPPROTO_PGM IPPROTO_PIM IPPROTO_PUP IPPROTO_RDP IPPROTO_ROUTING IPPROTO_SCTP IPPROTO_ST .. .. bpo: 35947 .. date: 2019-02-11-14-53-17 .. nonce: 9vI4hP .. section: Windows Added current version of libffi to cpython-source-deps. Change _ctypes to use current version of libffi on Windows. .. .. bpo: 34060 .. date: 2018-07-20-13-09-19 .. nonce: v-z87j .. section: Windows Report system load when running test suite on Windows. Patch by Ammar Askar. Based on prior work by Jeremy Kloth. .. .. bpo: 31512 .. date: 2017-10-04-12-40-45 .. nonce: YQeBt2 .. section: Windows With the Windows 10 Creators Update, non-elevated users can now create symlinks as long as the computer has Developer Mode enabled. .. .. bpo: 34602 .. date: 2019-04-29-10-54-14 .. nonce: Lrl2zU .. section: macOS Avoid failures setting macOS stack resource limit with resource.setrlimit. This reverts an earlier fix for bpo-18075 which forced a non-default stack size when building the interpreter executable on macOS. .. .. bpo: 36429 .. date: 2019-03-26-00-09-50 .. nonce: w-jL2e .. section: IDLE Fix starting IDLE with pyshell. Add idlelib.pyshell alias at top; remove pyshell alias at bottom. Remove obsolete __name__=='__main__' command. .. .. bpo: 14546 .. date: 2019-04-30-14-30-29 .. nonce: r38Y-6 .. section: Tools/Demos Fix the argument handling in Tools/scripts/lll.py. .. .. bpo: 36763 .. date: 2019-05-01-00-42-08 .. nonce: vghb86 .. section: C API Fix memory leak in :c:func:`Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding`: release memory if the function is called twice. .. .. bpo: 36641 .. date: 2019-04-16-21-18-19 .. nonce: pz-DIR .. section: C API :c:macro:`PyDoc_VAR(name)` and :c:macro:`PyDoc_STRVAR(name,str)` now create ``static const char name[]`` instead of ``static char name[]``. Patch by Inada Naoki. .. .. bpo: 36389 .. date: 2019-04-11-12-20-35 .. nonce: P9QFoP .. section: C API Change the value of ``CLEANBYTE``, ``DEADDYTE`` and ``FORBIDDENBYTE`` internal constants used by debug hooks on Python memory allocators (:c:func:`PyMem_SetupDebugHooks` function). Byte patterns ``0xCB``, ``0xDB`` and ``0xFB`` have been replaced with ``0xCD``, ``0xDD`` and ``0xFD`` to use the same values than Windows CRT debug ``malloc()`` and ``free()``. .. .. bpo: 36443 .. date: 2019-03-27-15-58-23 .. nonce: tAfZR9 .. section: C API Since Python 3.7.0, calling :c:func:`Py_DecodeLocale` before :c:func:`Py_Initialize` produces mojibake if the ``LC_CTYPE`` locale is coerced and/or if the UTF-8 Mode is enabled by the user configuration. The LC_CTYPE coercion and UTF-8 Mode are now disabled by default to fix the mojibake issue. They must now be enabled explicitly (opt-in) using the new :c:func:`_Py_PreInitialize` API with ``_PyPreConfig``. .. .. bpo: 36025 .. date: 2019-02-19-08-23-42 .. nonce: tnwylQ .. section: C API Fixed an accidental change to the datetime C API where the arguments to the :c:func:`PyDate_FromTimestamp` function were incorrectly interpreted as a single timestamp rather than an arguments tuple, which causes existing code to start raising :exc:`TypeError`. The backwards-incompatible change was only present in alpha releases of Python 3.8. Patch by Paul Ganssle. .. .. bpo: 35810 .. date: 2019-01-23-12-38-11 .. nonce: wpbWeb .. section: C API Modify ``PyObject_Init`` to correctly increase the refcount of heap- allocated Type objects. Also fix the refcounts of the heap-allocated types that were either doing this manually or not decreasing the type's refcount in tp_dealloc