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(Contributed by Inada Naoki in :issue:`44029`.)


Notable changes in 3.11.4
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tarfile
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* The extraction methods in :mod:`tarfile`, and :func:`shutil.unpack_archive`,
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Perhaps an item list is not needed for a single item.

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This came up in the 3.12 What's New, and we decided to keep it so the indent is consistent with the others, and it looks better as you scroll down.

have a new a *filter* argument that allows limiting tar features than may be
surprising or dangerous, such as creating files outside the destination
directory.
See :ref:`tarfile-extraction-filter` for details.
In Python 3.12, use without the *filter* argument will show a
:exc:`DeprecationWarning`.
In Python 3.14, the default will switch to ``'data'``.
(Contributed by Petr Viktorin in :pep:`706`.)


Notable changes in 3.11.5
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OpenSSL
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* Windows builds and macOS installers from python.org now use OpenSSL 3.0.


.. _libb2: https://www.blake2.net/