.. date: 2024-02-18-03-14-40 .. gh-issue: 115398 .. nonce: tzvxH8 .. release date: 2024-03-12 .. section: Security Allow controlling Expat >=2.6.0 reparse deferral (:cve:`2023-52425`) by adding five new methods: * :meth:`xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLParser.flush` * :meth:`xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLPullParser.flush` * :meth:`xml.parsers.expat.xmlparser.GetReparseDeferralEnabled` * :meth:`xml.parsers.expat.xmlparser.SetReparseDeferralEnabled` * :meth:`xml.sax.expatreader.ExpatParser.flush` .. .. date: 2024-01-26-22-14-09 .. gh-issue: 114572 .. nonce: t1QMQD .. section: Security :meth:`ssl.SSLContext.cert_store_stats` and :meth:`ssl.SSLContext.get_ca_certs` now correctly lock access to the certificate store, when the :class:`ssl.SSLContext` is shared across multiple threads. .. .. date: 2024-03-11-22-24-59 .. gh-issue: 116604 .. nonce: LCEzAT .. section: Core and Builtins Respect the status of the garbage collector when indirect calls are made via :c:func:`PyErr_CheckSignals` and the evaluation breaker. Patch by Pablo Galindo .. .. date: 2024-03-09-11-10-53 .. gh-issue: 112087 .. nonce: nbI0Pw .. section: Core and Builtins :class:`list` is now compatible with the implementation of :pep:`703`. .. .. date: 2024-03-05-22-00-58 .. gh-issue: 116381 .. nonce: 0Nq9iO .. section: Core and Builtins Add specialization for ``CONTAINS_OP``. .. .. date: 2024-03-04-10-19-51 .. gh-issue: 116296 .. nonce: gvtxyU .. section: Core and Builtins Fix possible refleak in :meth:`!object.__reduce__` internal error handling. .. .. date: 2024-02-22-16-17-53 .. gh-issue: 115823 .. nonce: c1TreJ .. section: Core and Builtins Properly calculate error ranges in the parser when raising :exc:`SyntaxError` exceptions caused by invalid byte sequences. Patch by Pablo Galindo .. .. date: 2024-02-22-11-33-20 .. gh-issue: 115778 .. nonce: jksd1D .. section: Core and Builtins Add ``tierN`` annotation for instruction definition in interpreter DSL. .. .. date: 2024-02-20-18-49-02 .. gh-issue: 115733 .. nonce: 51Zb85 .. section: Core and Builtins Fix crash when calling ``next()`` on exhausted list iterators. .. .. date: 2024-02-20-12-46-20 .. gh-issue: 115700 .. nonce: KLJ5r4 .. section: Core and Builtins The regen-cases build stage now works on Windows. .. .. date: 2024-02-14-23-50-43 .. gh-issue: 115347 .. nonce: VkHvQC .. section: Core and Builtins Fix bug where docstring was replaced by a redundant NOP when Python is run with ``-OO``. .. .. date: 2024-02-12-23-29-17 .. gh-issue: 115323 .. nonce: 3t6687 .. section: Core and Builtins Make error message more meaningful for when :meth:`bytearray.extend` is called with a :class:`str` object. .. .. date: 2024-02-09-18-59-22 .. gh-issue: 112175 .. nonce: qglugr .. section: Core and Builtins Every ``PyThreadState`` now has its own ``eval_breaker``, allowing specific threads to be interrupted. .. .. date: 2024-02-08-16-01-18 .. gh-issue: 115154 .. nonce: ji96FV .. section: Core and Builtins Fix a bug that was causing the :func:`tokenize.untokenize` function to handle unicode named literals incorrectly. Patch by Pablo Galindo .. .. date: 2024-01-28-02-46-12 .. gh-issue: 112433 .. nonce: FUX-nT .. section: Core and Builtins Add ability to force alignment of :mod:`ctypes.Structure` by way of the new ``_align_`` attribute on the class. .. .. date: 2023-07-16-15-02-47 .. gh-issue: 104090 .. nonce: oMjNa9 .. section: Core and Builtins The multiprocessing resource tracker now exits with non-zero status code if a resource leak was detected. It still exits with status code 0 otherwise. .. .. date: 2023-06-16-21-29-06 .. gh-issue: 105858 .. nonce: Q7h0EV .. section: Core and Builtins Improve the constructors for :mod:`ast` nodes. Arguments of list types now default to an empty list if omitted, and optional fields default to ``None``. AST nodes now have an ``__annotations__`` attribute with the expected types of their attributes. Passing unrecognized extra arguments to AST nodes is deprecated and will become an error in Python 3.15. Omitting a required argument to an AST node is deprecated and will become an error in Python 3.15. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra. .. .. date: 2023-02-13-11-36-50 .. gh-issue: 101860 .. nonce: CKCMbC .. section: Core and Builtins Expose ``__name__`` attribute on property. .. .. date: 2022-09-04-16-51-56 .. gh-issue: 96497 .. nonce: HTBuIL .. section: Core and Builtins Fix incorrect resolution of mangled class variables used in assignment expressions in comprehensions. .. .. date: 2024-03-11-12-11-10 .. gh-issue: 116600 .. nonce: FcNBy_ .. section: Library Fix :func:`repr` for global :class:`~enum.Flag` members. .. .. date: 2024-03-07-21-57-50 .. gh-issue: 116349 .. nonce: fD2pbP .. section: Library :func:`platform.java_ver` is deprecated and will be removed in 3.15. It was largely untested, had a confusing API, and was only useful for Jython support. .. .. date: 2024-03-05-20-53-34 .. gh-issue: 116143 .. nonce: sww6Zl .. section: Library Fix a race in pydoc ``_start_server``, eliminating a window in which ``_start_server`` can return a thread that is "serving" but without a ``docserver`` set. .. .. date: 2024-03-05-14-34-22 .. gh-issue: 116127 .. nonce: 5uktu3 .. section: Library :mod:`typing`: implement :pep:`705` which adds :data:`typing.ReadOnly` support to :class:`typing.TypedDict`. .. .. date: 2024-03-05-02-09-18 .. gh-issue: 116325 .. nonce: FmlBYv .. section: Library :mod:`typing`: raise :exc:`SyntaxError` instead of :exc:`AttributeError` on forward references as empty strings. .. .. date: 2024-03-02-11-31-49 .. gh-issue: 115957 .. nonce: C-3Z_U .. section: Library When ``asyncio.TaskGroup.create_task`` is called on an inactive ``asyncio.TaskGroup``, the given coroutine will be closed (which prevents a ``RuntimeWarning``). .. .. date: 2024-03-01-14-22-08 .. gh-issue: 115978 .. nonce: r2ePTo .. section: Library Disable preadv(), readv(), pwritev(), and writev() on WASI. Under wasmtime for WASI 0.2, these functions don't pass test_posix (https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/7830). .. .. date: 2024-03-01-11-57-32 .. gh-issue: 88352 .. nonce: bZ68rw .. section: Library Fix the computation of the next rollover time in the :class:`logging.TimedRotatingFileHandler` handler. :meth:`!computeRollover` now always returns a timestamp larger than the specified time and works correctly during the DST change. :meth:`!doRollover` no longer overwrite the already rolled over file, saving from data loss when run at midnight or during repeated time at the DST change. .. .. date: 2024-02-29-20-06-06 .. gh-issue: 87115 .. nonce: FVMiOR .. section: Library Set ``__main__.__spec__`` to ``None`` when running a script with :mod:`pdb` .. .. date: 2024-02-29-17-06-54 .. gh-issue: 76511 .. nonce: WqjRLP .. section: Library Fix UnicodeEncodeError in :meth:`email.Message.as_string` that results when a message that claims to be in the ascii character set actually has non-ascii characters. Non-ascii characters are now replaced with the U+FFFD replacement character, like in the ``replace`` error handler. .. .. date: 2024-02-28-17-50-42 .. gh-issue: 89547 .. nonce: GetF38 .. section: Library Add support for nested typing special forms like Final[ClassVar[int]]. .. .. date: 2024-02-28-17-04-28 .. gh-issue: 65824 .. nonce: gG8KR1 .. section: Library Improve the ``less`` prompt in :mod:`pydoc`. .. .. date: 2024-02-28-13-10-17 .. gh-issue: 116040 .. nonce: wDidHd .. section: Library [Enum] fix by-value calls when second value is falsey; e.g. Cardinal(1, 0) .. .. date: 2024-02-28-12-14-31 .. gh-issue: 115821 .. nonce: YO2vKA .. section: Library [Enum] Improve error message when calling super().__new__() in custom __new__. .. .. date: 2024-02-27-20-11-29 .. gh-issue: 85644 .. nonce: 3rgcBm .. section: Library Use the ``XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP`` environment variable in :mod:`webbrowser` to check desktop. Prefer it to the deprecated ``GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID`` for GNOME detection. .. .. date: 2024-02-27-13-05-51 .. gh-issue: 75988 .. nonce: In6LlB .. section: Library Fixed :func:`unittest.mock.create_autospec` to pass the call through to the wrapped object to return the real result. .. .. date: 2024-02-25-19-20-05 .. gh-issue: 115881 .. nonce: ro_Kuw .. section: Library Fix issue where :func:`ast.parse` would incorrectly flag conditional context managers (such as ``with (x() if y else z()): ...``) as invalid syntax if ``feature_version=(3, 8)`` was passed. This reverts changes to the grammar made as part of gh-94949. .. .. date: 2024-02-24-18-48-14 .. gh-issue: 115886 .. nonce: rgM6AF .. section: Library Fix silent truncation of the name with an embedded null character in :class:`multiprocessing.shared_memory.SharedMemory`. .. .. date: 2024-02-23-11-08-31 .. gh-issue: 115532 .. nonce: zVd3gK .. section: Library Add kernel density estimation to the statistics module. .. .. date: 2024-02-22-12-10-18 .. gh-issue: 115714 .. nonce: P2JsU1 .. section: Library On WASI, the :mod:`time` module no longer get process time using ``times()`` or ``CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID``, system API is that is unreliable and is likely to be removed from WASI. The affected clock functions fall back to calling ``clock()``. .. .. date: 2024-02-22-11-29-27 .. gh-issue: 115809 .. nonce: 9H1DhB .. section: Library Improve algorithm for computing which rolled-over log files to delete in :class:`logging.TimedRotatingFileHandler`. It is now reliable for handlers without ``namer`` and with arbitrary deterministic ``namer`` that leaves the datetime part in the file name unmodified. .. .. date: 2024-02-21-17-54-59 .. gh-issue: 74668 .. nonce: JT-Q8W .. section: Library :mod:`urllib.parse` functions :func:`~urllib.parse.parse_qs` and :func:`~urllib.parse.parse_qsl` now support bytes arguments containing raw and percent-encoded non-ASCII data. .. .. date: 2024-02-20-22-02-34 .. gh-issue: 67044 .. nonce: QF9_Ru .. section: Library :func:`csv.writer` now always quotes or escapes ``'\r'`` and ``'\n'``, regardless of *lineterminator* value. .. .. date: 2024-02-20-16-42-54 .. gh-issue: 115712 .. nonce: EXVMXw .. section: Library Restore support of space delimiter with ``skipinitialspace=True`` in :mod:`csv`. :func:`csv.writer` now quotes empty fields if delimiter is a space and skipinitialspace is true and raises exception if quoting is not possible. .. .. date: 2024-02-20-07-38-15 .. gh-issue: 112364 .. nonce: EX7uGI .. section: Library Fixed :func:`ast.unparse` to handle format_spec with ``"``, ``'`` or ``\\``. Patched by Frank Hoffmann. .. .. date: 2024-02-19-16-53-48 .. gh-issue: 112997 .. nonce: sYBXRZ .. section: Library Stop logging potentially sensitive callback arguments in :mod:`asyncio` unless debug mode is active. .. .. date: 2024-02-19-15-52-30 .. gh-issue: 114914 .. nonce: M5-1d8 .. section: Library Fix an issue where an abandoned :class:`StreamWriter` would not be garbage collected. .. .. date: 2024-02-18-12-18-12 .. gh-issue: 111358 .. nonce: 9yJUMD .. section: Library Fix a bug in :meth:`asyncio.BaseEventLoop.shutdown_default_executor` to ensure the timeout passed to the coroutine behaves as expected. .. .. date: 2024-02-17-18-47-12 .. gh-issue: 115618 .. nonce: napiNp .. section: Library Fix improper decreasing the reference count for ``None`` argument in :class:`property` methods :meth:`~property.getter`, :meth:`~property.setter` and :meth:`~property.deleter`. .. .. date: 2024-02-16-16-40-10 .. gh-issue: 112720 .. nonce: io6_Ac .. section: Library Refactor :class:`dis.ArgResolver` to make it possible to subclass and change the way jump args are interpreted. .. .. date: 2024-02-15-23-42-54 .. gh-issue: 112006 .. nonce: 4wxcK- .. section: Library Fix :func:`inspect.unwrap` for types with the ``__wrapper__`` data descriptor. Fix :meth:`inspect.Signature.from_callable` for builtins :func:`classmethod` and :func:`staticmethod`. .. .. date: 2024-02-15-19-11-49 .. gh-issue: 101293 .. nonce: 898b8l .. section: Library Support callables with the ``__call__()`` method and types with ``__new__()`` and ``__init__()`` methods set to class methods, static methods, bound methods, partial functions, and other types of methods and descriptors in :meth:`inspect.Signature.from_callable`. .. .. date: 2024-02-12-11-42-48 .. gh-issue: 103092 .. nonce: sGMKr0 .. section: Library Isolate :mod:`!_lsprof` (apply :pep:`687`). .. .. date: 2024-02-11-20-12-39 .. gh-issue: 113942 .. nonce: i72sMJ .. section: Library :mod:`pydoc` no longer skips global functions implemented as builtin methods, such as :class:`~type.MethodDescriptorType` and :class:`~type.WrapperDescriptorType`. .. .. date: 2024-02-10-17-18-49 .. gh-issue: 115256 .. nonce: 41Fy9P .. section: Library Added DeprecationWarning when accessing the tarfile attribute of TarInfo objects. The attribute is never used internally and is only attached to TarInfos when the tarfile is opened in write-mode, not read-mode. The attribute creates an unnecessary reference cycle which may cause corruption when not closing the handle after writing a tarfile. .. .. date: 2024-02-09-19-41-48 .. gh-issue: 115197 .. nonce: 20wkWH .. section: Library ``urllib.request`` no longer resolves the hostname before checking it against the system's proxy bypass list on macOS and Windows. .. .. date: 2024-02-09-12-22-47 .. gh-issue: 113812 .. nonce: wOraaG .. section: Library :meth:`DatagramTransport.sendto` will now send zero-length datagrams if called with an empty bytes object. The transport flow control also now accounts for the datagram header when calculating the buffer size. .. .. date: 2024-01-30-23-28-29 .. gh-issue: 114763 .. nonce: BRjKkg .. section: Library Protect modules loaded with :class:`importlib.util.LazyLoader` from race conditions when multiple threads try to access attributes before the loading is complete. .. .. date: 2024-01-29-13-46-41 .. gh-issue: 114709 .. nonce: SQ998l .. section: Library :func:`posixpath.commonpath` now raises a :exc:`ValueError` exception when passed an empty iterable. Previously, :exc:`IndexError` was raised. :func:`posixpath.commonpath` now raises a :exc:`TypeError` exception when passed ``None``. Previously, :exc:`ValueError` was raised. .. .. date: 2024-01-26-16-42-31 .. gh-issue: 114610 .. nonce: S18Vuz .. section: Library Fix bug where :meth:`pathlib.PurePath.with_stem` converted a non-empty path suffix to a stem when given an empty *stem* argument. It now raises :exc:`ValueError`, just like :meth:`pathlib.PurePath.with_suffix` does when called on a path with an empty stem, given a non-empty *suffix* argument. .. .. date: 2023-11-24-23-40-00 .. gh-issue: 107361 .. nonce: v54gh46 .. section: Library Add :data:`ssl.VERIFY_X509_PARTIAL_CHAIN` and :data:`VERIFY_X509_STRICT` to the default SSL context created with :func:`ssl.create_default_context`. .. .. date: 2023-11-20-16-15-44 .. gh-issue: 112281 .. nonce: gH4EVk .. section: Library Allow creating :ref:`union of types` for :class:`typing.Annotated` with unhashable metadata. .. .. date: 2023-11-07-10-22-06 .. gh-issue: 111775 .. nonce: IoVxfX .. section: Library Fix :meth:`importlib.resources.simple.ResourceHandle.open` for text mode, added missed ``stream`` argument. .. .. date: 2023-10-07-06-15-13 .. gh-issue: 90095 .. nonce: gWn1ka .. section: Library Make .pdbrc and -c work with any valid pdb commands. .. .. date: 2023-08-05-08-41-58 .. gh-issue: 107625 .. nonce: cVSHCT .. section: Library Raise :exc:`configparser.ParsingError` from :meth:`~configparser.ConfigParser.read` and :meth:`~configparser.ConfigParser.read_file` methods of :class:`configparser.ConfigParser` if a key without a corresponding value is continued (that is, followed by an indented line). .. .. date: 2023-08-02-01-17-32 .. gh-issue: 107155 .. nonce: Mj1K9L .. section: Library Fix incorrect output of ``help(x)`` where ``x`` is a :keyword:`lambda` function, which has an ``__annotations__`` dictionary attribute with a ``"return"`` key. .. .. date: 2023-07-12-14-52-04 .. gh-issue: 57141 .. nonce: L2k8Xb .. section: Library Add option for *non-shallow* comparisons to :class:`filecmp.dircmp` like :func:`filecmp.cmp`. Original patch by Steven Ward. Enhanced by Tobias Rautenkranz .. .. date: 2023-05-17-21-33-21 .. gh-issue: 69990 .. nonce: Blvz9G .. section: Library :meth:`Profile.print_stats` has been improved to accept multiple sort arguments. Patched by Chiu-Hsiang Hsu and Furkan Onder. .. .. date: 2023-05-01-22-28-57 .. gh-issue: 104061 .. nonce: vxfBXf .. section: Library Add :data:`socket.SO_BINDTOIFINDEX` constant. .. .. date: 2023-04-02-21-20-35 .. gh-issue: 60346 .. nonce: 7mjgua .. section: Library Fix ArgumentParser inconsistent with parse_known_args. .. .. date: 2023-03-03-09-05-42 .. gh-issue: 102389 .. nonce: ucmo0_ .. section: Library Add ``windows_31j`` to aliases for ``cp932`` codec .. .. date: 2023-02-14-17-19-59 .. gh-issue: 72249 .. nonce: fv35wU .. section: Library :func:`functools.partial`s of :func:`repr` has been improved to include the :term:`module` name. Patched by Furkan Onder and Anilyka Barry. .. .. date: 2023-01-12-14-16-01 .. gh-issue: 100985 .. nonce: GT5Fvd .. section: Library Update HTTPSConnection to consistently wrap IPv6 Addresses when using a proxy. .. .. date: 2023-01-09-14-08-02 .. gh-issue: 100884 .. nonce: DcmdLl .. section: Library email: fix misfolding of comma in address-lists over multiple lines in combination with unicode encoding. .. .. date: 2022-11-22-23-17-43 .. gh-issue: 95782 .. nonce: an_and .. section: Library Fix :func:`io.BufferedReader.tell`, :func:`io.BufferedReader.seek`, :func:`!_pyio.BufferedReader.tell`, :func:`io.BufferedRandom.tell`, :func:`io.BufferedRandom.seek` and :func:`!_pyio.BufferedRandom.tell` being able to return negative offsets. .. .. date: 2022-08-26-15-50-53 .. gh-issue: 96310 .. nonce: 0NssDh .. section: Library Fix a traceback in :mod:`argparse` when all options in a mutually exclusive group are suppressed. .. .. date: 2022-05-25-17-49-04 .. gh-issue: 93205 .. nonce: DjhFVR .. section: Library Fixed a bug in :class:`logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler` where multiple rotating handler instances pointing to files with the same name but different extensions would conflict and not delete the correct files. .. .. bpo: 31116 .. date: 2022-01-14-10-50-17 .. nonce: 0bduV9 .. section: Library Add Z85 encoding to ``base64``. .. .. bpo: 44865 .. date: 2021-08-24-20-47-37 .. nonce: c3BhZS .. section: Library Add missing call to localization function in :mod:`argparse`. .. .. bpo: 43952 .. date: 2021-05-03-11-04-12 .. nonce: Me7fJe .. section: Library Fix :meth:`multiprocessing.connection.Listener.accept` to accept empty bytes as authkey. Not accepting empty bytes as key causes it to hang indefinitely. .. .. bpo: 42125 .. date: 2020-12-15-22-30-49 .. nonce: UGyseY .. section: Library linecache: get module name from ``__spec__`` if available. This allows getting source code for the ``__main__`` module when a custom loader is used. .. .. bpo: 41122 .. date: 2020-07-13-23-59-42 .. nonce: 8P_Brh .. section: Library Failing to pass arguments properly to :func:`functools.singledispatchmethod` now throws a TypeError instead of hitting an index out of bounds internally. .. .. bpo: 40818 .. date: 2020-05-29-18-08-54 .. nonce: Ij8ffq .. section: Library The asyncio REPL now runs :data:`sys.__interactivehook__` on startup. The default implementation of :data:`sys.__interactivehook__` provides auto-completion to the asyncio REPL. Patch contributed by RĂ©mi Lapeyre. .. .. bpo: 33775 .. date: 2019-04-06-23-50-59 .. nonce: 0yhMDc .. section: Library Add 'default' and 'version' help text for localization in argparse. .. .. date: 2024-02-14-20-17-04 .. gh-issue: 115399 .. nonce: fb9a0R .. section: Documentation Document :cve:`2023-52425` of Expat <2.6.0 under "XML vulnerabilities". .. .. date: 2024-02-08-08-51-37 .. gh-issue: 109653 .. nonce: QHLW4w .. section: Documentation Improve import time of :mod:`uuid` on Linux. .. .. date: 2024-02-25-16-28-26 .. gh-issue: 71052 .. nonce: lSb9EC .. section: Tests Add test exclusions to support running the test suite on Android. .. .. date: 2024-02-25-15-58-28 .. gh-issue: 71052 .. nonce: lxBjqY .. section: Tests Enable ``test_concurrent_futures`` on platforms that support threading but not multiprocessing. .. .. date: 2024-02-22-00-17-06 .. gh-issue: 115796 .. nonce: d4hpKy .. section: Tests Make '_testinternalcapi.assemble_code_object' construct the exception table for the code object. .. .. date: 2024-02-20-15-47-41 .. gh-issue: 115720 .. nonce: w8i8UG .. section: Tests Leak tests (``-R``, ``--huntrleaks``) now show a summary of the number of leaks found in each iteration. .. .. date: 2024-02-18-14-20-52 .. gh-issue: 115122 .. nonce: 3rGNo9 .. section: Tests Add ``--bisect`` option to regrtest test runner: run failed tests with ``test.bisect_cmd`` to identify failing tests. Patch by Victor Stinner. .. .. date: 2024-02-17-08-25-01 .. gh-issue: 115596 .. nonce: RGPCrR .. section: Tests Fix ``ProgramPriorityTests`` in ``test_os`` permanently changing the process priority. .. .. date: 2024-02-16-13-04-28 .. gh-issue: 115556 .. nonce: rjaQ9w .. section: Tests On Windows, commas passed in arguments to ``Tools\buildbot\test.bat`` and ``PCbuild\\rt.bat`` are now properly handled. .. .. date: 2024-02-13-18-24-04 .. gh-issue: 115420 .. nonce: -dlzfI .. section: Tests Fix translation of exception handler targets by ``_testinternalcapi.optimize_cfg``. .. .. date: 2024-02-12-22-35-01 .. gh-issue: 115376 .. nonce: n9vubZ .. section: Tests Fix segfault in ``_testinternalcapi.compiler_codegen`` on bad input. .. .. date: 2024-03-04-12-43-42 .. gh-issue: 116313 .. nonce: cLLb8S .. section: Build Get WASI builds to work under wasmtime 18 w/ WASI 0.2/preview2 primitives. .. .. date: 2024-03-01-16-44-19 .. gh-issue: 71052 .. nonce: Hs-9EP .. section: Build Change Android's :data:`sys.platform` from ``"linux"`` to ``"android"``. .. .. date: 2024-02-29-15-12-31 .. gh-issue: 116117 .. nonce: eENkQK .. section: Build Backport ``libb2``'s PR #42 to fix compiling CPython on 32-bit Windows with ``clang-cl``. .. .. date: 2024-02-26-14-54-58 .. gh-issue: 71052 .. nonce: XvFay1 .. section: Build Fix several Android build issues .. .. date: 2024-02-26-13-13-53 .. gh-issue: 114099 .. nonce: 8lpX-7 .. section: Build A testbed project was added to run the test suite on iOS. .. .. date: 2024-02-24-12-50-43 .. gh-issue: 115350 .. nonce: naQA6y .. section: Build Fix building ctypes module with -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN defined .. .. date: 2024-02-21-18-22-49 .. gh-issue: 111225 .. nonce: Z8C3av .. section: Build Link extension modules against libpython on Android. .. .. date: 2024-02-21-11-58-30 .. gh-issue: 115737 .. nonce: dpNl2T .. section: Build The install name for libPython is now correctly set for non-framework macOS builds. .. .. date: 2024-02-13-14-52-59 .. gh-issue: 114099 .. nonce: zjXsQr .. section: Build Makefile targets were added to support compiling an iOS-compatible framework build. .. .. date: 2024-02-27-23-21-55 .. gh-issue: 116012 .. nonce: B9_IwM .. section: Windows Ensure the value of ``GetLastError()`` is preserved across GIL operations. .. .. date: 2024-02-23-11-43-43 .. gh-issue: 115582 .. nonce: sk1XPi .. section: Windows Building extensions intended for free-threaded builds of CPython now require compiling with ``/DPy_GIL_DISABLED`` manually when using a regular install. This is expected to change in future releases. .. .. date: 2024-02-21-23-48-59 .. gh-issue: 115554 .. nonce: 02mpQC .. section: Windows The installer now has more strict rules about updating the :ref:`launcher`. In general, most users only have a single launcher installed and will see no difference. When multiple launchers have been installed, the option to install the launcher is disabled until all but one have been removed. Downgrading the launcher (which was never allowed) is now more obviously blocked. .. .. date: 2024-02-15-23-16-31 .. gh-issue: 115543 .. nonce: otrWnw .. section: Windows :ref:`launcher` can now detect Python 3.13 when installed from the Microsoft Store, and will install Python 3.12 by default when :envvar:`PYLAUNCHER_ALLOW_INSTALL` is set. .. .. date: 2024-02-29-20-52-23 .. gh-issue: 116145 .. nonce: ygafim .. section: macOS Update macOS installer to Tcl/Tk 8.6.14. .. .. date: 2023-12-09-11-04-26 .. gh-issue: 88516 .. nonce: SIIvfs .. section: IDLE On macOS show a proxy icon in the title bar of editor windows to match platform behaviour. .. .. date: 2023-02-12-19-28-08 .. gh-issue: 100176 .. nonce: Kzs4Zw .. section: Tools/Demos Remove outdated Tools/{io,cc,string}bench .. .. bpo: 45101 .. date: 2021-09-05-02-47-48 .. nonce: 60Zqmt .. section: Tools/Demos Add consistency in usage message IO between 2 versions of python-config. .. .. date: 2024-02-16-15-56-53 .. gh-issue: 114626 .. nonce: ie2esA .. section: C API Add again ``_PyCFunctionFastWithKeywords`` name, removed in Python 3.13 alpha 4 by mistake. Keep the old private ``_PyCFunctionFastWithKeywords`` name (Python 3.7) as an alias to the new public name ``PyCFunctionFastWithKeywords`` (Python 3.13a4). Patch by Victor Stinner. .. .. date: 2023-11-15-09-24-51 .. gh-issue: 111418 .. nonce: FYYetY .. section: C API Add :c:macro:`PyHASH_MODULUS`, :c:macro:`PyHASH_BITS`, :c:macro:`PyHASH_INF` and :c:macro:`PyHASH_IMAG` C macros. Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.