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Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.0/Build.0.rst

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+- Issue #25071: Windows installer should not require TargetDir
+  parameter when installing quietly.
+

Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.0/release.date.rst

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+2015-09-13

Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.0a1/Build.0.rst

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+- Issue #15506: Use standard PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG autoconf macro in the configure
+  script.
+
+- Issue #22935: Allow the ssl module to be compiled if openssl doesn't support
+  SSL 3.
+
+- Issue #22592: Drop support of the Borland C compiler to build Python. The
+  distutils module still supports it to build extensions.
+
+- Issue #22591: Drop support of MS-DOS, especially of the DJGPP compiler
+  (MS-DOS port of GCC).
+
+- Issue #16537: Check whether self.extensions is empty in setup.py. Patch by
+  Jonathan Hosmer.
+
+- Issue #22359: Remove incorrect uses of recursive make.  Patch by Jonas
+  Wagner.
+
+- Issue #21958: Define HAVE_ROUND when building with Visual Studio 2013 and
+  above.  Patch by Zachary Turner.
+
+- Issue #18093: the programs that embed the CPython runtime are now in a
+  separate "Programs" directory, rather than being kept in the Modules
+  directory.
+
+- Issue #15759: "make suspicious", "make linkcheck" and "make doctest" in Doc/
+  now display special message when and only when there are failures.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #21037: Add a build option to enable AddressSanitizer support.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #21285: Refactor and fix curses configure check to always search
+  in a ncursesw directory.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #17861: Tools/scripts/generate_opcode_h.py automatically regenerates
+  Include/opcode.h from Lib/opcode.py if the latter gets any change.
+
+- Issue #20644: OS X installer build support for documentation build changes
+  in 3.4.1: assume externally supplied sphinx-build is available in /usr/bin.
+
+- Issue #20022: Eliminate use of deprecated bundlebuilder in OS X builds.
+
+- Issue #15968: Incorporated Tcl, Tk, and Tix builds into the Windows build
+  solution.
+
+- Issue #17095: Fix Modules/Setup *shared* support.
+
+- Issue #21811: Anticipated fixes to support OS X versions > 10.9.
+
+- Issue #21166: Prevent possible segfaults and other random failures of
+  python --generate-posix-vars in pybuilddir.txt build target.
+
+- Issue #18096: Fix library order returned by python-config.
+
+- Issue #17219: Add library build dir for Python extension cross-builds.
+
+- Issue #22919: Windows build updated to support VC 14.0 (Visual Studio 2015),
+  which will be used for the official release.
+
+- Issue #21236: Build _msi.pyd with cabinet.lib instead of fci.lib
+
+- Issue #17128: Use private version of OpenSSL for OS X 10.5+ installer.
+

Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.0a1/C API.0.rst

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+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #22079: PyType_Ready() now checks that statically allocated type has
+  no dynamically allocated bases.
+
+- Issue #22453: Removed non-documented macro PyObject_REPR().
+
+- Issue #18395: Rename ``_Py_char2wchar()`` to :c:func:`Py_DecodeLocale`,
+  rename ``_Py_wchar2char()`` to :c:func:`Py_EncodeLocale`, and document
+  these functions.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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().
+

Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.0a1/Core and Builtins.0.rst

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+- Issue #23285: PEP 475 - EINTR handling.
+
+- Issue #22735: Fix many edge cases (including crashes) involving custom mro()
+  implementations.
+
+- Issue #22896: Avoid using PyObject_AsCharBuffer(), PyObject_AsReadBuffer()
+  and PyObject_AsWriteBuffer().
+
+- Issue #21295: Revert some changes (issue #16795) to AST line numbers and
+  column offsets that constituted a regression.
+
+- Issue #22986: Allow changing an object's __class__ between a dynamic type and
+  static type in some cases.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #21408: The default __ne__() now returns NotImplemented if __eq__()
+  returned NotImplemented.  Original patch by Martin Panter.
+
+- Issue #23321: Fixed a crash in str.decode() when error handler returned
+  replacment string longer than mailformed input data.
+
+- Issue #22286: The "backslashreplace" error handlers now works with
+  decoding and translating.
+
+- Issue #23253: Delay-load ShellExecute[AW] in os.startfile for reduced
+  startup overhead on Windows.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #20284: %-interpolation (aka printf) formatting added for bytes and
+  bytearray.
+
+- Issue #23048: Fix jumping out of an infinite while loop in the pdb.
+
+- Issue #20335: bytes constructor now raises TypeError when encoding or errors
+  is specified with non-string argument.  Based on patch by Renaud Blanch.
+
+- Issue #22834: If the current working directory ends up being set to a
+  non-existent directory then import will no longer raise FileNotFoundError.
+
+- Issue #22869: Move the interpreter startup & shutdown code to a new
+  dedicated pylifecycle.c module
+
+- Issue #22847: Improve method cache efficiency.
+
+- Issue #22335: Fix crash when trying to enlarge a bytearray to 0x7fffffff
+  bytes on a 32-bit platform.
+
+- Issue #22653: Fix an assertion failure in debug mode when doing a reentrant
+  dict insertion in debug mode.
+
+- Issue #22643: Fix integer overflow in Unicode case operations (upper, lower,
+  title, swapcase, casefold).
+
+- Issue #17636: Circular imports involving relative imports are now
+  supported.
+
+- Issue #22604: Fix assertion error in debug mode when dividing a complex
+  number by (nan+0j).
+
+- Issue #21052: Do not raise ImportWarning when sys.path_hooks or sys.meta_path
+  are set to None.
+
+- Issue #16518: Use 'bytes-like object required' in error messages that
+  previously used the far more cryptic "'x' does not support the buffer
+  protocol.
+
+- Issue #22470: Fixed integer overflow issues in "backslashreplace",
+  "xmlcharrefreplace", and "surrogatepass" error handlers.
+
+- Issue #22540: speed up `PyObject_IsInstance` and `PyObject_IsSubclass` in the
+  common case that the second argument has metaclass `type`.
+
+- Issue #18711: Add a new `PyErr_FormatV` function, similar to `PyErr_Format`
+  but accepting a `va_list` argument.
+
+- Issue #22520: Fix overflow checking when generating the repr of a unicode
+  object.
+
+- Issue #22519: Fix overflow checking in PyBytes_Repr.
+
+- Issue #22518: Fix integer overflow issues in latin-1 encoding.
+
+- Issue #16324: _charset parameter of MIMEText now also accepts
+  email.charset.Charset instances. Initial patch by Claude Paroz.
+
+- Issue #1764286: Fix inspect.getsource() to support decorated functions.
+  Patch by Claudiu Popa.
+
+- Issue #18554: os.__all__ includes posix functions.
+
+- Issue #21391: Use os.path.abspath in the shutil module.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #22215: Now ValueError is raised instead of TypeError when str or bytes
+  argument contains not permitted null character or byte.
+
+- Issue #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``).
+
+- Issue #21389: Displaying the __qualname__ of the underlying function in the
+  repr of a bound method.
+
+- Issue #22206: Using pthread, PyThread_create_key() now sets errno to ENOMEM
+  and returns -1 (error) on integer overflow.
+
+- Issue #20184: Argument Clinic based signature introspection added for
+  30 of the builtin functions.
+
+- Issue #22116: C functions and methods (of the 'builtin_function_or_method'
+  type) can now be weakref'ed.  Patch by Wei Wu.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #20179: Apply Argument Clinic to bytes and bytearray.
+  Patch by Tal Einat.
+
+- Issue #22082: Clear interned strings in slotdefs.
+
+- Upgrade Unicode database to Unicode 7.0.0.
+
+- Issue #21897: Fix a crash with the f_locals attribute with closure
+  variables when frame.clear() has been called.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #21418: Fix a crash in the builtin function super() when called without
+  argument and without current frame (ex: embedded Python).
+
+- Issue #21425: Fix flushing of standard streams in the interactive
+  interpreter.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #21377: PyBytes_Concat() now tries to concatenate in-place when the
+  first argument has a reference count of 1.  Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
+
+- Issue #20355: -W command line options now have higher priority than the
+  PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable.  Patch by Arfrever.
+
+- Issue #21274: Define PATH_MAX for GNU/Hurd in Python/pythonrun.c.
+
+- Issue #20904: Support setting FPU precision on m68k.
+
+- Issue #21209: Fix sending tuples to custom generator objects with the yield
+  from syntax.
+
+- Issue #21193: pow(a, b, c) now raises ValueError rather than TypeError when b
+  is negative.  Patch by Josh Rosenberg.
+
+- PEP 465 and Issue #21176: Add the '@' operator for matrix multiplication.
+
+- Issue #21134: Fix segfault when str is called on an uninitialized
+  UnicodeEncodeError, UnicodeDecodeError, or UnicodeTranslateError object.
+
+- Issue #19537: Fix PyUnicode_DATA() alignment under m68k.  Patch by
+  Andreas Schwab.
+
+- Issue #20929: Add a type cast to avoid shifting a negative number.
+
+- Issue #20731: Properly position in source code files even if they
+  are opened in text mode. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #20637: Key-sharing now also works for instance dictionaries of
+  subclasses.  Patch by Peter Ingebretson.
+
+- Issue #8297: Attributes missing from modules now include the module name
+  in the error text.  Original patch by ysj.ray.
+
+- Issue #19995: %c, %o, %x, and %X now raise TypeError on non-integer input.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #12546: Allow ``\x00`` to be used as a fill character when using str, int,
+  float, and complex __format__ methods.
+
+- Issue #20480: Add ipaddress.reverse_pointer. Patch by Leon Weber.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #23165: Perform overflow checks before allocating memory in the
+  _Py_char2wchar function.
+

Misc/NEWS.d/3.5.0a1/Documentation.0.rst

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+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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``.
+
+- Issue #21514: The documentation of the json module now refers to new JSON RFC
+  7159 instead of obsoleted RFC 4627.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #6916: undocument deprecated asynchat.fifo class.
+
+- Issue #17386: Expanded functionality of the ``Doc/make.bat`` script to make
+  it much more comparable to ``Doc/Makefile``.
+
+- Issue #21312: Update the thread_foobar.h template file to include newer
+  threading APIs.  Patch by Jack McCracken.
+
+- Issue #21043: Remove the recommendation for specific CA organizations and to
+  mention the ability to load the OS certificates.
+
+- Issue #20765: Add missing documentation for PurePath.with_name() and
+  PurePath.with_suffix().
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #19697: Document cases where __main__.__spec__ is None.
+