Merge 3.5

7 files changed, 6617 insertions, 4752 deletions

diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 06c7a93bc0..5faed18582 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ Ben Bell
 Thomas Bellman
 Alexander “Саша” Belopolsky
 Eli Bendersky
+Nikhil Benesch
 David Benjamin
 Oscar Benjamin
 Andrew Bennetts
@@ -156,6 +157,7 @@ Finn Bock
 Paul Boddie
 Matthew Boedicker
 Robin Boerdijk
+Nikolay Bogoychev
 David Bolen
 Wouter Bolsterlee
 Gawain Bolton
@@ -244,6 +246,7 @@ Octavian Cerna
 Michael Cetrulo
 Dave Chambers
 Pascal Chambon
+Nicholas Chammas
 John Chandler
 Hye-Shik Chang
 Jeffrey Chang
@@ -308,15 +311,18 @@ Greg Couch
 David Cournapeau
 Julien Courteau
 Steve Cousins
+Francisco Couzo
 Alex Coventry
 Matthew Dixon Cowles
 Ryan Coyner
 Christopher A. Craig
 Jeremy Craven
 Laura Creighton
+Tyler Crompton
 Simon Cross
 Felipe Cruz
 Drew Csillag
+Alessandro Cucci
 Joaquin Cuenca Abela
 Sebastian Cufre
 John Cugini
@@ -361,6 +367,7 @@ Humberto Diogenes
 Yves Dionne
 Daniel Dittmar
 Josip Djolonga
+Walter Dörwald
 Jaromir Dolecek
 Ismail Donmez
 Robert Donohue
@@ -388,7 +395,6 @@ Eugene Dvurechenski
 Karmen Dykstra
 Josip Dzolonga
 Maxim Dzumanenko
-Walter Dörwald
 Hans Eckardt
 Rodolpho Eckhardt
 Ulrich Eckhardt
@@ -547,8 +553,10 @@ Michael Guravage
 Lars Gustäbel
 Thomas Güttler
 Jonas H.
+Joseph Hackman
 Barry Haddow
 Philipp Hagemeister
+John Hagen
 Paul ten Hagen
 Rasmus Hahn
 Peter Haight
@@ -787,6 +795,7 @@ Damon Kohler
 Marko Kohtala
 Vajrasky Kok
 Guido Kollerie
+Jacek Kołodziej
 Jacek Konieczny
 Arkady Koplyarov
 Peter A. Koren
@@ -798,6 +807,7 @@ Daniel Kozan
 Jerzy Kozera
 Maksim Kozyarchuk
 Stefan Krah
+Rolf Krahl
 Bob Kras
 Sebastian Kreft
 Holger Krekel
@@ -830,6 +840,7 @@ Torsten Landschoff
 Tino Lange
 Glenn Langford
 Andrew Langmead
+Wolfgang Langner
 Detlef Lannert
 Soren Larsen
 Amos Latteier
@@ -893,24 +904,27 @@ Eric Lindvall
 Gregor Lingl
 Everett Lipman
 Mirko Liss
+Alexander Liu
 Nick Lockwood
 Stephanie Lockwood
+Martin von Löwis
 Hugo Lopes Tavares
 Guillermo López-Anglada
 Anne Lord
+Alex LordThorsen
 Tom Loredo
 Justin Love
 Ned Jackson Lovely
 Peter Lovett
 Chalmer Lowe
 Jason Lowe
-Martin von Löwis
 Tony Lownds
 Ray Loyzaga
 Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu
 Lukas Lueg
 Loren Luke
 Fredrik Lundh
+Mike Lundy
 Zhongyue Luo
 Mark Lutz
 Taras Lyapun
@@ -1153,9 +1167,11 @@ Ronny Pfannschmidt
 Geoff Philbrick
 Gavrie Philipson
 Adrian Phillips
+Dusty Phillips
 Christopher J. Phoenix
 James Pickering
 Neale Pickett
+Steve Piercy
 Jim St. Pierre
 Dan Pierson
 Martijn Pieters
@@ -1207,6 +1223,7 @@ Jeff Ramnani
 Bayard Randel
 Varpu Rantala
 Brodie Rao
+Rémi Rampin
 Senko Rasic
 Antti Rasinen
 Nikolaus Rath
@@ -1257,6 +1274,7 @@ Mark Roddy
 Kevin Rodgers
 Sean Rodman
 Giampaolo Rodola
+Mauro S. M. Rodrigues
 Elson Rodriguez
 Adi Roiban
 Luis Rojas
@@ -1300,6 +1318,7 @@ Constantina S.
 Matthieu S
 Patrick Sabin
 Sébastien Sablé
+Amit Saha
 Suman Saha
 Hajime Saitou
 George Sakkis
@@ -1333,6 +1352,7 @@ Michael Schneider
 Peter Schneider-Kamp
 Arvin Schnell
 Nofar Schnider
+Ed Schouten
 Scott Schram
 Robin Schreiber
 Chad J. Schroeder
@@ -1407,6 +1427,7 @@ Mark Smith
 Roy Smith
 Ryan Smith-Roberts
 Rafal Smotrzyk
+Josh Snider
 Eric Snow
 Dirk Soede
 Nir Soffer
@@ -1434,11 +1455,13 @@ Greg Stein
 Marek Stepniowski
 Baruch Sterin
 Chris Stern
+Eli Stevens
 Alex Stewart
 Victor Stinner
 Richard Stoakley
 Peter Stoehr
 Casper Stoel
+Daniel Stokes
 Michael Stone
 Serhiy Storchaka
 Ken Stox
@@ -1464,6 +1487,7 @@ John Szakmeister
 Piotr Szczepaniak
 Amir Szekely
 Maciej Szulik
+Joel Taddei
 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
 Hideaki Takahashi
 Takase Arihiro
@@ -1476,8 +1500,10 @@ William Tanksley
 Christian Tanzer
 Steven Taschuk
 Amy Taylor
+Julian Taylor
 Monty Taylor
 Anatoly Techtonik
+Martin Teichmann
 Gustavo Temple
 Mikhail Terekhov
 Victor Terrón
@@ -1659,6 +1685,7 @@ Arnon Yaari
 Alakshendra Yadav
 Hirokazu Yamamoto
 Ka-Ping Yee
+Chi Hsuan Yen
 Jason Yeo
 EungJun Yi
 Bob Yodlowski
@@ -1686,5 +1713,4 @@ Gennadiy Zlobin
 Doug Zongker
 Peter Åstrand
 evilzero
-Chi Hsuan Yen
 Dhushyanth Ramasamy
diff --git a/Misc/HISTORY b/Misc/HISTORY
index 9655d4cd40..73ec9264ab 100644
--- a/Misc/HISTORY
+++ b/Misc/HISTORY
@@ -8,6 +8,4307 @@ As you read on you go back to the dark ages of Python's history.
 ======================================================================
 
 
+What's New in Python 3.4.0?
+===========================
+
+Release date: 2014-03-16
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #20939: Fix test_geturl failure in test_urllibnet due to
+  new redirect of http://www.python.org/ to https://www.python.org.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Merge in all documentation changes since branching 3.4.0rc1.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.4.0 release candidate 3?
+===============================================
+
+Release date: 2014-03-09
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #20786: Fix signatures for dict.__delitem__ and
+  property.__delete__ builtins.
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #20839: Don't trigger a DeprecationWarning in the still supported
+  pkgutil.get_loader() API when __loader__ isn't set on a module (nor
+  when pkgutil.find_loader() is called directly).
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #14512: Launch pydoc -b instead of pydocgui.pyw on Windows.
+
+- Issue #20748: Uninstalling pip does not leave behind the pyc of
+  the uninstaller anymore.
+
+- Issue #20568: The Windows installer now installs the unversioned ``pip``
+  command in addition to the versioned ``pip3`` and ``pip3.4`` commands.
+
+- Issue #20757: The ensurepip helper for the Windows uninstaller now skips
+  uninstalling pip (rather than failing) if the user has updated pip to a
+  different version from the one bundled with ensurepip.
+
+- Issue #20465: Update OS X and Windows installer builds to use
+  SQLite 3.8.3.1.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.4.0 release candidate 2?
+===============================================
+
+Release date: 2014-02-23
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #20625: Parameter names in __annotations__ were not mangled properly.
+  Discovered by Jonas Wielicki, patch by Yury Selivanov.
+
+- Issue #20261: In pickle, lookup __getnewargs__ and __getnewargs_ex__ on the
+  type of the object.
+
+- Issue #20619: Give the AST nodes of keyword-only arguments a column and line
+  number.
+
+- Issue #20526: Revert changes of issue #19466 which introduces a regression:
+  don't clear anymore the state of Python threads early during the Python
+  shutdown.
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #20710: The pydoc summary line no longer displays the "self" parameter
+  for bound methods.
+
+- Issue #20566: Change asyncio.as_completed() to use a Queue, to
+  avoid O(N**2) behavior.
+
+- Issue #20704: Implement new debug API in asyncio. Add new methods
+  BaseEventLoop.set_debug() and BaseEventLoop.get_debug().
+  Add support for setting 'asyncio.tasks._DEBUG' variable with
+  'PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG' environment variable.
+
+- asyncio: Refactoring and fixes: BaseEventLoop.sock_connect() raises an
+  error if the address is not resolved; use __slots__ in Handle and
+  TimerHandle; as_completed() and wait() raise TypeError if the passed
+  list of Futures is a single Future; call_soon() and other 'call_*()'
+  functions raise TypeError if the passed callback is a coroutine
+  function; _ProactorBasePipeTransport uses _FlowControlMixin;
+  WriteTransport.set_write_buffer_size() calls _maybe_pause_protocol()
+  to consider pausing receiving if the watermark limits have changed;
+  fix _check_resolved_address() for IPv6 address; and other minor
+  improvements, along with multiple documentation updates.
+
+- Issue #20684: Fix inspect.getfullargspec() to not to follow __wrapped__
+  chains. Make its behaviour consistent with bound methods first argument.
+  Patch by Nick Coghlan and Yury Selivanov.
+
+- Issue #20681: Add new error handling API in asyncio. New APIs:
+  loop.set_exception_handler(), loop.default_exception_handler(), and
+  loop.call_exception_handler().
+
+- Issue #20673: Implement support for UNIX Domain Sockets in asyncio.
+  New APIs: loop.create_unix_connection(), loop.create_unix_server(),
+  streams.open_unix_connection(), and streams.start_unix_server().
+
+- Issue #20616: Add a format() method to tracemalloc.Traceback.
+
+- Issue #19744: the ensurepip installation step now just prints a warning to
+  stderr rather than failing outright if SSL/TLS is unavailable. This allows
+  local installation of POSIX builds without SSL/TLS support.
+
+- Issue #20594: Avoid name clash with the libc function posix_close.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #20641: Run MSI custom actions (pip installation, pyc compilation)
+  with the NoImpersonate flag, to support elevated execution (UAC).
+
+- Issue #20221: Removed conflicting (or circular) hypot definition when
+  compiled with VS 2010 or above.  Initial patch by Tabrez Mohammed.
+
+- Issue #20609: Restored the ability to build 64-bit Windows binaries on
+  32-bit Windows, which was broken by the change in issue #19788.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.4.0 release candidate 1?
+===============================================
+
+Release date: 2014-02-10
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #19255: The builtins module is restored to initial value before
+  cleaning other modules.  The sys and builtins modules are cleaned last.
+
+- Issue #20588: Make Python-ast.c C89 compliant.
+
+- Issue #20437: Fixed 22 potential bugs when deleting object references.
+
+- Issue #20500: Displaying an exception at interpreter shutdown no longer
+  risks triggering an assertion failure in PyObject_Str.
+
+- Issue #20538: UTF-7 incremental decoder produced inconsistent string when
+  input was truncated in BASE64 section.
+
+- Issue #20404: io.TextIOWrapper (and hence the open() builtin) now uses the
+  internal codec marking system added for issue #19619 to throw LookupError
+  for known non-text encodings at stream construction time. The existing
+  output type checks remain in place to deal with unmarked third party
+  codecs.
+
+- Issue #17162: Add PyType_GetSlot.
+
+- Issue #20162: Fix an alignment issue in the siphash24() hash function which
+  caused a crash on PowerPC 64-bit (ppc64).
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #20530: The signatures for slot builtins have been updated
+  to reflect the fact that they only accept positional-only arguments.
+
+- Issue #20517: Functions in the os module that accept two filenames
+  now register both filenames in the exception on failure.
+
+- Issue #20563: The ipaddress module API is now considered stable.
+
+- Issue #14983: email.generator now always adds a line end after each MIME
+  boundary marker, instead of doing so only when there is an epilogue.  This
+  fixes an RFC compliance bug and solves an issue with signed MIME parts.
+
+- Issue #20540: Fix a performance regression (vs. Python 3.2) when layering
+  a multiprocessing Connection over a TCP socket.  For small payloads, Nagle's
+  algorithm would introduce idle delays before the entire transmission of a
+  message.
+
+- Issue #16983: the new email header parsing code will now decode encoded words
+  that are (incorrectly) surrounded by quotes, and register a defect.
+
+- Issue #19772: email.generator no longer mutates the message object when
+  doing a down-transform from 8bit to 7bit CTEs.
+
+- Issue #20536: the statistics module now correctly handle Decimal instances
+  with positive exponents
+
+- Issue #18805: the netmask/hostmask parsing in ipaddress now more reliably
+  filters out illegal values and correctly allows any valid prefix length.
+
+- Issue #20481: For at least Python 3.4, the statistics module will require
+  that all inputs for a single operation be of a single consistent type, or
+  else a mixed of ints and a single other consistent type. This avoids
+  some interoperability issues that arose with the previous approach of
+  coercing to a suitable common type.
+
+- Issue #20478: the statistics module now treats collections.Counter inputs
+  like any other iterable.
+
+- Issue #17369: get_filename was raising an exception if the filename
+  parameter's RFC2231 encoding was broken in certain ways.  This was
+  a regression relative to python2.
+
+- Issue #20013: Some imap servers disconnect if the current mailbox is
+  deleted, and imaplib did not handle that case gracefully.  Now it
+  handles the 'bye' correctly.
+
+- Issue #20531: Revert 3.4 version of fix for #19063, and apply the 3.3
+  version.  That is, do *not* raise an error if unicode is passed to
+  email.message.Message.set_payload.
+
+- Issue #20476: If a non-compat32 policy is used with any of the email parsers,
+  EmailMessage is now used as the factory class.  The factory class should
+  really come from the policy; that will get fixed in 3.5.
+
+- Issue #19920: TarFile.list() no longer fails when outputs a listing
+  containing non-encodable characters.  Based on patch by Vajrasky Kok.
+
+- Issue #20515: Fix NULL pointer dereference introduced by issue #20368.
+
+- Issue #19186: Restore namespacing of expat symbols inside the pyexpat module.
+
+- Issue #20053: ensurepip (and hence venv) are no longer affected by the
+  settings in the default pip configuration file.
+
+- Issue #20426: When passing the re.DEBUG flag, re.compile() displays the
+  debug output every time it is called, regardless of the compilation cache.
+
+- Issue #20368: The null character now correctly passed from Tcl to Python.
+  Improved error handling in variables-related commands.
+
+- Issue #20435: Fix _pyio.StringIO.getvalue() to take into account newline
+  translation settings.
+
+- tracemalloc: Fix slicing traces and fix slicing a traceback.
+
+- Issue #20354: Fix an alignment issue in the tracemalloc module on 64-bit
+  platforms. Bug seen on 64-bit Linux when using "make profile-opt".
+
+- Issue #17159: inspect.signature now accepts duck types of functions,
+  which adds support for Cython functions. Initial patch by Stefan Behnel.
+
+- Issue #18801: Fix inspect.classify_class_attrs to correctly classify
+  object.__new__ and object.__init__.
+
+- Fixed cmath.isinf's name in its argument parsing code.
+
+- Issue #20311, #20452: poll and epoll now round the timeout away from zero,
+  instead of rounding towards zero, in select and selectors modules:
+  select.epoll.poll(), selectors.PollSelector.poll() and
+  selectors.EpollSelector.poll(). For example, a timeout of one microsecond
+  (1e-6) is now rounded to one millisecondi (1e-3), instead of being rounded to
+  zero.  However, the granularity property and asyncio's resolution feature
+  were removed again.
+
+- asyncio: Some refactoring; various fixes; add write flow control to
+  unix pipes; Future.set_exception() instantiates the exception
+  argument if it is a class; improved proactor pipe transport; support
+  wait_for(f, None); don't log broken/disconnected pipes; use
+  ValueError instead of assert for forbidden subprocess_{shell,exec}
+  arguments; added a convenience API for subprocess management; added
+  StreamReader.at_eof(); properly handle duplicate coroutines/futures
+  in gather(), wait(), as_completed(); use a bytearray for buffering
+  in StreamReader; and more.
+
+- Issue #20288: fix handling of invalid numeric charrefs in HTMLParser.
+
+- Issue #20424: Python implementation of io.StringIO now supports lone surrogates.
+
+- Issue #20308: inspect.signature now works on classes without user-defined
+  __init__ or __new__ methods.
+
+- Issue #20372: inspect.getfile (and a bunch of other inspect functions that
+  use it) doesn't crash with unexpected AttributeError on classes defined in C
+  without __module__.
+
+- Issue #20356: inspect.signature formatting uses '/' to separate
+  positional-only parameters from others.
+
+- Issue #20223: inspect.signature now supports methods defined with
+  functools.partialmethods.
+
+- Issue #19456: ntpath.join() now joins relative paths correctly when a drive
+  is present.
+
+- Issue #19077: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory cleanup no longer fails when
+  called during shutdown.  Emitting resource warning in __del__ no longer fails.
+  Original patch by Antoine Pitrou.
+
+- Issue #20394: Silence Coverity warning in audioop module.
+
+- Issue #20367: Fix behavior of concurrent.futures.as_completed() for
+  duplicate arguments.  Patch by Glenn Langford.
+
+- Issue #8260: The read(), readline() and readlines() methods of
+  codecs.StreamReader returned incomplete data when were called after
+  readline() or read(size).  Based on patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
+
+- Issue #20105: the codec exception chaining now correctly sets the
+  traceback of the original exception as its __traceback__ attribute.
+
+- Issue #17481: inspect.getfullargspec() now uses inspect.signature() API.
+
+- Issue #15304: concurrent.futures.wait() can block forever even if
+  Futures have completed. Patch by Glenn Langford.
+
+- Issue #14455: plistlib: fix serializing integers in the range
+  of an unsigned long long but outside of the range of signed long long for
+  binary plist files.
+
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #20406: Use Python application icons for Idle window title bars.
+  Patch mostly by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Update the python.gif icon for the Idle classbrowser and pathbowser
+  from the old green snake to the new blue and yellow snakes.
+
+- Issue #17721: Remove non-functional configuration dialog help button until we
+  make it actually gives some help when clicked. Patch by Guilherme Simões.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #20532: Tests which use _testcapi now are marked as CPython only.
+
+- Issue #19920: Added tests for TarFile.list().  Based on patch by Vajrasky Kok.
+
+- Issue #19990: Added tests for the imghdr module.  Based on patch by
+  Claudiu Popa.
+
+- Issue #20474: Fix test_socket "unexpected success" failures on OS X 10.7+.
+
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
+
+- Issue #20530: Argument Clinic's signature format has been revised again.
+  The new syntax is highly human readable while still preventing false
+  positives.  The syntax also extends Python syntax to denote "self" and
+  positional-only parameters, allowing inspect.Signature objects to be
+  totally accurate for all supported builtins in Python 3.4.
+
+- Issue #20456: Argument Clinic now observes the C preprocessor conditional
+  compilation statements of the C files it parses.  When a Clinic block is
+  inside a conditional code, it adjusts its output to match, including
+  automatically generating an empty methoddef macro.
+
+- Issue #20456: Cloned functions in Argument Clinic now use the correct
+  name, not the name of the function they were cloned from, for text
+  strings inside generated code.
+
+- Issue #20456: Fixed Argument Clinic's test suite and "--converters" feature.
+
+- Issue #20456: Argument Clinic now allows specifying different names
+  for a parameter in Python and C, using "as" on the parameter line.
+
+- Issue #20326: Argument Clinic now uses a simple, unique signature to
+  annotate text signatures in docstrings, resulting in fewer false
+  positives.  "self" parameters are also explicitly marked, allowing
+  inspect.Signature() to authoritatively detect (and skip) said parameters.
+
+- Issue #20326: Argument Clinic now generates separate checksums for the
+  input and output sections of the block, allowing external tools to verify
+  that the input has not changed (and thus the output is not out-of-date).
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #20465: Update SQLite shipped with OS X installer to 3.8.3.
+
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Issue #20517: Added new functions allowing OSError exceptions to reference
+  two filenames instead of one: PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilenameObjects() and
+  PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObjects().
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Issue #20488: Change wording to say importlib is *the* implementation of
+  import instead of just *an* implementation.
+
+- Issue #6386: Clarify in the tutorial that specifying a symlink to execute
+  means the directory containing the executed script and not the symlink is
+  added to sys.path.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.4.0 Beta 3?
+==================================
+
+Release date: 2014-01-26
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #20189: Four additional builtin types (PyTypeObject,
+  PyMethodDescr_Type, _PyMethodWrapper_Type, and PyWrapperDescr_Type)
+  have been modified to provide introspection information for builtins.
+
+- Issue #17825: Cursor "^" is correctly positioned for SyntaxError and
+  IndentationError.
+
+- Issue #2382: SyntaxError cursor "^" is now written at correct position in most
+  cases when multibyte characters are in line (before "^").  This still not
+  works correctly with wide East Asian characters.
+
+- Issue #18960: The first line of Python script could be executed twice when
+  the source encoding was specified on the second line.  Now the source encoding
+  declaration on the second line isn't effective if the first line contains
+  anything except a comment.  'python -x' works now again with files with the
+  source encoding declarations, and can be used to make Python batch files
+  on Windows.
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- asyncio: Various improvements and small changes not all covered by
+  issues listed below.  E.g. wait_for() now cancels the inner task if
+  the timeout occcurs; tweaked the set of exported symbols; renamed
+  Empty/Full to QueueEmpty/QueueFull; "with (yield from lock)" now
+  uses a separate context manager; readexactly() raises if not enough
+  data was read; PTY support tweaks.
+
+- Issue #20311: asyncio: Add a granularity attribute to BaseEventLoop: maximum
+  between the resolution of the BaseEventLoop.time() method and the resolution
+  of the selector. The granuarility is used in the scheduler to round time and
+  deadline.
+
+- Issue #20311: selectors: Add a resolution attribute to BaseSelector.
+
+- Issue #20189: unittest.mock now no longer assumes that any object for
+  which it could get an inspect.Signature is a callable written in Python.
+  Fix courtesy of Michael Foord.
+
+- Issue #20317: ExitStack.__exit__ could create a self-referential loop if an
+  exception raised by a cleanup operation already had its context set
+  correctly (for example, by the @contextmanager decorator). The infinite
+  loop this caused is now avoided by checking if the expected context is
+  already set before trying to fix it.
+
+- Issue #20374: Fix build with GNU readline >= 6.3.
+
+- Issue #20262: Warnings are raised now when duplicate names are added in the
+  ZIP file or too long ZIP file comment is truncated.
+
+- Issue #20165: The unittest module no longer considers tests marked with
+  @expectedFailure successful if they pass.
+
+- Issue #18574: Added missing newline in 100-Continue reply from
+  http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler. Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
+
+- Issue #20270: urllib.urlparse now supports empty ports.
+
+- Issue #20243: TarFile no longer raise ReadError when opened in write mode.
+
+- Issue #20238: TarFile opened with external fileobj and "w:gz" mode didn't
+  write complete output on close.
+
+- Issue #20245: The open functions in the tarfile module now correctly handle
+  empty mode.
+
+- Issue #20242: Fixed basicConfig() format strings for the alternative
+  formatting styles. Thanks to kespindler for the bug report and patch.
+
+- Issue #20246: Fix buffer overflow in socket.recvfrom_into.
+
+- Issues #20206 and #5803: Fix edge case in email.quoprimime.encode where it
+  truncated lines ending in a character needing encoding but no newline by
+  using a more efficient algorithm that doesn't have the bug.
+
+- Issue #19082: Working xmlrpc.server and xmlrpc.client examples. Both in
+  modules and in documentation. Initial patch contributed by Vajrasky Kok.
+
+- Issue #20138: The wsgiref.application_uri() and wsgiref.request_uri()
+  functions now conform to PEP 3333 when handle non-ASCII URLs.
+
+- Issue #19097: Raise the correct Exception when cgi.FieldStorage is given an
+  invalid fileobj.
+
+- Issue #20152: Ported Python/import.c over to Argument Clinic.
+
+- Issue #13107: argparse and optparse no longer raises an exception when output
+  a help on environment with too small COLUMNS.  Based on patch by
+  Elazar Gershuni.
+
+- Issue #20207: Always disable SSLv2 except when PROTOCOL_SSLv2 is explicitly
+  asked for.
+
+- Issue #18960: The tokenize module now ignore the source encoding declaration
+  on the second line if the first line contains anything except a comment.
+
+- Issue #20078: Reading malformed zipfiles no longer hangs with 100% CPU
+  consumption.
+
+- Issue #20113: os.readv() and os.writev() now raise an OSError exception on
+  error instead of returning -1.
+
+- Issue #19719: Make importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder.find_module(),
+  PathEntryFinder.find_loader(), and Loader.load_module() use PEP 451 APIs to
+  help with backwards-compatibility.
+
+- Issue #20144: inspect.Signature now supports parsing simple symbolic
+  constants as parameter default values in __text_signature__.
+
+- Issue #20072: Fixed multiple errors in tkinter with wantobjects is False.
+
+- Issue #20229: Avoid plistlib deprecation warning in platform.mac_ver().
+
+- Issue #14455: Fix some problems with the new binary plist support in plistlib.
+
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #17390: Add Python version to Idle editor window title bar.
+  Original patches by Edmond Burnett and Kent Johnson.
+
+- Issue #18960: IDLE now ignores the source encoding declaration on the second
+  line if the first line contains anything except a comment.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #20358: Tests for curses.window.overlay and curses.window.overwrite
+  no longer specify min{row,col} > max{row,col}.
+
+- Issue #19804: The test_find_mac test in test_uuid is now skipped if the
+  ifconfig executable is not available.
+
+- Issue #19886: Use better estimated memory requirements for bigmem tests.
+
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
+
+- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic's "file" output preset now defaults to
+  "{dirname}/clinic/{basename}.h".
+
+- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic's "class" directive syntax has been extended
+  with two new required arguments: "typedef" and "type_object".
+
+- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic: If __new__ or __init__ functions didn't use
+  kwargs (or args), the PyArg_NoKeywords (or PyArg_NoPositional) calls
+  generated are only run when the type object is an exact match.
+
+- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic now fails if you have required parameters after
+  optional parameters.
+
+- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic converters now have a new template they can
+  inject code into: "modifiers".  Code put there is run in the parsing
+  function after argument parsing but before the call to the impl.
+
+- Issue #20376: Argument Clinic now escapes backslashes in docstrings.
+
+- Issue #20381: Argument Clinic now sanity checks the default argument when
+  c_default is also specified, providing a nice failure message for
+  disallowed values.
+
+- Issue #20189: Argument Clinic now ensures that parser functions for
+  __new__ are always of type newfunc, the type of the tp_new slot.
+  Similarly, parser functions for __init__ are now always of type initproc,
+  the type of tp_init.
+
+- Issue #20189: Argument Clinic now suppresses the docstring for __new__
+  and __init__ functions if no docstring is provided in the input.
+
+- Issue #20189: Argument Clinic now suppresses the "self" parameter in the
+  impl for @staticmethod functions.
+
+- Issue #20294: Argument Clinic now supports argument parsing for __new__ and
+  __init__ functions.
+
+- Issue #20299: Argument Clinic custom converters may now change the default
+  value of c_default and py_default with a class member.
+
+- Issue #20287: Argument Clinic's output is now configurable, allowing
+  delaying its output or even redirecting it to a separate file.
+
+- Issue #20226: Argument Clinic now permits simple expressions
+  (e.g. "sys.maxsize - 1") as default values for parameters.
+
+- Issue #19936: Added executable bits or shebang lines to Python scripts which
+  requires them.  Disable executable bits and shebang lines in test and
+  benchmark files in order to prevent using a random system python, and in
+  source files of modules which don't provide command line interface.  Fixed
+  shebang lines in the unittestgui and checkpip scripts.
+
+- Issue #20268: Argument Clinic now supports cloning the parameters and
+  return converter of existing functions.
+
+- Issue #20228: Argument Clinic now has special support for class special
+  methods.
+
+- Issue #20214: Fixed a number of small issues and documentation errors in
+  Argument Clinic (see issue for details).
+
+- Issue #20196: Fixed a bug where Argument Clinic did not generate correct
+  parsing code for functions with positional-only parameters where all arguments
+  are optional.
+
+- Issue #18960: 2to3 and the findnocoding.py script now ignore the source
+  encoding declaration on the second line if the first line contains anything
+  except a comment.
+
+- Issue #19723: The marker comments Argument Clinic uses have been changed
+  to improve readability.
+
+- Issue #20157: When Argument Clinic renames a parameter because its name
+  collides with a C keyword, it no longer exposes that rename to PyArg_Parse.
+
+- Issue #20141: Improved Argument Clinic's support for the PyArg_Parse "O!"
+  format unit.
+
+- Issue #20144: Argument Clinic now supports simple symbolic constants
+  as parameter default values.
+
+- Issue #20143: The line numbers reported in Argument Clinic errors are
+  now more accurate.
+
+- Issue #20142: Py_buffer variables generated by Argument Clinic are now
+  initialized with a default value.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #12837: Silence a tautological comparison warning on OS X under Clang in
+  socketmodule.c.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.4.0 Beta 2?
+==================================
+
+Release date: 2014-01-05
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #17432: Drop UCS2 from names of Unicode functions in python3.def.
+
+- Issue #19526: Exclude all new API from the stable ABI. Exceptions can be
+  made if a need is demonstrated.
+
+- Issue #19969: PyBytes_FromFormatV() now raises an OverflowError if "%c"
+  argument is not in range [0; 255].
+
+- Issue #19995: %c, %o, %x, and %X now issue a DeprecationWarning on non-integer
+  input; reworded docs to clarify that an integer type should define both __int__
+  and __index__.
+
+- Issue #19787: PyThread_set_key_value() now always set the value. In Python
+  3.3, the function did nothing if the key already exists (if the current value
+  is a non-NULL pointer).
+
+- Issue #14432: Remove the thread state field from the frame structure. Fix a
+  crash when a generator is created in a C thread that is destroyed while the
+  generator is still used. The issue was that a generator contains a frame, and
+  the frame kept a reference to the Python state of the destroyed C thread. The
+  crash occurs when a trace function is setup.
+
+- Issue #19576: PyGILState_Ensure() now initializes threads. At startup, Python
+  has no concrete GIL. If PyGILState_Ensure() is called from a new thread for
+  the first time and PyEval_InitThreads() was not called yet, a GIL needs to be
+  created.
+
+- Issue #17576: Deprecation warning emitted now when __int__() or __index__()
+  return not int instance.
+
+- Issue #19932: Fix typo in import.h, missing whitespaces in function prototypes.
+
+- Issue #19736: Add module-level statvfs constants defined for GNU/glibc
+  based systems.
+
+- Issue #20097: Fix bad use of "self" in importlib's WindowsRegistryFinder.
+
+- Issue #19729: In str.format(), fix recursive expansion in format spec.
+
+- Issue #19638: Fix possible crash / undefined behaviour from huge (more than 2
+  billion characters) input strings in _Py_dg_strtod.
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #20154: Deadlock in asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly().
+
+- Issue #16113: Remove sha3 module again.
+
+- Issue #20111: pathlib.Path.with_suffix() now sanity checks the given suffix.
+
+- Fix breakage in TestSuite.countTestCases() introduced by issue #11798.
+
+- Issue #20108: Avoid parameter name clash in inspect.getcallargs().
+
+- Issue #19918: Fix PurePath.relative_to() under Windows.
+
+- Issue #19422: Explicitly disallow non-SOCK_STREAM sockets in the ssl
+  module, rather than silently let them emit clear text data.
+
+- Issue #20046: Locale alias table no longer contains entities which can be
+  calculated.  Generalized support of the euro modifier.
+
+- Issue #20027: Fixed locale aliases for devanagari locales.
+
+- Issue #20067: Tkinter variables now work when wantobjects is false.
+
+- Issue #19020: Tkinter now uses splitlist() instead of split() in configure
+  methods.
+
+- Issue #19744: ensurepip now provides a better error message when Python is
+  built without SSL/TLS support (pip currently requires that support to run,
+  even if only operating with local wheel files)
+
+- Issue #19734: ensurepip now ignores all pip environment variables to avoid
+  odd behaviour based on user configuration settings
+
+- Fix TypeError on "setup.py upload --show-response".
+
+- Issue #20045: Fix "setup.py register --list-classifiers".
+
+- Issue #18879: When a method is looked up on a temporary file, avoid closing
+  the file before the method is possibly called.
+
+- Issue #20037: Avoid crashes when opening a text file late at interpreter
+  shutdown.
+
+- Issue #19967: Thanks to the PEP 442, asyncio.Future now uses a
+  destructor to log uncaught exceptions, instead of the dedicated
+  _TracebackLogger class.
+
+- Added a Task.current_task() class method to asyncio.
+
+- Issue #19850: Set SA_RESTART in asyncio when registering a signal
+  handler to limit EINTR occurrences.
+
+- Implemented write flow control in asyncio for proactor event loop (Windows).
+
+- Change write buffer in asyncio use to avoid O(N**2) behavior.  Make
+  write()/sendto() accept bytearray/memoryview.
+
+- Issue #20034: Updated alias mapping to most recent locale.alias file
+  from X.org distribution using makelocalealias.py.
+
+- Issue #5815: Fixed support for locales with modifiers.  Fixed support for
+  locale encodings with hyphens.
+
+- Issue #20026: Fix the sqlite module to handle correctly invalid isolation
+  level (wrong type).
+
+- Issue #18829: csv.Dialect() now checks type for delimiter, escapechar and
+  quotechar fields.  Original patch by Vajrasky Kok.
+
+- Issue #19855: uuid.getnode() on Unix now looks on the PATH for the
+  executables used to find the mac address, with /sbin and /usr/sbin as
+  fallbacks.
+
+- Issue #20007: HTTPResponse.read(0) no more prematurely closes connection.
+  Original patch by Simon Sapin.
+
+- Issue #19946: multiprocessing now uses runpy to initialize __main__ in
+  child processes when necessary, allowing it to correctly handle scripts
+  without suffixes and submodules that use explicit relative imports or
+  otherwise rely on parent modules being correctly imported prior to
+  execution.
+
+- Issue #19921: When Path.mkdir() is called with parents=True, any missing
+  parent is created with the default permissions, ignoring the mode argument
+  (mimicking the POSIX "mkdir -p" command).
+
+- Issue #19887: Improve the Path.resolve() algorithm to support certain
+  symlink chains.
+
+- Issue #19912: Fixed numerous bugs in ntpath.splitunc().
+
+- Issue #19911: ntpath.splitdrive() now correctly processes the 'İ' character
+  (U+0130, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE).
+
+- Issue #19532: python -m compileall with no filename/directory arguments now
+  respects the -f and -q flags instead of ignoring them.
+
+- Issue #19623: Fixed writing to unseekable files in the aifc module.
+
+- Issue #19946: multiprocessing.spawn now raises ImportError when the module to
+  be used as the main module cannot be imported.
+
+- Issue #17919: select.poll.register() again works with poll.POLLNVAL on AIX.
+  Fixed integer overflow in the eventmask parameter.
+
+- Issue #19063: if a Charset's body_encoding was set to None, the email
+  package would generate a message claiming the Content-Transfer-Encoding
+  was 7bit, and produce garbage output for the content.  This now works.
+  A couple of other set_payload mishandlings of non-ASCII are also fixed.
+  In addition, calling set_payload with a string argument without
+  specifying a charset now raises an error (this is a new error in 3.4).
+
+- Issue #15475: Add __sizeof__ implementations for itertools objects.
+
+- Issue #19944: Fix importlib.find_spec() so it imports parents as needed
+  and move the function to importlib.util.
+
+- Issue #19880: Fix a reference leak in unittest.TestCase. Explicitly break
+  reference cycles between frames and the _Outcome instance.
+
+- Issue #17429: platform.linux_distribution() now decodes files from the UTF-8
+  encoding with the surrogateescape error handler, instead of decoding from the
+  locale encoding in strict mode. It fixes the function on Fedora 19 which is
+  probably the first major distribution release with a non-ASCII name. Patch
+  written by Toshio Kuratomi.
+
+- Issue #19343: Expose FreeBSD-specific APIs in resource module.  Original
+  patch by Koobs.
+
+- Issue #19929: Call os.read with 32768 within subprocess.Popen.communicate
+  rather than 4096 for efficiency.  A microbenchmark shows Linux and OS X
+  both using ~50% less cpu time this way.
+
+- Issue #19506: Use a memoryview to avoid a data copy when piping data
+  to stdin within subprocess.Popen.communicate.  5-10% less cpu usage.
+
+- Issue #19876: selectors unregister() no longer raises ValueError or OSError
+  if the FD is closed (as long as it was registered).
+
+- Issue #19908: pathlib now joins relative Windows paths correctly when a drive
+  is present.  Original patch by Antoine Pitrou.
+
+- Issue #19296: Silence compiler warning in dbm_open
+
+- Issue #6784: Strings from Python 2 can now be unpickled as bytes
+  objects by setting the encoding argument of Unpickler to be 'bytes'.
+  Initial patch by Merlijn van Deen.
+
+- Issue #19839: Fix regression in bz2 module's handling of non-bzip2 data at
+  EOF, and analogous bug in lzma module.
+
+- Issue #19881: Fix pickling bug where cpickle would emit bad pickle data for
+  large bytes string (i.e., with size greater than 2**32-1).
+
+- Issue #19138: doctest's IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL now allows a match when
+  no exception detail exists (no colon following the exception's name, or
+  a colon does follow but no text follows the colon).
+
+- Issue #19927: Add __eq__ to path-based loaders in importlib.
+
+- Issue #19827: On UNIX, setblocking() and settimeout() methods of
+  socket.socket can now avoid a second syscall if the ioctl() function can be
+  used, or if the non-blocking flag of the socket is unchanged.
+
+- Issue #19785: smtplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
+  indication for TLS/SSL connections.
+
+- Issue #19784: poplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
+  indication for TLS/SSL connections.
+
+- Issue #19783: nntplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
+  indication for TLS/SSL connections.
+
+- Issue #19782: imaplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
+  indication for TLS/SSL connections.
+
+- Issue #20123: Fix pydoc.synopsis() for "binary" modules.
+
+- Issue #19834: Support unpickling of exceptions pickled by Python 2.
+
+- Issue #19781: ftplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
+  indication for TLS/SSL connections.
+
+- Issue #19509: Add SSLContext.check_hostname to match the peer's certificate
+  with server_hostname on handshake.
+
+- Issue #15798: Fixed subprocess.Popen() to no longer fail if file
+  descriptor 0, 1 or 2 is closed.
+
+- Issue #17897: Optimized unpickle prefetching.
+
+- Issue #3693: Make the error message more helpful when the array.array()
+  constructor is given a str. Move the array module typecode documentation to
+  the docstring of the constructor.
+
+- Issue #19088: Fixed incorrect caching of the copyreg module in
+  object.__reduce__() and object.__reduce_ex__().
+
+- Issue #19698: Removed exec_module() methods from
+  importlib.machinery.BuiltinImporter and ExtensionFileLoader.
+
+- Issue #18864: Added a setter for ModuleSpec.has_location.
+
+- Fixed _pickle.Unpickler to not fail when loading empty strings as
+  persistent IDs.
+
+- Issue #11480: Fixed copy.copy to work with classes with custom metaclasses.
+  Patch by Daniel Urban.
+
+- Issue #6477: Added support for pickling the types of built-in singletons
+  (i.e., Ellipsis, NotImplemented, None).
+
+- Issue #19713: Add remaining PEP 451-related deprecations and move away
+  from using find_module/find_loaer/load_module.
+
+- Issue #19708: Update pkgutil to use the new importer APIs.
+
+- Issue #19703: Update pydoc to use the new importer APIs.
+
+- Issue #19851: Fixed a regression in reloading sub-modules.
+
+- ssl.create_default_context() sets OP_NO_COMPRESSION to prevent CRIME.
+
+- Issue #19802: Add socket.SO_PRIORITY.
+
+- Issue #11508: Fixed uuid.getnode() and uuid.uuid1() on environment with
+  virtual interface.  Original patch by Kent Frazier.
+
+- Issue #11489: JSON decoder now accepts lone surrogates.
+
+- Issue #19545: Avoid chained exceptions while passing stray % to
+  time.strptime().  Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.
+
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #20058: sys.stdin.readline() in IDLE now always returns only one line.
+
+- Issue #19481: print() of string subclass instance in IDLE no longer hangs.
+
+- Issue #18270: Prevent possible IDLE AttributeError on OS X when no initial
+  shell window is present.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #20055: Fix test_shutil under Windows with symlink privileges held.
+  Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
+
+- Issue #20070: Don't run test_urllib2net when network resources are not
+  enabled.
+
+- Issue #19938: Re-enabled test_bug_1333982 in test_dis, which had been
+  disabled since 3.0 due to the changes in listcomp handling.
+
+- Issue #19320: test_tcl no longer fails when wantobjects is false.
+
+- Issue #19919: Fix flaky SSL test. connect_ex() sometimes returns
+  EWOULDBLOCK on Windows or VMs hosted on Windows.
+
+- Issue #19912: Added tests for ntpath.splitunc().
+
+- Issue #19828: Fixed test_site when the whole suite is run with -S.
+
+- Issue #19928: Implemented a test for repr() of cell objects.
+
+- Issue #19535: Fixed test_docxmlrpc, test_functools, test_inspect, and
+  test_statistics when python is run with -OO.
+
+- Issue #19926: Removed unneeded test_main from test_abstract_numbers.
+  Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
+
+- Issue #19572: More skipped tests explicitly marked as skipped.
+
+- Issue #19595, #19987: Re-enabled a long-disabled test in test_winsound.
+
+- Issue #19588: Fixed tests in test_random that were silently skipped most
+  of the time.  Patch by Julian Gindi.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #19728: Enable pip installation by default on Windows.
+
+- Issue #16136: Remove VMS support
+
+- Issue #18215: Add script Tools/ssl/test_multiple_versions.py to compile and
+  run Python's unit tests with multiple versions of OpenSSL.
+
+- Issue #19922: define _INCLUDE__STDC_A1_SOURCE in HP-UX to include mbstate_t
+  for mbrtowc().
+
+- Issue #19788: kill_python(_d).exe is now run as a PreBuildEvent on the
+  pythoncore sub-project.  This should prevent build errors due a previous
+  build's python(_d).exe still running.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Issue #20265: Updated some parts of the Using Windows document.
+
+- Issue #20266: Updated some parts of the Windows FAQ.
+
+- Issue #20255: Updated the about and bugs pages.
+
+- Issue #20253: Fixed a typo in the ipaddress docs that advertised an
+  illegal attribute name.  Found by INADA Naoki.
+
+- Issue #18840: Introduce the json module in the tutorial, and de-emphasize
+  the pickle module.
+
+- Issue #19845: Updated the Compiling Python on Windows section.
+
+- Issue #19795: Improved markup of True/False constants.
+
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
+
+- Issue #19659: Added documentation for Argument Clinic.
+
+- Issue #19976: Argument Clinic METH_NOARGS functions now always
+  take two parameters.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.4.0 Beta 1?
+==================================
+
+Release date: 2013-11-24
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Use the repr of a module name in more places in import, especially
+  exceptions.
+
+- Issue #19619: str.encode, bytes.decode and bytearray.decode now use an
+  internal API to throw LookupError for known non-text encodings, rather
+  than attempting the encoding or decoding operation and then throwing a
+  TypeError for an unexpected output type. (The latter mechanism remains
+  in place for third party non-text encodings)
+
+- Issue #19183: Implement PEP 456 'secure and interchangeable hash algorithm'.
+  Python now uses SipHash24 on all major platforms.
+
+- Issue #12892: The utf-16* and utf-32* encoders no longer allow surrogate code
+  points (U+D800-U+DFFF) to be encoded.  The utf-32* decoders no longer decode
+  byte sequences that correspond to surrogate code points.  The surrogatepass
+  error handler now works with the utf-16* and utf-32* codecs.  Based on
+  patches by Victor Stinner and Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu.
+
+- Issue #17806: Added keyword-argument support for "tabsize" to
+  str/bytes.expandtabs().
+
+- Issue #17828: Output type errors in str.encode(), bytes.decode() and
+  bytearray.decode() now direct users to codecs.encode() or codecs.decode()
+  as appropriate.
+
+- Issue #17828: The interpreter now attempts to chain errors that occur in
+  codec processing with a replacement exception of the same type that
+  includes the codec name in the error message. It ensures it only does this
+  when the creation of the replacement exception won't lose any information.
+
+- Issue #19466: Clear the frames of daemon threads earlier during the
+  Python shutdown to call object destructors. So "unclosed file" resource
+  warnings are now correctly emitted for daemon threads.
+
+- Issue #19514: Deduplicate some _Py_IDENTIFIER declarations.
+  Patch by Andrei Dorian Duma.
+
+- Issue #17936: Fix O(n**2) behaviour when adding or removing many subclasses
+  of a given type.
+
+- Issue #19428: zipimport now handles errors when reading truncated or invalid
+  ZIP archive.
+
+- Issue #18408: Add a new PyFrame_FastToLocalsWithError() function to handle
+  exceptions when merging fast locals into f_locals of a frame.
+  PyEval_GetLocals() now raises an exception and return NULL on failure.
+
+- Issue #19369: Optimized the usage of __length_hint__().
+
+- Issue #28026: Raise ImportError when exec_module() exists but
+  create_module() is missing.
+
+- Issue #18603: Ensure that PyOS_mystricmp and PyOS_mystrnicmp are in the
+  Python executable and not removed by the linker's optimizer.
+
+- Issue #19306: Add extra hints to the faulthandler module's stack
+  dumps that these are "upside down".
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #3158: doctest can now find doctests in functions and methods
+  written in C.
+
+- Issue #13477: Added command line interface to the tarfile module.
+  Original patch by Berker Peksag.
+
+- Issue #19674: inspect.signature() now produces a correct signature
+  for some builtins.
+
+- Issue #19722: Added opcode.stack_effect(), which
+  computes the stack effect of bytecode instructions.
+
+- Issue #19735: Implement private function ssl._create_stdlib_context() to
+  create SSLContext objects in Python's stdlib module. It provides a single
+  configuration point and makes use of SSLContext.load_default_certs().
+
+- Issue #16203: Add re.fullmatch() function and regex.fullmatch() method,
+  which anchor the pattern at both ends of the string to match.
+  Original patch by Matthew Barnett.
+
+- Issue #13592: Improved the repr for regular expression pattern objects.
+  Based on patch by Hugo Lopes Tavares.
+
+- Issue #19641: Added the audioop.byteswap() function to convert big-endian
+  samples to little-endian and vice versa.
+
+- Issue #15204: Deprecated the 'U' mode in file-like objects.
+
+- Issue #17810: Implement PEP 3154, pickle protocol 4.
+
+- Issue #19668: Added support for the cp1125 encoding.
+
+- Issue #19689: Add ssl.create_default_context() factory function. It creates
+  a new SSLContext object with secure default settings.
+
+- Issue #19727: os.utime(..., None) is now potentially more precise
+  under Windows.
+
+- Issue #17201: ZIP64 extensions now are enabled by default.  Patch by
+  William Mallard.
+
+- Issue #19292: Add SSLContext.load_default_certs() to load default root CA
+  certificates from default stores or system stores. By default the method
+  loads CA certs for authentication of server certs.
+
+- Issue #19673: Add pathlib to the stdlib as a provisional module (PEP 428).
+
+- Issue #16596: pdb in a generator now properly skips over yield and
+  yield from rather than stepping out of the generator into its
+  caller.  (This is essential for stepping through asyncio coroutines.)
+
+- Issue #17916: Added dis.Bytecode.from_traceback() and
+  dis.Bytecode.current_offset to easily display "current instruction"
+  markers in the new disassembly API (Patch by Claudiu Popa).
+
+- Issue #19552: venv now supports bootstrapping pip into virtual environments
+
+- Issue #17134: Finalize interface to Windows' certificate store. Cert and
+  CRL enumeration are now two functions. enum_certificates() also returns
+  purpose flags as set of OIDs.
+
+- Issue #19555: Restore sysconfig.get_config_var('SO'), (and the distutils
+  equivalent) with a DeprecationWarning pointing people at $EXT_SUFFIX.
+
+- Issue #8813: Add SSLContext.verify_flags to change the verification flags
+  of the context in order to enable certification revocation list (CRL)
+  checks or strict X509 rules.
+
+- Issue #18294: Fix the zlib module to make it 64-bit safe.
+
+- Issue #19682: Fix compatibility issue with old version of OpenSSL that
+  was introduced by Issue #18379.
+
+- Issue #14455: plistlib now supports binary plists and has an updated API.
+
+- Issue #19633: Fixed writing not compressed 16- and 32-bit wave files on
+  big-endian platforms.
+
+- Issue #18379: SSLSocket.getpeercert() returns CA issuer AIA fields, OCSP
+  and CRL distribution points.
+
+- Issue #18138: Implement cadata argument of SSLContext.load_verify_location()
+  to load CA certificates and CRL from memory. It supports PEM and DER
+  encoded strings.
+
+- Issue #18775: Add name and block_size attribute to HMAC object. They now
+  provide the same API elements as non-keyed cryptographic hash functions.
+
+- Issue #17276: MD5 as default digestmod for HMAC is deprecated. The HMAC
+  module supports digestmod names, e.g. hmac.HMAC('sha1').
+
+- Issue #19449: in csv's writerow, handle non-string keys when generating the
+  error message that certain keys are not in the 'fieldnames' list.
+
+- Issue #13633: Added a new convert_charrefs keyword arg to HTMLParser that,
+  when True, automatically converts all character references.
+
+- Issue #2927: Added the unescape() function to the html module.
+
+- Issue #8402: Added the escape() function to the glob module.
+
+- Issue #17618: Add Base85 and Ascii85 encoding/decoding to the base64 module.
+
+- Issue #19634: time.strftime("%y") now raises a ValueError on AIX when given a
+  year before 1900.
+
+- Fix test.support.bind_port() to not cause an error when Python was compiled
+  on a system with SO_REUSEPORT defined in the headers but run on a system
+  with an OS kernel that does not support that reasonably new socket option.
+
+- Fix compilation error under gcc of the ctypes module bundled libffi for arm.
+
+- Issue #19448: Add private API to SSL module to lookup ASN.1 objects by OID,
+  NID, short name and long name.
+
+- Issue #19282: dbm.open now supports the context management protocol.
+  (Initial patch by Claudiu Popa)
+
+- Issue #8311: Added support for writing any bytes-like objects in the aifc,
+  sunau, and wave modules.
+
+- Issue #5202: Added support for unseekable files in the wave module.
+
+- Issue #19544 and Issue #1180: Restore global option to ignore
+  ~/.pydistutils.cfg in Distutils, accidentally removed in backout of
+  distutils2 changes.
+
+- Issue #19523: Closed FileHandler leak which occurred when delay was set.
+
+- Issue #19544 and Issue #6516: Restore support for --user and --group
+  parameters to sdist command accidentally rolled back as part of the
+  distutils2 rollback.
+
+- Issue #13674: Prevented time.strftime from crashing on Windows when given
+  a year before 1900 and a format of %y.
+
+- Issue #19406: implementation of the ensurepip module (part of PEP 453).
+  Patch by Donald Stufft and Nick Coghlan.
+
+- Issue #19544 and Issue #6286: Restore use of urllib over http allowing use
+  of http_proxy for Distutils upload command, a feature accidentally lost
+  in the rollback of distutils2.
+
+- Issue #19544 and Issue #7457: Restore the read_pkg_file method to
+  distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata accidentally removed in the undo of
+  distutils2.
+
+- Issue #16685: Added support for any bytes-like objects in the audioop module.
+  Removed support for strings.
+
+- Issue #7171: Add Windows implementation of ``inet_ntop`` and ``inet_pton``
+  to socket module. Patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.
+
+- Issue #19261: Added support for writing 24-bit samples in the sunau module.
+
+- Issue #1097797: Added CP273 encoding, used on IBM mainframes in
+  Germany and Austria.  Mapping provided by Michael Bierenfeld.
+
+- Issue #1575020: Fixed support of 24-bit wave files on big-endian platforms.
+
+- Issue #19378: Fixed a number of cases in the dis module where the new
+  "file" parameter was not being honoured correctly
+
+- Issue #19378: Removed the "dis.Bytecode.show_info" method
+
+- Issue #19378: Renamed the "dis.Bytecode.display_code" method to
+  "dis.Bytecode.dis" and converted it to returning a string rather than
+  printing output.
+
+- Issue #19378: the "line_offset" parameter in the new "dis.get_instructions"
+  API has been renamed to "first_line" (and the default value and usage
+  changed accordingly). This should reduce confusion with the more common use
+  of "offset" in the dis docs to refer to bytecode offsets.
+
+- Issue #18678: Corrected spwd struct member names in spwd module:
+  sp_nam->sp_namp, and sp_pwd->sp_pwdp.  The old names are kept as extra
+  structseq members, for backward compatibility.
+
+- Issue #6157: Fixed tkinter.Text.debug().  tkinter.Text.bbox() now raises
+  TypeError instead of TclError on wrong number of arguments.  Original patch
+  by Guilherme Polo.
+
+- Issue #10197: Rework subprocess.get[status]output to use subprocess
+  functionality and thus to work on Windows. Patch by Nick Coghlan
+
+- Issue #6160: The bbox() method of tkinter.Spinbox now returns a tuple of
+  integers instead of a string.  Based on patch by Guilherme Polo.
+
+- Issue #19403: contextlib.redirect_stdout is now reentrant
+
+- Issue #19286: Directories in ``package_data`` are no longer added to
+  the filelist, preventing failure outlined in the ticket.
+
+- Issue #19480: HTMLParser now accepts all valid start-tag names as defined
+  by the HTML5 standard.
+
+- Issue #15114: The html.parser module now raises a DeprecationWarning when the
+  strict argument of HTMLParser or the HTMLParser.error method are used.
+
+- Issue #19410: Undo the special-casing removal of '' for
+  importlib.machinery.FileFinder.
+
+- Issue #19424: Fix the warnings module to accept filename containing surrogate
+  characters.
+
+- Issue #19435: Fix directory traversal attack on CGIHttpRequestHandler.
+
+- Issue #19227: Remove pthread_atfork() handler. The handler was added to
+  solve #18747 but has caused issues.
+
+- Issue #19420: Fix reference leak in module initialization code of
+  _hashopenssl.c
+
+- Issue #19329: Optimized compiling charsets in regular expressions.
+
+- Issue #19227: Try to fix deadlocks caused by re-seeding then OpenSSL
+  pseudo-random number generator on fork().
+
+- Issue #16037: HTTPMessage.readheaders() raises an HTTPException when more than
+  100 headers are read.  Adapted from patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
+
+- Issue #16040: CVE-2013-1752: nntplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to
+  prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory.  Patch by Jyrki
+  Pulliainen.
+
+- Issue #16041: CVE-2013-1752: poplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to
+  prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory.  Patch by Jyrki
+  Pulliainen.
+
+- Issue #17997: Change behavior of ``ssl.match_hostname()`` to follow RFC 6125,
+  for security reasons.  It now doesn't match multiple wildcards nor wildcards
+  inside IDN fragments.
+
+- Issue #16039: CVE-2013-1752: Change use of readline in imaplib module to limit
+  line length.  Patch by Emil Lind.
+
+- Issue #19330: the unnecessary wrapper functions have been removed from the
+  implementations of the new contextlib.redirect_stdout and
+  contextlib.suppress context managers, which also ensures they provide
+  reasonable help() output on instances
+
+- Issue #19393: Fix symtable.symtable function to not be confused when there are
+  functions or classes named "top".
+
+- Issue #18685: Restore re performance to pre-PEP 393 levels.
+
+- Issue #19339: telnetlib module is now using time.monotonic() when available
+  to compute timeout.
+
+- Issue #19399: fix sporadic test_subprocess failure.
+
+- Issue #13234: Fix os.listdir to work with extended paths on Windows.
+  Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
+
+- Issue #19375: The site module adding a "site-python" directory to sys.path,
+  if it exists, is now deprecated.
+
+- Issue #19379: Lazily import linecache in the warnings module, to make
+  startup with warnings faster until a warning gets printed.
+
+- Issue #19288: Fixed the "in" operator of dbm.gnu databases for string
+  argument.  Original patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
+
+- Issue #19287: Fixed the "in" operator of dbm.ndbm databases for string
+  argument.  Original patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
+
+- Issue #19327: Fixed the working of regular expressions with too big charset.
+
+- Issue #17400: New 'is_global' attribute for ipaddress to tell if an address
+  is allocated by IANA for global or private networks.
+
+- Issue #19350: Increasing the test coverage of macurl2path. Patch by Colin
+  Williams.
+
+- Issue #19365: Optimized the parsing of long replacement string in re.sub*()
+  functions.
+
+- Issue #19352: Fix unittest discovery when a module can be reached
+  through several paths (e.g. under Debian/Ubuntu with virtualenv).
+
+- Issue #15207: Fix mimetypes to read from correct part of Windows registry
+  Original patch by Dave Chambers
+
+- Issue #16595: Add prlimit() to resource module.
+
+- Issue #19324: Expose Linux-specific constants in resource module.
+
+- Load SSL's error strings in hashlib.
+
+- Issue #18527: Upgrade internal copy of zlib to 1.2.8.
+
+- Issue #19274: Add a filterfunc parameter to PyZipFile.writepy.
+
+- Issue #8964: fix platform._sys_version to handle IronPython 2.6+.
+  Patch by Martin Matusiak.
+
+- Issue #19413: Restore pre-3.3 reload() semantics of re-finding modules.
+
+- Issue #18958: Improve error message for json.load(s) while passing a string
+  that starts with a UTF-8 BOM.
+
+- Issue #19307: Improve error message for json.load(s) while passing objects
+  of the wrong type.
+
+- Issue #16038: CVE-2013-1752: ftplib: Limit amount of data read by
+  limiting the call to readline().  Original patch by Michał
+  Jastrzębski and Giampaolo Rodola.
+
+- Issue #17087: Improved the repr for regular expression match objects.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #19664: test_userdict's repr test no longer depends on the order
+  of dict elements.
+
+- Issue #19440: Clean up test_capi by removing an unnecessary __future__
+  import, converting from test_main to unittest.main, and running the
+  _testcapi module tests as subTests of a unittest TestCase method.
+
+- Issue #19378: the main dis module tests are now run with both stdout
+  redirection *and* passing an explicit file parameter
+
+- Issue #19378: removed the not-actually-helpful assertInstructionMatches
+  and assertBytecodeExactlyMatches helpers from bytecode_helper
+
+- Issue #18702: All skipped tests now reported as skipped.
+
+- Issue #19439: interpreter embedding tests are now executed on Windows
+  (Patch by Zachary Ware)
+
+- Issue #19085: Added basic tests for all tkinter widget options.
+
+- Issue #19384: Fix test_py_compile for root user, patch by Claudiu Popa.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Issue #18326: Clarify that list.sort's arguments are keyword-only.  Also,
+  attempt to reduce confusion in the glossary by not saying there are
+  different "types" of arguments and parameters.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #19358: "make clinic" now runs the Argument Clinic preprocessor
+  over all CPython source files.
+
+- Update SQLite to 3.8.1, xz to 5.0.5, and Tcl/Tk to 8.6.1 on Windows.
+
+- Issue #16632: Enable DEP and ASLR on Windows.
+
+- Issue #17791: Drop PREFIX and EXEC_PREFIX definitions from PC/pyconfig.h
+
+- Add workaround for VS 2010 nmake clean issue. VS 2010 doesn't set up PATH
+  for nmake.exe correctly.
+
+- Issue #19550: Implement Windows installer changes of PEP 453 (ensurepip).
+
+- Issue #19520: Fix compiler warning in the _sha3 module on 32bit Windows.
+
+- Issue #19356: Avoid using a C variabled named "_self", it's a reserved
+  word in some C compilers.
+
+- Issue #15792: Correct build options on Win64. Patch by Jeremy Kloth.
+
+- Issue #19373: Apply upstream change to Tk 8.5.15 fixing OS X 10.9
+  screen refresh problem for OS X installer build.
+
+- Issue #19649: On OS X, the same set of file names are now installed
+  in bin directories for all configurations: non-framework vs framework,
+  and single arch vs universal builds.  pythonx.y-32 is now always
+  installed for 64-bit/32-bit universal builds.  The obsolete and
+  undocumented pythonw* symlinks are no longer installed anywhere.
+
+- Issue #19553: PEP 453 - "make install" and "make altinstall" now install or
+  upgrade pip by default, using the bundled pip provided by the new ensurepip
+  module.  A new configure option, --with-ensurepip[=upgrade|install|no], is
+  available to override the default ensurepip "--upgrade" option.  The option
+  can also be set with "make [alt]install ENSUREPIP=[upgrade|install|no]".
+
+- Issue #19551: PEP 453 - the OS X installer now installs pip by default.
+
+- Update third-party libraries for OS X installers: xz 5.0.3 -> 5.0.5,
+  SQLite 3.7.13 -> 3.8.1
+
+- Issue #15663: Revert OS X installer built-in Tcl/Tk support for 3.4.0b1.
+  Some third-party projects, such as Matplotlib and PIL/Pillow,
+  depended on being able to build with Tcl and Tk frameworks in
+  /Library/Frameworks.
+
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
+
+- Issue #19730: Argument Clinic now supports all the existing PyArg
+  "format units" as legacy converters, as well as two new features:
+  "self converters" and the "version" directive.
+
+- Issue #19552: pyvenv now bootstraps pip into virtual environments by
+  default (pass --without-pip to request the old behaviour)
+
+- Issue #19390: Argument Clinic no longer accepts malformed Python
+  and C ids.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 4?
+===================================
+
+Release date: 2013-10-20
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #19301: Give classes and functions that are explicitly marked global a
+  global qualname.
+
+- Issue #19279: UTF-7 decoder no longer produces illegal strings.
+
+- Issue #16612: Add "Argument Clinic", a compile-time preprocessor for
+  C files to generate argument parsing code.  (See PEP 436.)
+
+- Issue #18810: Shift stat calls in importlib.machinery.FileFinder such that
+  the code is optimistic that if something exists in a directory named exactly
+  like the possible package being searched for that it's in actuality a
+  directory.
+
+- Issue #18416: importlib.machinery.PathFinder now treats '' as the cwd and
+  importlib.machinery.FileFinder no longer special-cases '' to '.'. This leads
+  to modules imported from cwd to now possess an absolute file path for
+  __file__ (this does not affect modules specified by path on the CLI but it
+  does affect -m/runpy). It also allows FileFinder to be more consistent by not
+  having an edge case.
+
+- Issue #4555: All exported C symbols are now prefixed with either
+  "Py" or "_Py".
+
+- Issue #19219: Speed up marshal.loads(), and make pyc files slightly
+  (5% to 10%) smaller.
+
+- Issue #19221: Upgrade Unicode database to version 6.3.0.
+
+- Issue #16742: The result of the C callback PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer must
+  now be a string allocated by PyMem_RawMalloc() or PyMem_RawRealloc() (or NULL
+  if an error occurred), instead of a string allocated by PyMem_Malloc() or
+  PyMem_Realloc().
+
+- Issue #19199: Remove ``PyThreadState.tick_counter`` field
+
+- Fix macro expansion of _PyErr_OCCURRED(), and make sure to use it in at
+  least one place so as to avoid regressions.
+
+- Issue #19087: Improve bytearray allocation in order to allow cheap popping
+  of data at the front (slice deletion).
+
+- Issue #19014: memoryview.cast() is now allowed on zero-length views.
+
+- Issue #18690: memoryview is now automatically registered with
+  collections.abc.Sequence
+
+- Issue #19078: memoryview now correctly supports the reversed builtin
+  (Patch by Claudiu Popa)
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #17457: unittest test discovery now works with namespace packages.
+  Patch by Claudiu Popa.
+
+- Issue #18235: Fix the sysconfig variables LDSHARED and BLDSHARED under AIX.
+  Patch by David Edelsohn.
+
+- Issue #18606: Add the new "statistics" module (PEP 450).  Contributed
+  by Steven D'Aprano.
+
+- Issue #12866: The audioop module now supports 24-bit samples.
+
+- Issue #19254: Provide an optimized Python implementation of pbkdf2_hmac.
+
+- Issues #19201, Issue #19222, Issue #19223: Add "x" mode (exclusive creation)
+  in opening file to bz2, gzip and lzma modules. Patches by Tim Heaney and
+  Vajrasky Kok.
+
+- Fix a reference count leak in _sre.
+
+- Issue #19262: Initial check in of the 'asyncio' package (a.k.a. Tulip,
+  a.k.a. PEP 3156).  There are no docs yet, and the PEP is slightly
+  out of date with the code.  This module will have *provisional* status
+  in Python 3.4.
+
+- Issue #19276: Fixed the wave module on 64-bit big-endian platforms.
+
+- Issue #19266: Rename the new-in-3.4 ``contextlib.ignore`` context manager
+  to ``contextlib.suppress`` in order to be more consistent with existing
+  descriptions of that operation elsewhere in the language and standard
+  library documentation (Patch by Zero Piraeus).
+
+- Issue #18891: Completed the new email package (provisional) API additions
+  by adding new classes EmailMessage, MIMEPart, and ContentManager.
+
+- Issue #18281: Unused stat constants removed from `tarfile`.
+
+- Issue #18999: Multiprocessing now supports 'contexts' with the same API
+  as the module, but bound to specified start methods.
+
+- Issue #18468: The re.split, re.findall, and re.sub functions and the group()
+  and groups() methods of match object now always return a string or a bytes
+  object.
+
+- Issue #18725: The textwrap module now supports truncating multiline text.
+
+- Issue #18776: atexit callbacks now display their full traceback when they
+  raise an exception.
+
+- Issue #17827: Add the missing documentation for ``codecs.encode`` and
+  ``codecs.decode``.
+
+- Issue #19218: Rename collections.abc to _collections_abc in order to
+  speed up interpreter start.
+
+- Issue #18582: Add 'pbkdf2_hmac' to the hashlib module. It implements PKCS#5
+  password-based key derivation functions with HMAC as pseudorandom function.
+
+- Issue #19131: The aifc module now correctly reads and writes sampwidth of
+  compressed streams.
+
+- Issue #19209: Remove import of copyreg from the os module to speed up
+  interpreter startup. stat_result and statvfs_result are now hard-coded to
+  reside in the os module.
+
+- Issue #19205: Don't import the 're' module in site and sysconfig module to
+  speed up interpreter start.
+
+- Issue #9548: Add a minimal "_bootlocale" module that is imported by the
+  _io module instead of the full locale module.
+
+- Issue #18764: Remove the 'print' alias for the PDB 'p' command so that it no
+  longer shadows the print function.
+
+- Issue #19158: A rare race in BoundedSemaphore could allow .release() too
+  often.
+
+- Issue #15805: Add contextlib.redirect_stdout().
+
+- Issue #18716: Deprecate the formatter module.
+
+- Issue #10712: 2to3 has a new "asserts" fixer that replaces deprecated names
+  of unittest methods (e.g. failUnlessEqual -> assertEqual).
+
+- Issue #18037: 2to3 now escapes ``'\u'`` and ``'\U'`` in native strings.
+
+- Issue #17839: base64.decodebytes and base64.encodebytes now accept any
+  object that exports a 1 dimensional array of bytes (this means the same
+  is now also true for base64_codec)
+
+- Issue #19132: The pprint module now supports compact mode.
+
+- Issue #19137: The pprint module now correctly formats instances of set and
+  frozenset subclasses.
+
+- Issue #10042: functools.total_ordering now correctly handles
+  NotImplemented being returned by the underlying comparison function (Patch
+  by Katie Miller)
+
+- Issue #19092: contextlib.ExitStack now correctly reraises exceptions
+  from the __exit__ callbacks of inner context managers (Patch by Hrvoje
+  Nikšić)
+
+- Issue #12641: Avoid passing "-mno-cygwin" to the mingw32 compiler, except
+  when necessary.  Patch by Oscar Benjamin.
+
+- Issue #5845: In site.py, only load readline history from ~/.python_history
+  if no history has been read already.  This avoids double writes to the
+  history file at shutdown.
+
+- Properly initialize all fields of a SSL object after allocation.
+
+- Issue #19095: SSLSocket.getpeercert() now raises ValueError when the
+  SSL handshake hasn't been done.
+
+- Issue #4366: Fix building extensions on all platforms when --enable-shared
+  is used.
+
+- Issue #19030: Fixed `inspect.getmembers` and `inspect.classify_class_attrs`
+  to attempt activating descriptors before falling back to a __dict__ search
+  for faulty descriptors.  `inspect.classify_class_attrs` no longer returns
+  Attributes whose home class is None.
+
+C API
+-----
+
+- Issue #1772673: The type of `char*` arguments now changed to `const char*`.
+
+- Issue #16129: Added a `Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding` pre-initialization API
+  to allow embedding applications like Blender to force a particular
+  encoding and error handler for the standard IO streams (initial patch by
+  Bastien Montagne)
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #19275: Fix test_site on AMD64 Snow Leopard
+
+- Issue #14407: Fix unittest test discovery in test_concurrent_futures.
+
+- Issue #18919: Unified and extended tests for audio modules: aifc, sunau and
+  wave.
+
+- Issue #18714: Added tests for ``pdb.find_function()``.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Issue #18758: Fixed and improved cross-references.
+
+- Issue #18972: Modernize email examples and use the argparse module in them.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #19130: Correct PCbuild/readme.txt, Python 3.3 and 3.4 require VS 2010.
+
+- Issue #15663: Update OS X 10.6+ installer to use Tcl/Tk 8.5.15.
+
+- Issue #14499: Fix several problems with OS X universal build support:
+    1. ppc arch detection for extension module builds broke with Xcode 5
+    2. ppc arch detection in configure did not work on OS X 10.4
+    3. -sysroot and -arch flags were unnecessarily duplicated
+    4. there was no obvious way to configure an intel-32 only build.
+
+- Issue #19019: Change the OS X installer build script to use CFLAGS instead
+  of OPT for special build options.  By setting OPT, some compiler-specific
+  options like -fwrapv were overridden and thus not used, which could result
+  in broken interpreters when building with clang.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 3?
+===================================
+
+Release date: 2013-09-29
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #18818: The "encodingname" part of PYTHONIOENCODING is now optional.
+
+- Issue #19098: Prevent overflow in the compiler when the recursion limit is set
+  absurdly high.
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #18929: `inspect.classify_class_attrs()` now correctly finds class
+  attributes returned by `dir()` that are located in the metaclass.
+
+- Issue #18950: Fix miscellaneous bugs in the sunau module.
+  Au_read.readframes() now updates current file position and reads correct
+  number of frames from multichannel stream.  Au_write.writeframesraw() now
+  correctly updates current file position.  Au_read.getnframes() now returns an
+  integer (as in Python 2).  Au_read and Au_write now correctly works with file
+  object if start file position is not a zero.
+
+- Issue #18594: The fast path for collections.Counter() was never taken
+  due to an over-restrictive type check.
+
+- Issue #19053: ZipExtFile.read1() with non-zero argument no more returns empty
+  bytes until end of data.
+
+- logging: added support for Unix domain sockets to SocketHandler and
+  DatagramHandler.
+
+- Issue #18996: TestCase.assertEqual() now more cleverly shorten differing
+  strings in error report.
+
+- Issue #19034: repr() for tkinter.Tcl_Obj now exposes string reperesentation.
+
+- Issue #18978: ``urllib.request.Request`` now allows the method to be
+  indicated on the class and no longer sets it to None in ``__init__``.
+
+- Issue #18626: the inspect module now offers a basic command line
+  introspection interface (Initial patch by Claudiu Popa)
+
+- Issue #3015: Fixed tkinter with wantobject=False.  Any Tcl command call
+  returned empty string.
+
+- Issue #19037: The mailbox module now makes all changes to maildir files
+  before moving them into place, to avoid race conditions with other programs
+  that may be accessing the maildir directory.
+
+- Issue #14984: On POSIX systems, when netrc is called without a filename
+  argument (and therefore is reading the user's $HOME/.netrc file), it now
+  enforces the same security rules as typical ftp clients: the .netrc file must
+  be owned by the user that owns the process and must not be readable by any
+  other user.
+
+- Issue #18873: The tokenize module now detects Python source code encoding
+  only in comment lines.
+
+- Issue #17764: Enable http.server to bind to a user specified network
+  interface.  Patch contributed by Malte Swart.
+
+- Issue #18937: Add an assertLogs() context manager to unittest.TestCase
+  to ensure that a block of code emits a message using the logging module.
+
+- Issue #17324: Fix http.server's request handling case on trailing '/'. Patch
+  contributed by Vajrasky Kok.
+
+- Issue #19018: The heapq.merge() function no longer suppresses IndexError
+  in the underlying iterables.
+
+- Issue #18784: The uuid module no longer attempts to load libc via ctypes.CDLL
+  if all the necessary functions have already been found in libuuid.  Patch by
+  Evgeny Sologubov.
+
+- The :envvar:`PYTHONFAULTHANDLER` environment variable now only enables the
+  faulthandler module if the variable is non-empty. Same behaviour than other
+  variables like :envvar:`PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE`.
+
+- Issue #1565525: New function ``traceback.clear_frames`` will clear
+  the local variables of all the stack frames referenced by a traceback
+  object.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #18952: Fix regression in support data downloads introduced when
+  test.support was converted to a package. Regression noticed by Zachary
+  Ware.
+
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #18873: IDLE now detects Python source code encoding only in comment
+  lines.
+
+- Issue #18988: The "Tab" key now works when a word is already autocompleted.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Issue #17003: Unified the size argument names in the io module with common
+  practice.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #18596: Support the use of address sanity checking in recent versions
+  of clang and GCC by appropriately marking known false alarms in the small
+  object allocator. Patch contributed by Dhiru Kholia.
+
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
+
+- Issue #18873: 2to3 and the findnocoding.py script now detect Python source
+  code encoding only in comment lines.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 2?
+===================================
+
+Release date: 2013-09-09
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #18942: sys._debugmallocstats() output was damaged on Windows.
+
+- Issue #18571: Implementation of the PEP 446: file descriptors and file
+  handles are now created non-inheritable; add functions
+  os.get/set_inheritable(), os.get/set_handle_inheritable() and
+  socket.socket.get/set_inheritable().
+
+- Issue #11619: The parser and the import machinery do not encode Unicode
+  filenames anymore on Windows.
+
+- Issue #18808: Non-daemon threads are now automatically joined when
+  a sub-interpreter is shutdown (it would previously dump a fatal error).
+
+- Remove support for compiling on systems without getcwd().
+
+- Issue #18774: Remove last bits of GNU PTH thread code and thread_pth.h.
+
+- Issue #18771: Add optimization to set object lookups to reduce the cost
+  of hash collisions.  The core idea is to inspect a second key/hash pair
+  for each cache line retrieved.
+
+- Issue #16105: When a signal handler fails to write to the file descriptor
+  registered with ``signal.set_wakeup_fd()``, report an exception instead
+  of ignoring the error.
+
+- Issue #18722: Remove uses of the "register" keyword in C code.
+
+- Issue #18667: Add missing "HAVE_FCHOWNAT" symbol to posix._have_functions.
+
+- Issue #16499: Add command line option for isolated mode.
+
+- Issue #15301: Parsing fd, uid, and gid parameters for builtins
+  in Modules/posixmodule.c is now far more robust.
+
+- Issue #18368: PyOS_StdioReadline() no longer leaks memory when realloc()
+  fail.
+
+- Issue #17934: Add a clear() method to frame objects, to help clean up
+  expensive details (local variables) and break reference cycles.
+
+- Issue #18780: %-formatting codes %d, %i, and %u now treat int-subclasses
+  as int (displays value of int-subclass instead of str(int-subclass) ).
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #18808: Thread.join() now waits for the underlying thread state to
+  be destroyed before returning.  This prevents unpredictable aborts in
+  Py_EndInterpreter() when some non-daemon threads are still running.
+
+- Issue #18458: Prevent crashes with newer versions of libedit.  Its readline
+  emulation has changed from 0-based indexing to 1-based like gnu readline.
+
+- Issue #18852: Handle case of ``readline.__doc__`` being ``None`` in the new
+  readline activation code in ``site.py``.
+
+- Issue #18672: Fixed format specifiers for Py_ssize_t in debugging output in
+  the _sre module.
+
+- Issue #18830: inspect.getclasstree() no longer produces duplicate entries even
+  when input list contains duplicates.
+
+- Issue #18878: sunau.open now supports the context management protocol.  Based on
+  patches by Claudiu Popa and R. David Murray.
+
+- Issue #18909: Fix _tkinter.tkapp.interpaddr() on Windows 64-bit, don't cast
+  64-bit pointer to long (32 bits).
+
+- Issue #18876: The FileIO.mode attribute now better reflects the actual mode
+  under which the file was opened.  Patch by Erik Bray.
+
+- Issue #16853: Add new selectors module.
+
+- Issue #18882: Add threading.main_thread() function.
+
+- Issue #18901: The sunau getparams method now returns a namedtuple rather than
+  a plain tuple.  Patch by Claudiu Popa.
+
+- Issue #17487: The result of the wave getparams method now is pickleable again.
+  Patch by Claudiu Popa.
+
+- Issue #18756: os.urandom() now uses a lazily-opened persistent file
+  descriptor, so as to avoid using many file descriptors when run in
+  parallel from multiple threads.
+
+- Issue #18418: After fork(), reinit all threads states, not only active ones.
+  Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
+
+- Issue #17974: Switch unittest from using getopt to using argparse.
+
+- Issue #11798: TestSuite now drops references to own tests after execution.
+
+- Issue #16611: http.cookie now correctly parses the 'secure' and 'httponly'
+  cookie flags.
+
+- Issue #11973: Fix a problem in kevent. The flags and fflags fields are now
+  properly handled as unsigned.
+
+- Issue #18807: ``pyvenv`` now takes a --copies argument allowing copies
+  instead of symlinks even where symlinks are available and the default.
+
+- Issue #18538: ``python -m dis`` now uses argparse for argument processing.
+  Patch by Michele Orrù.
+
+- Issue #18394: Close cgi.FieldStorage's optional file.
+
+- Issue #17702: On error, os.environb now suppresses the exception context
+  when raising a new KeyError with the original key.
+
+- Issue #16809: Fixed some tkinter incompabilities with Tcl/Tk 8.6.
+
+- Issue #16809: Tkinter's splitlist() and split() methods now accept Tcl_Obj
+  argument.
+
+- Issue #17211: Yield a namedtuple in pkgutil.
+  Patch by Ramchandra Apte.
+
+- Issue #18324: set_payload now correctly handles binary input.  This also
+  supersedes the previous fixes for #14360, #1717, and #16564.
+
+- Issue #18794: Add a fileno() method and a closed attribute to select.devpoll
+  objects.
+
+- Issue #17119: Fixed integer overflows when processing large strings and tuples
+  in the tkinter module.
+
+- Issue #15352: Rebuild frozen modules when marshal.c is changed.
+
+- Issue #18747: Re-seed OpenSSL's pseudo-random number generator after fork.
+  A pthread_atfork() parent handler is used to seed the PRNG with pid, time
+  and some stack data.
+
+- Issue #8865: Concurrent invocation of select.poll.poll() now raises a
+  RuntimeError exception.  Patch by Christian Schubert.
+
+- Issue #18777: The ssl module now uses the new CRYPTO_THREADID API of
+  OpenSSL 1.0.0+ instead of the deprecated CRYPTO id callback function.
+
+- Issue #18768: Correct doc string of RAND_edg(). Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
+
+- Issue #18178: Fix ctypes on BSD. dlmalloc.c was compiled twice which broke
+  malloc weak symbols.
+
+- Issue #18709: Fix CVE-2013-4238. The SSL module now handles NULL bytes
+  inside subjectAltName correctly. Formerly the module has used OpenSSL's
+  GENERAL_NAME_print() function to get the string representation of ASN.1
+  strings for ``rfc822Name`` (email), ``dNSName`` (DNS) and
+  ``uniformResourceIdentifier`` (URI).
+
+- Issue #18701: Remove support of old CPython versions (<3.0) from C code.
+
+- Issue #18756: Improve error reporting in os.urandom() when the failure
+  is due to something else than /dev/urandom not existing (for example,
+  exhausting the file descriptor limit).
+
+- Issue #18673: Add O_TMPFILE to os module. O_TMPFILE requires Linux kernel
+  3.11 or newer. It's only defined on system with 3.11 uapi headers, too.
+
+- Issue #18532: Change the builtin hash algorithms' names to lower case names
+  as promised by hashlib's documentation.
+
+- Issue #8713: add new spwan and forkserver start methods, and new functions
+  get_all_start_methods, get_start_method, and set_start_method, to
+  multiprocessing.
+
+- Issue #18405: Improve the entropy of crypt.mksalt().
+
+- Issue #12015: The tempfile module now uses a suffix of 8 random characters
+  instead of 6, to reduce the risk of filename collision. The entropy was
+  reduced when uppercase letters were removed from the charset used to generate
+  random characters.
+
+- Issue #18585: Add :func:`textwrap.shorten` to collapse and truncate a
+  piece of text to a given length.
+
+- Issue #18598: Tweak exception message for importlib.import_module() to
+  include the module name when a key argument is missing.
+
+- Issue #19151: Fix docstring and use of _get_supported_file_loaders() to
+  reflect 2-tuples.
+
+- Issue #19152: Add ExtensionFileLoader.get_filename().
+
+- Issue #18676: Change 'positive' to 'non-negative' in queue.py put and get
+  docstrings and ValueError messages. Patch by Zhongyue Luo
+
+- Fix refcounting issue with extension types in tkinter.
+
+- Issue #8112: xlmrpc.server's DocXMLRPCServer server no longer raises an error
+  if methods have annotations; it now correctly displays the annotations.
+
+- Issue #18600: Added policy argument to email.message.Message.as_string,
+  and as_bytes and __bytes__ methods to Message.
+
+- Issue #18671: Output more information when logging exceptions occur.
+
+- Issue #18621: Prevent the site module's patched builtins from keeping
+  too many references alive for too long.
+
+- Issue #4885: Add weakref support to mmap objects.  Patch by Valerie Lambert.
+
+- Issue #8860: Fixed rounding in timedelta constructor.
+
+- Issue #18849: Fixed a Windows-specific tempfile bug where collision with an
+  existing directory caused mkstemp and related APIs to fail instead of
+  retrying. Report and fix by Vlad Shcherbina.
+
+- Issue #18920: argparse's default destination for the version action (-v,
+  --version) has also been changed to stdout, to match the Python executable.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #18623: Factor out the _SuppressCoreFiles context manager into
+  test.support.  Patch by Valerie Lambert.
+
+- Issue #12037: Fix test_email for desktop Windows.
+
+- Issue #15507: test_subprocess's test_send_signal could fail if the test
+  runner were run in an environment where the process inherited an ignore
+  setting for SIGINT.  Restore the SIGINT handler to the desired
+  KeyboardInterrupt raising one during that test.
+
+- Issue #16799: Switched from getopt to argparse style in regrtest's argument
+  parsing.  Added more tests for regrtest's argument parsing.
+
+- Issue #18792: Use "127.0.0.1" or "::1" instead of "localhost" as much as
+  possible, since "localhost" goes through a DNS lookup under recent Windows
+  versions.
+
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #18489: Add tests for SearchEngine. Original patch by Phil Webster.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Issue #18743: Fix references to non-existent "StringIO" module.
+
+- Issue #18783: Removed existing mentions of Python long type in docstrings,
+  error messages and comments.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #1584: Provide configure options to override default search paths for
+  Tcl and Tk when building _tkinter.
+
+- Issue #15663: Tcl/Tk 8.5.14 is now included with the OS X 10.6+ 64-/32-bit
+  installer.  It is no longer necessary to install a third-party version of
+  Tcl/Tk 8.5 to work around the problems in the Apple-supplied Tcl/Tk 8.5
+  shipped in OS X 10.6 and later releases.
+
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
+
+- Issue #18922: Now The Lib/smtpd.py and Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py scripts write
+  their version strings to stdout, and not to sderr.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 1?
+===================================
+
+Release date: 2013-08-03
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #16741: Fix an error reporting in int().
+
+- Issue #17899: Fix rare file descriptor leak in os.listdir().
+
+- Issue #10241: Clear extension module dict copies at interpreter shutdown.
+  Patch by Neil Schemenauer, minimally modified.
+
+- Issue #9035: ismount now recognises volumes mounted below a drive root
+  on Windows. Original patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.
+
+- Issue #18214: Improve finalization of Python modules to avoid setting
+  their globals to None, in most cases.
+
+- Issue #18112: PEP 442 implementation (safe object finalization).
+
+- Issue #18552: Check return value of PyArena_AddPyObject() in
+  obj2ast_object().
+
+- Issue #18560: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in sum().
+
+- Issue #18520: Add a new PyStructSequence_InitType2() function, same than
+  PyStructSequence_InitType() except that it has a return value (0 on success,
+  -1 on error).
+
+- Issue #15905: Fix theoretical buffer overflow in handling of sys.argv[0],
+  prefix and exec_prefix if the operation system does not obey MAXPATHLEN.
+
+- Issue #18408: Fix many various bugs in code handling errors, especially
+  on memory allocation failure (MemoryError).
+
+- Issue #18344: Fix potential ref-leaks in _bufferedreader_read_all().
+
+- Issue #18342: Use the repr of a module name when an import fails when using
+  ``from ... import ...``.
+
+- Issue #17872: Fix a segfault in marshal.load() when input stream returns
+  more bytes than requested.
+
+- Issue #18338: `python --version` now prints version string to stdout, and
+  not to stderr.  Patch by Berker Peksag and Michael Dickens.
+
+- Issue #18426: Fix NULL pointer dereference in C extension import when
+  PyModule_GetDef() returns an error.
+
+- Issue #17206: On Windows, increase the stack size from 2 MB to 4.2 MB to fix
+  a stack overflow in the marshal module (fix a crash in test_marshal).
+  Patch written by Jeremy Kloth.
+
+- Issue #3329: Implement the PEP 445: Add new APIs to customize Python memory
+  allocators.
+
+- Issue #18328: Reorder ops in PyThreadState_Delete*() functions. Now the
+  tstate is first removed from TLS and then deallocated.
+
+- Issue #13483: Use VirtualAlloc in obmalloc on Windows.
+
+- Issue #18184: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyUnicode_FromFormatV() now raise
+  OverflowError when an argument of %c format is out of range.
+
+- Issue #18111: The min() and max() functions now support a default argument
+  to be returned instead of raising a ValueError on an empty sequence.
+  (Contributed by Julian Berman.)
+
+- Issue #18137: Detect integer overflow on precision in float.__format__()
+  and complex.__format__().
+
+- Issue #15767: Introduce ModuleNotFoundError which is raised when a module
+  could not be found.
+
+- Issue #18183: Fix various unicode operations on strings with large unicode
+  codepoints.
+
+- Issue #18180: Fix ref leak in _PyImport_GetDynLoadWindows().
+
+- Issue #18038: SyntaxError raised during compilation sources with illegal
+  encoding now always contains an encoding name.
+
+- Issue #17931: Resolve confusion on Windows between pids and process
+  handles.
+
+- Tweak the exception message when the magic number or size value in a bytecode
+  file is truncated.
+
+- Issue #17932: Fix an integer overflow issue on Windows 64-bit in iterators:
+  change the C type of seqiterobject.it_index from long to Py_ssize_t.
+
+- Issue #18065: Don't set __path__ to the package name for frozen packages.
+
+- Issue #18088: When reloading a module, unconditionally reset all relevant
+  attributes on the module (e.g. __name__, __loader__, __package__, __file__,
+  __cached__).
+
+- Issue #17937: Try harder to collect cyclic garbage at shutdown.
+
+- Issue #12370: Prevent class bodies from interfering with the __class__
+  closure.
+
+- Issue #17644: Fix a crash in str.format when curly braces are used in square
+  brackets.
+
+- Issue #17237: Fix crash in the ASCII decoder on m68k.
+
+- Issue #17927: Frame objects kept arguments alive if they had been
+  copied into a cell, even if the cell was cleared.
+
+- Issue #1545463: At shutdown, defer finalization of codec modules so
+  that stderr remains usable.
+
+- Issue #7330: Implement width and precision (ex: "%5.3s") for the format
+  string of PyUnicode_FromFormat() function, original patch written by Ysj Ray.
+
+- Issue #1545463: Global variables caught in reference cycles are now
+  garbage-collected at shutdown.
+
+- Issue #17094: Clear stale thread states after fork().  Note that this
+  is a potentially disruptive change since it may release some system
+  resources which would otherwise remain perpetually alive (e.g. database
+  connections kept in thread-local storage).
+
+- Issue #17408: Avoid using an obsolete instance of the copyreg module when
+  the interpreter is shutdown and then started again.
+
+- Issue #5845: Enable tab-completion in the interactive interpreter by
+  default, thanks to a new sys.__interactivehook__.
+
+- Issue #17115,17116: Module initialization now includes setting __package__ and
+  __loader__ attributes to None.
+
+- Issue #17853: Ensure locals of a class that shadow free variables always win
+  over the closures.
+
+- Issue #17863: In the interactive console, don't loop forever if the encoding
+  can't be fetched from stdin.
+
+- Issue #17867: Raise an ImportError if __import__ is not found in __builtins__.
+
+- Issue #18698: Ensure importlib.reload() returns the module out of sys.modules.
+
+- Issue #17857: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of sqlite3,
+  such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
+
+- Issue #17413: sys.settrace callbacks were being passed a string instead of an
+  exception instance for the 'value' element of the arg tuple if the exception
+  originated from C code; now an exception instance is always provided.
+
+- Issue #17782: Fix undefined behaviour on platforms where
+  ``struct timespec``'s "tv_nsec" member is not a C long.
+
+- Issue #17722: When looking up __round__, resolve descriptors.
+
+- Issue #16061: Speed up str.replace() for replacing 1-character strings.
+
+- Issue #17715: Fix segmentation fault from raising an exception in a __trunc__
+  method.
+
+- Issue #17643: Add __callback__ attribute to weakref.ref.
+
+- Issue #16447: Fixed potential segmentation fault when setting __name__ on a
+  class.
+
+- Issue #17669: Fix crash involving finalization of generators using yield from.
+
+- Issue #14439: Python now prints the traceback on runpy failure at startup.
+
+- Issue #17469: Fix _Py_GetAllocatedBlocks() and sys.getallocatedblocks()
+  when running on valgrind.
+
+- Issue #17619: Make input() check for Ctrl-C correctly on Windows.
+
+- Issue #17357: Add missing verbosity messages for -v/-vv that were lost during
+  the importlib transition.
+
+- Issue #17610: Don't rely on non-standard behavior of the C qsort() function.
+
+- Issue #17323: The "[X refs, Y blocks]" printed by debug builds has been
+  disabled by default.  It can be re-enabled with the `-X showrefcount` option.
+
+- Issue #17328: Fix possible refleak in dict.setdefault.
+
+- Issue #17275: Corrected class name in init error messages of the C version of
+  BufferedWriter and BufferedRandom.
+
+- Issue #7963: Fixed misleading error message that issued when object is
+  called without arguments.
+
+- Issue #8745: Small speed up zipimport on Windows. Patch by Catalin Iacob.
+
+- Issue #5308: Raise ValueError when marshalling too large object (a sequence
+  with size >= 2**31), instead of producing illegal marshal data.
+
+- Issue #12983: Bytes literals with invalid ``\x`` escape now raise a SyntaxError
+  and a full traceback including line number.
+
+- Issue #16967: In function definition, evaluate positional defaults before
+  keyword-only defaults.
+
+- Issue #17173: Remove uses of locale-dependent C functions (isalpha() etc.)
+  in the interpreter.
+
+- Issue #17137: When a Unicode string is resized, the internal wide character
+  string (wstr) format is now cleared.
+
+- Issue #17043: The unicode-internal decoder no longer read past the end of
+  input buffer.
+
+- Issue #17098: All modules now have __loader__ set even if they pre-exist the
+  bootstrapping of importlib.
+
+- Issue #16979: Fix error handling bugs in the unicode-escape-decode decoder.
+
+- Issue #16772: The base argument to the int constructor no longer accepts
+  floats, or other non-integer objects with an __int__ method.  Objects
+  with an __index__ method are now accepted.
+
+- Issue #10156: In the interpreter's initialization phase, unicode globals
+  are now initialized dynamically as needed.
+
+- Issue #16980: Fix processing of escaped non-ascii bytes in the
+  unicode-escape-decode decoder.
+
+- Issue #16975: Fix error handling bug in the escape-decode bytes decoder.
+
+- Issue #14850: Now a charmap decoder treats U+FFFE as "undefined mapping"
+  in any mapping, not only in a string.
+
+- Issue #16613: Add *m* argument to ``collections.Chainmap.new_child`` to
+  allow the new child map to be specified explicitly.
+
+- Issue #16730: importlib.machinery.FileFinder now no longers raises an
+  exception when trying to populate its cache and it finds out the directory is
+  unreadable or has turned into a file. Reported and diagnosed by
+  David Pritchard.
+
+- Issue #16906: Fix a logic error that prevented most static strings from being
+  cleared.
+
+- Issue #11461: Fix the incremental UTF-16 decoder. Original patch by
+  Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
+
+- Issue #16856: Fix a segmentation fault from calling repr() on a dict with
+  a key whose repr raise an exception.
+
+- Issue #16367: Fix FileIO.readall() on Windows for files larger than 2 GB.
+
+- Issue #16761: Calling int() with base argument only now raises TypeError.
+
+- Issue #16759: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Reg2Py
+  when retrieving a REG_DWORD value. This corrects functions like
+  winreg.QueryValueEx that may have been returning truncated values.
+
+- Issue #14420: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Py2Reg
+  when passed a REG_DWORD value. Fixes OverflowError in winreg.SetValueEx.
+
+- Issue #11939: Set the st_dev attribute of stat_result to allow Windows to
+  take advantage of the os.path.samefile/sameopenfile/samestat implementations
+  used by other platforms.
+
+- Issue #16772: The int() constructor's second argument (base) no longer
+  accepts non integer values.  Consistent with the behavior in Python 2.
+
+- Issue #14470: Remove w9xpopen support per PEP 11.
+
+- Issue #9856: Replace deprecation warning with raising TypeError
+  in object.__format__. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
+
+- Issue #16597: In buffered and text IO, call close() on the underlying stream
+  if invoking flush() fails.
+
+- Issue #16722: In the bytes() constructor, try to call __bytes__ on the
+  argument before __index__.
+
+- Issue #16421: loading multiple modules from one shared object is now
+  handled correctly (previously, the first module loaded from that file
+  was silently returned). Patch by Václav Šmilauer.
+
+- Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation
+  chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though
+  its refcount had dropped to zero.
+
+- Issue #16495: Remove extraneous NULL encoding check from bytes_decode().
+
+- Issue #16619: Create NameConstant AST class to represent None, True, and False
+  literals. As a result, these constants are never loaded at runtime from
+  builtins.
+
+- Issue #16455: On FreeBSD and Solaris, if the locale is C, the
+  ASCII/surrogateescape codec is now used (instead of the locale encoding) to
+  decode the command line arguments. This change fixes inconsistencies with
+  os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode(), because these operating systems announce an
+  ASCII locale encoding, but actually use the ISO-8859-1 encoding in practice.
+
+- Issue #16562: Optimize dict equality testing.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #16588: Silence unused-but-set warnings in Python/thread_pthread
+
+- Issue #16592: stringlib_bytes_join doesn't raise MemoryError on allocation
+  failure.
+
+- Issue #16546: Fix: ast.YieldFrom argument is now mandatory.
+
+- Issue #16514: Fix regression causing a traceback when sys.path[0] is None
+  (actually, any non-string or non-bytes type).
+
+- Issue #16306: Fix multiple error messages when unknown command line
+  parameters where passed to the interpreter.  Patch by Hieu Nguyen.
+
+- Issue #16215: Fix potential double memory free in str.replace().  Patch
+  by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #16290: A float return value from the __complex__ special method is no
+  longer accepted in the complex() constructor.
+
+- Issue #16416: On Mac OS X, operating system data are now always
+  encoded/decoded to/from UTF-8/surrogateescape, instead of the locale encoding
+  (which may be ASCII if no locale environment variable is set), to avoid
+  inconsistencies with os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() functions which are
+  already using UTF-8/surrogateescape.
+
+- Issue #16453: Fix equality testing of dead weakref objects.
+
+- Issue #9535: Fix pending signals that have been received but not yet
+  handled by Python to not persist after os.fork() in the child process.
+
+- Issue #14794: Fix slice.indices to return correct results for huge values,
+  rather than raising OverflowError.
+
+- Issue #15001: fix segfault on "del sys.modules['__main__']". Patch by Victor
+  Stinner.
+
+- Issue #8271: the utf-8 decoder now outputs the correct number of U+FFFD
+  characters when used with the 'replace' error handler on invalid utf-8
+  sequences.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka, tests by Ezio Melotti.
+
+- Issue #5765: Apply a hard recursion limit in the compiler instead of
+  blowing the stack and segfaulting. Initial patch by Andrea Griffini.
+
+- Issue #16402: When slicing a range, fix shadowing of exceptions from
+  __index__.
+
+- Issue #16336: fix input checking in the surrogatepass error handler.
+  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now
+  raises an error.
+
+- Issue #7317: Display full tracebacks when an error occurs asynchronously.
+  Patch by Alon Horev with update by Alexey Kachayev.
+
+- Issue #16309: Make PYTHONPATH="" behavior the same as if PYTHONPATH
+  not set at all.
+
+- Issue #10189: Improve the error reporting of SyntaxErrors related to global
+  and nonlocal statements.
+
+- Fix segfaults on setting __qualname__ on builtin types and attempting to
+  delete it on any type.
+
+- Issue #14625: Rewrite the UTF-32 decoder. It is now 3x to 4x faster. Patch
+  written by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #16345: Fix an infinite loop when ``fromkeys`` on a dict subclass
+  received a nonempty dict from the constructor.
+
+- Issue #16271: Fix strange bugs that resulted from __qualname__ appearing in a
+  class's __dict__ and on type.
+
+- Issue #12805: Make bytes.join and bytearray.join faster when the separator
+  is empty.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #6074: Ensure cached bytecode files can always be updated by the
+  user that created them, even when the source file is read-only.
+
+- Issue #15958: bytes.join and bytearray.join now accept arbitrary buffer
+  objects.
+
+- Issue #14783: Improve int() docstring and switch docstrings for str(),
+  range(), and slice() to use multi-line signatures.
+
+- Issue #16160: Subclass support now works for types.SimpleNamespace.
+
+- Issue #16148: Implement PEP 424, adding operator.length_hint and
+  PyObject_LengthHint.
+
+- Upgrade Unicode data (UCD) to version 6.2.
+
+- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap
+  decoder (already working as unicode strings).  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #15144: Fix possible integer overflow when handling pointers as integer
+  values, by using `Py_uintptr_t` instead of `size_t`.  Patch by Serhiy
+  Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #15965: Explicitly cast `AT_FDCWD` as (int).  Required on Solaris 10
+  (which defines `AT_FDCWD` as ``0xffd19553``), harmless on other platforms.
+
+- Issue #15839: Convert SystemErrors in `super()` to RuntimeErrors.
+
+- Issue #15448: Buffered IO now frees the buffer when closed, instead
+  of when deallocating.
+
+- Issue #15846: Fix SystemError which happened when using `ast.parse()` in an
+  exception handler on code with syntax errors.
+
+- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
+  Patch by Felipe Cruz.
+
+- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
+  subscriptable.
+
+- Issue #15111: __import__ should propagate ImportError when raised as a
+  side-effect of a module triggered from using fromlist.
+
+- Issue #15022: Add pickle and comparison support to types.SimpleNamespace.
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #4331: Added functools.partialmethod (Initial patch by Alon Horev)
+
+- Issue #13461: Fix a crash in the TextIOWrapper.tell method on 64-bit
+  platforms.  Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari.
+
+- Issue #18681: Fix a NameError in importlib.reload() (noticed by Weizhao Li).
+
+- Issue #14323: Expanded the number of digits in the coefficients for the
+  RGB -- YIQ conversions so that they match the FCC NTSC versions.
+
+- Issue #17998: Fix an internal error in regular expression engine.
+
+- Issue #17557: Fix os.getgroups() to work with the modified behavior of
+  getgroups(2) on OS X 10.8.  Original patch by Mateusz Lenik.
+
+- Issue #18608: Avoid keeping a strong reference to the locale module
+  inside the _io module.
+
+- Issue #18619: Fix atexit leaking callbacks registered from sub-interpreters,
+  and make it GC-aware.
+
+- Issue #15699: The readline module now uses PEP 3121-style module
+  initialization, so as to reclaim allocated resources (Python callbacks)
+  at shutdown.  Original patch by Robin Schreiber.
+
+- Issue #17616: wave.open now supports the context management protocol.
+
+- Issue #18599: Fix name attribute of _sha1.sha1() object. It now returns
+  'SHA1' instead of 'SHA'.
+
+- Issue #13266: Added inspect.unwrap to easily unravel __wrapped__ chains
+  (initial patch by Daniel Urban and Aaron Iles)
+
+- Issue #18561: Skip name in ctypes' _build_callargs() if name is NULL.
+
+- Issue #18559: Fix NULL pointer dereference error in _pickle module
+
+- Issue #18556: Check the return type of PyUnicode_AsWideChar() in ctype's
+  U_set().
+
+- Issue #17818: aifc.getparams now returns a namedtuple.
+
+- Issue #18549: Eliminate dead code in socket_ntohl()
+
+- Issue #18530: Remove additional stat call from posixpath.ismount.
+  Patch by Alex Gaynor.
+
+- Issue #18514: Fix unreachable Py_DECREF() call in PyCData_FromBaseObj()
+
+- Issue #9177: Calling read() or write() now raises ValueError, not
+  AttributeError, on a closed SSL socket.  Patch by Senko Rasic.
+
+- Issue #18513: Fix behaviour of cmath.rect w.r.t. signed zeros on OS X 10.8 +
+  gcc.
+
+- Issue #18479: Changed venv Activate.ps1 to make deactivate a function, and
+  removed Deactivate.ps1.
+
+- Issue #18480: Add missing call to PyType_Ready to the _elementtree extension.
+
+- Issue #17778: Fix test discovery for test_multiprocessing. (Patch by
+  Zachary Ware.)
+
+- Issue #18393: The private module _gestalt and private functions
+  platform._mac_ver_gestalt, platform._mac_ver_lookup and
+  platform._bcd2str have been removed. This does not affect the public
+  interface of the platform module.
+
+- Issue #17482: functools.update_wrapper (and functools.wraps) now set the
+  __wrapped__ attribute correctly even if the underlying function has a
+  __wrapped__ attribute set.
+
+- Issue #18431: The new email header parser now decodes RFC2047 encoded words
+  in structured headers.
+
+- Issue #18432: The sched module's queue method was incorrectly returning
+  an iterator instead of a list.
+
+- Issue #18044: The new email header parser was mis-parsing encoded words where
+  an encoded character immediately followed the '?' that follows the CTE
+  character, resulting in a decoding failure.  They are now decoded correctly.
+
+- Issue #18101: Tcl.split() now process strings nested in a tuple as it
+  do with byte strings.
+
+- Issue #18116: getpass was always getting an error when testing /dev/tty,
+  and thus was always falling back to stdin, and would then raise an exception
+  if stdin could not be used (such as /dev/null).  It also leaked an open file.
+  All of these issues are now fixed.
+
+- Issue #17198: Fix a NameError in the dbm module.  Patch by Valentina
+  Mukhamedzhanova.
+
+- Issue #18013: Fix cgi.FieldStorage to parse the W3C sample form.
+
+- Issue #18020: improve html.escape speed by an order of magnitude.
+  Patch by Matt Bryant.
+
+- Issue #18347: ElementTree's html serializer now preserves the case of
+  closing tags.
+
+- Issue #17261: Ensure multiprocessing's proxies use proper address.
+
+- Issue #18343: faulthandler.register() now keeps the previous signal handler
+  when the function is called twice, so faulthandler.unregister() restores
+  correctly the original signal handler.
+
+- Issue #17097: Make multiprocessing ignore EINTR.
+
+- Issue #18339: Negative ints keys in unpickler.memo dict no longer cause a
+  segfault inside the _pickle C extension.
+
+- Issue #18240: The HMAC module is no longer restricted to bytes and accepts
+  any bytes-like object, e.g. memoryview. Original patch by Jonas Borgström.
+
+- Issue #18224: Removed pydoc script from created venv, as it causes problems
+  on Windows and adds no value over and above python -m pydoc ...
+
+- Issue #18155: The csv module now correctly handles csv files that use
+  a delimiter character that has a special meaning in regexes, instead of
+  throwing an exception.
+
+- Issue #14360: encode_quopri can now be successfully used as an encoder
+  when constructing a MIMEApplication object.
+
+- Issue #11390: Add -o and -f command line options to the doctest CLI to
+  specify doctest options (and convert it to using argparse).
+
+- Issue #18135: ssl.SSLSocket.write() now raises an OverflowError if the input
+  string in longer than 2 gigabytes, and ssl.SSLContext.load_cert_chain()
+  raises a ValueError if the password is longer than 2 gigabytes. The ssl
+  module does not support partial write.
+
+- Issue #11016: Add C implementation of the stat module as _stat.
+
+- Issue #18248: Fix libffi build on AIX.
+
+- Issue #18259: Declare sethostname in socketmodule.c for AIX
+
+- Issue #18147: Add diagnostic functions to ssl.SSLContext(). get_ca_list()
+  lists all loaded CA certificates and cert_store_stats() returns amount of
+  loaded X.509 certs, X.509 CA certs and CRLs.
+
+- Issue #18167: cgi.FieldStorage no longer fails to handle multipart/form-data
+  when ``\r\n`` appears at end of 65535 bytes without other newlines.
+
+- Issue #18076: Introduce importlib.util.decode_source().
+
+- Issue #18357: add tests for dictview set difference.
+  Patch by Fraser Tweedale.
+
+- importlib.abc.SourceLoader.get_source() no longer changes SyntaxError or
+  UnicodeDecodeError into ImportError.
+
+- Issue #18058, 18057: Make the namespace package loader meet the
+  importlib.abc.InspectLoader ABC, allowing for namespace packages to work with
+  runpy.
+
+- Issue #17177: The imp module is pending deprecation.
+
+- subprocess: Prevent a possible double close of parent pipe fds when the
+  subprocess exec runs into an error.  Prevent a regular multi-close of the
+  /dev/null fd when any of stdin, stdout and stderr was set to DEVNULL.
+
+- Issue #18194: Introduce importlib.util.cache_from_source() and
+  source_from_cache() while documenting the equivalent functions in imp as
+  deprecated.
+
+- Issue #17907: Document imp.new_module() as deprecated in favour of
+  types.ModuleType.
+
+- Issue #18192: Introduce importlib.util.MAGIC_NUMBER and document as deprecated
+  imp.get_magic().
+
+- Issue #18149: Add filecmp.clear_cache() to manually clear the filecmp cache.
+  Patch by Mark Levitt
+
+- Issue #18193: Add importlib.reload().
+
+- Issue #18157: Stop using imp.load_module() in pydoc.
+
+- Issue #16102: Make uuid._netbios_getnode() work again on Python 3.
+
+- Issue #17134: Add ssl.enum_cert_store() as interface to Windows' cert store.
+
+- Issue #18143: Implement ssl.get_default_verify_paths() in order to debug
+  the default locations for cafile and capath.
+
+- Issue #17314: Move multiprocessing.forking over to importlib.
+
+- Issue #11959: SMTPServer and SMTPChannel now take an optional map, use of
+  which avoids affecting global state.
+
+- Issue #18109: os.uname() now decodes fields from the locale encoding, and
+  socket.gethostname() now decodes the hostname from the locale encoding,
+  instead of using the UTF-8 encoding in strict mode.
+
+- Issue #18089: Implement importlib.abc.InspectLoader.load_module.
+
+- Issue #18088: Introduce importlib.abc.Loader.init_module_attrs for setting
+  module attributes. Leads to the pending deprecation of
+  importlib.util.module_for_loader.
+
+- Issue #17403: urllib.parse.robotparser normalizes the urls before adding to
+  ruleline. This helps in handling certain types invalid urls in a conservative
+  manner. Patch contributed by Mher Movsisyan.
+
+- Issue #18070: Have importlib.util.module_for_loader() set attributes
+  unconditionally in order to properly support reloading.
+
+- Added importlib.util.module_to_load to return a context manager to provide the
+  proper module object to load.
+
+- Issue #18025: Fixed a segfault in io.BufferedIOBase.readinto() when raw
+  stream's read() returns more bytes than requested.
+
+- Issue #18011: As was originally intended, base64.b32decode() now raises a
+  binascii.Error if there are non-b32-alphabet characters present in the input
+  string, instead of a TypeError.
+
+- Issue #18072: Implement importlib.abc.InspectLoader.get_code() and
+  importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader.get_code().
+
+- Issue #8240: Set the SSL_MODE_ACCEPT_MOVING_WRITE_BUFFER flag on SSL
+  sockets.
+
+- Issue #17269: Workaround for socket.getaddrinfo crash on MacOS X
+  with port None or "0" and flags AI_NUMERICSERV.
+
+- Issue #16986: ElementTree now correctly works with string input when the
+  internal XML encoding is not UTF-8 or US-ASCII.
+
+- Issue #17996: socket module now exposes AF_LINK constant on BSD and OSX.
+
+- Issue #17900: Allowed pickling of recursive OrderedDicts.  Decreased pickled
+  size and pickling time.
+
+- Issue #17914: Add os.cpu_count(). Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari, based on an
+  initial patch by Trent Nelson.
+
+- Issue #17812: Fixed quadratic complexity of base64.b32encode().
+  Optimize base64.b32encode() and base64.b32decode() (speed up to 3x).
+
+- Issue #17980: Fix possible abuse of ssl.match_hostname() for denial of
+  service using certificates with many wildcards (CVE-2013-2099).
+
+- Issue #15758: Fix FileIO.readall() so it no longer has O(n**2) complexity.
+
+- Issue #14596: The struct.Struct() objects now use a more compact
+  implementation.
+
+- Issue #17981: logging's SysLogHandler now closes the socket when it catches
+  socket OSErrors.
+
+- Issue #17964: Fix os.sysconf(): the return type of the C sysconf() function
+  is long, not int.
+
+- Fix typos in the multiprocessing module.
+
+- Issue #17754: Make ctypes.util.find_library() independent of the locale.
+
+- Issue #17968: Fix memory leak in os.listxattr().
+
+- Issue #17606: Fixed support of encoded byte strings in the XMLGenerator
+  characters() and ignorableWhitespace() methods.  Original patch by Sebastian
+  Ortiz Vasquez.
+
+- Issue #17732: Ignore distutils.cfg options pertaining to install paths if a
+  virtual environment is active.
+
+- Issue #17915: Fix interoperability of xml.sax with file objects returned by
+  codecs.open().
+
+- Issue #16601: Restarting iteration over tarfile really restarts rather
+  than continuing from where it left off.  Patch by Michael Birtwell.
+
+- Issue #17289: The readline module now plays nicer with external modules
+  or applications changing the rl_completer_word_break_characters global
+  variable.  Initial patch by Bradley Froehle.
+
+- Issue #12181: select module: Fix struct kevent definition on OpenBSD 64-bit
+  platforms. Patch by Federico Schwindt.
+
+- Issue #11816: multiple improvements to the dis module: get_instructions
+  generator, ability to redirect output to a file, Bytecode and Instruction
+  abstractions. Patch by Nick Coghlan, Ryan Kelly and Thomas Kluyver.
+
+- Issue #13831: Embed stringification of remote traceback in local
+  traceback raised when pool task raises an exception.
+
+- Issue #15528: Add weakref.finalize to support finalization using
+  weakref callbacks.
+
+- Issue #14173: Avoid crashing when reading a signal handler during
+  interpreter shutdown.
+
+- Issue #15902: Fix imp.load_module() accepting None as a file when loading an
+  extension module.
+
+- Issue #13721: SSLSocket.getpeercert() and SSLSocket.do_handshake() now
+  raise an OSError with ENOTCONN, instead of an AttributeError, when the
+  SSLSocket is not connected.
+
+- Issue #14679: add an __all__ (that contains only HTMLParser) to html.parser.
+
+- Issue #17802: Fix an UnboundLocalError in html.parser.  Initial tests by
+  Thomas Barlow.
+
+- Issue #17358: Modules loaded by imp.load_source() and load_compiled() (and by
+  extension load_module()) now have a better chance of working when reloaded.
+
+- Issue #17804: New function ``struct.iter_unpack`` allows for streaming
+  struct unpacking.
+
+- Issue #17830: When keyword.py is used to update a keyword file, it now
+  preserves the line endings of the original file.
+
+- Issue #17272: Making the urllib.request's Request.full_url a descriptor.
+  Fixes bugs with assignment to full_url. Patch by Demian Brecht.
+
+- Issue #17353: Plistlib emitted empty data tags with deeply nested datastructures
+
+- Issue #11714: Use 'with' statements to assure a Semaphore releases a
+  condition variable.  Original patch by Thomas Rachel.
+
+- Issue #16624: `subprocess.check_output` now accepts an `input` argument,
+  allowing the subprocess's stdin to be provided as a (byte) string.
+  Patch by Zack Weinberg.
+
+- Issue #17795: Reverted backwards-incompatible change in SysLogHandler with
+  Unix domain sockets.
+
+- Issue #16694: Add a pure Python implementation of the operator module.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #11182: remove the unused and undocumented pydoc.Scanner class.
+  Patch by Martin Morrison.
+
+- Issue #17741: Add ElementTree.XMLPullParser, an event-driven parser for
+  non-blocking applications.
+
+- Issue #17555: Fix ForkAwareThreadLock so that size of after fork
+  registry does not grow exponentially with generation of process.
+
+- Issue #17707: fix regression in multiprocessing.Queue's get() method where
+  it did not block for short timeouts.
+
+- Issue #17720: Fix the Python implementation of pickle.Unpickler to correctly
+  process the APPENDS opcode when it is used on non-list objects.
+
+- Issue #17012: shutil.which() no longer falls back to the PATH environment
+  variable if an empty path argument is specified.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #17710: Fix pickle raising a SystemError on bogus input.
+
+- Issue #17341: Include the invalid name in the error messages from re about
+  invalid group names.
+
+- Issue #17702: os.environ now raises KeyError with the original environment
+  variable name (str on UNIX), instead of using the encoded name (bytes on
+  UNIX).
+
+- Issue #16163: Make the importlib based version of pkgutil.iter_importers
+  work for submodules. Initial patch by Berker Peksag.
+
+- Issue #16804: Fix a bug in the 'site' module that caused running
+  'python -S -m site' to incorrectly throw an exception.
+
+- Issue #15480: Remove the deprecated and unused TYPE_INT64 code from marshal.
+  Initial patch by Daniel Riti.
+
+- Issue #2118: SMTPException is now a subclass of OSError.
+
+- Issue #17016: Get rid of possible pointer wraparounds and integer overflows
+  in the re module.  Patch by Nickolai Zeldovich.
+
+- Issue #16658: add missing return to HTTPConnection.send().
+  Patch by Jeff Knupp.
+
+- Issue #9556: the logging package now allows specifying a time-of-day for a
+  TimedRotatingFileHandler to rotate.
+
+- Issue #14971: unittest test discovery no longer gets confused when a function
+  has a different __name__ than its name in the TestCase class dictionary.
+
+- Issue #17487: The wave getparams method now returns a namedtuple rather than
+  a plain tuple.
+
+- Issue #17675: socket repr() provides local and remote addresses (if any).
+  Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'
+
+- Issue #17093: Make the ABCs in importlib.abc provide default values or raise
+  reasonable exceptions for their methods to make them more amenable to super()
+  calls.
+
+- Issue #17566: Make importlib.abc.Loader.module_repr() optional instead of an
+  abstractmethod; now it raises NotImplementedError so as to be ignored by default.
+
+- Issue #17678: Remove the use of deprecated method in http/cookiejar.py by
+  changing the call to get_origin_req_host() to origin_req_host.
+
+- Issue #17666: Fix reading gzip files with an extra field.
+
+- Issue #16475: Support object instancing, recursion and interned strings
+  in marshal
+
+- Issue #17502: Process DEFAULT values in mock side_effect that returns iterator.
+
+- Issue #16795: On the ast.arguments object, unify vararg with varargannotation
+  and kwarg and kwargannotation. Change the column offset of ast.Attribute to be
+  at the attribute name.
+
+- Issue #17434: Properly raise a SyntaxError when a string occurs between future
+  imports.
+
+- Issue #17117: Import and @importlib.util.set_loader now set __loader__ when
+  it has a value of None or the attribute doesn't exist.
+
+- Issue #17032: The "global" in the "NameError: global name 'x' is not defined"
+  error message has been removed.  Patch by Ram Rachum.
+
+- Issue #18080: When building a C extension module on OS X, if the compiler
+  is overridden with the CC environment variable, use the new compiler as
+  the default for linking if LDSHARED is not also overridden.  This restores
+  Distutils behavior introduced in 3.2.3 and inadvertently dropped in 3.3.0.
+
+- Issue #18113: Fixed a refcount leak in the curses.panel module's
+  set_userptr() method.  Reported by Atsuo Ishimoto.
+
+- Implement PEP 443 "Single-dispatch generic functions".
+
+- Implement PEP 435 "Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library".
+
+- Issue #15596: Faster pickling of unicode strings.
+
+- Issue #17572: Avoid chained exceptions when passing bad directives to
+  time.strptime().  Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.
+
+- Issue #17435: threading.Timer's __init__ method no longer uses mutable
+  default values for the args and kwargs parameters.
+
+- Issue #17526: fix an IndexError raised while passing code without filename to
+  inspect.findsource().  Initial patch by Tyler Doyle.
+
+- Issue #17540: Added style parameter to logging formatter configuration by dict.
+
+- Issue #16692: The ssl module now supports TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2.  Initial
+  patch by Michele Orrù.
+
+- Issue #17025: multiprocessing: Reduce Queue and SimpleQueue contention.
+
+- Issue #17536: Add to webbrowser's browser list: www-browser, x-www-browser,
+  iceweasel, iceape.
+
+- Issue #17150: pprint now uses line continuations to wrap long string
+  literals.
+
+- Issue #17488: Change the subprocess.Popen bufsize parameter default value
+  from unbuffered (0) to buffering (-1) to match the behavior existing code
+  expects and match the behavior of the subprocess module in Python 2 to avoid
+  introducing hard to track down bugs.
+
+- Issue #17521: Corrected non-enabling of logger following two calls to
+  fileConfig().
+
+- Issue #17508: Corrected logging MemoryHandler configuration in dictConfig()
+  where the target handler wasn't configured first.
+
+- Issue #17209: curses.window.get_wch() now correctly handles KeyboardInterrupt
+  (CTRL+c).
+
+- Issue #5713: smtplib now handles 421 (closing connection) error codes when
+  sending mail by closing the socket and reporting the 421 error code via the
+  exception appropriate to the command that received the error response.
+
+- Issue #16997: unittest.TestCase now provides a subTest() context manager
+  to procedurally generate, in an easy way, small test instances.
+
+- Issue #17485: Also delete the Request Content-Length header if the data
+  attribute is deleted.  (Follow on to issue Issue #16464).
+
+- Issue #15927: CVS now correctly parses escaped newlines and carriage
+  when parsing with quoting turned off.
+
+- Issue #17467: add readline and readlines support to mock_open in
+  unittest.mock.
+
+- Issue #13248: removed deprecated and undocumented difflib.isbjunk,
+  isbpopular.
+
+- Issue #17192: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.0.13.  This
+  specifically addresses a stack misalignment issue on x86 and issues on
+  some more recent platforms.
+
+- Issue #8862: Fixed curses cleanup when getkey is interrupted by a signal.
+
+- Issue #17443: imaplib.IMAP4_stream was using the default unbuffered IO
+  in subprocess, but the imap code assumes buffered IO.  In Python2 this
+  worked by accident.  IMAP4_stream now explicitly uses buffered IO.
+
+- Issue #17476: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in undocumented pydoc
+  'allmethods'; it was missing unbound methods on the class.
+
+- Issue #17474: Remove the deprecated methods of Request class.
+
+- Issue #16709: unittest discover order is no-longer filesystem specific. Patch
+  by Jeff Ramnani.
+
+- Use the HTTPS PyPI url for upload, overriding any plain HTTP URL in pypirc.
+
+- Issue #5024: sndhdr.whichhdr now returns the frame count for WAV files
+  rather than -1.
+
+- Issue #17460: Remove the strict argument of HTTPConnection and removing the
+  DeprecationWarning being issued from 3.2 onwards.
+
+- Issue #16880: Do not assume _imp.load_dynamic() is defined in the imp module.
+
+- Issue #16389: Fixed a performance regression relative to Python 3.1 in the
+  caching of compiled regular expressions.
+
+- Added missing FeedParser and BytesFeedParser to email.parser.__all__.
+
+- Issue #17431: Fix missing import of BytesFeedParser in email.parser.
+
+- Issue #12921: http.server's send_error takes an explain argument to send more
+  information in response. Patch contributed by Karl.
+
+- Issue #17414: Add timeit, repeat, and default_timer to timeit.__all__.
+
+- Issue #1285086: Get rid of the refcounting hack and speed up
+  urllib.parse.unquote() and urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes().
+
+- Issue #17099: Have importlib.find_loader() raise ValueError when __loader__
+  is not set, harmonizing with what happens when the attribute is set to None.
+
+- Expose the O_PATH constant in the os module if it is available.
+
+- Issue #17368: Fix an off-by-one error in the Python JSON decoder that caused
+  a failure while decoding empty object literals when object_pairs_hook was
+  specified.
+
+- Issue #17385: Fix quadratic behavior in threading.Condition.  The FIFO
+  queue now uses a deque instead of a list.
+
+- Issue #15806: Add contextlib.ignore().  This creates a context manager to
+  ignore specified exceptions, replacing the "except SomeException: pass" idiom.
+
+- Issue #14645: The email generator classes now produce output using the
+  specified linesep throughout.  Previously if the prolog, epilog, or
+  body were stored with a different linesep, that linesep was used.  This
+  fix corrects an RFC non-compliance issue with smtplib.send_message.
+
+- Issue #17278: Fix a crash in heapq.heappush() and heapq.heappop() when
+  the list is being resized concurrently.
+
+- Issue #16962: Use getdents64 instead of the obsolete getdents syscall
+  in the subprocess module on Linux.
+
+- Issue #16935: unittest now counts the module as skipped if it raises SkipTest,
+  instead of counting it as an error.  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17018: Make Process.join() retry if os.waitpid() fails with EINTR.
+
+- Issue #17223: array module: Fix a crasher when converting an array containing
+  invalid characters (outside range [U+0000; U+10ffff]) to Unicode:
+  repr(array), str(array) and array.tounicode(). Patch written by Manuel Jacob.
+
+- Issue #17197: profile/cProfile modules refactored so that code of run() and
+  runctx() utility functions is not duplicated in both modules.
+
+- Issue #14720: sqlite3: Convert datetime microseconds correctly.
+  Patch by Lowe Thiderman.
+
+- Issue #15132: Allow a list for the defaultTest argument of
+  unittest.TestProgram. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
+
+- Issue #17225: JSON decoder now counts columns in the first line starting
+  with 1, as in other lines.
+
+- Issue #6623: Added explicit DeprecationWarning for ftplib.netrc, which has
+  been deprecated and undocumented for a long time.
+
+- Issue #13700: Fix byte/string handling in imaplib authentication when an
+  authobject is specified.
+
+- Issue #13153: Tkinter functions now raise TclError instead of ValueError when
+  a string argument contains non-BMP character.
+
+- Issue #9669: Protect re against infinite loops on zero-width matching in
+  non-greedy repeat.  Patch by Matthew Barnett.
+
+- Issue #13169: The maximal repetition number in a regular expression has been
+  increased from 65534 to 2147483647 (on 32-bit platform) or 4294967294 (on
+  64-bit).
+
+- Issue #17143: Fix a missing import in the trace module.  Initial patch by
+  Berker Peksag.
+
+- Issue #15220: email.feedparser's line splitting algorithm is now simpler and
+  faster.
+
+- Issue #16743: Fix mmap overflow check on 32 bit Windows.
+
+- Issue #16996: webbrowser module now uses shutil.which() to find a
+  web-browser on the executable search path.
+
+- Issue #16800: tempfile.gettempdir() no longer left temporary files when
+  the disk is full.  Original patch by Amir Szekely.
+
+- Issue #17192: Import libffi-3.0.12.
+
+- Issue #16564: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in the operation of
+  email.encoders.encode_7or8bit when used with binary data.
+
+- Issue #17052: unittest discovery should use self.testLoader.
+
+- Issue #4591: Uid and gid values larger than 2**31 are supported now.
+
+- Issue #17141: random.vonmisesvariate() no longer hangs for large kappas.
+
+- Issue #17149: Fix random.vonmisesvariate to always return results in
+  [0, 2*math.pi].
+
+- Issue #1470548: XMLGenerator now works with binary output streams.
+
+- Issue #6975: os.path.realpath() now correctly resolves multiple nested
+  symlinks on POSIX platforms.
+
+- Issue #13773: sqlite3.connect() gets a new `uri` parameter to pass the
+  filename as a URI, allowing custom options to be passed.
+
+- Issue #16564: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in the operation of
+  email.encoders.encode_noop when used with binary data.
+
+- Issue #10355: The mode, name, encoding and newlines properties now work on
+  SpooledTemporaryFile objects even when they have not yet rolled over.
+  Obsolete method xreadline (which has never worked in Python 3) has been
+  removed.
+
+- Issue #16686: Fixed a lot of bugs in audioop module.  Fixed crashes in
+  avgpp(), maxpp() and ratecv().  Fixed an integer overflow in add(), bias(),
+  and ratecv().  reverse(), lin2lin() and ratecv() no more lose precision for
+  32-bit samples.  max() and rms() no more returns a negative result and
+  various other functions now work correctly with 32-bit sample -0x80000000.
+
+- Issue #17073: Fix some integer overflows in sqlite3 module.
+
+- Issue #16723: httplib.HTTPResponse no longer marked closed when the connection
+  is automatically closed.
+
+- Issue #15359: Add CAN_BCM protocol support to the socket module. Patch by
+  Brian Thorne.
+
+- Issue #16948: Fix quoted printable body encoding for non-latin1 character
+  sets in the email package.
+
+- Issue #16811: Fix folding of headers with no value in the provisional email
+  policies.
+
+- Issue #17132: Update symbol for "yield from" grammar changes.
+
+- Issue #17076: Make copying of xattrs more tolerant of missing FS support.
+  Patch by Thomas Wouters.
+
+- Issue #17089: Expat parser now correctly works with string input when the
+  internal XML encoding is not UTF-8 or US-ASCII.  It also now accepts bytes
+  and strings larger than 2 GiB.
+
+- Issue #6083: Fix multiple segmentation faults occurred when PyArg_ParseTuple
+  parses nested mutating sequence.
+
+- Issue #5289: Fix ctypes.util.find_library on Solaris.
+
+- Issue #17106: Fix a segmentation fault in io.TextIOWrapper when an underlying
+  stream or a decoder produces data of an unexpected type (i.e. when
+  io.TextIOWrapper initialized with text stream or use bytes-to-bytes codec).
+
+- Issue #17015: When it has a spec, a Mock object now inspects its signature
+  when matching calls, so that arguments can be matched positionally or
+  by name.
+
+- Issue #15633: httplib.HTTPResponse is now mark closed when the server
+  sends less than the advertised Content-Length.
+
+- Issue #12268: The io module file object write methods no longer abort early
+  when one of its write system calls is interrupted (EINTR).
+
+- Issue #6972: The zipfile module no longer overwrites files outside of
+  its destination path when extracting malicious zip files.
+
+- Issue #4844: ZipFile now raises BadZipFile when opens a ZIP file with an
+  incomplete "End of Central Directory" record.  Original patch by Guilherme
+  Polo and Alan McIntyre.
+
+- Issue #17071: Signature.bind() now works when one of the keyword arguments
+  is named ``self``.
+
+- Issue #12004: Fix an internal error in PyZipFile when writing an invalid
+  Python file.  Patch by Ben Morgan.
+
+- Have py_compile use importlib as much as possible to avoid code duplication.
+  Code now raises FileExistsError if the file path to be used for the
+  byte-compiled file is a symlink or non-regular file as a warning that import
+  will not keep the file path type if it writes to that path.
+
+- Issue #16972: Have site.addpackage() consider already known paths even when
+  none are explicitly passed in. Bug report and fix by Kirill.
+
+- Issue #1602133: on Mac OS X a shared library build (``--enable-shared``)
+  now fills the ``os.environ`` variable correctly.
+
+- Issue #15505: `unittest.installHandler` no longer assumes SIGINT handler is
+  set to a callable object.
+
+- Issue #13454: Fix a crash when deleting an iterator created by itertools.tee()
+  if all other iterators were very advanced before.
+
+- Issue #12411: Fix to cgi.parse_multipart to correctly use bytes boundaries
+  and bytes data. Patch by Jonas Wagner.
+
+- Issue #16957: shutil.which() no longer searches a bare file name in the
+  current directory on Unix and no longer searches a relative file path with
+  a directory part in PATH directories.  Patch by Thomas Kluyver.
+
+- Issue #1159051: GzipFile now raises EOFError when reading a corrupted file
+  with truncated header or footer.
+
+- Issue #16993: shutil.which() now preserves the case of the path and extension
+  on Windows.
+
+- Issue #16992: On Windows in signal.set_wakeup_fd, validate the file
+  descriptor argument.
+
+- Issue #16422: For compatibility with the Python version, the C version of
+  decimal now uses strings instead of integers for rounding mode constants.
+
+- Issue #15861: tkinter now correctly works with lists and tuples containing
+  strings with whitespaces, backslashes or unbalanced braces.
+
+- Issue #9720: zipfile now writes correct local headers for files larger than
+  4 GiB.
+
+- Issue #16955: Fix the poll() method for multiprocessing's socket
+  connections on Windows.
+
+- SSLContext.load_dh_params() now properly closes the input file.
+
+- Issue #15031: Refactor some .pyc management code to cut down on code
+  duplication. Thanks to Ronan Lamy for the report and taking an initial stab
+  at the problem.
+
+- Issue #16398: Optimize deque.rotate() so that it only moves pointers
+  and doesn't touch the underlying data with increfs and decrefs.
+
+- Issue #16900: Issue a ResourceWarning when an ssl socket is left unclosed.
+
+- Issue #13899: ``\A``, ``\Z``, and ``\B`` now correctly match the A, Z,
+  and B literals when used inside character classes (e.g. ``'[\A]'``).
+  Patch by Matthew Barnett.
+
+- Issue #15545: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it was
+  failing if the connection used a row factory (such as sqlite3.Row) that
+  produced unsortable objects. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
+
+- fcntl: add F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC constant, available on Linux 2.6.24+.
+
+- Issue #15972: Fix error messages when os functions expecting a file name or
+  file descriptor receive the incorrect type.
+
+- Issue #8109: The ssl module now has support for server-side SNI, thanks
+  to a :meth:`SSLContext.set_servername_callback` method.  Patch by Daniel
+  Black.
+
+- Issue #16860: In tempfile, use O_CLOEXEC when available to set the
+  close-on-exec flag atomically.
+
+- Issue #16674: random.getrandbits() is now 20-40% faster for small integers.
+
+- Issue #16009: JSON error messages now provide more information.
+
+- Issue #16828: Fix error incorrectly raised by bz2.compress(b'') and
+  bz2.BZ2Compressor.compress(b''). Initial patch by Martin Packman.
+
+- Issue #16833: In http.client.HTTPConnection, do not concatenate the request
+  headers and body when the payload exceeds 16 KB, since it can consume more
+  memory for no benefit.  Patch by Benno Leslie.
+
+- Issue #16541: tk_setPalette() now works with keyword arguments.
+
+- Issue #16820: In configparser, `parser.popitem()` no longer raises ValueError.
+  This makes `parser.clean()` work correctly.
+
+- Issue #16820: In configparser, ``parser['section'] = {}`` now preserves
+  section order within the parser. This makes `parser.update()` preserve section
+  order as well.
+
+- Issue #16820: In configparser, ``parser['DEFAULT'] = {}`` now correctly
+  clears previous values stored in the default section. Same goes for
+  ``parser.update({'DEFAULT': {}})``.
+
+- Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy.
+
+- Issue #16787: Increase asyncore and asynchat default output buffers size, to
+  decrease CPU usage and increase throughput.
+
+- Issue #10527: make multiprocessing use poll() instead of select() if available.
+
+- Issue #16688: Now regexes contained backreferences correctly work with
+  non-ASCII strings.  Patch by Matthew Barnett.
+
+- Issue #16486: Make aifc files act as context managers.
+
+- Issue #16485: Now file descriptors are closed if file header patching failed
+  on closing an aifc file.
+
+- Issue #16640: Run less code under a lock in sched module.
+
+- Issue #16165: sched.scheduler.run() no longer blocks a scheduler for other
+  threads.
+
+- Issue #16641: Default values of sched.scheduler.enter() are no longer
+  modifiable.
+
+- Issue #16618: Make glob.glob match consistently across strings and bytes
+  regarding leading dots.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #16788: Add samestat to Lib/ntpath.py
+
+- Issue #16713: Parsing of 'tel' urls using urlparse separates params from
+  path.
+
+- Issue #16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects.
+  Patch by Anton Kasyanov.
+
+- Issue #15701: Fix HTTPError info method call to return the headers information.
+
+- Issue #16752: Add a missing import to modulefinder. Patch by Berker Peksag.
+
+- Issue #16646: ftplib.FTP.makeport() might lose socket error details.
+  (patch by Serhiy Storchaka)
+
+- Issue #16626: Fix infinite recursion in glob.glob() on Windows when the
+  pattern contains a wildcard in the drive or UNC path.  Patch by Serhiy
+  Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #15783: Except for the number methods, the C version of decimal now
+  supports all None default values present in decimal.py. These values were
+  largely undocumented.
+
+- Issue #11175: argparse.FileType now accepts encoding and errors
+  arguments. Patch by Lucas Maystre.
+
+- Issue #16488: epoll() objects now support the `with` statement.  Patch
+  by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #16298: In HTTPResponse.read(), close the socket when there is no
+  Content-Length and the incoming stream is finished.  Patch by Eran
+  Rundstein.
+
+- Issue #16049: Add abc.ABC class to enable the use of inheritance to create
+  ABCs, rather than the more cumbersome metaclass=ABCMeta. Patch by Bruno
+  Dupuis.
+
+- Expose the TCP_FASTOPEN and MSG_FASTOPEN flags in socket when they're
+  available.
+
+- Issue #15701: Add a .headers attribute to urllib.error.HTTPError. Patch
+  contributed by Berker Peksag.
+
+- Issue #15872: Fix 3.3 regression introduced by the new fd-based shutil.rmtree
+  that caused it to not ignore certain errors when ignore_errors was set.
+  Patch by Alessandro Moura and Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #16248: Disable code execution from the user's home directory by
+  tkinter when the -E flag is passed to Python.  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #13390: New function :func:`sys.getallocatedblocks()` returns the
+  number of memory blocks currently allocated.
+
+- Issue #16628: Fix a memory leak in ctypes.resize().
+
+- Issue #13614: Fix setup.py register failure with invalid rst in description.
+  Patch by Julien Courteau and Pierre Paul Lefebvre.
+
+- Issue #13512: Create ~/.pypirc securely (CVE-2011-4944).  Initial patch by
+  Philip Jenvey, tested by Mageia and Debian.
+
+- Issue #7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later
+  on.  Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani.
+
+- Issue #13120: Allow calling pdb.set_trace() from thread.
+  Patch by Ilya Sandler.
+
+- Issue #16585: Make CJK encoders support error handlers that return bytes per
+  PEP 383.
+
+- Issue #10182: The re module doesn't truncate indices to 32 bits anymore.
+  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #16333: use (",", ": ") as default separator in json when indent is
+  specified, to avoid trailing whitespace.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #16573: In 2to3, treat enumerate() like a consuming call, so superfluous
+  list() calls aren't added to filter(), map(), and zip() which are directly
+  passed enumerate().
+
+- Issue #16464: Reset the Content-Length header when a urllib Request is reused
+  with new data.
+
+- Issue #12848: The pure Python pickle implementation now treats object
+  lengths as unsigned 32-bit integers, like the C implementation does.
+  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #16423: urllib.request now has support for ``data:`` URLs.  Patch by
+  Mathias Panzenböck.
+
+- Issue #4473: Add a POP3.stls() to switch a clear-text POP3 session into
+  an encrypted POP3 session, on supported servers.  Patch by Lorenzo Catucci.
+
+- Issue #4473: Add a POP3.capa() method to query the capabilities advertised
+  by the POP3 server.  Patch by Lorenzo Catucci.
+
+- Issue #4473: Ensure the socket is shutdown cleanly in POP3.close().
+  Patch by Lorenzo Catucci.
+
+- Issue #16522: added FAIL_FAST flag to doctest.
+
+- Issue #15627: Add the importlib.abc.InspectLoader.source_to_code() method.
+
+- Issue #16408: Fix file descriptors not being closed in error conditions
+  in the zipfile module.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #14631: Add a new :class:`weakref.WeakMethod` to simulate weak
+  references to bound methods.
+
+- Issue #16469: Fix exceptions from float -> Fraction and Decimal -> Fraction
+  conversions for special values to be consistent with those for float -> int
+  and Decimal -> int.  Patch by Alexey Kachayev.
+
+- Issue #16481: multiprocessing no longer leaks process handles on Windows.
+
+- Issue #12428: Add a pure Python implementation of functools.partial().
+  Patch by Brian Thorne.
+
+- Issue #16140: The subprocess module no longer double closes its child
+  subprocess.PIPE parent file descriptors on child error prior to exec().
+
+- Remove a bare print to stdout from the subprocess module that could have
+  happened if the child process wrote garbage to its pre-exec error pipe.
+
+- The subprocess module now raises its own SubprocessError instead of a
+  RuntimeError in various error situations which should not normally happen.
+
+- Issue #16327: The subprocess module no longer leaks file descriptors
+  used for stdin/stdout/stderr pipes to the child when fork() fails.
+
+- Issue #14396: Handle the odd rare case of waitpid returning 0 when not
+  expected in subprocess.Popen.wait().
+
+- Issue #16411: Fix a bug where zlib.decompressobj().flush() might try to access
+  previously-freed memory. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #16357: fix calling accept() on a SSLSocket created through
+  SSLContext.wrap_socket().  Original patch by Jeff McNeil.
+
+- Issue #16409: The reporthook callback made by the legacy
+  urllib.request.urlretrieve API now properly supplies a constant non-zero
+  block_size as it did in Python 3.2 and 2.7.  This matches the behavior of
+  urllib.request.URLopener.retrieve.
+
+- Issue #16431: Use the type information when constructing a Decimal subtype
+  from a Decimal argument.
+
+- Issue #15641: Clean up deprecated classes from importlib.
+  Patch by Taras Lyapun.
+
+- Issue #16350: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now accumulates data from
+  successive calls after EOF in unused_data, instead of only saving the argument
+  to the last call. decompressobj().flush() now correctly sets unused_data and
+  unconsumed_tail. A bug in the handling of MemoryError when setting the
+  unconsumed_tail attribute has also been fixed. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group
+  is missing.  Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when
+  no newline is found.  Patch by Ned Batchelder.
+
+- Issue #16284: Prevent keeping unnecessary references to worker functions
+  in concurrent.futures ThreadPoolExecutor.
+
+- Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one of the lists changes
+  size while iterated on.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #16228: Fix a crash in the json module where a list changes size
+  while it is being encoded.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #16351: New function gc.get_stats() returns per-generation collection
+  statistics.
+
+- Issue #14897: Enhance error messages of struct.pack and
+  struct.pack_into. Patch by Matti Mäki.
+
+- Issue #16316: mimetypes now recognizes the .xz and .txz (.tar.xz) extensions.
+  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #12890: cgitb no longer prints spurious <p> tags in text
+  mode when the logdir option is specified.
+
+- Issue #16307: Fix multiprocessing.Pool.map_async not calling its callbacks.
+  Patch by Janne Karila.
+
+- Issue #16305: Fix a segmentation fault occurring when interrupting
+  math.factorial.
+
+- Issue #16116: Fix include and library paths to be correct when building C
+  extensions in venvs.
+
+- Issue #16245: Fix the value of a few entities in html.entities.html5.
+
+- Issue #16301: Fix the localhost verification in urllib/request.py for ``file://``
+  urls.
+
+- Issue #16250: Fix the invocations of URLError which had misplaced filename
+  attribute for exception.
+
+- Issue #10836: Fix exception raised when file not found in urlretrieve
+  Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
+
+- Issue #14398: Fix size truncation and overflow bugs in the bz2 module.
+
+- Issue #12692: Fix resource leak in urllib.request when talking to an HTTP
+  server that does not include a ``Connection: close`` header in its responses.
+
+- Issue #12034: Fix bogus caching of result in check_GetFinalPathNameByHandle.
+  Patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.
+
+- Improve performance of `lzma.LZMAFile` (see also issue #16034).
+
+- Issue #16220: wsgiref now always calls close() on an iterable response.
+  Patch by Brent Tubbs.
+
+- Issue #16270: urllib may hang when used for retrieving files via FTP by using
+  a context manager.  Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
+
+- Issue #16461: Wave library should be able to deal with 4GB wav files,
+  and sample rate of 44100 Hz.
+
+- Issue #16176: Properly identify Windows 8 via platform.platform()
+
+- Issue #16088: BaseHTTPRequestHandler's send_error method includes a
+  Content-Length header in its response now. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
+
+- Issue #16114: The subprocess module no longer provides a misleading error
+  message stating that args[0] did not exist when either the cwd or executable
+  keyword arguments specified a path that did not exist.
+
+- Issue #16169: Fix ctypes.WinError()'s confusion between errno and winerror.
+
+- Issue #16110: logging.fileConfig now accepts a pre-initialised ConfigParser
+  instance.
+
+- Issue #1492704: shutil.copyfile() raises a distinct SameFileError now if
+  source and destination are the same file. Patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.
+
+- Issue #13896: Make shelf instances work with 'with' as context managers.
+  Original patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
+
+- Issue #15417: Add support for csh and fish in venv activation scripts.
+
+- Issue #14377: ElementTree.write and some of the module-level functions have
+  a new parameter - *short_empty_elements*. It controls how elements with no
+  contents are emitted.
+
+- Issue #16089: Allow ElementTree.TreeBuilder to work again with a non-Element
+  element_factory (fixes a regression in SimpleTAL).
+
+- Issue #9650: List commonly used format codes in time.strftime and
+  time.strptime docsttings.  Original patch by Mike Hoy.
+
+- Issue #15452: logging configuration socket listener now has a verify option
+  that allows an application to apply a verification function to the
+  received configuration data before it is acted upon.
+
+- Issue #16034: Fix performance regressions in the new `bz2.BZ2File`
+  implementation.  Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- `pty.spawn()` now returns the child process status returned by `os.waitpid()`.
+
+- Issue #15756: `subprocess.poll()` now properly handles `errno.ECHILD` to
+  return a returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot be waited
+  on.
+
+- Issue #15323: Improve failure message of `Mock.assert_called_once_with()`.
+
+- Issue #16064: ``unittest -m`` claims executable is "python", not "python3".
+
+- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in `TextTestResult.__init__()` super call.
+
+- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes.
+
+- Issue #16013: Fix `csv.Reader` parsing issue with ending quote characters.
+  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #15421: Fix an OverflowError in `Calendar.itermonthdates()` after
+  `datetime.MAXYEAR`.  Patch by Cédric Krier.
+
+- Issue #16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to
+  /usr/bin/file.  Patch by David Benjamin.
+
+- Issue #15970: `xml.etree.ElementTree` now serializes correctly the empty HTML
+  elements 'meta' and 'param'.
+
+- Issue #15842: The `SocketIO.{readable,writable,seekable}` methods now raise
+  ValueError when the file-like object is closed.  Patch by Alessandro Moura.
+
+- Issue #15876: Fix a refleak in the `curses` module: window.encoding.
+
+- Issue #15881: Fix `atexit` hook in `multiprocessing`.  Original patch by Chris
+  McDonough.
+
+- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of
+  `io.BytesIO` and `io.StringIO` objects now raise ValueError when the object
+  has been closed.  Patch by Alessandro Moura.
+
+- Issue #15447: Use `subprocess.DEVNULL` in webbrowser, instead of opening
+  `os.devnull` explicitly and leaving it open.
+
+- Issue #15509: `webbrowser.UnixBrowser` no longer passes empty arguments to
+  Popen when ``%action`` substitutions produce empty strings.
+
+- Issue #12776, issue #11839: Call `argparse` type function (specified by
+  add_argument) only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the
+  case where the default was specified and the argument was given as well.  This
+  was especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would
+  always be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line.
+
+- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change,
+  when ``action='append'``, ``type='str'`` and ``default=[]``.
+
+- Issue #16113: Added sha3 module based on the Keccak reference implementation
+  3.2. The `hashlib` module has four additional hash algorithms: `sha3_224`,
+  `sha3_256`, `sha3_384` and `sha3_512`. As part of the patch some common
+  code was moved from _hashopenssl.c to hashlib.h.
+
+- ctypes.call_commethod was removed, since its only usage was in the defunct
+  samples directory.
+
+- Issue #16692: Added TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 support for the ssl modules.
+
+- Issue #16832: add abc.get_cache_token() to expose cache validity checking
+  support in ABCMeta.
+
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #18429: Format / Format Paragraph, now works when comment blocks
+  are selected. As with text blocks, this works best when the selection
+  only includes complete lines.
+
+- Issue #18226: Add docstrings and unittests for FormatParagraph.py.
+  Original patches by Todd Rovito and Phil Webster.
+
+- Issue #18279: Format - Strip trailing whitespace no longer marks a file as
+  changed when it has not been changed. This fix followed the addition of a
+  test file originally written by Phil Webster (the issue's main goal).
+
+- Issue #7136: In the Idle File menu, "New Window" is renamed "New File".
+  Patch by Tal Einat, Roget Serwy, and Todd Rovito.
+
+- Remove dead imports of imp.
+
+- Issue #18196: Avoid displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks.
+
+- Issue #5492: Avoid traceback when exiting IDLE caused by a race condition.
+
+- Issue #17511: Keep IDLE find dialog open after clicking "Find Next".
+  Original patch by Sarah K.
+
+- Issue #18055: Move IDLE off of imp and on to importlib.
+
+- Issue #15392: Create a unittest framework for IDLE.
+  Initial patch by Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan.
+  See Lib/idlelib/idle_test/README.txt for how to run Idle tests.
+
+- Issue #14146: Highlight source line while debugging on Windows.
+
+- Issue #17838: Allow sys.stdin to be reassigned.
+
+- Issue #13495: Avoid loading the color delegator twice in IDLE.
+
+- Issue #17798: Allow IDLE to edit new files when specified on command line.
+
+- Issue #14735: Update IDLE docs to omit "Control-z on Windows".
+
+- Issue #17532: Always include Options menu for IDLE on OS X.
+  Patch by Guilherme Simões.
+
+- Issue #17585: Fixed IDLE regression. Now closes when using exit() or quit().
+
+- Issue #17657: Show full Tk version in IDLE's about dialog.
+  Patch by Todd Rovito.
+
+- Issue #17613: Prevent traceback when removing syntax colorizer in IDLE.
+
+- Issue #1207589: Backwards-compatibility patch for right-click menu in IDLE.
+
+- Issue #16887: IDLE now accepts Cancel in tabify/untabify dialog box.
+
+- Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used.
+
+- Issue #14254: IDLE now handles readline correctly across shell restarts.
+
+- Issue #17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file.
+
+- Issue #6698: IDLE now opens just an editor window when configured to do so.
+
+- Issue #8900: Using keyboard shortcuts in IDLE to open a file no longer
+  raises an exception.
+
+- Issue #6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
+
+- Issue #17114: IDLE now uses non-strict config parser.
+
+- Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
+  interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.
+
+- Issue #5066: Update IDLE docs. Patch by Todd Rovito.
+
+- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
+  special characters in the file path.
+
+- Issue #16491: IDLE now prints chained exception tracebacks.
+
+- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for bytes literals.
+
+- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
+  Roger Serwy.
+
+- Issue #16511: Use default IDLE width and height if config param is not valid.
+  Patch Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu.
+  Patch by Todd Rovito.
+
+- Issue #16123: IDLE - deprecate running without a subprocess.
+  Patch by Roger Serwy.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #1666318: Add a test that shutil.copytree() retains directory
+  permissions.  Patch by Catherine Devlin.
+
+- Issue #18273: move the tests in Lib/test/json_tests to Lib/test/test_json
+  and make them discoverable by unittest.  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Fix a fcntl test case on KFreeBSD, Debian #708653 (Petr Salinger).
+
+- Issue #18396: Fix spurious test failure in test_signal on Windows when
+  faulthandler is enabled (Patch by Jeremy Kloth)
+
+- Issue #17046: Fix broken test_executable_without_cwd in test_subprocess.
+
+- Issue #15415: Add new temp_dir() and change_cwd() context managers to
+  test.support, and refactor temp_cwd() to use them.  Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
+
+- Issue #15494: test.support is now a package rather than a module (Initial
+  patch by Indra Talip)
+
+- Issue #17944: test_zipfile now discoverable and uses subclassing to
+  generate tests for different compression types.  Fixed a bug with skipping
+  some tests due to use of exhausted iterators.
+
+- Issue #18266: test_largefile now works with unittest test discovery and
+  supports running only selected tests.  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17767: test_locale now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Original patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #18375: Assume --randomize when --randseed is used for running the
+  testsuite.
+
+- Issue #11185: Fix test_wait4 under AIX.  Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
+
+- Issue #18207: Fix test_ssl for some versions of OpenSSL that ignore seconds
+  in ASN1_TIME fields.
+
+- Issue #18094: test_uuid no longer reports skipped tests as passed.
+
+- Issue #17992: Add timeouts to asyncore and asynchat tests so that they won't
+  accidentally hang.
+
+- Issue #17833: Fix test_gdb failures seen on machines where debug symbols
+  for glibc are available (seen on PPC64 Linux).
+
+- Issue #7855: Add tests for ctypes/winreg for issues found in IronPython.
+  Initial patch by Dino Viehland.
+
+- Issue #11078: test___all__ now checks for duplicates in __all__.
+  Initial patch by R. David Murray.
+
+- Issue #17712: Fix test_gdb failures on Ubuntu 13.04.
+
+- Issue #17835: Fix test_io when the default OS pipe buffer size is larger
+  than one million bytes.
+
+- Issue #17065: Use process-unique key for winreg tests to avoid failures if
+  test is run multiple times in parallel (eg: on a buildbot host).
+
+- Issue #12820: add tests for the xml.dom.minicompat module.
+  Patch by John Chandler and Phil Connell.
+
+- Issue #17691: test_univnewlines now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17790: test_set now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17789: test_random now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17779: test_osx_env now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17766: test_iterlen now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17690: test_time now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17692: test_sqlite now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #11995: test_pydoc doesn't import all sys.path modules anymore.
+
+- Issue #17448: test_sax now skips if there are no xml parsers available
+  instead of raising an ImportError.
+
+- Issue #11420: make test suite pass with -B/DONTWRITEBYTECODE set.
+  Initial patch by Thomas Wouters.
+
+- Issue #10652: make tcl/tk tests run after __all__ test, patch by
+  Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #11963: remove human verification from test_parser and test_subprocess.
+
+- Issue #11732: add a new suppress_crash_popup() context manager to test.support
+  that disables crash popups on Windows and use it in test_faulthandler and
+  test_capi.
+
+- Issue #13898: test_ssl no longer prints a spurious stack trace on Ubuntu.
+
+- Issue #17283: Share code between `__main__.py` and `regrtest.py` in
+  `Lib/test`.
+
+- Issue #17249: convert a test in test_capi to use unittest and reap threads.
+
+- Issue #17107: Test client-side SNI support in urllib.request thanks to
+  the new server-side SNI support in the ssl module.  Initial patch by
+  Daniel Black.
+
+- Issue #17041: Fix testing when Python is configured with the
+  --without-doc-strings.
+
+- Issue #16923: Fix ResourceWarnings in test_ssl.
+
+- Issue #15539: Added regression tests for Tools/scripts/pindent.py.
+
+- Issue #17479: test_io now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17066: test_robotparser now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17334: test_index now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17333: test_imaplib now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17082: test_dbm* now work with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17079: test_ctypes now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17304: test_hash now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17303: test_future* now work with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #17163: test_file now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #16925: test_configparser now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #16918: test_codecs now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #16919: test_crypt now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #16910: test_bytes, test_unicode, and test_userstring now work with
+  unittest test discovery.  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #16905: test_warnings now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Initial patch by Berker Peksag.
+
+- Issue #16898: test_bufio now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #16888: test_array now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #16896: test_asyncore now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #16897: test_bisect now works with unittest test discovery.
+  Initial patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #16852: test_genericpath, test_posixpath, test_ntpath, and test_macpath
+  now work with unittest test discovery.  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #16748: test_heapq now works with unittest test discovery.
+
+- Issue #10646: Tests rearranged for os.samefile/samestat to check for not
+  just symlinks but also hard links.
+
+- Issue #15302: Switch regrtest from using getopt to using argparse.
+
+- Issue #15324: Fix regrtest parsing of --fromfile, --match, and --randomize
+  options.
+
+- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for
+  localhost tests.
+
+- Issue #16664: Add regression tests for glob's behaviour concerning entries
+  starting with a ".".  Patch by Sebastian Kreft.
+
+- Issue #13390: The ``-R`` option to regrtest now also checks for memory
+  allocation leaks, using :func:`sys.getallocatedblocks()`.
+
+- Issue #16559: Add more tests for the json module, including some from the
+  official test suite at json.org.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #16661: Fix the `os.getgrouplist()` test by not assuming that it gives
+  the same output as :command:`id -G`.
+
+- Issue #16115: Add some tests for the executable argument to
+  subprocess.Popen().  Initial patch by Kushal Das.
+
+- Issue #16126: PyErr_Format format mismatch in _testcapimodule.c.
+  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #15304: Fix warning message when `os.chdir()` fails inside
+  `test.support.temp_cwd()`.  Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
+
+- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in `TestMaildir.test_create_tmp()`. Patch by
+  Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #15557: Added a test suite for the webbrowser module, thanks to Anton
+  Barkovsky.
+
+- Issue #16698: Skip posix test_getgroups when built with OS X
+  deployment target prior to 10.6.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #16067: Add description into MSI file to replace installer's
+  temporary name.
+
+- Issue #18257: Fix readlink usage in python-config.  Install the python
+  version again on Darwin.
+
+- Issue #18481: Add C coverage reporting with gcov and lcov. A new make target
+  "coverage-report" creates an instrumented Python build, runs unit tests
+  and creates a HTML. The report can be updated with "make coverage-lcov".
+
+- Issue #17845: Clarified the message printed when some module are not built.
+
+- Issue #18256: Compilation fix for recent AIX releases.  Patch by
+  David Edelsohn.
+
+- Issue #17547: In configure, explicitly pass -Wformat for the benefit for GCC
+  4.8.
+
+- Issue #15172: Document NASM 2.10+ as requirement for building OpenSSL 1.0.1
+  on Windows.
+
+- Issue #17591: Use lowercase filenames when including Windows header files.
+  Patch by Roumen Petrov.
+
+- Issue #17550: Fix the --enable-profiling configure switch.
+
+- Issue #17425: Build with openssl 1.0.1d on Windows.
+
+- Issue #16754: Fix the incorrect shared library extension on linux. Introduce
+  two makefile macros SHLIB_SUFFIX and EXT_SUFFIX. SO now has the value of
+  SHLIB_SUFFIX again (as in 2.x and 3.1). The SO macro is removed in 3.4.
+
+- Issue #5033: Fix building of the sqlite3 extension module when the
+  SQLite library version has "beta" in it. Patch by Andreas Pelme.
+
+- Issue #17228: Fix building without pymalloc.
+
+- Issue #3718: Use AC_ARG_VAR to set MACHDEP in configure.ac.
+
+- Issue #16235: Implement python-config as a shell script.
+
+- Issue #16769: Remove outdated Visual Studio projects.
+
+- Issue #17031: Fix running regen in cross builds.
+
+- Issue #3754: fix typo in pthread AC_CACHE_VAL.
+
+- Issue #15484: Fix _PYTHON_PROJECT_BASE for srcdir != builddir builds;
+  use _PYTHON_PROJECT_BASE in distutils/sysconfig.py.
+
+- Drop support for Windows 2000 (changeset e52df05b496a).
+
+- Issue #17029: Let h2py search the multiarch system include directory.
+
+- Issue #16953: Fix socket module compilation on platforms with
+  HAVE_BROKEN_POLL. Patch by Jeffrey Armstrong.
+
+- Issue #16320: Remove redundant Makefile dependencies for strings and bytes.
+
+- Cross compiling needs host and build settings. configure no longer
+  creates a broken PYTHON_FOR_BUILD variable when --build is missing.
+
+- Fix cross compiling issue in setup.py, ensure that lib_dirs and inc_dirs are
+  defined in cross compiling mode, too.
+
+- Issue #16836: Enable IPv6 support even if IPv6 is disabled on the build host.
+
+- Issue #16593: Have BSD 'make -s' do the right thing, thanks to Daniel Shahaf
+
+- Issue #16262: fix out-of-src-tree builds, if mercurial is not installed.
+
+- Issue #15298: ensure _sysconfigdata is generated in build directory, not
+  source directory.
+
+- Issue #15833: Fix a regression in 3.3 that resulted in exceptions being
+  raised if importlib failed to write byte-compiled files.  This affected
+  attempts to build Python out-of-tree from a read-only source directory.
+
+- Issue #15923: Fix a mistake in ``asdl_c.py`` that resulted in a TypeError
+  after 2801bf875a24 (see #15801).
+
+- Issue #16135: Remove OS/2 support.
+
+- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a read-only
+  source directory.  (Somewhat related to issue #9860.)
+
+- Issue #15587: Enable Tk high-resolution text rendering on Macs with
+  Retina displays.  Applies to Tkinter apps, such as IDLE, on OS X
+  framework builds linked with Cocoa Tk 8.5.
+
+- Issue #17161: make install now also installs a python3 man page.
+
+C-API
+-----
+
+- Issue #18351: Fix various issues in a function in importlib provided to help
+  PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() (and thus by extension
+  PyImport_ExecCodeModule() and PyImport_ExecCodeModuleEx()).
+
+- Issue #15767: Added PyErr_SetImportErrorSubclass().
+
+- PyErr_SetImportError() now sets TypeError when its msg argument is set.
+
+- Issue #9369: The types of `char*` arguments of PyObject_CallFunction() and
+  PyObject_CallMethod() now changed to `const char*`.  Based on patches by
+  Jörg Müller and Lars Buitinck.
+
+- Issue #17206: Py_CLEAR(), Py_DECREF(), Py_XINCREF() and Py_XDECREF() now
+  expand their arguments once instead of multiple times.  Patch written by Illia
+  Polosukhin.
+
+- Issue #17522: Add the PyGILState_Check() API.
+
+- Issue #17327: Add PyDict_SetDefault.
+
+- Issue #16881: Fix Py_ARRAY_LENGTH macro for GCC < 3.1.
+
+- Issue #16505: Remove unused Py_TPFLAGS_INT_SUBCLASS.
+
+- Issue #16086: PyTypeObject.tp_flags and PyType_Spec.flags are now unsigned
+  (unsigned long and unsigned int) to avoid an undefined behaviour with
+  Py_TPFLAGS_TYPE_SUBCLASS ((1 << 31). PyType_GetFlags() result type is
+  now unsigned too (unsigned long, instead of long).
+
+- Issue #16166: Add PY_LITTLE_ENDIAN and PY_BIG_ENDIAN macros and unified
+  endianness detection and handling.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Issue #23006: Improve the documentation and indexing of dict.__missing__.
+  Add an entry in the language datamodel special methods section.
+  Revise and index its discussion in the stdtypes mapping/dict section.
+
+- Issue #17701: Improving strftime documentation.
+
+- Issue #18440: Clarify that `hash()` can truncate the value returned from an
+  object's custom `__hash__()` method.
+
+- Issue #17844: Add links to encoders and decoders for bytes-to-bytes codecs.
+
+- Issue #14097: improve the "introduction" page of the tutorial.
+
+- Issue #17977: The documentation for the cadefault argument's default value
+  in urllib.request.urlopen() is fixed to match the code.
+
+- Issue #6696: add documentation for the Profile objects, and improve
+  profile/cProfile docs.  Patch by Tom Pinckney.
+
+- Issue #15940: Specify effect of locale on time functions.
+
+- Issue #17538: Document XML vulnerabilties
+
+- Issue #16642: sched.scheduler timefunc initial default is time.monotonic.
+  Patch by Ramchandra Apte
+
+- Issue #17047: remove doubled words in docs and docstrings
+  reported by Serhiy Storchaka and Matthew Barnett.
+
+- Issue #15465: Document the versioning macros in the C API docs rather than
+  the standard library docs. Patch by Kushal Das.
+
+- Issue #16406: Combine the pages for uploading and registering to PyPI.
+
+- Issue #16403: Document how distutils uses the maintainer field in
+  PKG-INFO. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
+
+- Issue #16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a
+  dot. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
+
+- Issue #8890: Stop advertising an insecure practice by replacing uses
+  of the /tmp directory with better alternatives in the documentation.
+  Patch by Geoff Wilson.
+
+- Issue #17203: add long option names to unittest discovery docs.
+
+- Issue #13094: add "Why do lambdas defined in a loop with different values
+  all return the same result?" programming FAQ.
+
+- Issue #14901: Update portions of the Windows FAQ.
+  Patch by Ashish Nitin Patil.
+
+- Issue #16267: Better document the 3.3+ approach to combining
+  @abstractmethod with @staticmethod, @classmethod and @property
+
+- Issue #15209: Clarify exception chaining description in exceptions module
+  documentation
+
+- Issue #15990: Improve argument/parameter documentation.
+
+- Issue #16209: Move the documentation for the str built-in function to a new
+  str class entry in the "Text Sequence Type" section.
+
+- Issue #13538: Improve str() and object.__str__() documentation.
+
+- Issue #16489: Make it clearer that importlib.find_loader() needs parent
+  packages to be explicitly imported.
+
+- Issue #16400: Update the description of which versions of a given package
+  PyPI displays.
+
+- Issue #15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to
+  mean 'no compression'. Patch by Brian Brazil.
+
+- Issue #16197: Update winreg docstrings and documentation to match code.
+  Patch by Zachary Ware.
+
+- Issue #8040: added a version switcher to the documentation.  Patch by
+  Yury Selivanov.
+
+- Issue #16241: Document -X faulthandler command line option.
+  Patch by Marek Šuppa.
+
+- Additional comments and some style changes in the concurrent.futures URL
+  retrieval example
+
+- Issue #16115: Improve subprocess.Popen() documentation around args, shell,
+  and executable arguments.
+
+- Issue #13498: Clarify docs of os.makedirs()'s exist_ok argument.  Done with
+  great native-speaker help from R. David Murray.
+
+- Issue #15533: Clarify docs and add tests for `subprocess.Popen()`'s cwd
+  argument.
+
+- Issue #15979: Improve timeit documentation.
+
+- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in `int()`'s signature and
+  arguments.
+
+- Issue #15935: Clarification of `argparse` docs, re: add_argument() type and
+  default arguments.  Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
+
+- Issue #11964: Document a change in v3.2 to the behavior of the indent
+  parameter of json encoding operations.
+
+- Issue #15116: Remove references to appscript as it is no longer being
+  supported.
+
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
+
+- Issue #18817: Fix a resource warning in Lib/aifc.py demo.  Patch by
+  Vajrasky Kok.
+
+- Issue #18439: Make patchcheck work on Windows for ACKS, NEWS.
+
+- Issue #18448: Fix a typo in Tools/demo/eiffel.py.
+
+- Issue #18457: Fixed saving of formulas and complex numbers in
+  Tools/demo/ss1.py.
+
+- Issue #18449: Make Tools/demo/ss1.py work again on Python 3.  Patch by
+  Févry Thibault.
+
+- Issue #12990: The "Python Launcher" on OSX could not launch python scripts
+  that have paths that include wide characters.
+
+- Issue #15239: Make mkstringprep.py work again on Python 3.
+
+- Issue #17028: Allowed Python arguments to be supplied to the Windows
+  launcher.
+
+- Issue #17156: pygettext.py now detects the encoding of source files and
+  correctly writes and escapes non-ascii characters.
+
+- Issue #15539: Fix a number of bugs in Tools/scripts/pindent.py.  Now
+  pindent.py works with a "with" statement.  pindent.py no longer produces
+  improper indentation.  pindent.py now works with continued lines broken after
+  "class" or "def" keywords and with continuations at the start of line.
+
+- Issue #11797: Add a 2to3 fixer that maps reload() to imp.reload().
+
+- Issue #10966: Remove the concept of unexpected skipped tests.
+
+- Issue #9893: Removed the Misc/Vim directory.
+
+- Removed the Misc/TextMate directory.
+
+- Issue #16245: Add the Tools/scripts/parse_html5_entities.py script to parse
+  the list of HTML5 entities and update the html.entities.html5 dictionary.
+
+- Issue #15378: Fix Tools/unicode/comparecodecs.py.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #16549: Make json.tool work again on Python 3 and add tests.
+  Initial patch by Berker Peksag and Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py.
+  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+Windows
+-------
+
+- Issue #18569: The installer now adds .py to the PATHEXT variable when extensions
+  are registered. Patch by Paul Moore.
+
+
 What's New in Python 3.3.0?
 ===========================
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9aa561fb26..3436c0a52f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -2,184 +2,382 @@
 Python News
 +++++++++++
 
-What's New in Python 3.5.3 release candidate 1?
+What's New in Python 3.6.1 release candidate 1?
 ===============================================
 
-Release date: TBA
+*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
 
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
-- Issue #29073: bytearray formatting no longer truncates on first null byte.
-
 - Issue #28932: Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist.
 
-- Issue #28147: Fix a memory leak in split-table dictionaries: setattr()
-  must not convert combined table into split table.
-
 - Issue #25677: Correct the positioning of the syntax error caret for
   indented blocks.  Based on patch by Michael Layzell.
 
 - Issue #29000: Fixed bytes formatting of octals with zero padding in alternate
   form.
 
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #28991:  functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure reentrancy
+  bug triggerable by a monkey-patched len() function.
+
+- Issue #28739: f-string expressions are no longer accepted as docstrings and
+  by ast.literal_eval() even if they do not include expressions.
+
 - Issue #28512: Fixed setting the offset attribute of SyntaxError by
   PyErr_SyntaxLocationEx() and PyErr_SyntaxLocationObject().
 
-- Issue #28991:  functools.lru_cache() was susceptible to an obscure reentrancy
-  bug caused by a monkey-patched len() function.
+- Issue #28918: Fix the cross compilation of xxlimited when Python has been
+  built with Py_DEBUG defined.
 
-- Issue #28648: Fixed crash in Py_DecodeLocale() in debug build on Mac OS X
-  when decode astral characters.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+- Issue #28731: Optimize _PyDict_NewPresized() to create correct size dict.
+  Improve speed of dict literal with constant keys up to 30%.
 
-- Issue #19398: Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of
-  empty compile-time PYTHONPATH components.
+Library
+-------
 
-- Issue #28426: Fixed potential crash in PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject() in debug
-  build.
+- Issue #29085: Allow random.Random.seed() to use high quality OS randomness
+  rather than the pid and time.
 
-- Issue #23782: Fixed possible memory leak in _PyTraceback_Add() and exception
-  loss in PyTraceBack_Here().
+- Issue #29079: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.resolve() on Windows
 
-- Issue #28379: Added sanity checks and tests for PyUnicode_CopyCharacters().
-  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+- Issue #13051: Fixed recursion errors in large or resized
+  curses.textpad.Textbox.  Based on patch by Tycho Andersen.
 
-- Issue #28376: The type of long range iterator is now registered as Iterator.
-  Patch by Oren Milman.
+- Issue #9770: curses.ascii predicates now work correctly with negative
+  integers.
 
-- Issue #28376: The constructor of range_iterator now checks that step is not 0.
-  Patch by Oren Milman.
+- Issue #28427: old keys should not remove new values from
+  WeakValueDictionary when collecting from another thread.
 
-- Issue #26906: Resolving special methods of uninitialized type now causes
-  implicit initialization of the type instead of a fail.
+- Issue 28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
 
-- Issue #18287: PyType_Ready() now checks that tp_name is not NULL.
-  Original patch by Niklas Koep.
+- Issue #29055:  Neaten-up empty population error on random.choice()
+  by suppressing the upstream exception.
 
-- Issue #24098: Fixed possible crash when AST is changed in process of
-  compiling it.
+- Issue #28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.
 
-- Issue #28350: String constants with null character no longer interned.
+- Issue #19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and
+  WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another
+  thread.
 
-- Issue #26617: Fix crash when GC runs during weakref callbacks.
+- Issue #20191: Fixed a crash in resource.prlimit() when pass a sequence that
+  doesn't own its elements as limits.
 
-- Issue #27942: String constants now interned recursively in tuples and frozensets.
+- Issue #28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the
+  forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some
+  multiprocessing objects such as locks.
 
-- Issue #21578: Fixed misleading error message when ImportError called with
-  invalid keyword args.
+- Issue #28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer
+  writes the index file when it is not changed.
 
-- Issue #28203: Fix incorrect type in error message from
-  ``complex(1.0, {2:3})``. Patch by Soumya Sharma.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #27955: Fallback on reading /dev/urandom device when the getrandom()
-  syscall fails with EPERM, for example when blocked by SECCOMP.
+Windows
+-------
 
-- Issue #28131: Fix a regression in zipimport's compile_source().  zipimport
-  should use the same optimization level as the interpreter.
+- Issue #25778: winreg does not truncate string correctly (Patch by Eryk Sun)
 
-- Issue #25221: Fix corrupted result from PyLong_FromLong(0) when
-  Python is compiled with NSMALLPOSINTS = 0.
+- Issue #28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder and disable it by default.
 
-- Issue #25758: Prevents zipimport from unnecessarily encoding a filename
-  (patch by Eryk Sun)
+C API
+-----
 
-- Issue #28189: dictitems_contains no longer swallows compare errors.
-  (Patch by Xiang Zhang)
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #27812: Properly clear out a generator's frame's backreference to the
-  generator to prevent crashes in frame.clear().
+Tests
+-----
 
-- Issue #27811: Fix a crash when a coroutine that has not been awaited is
-  finalized with warnings-as-errors enabled.
+- Issue #28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l in regrtest
+  command line arguments.
 
-- Issue #27587: Fix another issue found by PVS-Studio: Null pointer check
-  after use of 'def' in _PyState_AddModule().
-  Initial patch by Christian Heimes.
+- Issue #28683: Fix the tests that bind() a unix socket and raise
+  PermissionError on Android for a non-root user.
 
-- Issue #26020: set literal evaluation order did not match documented behaviour.
+- Issue #26939: Add the support.setswitchinterval() function to fix
+  test_functools hanging on the Android armv7 qemu emulator.
 
-- Issue #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.
+Build
+-----
 
-- Issue #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.
+- Issue #28768: Fix implicit declaration of function _setmode. Patch by
+  Masayuki Yamamoto
 
-- Issue #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.
+- Issue #29080: Removes hard dependency on hg.exe from PCBuild/build.bat
 
-- Issue #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.
+- Issue #23903: Added missed names to PC/python3.def.
 
-- Issue #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.
+- Issue #28762: lockf() is available on Android API level 24, but the F_LOCK
+  macro is not defined in android-ndk-r13.
 
-- Issue #27083: Respect the PYTHONCASEOK environment variable under Windows.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #27514: Make having too many statically nested blocks a SyntaxError
-  instead of SystemError.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #27473: Fixed possible integer overflow in bytes and bytearray
-  concatenations.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+- Issue #28849: Do not define sys.implementation._multiarch on Android.
 
-- Issue #27507: Add integer overflow check in bytearray.extend().  Patch by
-  Xiang Zhang.
 
-- Issue #27581: Don't rely on wrapping for overflow check in
-  PySequence_Tuple().  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+What's New in Python 3.6.0?
+===========================
 
-- Issue #27443: __length_hint__() of bytearray iterators no longer return a
-  negative integer for a resized bytearray.
+*Release date: 2016-12-23*
 
-- Issue #27942: Fix memory leak in codeobject.c
+- No changes since release candidate 2
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 release candidate 2?
+===============================================
+
+*Release date: 2016-12-16*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #28147: Fix a memory leak in split-table dictionaries: setattr()
+  must not convert combined table into split table. Patch written by INADA
+  Naoki.
+
+- Issue #28990: Fix asyncio SSL hanging if connection is closed before
+  handshake is completed. (Patch by HoHo-Ho)
+
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
+
+- Issue #28770: Fix python-gdb.py for fastcalls.
+
+Windows
+-------
+
+- Issue #28896: Deprecate WindowsRegistryFinder.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #28898: Prevent gdb build errors due to HAVE_LONG_LONG redefinition.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 release candidate 1?
+===============================================
+
+*Release date: 2016-12-06*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #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()``.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #28782: Fix a bug in the implementation ``yield from`` when checking
+  if the next instruction is YIELD_FROM. Regression introduced by WORDCODE
+  (issue #26647).
 
 Library
 -------
 
-- Issue #13051: Fixed recursion errors in large or resized
-  curses.textpad.Textbox.  Based on patch by Tycho Andersen.
+- Issue #27030: Unknown escapes in re.sub() replacement template are allowed
+  again.  But they still are deprecated and will be disabled in 3.7.
 
-- Issue #9770: curses.ascii predicates now work correctly with negative
-  integers.
+- Issue #28835: Fix a regression introduced in warnings.catch_warnings():
+  call warnings.showwarning() if it was overriden inside the context manager.
 
-- Issue #28427: old keys should not remove new values from
-  WeakValueDictionary when collecting from another thread.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue 28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
+- Issue #24142: Reading a corrupt config file left configparser in an
+  invalid state.  Original patch by Florian Höch.
 
-- Issue #28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.
+- Issue #28843: Fix asyncio C Task to handle exceptions __traceback__.
 
-- Issue #19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and
-  WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another
-  thread.
+C API
+-----
 
-- Issue #20191: Fixed a crash in resource.prlimit() when pass a sequence that
-  doesn't own its elements as limits.
+- Issue #28808: PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString() now never raises exceptions.
 
-- Issue #28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the
-  forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some
-  multiprocessing objects such as locks.
+Documentation
+-------------
 
-- Issue #28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer
-  writes the index file when it is not changed.
+- Issue #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
+-----------
+
+- Issue #28023: Fix python-gdb.py didn't support new dict implementation.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 beta 4?
+==================================
+
+*Release date: 2016-11-21*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #28532: Show sys.version when -V option is supplied twice.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #28746: Fix the set_inheritable() file descriptor method on platforms
+  that do not have the ioctl FIOCLEX and FIONCLEX commands.
+
+- Issue #26920: Fix not getting the locale's charset upon initializing the
+  interpreter, on platforms that do not have langinfo.
+
+- Issue #28648: Fixed crash in Py_DecodeLocale() in debug build on Mac OS X
+  when decode astral characters.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #19398: Extra slash no longer added to sys.path components in case of
+  empty compile-time PYTHONPATH components.
+
+- Issue #28665:  Improve speed of the STORE_DEREF opcode by 40%.
+
+- Issue #28583: PyDict_SetDefault didn't combine split table when needed.
+  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #26182: Fix a refleak in code that raises DeprecationWarning.
+
+- Issue #28721: Fix asynchronous generators aclose() and athrow() to
+  handle StopAsyncIteration propagation properly.
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #26273: Add new :data:`socket.TCP_CONGESTION` (Linux 2.6.13) and
+  :data:`socket.TCP_USER_TIMEOUT` (Linux 2.6.37) constants. Patch written by
+  Omar Sandoval.
+
+- Issue #28752: Restored the __reduce__() methods of datetime objects.
+
+- Issue #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 issue #18383: don't duplicate warning filters when the
+  warnings module is reloaded (thing usually only done in unit tests).
+
+- Issue #20572: The subprocess.Popen.wait method's undocumented
+  endtime parameter now raises a DeprecationWarning.
 
 - Issue #25659: In ctypes, prevent a crash calling the from_buffer() and
   from_buffer_copy() methods on abstract classes like Array.
 
-- Issue #28732: Fix crash in os.spawnv() with no elements in args
+- Issue #19717: Makes Path.resolve() succeed on paths that do not exist.
+  Patch by Vajrasky Kok
 
-- Issue #28485: Always raise ValueError for negative
-  compileall.compile_dir(workers=...) parameter, even when multithreading is
-  unavailable.
+- Issue #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.
 
 - Issue #28387: Fixed possible crash in _io.TextIOWrapper deallocator when
   the garbage collector is invoked in other thread.  Based on patch by
   Sebastian Cufre.
 
+- Issue #28600: Optimize loop.call_soon.
+
+- Issue #28613: Fix get_event_loop() return the current loop if
+  called from coroutines/callbacks.
+
+- Issue #28634: Fix asyncio.isfuture() to support unittest.Mock.
+
+- Issue #26081: Fix refleak in _asyncio.Future.__iter__().throw.
+
+- Issue #28639: Fix inspect.isawaitable to always return bool
+  Patch by Justin Mayfield.
+
+- Issue #28652: Make loop methods reject socket kinds they do not support.
+
+- Issue #28653: Fix a refleak in functools.lru_cache.
+
+- Issue #28703: Fix asyncio.iscoroutinefunction to handle Mock objects.
+
+- Issue #28704: Fix create_unix_server to support Path-like objects
+  (PEP 519).
+
+- Issue #28720: Add collections.abc.AsyncGenerator.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Issue #28513: Documented command-line interface of zipfile.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #28666: Now test.support.rmtree is able to remove unwritable or
+  unreadable directories.
+
+- Issue #23839: Various caches now are cleared before running every test file.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #10656: Fix out-of-tree building on AIX.  Patch by Tristan Carel and
+  Michael Haubenwallner.
+
+- Issue #26359: Rename --with-optimiations to --enable-optimizations.
+
+- Issue #28676: Prevent missing 'getentropy' declaration warning on macOS.
+  Patch by Gareth Rees.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 beta 3?
+==================================
+
+*Release date: 2016-10-31*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #28509: dict.update() no longer allocate unnecessary large memory.
+
+- Issue #28426: Fixed potential crash in PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject() in debug
+  build.
+
+- Issue #28517: Fixed of-by-one error in the peephole optimizer that caused
+  keeping unreachable code.
+
+- Issue #28214: Improved exception reporting for problematic __set_name__
+  attributes.
+
+- Issue #23782: Fixed possible memory leak in _PyTraceback_Add() and exception
+  loss in PyTraceBack_Here().
+
+- Issue #28471: Fix "Python memory allocator called without holding the GIL"
+  crash in socket.setblocking.
+
+Library
+-------
+
 - Issue #27517: LZMA compressor and decompressor no longer raise exceptions if
   given empty data twice.  Patch by Benjamin Fogle.
 
@@ -196,6 +394,9 @@ Library
   by representing the scale as float value internally in Tk.  tkinter.IntVar
   now works if float value is set to underlying Tk variable.
 
+- Issue #18844: The various ways of specifying weights for random.choices()
+  now produce the same result sequences.
+
 - Issue #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.
@@ -205,30 +406,194 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #28353: os.fwalk() no longer fails on broken links.
 
+- Issue #28430: Fix iterator of C implemented asyncio.Future doesn't accept
+  non-None value is passed to it.send(val).
+
+- Issue #27025: Generated names for Tkinter widgets now start by the "!" prefix
+  for readability (was "`").
+
 - Issue #25464: Fixed HList.header_exists() in tkinter.tix module by addin
   a workaround to Tix library bug.
 
-- Issue #28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer add entry "./" to ZIP archive.
+- Issue #28488: shutil.make_archive() no longer adds entry "./" to ZIP archive.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #18219: Optimize csv.DictWriter for large number of columns.
+  Patch by Mariatta Wijaya.
+
+- Issue #28448: Fix C implemented asyncio.Future didn't work on Windows.
+
+- Issue #28480: Fix error building socket module when multithreading is
+  disabled.
 
 - Issue #24452: Make webbrowser support Chrome on Mac OS X.
 
 - Issue #20766: Fix references leaked by pdb in the handling of SIGINT
   handlers.
 
+- Issue #28492: Fix how StopIteration exception is raised in _asyncio.Future.
+
+- Issue #28500: Fix asyncio to handle async gens GC from another thread.
+
+- Issue #26923: Fix asyncio.Gather to refuse being cancelled once all
+  children are done.
+  Patch by Johannes Ebke.
+
+- Issue #26796: Don't configure the number of workers for default
+  threadpool executor.
+  Initial patch by Hans Lawrenz.
+
+- Issue #28544: Implement asyncio.Task in C.
+
+Windows
+-------
+
+- Issue #28522: Fixes mishandled buffer reallocation in getpathp.c
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #28444: Fix missing extensions modules when cross compiling.
+
+- Issue #28208: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use SQLite 3.14.2.
+
+- Issue #28248: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2j.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #26944: Fix test_posix for Android where 'id -G' is entirely wrong or
+  missing the effective gid.
+
+- Issue #28409: regrtest: fix the parser of command line arguments.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 beta 2?
+==================================
+
+*Release date: 2016-10-10*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #28183: Optimize and cleanup dict iteration.
+
+- Issue #26081: Added C implementation of asyncio.Future.
+  Original patch by Yury Selivanov.
+
+- Issue #28379: Added sanity checks and tests for PyUnicode_CopyCharacters().
+  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #28376: The type of long range iterator is now registered as Iterator.
+  Patch by Oren Milman.
+
+- Issue #28376: Creating instances of range_iterator by calling range_iterator
+  type now is deprecated.  Patch by Oren Milman.
+
+- Issue #28376: The constructor of range_iterator now checks that step is not 0.
+  Patch by Oren Milman.
+
+- Issue #26906: Resolving special methods of uninitialized type now causes
+  implicit initialization of the type instead of a fail.
+
+- Issue #18287: PyType_Ready() now checks that tp_name is not NULL.
+  Original patch by Niklas Koep.
+
+- Issue #24098: Fixed possible crash when AST is changed in process of
+  compiling it.
+
+- Issue #28201: Dict reduces possibility of 2nd conflict in hash table when
+  hashes have same lower bits.
+
+- Issue #28350: String constants with null character no longer interned.
+
+- Issue #26617: Fix crash when GC runs during weakref callbacks.
+
+- Issue #27942: String constants now interned recursively in tuples and frozensets.
+
+- Issue #21578: Fixed misleading error message when ImportError called with
+  invalid keyword args.
+
+- Issue #28203: Fix incorrect type in complex(1.0, {2:3}) error message.
+  Patch by Soumya Sharma.
+
+- Issue #28086: Single var-positional argument of tuple subtype was passed
+  unscathed to the C-defined function.  Now it is converted to exact tuple.
+
+- Issue #28214: Now __set_name__ is looked up on the class instead of the
+  instance.
+
+- Issue #27955: Fallback on reading /dev/urandom device when the getrandom()
+  syscall fails with EPERM, for example when blocked by SECCOMP.
+
+- Issue #28192: Don't import readline in isolated mode.
+
+- Upgrade internal unicode databases to Unicode version 9.0.0.
+
+- Issue #28131: Fix a regression in zipimport's compile_source().  zipimport
+  should use the same optimization level as the interpreter.
+
+- Issue #28126: Replace Py_MEMCPY with memcpy(). Visual Studio can properly
+  optimize memcpy().
+
+- Issue #28120: Fix dict.pop() for splitted dictionary when trying to remove a
+  "pending key" (Not yet inserted in split-table). Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #26182: Raise DeprecationWarning when async and await keywords are
+  used as variable/attribute/class/function name.
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #27998: Fixed bytes path support in os.scandir() on Windows.
+  Patch by Eryk Sun.
+
+- Issue #28317: The disassembler now decodes FORMAT_VALUE argument.
+
 - Issue #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.
 
+- Issue #28380: unittest.mock Mock autospec functions now properly support
+  assert_called, assert_not_called, and assert_called_once.
+
+- Issue #27181 remove statistics.geometric_mean and defer until 3.7.
+
+- Issue #28229: lzma module now supports pathlib.
+
 - Issue #28321: Fixed writing non-BMP characters with binary format in plistlib.
 
+- Issue #28225: bz2 module now supports pathlib.  Initial patch by Ethan Furman.
+
+- Issue #28227: gzip now supports pathlib.  Patch by Ethan Furman.
+
+- Issue #27358: Optimized merging var-keyword arguments and improved error
+  message when pass a non-mapping as a var-keyword argument.
+
+- Issue #28257: Improved error message when pass a non-iterable as
+  a var-positional argument.  Added opcode BUILD_TUPLE_UNPACK_WITH_CALL.
+
 - Issue #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.
+- Issue #28228: imghdr now supports pathlib.
 
-- Issue #1703178: Fix the ability to pass the --link-objects option to the
-  distutils build_ext command.
+- Issue #28226: compileall now supports pathlib.
+
+- Issue #28314: Fix function declaration (C flags) for the getiterator() method
+  of xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.
+
+- Issue #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.
 
 - Issue #28253: Fixed calendar functions for extreme months: 0001-01
   and 9999-12.
@@ -244,10 +609,15 @@ Library
 - Issue #27897: Fixed possible crash in sqlite3.Connection.create_collation()
   if pass invalid string-like object as a name.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
 
+- Issue #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.
+
 - Issue #18893: Fix invalid exception handling in Lib/ctypes/macholib/dyld.py.
   Patch by Madison May.
 
 - Issue #27611: Fixed support of default root window in the tkinter.tix module.
+  Added the master parameter in the DisplayStyle constructor.
 
 - Issue #27348: In the traceback module, restore the formatting of exception
   messages like "Exception: None".  This fixes a regression introduced in
@@ -255,6 +625,15 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #25651: Allow falsy values to be used for msg parameter of subTest().
 
+- Issue #27778: Fix a memory leak in os.getrandom() when the getrandom() is
+  interrupted by a signal and a signal handler raises a Python exception.
+
+- Issue #28200: Fix memory leak on Windows in the os module (fix
+  path_converter() function).
+
+- Issue #25400: RobotFileParser now correctly returns default values for
+  crawl_delay and request_rate.  Initial patch by Peter Wirtz.
+
 - Issue #27932: Prevent memory leak in win32_ver().
 
 - Fix UnboundLocalError in socket._sendfile_use_sendfile.
@@ -262,6 +641,10 @@ Library
 - Issue #28075: Check for ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in Windows implementation of
   os.stat().  Patch by Eryk Sun.
 
+- Issue #22493: Warning message emitted by using inline flags in the middle of
+  regular expression now contains a (truncated) regex pattern.
+  Patch by Tim Graham.
+
 - Issue #25270: Prevent codecs.escape_encode() from raising SystemError when
   an empty bytestring is passed.
 
@@ -270,20 +653,323 @@ Library
 - Issue #25895: Enable WebSocket URL schemes in urllib.parse.urljoin.
   Patch by Gergely Imreh and Markus Holtermann.
 
+- Issue #28114: Fix a crash in parse_envlist() when env contains byte strings.
+  Patch by Eryk Sun.
+
 - Issue #27599: Fixed buffer overrun in binascii.b2a_qp() and binascii.a2b_qp().
 
-- Issue #19003:m email.generator now replaces only \r and/or \n line
-  endings, per the RFC, instead of all unicode line endings.
+- Issue #27906: Fix socket accept exhaustion during high TCP traffic.
+  Patch by Kevin Conway.
+
+- Issue #28174: Handle when SO_REUSEPORT isn't properly supported.
+  Patch by Seth Michael Larson.
+
+- Issue #26654: Inspect functools.partial in asyncio.Handle.__repr__.
+  Patch by iceboy.
+
+- Issue #26909: Fix slow pipes IO in asyncio.
+  Patch by INADA Naoki.
+
+- Issue #28176: Fix callbacks race in asyncio.SelectorLoop.sock_connect.
+
+- Issue #27759: Fix selectors incorrectly retain invalid file descriptors.
+  Patch by Mark Williams.
+
+- Issue #28368: Refuse monitoring processes if the child watcher has no
+  loop attached.
+  Patch by Vincent Michel.
+
+- Issue #28369: Raise RuntimeError when transport's FD is used with
+  add_reader, add_writer, etc.
+
+- Issue #28370: Speedup asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly.
+  Patch by Коренберг Марк.
+
+- Issue #28371: Deprecate passing asyncio.Handles to run_in_executor.
+
+- Issue #28372: Fix asyncio to support formatting of non-python coroutines.
+
+- Issue #28399: Remove UNIX socket from FS before binding.
+  Patch by Коренберг Марк.
+
+- Issue #27972: Prohibit Tasks to await on themselves.
+
+Windows
+-------
+
+- Issue #28402: Adds signed catalog files for stdlib on Windows.
+
+- Issue #28333: Enables Unicode for ps1/ps2 and input() prompts. (Patch by
+  Eryk Sun)
+
+- Issue #28251: Improvements to help manuals on Windows.
+
+- Issue #28110: launcher.msi has different product codes between 32-bit and
+  64-bit
+
+- Issue #28161: Opening CON for write access fails
+
+- Issue #28162: WindowsConsoleIO readall() fails if first line starts with
+  Ctrl+Z
+
+- Issue #28163: WindowsConsoleIO fileno() passes wrong flags to
+  _open_osfhandle
+
+- Issue #28164: _PyIO_get_console_type fails for various paths
+
+- Issue #28137: Renames Windows path file to ._pth
+
+- Issue #28138: Windows ._pth file should allow import site
+
+C API
+-----
+
+- Issue #28426: Deprecated undocumented functions PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject(),
+  PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject(), PyUnicode_AsDecodedUnicode() and
+  PyUnicode_AsEncodedUnicode().
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale (python-config and distclean
+  targets in Makefile).  Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
+
+- Issue #26661: setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch wrapper.
+
+- Issue #15819: Remove redundant include search directory option for building
+  outside the source tree.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #28217: Adds _testconsole module to test console input.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 beta 1?
+==================================
+
+*Release date: 2016-09-12*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #25221: Fix corrupted result from PyLong_FromLong(0) when Python
+  is compiled with NSMALLPOSINTS = 0.
+
+- Issue #27080: Implement formatting support for PEP 515.  Initial patch
+  by Chris Angelico.
+
+- Issue #27199: In tarfile, expose copyfileobj bufsize to improve throughput.
+  Patch by Jason Fried.
+
+- Issue #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'.
+
+- Issue #28046: Remove platform-specific directories from sys.path.
+
+- Issue #28071: Add early-out for differencing from an empty set.
+
+- Issue #25758: Prevents zipimport from unnecessarily encoding a filename
+  (patch by Eryk Sun)
+
+- Issue #25856: The __module__ attribute of extension classes and functions
+  now is interned. This leads to more compact pickle data with protocol 4.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #26331: Implement tokenizing support for PEP 515. Patch by Georg Brandl.
+
+- Issue #27999: Make "global after use" a SyntaxError, and ditto for nonlocal.
+  Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi.
+
+- Issue #28003: Implement PEP 525 -- Asynchronous Generators.
+
+- Issue #27985: Implement PEP 526 -- Syntax for Variable Annotations.
+  Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #27364: A backslash-character pair that is not a valid escape sequence
+  now generates a DeprecationWarning.  Patch by Emanuel Barry.
+
+- Issue #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.)
+
+- Issue #27911: Remove unnecessary error checks in
+  ``exec_builtin_or_dynamic()``.
+
+- Issue #27078: Added BUILD_STRING opcode.  Optimized f-strings evaluation.
+
+- Issue #17884: Python now requires systems with inttypes.h and stdint.h
+
+- Issue #27961: Require platforms to support ``long long``. Python hasn't
+  compiled without ``long long`` for years, so this is basically a formality.
+
+- Issue #27355: Removed support for Windows CE.  It was never finished,
+  and Windows CE is no longer a relevant platform for Python.
+
+- Implement PEP 523.
+
+- Issue #27870: A left shift of zero by a large integer no longer attempts
+  to allocate large amounts of memory.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #27506: Support passing the bytes/bytearray.translate() "delete"
+  argument by keyword.
+
+- Issue #27812: Properly clear out a generator's frame's backreference to the
+  generator to prevent crashes in frame.clear().
+
+- Issue #27811: Fix a crash when a coroutine that has not been awaited is
+  finalized with warnings-as-errors enabled.
+
+- Issue #27587: Fix another issue found by PVS-Studio: Null pointer check
+  after use of 'def' in _PyState_AddModule().
+  Initial patch by Christian Heimes.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #26984: int() now always returns an instance of exact int.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #24254: Make class definition namespace ordered by default.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #27157: Make only type() itself accept the one-argument form.
+  Patch by Eryk Sun and Emanuel Barry.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #28008: Implement PEP 530 -- asynchronous comprehensions.
+
+- Issue #27942: Fix memory leak in codeobject.c
+
+Library
+-------
+
+- Issue #28732: Fix crash in os.spawnv() with no elements in args
+
+- Issue #28485: Always raise ValueError for negative
+  compileall.compile_dir(workers=...) parameter, even when multithreading is
+  unavailable.
+
+- Issue #28037: Use sqlite3_get_autocommit() instead of setting
+  Connection->inTransaction manually.
+
+- Issue #25283: Attributes tm_gmtoff and tm_zone are now available on
+  all platforms in the return values of time.localtime() and
+  time.gmtime().
+
+- Issue #24454: Regular expression match object groups are now
+  accessible using __getitem__.  "mo[x]" is equivalent to
+  "mo.group(x)".
+
+- Issue #10740: sqlite3 no longer implicitly commit an open transaction
+  before DDL statements.
+
+- Issue #17941: Add a *module* parameter to collections.namedtuple().
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #26885: xmlrpc now supports unmarshalling additional data types used
+  by Apache XML-RPC implementation for numerics and None.
+
+- Issue #28070: Fixed parsing inline verbose flag in regular expressions.
+
+- Issue #19500: Add client-side SSL session resumption to the ssl module.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #24693: Changed some RuntimeError's in the zipfile module to more
+  appropriate types. Improved some error messages and debugging output.
+
+- Issue #17909: ``json.load`` and ``json.loads`` now support binary input
+  encoded as UTF-8, UTF-16 or UTF-32. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #1703178: Fix the ability to pass the --link-objects option to the
+  distutils build_ext command.
 
 - Issue #28019: itertools.count() no longer rounds non-integer step in range
   between 1.0 and 2.0 to 1.
 
+- Issue #18401: Pdb now supports the 'readrc' keyword argument to control
+  whether .pdbrc files should be read.  Patch by Martin Matusiak and
+  Sam Kimbrel.
+
 - Issue #25969: Update the lib2to3 grammar to handle the unpacking
   generalizations added in 3.5.
 
 - Issue #14977: mailcap now respects the order of the lines in the mailcap
   files ("first match"), as required by RFC 1542.  Patch by Michael Lazar.
 
+- Issue #28082: Convert re flag constants to IntFlag.
+
+- Issue #28025: Convert all ssl module constants to IntEnum and IntFlags.
+  SSLContext properties now return flags and enums.
+
+- Issue #23591: Add Flag, IntFlag, and auto() to enum module.
+
+- Issue #433028: Added support of modifier spans in regular expressions.
+
 - Issue #24594: Validates persist parameter when opening MSI database
 
 - Issue #17582: xml.etree.ElementTree nows preserves whitespaces in attributes
@@ -292,9 +978,19 @@ Library
 - Issue #28047: Fixed calculation of line length used for the base64 CTE
   in the new email policies.
 
+- Issue #27576: Fix call order in OrderedDict.__init__().
+
+- email.generator.DecodedGenerator now supports the policy keyword.
+
+- Issue #28027: Remove undocumented modules from ``Lib/plat-*``: IN, CDROM,
+  DLFCN, TYPES, CDIO, and STROPTS.
+
 - Issue #27445: Don't pass str(_charset) to MIMEText.set_payload().
   Patch by Claude Paroz.
 
+- Issue #24277: The new email API is no longer provisional, and the docs
+  have been reorganized and rewritten to emphasize the new API.
+
 - Issue #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.
@@ -303,6 +999,10 @@ Library
   between runs given the same Grammar.txt input regardless of the hash
   randomization setting.
 
+- Issue #28005: Allow ImportErrors in encoding implementation to propagate.
+
+- Issue #26667: Support path-like objects in importlib.util.
+
 - Issue #27570: Avoid zero-length memcpy() etc calls with null source
   pointers in the "ctypes" and "array" modules.
 
@@ -310,19 +1010,72 @@ Library
   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.
 
+- Issue #16113: Add SHA-3 and SHAKE support to hashlib module.
+
+- Eliminate a tautological-pointer-compare warning in _scproxy.c.
+
+- Issue #27776: The :func:`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`.
+
+- Issue #27778: Expose the Linux ``getrandom()`` syscall as a new
+  :func:`os.getrandom` function. This change is part of the :pep:`524`.
+
 - Issue #27691: Fix ssl module's parsing of GEN_RID subject alternative name
   fields in X.509 certs.
 
+- Issue #18844: Add random.choices().
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #26798: Add BLAKE2 (blake2b and blake2s) to hashlib.
+
+- Issue #26032: Optimized globbing in pathlib by using os.scandir(); it is now
+  about 1.5--4 times faster.
+
+- Issue #25596: Optimized glob() and iglob() functions in the
+  glob module; they are now about 3--6 times faster.
+
+- Issue #27928: Add scrypt (password-based key derivation function) to
+  hashlib module (requires OpenSSL 1.1.0).
+
 - Issue #27850: Remove 3DES from ssl module's default cipher list to counter
   measure sweet32 attack (CVE-2016-2183).
 
 - Issue #27766: Add ChaCha20 Poly1305 to ssl module's default ciper list.
   (Required OpenSSL 1.1.0 or LibreSSL).
 
+- Issue #25387: Check return value of winsound.MessageBeep.
+
+- Issue #27866: Add SSLContext.get_ciphers() method to get a list of all
+  enabled ciphers.
+
+- Issue #27744: Add AF_ALG (Linux Kernel crypto) to socket module.
+
 - Issue #26470: Port ssl and hashlib module to OpenSSL 1.1.0.
 
+- Issue #11620: Fix support for SND_MEMORY in winsound.PlaySound.  Based on a
+  patch by Tim Lesher.
+
+- Issue #11734: Add support for IEEE 754 half-precision floats to the
+  struct module. Based on a patch by Eli Stevens.
+
+- Issue #27919: Deprecated ``extra_path`` distribution option in distutils
+  packaging.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
 
@@ -344,25 +1097,276 @@ Library
 - Issue #10513: Fix a regression in Connection.commit().  Statements should
   not be reset after a commit.
 
+- Issue #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) (Issue #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)
 
+- Issue #27832: Make ``_normalize`` parameter to ``Fraction`` constuctor
+  keyword-only, so that ``Fraction(2, 3, 4)`` now raises ``TypeError``.
+
 - Issue #27539: Fix unnormalised ``Fraction.__pow__`` result in the case
   of negative exponent and negative base.
 
 - Issue #21718: cursor.description is now available for queries using CTEs.
 
+- Issue #27819: In distutils sdists, simply produce the "gztar" (gzipped tar
+  format) distributions on all platforms unless "formats" is supplied.
+
 - Issue #2466: posixpath.ismount now correctly recognizes mount points which
   the user does not have permission to access.
 
+- Issue #9998: On Linux, ctypes.util.find_library now looks in LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+  for shared libraries.
+
+- Issue #27573: exit message for code.interact is now configurable.
+
+- Issue #27930: Improved behaviour of logging.handlers.QueueListener.
+  Thanks to Paulo Andrade and Petr Viktorin for the analysis and patch.
+
+- Issue #6766: Distributed reference counting added to multiprocessing
+  to support nesting of shared values / proxy objects.
+
+- Issue #21201: Improves readability of multiprocessing error message.  Thanks
+  to Wojciech Walczak for patch.
+
+- asyncio: Add set_protocol / get_protocol to Transports.
+
+- Issue #27456: asyncio: Set TCP_NODELAY by default.
+
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #15308: Add 'interrupt execution' (^C) to Shell menu.
+  Patch by Roger Serwy, updated by Bayard Randel.
+
+- Issue #27922: Stop IDLE tests from 'flashing' gui widgets on the screen.
+
+- Issue #27891: Consistently group and sort imports within idlelib modules.
+
+- Issue #17642: add larger font sizes for classroom projection.
+
+- Add version to title of IDLE help window.
+
+- Issue #25564: In section on IDLE -- console differences, mention that
+  using exec means that __builtins__ is defined for each statement.
+
+- Issue #27821: Fix 3.6.0a3 regression that prevented custom key sets
+  from being selected when no custom theme was defined.
+
+C API
+-----
+
+- Issue #26900: Excluded underscored names and other private API from limited API.
+
+- Issue #26027: Add support for path-like objects in PyUnicode_FSConverter() &
+  PyUnicode_FSDecoder().
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #27427: Additional tests for the math module. Patch by Francisco Couzo.
+
+- Issue #27953: Skip math and cmath tests that fail on OS X 10.4 due to a
+  poor libm implementation of tan.
+
+- Issue #26040: Improve test_math and test_cmath coverage and rigour. Patch by
+  Jeff Allen.
+
+- Issue #27787: Call gc.collect() before checking each test for "dangling
+  threads", since the dangling threads are weak references.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #27566: Fix clean target in freeze makefile (patch by Lisa Roach)
+
+- Issue #27705: Update message in validate_ucrtbase.py
+
+- Issue #27976: Deprecate building _ctypes with the bundled copy of libffi on
+  non-OSX UNIX platforms.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #21590: Support for DTrace and SystemTap probes.
+
+- Issue #26307: The profile-opt build now applies PGO to the built-in modules.
+
+- Issue #26539: Add the --with-optimizations flag to turn on LTO and PGO build
+  support when available.
+
+- Issue #27917: Set platform triplets for Android builds.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #21122: Fix LTO builds on OS X.
+
+- Issue #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
+-----------
+
+- Issue #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
+-------
+
+- Issue #28065: Update xz dependency to 5.2.2 and build it from source.
+
+- Issue #25144: Ensures TargetDir is set before continuing with custom
+  install.
+
+- Issue #1602: Windows console doesn't input or print Unicode (PEP 528)
+
+- Issue #27781: Change file system encoding on Windows to UTF-8 (PEP 529)
+
+- Issue #27731: Opt-out of MAX_PATH on Windows 10
+
+- Issue #6135: Adds encoding and errors parameters to subprocess.
+
+- Issue #27959: Adds oem encoding, alias ansi to mbcs, move aliasmbcs to
+  codec lookup.
+
+- Issue #27982: The functions of the winsound module now accept keyword
+  arguments.
+
+- Issue #20366: Build full text search support into SQLite on Windows.
+
+- Issue #27756: Adds new icons for Python files and processes on Windows.
+  Designs by Cherry Wang.
+
+- Issue #27883: Update sqlite to 3.14.1.0 on Windows.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 4?
+===================================
+
+*Release date: 2016-08-15*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #27574: Decreased an overhead of parsing keyword arguments in functions
+  implemented with using Argument Clinic.
+
+- Issue #22557: Now importing already imported modules is up to 2.5 times
+  faster.
+
+- Issue #17596: Include <wincrypt.h> to help with Min GW building.
+
+- Issue #17599: On Windows, rename the privately defined REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER
+  structure to avoid conflicting with the definition from Min GW.
+
+- Issue #27507: Add integer overflow check in bytearray.extend().  Patch by
+  Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #27581: Don't rely on wrapping for overflow check in
+  PySequence_Tuple().  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #1621: Avoid signed integer overflow in list and tuple operations.
+  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #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__.
+
+- Issue #27083: Respect the PYTHONCASEOK environment variable under Windows.
+
+- Issue #27514: Make having too many statically nested blocks a SyntaxError
+  instead of SystemError.
+
+- Issue #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
+-------
+
+- Issue #26027, #27524: Add PEP 519/__fspath__() support to the os and os.path
+  modules. Includes code from Jelle Zijlstra.
+
+- Issue #27598: Add Collections to collections.abc.
+  Patch by Ivan Levkivskyi, docs by Neil Girdhar.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #16764: Support keyword arguments to zlib.decompress().  Patch by
+  Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #27736: Prevent segfault after interpreter re-initialization due
+  to ref count problem introduced in code for Issue #27038 in 3.6.0a3.
+  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #25628:  The *verbose* and *rename* parameters for
+  collections.namedtuple are now keyword-only.
+
+- Issue #12345: Add mathematical constant tau to math and cmath. See also
+  PEP 628.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #27664: Add to concurrent.futures.thread.ThreadPoolExecutor()
+  the ability to specify a thread name prefix.
+
+- Issue #27181: Add geometric_mean and harmonic_mean to statistics module.
+
+- Issue #27573: code.interact now prints an message when exiting.
+
+- Issue #6422: Add autorange method to timeit.Timer objects.
+
 - Issue #27773: Correct some memory management errors server_hostname in
   _ssl.wrap_socket().
 
 - Issue #26750: unittest.mock.create_autospec() now works properly for
-  subclasses of property() and other data descriptors.
+  subclasses of property() and other data descriptors.  Removes the never
+  publicly used, never documented unittest.mock.DescriptorTypes tuple.
+
+- Issue #26754: Undocumented support of general bytes-like objects
+  as path in compile() and similar functions is now deprecated.
+
+- Issue #26800: Undocumented support of general bytes-like objects
+  as paths in os functions is now deprecated.
+
+- Issue #26981: Add _order_ compatibility shim to enum.Enum for
+  Python 2/3 code bases.
+
+- Issue #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.
@@ -381,6 +1385,9 @@ Library
   HTTP_PROXY variable when REQUEST_METHOD environment is set, which indicates
   that the script is in CGI mode.
 
+- Issue #7063: Remove dead code from the "array" module's slice handling.
+  Patch by Chuck.
+
 - Issue #27656: Do not assume sched.h defines any SCHED_* constants.
 
 - Issue #27130: In the "zlib" module, fix handling of large buffers
@@ -388,6 +1395,15 @@ Library
   were limited to 4 GiB, and compression and decompression operations did not
   properly handle results of 4 GiB.
 
+- Issue #24773: Implemented PEP 495 (Local Time Disambiguation).
+
+- Expose the EPOLLEXCLUSIVE constant (when it is defined) in the select module.
+
+- Issue #27567: Expose the EPOLLRDHUP and POLLRDHUP constants in the select
+  module.
+
+- Issue #1621: Avoid signed int negation overflow in the "audioop" module.
+
 - Issue #27533: Release GIL in nt._isdir
 
 - Issue #17711: Fixed unpickling by the persistent ID with protocol 0.
@@ -395,6 +1411,113 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #27522: Avoid an unintentional reference cycle in email.feedparser.
 
+- Issue #27512: Fix a segfault when os.fspath() called an __fspath__() method
+  that raised an exception. Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #27620: Escape key now closes Query box as cancelled.
+
+- Issue #27609: IDLE: tab after initial whitespace should tab, not
+  autocomplete. This fixes problem with writing docstrings at least
+  twice indented.
+
+- Issue #27609: Explicitly return None when there are also non-None
+  returns. In a few cases, reverse a condition and eliminate a return.
+
+- Issue #25507: IDLE no longer runs buggy code because of its tkinter imports.
+  Users must include the same imports required to run directly in Python.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #27452: add line counter and crc to IDLE configHandler test dump.
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+- Issue #25805: Skip a test in test_pkgutil as needed that doesn't work when
+  ``__name__ == __main__``. Patch by SilentGhost.
+
+- Issue #27472: Add test.support.unix_shell as the path to the default shell.
+
+- Issue #27369: In test_pyexpat, avoid testing an error message detail that
+  changed in Expat 2.2.0.
+
+- Issue #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
+-------
+
+- Issue #27647: Update bundled Tcl/Tk to 8.6.6.
+
+- Issue #27610: Adds PEP 514 metadata to Windows installer
+
+- Issue #27469: Adds a shell extension to the launcher so that drag and drop
+  works correctly.
+
+- Issue #27309: Enables proper Windows styles in python[w].exe manifest.
+
+Build
+-----
+
+- Issue #27713: Suppress spurious build warnings when updating importlib's
+  bootstrap files.  Patch by Xiang Zhang
+
+- Issue #25825: Correct the references to Modules/python.exp, which is
+  required on AIX.  The references were accidentally changed in 3.5.0a1.
+
+- Issue #27453: CPP invocation in configure must use CPPFLAGS. Patch by
+  Chi Hsuan Yen.
+
+- Issue #27641: The configure script now inserts comments into the makefile
+  to prevent the pgen and _freeze_importlib executables from being cross-
+  compiled.
+
+- Issue #26662: Set PYTHON_FOR_GEN in configure as the Python program to be
+  used for file generation during the build.
+
+- Issue #10910: Avoid C++ compilation errors on FreeBSD and OS X.
+  Also update FreedBSD version checks for the original ctype UTF-8 workaround.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 3?
+===================================
+
+*Release date: 2016-07-11*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+- Issue #27473: Fixed possible integer overflow in bytes and bytearray
+  concatenations.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #27443: __length_hint__() of bytearray iterators no longer return a
+  negative integer for a resized bytearray.
+
+- Issue #27007: The fromhex() class methods of bytes and bytearray subclasses
+  now return an instance of corresponding subclass.
+
+Library
+-------
+
 - Issue #26844: Fix error message for imp.find_module() to refer to 'path'
   instead of 'name'. Patch by Lev Maximov.
 
@@ -405,22 +1528,54 @@ Library
   confirming the netscape cookie format and making it consistent with
   documentation.
 
-- Issue #26664: Fix activate.fish by removing mis-use of ``$``.
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #26721: Change the socketserver.StreamRequestHandler.wfile attribute
+  to implement BufferedIOBase. In particular, the write() method no longer
+  does partial writes.
+
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #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.
+- Issue #26243: Only the level argument to zlib.compress() is keyword argument
+  now.  The first argument is positional-only.
 
-- Fix a scoping issue in importlib.util.LazyLoader which triggered an
-  UnboundLocalError when lazy-loading a module that was already put into
-  sys.modules.
+- Issue #27038: Expose the DirEntry type as os.DirEntry. Code patch by
+  Jelle Zijlstra.
+
+- Issue #27186: Update os.fspath()/PyOS_FSPath() to check the return value of
+  __fspath__() to be either str or bytes.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
 
 - Issue #27079: Fixed curses.ascii functions isblank(), iscntrl() and ispunct().
 
+- Issue #27294: Numerical state in the repr for Tkinter event objects is now
+  represented as a combination of known flags.
+
+- Issue #27177: Match objects in the re module now support index-like objects
+  as group indices.  Based on patches by Jeroen Demeyer and Xiang Zhang.
+
 - Issue #26754: Some functions (compile() etc) accepted a filename argument
   encoded as an iterable of integers. Now only strings and byte-like objects
   are accepted.
 
+- Issue #26536: socket.ioctl now supports SIO_LOOPBACK_FAST_PATH. Patch by
+  Daniel Stokes.
+
 - Issue #27048: Prevents distutils failing on Windows when environment
   variables contain non-ASCII characters
 
@@ -439,9 +1594,15 @@ Library
   Linux.  Truncate size to INT_MAX and loop until we collected enough random
   bytes, instead of casting a directly Py_ssize_t to int.
 
+- Issue #16864: sqlite3.Cursor.lastrowid now supports REPLACE statement.
+  Initial patch by Alex LordThorsen.
+
 - Issue #26386: Fixed ttk.TreeView selection operations with item id's
   containing spaces.
 
+- Issue #8637: Honor a pager set by the env var MANPAGER (in preference to
+  one set by the env var PAGER).
+
 - [Security] Issue #22636: Avoid shell injection problems with
   ctypes.util.find_library().
 
@@ -452,264 +1613,400 @@ Library
 - Issue #27392: Add loop.connect_accepted_socket().
   Patch by Jim Fulton.
 
-- Issue #27930: Improved behaviour of logging.handlers.QueueListener.
-  Thanks to Paulo Andrade and Petr Viktorin for the analysis and patch.
+IDLE
+----
 
-- Issue #21201: Improves readability of multiprocessing error message.  Thanks
-  to Wojciech Walczak for patch.
+- Issue #27477: IDLE search dialogs now use ttk widgets.
 
-- Issue #27456: asyncio: Set TCP_NODELAY by default.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #27906: Fix socket accept exhaustion during high TCP traffic.
-  Patch by Kevin Conway.
+- Issue #27452: make command line "idle-test> python test_help.py" work.
+  __file__ is relative when python is started in the file's directory.
 
-- Issue #28174: Handle when SO_REUSEPORT isn't properly supported.
-  Patch by Seth Michael Larson.
+- Issue #27452: add line counter and crc to IDLE configHandler test dump.
 
-- Issue #26654: Inspect functools.partial in asyncio.Handle.__repr__.
-  Patch by iceboy.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #26909: Fix slow pipes IO in asyncio.
-  Patch by INADA Naoki.
+- Issue #27372: Test_idle no longer changes the locale.
 
-- Issue #28176: Fix callbacks race in asyncio.SelectorLoop.sock_connect.
+- Issue #27365: Allow non-ascii chars in IDLE NEWS.txt, for contributor names.
 
-- Issue #27759: Fix selectors incorrectly retain invalid file descriptors.
-  Patch by Mark Williams.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #28368: Refuse monitoring processes if the child watcher has
-  no loop attached.
-  Patch by Vincent Michel.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #28369: Raise RuntimeError when transport's FD is used with
-  add_reader, add_writer, etc.
+- Issue #27310: Fix IDLE.app failure to launch on OS X due to vestigial import.
 
-- Issue #28370: Speedup asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly.
-  Patch by Коренберг Марк.
+C API
+-----
 
-- Issue #28371: Deprecate passing asyncio.Handles to run_in_executor.
+- Issue #26754: PyUnicode_FSDecoder() accepted a filename argument encoded as
+  an iterable of integers. Now only strings and byte-like objects are accepted.
 
-- Issue #28372: Fix asyncio to support formatting of non-python coroutines.
+Build
+-----
 
-- Issue #28399: Remove UNIX socket from FS before binding.
-  Patch by Коренберг Марк.
+- Issue #28066: Fix the logic that searches build directories for generated
+  include files when building outside the source tree.
 
-- Issue #27972: Prohibit Tasks to await on themselves.
+- Issue #27442: Expose the Android API level that python was built against, in
+  sysconfig.get_config_vars() as 'ANDROID_API_LEVEL'.
 
-- Issue #26923: Fix asyncio.Gather to refuse being cancelled once all 
-  children are done.
-  Patch by Johannes Ebke.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #26796: Don't configure the number of workers for default 
-  threadpool executor.
-  Initial patch by Hans Lawrenz.
+- Issue #26930: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2h.
 
-- Issue #28600: Optimize loop.call_soon().
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #28613: Fix get_event_loop() return the current loop if 
-  called from coroutines/callbacks.
+- Don't use largefile support for GNU/Hurd.
 
-- Issue #28639: Fix inspect.isawaitable to always return bool
-  Patch by Justin Mayfield.
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
 
-- Issue #28652: Make loop methods reject socket kinds they do not support.
+- Issue #27332: Fixed the type of the first argument of module-level functions
+  generated by Argument Clinic.  Patch by Petr Viktorin.
 
-- Issue #28653: Fix a refleak in functools.lru_cache.
+- Issue #27418: Fixed Tools/importbench/importbench.py.
 
-- Issue #28703: Fix asyncio.iscoroutinefunction to handle Mock objects.
+Documentation
+-------------
 
-- Issue #24142: Reading a corrupt config file left the parser in an
-  invalid state.  Original patch by Florian Höch.
+- Issue #19489: Moved the search box from the sidebar to the header and footer
+  of each page.  Patch by Ammar Askar.
 
-- Issue #28990: Fix SSL hanging if connection is closed before handshake 
-  completed.
-  (Patch by HoHo-Ho)
+- Issue #27285: Update documentation to reflect the deprecation of ``pyvenv``
+  and normalize on the term "virtual environment". Patch by Steve Piercy.
 
-IDLE
-----
+Tests
+-----
 
-- Issue #15308: Add 'interrupt execution' (^C) to Shell menu.
-  Patch by Roger Serwy, updated by Bayard Randel.
+- Issue #27027: Added test.support.is_android that is True when this is an
+  Android build.
 
-- Issue #27922: Stop IDLE tests from 'flashing' gui widgets on the screen.
 
-- Add version to title of IDLE help window.
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 2?
+===================================
 
-- Issue #25564: In section on IDLE -- console differences, mention that
-  using exec means that __builtins__ is defined for each statement.
+*Release date: 2016-06-13*
 
-- Issue #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.
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
 
-- Issue #25507: IDLE no longer runs buggy code because of its tkinter imports.
-  Users must include the same imports required to run directly in Python.
+- Issue #27095: Simplified MAKE_FUNCTION and removed MAKE_CLOSURE opcodes.
+  Patch by Demur Rumed.
 
-- Issue #27452: add line counter and crc to IDLE configHandler test dump.
+- Issue #27190: Raise NotSupportedError if sqlite3 is older than 3.3.1.
+  Patch by Dave Sawyer.
 
-- Issue #27365: Allow non-ascii chars in IDLE NEWS.txt, for contributor names.
+- Issue #27286: Fixed compiling BUILD_MAP_UNPACK_WITH_CALL opcode.  Calling
+  function with generalized unpacking (PEP 448) and conflicting keyword names
+  could cause undefined behavior.
 
-- Issue #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.
+- Issue #27140: Added BUILD_CONST_KEY_MAP opcode.
 
-C API
------
+- Issue #27186: Add support for os.PathLike objects to open() (part of PEP 519).
 
-- Issue #28808: PyUnicode_CompareWithASCIIString() now never raises exceptions.
+- Issue #27066: Fixed SystemError if a custom opener (for open()) returns a
+  negative number without setting an exception.
 
-- Issue #26754: PyUnicode_FSDecoder() accepted a filename argument encoded as
-  an iterable of integers. Now only strings and bytes-like objects are accepted.
+- Issue #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.
 
-Documentation
--------------
+- Issue #27097: Python interpreter is now about 7% faster due to optimized
+  instruction decoding.  Based on patch by Demur Rumed.
 
-- Issue #28513: Documented command-line interface of zipfile.
+- Issue #26647: Python interpreter now uses 16-bit wordcode instead of bytecode.
+  Patch by Demur Rumed.
 
-Tests
------
+- Issue #23275: Allow assigning to an empty target list in round brackets:
+  () = iterable.
 
-- Issue #28950: Disallow -j0 to be combined with -T/-l/-M in regrtest
-  command line arguments.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #28666: Now test.support.rmtree is able to remove unwritable or
-  unreadable directories.
 
-- Issue #23839: Various caches now are cleared before running every test file.
+Library
+-------
 
-- Issue #28409: regrtest: fix the parser of command line arguments.
+- 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.
 
-- Issue #27787: Call gc.collect() before checking each test for "dangling
-  threads", since the dangling threads are weak references.
+- Issue #27025: Generated names for Tkinter widgets are now more meanful
+  and recognizirable.
 
-- Issue #27369: In test_pyexpat, avoid testing an error message detail that
-  changed in Expat 2.2.0.
+- Issue #25455: Fixed crashes in repr of recursive ElementTree.Element and
+  functools.partial objects.
 
-Tools/Demos
------------
+- Issue #27294: Improved repr for Tkinter event objects.
 
-- Issue #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.
+- Issue #20508: Improve exception message of IPv{4,6}Network.__getitem__.
+  Patch by Gareth Rees.
 
-- Issue #27332: Fixed the type of the first argument of module-level functions
-  generated by Argument Clinic.  Patch by Petr Viktorin.
+- [Security] Issue #26556: Update expat to 2.1.1, fixes CVE-2015-1283.
 
-- Issue #27418: Fixed Tools/importbench/importbench.py.
+- [Security] Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smtplib, CVE-2016-0772.
+  Reported by Team Oststrom.
 
-Windows
--------
+- Issue #21386: Implement missing IPv4Address.is_global property.  It was
+  documented since 07a5610bae9d.  Initial patch by Roger Luethi.
 
-- Issue #28251: Improvements to help manuals on Windows.
+- Issue #27029: Removed deprecated support of universal newlines mode from
+  ZipFile.open().
 
-- Issue #28110: launcher.msi has different product codes between 32-bit and
-  64-bit
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #25144: Ensures TargetDir is set before continuing with custom
-  install.
+- Issue #27186: Add os.PathLike support to DirEntry (part of PEP 519).
+  Initial patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
 
-- Issue #27469: Adds a shell extension to the launcher so that drag and drop
-  works correctly.
+- Issue #20900: distutils register command now decodes HTTP responses
+  correctly.  Initial patch by ingrid.
 
-- Issue #27309: Enabled proper Windows styles in python[w].exe manifest.
+- Issue #27186: Add os.PathLike support to pathlib, removing its provisional
+  status (part of PEP 519). Initial patch by Dusty Phillips.
 
-Build
------
+- Issue #27186: Add support for os.PathLike objects to os.fsencode() and
+  os.fsdecode() (part of PEP 519).
 
-- Issue #29080: Removes hard dependency on hg.exe from PCBuild/build.bat
+- Issue #27186: Introduce os.PathLike and os.fspath() (part of PEP 519).
 
-- Issue #23903: Added missed names to PC/python3.def.
+- 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).
 
-- Issue #10656: Fix out-of-tree building on AIX.  Patch by Tristan Carel and
-  Michael Haubenwallner.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #26359: Rename --with-optimiations to --enable-optimizations.
+- Issue #21313: Fix the "platform" module to tolerate when sys.version
+  contains truncated build information.
 
-- Issue #28444: Fix missing extensions modules when cross compiling.
+- [Security] Issue #26839: On Linux, :func:`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.
 
-- Issue #28248: Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2j.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #28258: Fixed build with Estonian locale (python-config and distclean
-  targets in Makefile).  Patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
+- Issue #27164: In the zlib module, allow decompressing raw Deflate streams
+  with a predefined zdict.  Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
 
-- Issue #26661: setup.py now detects system libffi with multiarch wrapper.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #28066: Fix the logic that searches build directories for generated
-  include files when building outside the source tree.
+- Issue #21272: Use _sysconfigdata.py to initialize distutils.sysconfig.
 
-- Issue #15819: Remove redundant include search directory option for building
-  outside the source tree.
+- Issue #19611: :mod:`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.
 
-- Issue #27566: Fix clean target in freeze makefile (patch by Lisa Roach)
+- Issue #26809: Add ``__all__`` to :mod:`string`.  Patch by Emanuel Barry.
 
-- Issue #27705: Update message in validate_ucrtbase.py
+- Issue #26373: subprocess.Popen.communicate now correctly ignores
+  BrokenPipeError when the child process dies before .communicate()
+  is called in more/all circumstances.
 
-- Issue #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.
+- 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.
 
-- Issue #26307: The profile-opt build now applies PGO to the built-in modules.
+- Issue #27167: Clarify the subprocess.CalledProcessError error message text
+  when the child process died due to a signal.
 
-- Issue #26359: Add the --with-optimizations configure flag.
+- Issue #25931: Don't define socketserver.Forking* names on platforms such
+  as Windows that do not support os.fork().
 
-- Issue #27713: Suppress spurious build warnings when updating importlib's
-  bootstrap files.  Patch by Xiang Zhang
+- Issue #21776: distutils.upload now correctly handles HTTPError.
+  Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.
 
-- Issue #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.
+- Issue #26526: Replace custom parse tree validation in the parser
+  module with a simple DFA validator.
 
-- Issue #27453: CPP invocation in configure must use CPPFLAGS. Patch by
-  Chi Hsuan Yen.
+- Issue #27114: Fix SSLContext._load_windows_store_certs fails with
+  PermissionError
 
-- Issue #27641: The configure script now inserts comments into the makefile
-  to prevent the pgen and _freeze_importlib executables from being cross-
-  compiled.
+- Issue #18383: Avoid creating duplicate filters when using filterwarnings
+  and simplefilter.  Based on patch by Alex Shkop.
 
-- Issue #26662: Set PYTHON_FOR_GEN in configure as the Python program to be
-  used for file generation during the build.
+- Issue #23026: winreg.QueryValueEx() now return an integer for REG_QWORD type.
 
-- Issue #10910: Avoid C++ compilation errors on FreeBSD and OS X.
-  Also update FreedBSD version checks for the original ctype UTF-8 workaround.
+- Issue #26741: subprocess.Popen destructor now emits a ResourceWarning warning
+  if the child process is still running.
 
-- Issue #28676: Prevent missing 'getentropy' declaration warning on macOS.
-  Patch by Gareth Rees.
+- Issue #27056: Optimize pickle.load() and pickle.loads(), up to 10% faster
+  to deserialize a lot of small objects.
 
+- Issue #21271: New keyword only parameters in reset_mock call.
 
-What's New in Python 3.5.2?
-===========================
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #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.
 
-Release date: 2016-06-26
+- Issue #24750: Switch all scrollbars in IDLE to ttk versions.
+  Where needed, minimal tests are added to cover changes.
 
-Core and Builtins
------------------
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #26930: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2h.
+- Issue #27239: idlelib.macosx.isXyzTk functions initialize as needed.
+
+- Issue #27262: move Aqua unbinding code, which enable context menus, to maxosx.
+
+- Issue #24759: Make clear in idlelib.idle_test.__init__ that the directory
+  is a private implementation of test.test_idle and tool for maintainers.
+
+- Issue #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
+
+- Issue #20567: Revise idle_test/README.txt with advice about avoiding
+  tk warning messages from tests.  Apply advice to several IDLE tests.
+
+- Issue #24225: Update idlelib/README.txt with new file names
+  and event handlers.
+
+- Issue #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
+
+- Issue #27117: Make colorizer htest and turtledemo work with dark themes.
+  Move code for configuring text widget colors to a new function.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #26673: When tk reports font size as 0, change to size 10.
+  Such fonts on Linux prevented the configuration dialog from opening.
+
+- Issue #21939: Add test for IDLE's percolator.
+  Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
+
+- Issue #21676: Add test for IDLE's replace dialog.
+  Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
+
+- Issue #18410: Add test for IDLE's search dialog.
+  Original patch by Westley Martínez.
+
+- Issue #21703: Add test for undo delegator.  Patch mostly by
+  Saimadhav Heblikar .
+
+- Issue #27044: Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory leaks.
+
+- Issue #23977: Add more asserts to test_delegator.
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+- Issue #16484: Change the default PYTHONDOCS URL to "https:", and fix the
+  resulting links to use lowercase.  Patch by Sean Rodman, test by Kaushik
+  Nadikuditi.
+
+- Issue #24136: Document the new PEP 448 unpacking syntax of 3.5.
+
+- Issue #22558: Add remaining doc links to source code for Python-coded modules.
+  Patch by Yoni Lavi.
 
 Tests
 -----
 
-- Issue #26867: Ubuntu's openssl OP_NO_SSLv3 is forced on by default; fix test.
+- Issue #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.
 
-IDLE
+- Issue #25285: Tools/buildbot/test.bat script now uses -j1 by default to run
+  each test file in fresh child process.
+
+Windows
+-------
+
+- Issue #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
+-----
+
+- Issue #27229: Fix the cross-compiling pgen rule for in-tree builds.  Patch
+  by Xavier de Gaye.
+
+- Issue #26930: Update OS X 10.5+ 32-bit-only installer to build
+  and link with OpenSSL 1.0.2h.
+
+Misc
 ----
 
-- Issue #27365: Allow non-ascii in idlelib/NEWS.txt - minimal part for 3.5.2.
+- Issue #17500, and https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/945: Remove
+  unused and outdated icons.
 
+C API
+-----
 
-What's New in Python 3.5.2 release candidate 1?
-===============================================
+- Issue #27186: Add the PyOS_FSPath() function (part of PEP 519).
 
-Release date: 2016-06-12
+- Issue #26282: PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords() now supports positional-only
+  parameters.
+
+Tools/Demos
+-----------
+
+- Issue #26282: Argument Clinic now supports positional-only and keyword
+  parameters in the same function.
+
+
+What's New in Python 3.6.0 alpha 1?
+===================================
+
+Release date: 2016-05-16
 
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
-- Issue #27066: Fixed SystemError if a custom opener (for open()) returns a
-  negative number without setting an exception.
-
 - Issue #20041: Fixed TypeError when frame.f_trace is set to None.
   Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
 
@@ -718,11 +2015,17 @@ Core and Builtins
 
 - Issue #26991: Fix possible refleak when creating a function with annotations.
 
-- Issue #27039: Fixed bytearray.remove() for values greater than 127.  Patch by
-  Joe Jevnik.
+- Issue #27039: Fixed bytearray.remove() for values greater than 127.  Based on
+  patch by Joe Jevnik.
 
 - Issue #23640: int.from_bytes() no longer bypasses constructors for subclasses.
 
+- Issue #27005: Optimized the float.fromhex() class method for exact float.
+  It is now 2 times faster.
+
+- Issue #18531: Single var-keyword argument of dict subtype was passed
+  unscathed to the C-defined function.  Now it is converted to exact dict.
+
 - Issue #26811: gc.get_objects() no longer contains a broken tuple with NULL
   pointer.
 
@@ -732,11 +2035,26 @@ Core and Builtins
   interpolation in .pypirc files, matching behavior in Python
   2.7 and Setuptools 19.0.
 
+- Issue #26249: Memory functions of the :c:func:`PyMem_Malloc` domain
+  (:c:data:`PYMEM_DOMAIN_MEM`) now use the :ref:`pymalloc allocator <pymalloc>`
+  rather than system :c:func:`malloc`. Applications calling
+  :c:func:`PyMem_Malloc` without holding the GIL can now crash: use
+  ``PYTHONMALLOC=debug`` environment variable to validate the usage of memory
+  allocators in your application.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
 - Issue #26659: Make the builtin slice type support cycle collection.
 
 - Issue #26718: super.__init__ no longer leaks memory if called multiple times.
   NOTE: A direct call of super.__init__ is not endorsed!
 
+- Issue #27138: Fix the doc comment for FileFinder.find_spec().
+
+- Issue #27147: Mention PEP 420 in the importlib docs.
+
 - Issue #25339: PYTHONIOENCODING now has priority over locale in setting the
   error handler for stdin and stdout.
 
@@ -745,9 +2063,41 @@ Core and Builtins
   bytearray, list, tuple, set, frozenset, dict, OrderedDict, corresponding
   views and os.scandir() iterator.
 
+- Issue #26574: Optimize ``bytes.replace(b'', b'.')`` and
+  ``bytearray.replace(b'', b'.')``. Patch written by Josh Snider.
+
 - Issue #26581: If coding cookie is specified multiple times on a line in
   Python source code file, only the first one is taken to account.
 
+- Issue #19711: Add tests for reloading namespace packages.
+
+- Issue #21099: Switch applicable importlib tests to use PEP 451 API.
+
+- Issue #26563: Debug hooks on Python memory allocators now raise a fatal
+  error if functions of the :c:func:`PyMem_Malloc` family are called without
+  holding the GIL.
+
+- Issue #26564: On error, the debug hooks on Python memory allocators now use
+  the :mod:`tracemalloc` module to get the traceback where a memory block was
+  allocated.
+
+- Issue #26558: The debug hooks on Python memory allocator
+  :c:func:`PyObject_Malloc` now detect when functions are called without
+  holding the GIL.
+
+- Issue #26516: Add :envvar:`PYTHONMALLOC` environment variable to set the
+  Python memory allocators and/or install debug hooks.
+
+- Issue #26516: The :c:func:`PyMem_SetupDebugHooks` function can now also be
+  used on Python compiled in release mode.
+
+- Issue #26516: The :envvar:`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.
+
+- Issue #26516: In debug mode, debug hooks are now also installed on Python
+  memory allocators when Python is configured without pymalloc.
+
 - Issue #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.
@@ -760,11 +2110,37 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #26302: Correct behavior to reject comma as a legal character for
   cookie names.
 
+- Issue #26136: Upgrade the warning when a generator raises StopIteration
+  from PendingDeprecationWarning to DeprecationWarning.  Patch by Anish
+  Shah.
+
+- Issue #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``.
+
 - Issue #4806: Avoid masking the original TypeError exception when using star
   (*) unpacking in function calls.  Based on patch by Hagen Fürstenau and
   Daniel Urban.
 
-- Issue #27138: Fix the doc comment for FileFinder.find_spec().
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #23601:  Sped-up allocation of dict key objects by using Python's
+  small object allocator.  (Contributed by Julian Taylor.)
+
+- Issue #18018: Import raises ImportError instead of SystemError if a relative
+  import is attempted without a known parent package.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #26107: The format of the ``co_lnotab`` attribute of code objects
+  changes to support negative line number delta.
 
 - Issue #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.
@@ -773,15 +2149,8 @@ Core and Builtins
   Python 3.5.1 to hide the exact implementation of atomic C types, to avoid
   compiler issues.
 
-- Issue #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.
-
-- Issue #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.
+- Issue #25791: If __package__ != __spec__.parent or if neither __package__ or
+  __spec__ are defined then ImportWarning is raised.
 
 - Issue #22995: [UPDATE] Comment out the one of the pickleability tests in
   _PyObject_GetState() due to regressions observed in Cython-based projects.
@@ -808,7 +2177,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #25709: Fixed problem with in-place string concatenation and utf-8
   cache.
 
-- Issue #27147: Mention PEP 420 in the importlib docs.
+- Issue #5319: New Py_FinalizeEx() API allowing Python to set an exit status
+  of 120 on failure to flush buffered streams.
+
+- Issue #25485: telnetlib.Telnet is now a context manager.
 
 - Issue #24097: Fixed crash in object.__reduce__() if slot name is freed inside
   __getattr__.
@@ -817,80 +2189,107 @@ Core and Builtins
   __bytes__, __trunc__, and __float__ returning instances of subclasses of
   bytes, int, and float to subclasses of bytes, int, and float correspondingly.
 
-- Issue #26478: Fix semantic bugs when using binary operators with dictionary
-  views and tuples.
+- Issue #25630: Fix a possible segfault during argument parsing in functions
+  that accept filesystem paths.
 
-- Issue #26171: Fix possible integer overflow and heap corruption in
-  zipimporter.get_data().
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #25660: Fix TAB key behaviour in REPL with readline.
+- Issue #25388: Fixed tokenizer crash when processing undecodable source code
+  with a null byte.
 
-- Issue #25887: Raise a RuntimeError when a coroutine object is awaited
-  more than once.
+- Issue #25462: The hash of the key now is calculated only once in most
+  operations in C implementation of OrderedDict.
 
-- Issue #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.
+- Issue #22995: Default implementation of __reduce__ and __reduce_ex__ now
+  rejects builtin types with not defined __new__.
 
+- Issue #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.
 
-Library
--------
+- Issue #25555: Fix parser and AST: fill lineno and col_offset of "arg" node
+  when compiling AST from Python objects.
 
-- [Security] Issue #26556: Update expat to 2.1.1, fixes CVE-2015-1283.
+- Issue #24726: Fixed a crash and leaking NULL in repr() of OrderedDict that
+  was mutated by direct calls of dict methods.
 
-- [Security] Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smtplib, CVE-2016-0772.
-  Reported by Team Oststrom
+- Issue #25449: Iterating OrderedDict with keys with unstable hash now raises
+  KeyError in C implementations as well as in Python implementation.
 
-- Issue #21386: Implement missing IPv4Address.is_global property.  It was
-  documented since 07a5610bae9d.  Initial patch by Roger Luethi.
+- Issue #25395: Fixed crash when highly nested OrderedDict structures were
+  garbage collected.
 
-- Issue #20900: distutils register command now decodes HTTP responses
-  correctly.  Initial patch by ingrid.
+- Issue #25401: Optimize bytes.fromhex() and bytearray.fromhex(): they are now
+  between 2x and 3.5x faster.
 
-- 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).
+- Issue #25399: Optimize bytearray % args using the new private _PyBytesWriter
+  API. Formatting is now between 2.5 and 5 times faster.
 
-- Issue #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.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #21313: Fix the "platform" module to tolerate when sys.version
-  contains truncated build information.
+- Issue #24402: Fix input() to prompt to the redirected stdout when
+  sys.stdout.fileno() fails.
 
-- [Security] Issue #26839: On Linux, :func:`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.
+- Issue #25349: Optimize bytes % args using the new private _PyBytesWriter API.
+  Formatting is now up to 2 times faster.
 
-- Issue #27164: In the zlib module, allow decompressing raw Deflate streams
-  with a predefined zdict.  Based on patch by Xiang Zhang.
+- Issue #24806: Prevent builtin types that are not allowed to be subclassed from
+  being subclassed through multiple inheritance.
 
-- Issue #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.
+- Issue #25301: The UTF-8 decoder is now up to 15 times as fast for error
+  handlers: ``ignore``, ``replace`` and ``surrogateescape``.
 
-- Issue #26809: Add ``__all__`` to :mod:`string`.  Patch by Emanuel Barry.
+- Issue #24848: Fixed a number of bugs in UTF-7 decoding of misformed data.
 
-- Issue #26373: subprocess.Popen.communicate now correctly ignores
-  BrokenPipeError when the child process dies before .communicate()
-  is called in more/all circumstances.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #21776: distutils.upload now correctly handles HTTPError.
-  Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.
+- Issue #25280: Import trace messages emitted in verbose (-v) mode are no
+  longer formatted twice.
 
-- Issue #27114: Fix SSLContext._load_windows_store_certs fails with
-  PermissionError
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #18383: Avoid creating duplicate filters when using filterwarnings
-  and simplefilter.  Based on patch by Alex Shkop.
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #26478: Fix semantic bugs when using binary operators with dictionary
+  views and tuples.
+
+- Issue #26171: Fix possible integer overflow and heap corruption in
+  zipimporter.get_data().
+
+- Issue #25660: Fix TAB key behaviour in REPL with readline.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #25887: Raise a RuntimeError when a coroutine object is awaited
+  more than once.
+
+Library
+-------
 
 - Issue #27057: Fix os.set_inheritable() on Android, ioctl() is blocked by
   SELinux and fails with EACCESS. The function now falls back to fcntl().
@@ -898,6 +2297,9 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #27014: Fix infinite recursion using typing.py.  Thanks to Kalle Tuure!
 
+- Issue #27031: Removed dummy methods in Tkinter widget classes: tk_menuBar()
+  and tk_bindForTraversal().
+
 - Issue #14132: Fix urllib.request redirect handling when the target only has
   a query string.  Original fix by Ján Janech.
 
@@ -907,6 +2309,18 @@ Library
   to be ASCII-encodable, otherwise a UnicodeEncodeError is raised.  Based on
   patch by Christian Heimes.
 
+- Issue #27033: The default value of the decode_data parameter for
+  smtpd.SMTPChannel and smtpd.SMTPServer constructors is changed to False.
+
+- Issue #27034: Removed deprecated class asynchat.fifo.
+
+- Issue #26870: Added readline.set_auto_history(), which can stop entries
+  being automatically added to the history list.  Based on patch by Tyler
+  Crompton.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
 - Issue #26892: Honor debuglevel flag in urllib.request.HTTPHandler. Patch
   contributed by Chi Hsuan Yen.
 
@@ -921,6 +2335,14 @@ Library
 - Issue #26977: Removed unnecessary, and ignored, call to sum of squares helper
   in statistics.pvariance.
 
+- Issue #26002: Use bisect in statistics.median instead of a linear search.
+  Patch by Upendra Kuma.
+
+- Issue #25974: Make use of new Decimal.as_integer_ratio() method in statistics
+  module. Patch by Stefan Krah.
+
+- Issue #26996: Add secrets module as described in PEP 506.
+
 - Issue #26881: The modulefinder module now supports extended opcode arguments.
 
 - Issue #23815: Fixed crashes related to directly created instances of types in
@@ -932,6 +2354,11 @@ Library
 - Issue #26873: xmlrpc now raises ResponseError on unsupported type tags
   instead of silently return incorrect result.
 
+- Issue #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.
+
 - Issue #26711: Fixed the comparison of plistlib.Data with other types.
 
 - Issue #24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in `ctypes.util`.
@@ -945,6 +2372,12 @@ Library
   names that happen to have a bypassed hostname as a suffix.  Patch by Xiang
   Zhang.
 
+- Issue #24902: Print server URL on http.server startup.  Initial patch by
+  Felix Kaiser.
+
+- Issue #25788: fileinput.hook_encoded() now supports an "errors" argument
+  for passing to open.  Original patch by Joseph Hackman.
+
 - Issue #26634: recursive_repr() now sets __qualname__ of wrapper.  Patch by
   Xiang Zhang.
 
@@ -980,26 +2413,54 @@ Library
 - Issue #26717: Stop encoding Latin-1-ized WSGI paths with UTF-8.  Patch by
   Anthony Sottile.
 
+- Issue #26782: Add STARTUPINFO to subprocess.__all__ on Windows.
+
+- Issue #26404: Add context manager to socketserver.  Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
+
 - Issue #26735: Fix :func:`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.
 
+- Issue #26585: Eliminate http.server._quote_html() and use
+  html.escape(quote=False).  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #26685: Raise OSError if closing a socket fails.
+
 - Issue #16329: Add .webm to mimetypes.types_map.  Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
 
 - Issue #13952: Add .csv to mimetypes.types_map.  Patch by Geoff Wilson.
 
+- Issue #26587: the site module now allows .pth files to specify files to be
+  added to sys.path (e.g. zip files).
+
+- Issue #25609: Introduce contextlib.AbstractContextManager and
+  typing.ContextManager.
+
 - Issue #26709: Fixed Y2038 problem in loading binary PLists.
 
 - Issue #23735: Handle terminal resizing with Readline 6.3+ by installing our
   own SIGWINCH handler.  Patch by Eric Price.
 
+- Issue #25951: Change SSLSocket.sendall() to return None, as explicitly
+  documented for plain socket objects.  Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
+
 - Issue #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.
 
+- Issue #26676: Added missing XMLPullParser to ElementTree.__all__.
+
 - Issue #22854: Change BufferedReader.writable() and
   BufferedWriter.readable() to always return False.
 
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #26641: doctest.DocFileTest and doctest.testfile() now support
+  packages (module splitted into multiple directories) for the package
+  parameter.
+
 - Issue #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.
@@ -1012,16 +2473,45 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #26616: Fixed a bug in datetime.astimezone() method.
 
-- Issue #21925: :func:`warnings.formatwarning` now catches exceptions on
-  ``linecache.getline(...)`` to be able to log :exc:`ResourceWarning` emitted
-  late during the Python shutdown process.
+- Issue #26637: The :mod:`importlib` module now emits an :exc:`ImportError`
+  rather than a :exc:`TypeError` if :func:`__import__` is tried during the
+  Python shutdown process but :data:`sys.path` is already cleared (set to
+  ``None``).
+
+- Issue #21925: :func:`warnings.formatwarning` now catches exceptions when
+  calling :func:`linecache.getline` and
+  :func:`tracemalloc.get_object_traceback` to be able to log
+  :exc:`ResourceWarning` emitted late during the Python shutdown process.
+
+- Issue #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).
+
+- Issue #26530: Add C functions :c:func:`_PyTraceMalloc_Track` and
+  :c:func:`_PyTraceMalloc_Untrack` to track memory blocks using the
+  :mod:`tracemalloc` module. Add :c:func:`_PyTraceMalloc_GetTraceback` to get
+  the traceback of an object.
+
+- Issue #26588: The _tracemalloc now supports tracing memory allocations of
+  multiple address spaces (domains).
 
 - Issue #24266: Ctrl+C during Readline history search now cancels the search
   mode when compiled with Readline 7.
 
+- Issue #26590: Implement a safe finalizer for the _socket.socket type. It now
+  releases the GIL to close the socket.
+
+- Issue #18787: spwd.getspnam() now raises a PermissionError if the user
+  doesn't have privileges.
+
 - Issue #26560: Avoid potential ValueError in BaseHandler.start_response.
   Initial patch by Peter Inglesby.
 
+- Issue #26567: Add a new function :c:func:`PyErr_ResourceWarning` function to
+  pass the destroyed object. Add a *source* attribute to
+  :class:`warnings.WarningMessage`. Add warnings._showwarnmsg() which uses
+  tracemalloc to get the traceback where source object was allocated.
+
 - [Security] Issue #26313: ssl.py _load_windows_store_certs fails if windows
   cert store is empty. Patch by Baji.
 
@@ -1043,24 +2533,39 @@ Library
 - Issue #23718: Fixed parsing time in week 0 before Jan 1.  Original patch by
   Tamás Bence Gedai.
 
+- Issue #26323: Add Mock.assert_called() and Mock.assert_called_once()
+  methods to unittest.mock. Patch written by Amit Saha.
+
 - Issue #20589: Invoking Path.owner() and Path.group() on Windows now raise
   NotImplementedError instead of ImportError.
 
 - Issue #26177: Fixed the keys() method for Canvas and Scrollbar widgets.
 
-- Issue #15068: Got rid of excessive buffering in the fileinput module.
-  The bufsize parameter is no longer used.
+- Issue #15068: Got rid of excessive buffering in fileinput.
+  The bufsize parameter is now deprecated and ignored.
+
+- Issue #19475: Added an optional argument timespec to the datetime
+  isoformat() method to choose the precision of the time component.
 
 - Issue #2202: Fix UnboundLocalError in
   AbstractDigestAuthHandler.get_algorithm_impls.  Initial patch by Mathieu
   Dupuy.
 
+- Issue #26167: Minimized overhead in copy.copy() and copy.deepcopy().
+  Optimized copying and deepcopying bytearrays, NotImplemented, slices,
+  short lists, tuples, dicts, sets.
+
 - Issue #25718: Fixed pickling and copying the accumulate() iterator with
   total is None.
 
 - Issue #26475: Fixed debugging output for regular expressions with the (?x)
   flag.
 
+- Issue #26482: Allowed pickling recursive dequeues.
+
+- Issue #26335: Make mmap.write() return the number of bytes written like
+  other write methods.  Patch by Jakub Stasiak.
+
 - Issue #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.
@@ -1077,7 +2582,7 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #26186: Remove an invalid type check in importlib.util.LazyLoader.
 
-- Issue #26367: importlib.__import__() raises SystemError like
+- Issue #26367: importlib.__import__() raises ImportError like
   builtins.__import__() when ``level`` is specified but without an accompanying
   package specified.
 
@@ -1085,19 +2590,39 @@ Library
   the connected socket) when verify_request() returns false.  Patch by Aviv
   Palivoda.
 
+- Issue #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] Issue #25939: On Windows open the cert store readonly in
   ssl.enum_certificates.
 
 - Issue #25995: os.walk() no longer uses FDs proportional to the tree depth.
 
+- Issue #25994: Added the close() method and the support of the context manager
+  protocol for the os.scandir() iterator.
+
+- Issue #23992: multiprocessing: make MapResult not fail-fast upon exception.
+
+- Issue #26243: Support keyword arguments to zlib.compress().  Patch by Aviv
+  Palivoda.
+
 - Issue #26117: The os.scandir() iterator now closes file descriptor not only
   when the iteration is finished, but when it was failed with error.
 
+- Issue #25949: __dict__ for an OrderedDict instance is now created only when
+  needed.
+
 - Issue #25911: Restored support of bytes paths in os.walk() on Windows.
 
 - Issue #26045: Add UTF-8 suggestion to error message when posting a
   non-Latin-1 string with http.client.
 
+- Issue #26039: Added zipfile.ZipInfo.from_file() and zipinfo.ZipInfo.is_dir().
+  Patch by Thomas Kluyver.
+
 - Issue #12923: Reset FancyURLopener's redirect counter even if there is an
   exception.  Based on patches by Brian Brazil and Daniel Rocco.
 
@@ -1118,6 +2643,10 @@ Library
   gethostbyname_ex() functions of the socket module now decode the hostname
   from the ANSI code page rather than UTF-8.
 
+- Issue #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.
+
 - Issue #26147: xmlrpc now works with strings not encodable with used
   non-UTF-8 encoding.
 
@@ -1128,13 +2657,21 @@ Library
 - Issue #26013: Added compatibility with broken protocol 2 pickles created
   in old Python 3 versions (3.4.3 and lower).
 
+- Issue #26129: Deprecated accepting non-integers in grp.getgrgid().
+
 - Issue #25850: Use cross-compilation by default for 64-bit Windows.
 
-- Issue #17633: Improve zipimport's support for namespace packages.
+- Issue #25822: Add docstrings to the fields of urllib.parse results.
+  Patch contributed by Swati Jaiswal.
+
+- Issue #22642: Convert trace module option parsing mechanism to argparse.
+  Patch contributed by SilentGhost.
 
 - Issue #24705: Fix sysconfig._parse_makefile not expanding ${} vars
   appearing before $() vars.
 
+- Issue #26069: Remove the deprecated apis in the trace module.
+
 - Issue #22138: Fix mock.patch behavior when patching descriptors. Restore
   original values after patching. Patch contributed by Sean McCully.
 
@@ -1147,13 +2684,28 @@ Library
 - Issue #24120: Ignore PermissionError when traversing a tree with
   pathlib.Path.[r]glob().  Patch by Ulrich Petri.
 
+- Issue #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.
+
 - Issue #25447: fileinput now uses sys.stdin as-is if it does not have a
   buffer attribute (restores backward compatibility).
 
+- Issue #25971: Optimized creating Fractions from floats by 2 times and from
+  Decimals by 3 times.
+
+- Issue #25802: Document as deprecated the remaining implementations of
+  importlib.abc.Loader.load_module().
+
+- Issue #25928: Add Decimal.as_integer_ratio().
+
 - Issue #25447: Copying the lru_cache() wrapper object now always works,
-  independedly from the type of the wrapped object (by returning the original
+  independently from the type of the wrapped object (by returning the original
   object unchanged).
 
+- Issue #25768: Have the functions in compileall return booleans instead of
+  ints and add proper documentation and tests for the return values.
+
 - Issue #24103: Fixed possible use after free in ElementTree.XMLPullParser.
 
 - Issue #25860: os.fwalk() no longer skips remaining directories when error
@@ -1161,8 +2713,22 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #25914: Fixed and simplified OrderedDict.__sizeof__.
 
+- Issue #25869: Optimized deepcopying ElementTree; it is now 20 times faster.
+
+- Issue #25873: Optimized iterating ElementTree.  Iterating elements
+  Element.iter() is now 40% faster, iterating text Element.itertext()
+  is now up to 2.5 times faster.
+
 - Issue #25902: Fixed various refcount issues in ElementTree iteration.
 
+- Issue #22227: The TarFile iterator is reimplemented using generator.
+  This implementation is simpler that using class.
+
+- Issue #25638: Optimized ElementTree.iterparse(); it is now 2x faster.
+  Optimized ElementTree parsing; it is now 10% faster.
+
+- Issue #25761: Improved detecting errors in broken pickle data.
+
 - Issue #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.
@@ -1174,6 +2740,9 @@ Library
 - Issue #25764: In the subprocess module, preserve any exception caused by
   fork() failure when preexec_fn is used.
 
+- Issue #25771: Tweak the exception message for importlib.util.resolve_name()
+  when 'package' isn't specified but necessary.
+
 - Issue #6478: _strptime's regexp cache now is reset after changing timezone
   with time.tzset().
 
@@ -1195,6 +2764,9 @@ Library
 - Issue #10131: Fixed deep copying of minidom documents.  Based on patch
   by Marian Ganisin.
 
+- Issue #7990: dir() on ElementTree.Element now lists properties: "tag",
+  "text", "tail" and "attrib".  Original patch by Santoso Wijaya.
+
 - Issue #25725: Fixed a reference leak in pickle.loads() when unpickling
   invalid data including tuple instructions.
 
@@ -1210,6 +2782,203 @@ Library
 - Issue #25624: ZipFile now always writes a ZIP_STORED header for directory
   entries.  Patch by Dingyuan Wang.
 
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #25583: Avoid incorrect errors raised by os.makedirs(exist_ok=True)
+  when the OS gives priority to errors such as EACCES over EEXIST.
+
+- Issue #25593: Change semantics of EventLoop.stop() in asyncio.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #25584: Added "escape" to the __all__ list in the glob module.
+
+- Issue #25584: Fixed recursive glob() with patterns starting with '\*\*'.
+
+- Issue #25446: Fix regression in smtplib's AUTH LOGIN support.
+
+- Issue #18010: Fix the pydoc web server's module search function to handle
+  exceptions from importing packages.
+
+- Issue #25554: Got rid of circular references in regular expression parsing.
+
+- Issue #18973: Command-line interface of the calendar module now uses argparse
+  instead of optparse.
+
+- Issue #25510: fileinput.FileInput.readline() now returns b'' instead of ''
+  at the end if the FileInput was opened with binary mode.
+  Patch by Ryosuke Ito.
+
+- Issue #25503: Fixed inspect.getdoc() for inherited docstrings of properties.
+  Original patch by John Mark Vandenberg.
+
+- Issue #25515: Always use os.urandom as a source of randomness in uuid.uuid4.
+
+- Issue #21827: Fixed textwrap.dedent() for the case when largest common
+  whitespace is a substring of smallest leading whitespace.
+  Based on patch by Robert Li.
+
+- Issue #25447: The lru_cache() wrapper objects now can be copied and pickled
+  (by returning the original object unchanged).
+
+- Issue #25390: typing: Don't crash on Union[str, Pattern].
+
+- Issue #25441: asyncio: Raise error from drain() when socket is closed.
+
+- Issue #25410: Cleaned up and fixed minor bugs in C implementation of
+  OrderedDict.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #25407: Remove mentions of the formatter module being removed in
+  Python 3.6.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #25382: pickletools.dis() now outputs implicit memo index for the
+  MEMOIZE opcode.
+
+- Issue #25357: Add an optional newline paramer to binascii.b2a_base64().
+  base64.b64encode() uses it to avoid a memory copy.
+
+- Issue #24164: Objects that need calling ``__new__`` with keyword arguments,
+  can now be pickled using pickle protocols older than protocol version 4.
+
+- Issue #25364: zipfile now works in threads disabled builds.
+
+- Issue #25328: smtpd's SMTPChannel now correctly raises a ValueError if both
+  decode_data and enable_SMTPUTF8 are set to true.
+
+- Issue #16099: RobotFileParser now supports Crawl-delay and Request-rate
+  extensions.  Patch by Nikolay Bogoychev.
+
+- Issue #25316: distutils raises OSError instead of DistutilsPlatformError
+  when MSVC is not installed.
+
+- Issue #25380: Fixed protocol for the STACK_GLOBAL opcode in
+  pickletools.opcodes.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #25232: Fix CGIRequestHandler to split the query from the URL at the
+  first question mark (?) rather than the last. Patch from Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #24657: Prevent CGIRequestHandler from collapsing slashes in the
+  query part of the URL as if it were a path. Patch from Xiang Zhang.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #23600: Default implementation of tzinfo.fromutc() was returning
+  wrong results in some cases.
+
+- Issue #25203: Failed readline.set_completer_delims() no longer left the
+  module in inconsistent state.
+
+- Issue #25011: rlcompleter now omits private and special attribute names unless
+  the prefix starts with underscores.
+
+- Issue #25209: rlcompleter now can add a space or a colon after completed
+  keyword.
+
+- Issue #22241: timezone.utc name is now plain 'UTC', not 'UTC-00:00'.
+
+- Issue #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).
+
+- Issue #23552: Timeit now warns when there is substantial (4x) variance
+  between best and worst times. Patch from Serhiy Storchaka.
+
+- Issue #24633: site-packages/README -> README.txt.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #20059: urllib.parse raises ValueError on all invalid ports.
+  Patch by Martin Panter.
+
+- Issue #24360: Improve __repr__ of argparse.Namespace() for invalid
+  identifiers.  Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.
+
+- Issue #23426: run_setup was broken in distutils.
+  Patch from Alexander Belopolsky.
+
+- Issue #13938: 2to3 converts StringTypes to a tuple. Patch from Mark Hammond.
+
+- Issue #2091: open() accepted a 'U' mode string containing '+', but 'U' can
+  only be used with 'r'. Patch from Jeff Balogh and John O'Connor.
+
+- Issue #8585: improved tests for zipimporter2. Patch from Mark Lawrence.
+
+- Issue #18622: unittest.mock.mock_open().reset_mock would recurse infinitely.
+  Patch from Nicola Palumbo and Laurent De Buyst.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #23661: unittest.mock side_effects can now be exceptions again. This
+  was a regression vs Python 3.4. Patch from Ignacio Rossi
+
+- Issue #13248: Remove deprecated inspect.getmoduleinfo function.
+
+- Issue #25578: Fix (another) memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercer().
+
+- Issue #25530: Disable the vulnerable SSLv3 protocol by default when creating
+  ssl.SSLContext.
+
+- Issue #25569: Fix memory leak in SSLSocket.getpeercert().
+
+- Issue #25471: Sockets returned from accept() shouldn't appear to be
+  nonblocking.
+
+- Issue #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.
 
@@ -1229,73 +2998,118 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #27041: asyncio: Add loop.create_future method
 
-- Issue #27223: asyncio: Fix _read_ready and _write_ready to respect
-  _conn_lost.
-  Patch by Łukasz Langa.
-
-- Issue #22970: asyncio: Fix inconsistency cancelling Condition.wait.
-  Patch by David Coles.
-
 IDLE
 ----
 
-- Issue #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.
+- Issue #20640: Add tests for idlelib.configHelpSourceEdit.
+  Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
 
-- Issue #24759: Make clear in idlelib.idle_test.__init__ that the directory
-  is a private implementation of test.test_idle and tool for maintainers.
+- In the 'IDLE-console differences' section of the IDLE doc, clarify
+  how running with IDLE affects sys.modules and the standard streams.
 
-- Issue #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
+- Issue #25507: fix incorrect change in IOBinding that prevented printing.
+  Augment IOBinding htest to include all major IOBinding functions.
 
-- Issue #20567: Revise idle_test/README.txt with advice about avoiding
-  tk warning messages from tests.  Apply advice to several IDLE tests.
+- Issue #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'.
 
-- Issue #27117: Make colorizer htest and turtledemo work with dark themes.
-  Move code for configuring text widget colors to a new function.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #26673: When tk reports font size as 0, change to size 10.
-  Such fonts on Linux prevented the configuration dialog from opening.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #21939: Add test for IDLE's percolator.
-  Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
+- 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.
 
-- Issue #21676: Add test for IDLE's replace dialog.
-  Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
+- Issue #24750: Improve the appearance of the IDLE editor window status bar.
+  Patch by Mark Roseman.
 
-- Issue #18410: Add test for IDLE's search dialog.
-  Original patch by Westley Martínez.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #21703: Add test for IDLE's undo delegator.
-  Original patch by Saimadhav Heblikar .
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #27044: Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory leaks.
+- Issue #22726: Re-activate the config dialog help button with some content
+  about the other buttons and the new IDLE Dark theme.
 
-- Issue #23977: Add more asserts to test_delegator.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #20640: Add tests for idlelib.configHelpSourceEdit.
-  Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
+- Issue #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'.
 
-- In the 'IDLE-console differences' section of the IDLE doc, clarify
-  how running with IDLE affects sys.modules and the standard streams.
+- Issue #24820: Users can now set breakpoint colors in
+  Settings -> Custom Highlighting.  Original patch by Mark Roseman.
 
-- Issue #25507: fix incorrect change in IOBinding that prevented printing.
-  Augment IOBinding htest to include all major IOBinding functions.
+- Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #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'.
+- Issue #24570: Idle: make calltip and completion boxes appear on Macs
+  affected by a tk regression.  Initial patch by Mark Roseman.
 
-Documentation
--------------
+- Issue #24988: Idle ScrolledList context menus (used in debugger)
+  now work on Mac Aqua.  Patch by Mark Roseman.
 
-- Issue #19489: Moved the search box from the sidebar to the header and footer
-  of each page.  Patch by Ammar Askar.
+- Issue #24801: Make right-click for context menu work on Mac Aqua.
+  Patch by Mark Roseman.
 
-- Issue #24136: Document the new PEP 448 unpacking syntax of 3.5.
+- Issue #25173: Associate tkinter messageboxes with a specific widget.
+  For Mac OSX, make them a 'sheet'.  Patch by Mark Roseman.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #25225: Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors.
+
+- Issue #21995: Explain some differences between IDLE and console Python.
+
+- Issue #22820: Explain need for *print* when running file from Idle editor.
+
+- Issue #25224: Doc: augment Idle feature list and no-subprocess section.
+
+- Issue #25219: Update doc for Idle command line options.
+  Some were missing and notes were not correct.
+
+- Issue #24861: Most of idlelib is private and subject to change.
+  Use idleib.idle.* to start Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__.
+
+- Issue #25199: Idle: add synchronization comments for future maintainers.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #24199: Deprecate unused idlelib.idlever with possible removal in 3.6.
+
+- Issue #24790: Remove extraneous code (which also create 2 & 3 conflicts).
+
+Documentation
+-------------
 
 - Issue #26736: Used HTTPS for external links in the documentation if possible.
 
@@ -1305,8 +3119,8 @@ Documentation
 
 - Issue #23606: Adds note to ctypes documentation regarding cdll.msvcrt.
 
-- Issue #25500: Fix documentation to not claim that __import__ is searched for
-  in the global scope.
+- Issue #24952: Clarify the default size argument of stack_size() in
+  the "threading" and "_thread" modules. Patch from Mattip.
 
 - Issue #26014: Update 3.x packaging documentation:
   * "See also" links to the new docs are now provided in the legacy pages
@@ -1318,6 +3132,9 @@ Tests
 - Issue #21916: Added tests for the turtle module.  Patch by ingrid,
   Gregory Loyse and Jelle Zijlstra.
 
+- Issue #26295: When using "python3 -m test --testdir=TESTDIR", regrtest
+  doesn't add "test." prefix to test module names.
+
 - Issue #26523: The multiprocessing thread pool (multiprocessing.dummy.Pool)
   was untested.
 
@@ -1326,31 +3143,50 @@ Tests
 - Issue #26325: Added test.support.check_no_resource_warning() to check that
   no ResourceWarning is emitted.
 
-- Issue #25940: Changed test_ssl to use self-signed.pythontest.net.  This
+- Issue #25940: Changed test_ssl to use its internal local server more.  This
   avoids relying on svn.python.org, which recently changed root certificate.
 
 - Issue #25616: Tests for OrderedDict are extracted from test_collections
   into separate file test_ordered_dict.
 
+- Issue #25449: Added tests for OrderedDict subclasses.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
+- Issue #22806: Add ``python -m test --list-tests`` command to list tests.
+
+- Issue #18174: ``python -m test --huntrleaks ...`` now also checks for leak of
+  file descriptors. Patch written by Richard Oudkerk.
+
+- Issue #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.
+
 - Issue #26583: Skip test_timestamp_overflow in test_import if bytecode
   files cannot be written.
 
 Build
 -----
 
+- Issue #21277: Don't try to link _ctypes with a ffi_convenience library.
+
 - Issue #26884: Fix linking extension modules for cross builds.
   Patch by Xavier de Gaye.
 
+- Issue #26932: Fixed support of RTLD_* constants defined as enum values,
+  not via macros (in particular on Android).  Patch by Chi Hsuan Yen.
+
 - Issue #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.
 
-- Issue #27229: Fix the cross-compiling pgen rule for in-tree builds.  Patch
-  by Xavier de Gaye.
-
 - Issue #21668: Link audioop, _datetime, _ctypes_test modules to libm,
-  except on Mac OS X. Patch written by Xavier de Gaye.
+  except on Mac OS X. Patch written by Chi Hsuan Yen.
 
 - Issue #25702: A --with-lto configure option has been added that will
   enable link time optimizations at build time during a make profile-opt.
@@ -1369,22 +3205,24 @@ Build
 
 - Issue #26465: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2g.
 
-- Issue #24421: Compile Modules/_math.c once, before building extensions.
-  Previously it could fail to compile properly if the math and cmath builds
-  were concurrent.
-
 - Issue #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 %*``.
+  old ``PCbuild\build_pgo.bat`` script is removed.
 
 - Issue #25827: Add support for building with ICC to ``configure``, including
   a new ``--with-icc`` flag.
 
 - Issue #25696: Fix installation of Python on UNIX with make -j9.
 
-- Issue #26930: Update OS X 10.5+ 32-bit-only installer to build
-  and link with OpenSSL 1.0.2h.
+- Issue #24986: It is now possible to build Python on Windows without errors
+  when external libraries are not available.
+
+- Issue #24421: Compile Modules/_math.c once, before building extensions.
+  Previously it could fail to compile properly if the math and cmath builds
+  were concurrent.
+
+- Issue #26465: Update OS X 10.5+ 32-bit-only installer to build
+  and link with OpenSSL 1.0.2g.
 
 - Issue #26268: Update Windows builds to use OpenSSL 1.0.2f.
 
@@ -1411,6 +3249,8 @@ Windows
 - Issue #26065: Excludes venv from library when generating embeddable
   distro.
 
+- Issue #25022: Removed very outdated PC/example_nt/ directory.
+
 Tools/Demos
 -----------
 
@@ -1427,11 +3267,21 @@ Tools/Demos
 
 - Issue #26316: Fix variable name typo in Argument Clinic.
 
-Misc
-----
+- Issue #25440: Fix output of python-config --extension-suffix.
 
-- Issue #17500, and https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/945: Remove
-  unused and outdated icons.
+- Issue #25154: The pyvenv script has been deprecated in favour of
+  `python3 -m venv`.
+
+C API
+-----
+
+- Issue #26312: SystemError is now raised in all programming bugs with using
+  PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords().  RuntimeError did raised before in some
+  programming bugs.
+
+- Issue #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.
 
 
 What's New in Python 3.5.1 final?
@@ -1853,9 +3703,6 @@ IDLE
 Documentation
 -------------
 
-- Issue #22558: Add remaining doc links to source code for Python-coded modules.
-  Patch by Yoni Lavi.
-
 - Issue #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
@@ -2185,12 +4032,6 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #24631: Fixed regression in the timeit module with multiline setup.
 
-- Issue #18622: unittest.mock.mock_open().reset_mock would recurse infinitely.
-  Patch from Nicola Palumbo and Laurent De Buyst.
-
-- Issue #23661: unittest.mock side_effects can now be exceptions again. This
-  was a regression vs Python 3.4. Patch from Ignacio Rossi
-
 - Issue #24608: chunk.Chunk.read() now always returns bytes, not str.
 
 - Issue #18684: Fixed reading out of the buffer in the re module.
@@ -2201,6 +4042,9 @@ Library
 - Issue #15014: SMTP.auth() and SMTP.login() now support RFC 4954's optional
   initial-response argument to the SMTP AUTH command.
 
+- Issue #6549: Remove hyphen from ttk.Style().element options.  Only return result
+  from ttk.Style().configure if a result was generated or a query submitted.
+
 - Issue #24669: Fix inspect.getsource() for 'async def' functions.
   Patch by Kai Groner.
 
@@ -2212,7 +4056,6 @@ Build
 - Issue #24603: Update Windows builds and OS X 10.5 installer to use OpenSSL
   1.0.2d.
 
-
 What's New in Python 3.5.0 beta 3?
 ==================================
 
@@ -2373,6 +4216,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #24268: PEP 489: Multi-phase extension module initialization.
   Patch by Petr Viktorin.
 
+- Issue #23359: Optimize set object internals by specializing the
+  hash table search into a lookup function and an insert function.
+
 - Issue #23955: Add pyvenv.cfg option to suppress registry/environment
   lookup for generating sys.path on Windows.
 
@@ -2493,8 +4339,8 @@ Library
 - Issue #1322: platform.dist() and platform.linux_distribution() functions are
   now deprecated.  Initial patch by Vajrasky Kok.
 
-- Issue #22486: Added the math.gcd() function.  The fractions.gcd() function
-  now is deprecated.  Based on patch by Mark Dickinson.
+- Issue #22486: Added the math.gcd() function.  The fractions.gcd() function now is
+  deprecated.  Based on patch by Mark Dickinson.
 
 - Issue #24064: Property() docstrings are now writeable.
   (Patch by Berker Peksag.)
@@ -2915,8 +4761,8 @@ Library
   writer failed in BufferedRWPair.close().
 
 - Issue #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.
+  and an ASCII letter now raise a deprecation warning and will be forbidden
+  in Python 3.6.
 
 - Issue #23671: string.Template now allows specifying the "self" parameter as
   a keyword argument.  string.Formatter now allows specifying the "self" and
@@ -5012,4289 +6858,4 @@ Windows
   ".cp35-win32.pyd") will now be loaded in preference to those without tags.
 
 
-What's New in Python 3.4.0?
-===========================
-
-Release date: 2014-03-16
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #20939: Fix test_geturl failure in test_urllibnet due to
-  new redirect of http://www.python.org/ to https://www.python.org.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Merge in all documentation changes since branching 3.4.0rc1.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.4.0 release candidate 3?
-===============================================
-
-Release date: 2014-03-09
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #20786: Fix signatures for dict.__delitem__ and
-  property.__delete__ builtins.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #20839: Don't trigger a DeprecationWarning in the still supported
-  pkgutil.get_loader() API when __loader__ isn't set on a module (nor
-  when pkgutil.find_loader() is called directly).
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #14512: Launch pydoc -b instead of pydocgui.pyw on Windows.
-
-- Issue #20748: Uninstalling pip does not leave behind the pyc of
-  the uninstaller anymore.
-
-- Issue #20568: The Windows installer now installs the unversioned ``pip``
-  command in addition to the versioned ``pip3`` and ``pip3.4`` commands.
-
-- Issue #20757: The ensurepip helper for the Windows uninstaller now skips
-  uninstalling pip (rather than failing) if the user has updated pip to a
-  different version from the one bundled with ensurepip.
-
-- Issue #20465: Update OS X and Windows installer builds to use
-  SQLite 3.8.3.1.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.4.0 release candidate 2?
-===============================================
-
-Release date: 2014-02-23
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #20625: Parameter names in __annotations__ were not mangled properly.
-  Discovered by Jonas Wielicki, patch by Yury Selivanov.
-
-- Issue #20261: In pickle, lookup __getnewargs__ and __getnewargs_ex__ on the
-  type of the object.
-
-- Issue #20619: Give the AST nodes of keyword-only arguments a column and line
-  number.
-
-- Issue #20526: Revert changes of issue #19466 which introduces a regression:
-  don't clear anymore the state of Python threads early during the Python
-  shutdown.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #20710: The pydoc summary line no longer displays the "self" parameter
-  for bound methods.
-
-- Issue #20566: Change asyncio.as_completed() to use a Queue, to
-  avoid O(N**2) behavior.
-
-- Issue #20704: Implement new debug API in asyncio. Add new methods
-  BaseEventLoop.set_debug() and BaseEventLoop.get_debug().
-  Add support for setting 'asyncio.tasks._DEBUG' variable with
-  'PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG' environment variable.
-
-- asyncio: Refactoring and fixes: BaseEventLoop.sock_connect() raises an
-  error if the address is not resolved; use __slots__ in Handle and
-  TimerHandle; as_completed() and wait() raise TypeError if the passed
-  list of Futures is a single Future; call_soon() and other 'call_*()'
-  functions raise TypeError if the passed callback is a coroutine
-  function; _ProactorBasePipeTransport uses _FlowControlMixin;
-  WriteTransport.set_write_buffer_size() calls _maybe_pause_protocol()
-  to consider pausing receiving if the watermark limits have changed;
-  fix _check_resolved_address() for IPv6 address; and other minor
-  improvements, along with multiple documentation updates.
-
-- Issue #20684: Fix inspect.getfullargspec() to not to follow __wrapped__
-  chains. Make its behaviour consistent with bound methods first argument.
-  Patch by Nick Coghlan and Yury Selivanov.
-
-- Issue #20681: Add new error handling API in asyncio. New APIs:
-  loop.set_exception_handler(), loop.default_exception_handler(), and
-  loop.call_exception_handler().
-
-- Issue #20673: Implement support for UNIX Domain Sockets in asyncio.
-  New APIs: loop.create_unix_connection(), loop.create_unix_server(),
-  streams.open_unix_connection(), and streams.start_unix_server().
-
-- Issue #20616: Add a format() method to tracemalloc.Traceback.
-
-- Issue #19744: the ensurepip installation step now just prints a warning to
-  stderr rather than failing outright if SSL/TLS is unavailable. This allows
-  local installation of POSIX builds without SSL/TLS support.
-
-- Issue #20594: Avoid name clash with the libc function posix_close.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #20641: Run MSI custom actions (pip installation, pyc compilation)
-  with the NoImpersonate flag, to support elevated execution (UAC).
-
-- Issue #20221: Removed conflicting (or circular) hypot definition when
-  compiled with VS 2010 or above.  Initial patch by Tabrez Mohammed.
-
-- Issue #20609: Restored the ability to build 64-bit Windows binaries on
-  32-bit Windows, which was broken by the change in issue #19788.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.4.0 release candidate 1?
-===============================================
-
-Release date: 2014-02-10
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #19255: The builtins module is restored to initial value before
-  cleaning other modules.  The sys and builtins modules are cleaned last.
-
-- Issue #20588: Make Python-ast.c C89 compliant.
-
-- Issue #20437: Fixed 22 potential bugs when deleting object references.
-
-- Issue #20500: Displaying an exception at interpreter shutdown no longer
-  risks triggering an assertion failure in PyObject_Str.
-
-- Issue #20538: UTF-7 incremental decoder produced inconsistent string when
-  input was truncated in BASE64 section.
-
-- Issue #20404: io.TextIOWrapper (and hence the open() builtin) now uses the
-  internal codec marking system added for issue #19619 to throw LookupError
-  for known non-text encodings at stream construction time. The existing
-  output type checks remain in place to deal with unmarked third party
-  codecs.
-
-- Issue #17162: Add PyType_GetSlot.
-
-- Issue #20162: Fix an alignment issue in the siphash24() hash function which
-  caused a crash on PowerPC 64-bit (ppc64).
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #20530: The signatures for slot builtins have been updated
-  to reflect the fact that they only accept positional-only arguments.
-
-- Issue #20517: Functions in the os module that accept two filenames
-  now register both filenames in the exception on failure.
-
-- Issue #20563: The ipaddress module API is now considered stable.
-
-- Issue #14983: email.generator now always adds a line end after each MIME
-  boundary marker, instead of doing so only when there is an epilogue.  This
-  fixes an RFC compliance bug and solves an issue with signed MIME parts.
-
-- Issue #20540: Fix a performance regression (vs. Python 3.2) when layering
-  a multiprocessing Connection over a TCP socket.  For small payloads, Nagle's
-  algorithm would introduce idle delays before the entire transmission of a
-  message.
-
-- Issue #16983: the new email header parsing code will now decode encoded words
-  that are (incorrectly) surrounded by quotes, and register a defect.
-
-- Issue #19772: email.generator no longer mutates the message object when
-  doing a down-transform from 8bit to 7bit CTEs.
-
-- Issue #20536: the statistics module now correctly handle Decimal instances
-  with positive exponents
-
-- Issue #18805: the netmask/hostmask parsing in ipaddress now more reliably
-  filters out illegal values and correctly allows any valid prefix length.
-
-- Issue #20481: For at least Python 3.4, the statistics module will require
-  that all inputs for a single operation be of a single consistent type, or
-  else a mixed of ints and a single other consistent type. This avoids
-  some interoperability issues that arose with the previous approach of
-  coercing to a suitable common type.
-
-- Issue #20478: the statistics module now treats collections.Counter inputs
-  like any other iterable.
-
-- Issue #17369: get_filename was raising an exception if the filename
-  parameter's RFC2231 encoding was broken in certain ways.  This was
-  a regression relative to python2.
-
-- Issue #20013: Some imap servers disconnect if the current mailbox is
-  deleted, and imaplib did not handle that case gracefully.  Now it
-  handles the 'bye' correctly.
-
-- Issue #20531: Revert 3.4 version of fix for #19063, and apply the 3.3
-  version.  That is, do *not* raise an error if unicode is passed to
-  email.message.Message.set_payload.
-
-- Issue #20476: If a non-compat32 policy is used with any of the email parsers,
-  EmailMessage is now used as the factory class.  The factory class should
-  really come from the policy; that will get fixed in 3.5.
-
-- Issue #19920: TarFile.list() no longer fails when outputs a listing
-  containing non-encodable characters.  Based on patch by Vajrasky Kok.
-
-- Issue #20515: Fix NULL pointer dereference introduced by issue #20368.
-
-- Issue #19186: Restore namespacing of expat symbols inside the pyexpat module.
-
-- Issue #20053: ensurepip (and hence venv) are no longer affected by the
-  settings in the default pip configuration file.
-
-- Issue #20426: When passing the re.DEBUG flag, re.compile() displays the
-  debug output every time it is called, regardless of the compilation cache.
-
-- Issue #20368: The null character now correctly passed from Tcl to Python.
-  Improved error handling in variables-related commands.
-
-- Issue #20435: Fix _pyio.StringIO.getvalue() to take into account newline
-  translation settings.
-
-- tracemalloc: Fix slicing traces and fix slicing a traceback.
-
-- Issue #20354: Fix an alignment issue in the tracemalloc module on 64-bit
-  platforms. Bug seen on 64-bit Linux when using "make profile-opt".
-
-- Issue #17159: inspect.signature now accepts duck types of functions,
-  which adds support for Cython functions. Initial patch by Stefan Behnel.
-
-- Issue #18801: Fix inspect.classify_class_attrs to correctly classify
-  object.__new__ and object.__init__.
-
-- Fixed cmath.isinf's name in its argument parsing code.
-
-- Issue #20311, #20452: poll and epoll now round the timeout away from zero,
-  instead of rounding towards zero, in select and selectors modules:
-  select.epoll.poll(), selectors.PollSelector.poll() and
-  selectors.EpollSelector.poll(). For example, a timeout of one microsecond
-  (1e-6) is now rounded to one millisecondi (1e-3), instead of being rounded to
-  zero.  However, the granularity property and asyncio's resolution feature
-  were removed again.
-
-- asyncio: Some refactoring; various fixes; add write flow control to
-  unix pipes; Future.set_exception() instantiates the exception
-  argument if it is a class; improved proactor pipe transport; support
-  wait_for(f, None); don't log broken/disconnected pipes; use
-  ValueError instead of assert for forbidden subprocess_{shell,exec}
-  arguments; added a convenience API for subprocess management; added
-  StreamReader.at_eof(); properly handle duplicate coroutines/futures
-  in gather(), wait(), as_completed(); use a bytearray for buffering
-  in StreamReader; and more.
-
-- Issue #20288: fix handling of invalid numeric charrefs in HTMLParser.
-
-- Issue #20424: Python implementation of io.StringIO now supports lone surrogates.
-
-- Issue #20308: inspect.signature now works on classes without user-defined
-  __init__ or __new__ methods.
-
-- Issue #20372: inspect.getfile (and a bunch of other inspect functions that
-  use it) doesn't crash with unexpected AttributeError on classes defined in C
-  without __module__.
-
-- Issue #20356: inspect.signature formatting uses '/' to separate
-  positional-only parameters from others.
-
-- Issue #20223: inspect.signature now supports methods defined with
-  functools.partialmethods.
-
-- Issue #19456: ntpath.join() now joins relative paths correctly when a drive
-  is present.
-
-- Issue #19077: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory cleanup no longer fails when
-  called during shutdown.  Emitting resource warning in __del__ no longer fails.
-  Original patch by Antoine Pitrou.
-
-- Issue #20394: Silence Coverity warning in audioop module.
-
-- Issue #20367: Fix behavior of concurrent.futures.as_completed() for
-  duplicate arguments.  Patch by Glenn Langford.
-
-- Issue #8260: The read(), readline() and readlines() methods of
-  codecs.StreamReader returned incomplete data when were called after
-  readline() or read(size).  Based on patch by Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
-
-- Issue #20105: the codec exception chaining now correctly sets the
-  traceback of the original exception as its __traceback__ attribute.
-
-- Issue #17481: inspect.getfullargspec() now uses inspect.signature() API.
-
-- Issue #15304: concurrent.futures.wait() can block forever even if
-  Futures have completed. Patch by Glenn Langford.
-
-- Issue #14455: plistlib: fix serializing integers in the range
-  of an unsigned long long but outside of the range of signed long long for
-  binary plist files.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #20406: Use Python application icons for Idle window title bars.
-  Patch mostly by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Update the python.gif icon for the Idle classbrowser and pathbowser
-  from the old green snake to the new blue and yellow snakes.
-
-- Issue #17721: Remove non-functional configuration dialog help button until we
-  make it actually gives some help when clicked. Patch by Guilherme Simões.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #20532: Tests which use _testcapi now are marked as CPython only.
-
-- Issue #19920: Added tests for TarFile.list().  Based on patch by Vajrasky Kok.
-
-- Issue #19990: Added tests for the imghdr module.  Based on patch by
-  Claudiu Popa.
-
-- Issue #20474: Fix test_socket "unexpected success" failures on OS X 10.7+.
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
-
-- Issue #20530: Argument Clinic's signature format has been revised again.
-  The new syntax is highly human readable while still preventing false
-  positives.  The syntax also extends Python syntax to denote "self" and
-  positional-only parameters, allowing inspect.Signature objects to be
-  totally accurate for all supported builtins in Python 3.4.
-
-- Issue #20456: Argument Clinic now observes the C preprocessor conditional
-  compilation statements of the C files it parses.  When a Clinic block is
-  inside a conditional code, it adjusts its output to match, including
-  automatically generating an empty methoddef macro.
-
-- Issue #20456: Cloned functions in Argument Clinic now use the correct
-  name, not the name of the function they were cloned from, for text
-  strings inside generated code.
-
-- Issue #20456: Fixed Argument Clinic's test suite and "--converters" feature.
-
-- Issue #20456: Argument Clinic now allows specifying different names
-  for a parameter in Python and C, using "as" on the parameter line.
-
-- Issue #20326: Argument Clinic now uses a simple, unique signature to
-  annotate text signatures in docstrings, resulting in fewer false
-  positives.  "self" parameters are also explicitly marked, allowing
-  inspect.Signature() to authoritatively detect (and skip) said parameters.
-
-- Issue #20326: Argument Clinic now generates separate checksums for the
-  input and output sections of the block, allowing external tools to verify
-  that the input has not changed (and thus the output is not out-of-date).
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #20465: Update SQLite shipped with OS X installer to 3.8.3.
-
-C-API
------
-
-- Issue #20517: Added new functions allowing OSError exceptions to reference
-  two filenames instead of one: PyErr_SetFromErrnoWithFilenameObjects() and
-  PyErr_SetExcFromWindowsErrWithFilenameObjects().
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #20488: Change wording to say importlib is *the* implementation of
-  import instead of just *an* implementation.
-
-- Issue #6386: Clarify in the tutorial that specifying a symlink to execute
-  means the directory containing the executed script and not the symlink is
-  added to sys.path.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.4.0 Beta 3?
-==================================
-
-Release date: 2014-01-26
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #20189: Four additional builtin types (PyTypeObject,
-  PyMethodDescr_Type, _PyMethodWrapper_Type, and PyWrapperDescr_Type)
-  have been modified to provide introspection information for builtins.
-
-- Issue #17825: Cursor "^" is correctly positioned for SyntaxError and
-  IndentationError.
-
-- Issue #2382: SyntaxError cursor "^" is now written at correct position in most
-  cases when multibyte characters are in line (before "^").  This still not
-  works correctly with wide East Asian characters.
-
-- Issue #18960: The first line of Python script could be executed twice when
-  the source encoding was specified on the second line.  Now the source encoding
-  declaration on the second line isn't effective if the first line contains
-  anything except a comment.  'python -x' works now again with files with the
-  source encoding declarations, and can be used to make Python batch files
-  on Windows.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- asyncio: Various improvements and small changes not all covered by
-  issues listed below.  E.g. wait_for() now cancels the inner task if
-  the timeout occcurs; tweaked the set of exported symbols; renamed
-  Empty/Full to QueueEmpty/QueueFull; "with (yield from lock)" now
-  uses a separate context manager; readexactly() raises if not enough
-  data was read; PTY support tweaks.
-
-- Issue #20311: asyncio: Add a granularity attribute to BaseEventLoop: maximum
-  between the resolution of the BaseEventLoop.time() method and the resolution
-  of the selector. The granuarility is used in the scheduler to round time and
-  deadline.
-
-- Issue #20311: selectors: Add a resolution attribute to BaseSelector.
-
-- Issue #20189: unittest.mock now no longer assumes that any object for
-  which it could get an inspect.Signature is a callable written in Python.
-  Fix courtesy of Michael Foord.
-
-- Issue #20317: ExitStack.__exit__ could create a self-referential loop if an
-  exception raised by a cleanup operation already had its context set
-  correctly (for example, by the @contextmanager decorator). The infinite
-  loop this caused is now avoided by checking if the expected context is
-  already set before trying to fix it.
-
-- Issue #20374: Fix build with GNU readline >= 6.3.
-
-- Issue #20262: Warnings are raised now when duplicate names are added in the
-  ZIP file or too long ZIP file comment is truncated.
-
-- Issue #20165: The unittest module no longer considers tests marked with
-  @expectedFailure successful if they pass.
-
-- Issue #18574: Added missing newline in 100-Continue reply from
-  http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler. Patch by Nikolaus Rath.
-
-- Issue #20270: urllib.urlparse now supports empty ports.
-
-- Issue #20243: TarFile no longer raise ReadError when opened in write mode.
-
-- Issue #20238: TarFile opened with external fileobj and "w:gz" mode didn't
-  write complete output on close.
-
-- Issue #20245: The open functions in the tarfile module now correctly handle
-  empty mode.
-
-- Issue #20242: Fixed basicConfig() format strings for the alternative
-  formatting styles. Thanks to kespindler for the bug report and patch.
-
-- Issue #20246: Fix buffer overflow in socket.recvfrom_into.
-
-- Issues #20206 and #5803: Fix edge case in email.quoprimime.encode where it
-  truncated lines ending in a character needing encoding but no newline by
-  using a more efficient algorithm that doesn't have the bug.
-
-- Issue #19082: Working xmlrpc.server and xmlrpc.client examples. Both in
-  modules and in documentation. Initial patch contributed by Vajrasky Kok.
-
-- Issue #20138: The wsgiref.application_uri() and wsgiref.request_uri()
-  functions now conform to PEP 3333 when handle non-ASCII URLs.
-
-- Issue #19097: Raise the correct Exception when cgi.FieldStorage is given an
-  invalid fileobj.
-
-- Issue #20152: Ported Python/import.c over to Argument Clinic.
-
-- Issue #13107: argparse and optparse no longer raises an exception when output
-  a help on environment with too small COLUMNS.  Based on patch by
-  Elazar Gershuni.
-
-- Issue #20207: Always disable SSLv2 except when PROTOCOL_SSLv2 is explicitly
-  asked for.
-
-- Issue #18960: The tokenize module now ignore the source encoding declaration
-  on the second line if the first line contains anything except a comment.
-
-- Issue #20078: Reading malformed zipfiles no longer hangs with 100% CPU
-  consumption.
-
-- Issue #20113: os.readv() and os.writev() now raise an OSError exception on
-  error instead of returning -1.
-
-- Issue #19719: Make importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder.find_module(),
-  PathEntryFinder.find_loader(), and Loader.load_module() use PEP 451 APIs to
-  help with backwards-compatibility.
-
-- Issue #20144: inspect.Signature now supports parsing simple symbolic
-  constants as parameter default values in __text_signature__.
-
-- Issue #20072: Fixed multiple errors in tkinter with wantobjects is False.
-
-- Issue #20229: Avoid plistlib deprecation warning in platform.mac_ver().
-
-- Issue #14455: Fix some problems with the new binary plist support in plistlib.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #17390: Add Python version to Idle editor window title bar.
-  Original patches by Edmond Burnett and Kent Johnson.
-
-- Issue #18960: IDLE now ignores the source encoding declaration on the second
-  line if the first line contains anything except a comment.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #20358: Tests for curses.window.overlay and curses.window.overwrite
-  no longer specify min{row,col} > max{row,col}.
-
-- Issue #19804: The test_find_mac test in test_uuid is now skipped if the
-  ifconfig executable is not available.
-
-- Issue #19886: Use better estimated memory requirements for bigmem tests.
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
-
-- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic's "file" output preset now defaults to
-  "{dirname}/clinic/{basename}.h".
-
-- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic's "class" directive syntax has been extended
-  with two new required arguments: "typedef" and "type_object".
-
-- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic: If __new__ or __init__ functions didn't use
-  kwargs (or args), the PyArg_NoKeywords (or PyArg_NoPositional) calls
-  generated are only run when the type object is an exact match.
-
-- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic now fails if you have required parameters after
-  optional parameters.
-
-- Issue #20390: Argument Clinic converters now have a new template they can
-  inject code into: "modifiers".  Code put there is run in the parsing
-  function after argument parsing but before the call to the impl.
-
-- Issue #20376: Argument Clinic now escapes backslashes in docstrings.
-
-- Issue #20381: Argument Clinic now sanity checks the default argument when
-  c_default is also specified, providing a nice failure message for
-  disallowed values.
-
-- Issue #20189: Argument Clinic now ensures that parser functions for
-  __new__ are always of type newfunc, the type of the tp_new slot.
-  Similarly, parser functions for __init__ are now always of type initproc,
-  the type of tp_init.
-
-- Issue #20189: Argument Clinic now suppresses the docstring for __new__
-  and __init__ functions if no docstring is provided in the input.
-
-- Issue #20189: Argument Clinic now suppresses the "self" parameter in the
-  impl for @staticmethod functions.
-
-- Issue #20294: Argument Clinic now supports argument parsing for __new__ and
-  __init__ functions.
-
-- Issue #20299: Argument Clinic custom converters may now change the default
-  value of c_default and py_default with a class member.
-
-- Issue #20287: Argument Clinic's output is now configurable, allowing
-  delaying its output or even redirecting it to a separate file.
-
-- Issue #20226: Argument Clinic now permits simple expressions
-  (e.g. "sys.maxsize - 1") as default values for parameters.
-
-- Issue #19936: Added executable bits or shebang lines to Python scripts which
-  requires them.  Disable executable bits and shebang lines in test and
-  benchmark files in order to prevent using a random system python, and in
-  source files of modules which don't provide command line interface.  Fixed
-  shebang lines in the unittestgui and checkpip scripts.
-
-- Issue #20268: Argument Clinic now supports cloning the parameters and
-  return converter of existing functions.
-
-- Issue #20228: Argument Clinic now has special support for class special
-  methods.
-
-- Issue #20214: Fixed a number of small issues and documentation errors in
-  Argument Clinic (see issue for details).
-
-- Issue #20196: Fixed a bug where Argument Clinic did not generate correct
-  parsing code for functions with positional-only parameters where all arguments
-  are optional.
-
-- Issue #18960: 2to3 and the findnocoding.py script now ignore the source
-  encoding declaration on the second line if the first line contains anything
-  except a comment.
-
-- Issue #19723: The marker comments Argument Clinic uses have been changed
-  to improve readability.
-
-- Issue #20157: When Argument Clinic renames a parameter because its name
-  collides with a C keyword, it no longer exposes that rename to PyArg_Parse.
-
-- Issue #20141: Improved Argument Clinic's support for the PyArg_Parse "O!"
-  format unit.
-
-- Issue #20144: Argument Clinic now supports simple symbolic constants
-  as parameter default values.
-
-- Issue #20143: The line numbers reported in Argument Clinic errors are
-  now more accurate.
-
-- Issue #20142: Py_buffer variables generated by Argument Clinic are now
-  initialized with a default value.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #12837: Silence a tautological comparison warning on OS X under Clang in
-  socketmodule.c.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.4.0 Beta 2?
-==================================
-
-Release date: 2014-01-05
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #17432: Drop UCS2 from names of Unicode functions in python3.def.
-
-- Issue #19526: Exclude all new API from the stable ABI. Exceptions can be
-  made if a need is demonstrated.
-
-- Issue #19969: PyBytes_FromFormatV() now raises an OverflowError if "%c"
-  argument is not in range [0; 255].
-
-- Issue #19995: %c, %o, %x, and %X now issue a DeprecationWarning on non-integer
-  input; reworded docs to clarify that an integer type should define both __int__
-  and __index__.
-
-- Issue #19787: PyThread_set_key_value() now always set the value. In Python
-  3.3, the function did nothing if the key already exists (if the current value
-  is a non-NULL pointer).
-
-- Issue #14432: Remove the thread state field from the frame structure. Fix a
-  crash when a generator is created in a C thread that is destroyed while the
-  generator is still used. The issue was that a generator contains a frame, and
-  the frame kept a reference to the Python state of the destroyed C thread. The
-  crash occurs when a trace function is setup.
-
-- Issue #19576: PyGILState_Ensure() now initializes threads. At startup, Python
-  has no concrete GIL. If PyGILState_Ensure() is called from a new thread for
-  the first time and PyEval_InitThreads() was not called yet, a GIL needs to be
-  created.
-
-- Issue #17576: Deprecation warning emitted now when __int__() or __index__()
-  return not int instance.
-
-- Issue #19932: Fix typo in import.h, missing whitespaces in function prototypes.
-
-- Issue #19736: Add module-level statvfs constants defined for GNU/glibc
-  based systems.
-
-- Issue #20097: Fix bad use of "self" in importlib's WindowsRegistryFinder.
-
-- Issue #19729: In str.format(), fix recursive expansion in format spec.
-
-- Issue #19638: Fix possible crash / undefined behaviour from huge (more than 2
-  billion characters) input strings in _Py_dg_strtod.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #20154: Deadlock in asyncio.StreamReader.readexactly().
-
-- Issue #16113: Remove sha3 module again.
-
-- Issue #20111: pathlib.Path.with_suffix() now sanity checks the given suffix.
-
-- Fix breakage in TestSuite.countTestCases() introduced by issue #11798.
-
-- Issue #20108: Avoid parameter name clash in inspect.getcallargs().
-
-- Issue #19918: Fix PurePath.relative_to() under Windows.
-
-- Issue #19422: Explicitly disallow non-SOCK_STREAM sockets in the ssl
-  module, rather than silently let them emit clear text data.
-
-- Issue #20046: Locale alias table no longer contains entities which can be
-  calculated.  Generalized support of the euro modifier.
-
-- Issue #20027: Fixed locale aliases for devanagari locales.
-
-- Issue #20067: Tkinter variables now work when wantobjects is false.
-
-- Issue #19020: Tkinter now uses splitlist() instead of split() in configure
-  methods.
-
-- Issue #19744: ensurepip now provides a better error message when Python is
-  built without SSL/TLS support (pip currently requires that support to run,
-  even if only operating with local wheel files)
-
-- Issue #19734: ensurepip now ignores all pip environment variables to avoid
-  odd behaviour based on user configuration settings
-
-- Fix TypeError on "setup.py upload --show-response".
-
-- Issue #20045: Fix "setup.py register --list-classifiers".
-
-- Issue #18879: When a method is looked up on a temporary file, avoid closing
-  the file before the method is possibly called.
-
-- Issue #20037: Avoid crashes when opening a text file late at interpreter
-  shutdown.
-
-- Issue #19967: Thanks to the PEP 442, asyncio.Future now uses a
-  destructor to log uncaught exceptions, instead of the dedicated
-  _TracebackLogger class.
-
-- Added a Task.current_task() class method to asyncio.
-
-- Issue #19850: Set SA_RESTART in asyncio when registering a signal
-  handler to limit EINTR occurrences.
-
-- Implemented write flow control in asyncio for proactor event loop (Windows).
-
-- Change write buffer in asyncio use to avoid O(N**2) behavior.  Make
-  write()/sendto() accept bytearray/memoryview.
-
-- Issue #20034: Updated alias mapping to most recent locale.alias file
-  from X.org distribution using makelocalealias.py.
-
-- Issue #5815: Fixed support for locales with modifiers.  Fixed support for
-  locale encodings with hyphens.
-
-- Issue #20026: Fix the sqlite module to handle correctly invalid isolation
-  level (wrong type).
-
-- Issue #18829: csv.Dialect() now checks type for delimiter, escapechar and
-  quotechar fields.  Original patch by Vajrasky Kok.
-
-- Issue #19855: uuid.getnode() on Unix now looks on the PATH for the
-  executables used to find the mac address, with /sbin and /usr/sbin as
-  fallbacks.
-
-- Issue #20007: HTTPResponse.read(0) no more prematurely closes connection.
-  Original patch by Simon Sapin.
-
-- Issue #19946: multiprocessing now uses runpy to initialize __main__ in
-  child processes when necessary, allowing it to correctly handle scripts
-  without suffixes and submodules that use explicit relative imports or
-  otherwise rely on parent modules being correctly imported prior to
-  execution.
-
-- Issue #19921: When Path.mkdir() is called with parents=True, any missing
-  parent is created with the default permissions, ignoring the mode argument
-  (mimicking the POSIX "mkdir -p" command).
-
-- Issue #19887: Improve the Path.resolve() algorithm to support certain
-  symlink chains.
-
-- Issue #19912: Fixed numerous bugs in ntpath.splitunc().
-
-- Issue #19911: ntpath.splitdrive() now correctly processes the 'İ' character
-  (U+0130, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE).
-
-- Issue #19532: python -m compileall with no filename/directory arguments now
-  respects the -f and -q flags instead of ignoring them.
-
-- Issue #19623: Fixed writing to unseekable files in the aifc module.
-
-- Issue #19946: multiprocessing.spawn now raises ImportError when the module to
-  be used as the main module cannot be imported.
-
-- Issue #17919: select.poll.register() again works with poll.POLLNVAL on AIX.
-  Fixed integer overflow in the eventmask parameter.
-
-- Issue #19063: if a Charset's body_encoding was set to None, the email
-  package would generate a message claiming the Content-Transfer-Encoding
-  was 7bit, and produce garbage output for the content.  This now works.
-  A couple of other set_payload mishandlings of non-ASCII are also fixed.
-  In addition, calling set_payload with a string argument without
-  specifying a charset now raises an error (this is a new error in 3.4).
-
-- Issue #15475: Add __sizeof__ implementations for itertools objects.
-
-- Issue #19944: Fix importlib.find_spec() so it imports parents as needed
-  and move the function to importlib.util.
-
-- Issue #19880: Fix a reference leak in unittest.TestCase. Explicitly break
-  reference cycles between frames and the _Outcome instance.
-
-- Issue #17429: platform.linux_distribution() now decodes files from the UTF-8
-  encoding with the surrogateescape error handler, instead of decoding from the
-  locale encoding in strict mode. It fixes the function on Fedora 19 which is
-  probably the first major distribution release with a non-ASCII name. Patch
-  written by Toshio Kuratomi.
-
-- Issue #19343: Expose FreeBSD-specific APIs in resource module.  Original
-  patch by Koobs.
-
-- Issue #19929: Call os.read with 32768 within subprocess.Popen.communicate
-  rather than 4096 for efficiency.  A microbenchmark shows Linux and OS X
-  both using ~50% less cpu time this way.
-
-- Issue #19506: Use a memoryview to avoid a data copy when piping data
-  to stdin within subprocess.Popen.communicate.  5-10% less cpu usage.
-
-- Issue #19876: selectors unregister() no longer raises ValueError or OSError
-  if the FD is closed (as long as it was registered).
-
-- Issue #19908: pathlib now joins relative Windows paths correctly when a drive
-  is present.  Original patch by Antoine Pitrou.
-
-- Issue #19296: Silence compiler warning in dbm_open
-
-- Issue #6784: Strings from Python 2 can now be unpickled as bytes
-  objects by setting the encoding argument of Unpickler to be 'bytes'.
-  Initial patch by Merlijn van Deen.
-
-- Issue #19839: Fix regression in bz2 module's handling of non-bzip2 data at
-  EOF, and analogous bug in lzma module.
-
-- Issue #19881: Fix pickling bug where cpickle would emit bad pickle data for
-  large bytes string (i.e., with size greater than 2**32-1).
-
-- Issue #19138: doctest's IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL now allows a match when
-  no exception detail exists (no colon following the exception's name, or
-  a colon does follow but no text follows the colon).
-
-- Issue #19927: Add __eq__ to path-based loaders in importlib.
-
-- Issue #19827: On UNIX, setblocking() and settimeout() methods of
-  socket.socket can now avoid a second syscall if the ioctl() function can be
-  used, or if the non-blocking flag of the socket is unchanged.
-
-- Issue #19785: smtplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
-  indication for TLS/SSL connections.
-
-- Issue #19784: poplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
-  indication for TLS/SSL connections.
-
-- Issue #19783: nntplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
-  indication for TLS/SSL connections.
-
-- Issue #19782: imaplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
-  indication for TLS/SSL connections.
-
-- Issue #20123: Fix pydoc.synopsis() for "binary" modules.
-
-- Issue #19834: Support unpickling of exceptions pickled by Python 2.
-
-- Issue #19781: ftplib now supports SSLContext.check_hostname and server name
-  indication for TLS/SSL connections.
-
-- Issue #19509: Add SSLContext.check_hostname to match the peer's certificate
-  with server_hostname on handshake.
-
-- Issue #15798: Fixed subprocess.Popen() to no longer fail if file
-  descriptor 0, 1 or 2 is closed.
-
-- Issue #17897: Optimized unpickle prefetching.
-
-- Issue #3693: Make the error message more helpful when the array.array()
-  constructor is given a str. Move the array module typecode documentation to
-  the docstring of the constructor.
-
-- Issue #19088: Fixed incorrect caching of the copyreg module in
-  object.__reduce__() and object.__reduce_ex__().
-
-- Issue #19698: Removed exec_module() methods from
-  importlib.machinery.BuiltinImporter and ExtensionFileLoader.
-
-- Issue #18864: Added a setter for ModuleSpec.has_location.
-
-- Fixed _pickle.Unpickler to not fail when loading empty strings as
-  persistent IDs.
-
-- Issue #11480: Fixed copy.copy to work with classes with custom metaclasses.
-  Patch by Daniel Urban.
-
-- Issue #6477: Added support for pickling the types of built-in singletons
-  (i.e., Ellipsis, NotImplemented, None).
-
-- Issue #19713: Add remaining PEP 451-related deprecations and move away
-  from using find_module/find_loaer/load_module.
-
-- Issue #19708: Update pkgutil to use the new importer APIs.
-
-- Issue #19703: Update pydoc to use the new importer APIs.
-
-- Issue #19851: Fixed a regression in reloading sub-modules.
-
-- ssl.create_default_context() sets OP_NO_COMPRESSION to prevent CRIME.
-
-- Issue #19802: Add socket.SO_PRIORITY.
-
-- Issue #11508: Fixed uuid.getnode() and uuid.uuid1() on environment with
-  virtual interface.  Original patch by Kent Frazier.
-
-- Issue #11489: JSON decoder now accepts lone surrogates.
-
-- Issue #19545: Avoid chained exceptions while passing stray % to
-  time.strptime().  Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #20058: sys.stdin.readline() in IDLE now always returns only one line.
-
-- Issue #19481: print() of string subclass instance in IDLE no longer hangs.
-
-- Issue #18270: Prevent possible IDLE AttributeError on OS X when no initial
-  shell window is present.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #20055: Fix test_shutil under Windows with symlink privileges held.
-  Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
-
-- Issue #20070: Don't run test_urllib2net when network resources are not
-  enabled.
-
-- Issue #19938: Re-enabled test_bug_1333982 in test_dis, which had been
-  disabled since 3.0 due to the changes in listcomp handling.
-
-- Issue #19320: test_tcl no longer fails when wantobjects is false.
-
-- Issue #19919: Fix flaky SSL test. connect_ex() sometimes returns
-  EWOULDBLOCK on Windows or VMs hosted on Windows.
-
-- Issue #19912: Added tests for ntpath.splitunc().
-
-- Issue #19828: Fixed test_site when the whole suite is run with -S.
-
-- Issue #19928: Implemented a test for repr() of cell objects.
-
-- Issue #19535: Fixed test_docxmlrpc, test_functools, test_inspect, and
-  test_statistics when python is run with -OO.
-
-- Issue #19926: Removed unneeded test_main from test_abstract_numbers.
-  Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
-
-- Issue #19572: More skipped tests explicitly marked as skipped.
-
-- Issue #19595, #19987: Re-enabled a long-disabled test in test_winsound.
-
-- Issue #19588: Fixed tests in test_random that were silently skipped most
-  of the time.  Patch by Julian Gindi.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #19728: Enable pip installation by default on Windows.
-
-- Issue #16136: Remove VMS support
-
-- Issue #18215: Add script Tools/ssl/test_multiple_versions.py to compile and
-  run Python's unit tests with multiple versions of OpenSSL.
-
-- Issue #19922: define _INCLUDE__STDC_A1_SOURCE in HP-UX to include mbstate_t
-  for mbrtowc().
-
-- Issue #19788: kill_python(_d).exe is now run as a PreBuildEvent on the
-  pythoncore sub-project.  This should prevent build errors due a previous
-  build's python(_d).exe still running.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #20265: Updated some parts of the Using Windows document.
-
-- Issue #20266: Updated some parts of the Windows FAQ.
-
-- Issue #20255: Updated the about and bugs pages.
-
-- Issue #20253: Fixed a typo in the ipaddress docs that advertised an
-  illegal attribute name.  Found by INADA Naoki.
-
-- Issue #18840: Introduce the json module in the tutorial, and de-emphasize
-  the pickle module.
-
-- Issue #19845: Updated the Compiling Python on Windows section.
-
-- Issue #19795: Improved markup of True/False constants.
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
-
-- Issue #19659: Added documentation for Argument Clinic.
-
-- Issue #19976: Argument Clinic METH_NOARGS functions now always
-  take two parameters.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.4.0 Beta 1?
-==================================
-
-Release date: 2013-11-24
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Use the repr of a module name in more places in import, especially
-  exceptions.
-
-- Issue #19619: str.encode, bytes.decode and bytearray.decode now use an
-  internal API to throw LookupError for known non-text encodings, rather
-  than attempting the encoding or decoding operation and then throwing a
-  TypeError for an unexpected output type. (The latter mechanism remains
-  in place for third party non-text encodings)
-
-- Issue #19183: Implement PEP 456 'secure and interchangeable hash algorithm'.
-  Python now uses SipHash24 on all major platforms.
-
-- Issue #12892: The utf-16* and utf-32* encoders no longer allow surrogate code
-  points (U+D800-U+DFFF) to be encoded.  The utf-32* decoders no longer decode
-  byte sequences that correspond to surrogate code points.  The surrogatepass
-  error handler now works with the utf-16* and utf-32* codecs.  Based on
-  patches by Victor Stinner and Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu.
-
-- Issue #17806: Added keyword-argument support for "tabsize" to
-  str/bytes.expandtabs().
-
-- Issue #17828: Output type errors in str.encode(), bytes.decode() and
-  bytearray.decode() now direct users to codecs.encode() or codecs.decode()
-  as appropriate.
-
-- Issue #17828: The interpreter now attempts to chain errors that occur in
-  codec processing with a replacement exception of the same type that
-  includes the codec name in the error message. It ensures it only does this
-  when the creation of the replacement exception won't lose any information.
-
-- Issue #19466: Clear the frames of daemon threads earlier during the
-  Python shutdown to call object destructors. So "unclosed file" resource
-  warnings are now correctly emitted for daemon threads.
-
-- Issue #19514: Deduplicate some _Py_IDENTIFIER declarations.
-  Patch by Andrei Dorian Duma.
-
-- Issue #17936: Fix O(n**2) behaviour when adding or removing many subclasses
-  of a given type.
-
-- Issue #19428: zipimport now handles errors when reading truncated or invalid
-  ZIP archive.
-
-- Issue #18408: Add a new PyFrame_FastToLocalsWithError() function to handle
-  exceptions when merging fast locals into f_locals of a frame.
-  PyEval_GetLocals() now raises an exception and return NULL on failure.
-
-- Issue #19369: Optimized the usage of __length_hint__().
-
-- Issue #18603: Ensure that PyOS_mystricmp and PyOS_mystrnicmp are in the
-  Python executable and not removed by the linker's optimizer.
-
-- Issue #19306: Add extra hints to the faulthandler module's stack
-  dumps that these are "upside down".
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #3158: doctest can now find doctests in functions and methods
-  written in C.
-
-- Issue #13477: Added command line interface to the tarfile module.
-  Original patch by Berker Peksag.
-
-- Issue #19674: inspect.signature() now produces a correct signature
-  for some builtins.
-
-- Issue #19722: Added opcode.stack_effect(), which
-  computes the stack effect of bytecode instructions.
-
-- Issue #19735: Implement private function ssl._create_stdlib_context() to
-  create SSLContext objects in Python's stdlib module. It provides a single
-  configuration point and makes use of SSLContext.load_default_certs().
-
-- Issue #16203: Add re.fullmatch() function and regex.fullmatch() method,
-  which anchor the pattern at both ends of the string to match.
-  Original patch by Matthew Barnett.
-
-- Issue #13592: Improved the repr for regular expression pattern objects.
-  Based on patch by Hugo Lopes Tavares.
-
-- Issue #19641: Added the audioop.byteswap() function to convert big-endian
-  samples to little-endian and vice versa.
-
-- Issue #15204: Deprecated the 'U' mode in file-like objects.
-
-- Issue #17810: Implement PEP 3154, pickle protocol 4.
-
-- Issue #19668: Added support for the cp1125 encoding.
-
-- Issue #19689: Add ssl.create_default_context() factory function. It creates
-  a new SSLContext object with secure default settings.
-
-- Issue #19727: os.utime(..., None) is now potentially more precise
-  under Windows.
-
-- Issue #17201: ZIP64 extensions now are enabled by default.  Patch by
-  William Mallard.
-
-- Issue #19292: Add SSLContext.load_default_certs() to load default root CA
-  certificates from default stores or system stores. By default the method
-  loads CA certs for authentication of server certs.
-
-- Issue #19673: Add pathlib to the stdlib as a provisional module (PEP 428).
-
-- Issue #16596: pdb in a generator now properly skips over yield and
-  yield from rather than stepping out of the generator into its
-  caller.  (This is essential for stepping through asyncio coroutines.)
-
-- Issue #17916: Added dis.Bytecode.from_traceback() and
-  dis.Bytecode.current_offset to easily display "current instruction"
-  markers in the new disassembly API (Patch by Claudiu Popa).
-
-- Issue #19552: venv now supports bootstrapping pip into virtual environments
-
-- Issue #17134: Finalize interface to Windows' certificate store. Cert and
-  CRL enumeration are now two functions. enum_certificates() also returns
-  purpose flags as set of OIDs.
-
-- Issue #19555: Restore sysconfig.get_config_var('SO'), (and the distutils
-  equivalent) with a DeprecationWarning pointing people at $EXT_SUFFIX.
-
-- Issue #8813: Add SSLContext.verify_flags to change the verification flags
-  of the context in order to enable certification revocation list (CRL)
-  checks or strict X509 rules.
-
-- Issue #18294: Fix the zlib module to make it 64-bit safe.
-
-- Issue #19682: Fix compatibility issue with old version of OpenSSL that
-  was introduced by Issue #18379.
-
-- Issue #14455: plistlib now supports binary plists and has an updated API.
-
-- Issue #19633: Fixed writing not compressed 16- and 32-bit wave files on
-  big-endian platforms.
-
-- Issue #18379: SSLSocket.getpeercert() returns CA issuer AIA fields, OCSP
-  and CRL distribution points.
-
-- Issue #18138: Implement cadata argument of SSLContext.load_verify_location()
-  to load CA certificates and CRL from memory. It supports PEM and DER
-  encoded strings.
-
-- Issue #18775: Add name and block_size attribute to HMAC object. They now
-  provide the same API elements as non-keyed cryptographic hash functions.
-
-- Issue #17276: MD5 as default digestmod for HMAC is deprecated. The HMAC
-  module supports digestmod names, e.g. hmac.HMAC('sha1').
-
-- Issue #19449: in csv's writerow, handle non-string keys when generating the
-  error message that certain keys are not in the 'fieldnames' list.
-
-- Issue #13633: Added a new convert_charrefs keyword arg to HTMLParser that,
-  when True, automatically converts all character references.
-
-- Issue #2927: Added the unescape() function to the html module.
-
-- Issue #8402: Added the escape() function to the glob module.
-
-- Issue #17618: Add Base85 and Ascii85 encoding/decoding to the base64 module.
-
-- Issue #19634: time.strftime("%y") now raises a ValueError on AIX when given a
-  year before 1900.
-
-- Fix test.support.bind_port() to not cause an error when Python was compiled
-  on a system with SO_REUSEPORT defined in the headers but run on a system
-  with an OS kernel that does not support that reasonably new socket option.
-
-- Fix compilation error under gcc of the ctypes module bundled libffi for arm.
-
-- Issue #19448: Add private API to SSL module to lookup ASN.1 objects by OID,
-  NID, short name and long name.
-
-- Issue #19282: dbm.open now supports the context management protocol.
-  (Initial patch by Claudiu Popa)
-
-- Issue #8311: Added support for writing any bytes-like objects in the aifc,
-  sunau, and wave modules.
-
-- Issue #5202: Added support for unseekable files in the wave module.
-
-- Issue #19544 and Issue #1180: Restore global option to ignore
-  ~/.pydistutils.cfg in Distutils, accidentally removed in backout of
-  distutils2 changes.
-
-- Issue #19523: Closed FileHandler leak which occurred when delay was set.
-
-- Issue #19544 and Issue #6516: Restore support for --user and --group
-  parameters to sdist command accidentally rolled back as part of the
-  distutils2 rollback.
-
-- Issue #13674: Prevented time.strftime from crashing on Windows when given
-  a year before 1900 and a format of %y.
-
-- Issue #19406: implementation of the ensurepip module (part of PEP 453).
-  Patch by Donald Stufft and Nick Coghlan.
-
-- Issue #19544 and Issue #6286: Restore use of urllib over http allowing use
-  of http_proxy for Distutils upload command, a feature accidentally lost
-  in the rollback of distutils2.
-
-- Issue #19544 and Issue #7457: Restore the read_pkg_file method to
-  distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata accidentally removed in the undo of
-  distutils2.
-
-- Issue #16685: Added support for any bytes-like objects in the audioop module.
-  Removed support for strings.
-
-- Issue #7171: Add Windows implementation of ``inet_ntop`` and ``inet_pton``
-  to socket module. Patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.
-
-- Issue #19261: Added support for writing 24-bit samples in the sunau module.
-
-- Issue #1097797: Added CP273 encoding, used on IBM mainframes in
-  Germany and Austria.  Mapping provided by Michael Bierenfeld.
-
-- Issue #1575020: Fixed support of 24-bit wave files on big-endian platforms.
-
-- Issue #19378: Fixed a number of cases in the dis module where the new
-  "file" parameter was not being honoured correctly
-
-- Issue #19378: Removed the "dis.Bytecode.show_info" method
-
-- Issue #19378: Renamed the "dis.Bytecode.display_code" method to
-  "dis.Bytecode.dis" and converted it to returning a string rather than
-  printing output.
-
-- Issue #19378: the "line_offset" parameter in the new "dis.get_instructions"
-  API has been renamed to "first_line" (and the default value and usage
-  changed accordingly). This should reduce confusion with the more common use
-  of "offset" in the dis docs to refer to bytecode offsets.
-
-- Issue #18678: Corrected spwd struct member names in spwd module:
-  sp_nam->sp_namp, and sp_pwd->sp_pwdp.  The old names are kept as extra
-  structseq members, for backward compatibility.
-
-- Issue #6157: Fixed tkinter.Text.debug().  tkinter.Text.bbox() now raises
-  TypeError instead of TclError on wrong number of arguments.  Original patch
-  by Guilherme Polo.
-
-- Issue #10197: Rework subprocess.get[status]output to use subprocess
-  functionality and thus to work on Windows. Patch by Nick Coghlan
-
-- Issue #6160: The bbox() method of tkinter.Spinbox now returns a tuple of
-  integers instead of a string.  Based on patch by Guilherme Polo.
-
-- Issue #19403: contextlib.redirect_stdout is now reentrant
-
-- Issue #19286: Directories in ``package_data`` are no longer added to
-  the filelist, preventing failure outlined in the ticket.
-
-- Issue #19480: HTMLParser now accepts all valid start-tag names as defined
-  by the HTML5 standard.
-
-- Issue #15114: The html.parser module now raises a DeprecationWarning when the
-  strict argument of HTMLParser or the HTMLParser.error method are used.
-
-- Issue #19410: Undo the special-casing removal of '' for
-  importlib.machinery.FileFinder.
-
-- Issue #19424: Fix the warnings module to accept filename containing surrogate
-  characters.
-
-- Issue #19435: Fix directory traversal attack on CGIHttpRequestHandler.
-
-- Issue #19227: Remove pthread_atfork() handler. The handler was added to
-  solve #18747 but has caused issues.
-
-- Issue #19420: Fix reference leak in module initialization code of
-  _hashopenssl.c
-
-- Issue #19329: Optimized compiling charsets in regular expressions.
-
-- Issue #19227: Try to fix deadlocks caused by re-seeding then OpenSSL
-  pseudo-random number generator on fork().
-
-- Issue #16037: HTTPMessage.readheaders() raises an HTTPException when more than
-  100 headers are read.  Adapted from patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
-
-- Issue #16040: CVE-2013-1752: nntplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to
-  prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory.  Patch by Jyrki
-  Pulliainen.
-
-- Issue #16041: CVE-2013-1752: poplib: Limit maximum line lengths to 2048 to
-  prevent readline() calls from consuming too much memory.  Patch by Jyrki
-  Pulliainen.
-
-- Issue #17997: Change behavior of ``ssl.match_hostname()`` to follow RFC 6125,
-  for security reasons.  It now doesn't match multiple wildcards nor wildcards
-  inside IDN fragments.
-
-- Issue #16039: CVE-2013-1752: Change use of readline in imaplib module to limit
-  line length.  Patch by Emil Lind.
-
-- Issue #19330: the unnecessary wrapper functions have been removed from the
-  implementations of the new contextlib.redirect_stdout and
-  contextlib.suppress context managers, which also ensures they provide
-  reasonable help() output on instances
-
-- Issue #19393: Fix symtable.symtable function to not be confused when there are
-  functions or classes named "top".
-
-- Issue #18685: Restore re performance to pre-PEP 393 levels.
-
-- Issue #19339: telnetlib module is now using time.monotonic() when available
-  to compute timeout.
-
-- Issue #19399: fix sporadic test_subprocess failure.
-
-- Issue #13234: Fix os.listdir to work with extended paths on Windows.
-  Patch by Santoso Wijaya.
-
-- Issue #19375: The site module adding a "site-python" directory to sys.path,
-  if it exists, is now deprecated.
-
-- Issue #19379: Lazily import linecache in the warnings module, to make
-  startup with warnings faster until a warning gets printed.
-
-- Issue #19288: Fixed the "in" operator of dbm.gnu databases for string
-  argument.  Original patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
-
-- Issue #19287: Fixed the "in" operator of dbm.ndbm databases for string
-  argument.  Original patch by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis.
-
-- Issue #19327: Fixed the working of regular expressions with too big charset.
-
-- Issue #17400: New 'is_global' attribute for ipaddress to tell if an address
-  is allocated by IANA for global or private networks.
-
-- Issue #19350: Increasing the test coverage of macurl2path. Patch by Colin
-  Williams.
-
-- Issue #19365: Optimized the parsing of long replacement string in re.sub*()
-  functions.
-
-- Issue #19352: Fix unittest discovery when a module can be reached
-  through several paths (e.g. under Debian/Ubuntu with virtualenv).
-
-- Issue #15207: Fix mimetypes to read from correct part of Windows registry
-  Original patch by Dave Chambers
-
-- Issue #16595: Add prlimit() to resource module.
-
-- Issue #19324: Expose Linux-specific constants in resource module.
-
-- Load SSL's error strings in hashlib.
-
-- Issue #18527: Upgrade internal copy of zlib to 1.2.8.
-
-- Issue #19274: Add a filterfunc parameter to PyZipFile.writepy.
-
-- Issue #8964: fix platform._sys_version to handle IronPython 2.6+.
-  Patch by Martin Matusiak.
-
-- Issue #19413: Restore pre-3.3 reload() semantics of re-finding modules.
-
-- Issue #18958: Improve error message for json.load(s) while passing a string
-  that starts with a UTF-8 BOM.
-
-- Issue #19307: Improve error message for json.load(s) while passing objects
-  of the wrong type.
-
-- Issue #16038: CVE-2013-1752: ftplib: Limit amount of data read by
-  limiting the call to readline().  Original patch by Michał
-  Jastrzębski and Giampaolo Rodola.
-
-- Issue #17087: Improved the repr for regular expression match objects.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #19664: test_userdict's repr test no longer depends on the order
-  of dict elements.
-
-- Issue #19440: Clean up test_capi by removing an unnecessary __future__
-  import, converting from test_main to unittest.main, and running the
-  _testcapi module tests as subTests of a unittest TestCase method.
-
-- Issue #19378: the main dis module tests are now run with both stdout
-  redirection *and* passing an explicit file parameter
-
-- Issue #19378: removed the not-actually-helpful assertInstructionMatches
-  and assertBytecodeExactlyMatches helpers from bytecode_helper
-
-- Issue #18702: All skipped tests now reported as skipped.
-
-- Issue #19439: interpreter embedding tests are now executed on Windows
-  (Patch by Zachary Ware)
-
-- Issue #19085: Added basic tests for all tkinter widget options.
-
-- Issue #19384: Fix test_py_compile for root user, patch by Claudiu Popa.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #18326: Clarify that list.sort's arguments are keyword-only.  Also,
-  attempt to reduce confusion in the glossary by not saying there are
-  different "types" of arguments and parameters.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #19358: "make clinic" now runs the Argument Clinic preprocessor
-  over all CPython source files.
-
-- Update SQLite to 3.8.1, xz to 5.0.5, and Tcl/Tk to 8.6.1 on Windows.
-
-- Issue #16632: Enable DEP and ASLR on Windows.
-
-- Issue #17791: Drop PREFIX and EXEC_PREFIX definitions from PC/pyconfig.h
-
-- Add workaround for VS 2010 nmake clean issue. VS 2010 doesn't set up PATH
-  for nmake.exe correctly.
-
-- Issue #19550: Implement Windows installer changes of PEP 453 (ensurepip).
-
-- Issue #19520: Fix compiler warning in the _sha3 module on 32bit Windows.
-
-- Issue #19356: Avoid using a C variabled named "_self", it's a reserved
-  word in some C compilers.
-
-- Issue #15792: Correct build options on Win64. Patch by Jeremy Kloth.
-
-- Issue #19373: Apply upstream change to Tk 8.5.15 fixing OS X 10.9
-  screen refresh problem for OS X installer build.
-
-- Issue #19649: On OS X, the same set of file names are now installed
-  in bin directories for all configurations: non-framework vs framework,
-  and single arch vs universal builds.  pythonx.y-32 is now always
-  installed for 64-bit/32-bit universal builds.  The obsolete and
-  undocumented pythonw* symlinks are no longer installed anywhere.
-
-- Issue #19553: PEP 453 - "make install" and "make altinstall" now install or
-  upgrade pip by default, using the bundled pip provided by the new ensurepip
-  module.  A new configure option, --with-ensurepip[=upgrade|install|no], is
-  available to override the default ensurepip "--upgrade" option.  The option
-  can also be set with "make [alt]install ENSUREPIP=[upgrade|install|no]".
-
-- Issue #19551: PEP 453 - the OS X installer now installs pip by default.
-
-- Update third-party libraries for OS X installers: xz 5.0.3 -> 5.0.5,
-  SQLite 3.7.13 -> 3.8.1
-
-- Issue #15663: Revert OS X installer built-in Tcl/Tk support for 3.4.0b1.
-  Some third-party projects, such as Matplotlib and PIL/Pillow,
-  depended on being able to build with Tcl and Tk frameworks in
-  /Library/Frameworks.
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
-
-- Issue #19730: Argument Clinic now supports all the existing PyArg
-  "format units" as legacy converters, as well as two new features:
-  "self converters" and the "version" directive.
-
-- Issue #19552: pyvenv now bootstraps pip into virtual environments by
-  default (pass --without-pip to request the old behaviour)
-
-- Issue #19390: Argument Clinic no longer accepts malformed Python
-  and C ids.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 4?
-===================================
-
-Release date: 2013-10-20
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #19301: Give classes and functions that are explicitly marked global a
-  global qualname.
-
-- Issue #19279: UTF-7 decoder no longer produces illegal strings.
-
-- Issue #16612: Add "Argument Clinic", a compile-time preprocessor for
-  C files to generate argument parsing code.  (See PEP 436.)
-
-- Issue #18810: Shift stat calls in importlib.machinery.FileFinder such that
-  the code is optimistic that if something exists in a directory named exactly
-  like the possible package being searched for that it's in actuality a
-  directory.
-
-- Issue #18416: importlib.machinery.PathFinder now treats '' as the cwd and
-  importlib.machinery.FileFinder no longer special-cases '' to '.'. This leads
-  to modules imported from cwd to now possess an absolute file path for
-  __file__ (this does not affect modules specified by path on the CLI but it
-  does affect -m/runpy). It also allows FileFinder to be more consistent by not
-  having an edge case.
-
-- Issue #4555: All exported C symbols are now prefixed with either
-  "Py" or "_Py".
-
-- Issue #19219: Speed up marshal.loads(), and make pyc files slightly
-  (5% to 10%) smaller.
-
-- Issue #19221: Upgrade Unicode database to version 6.3.0.
-
-- Issue #16742: The result of the C callback PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer must
-  now be a string allocated by PyMem_RawMalloc() or PyMem_RawRealloc() (or NULL
-  if an error occurred), instead of a string allocated by PyMem_Malloc() or
-  PyMem_Realloc().
-
-- Issue #19199: Remove ``PyThreadState.tick_counter`` field
-
-- Fix macro expansion of _PyErr_OCCURRED(), and make sure to use it in at
-  least one place so as to avoid regressions.
-
-- Issue #19087: Improve bytearray allocation in order to allow cheap popping
-  of data at the front (slice deletion).
-
-- Issue #19014: memoryview.cast() is now allowed on zero-length views.
-
-- Issue #18690: memoryview is now automatically registered with
-  collections.abc.Sequence
-
-- Issue #19078: memoryview now correctly supports the reversed builtin
-  (Patch by Claudiu Popa)
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #17457: unittest test discovery now works with namespace packages.
-  Patch by Claudiu Popa.
-
-- Issue #18235: Fix the sysconfig variables LDSHARED and BLDSHARED under AIX.
-  Patch by David Edelsohn.
-
-- Issue #18606: Add the new "statistics" module (PEP 450).  Contributed
-  by Steven D'Aprano.
-
-- Issue #12866: The audioop module now supports 24-bit samples.
-
-- Issue #19254: Provide an optimized Python implementation of pbkdf2_hmac.
-
-- Issues #19201, Issue #19222, Issue #19223: Add "x" mode (exclusive creation)
-  in opening file to bz2, gzip and lzma modules. Patches by Tim Heaney and
-  Vajrasky Kok.
-
-- Fix a reference count leak in _sre.
-
-- Issue #19262: Initial check in of the 'asyncio' package (a.k.a. Tulip,
-  a.k.a. PEP 3156).  There are no docs yet, and the PEP is slightly
-  out of date with the code.  This module will have *provisional* status
-  in Python 3.4.
-
-- Issue #19276: Fixed the wave module on 64-bit big-endian platforms.
-
-- Issue #19266: Rename the new-in-3.4 ``contextlib.ignore`` context manager
-  to ``contextlib.suppress`` in order to be more consistent with existing
-  descriptions of that operation elsewhere in the language and standard
-  library documentation (Patch by Zero Piraeus).
-
-- Issue #18891: Completed the new email package (provisional) API additions
-  by adding new classes EmailMessage, MIMEPart, and ContentManager.
-
-- Issue #18281: Unused stat constants removed from `tarfile`.
-
-- Issue #18999: Multiprocessing now supports 'contexts' with the same API
-  as the module, but bound to specified start methods.
-
-- Issue #18468: The re.split, re.findall, and re.sub functions and the group()
-  and groups() methods of match object now always return a string or a bytes
-  object.
-
-- Issue #18725: The textwrap module now supports truncating multiline text.
-
-- Issue #18776: atexit callbacks now display their full traceback when they
-  raise an exception.
-
-- Issue #17827: Add the missing documentation for ``codecs.encode`` and
-  ``codecs.decode``.
-
-- Issue #19218: Rename collections.abc to _collections_abc in order to
-  speed up interpreter start.
-
-- Issue #18582: Add 'pbkdf2_hmac' to the hashlib module. It implements PKCS#5
-  password-based key derivation functions with HMAC as pseudorandom function.
-
-- Issue #19131: The aifc module now correctly reads and writes sampwidth of
-  compressed streams.
-
-- Issue #19209: Remove import of copyreg from the os module to speed up
-  interpreter startup. stat_result and statvfs_result are now hard-coded to
-  reside in the os module.
-
-- Issue #19205: Don't import the 're' module in site and sysconfig module to
-  speed up interpreter start.
-
-- Issue #9548: Add a minimal "_bootlocale" module that is imported by the
-  _io module instead of the full locale module.
-
-- Issue #18764: Remove the 'print' alias for the PDB 'p' command so that it no
-  longer shadows the print function.
-
-- Issue #19158: A rare race in BoundedSemaphore could allow .release() too
-  often.
-
-- Issue #15805: Add contextlib.redirect_stdout().
-
-- Issue #18716: Deprecate the formatter module.
-
-- Issue #10712: 2to3 has a new "asserts" fixer that replaces deprecated names
-  of unittest methods (e.g. failUnlessEqual -> assertEqual).
-
-- Issue #18037: 2to3 now escapes ``'\u'`` and ``'\U'`` in native strings.
-
-- Issue #17839: base64.decodebytes and base64.encodebytes now accept any
-  object that exports a 1 dimensional array of bytes (this means the same
-  is now also true for base64_codec)
-
-- Issue #19132: The pprint module now supports compact mode.
-
-- Issue #19137: The pprint module now correctly formats instances of set and
-  frozenset subclasses.
-
-- Issue #10042: functools.total_ordering now correctly handles
-  NotImplemented being returned by the underlying comparison function (Patch
-  by Katie Miller)
-
-- Issue #19092: contextlib.ExitStack now correctly reraises exceptions
-  from the __exit__ callbacks of inner context managers (Patch by Hrvoje
-  Nikšić)
-
-- Issue #12641: Avoid passing "-mno-cygwin" to the mingw32 compiler, except
-  when necessary.  Patch by Oscar Benjamin.
-
-- Issue #5845: In site.py, only load readline history from ~/.python_history
-  if no history has been read already.  This avoids double writes to the
-  history file at shutdown.
-
-- Properly initialize all fields of a SSL object after allocation.
-
-- Issue #19095: SSLSocket.getpeercert() now raises ValueError when the
-  SSL handshake hasn't been done.
-
-- Issue #4366: Fix building extensions on all platforms when --enable-shared
-  is used.
-
-- Issue #19030: Fixed `inspect.getmembers` and `inspect.classify_class_attrs`
-  to attempt activating descriptors before falling back to a __dict__ search
-  for faulty descriptors.  `inspect.classify_class_attrs` no longer returns
-  Attributes whose home class is None.
-
-C API
------
-
-- Issue #1772673: The type of `char*` arguments now changed to `const char*`.
-
-- Issue #16129: Added a `Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding` pre-initialization API
-  to allow embedding applications like Blender to force a particular
-  encoding and error handler for the standard IO streams (initial patch by
-  Bastien Montagne)
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #19275: Fix test_site on AMD64 Snow Leopard
-
-- Issue #14407: Fix unittest test discovery in test_concurrent_futures.
-
-- Issue #18919: Unified and extended tests for audio modules: aifc, sunau and
-  wave.
-
-- Issue #18714: Added tests for ``pdb.find_function()``.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #18758: Fixed and improved cross-references.
-
-- Issue #18972: Modernize email examples and use the argparse module in them.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #19130: Correct PCbuild/readme.txt, Python 3.3 and 3.4 require VS 2010.
-
-- Issue #15663: Update OS X 10.6+ installer to use Tcl/Tk 8.5.15.
-
-- Issue #14499: Fix several problems with OS X universal build support:
-    1. ppc arch detection for extension module builds broke with Xcode 5
-    2. ppc arch detection in configure did not work on OS X 10.4
-    3. -sysroot and -arch flags were unnecessarily duplicated
-    4. there was no obvious way to configure an intel-32 only build.
-
-- Issue #19019: Change the OS X installer build script to use CFLAGS instead
-  of OPT for special build options.  By setting OPT, some compiler-specific
-  options like -fwrapv were overridden and thus not used, which could result
-  in broken interpreters when building with clang.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 3?
-===================================
-
-Release date: 2013-09-29
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #18818: The "encodingname" part of PYTHONIOENCODING is now optional.
-
-- Issue #19098: Prevent overflow in the compiler when the recursion limit is set
-  absurdly high.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #18929: `inspect.classify_class_attrs()` now correctly finds class
-  attributes returned by `dir()` that are located in the metaclass.
-
-- Issue #18950: Fix miscellaneous bugs in the sunau module.
-  Au_read.readframes() now updates current file position and reads correct
-  number of frames from multichannel stream.  Au_write.writeframesraw() now
-  correctly updates current file position.  Au_read.getnframes() now returns an
-  integer (as in Python 2).  Au_read and Au_write now correctly works with file
-  object if start file position is not a zero.
-
-- Issue #18594: The fast path for collections.Counter() was never taken
-  due to an over-restrictive type check.
-
-- Issue #19053: ZipExtFile.read1() with non-zero argument no more returns empty
-  bytes until end of data.
-
-- logging: added support for Unix domain sockets to SocketHandler and
-  DatagramHandler.
-
-- Issue #18996: TestCase.assertEqual() now more cleverly shorten differing
-  strings in error report.
-
-- Issue #19034: repr() for tkinter.Tcl_Obj now exposes string reperesentation.
-
-- Issue #18978: ``urllib.request.Request`` now allows the method to be
-  indicated on the class and no longer sets it to None in ``__init__``.
-
-- Issue #18626: the inspect module now offers a basic command line
-  introspection interface (Initial patch by Claudiu Popa)
-
-- Issue #3015: Fixed tkinter with wantobject=False.  Any Tcl command call
-  returned empty string.
-
-- Issue #19037: The mailbox module now makes all changes to maildir files
-  before moving them into place, to avoid race conditions with other programs
-  that may be accessing the maildir directory.
-
-- Issue #14984: On POSIX systems, when netrc is called without a filename
-  argument (and therefore is reading the user's $HOME/.netrc file), it now
-  enforces the same security rules as typical ftp clients: the .netrc file must
-  be owned by the user that owns the process and must not be readable by any
-  other user.
-
-- Issue #18873: The tokenize module now detects Python source code encoding
-  only in comment lines.
-
-- Issue #17764: Enable http.server to bind to a user specified network
-  interface.  Patch contributed by Malte Swart.
-
-- Issue #18937: Add an assertLogs() context manager to unittest.TestCase
-  to ensure that a block of code emits a message using the logging module.
-
-- Issue #17324: Fix http.server's request handling case on trailing '/'. Patch
-  contributed by Vajrasky Kok.
-
-- Issue #19018: The heapq.merge() function no longer suppresses IndexError
-  in the underlying iterables.
-
-- Issue #18784: The uuid module no longer attempts to load libc via ctypes.CDLL
-  if all the necessary functions have already been found in libuuid.  Patch by
-  Evgeny Sologubov.
-
-- The :envvar:`PYTHONFAULTHANDLER` environment variable now only enables the
-  faulthandler module if the variable is non-empty. Same behaviour than other
-  variables like :envvar:`PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE`.
-
-- Issue #1565525: New function ``traceback.clear_frames`` will clear
-  the local variables of all the stack frames referenced by a traceback
-  object.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #18952: Fix regression in support data downloads introduced when
-  test.support was converted to a package. Regression noticed by Zachary
-  Ware.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #18873: IDLE now detects Python source code encoding only in comment
-  lines.
-
-- Issue #18988: The "Tab" key now works when a word is already autocompleted.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #17003: Unified the size argument names in the io module with common
-  practice.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #18596: Support the use of address sanity checking in recent versions
-  of clang and GCC by appropriately marking known false alarms in the small
-  object allocator. Patch contributed by Dhiru Kholia.
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
-
-- Issue #18873: 2to3 and the findnocoding.py script now detect Python source
-  code encoding only in comment lines.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 2?
-===================================
-
-Release date: 2013-09-09
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #18942: sys._debugmallocstats() output was damaged on Windows.
-
-- Issue #18571: Implementation of the PEP 446: file descriptors and file
-  handles are now created non-inheritable; add functions
-  os.get/set_inheritable(), os.get/set_handle_inheritable() and
-  socket.socket.get/set_inheritable().
-
-- Issue #11619: The parser and the import machinery do not encode Unicode
-  filenames anymore on Windows.
-
-- Issue #18808: Non-daemon threads are now automatically joined when
-  a sub-interpreter is shutdown (it would previously dump a fatal error).
-
-- Remove support for compiling on systems without getcwd().
-
-- Issue #18774: Remove last bits of GNU PTH thread code and thread_pth.h.
-
-- Issue #18771: Add optimization to set object lookups to reduce the cost
-  of hash collisions.  The core idea is to inspect a second key/hash pair
-  for each cache line retrieved.
-
-- Issue #16105: When a signal handler fails to write to the file descriptor
-  registered with ``signal.set_wakeup_fd()``, report an exception instead
-  of ignoring the error.
-
-- Issue #18722: Remove uses of the "register" keyword in C code.
-
-- Issue #18667: Add missing "HAVE_FCHOWNAT" symbol to posix._have_functions.
-
-- Issue #16499: Add command line option for isolated mode.
-
-- Issue #15301: Parsing fd, uid, and gid parameters for builtins
-  in Modules/posixmodule.c is now far more robust.
-
-- Issue #18368: PyOS_StdioReadline() no longer leaks memory when realloc()
-  fail.
-
-- Issue #17934: Add a clear() method to frame objects, to help clean up
-  expensive details (local variables) and break reference cycles.
-
-- Issue #18780: %-formatting codes %d, %i, and %u now treat int-subclasses
-  as int (displays value of int-subclass instead of str(int-subclass) ).
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #18808: Thread.join() now waits for the underlying thread state to
-  be destroyed before returning.  This prevents unpredictable aborts in
-  Py_EndInterpreter() when some non-daemon threads are still running.
-
-- Issue #18458: Prevent crashes with newer versions of libedit.  Its readline
-  emulation has changed from 0-based indexing to 1-based like gnu readline.
-
-- Issue #18852: Handle case of ``readline.__doc__`` being ``None`` in the new
-  readline activation code in ``site.py``.
-
-- Issue #18672: Fixed format specifiers for Py_ssize_t in debugging output in
-  the _sre module.
-
-- Issue #18830: inspect.getclasstree() no longer produces duplicate entries even
-  when input list contains duplicates.
-
-- Issue #18878: sunau.open now supports the context management protocol.  Based on
-  patches by Claudiu Popa and R. David Murray.
-
-- Issue #18909: Fix _tkinter.tkapp.interpaddr() on Windows 64-bit, don't cast
-  64-bit pointer to long (32 bits).
-
-- Issue #18876: The FileIO.mode attribute now better reflects the actual mode
-  under which the file was opened.  Patch by Erik Bray.
-
-- Issue #16853: Add new selectors module.
-
-- Issue #18882: Add threading.main_thread() function.
-
-- Issue #18901: The sunau getparams method now returns a namedtuple rather than
-  a plain tuple.  Patch by Claudiu Popa.
-
-- Issue #17487: The result of the wave getparams method now is pickleable again.
-  Patch by Claudiu Popa.
-
-- Issue #18756: os.urandom() now uses a lazily-opened persistent file
-  descriptor, so as to avoid using many file descriptors when run in
-  parallel from multiple threads.
-
-- Issue #18418: After fork(), reinit all threads states, not only active ones.
-  Patch by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis.
-
-- Issue #17974: Switch unittest from using getopt to using argparse.
-
-- Issue #11798: TestSuite now drops references to own tests after execution.
-
-- Issue #16611: http.cookie now correctly parses the 'secure' and 'httponly'
-  cookie flags.
-
-- Issue #11973: Fix a problem in kevent. The flags and fflags fields are now
-  properly handled as unsigned.
-
-- Issue #18807: ``pyvenv`` now takes a --copies argument allowing copies
-  instead of symlinks even where symlinks are available and the default.
-
-- Issue #18538: ``python -m dis`` now uses argparse for argument processing.
-  Patch by Michele Orrù.
-
-- Issue #18394: Close cgi.FieldStorage's optional file.
-
-- Issue #17702: On error, os.environb now suppresses the exception context
-  when raising a new KeyError with the original key.
-
-- Issue #16809: Fixed some tkinter incompabilities with Tcl/Tk 8.6.
-
-- Issue #16809: Tkinter's splitlist() and split() methods now accept Tcl_Obj
-  argument.
-
-- Issue #18324: set_payload now correctly handles binary input.  This also
-  supersedes the previous fixes for #14360, #1717, and #16564.
-
-- Issue #18794: Add a fileno() method and a closed attribute to select.devpoll
-  objects.
-
-- Issue #17119: Fixed integer overflows when processing large strings and tuples
-  in the tkinter module.
-
-- Issue #18747: Re-seed OpenSSL's pseudo-random number generator after fork.
-  A pthread_atfork() parent handler is used to seed the PRNG with pid, time
-  and some stack data.
-
-- Issue #8865: Concurrent invocation of select.poll.poll() now raises a
-  RuntimeError exception.  Patch by Christian Schubert.
-
-- Issue #18777: The ssl module now uses the new CRYPTO_THREADID API of
-  OpenSSL 1.0.0+ instead of the deprecated CRYPTO id callback function.
-
-- Issue #18768: Correct doc string of RAND_edg(). Patch by Vajrasky Kok.
-
-- Issue #18178: Fix ctypes on BSD. dlmalloc.c was compiled twice which broke
-  malloc weak symbols.
-
-- Issue #18709: Fix CVE-2013-4238. The SSL module now handles NULL bytes
-  inside subjectAltName correctly. Formerly the module has used OpenSSL's
-  GENERAL_NAME_print() function to get the string representation of ASN.1
-  strings for ``rfc822Name`` (email), ``dNSName`` (DNS) and
-  ``uniformResourceIdentifier`` (URI).
-
-- Issue #18701: Remove support of old CPython versions (<3.0) from C code.
-
-- Issue #18756: Improve error reporting in os.urandom() when the failure
-  is due to something else than /dev/urandom not existing (for example,
-  exhausting the file descriptor limit).
-
-- Issue #18673: Add O_TMPFILE to os module. O_TMPFILE requires Linux kernel
-  3.11 or newer. It's only defined on system with 3.11 uapi headers, too.
-
-- Issue #18532: Change the builtin hash algorithms' names to lower case names
-  as promised by hashlib's documentation.
-
-- Issue #8713: add new spwan and forkserver start methods, and new functions
-  get_all_start_methods, get_start_method, and set_start_method, to
-  multiprocessing.
-
-- Issue #18405: Improve the entropy of crypt.mksalt().
-
-- Issue #12015: The tempfile module now uses a suffix of 8 random characters
-  instead of 6, to reduce the risk of filename collision. The entropy was
-  reduced when uppercase letters were removed from the charset used to generate
-  random characters.
-
-- Issue #18585: Add :func:`textwrap.shorten` to collapse and truncate a
-  piece of text to a given length.
-
-- Issue #18598: Tweak exception message for importlib.import_module() to
-  include the module name when a key argument is missing.
-
-- Issue #19151: Fix docstring and use of _get_supported_file_loaders() to
-  reflect 2-tuples.
-
-- Issue #19152: Add ExtensionFileLoader.get_filename().
-
-- Issue #18676: Change 'positive' to 'non-negative' in queue.py put and get
-  docstrings and ValueError messages. Patch by Zhongyue Luo
-
-- Fix refcounting issue with extension types in tkinter.
-
-- Issue #8112: xlmrpc.server's DocXMLRPCServer server no longer raises an error
-  if methods have annotations; it now correctly displays the annotations.
-
-- Issue #18600: Added policy argument to email.message.Message.as_string,
-  and as_bytes and __bytes__ methods to Message.
-
-- Issue #18671: Output more information when logging exceptions occur.
-
-- Issue #18621: Prevent the site module's patched builtins from keeping
-  too many references alive for too long.
-
-- Issue #4885: Add weakref support to mmap objects.  Patch by Valerie Lambert.
-
-- Issue #8860: Fixed rounding in timedelta constructor.
-
-- Issue #18849: Fixed a Windows-specific tempfile bug where collision with an
-  existing directory caused mkstemp and related APIs to fail instead of
-  retrying. Report and fix by Vlad Shcherbina.
-
-- Issue #18920: argparse's default destination for the version action (-v,
-  --version) has also been changed to stdout, to match the Python executable.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #18623: Factor out the _SuppressCoreFiles context manager into
-  test.support.  Patch by Valerie Lambert.
-
-- Issue #12037: Fix test_email for desktop Windows.
-
-- Issue #15507: test_subprocess's test_send_signal could fail if the test
-  runner were run in an environment where the process inherited an ignore
-  setting for SIGINT.  Restore the SIGINT handler to the desired
-  KeyboardInterrupt raising one during that test.
-
-- Issue #16799: Switched from getopt to argparse style in regrtest's argument
-  parsing.  Added more tests for regrtest's argument parsing.
-
-- Issue #18792: Use "127.0.0.1" or "::1" instead of "localhost" as much as
-  possible, since "localhost" goes through a DNS lookup under recent Windows
-  versions.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #18489: Add tests for SearchEngine. Original patch by Phil Webster.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #18743: Fix references to non-existent "StringIO" module.
-
-- Issue #18783: Removed existing mentions of Python long type in docstrings,
-  error messages and comments.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #1584: Provide configure options to override default search paths for
-  Tcl and Tk when building _tkinter.
-
-- Issue #15663: Tcl/Tk 8.5.14 is now included with the OS X 10.6+ 64-/32-bit
-  installer.  It is no longer necessary to install a third-party version of
-  Tcl/Tk 8.5 to work around the problems in the Apple-supplied Tcl/Tk 8.5
-  shipped in OS X 10.6 and later releases.
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
-
-- Issue #18922: Now The Lib/smtpd.py and Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py scripts write
-  their version strings to stdout, and not to sderr.
-
-
-What's New in Python 3.4.0 Alpha 1?
-===================================
-
-Release date: 2013-08-03
-
-Core and Builtins
------------------
-
-- Issue #16741: Fix an error reporting in int().
-
-- Issue #17899: Fix rare file descriptor leak in os.listdir().
-
-- Issue #10241: Clear extension module dict copies at interpreter shutdown.
-  Patch by Neil Schemenauer, minimally modified.
-
-- Issue #9035: ismount now recognises volumes mounted below a drive root
-  on Windows. Original patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.
-
-- Issue #18214: Improve finalization of Python modules to avoid setting
-  their globals to None, in most cases.
-
-- Issue #18112: PEP 442 implementation (safe object finalization).
-
-- Issue #18552: Check return value of PyArena_AddPyObject() in
-  obj2ast_object().
-
-- Issue #18560: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in sum().
-
-- Issue #18520: Add a new PyStructSequence_InitType2() function, same than
-  PyStructSequence_InitType() except that it has a return value (0 on success,
-  -1 on error).
-
-- Issue #15905: Fix theoretical buffer overflow in handling of sys.argv[0],
-  prefix and exec_prefix if the operation system does not obey MAXPATHLEN.
-
-- Issue #18408: Fix many various bugs in code handling errors, especially
-  on memory allocation failure (MemoryError).
-
-- Issue #18344: Fix potential ref-leaks in _bufferedreader_read_all().
-
-- Issue #18342: Use the repr of a module name when an import fails when using
-  ``from ... import ...``.
-
-- Issue #17872: Fix a segfault in marshal.load() when input stream returns
-  more bytes than requested.
-
-- Issue #18338: `python --version` now prints version string to stdout, and
-  not to stderr.  Patch by Berker Peksag and Michael Dickens.
-
-- Issue #18426: Fix NULL pointer dereference in C extension import when
-  PyModule_GetDef() returns an error.
-
-- Issue #17206: On Windows, increase the stack size from 2 MB to 4.2 MB to fix
-  a stack overflow in the marshal module (fix a crash in test_marshal).
-  Patch written by Jeremy Kloth.
-
-- Issue #3329: Implement the PEP 445: Add new APIs to customize Python memory
-  allocators.
-
-- Issue #18328: Reorder ops in PyThreadState_Delete*() functions. Now the
-  tstate is first removed from TLS and then deallocated.
-
-- Issue #13483: Use VirtualAlloc in obmalloc on Windows.
-
-- Issue #18184: PyUnicode_FromFormat() and PyUnicode_FromFormatV() now raise
-  OverflowError when an argument of %c format is out of range.
-
-- Issue #18111: The min() and max() functions now support a default argument
-  to be returned instead of raising a ValueError on an empty sequence.
-  (Contributed by Julian Berman.)
-
-- Issue #18137: Detect integer overflow on precision in float.__format__()
-  and complex.__format__().
-
-- Issue #18183: Fix various unicode operations on strings with large unicode
-  codepoints.
-
-- Issue #18180: Fix ref leak in _PyImport_GetDynLoadWindows().
-
-- Issue #18038: SyntaxError raised during compilation sources with illegal
-  encoding now always contains an encoding name.
-
-- Issue #17931: Resolve confusion on Windows between pids and process
-  handles.
-
-- Tweak the exception message when the magic number or size value in a bytecode
-  file is truncated.
-
-- Issue #17932: Fix an integer overflow issue on Windows 64-bit in iterators:
-  change the C type of seqiterobject.it_index from long to Py_ssize_t.
-
-- Issue #18065: Don't set __path__ to the package name for frozen packages.
-
-- Issue #18088: When reloading a module, unconditionally reset all relevant
-  attributes on the module (e.g. __name__, __loader__, __package__, __file__,
-  __cached__).
-
-- Issue #17937: Try harder to collect cyclic garbage at shutdown.
-
-- Issue #12370: Prevent class bodies from interfering with the __class__
-  closure.
-
-- Issue #17644: Fix a crash in str.format when curly braces are used in square
-  brackets.
-
-- Issue #17237: Fix crash in the ASCII decoder on m68k.
-
-- Issue #17927: Frame objects kept arguments alive if they had been
-  copied into a cell, even if the cell was cleared.
-
-- Issue #1545463: At shutdown, defer finalization of codec modules so
-  that stderr remains usable.
-
-- Issue #7330: Implement width and precision (ex: "%5.3s") for the format
-  string of PyUnicode_FromFormat() function, original patch written by Ysj Ray.
-
-- Issue #1545463: Global variables caught in reference cycles are now
-  garbage-collected at shutdown.
-
-- Issue #17094: Clear stale thread states after fork().  Note that this
-  is a potentially disruptive change since it may release some system
-  resources which would otherwise remain perpetually alive (e.g. database
-  connections kept in thread-local storage).
-
-- Issue #17408: Avoid using an obsolete instance of the copyreg module when
-  the interpreter is shutdown and then started again.
-
-- Issue #5845: Enable tab-completion in the interactive interpreter by
-  default, thanks to a new sys.__interactivehook__.
-
-- Issue #17115,17116: Module initialization now includes setting __package__ and
-  __loader__ attributes to None.
-
-- Issue #17853: Ensure locals of a class that shadow free variables always win
-  over the closures.
-
-- Issue #17863: In the interactive console, don't loop forever if the encoding
-  can't be fetched from stdin.
-
-- Issue #17867: Raise an ImportError if __import__ is not found in __builtins__.
-
-- Issue #18698: Ensure importlib.reload() returns the module out of sys.modules.
-
-- Issue #17857: Prevent build failures with pre-3.5.0 versions of sqlite3,
-  such as was shipped with Centos 5 and Mac OS X 10.4.
-
-- Issue #17413: sys.settrace callbacks were being passed a string instead of an
-  exception instance for the 'value' element of the arg tuple if the exception
-  originated from C code; now an exception instance is always provided.
-
-- Issue #17782: Fix undefined behaviour on platforms where
-  ``struct timespec``'s "tv_nsec" member is not a C long.
-
-- Issue #17722: When looking up __round__, resolve descriptors.
-
-- Issue #16061: Speed up str.replace() for replacing 1-character strings.
-
-- Issue #17715: Fix segmentation fault from raising an exception in a __trunc__
-  method.
-
-- Issue #17643: Add __callback__ attribute to weakref.ref.
-
-- Issue #16447: Fixed potential segmentation fault when setting __name__ on a
-  class.
-
-- Issue #17669: Fix crash involving finalization of generators using yield from.
-
-- Issue #14439: Python now prints the traceback on runpy failure at startup.
-
-- Issue #17469: Fix _Py_GetAllocatedBlocks() and sys.getallocatedblocks()
-  when running on valgrind.
-
-- Issue #17619: Make input() check for Ctrl-C correctly on Windows.
-
-- Issue #17357: Add missing verbosity messages for -v/-vv that were lost during
-  the importlib transition.
-
-- Issue #17610: Don't rely on non-standard behavior of the C qsort() function.
-
-- Issue #17323: The "[X refs, Y blocks]" printed by debug builds has been
-  disabled by default.  It can be re-enabled with the `-X showrefcount` option.
-
-- Issue #17328: Fix possible refleak in dict.setdefault.
-
-- Issue #17275: Corrected class name in init error messages of the C version of
-  BufferedWriter and BufferedRandom.
-
-- Issue #7963: Fixed misleading error message that issued when object is
-  called without arguments.
-
-- Issue #8745: Small speed up zipimport on Windows. Patch by Catalin Iacob.
-
-- Issue #5308: Raise ValueError when marshalling too large object (a sequence
-  with size >= 2**31), instead of producing illegal marshal data.
-
-- Issue #12983: Bytes literals with invalid ``\x`` escape now raise a SyntaxError
-  and a full traceback including line number.
-
-- Issue #16967: In function definition, evaluate positional defaults before
-  keyword-only defaults.
-
-- Issue #17173: Remove uses of locale-dependent C functions (isalpha() etc.)
-  in the interpreter.
-
-- Issue #17137: When a Unicode string is resized, the internal wide character
-  string (wstr) format is now cleared.
-
-- Issue #17043: The unicode-internal decoder no longer read past the end of
-  input buffer.
-
-- Issue #17098: All modules now have __loader__ set even if they pre-exist the
-  bootstrapping of importlib.
-
-- Issue #16979: Fix error handling bugs in the unicode-escape-decode decoder.
-
-- Issue #16772: The base argument to the int constructor no longer accepts
-  floats, or other non-integer objects with an __int__ method.  Objects
-  with an __index__ method are now accepted.
-
-- Issue #10156: In the interpreter's initialization phase, unicode globals
-  are now initialized dynamically as needed.
-
-- Issue #16980: Fix processing of escaped non-ascii bytes in the
-  unicode-escape-decode decoder.
-
-- Issue #16975: Fix error handling bug in the escape-decode bytes decoder.
-
-- Issue #14850: Now a charmap decoder treats U+FFFE as "undefined mapping"
-  in any mapping, not only in a string.
-
-- Issue #16613: Add *m* argument to ``collections.Chainmap.new_child`` to
-  allow the new child map to be specified explicitly.
-
-- Issue #16730: importlib.machinery.FileFinder now no longers raises an
-  exception when trying to populate its cache and it finds out the directory is
-  unreadable or has turned into a file. Reported and diagnosed by
-  David Pritchard.
-
-- Issue #16906: Fix a logic error that prevented most static strings from being
-  cleared.
-
-- Issue #11461: Fix the incremental UTF-16 decoder. Original patch by
-  Amaury Forgeot d'Arc.
-
-- Issue #16856: Fix a segmentation fault from calling repr() on a dict with
-  a key whose repr raise an exception.
-
-- Issue #16367: Fix FileIO.readall() on Windows for files larger than 2 GB.
-
-- Issue #16761: Calling int() with base argument only now raises TypeError.
-
-- Issue #16759: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Reg2Py
-  when retrieving a REG_DWORD value. This corrects functions like
-  winreg.QueryValueEx that may have been returning truncated values.
-
-- Issue #14420: Support the full DWORD (unsigned long) range in Py2Reg
-  when passed a REG_DWORD value. Fixes OverflowError in winreg.SetValueEx.
-
-- Issue #11939: Set the st_dev attribute of stat_result to allow Windows to
-  take advantage of the os.path.samefile/sameopenfile/samestat implementations
-  used by other platforms.
-
-- Issue #16772: The int() constructor's second argument (base) no longer
-  accepts non integer values.  Consistent with the behavior in Python 2.
-
-- Issue #14470: Remove w9xpopen support per PEP 11.
-
-- Issue #9856: Replace deprecation warning with raising TypeError
-  in object.__format__. Patch by Florent Xicluna.
-
-- Issue #16597: In buffered and text IO, call close() on the underlying stream
-  if invoking flush() fails.
-
-- Issue #16722: In the bytes() constructor, try to call __bytes__ on the
-  argument before __index__.
-
-- Issue #16421: loading multiple modules from one shared object is now
-  handled correctly (previously, the first module loaded from that file
-  was silently returned). Patch by Václav Šmilauer.
-
-- Issue #16602: When a weakref's target was part of a long deallocation
-  chain, the object could remain reachable through its weakref even though
-  its refcount had dropped to zero.
-
-- Issue #16495: Remove extraneous NULL encoding check from bytes_decode().
-
-- Issue #16619: Create NameConstant AST class to represent None, True, and False
-  literals. As a result, these constants are never loaded at runtime from
-  builtins.
-
-- Issue #16455: On FreeBSD and Solaris, if the locale is C, the
-  ASCII/surrogateescape codec is now used (instead of the locale encoding) to
-  decode the command line arguments. This change fixes inconsistencies with
-  os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode(), because these operating systems announce an
-  ASCII locale encoding, but actually use the ISO-8859-1 encoding in practice.
-
-- Issue #16562: Optimize dict equality testing.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #16588: Silence unused-but-set warnings in Python/thread_pthread
-
-- Issue #16592: stringlib_bytes_join doesn't raise MemoryError on allocation
-  failure.
-
-- Issue #16546: Fix: ast.YieldFrom argument is now mandatory.
-
-- Issue #16514: Fix regression causing a traceback when sys.path[0] is None
-  (actually, any non-string or non-bytes type).
-
-- Issue #16306: Fix multiple error messages when unknown command line
-  parameters where passed to the interpreter.  Patch by Hieu Nguyen.
-
-- Issue #16215: Fix potential double memory free in str.replace().  Patch
-  by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #16290: A float return value from the __complex__ special method is no
-  longer accepted in the complex() constructor.
-
-- Issue #16416: On Mac OS X, operating system data are now always
-  encoded/decoded to/from UTF-8/surrogateescape, instead of the locale encoding
-  (which may be ASCII if no locale environment variable is set), to avoid
-  inconsistencies with os.fsencode() and os.fsdecode() functions which are
-  already using UTF-8/surrogateescape.
-
-- Issue #16453: Fix equality testing of dead weakref objects.
-
-- Issue #9535: Fix pending signals that have been received but not yet
-  handled by Python to not persist after os.fork() in the child process.
-
-- Issue #14794: Fix slice.indices to return correct results for huge values,
-  rather than raising OverflowError.
-
-- Issue #15001: fix segfault on "del sys.modules['__main__']". Patch by Victor
-  Stinner.
-
-- Issue #8271: the utf-8 decoder now outputs the correct number of U+FFFD
-  characters when used with the 'replace' error handler on invalid utf-8
-  sequences.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka, tests by Ezio Melotti.
-
-- Issue #5765: Apply a hard recursion limit in the compiler instead of
-  blowing the stack and segfaulting. Initial patch by Andrea Griffini.
-
-- Issue #16402: When slicing a range, fix shadowing of exceptions from
-  __index__.
-
-- Issue #16336: fix input checking in the surrogatepass error handler.
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now
-  raises an error.
-
-- Issue #7317: Display full tracebacks when an error occurs asynchronously.
-  Patch by Alon Horev with update by Alexey Kachayev.
-
-- Issue #16309: Make PYTHONPATH="" behavior the same as if PYTHONPATH
-  not set at all.
-
-- Issue #10189: Improve the error reporting of SyntaxErrors related to global
-  and nonlocal statements.
-
-- Fix segfaults on setting __qualname__ on builtin types and attempting to
-  delete it on any type.
-
-- Issue #14625: Rewrite the UTF-32 decoder. It is now 3x to 4x faster. Patch
-  written by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #16345: Fix an infinite loop when ``fromkeys`` on a dict subclass
-  received a nonempty dict from the constructor.
-
-- Issue #16271: Fix strange bugs that resulted from __qualname__ appearing in a
-  class's __dict__ and on type.
-
-- Issue #12805: Make bytes.join and bytearray.join faster when the separator
-  is empty.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #6074: Ensure cached bytecode files can always be updated by the
-  user that created them, even when the source file is read-only.
-
-- Issue #15958: bytes.join and bytearray.join now accept arbitrary buffer
-  objects.
-
-- Issue #14783: Improve int() docstring and switch docstrings for str(),
-  range(), and slice() to use multi-line signatures.
-
-- Issue #16160: Subclass support now works for types.SimpleNamespace.
-
-- Issue #16148: Implement PEP 424, adding operator.length_hint and
-  PyObject_LengthHint.
-
-- Upgrade Unicode data (UCD) to version 6.2.
-
-- Issue #15379: Fix passing of non-BMP characters as integers for the charmap
-  decoder (already working as unicode strings).  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15144: Fix possible integer overflow when handling pointers as integer
-  values, by using `Py_uintptr_t` instead of `size_t`.  Patch by Serhiy
-  Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15965: Explicitly cast `AT_FDCWD` as (int).  Required on Solaris 10
-  (which defines `AT_FDCWD` as ``0xffd19553``), harmless on other platforms.
-
-- Issue #15839: Convert SystemErrors in `super()` to RuntimeErrors.
-
-- Issue #15448: Buffered IO now frees the buffer when closed, instead
-  of when deallocating.
-
-- Issue #15846: Fix SystemError which happened when using `ast.parse()` in an
-  exception handler on code with syntax errors.
-
-- Issue #15897: zipimport.c doesn't check return value of fseek().
-  Patch by Felipe Cruz.
-
-- Issue #15801: Make sure mappings passed to '%' formatting are actually
-  subscriptable.
-
-- Issue #15111: __import__ should propagate ImportError when raised as a
-  side-effect of a module triggered from using fromlist.
-
-- Issue #15022: Add pickle and comparison support to types.SimpleNamespace.
-
-Library
--------
-
-- Issue #4331: Added functools.partialmethod (Initial patch by Alon Horev)
-
-- Issue #13461: Fix a crash in the TextIOWrapper.tell method on 64-bit
-  platforms.  Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari.
-
-- Issue #18681: Fix a NameError in importlib.reload() (noticed by Weizhao Li).
-
-- Issue #14323: Expanded the number of digits in the coefficients for the
-  RGB -- YIQ conversions so that they match the FCC NTSC versions.
-
-- Issue #17998: Fix an internal error in regular expression engine.
-
-- Issue #17557: Fix os.getgroups() to work with the modified behavior of
-  getgroups(2) on OS X 10.8.  Original patch by Mateusz Lenik.
-
-- Issue #18608: Avoid keeping a strong reference to the locale module
-  inside the _io module.
-
-- Issue #18619: Fix atexit leaking callbacks registered from sub-interpreters,
-  and make it GC-aware.
-
-- Issue #15699: The readline module now uses PEP 3121-style module
-  initialization, so as to reclaim allocated resources (Python callbacks)
-  at shutdown.  Original patch by Robin Schreiber.
-
-- Issue #17616: wave.open now supports the context management protocol.
-
-- Issue #18599: Fix name attribute of _sha1.sha1() object. It now returns
-  'SHA1' instead of 'SHA'.
-
-- Issue #13266: Added inspect.unwrap to easily unravel __wrapped__ chains
-  (initial patch by Daniel Urban and Aaron Iles)
-
-- Issue #18561: Skip name in ctypes' _build_callargs() if name is NULL.
-
-- Issue #18559: Fix NULL pointer dereference error in _pickle module
-
-- Issue #18556: Check the return type of PyUnicode_AsWideChar() in ctype's
-  U_set().
-
-- Issue #17818: aifc.getparams now returns a namedtuple.
-
-- Issue #18549: Eliminate dead code in socket_ntohl()
-
-- Issue #18530: Remove additional stat call from posixpath.ismount.
-  Patch by Alex Gaynor.
-
-- Issue #18514: Fix unreachable Py_DECREF() call in PyCData_FromBaseObj()
-
-- Issue #9177: Calling read() or write() now raises ValueError, not
-  AttributeError, on a closed SSL socket.  Patch by Senko Rasic.
-
-- Issue #18513: Fix behaviour of cmath.rect w.r.t. signed zeros on OS X 10.8 +
-  gcc.
-
-- Issue #18479: Changed venv Activate.ps1 to make deactivate a function, and
-  removed Deactivate.ps1.
-
-- Issue #18480: Add missing call to PyType_Ready to the _elementtree extension.
-
-- Issue #17778: Fix test discovery for test_multiprocessing. (Patch by
-  Zachary Ware.)
-
-- Issue #18393: The private module _gestalt and private functions
-  platform._mac_ver_gestalt, platform._mac_ver_lookup and
-  platform._bcd2str have been removed. This does not affect the public
-  interface of the platform module.
-
-- Issue #17482: functools.update_wrapper (and functools.wraps) now set the
-  __wrapped__ attribute correctly even if the underlying function has a
-  __wrapped__ attribute set.
-
-- Issue #18431: The new email header parser now decodes RFC2047 encoded words
-  in structured headers.
-
-- Issue #18432: The sched module's queue method was incorrectly returning
-  an iterator instead of a list.
-
-- Issue #18044: The new email header parser was mis-parsing encoded words where
-  an encoded character immediately followed the '?' that follows the CTE
-  character, resulting in a decoding failure.  They are now decoded correctly.
-
-- Issue #18101: Tcl.split() now process strings nested in a tuple as it
-  do with byte strings.
-
-- Issue #18116: getpass was always getting an error when testing /dev/tty,
-  and thus was always falling back to stdin, and would then raise an exception
-  if stdin could not be used (such as /dev/null).  It also leaked an open file.
-  All of these issues are now fixed.
-
-- Issue #17198: Fix a NameError in the dbm module.  Patch by Valentina
-  Mukhamedzhanova.
-
-- Issue #18013: Fix cgi.FieldStorage to parse the W3C sample form.
-
-- Issue #18020: improve html.escape speed by an order of magnitude.
-  Patch by Matt Bryant.
-
-- Issue #18347: ElementTree's html serializer now preserves the case of
-  closing tags.
-
-- Issue #17261: Ensure multiprocessing's proxies use proper address.
-
-- Issue #18343: faulthandler.register() now keeps the previous signal handler
-  when the function is called twice, so faulthandler.unregister() restores
-  correctly the original signal handler.
-
-- Issue #17097: Make multiprocessing ignore EINTR.
-
-- Issue #18339: Negative ints keys in unpickler.memo dict no longer cause a
-  segfault inside the _pickle C extension.
-
-- Issue #18240: The HMAC module is no longer restricted to bytes and accepts
-  any bytes-like object, e.g. memoryview. Original patch by Jonas Borgström.
-
-- Issue #18224: Removed pydoc script from created venv, as it causes problems
-  on Windows and adds no value over and above python -m pydoc ...
-
-- Issue #18155: The csv module now correctly handles csv files that use
-  a delimiter character that has a special meaning in regexes, instead of
-  throwing an exception.
-
-- Issue #14360: encode_quopri can now be successfully used as an encoder
-  when constructing a MIMEApplication object.
-
-- Issue #11390: Add -o and -f command line options to the doctest CLI to
-  specify doctest options (and convert it to using argparse).
-
-- Issue #18135: ssl.SSLSocket.write() now raises an OverflowError if the input
-  string in longer than 2 gigabytes, and ssl.SSLContext.load_cert_chain()
-  raises a ValueError if the password is longer than 2 gigabytes. The ssl
-  module does not support partial write.
-
-- Issue #11016: Add C implementation of the stat module as _stat.
-
-- Issue #18248: Fix libffi build on AIX.
-
-- Issue #18259: Declare sethostname in socketmodule.c for AIX
-
-- Issue #18147: Add diagnostic functions to ssl.SSLContext(). get_ca_list()
-  lists all loaded CA certificates and cert_store_stats() returns amount of
-  loaded X.509 certs, X.509 CA certs and CRLs.
-
-- Issue #18167: cgi.FieldStorage no longer fails to handle multipart/form-data
-  when ``\r\n`` appears at end of 65535 bytes without other newlines.
-
-- Issue #18076: Introduce importlib.util.decode_source().
-
-- Issue #18357: add tests for dictview set difference.
-  Patch by Fraser Tweedale.
-
-- importlib.abc.SourceLoader.get_source() no longer changes SyntaxError or
-  UnicodeDecodeError into ImportError.
-
-- Issue #18058, 18057: Make the namespace package loader meet the
-  importlib.abc.InspectLoader ABC, allowing for namespace packages to work with
-  runpy.
-
-- Issue #17177: The imp module is pending deprecation.
-
-- subprocess: Prevent a possible double close of parent pipe fds when the
-  subprocess exec runs into an error.  Prevent a regular multi-close of the
-  /dev/null fd when any of stdin, stdout and stderr was set to DEVNULL.
-
-- Issue #18194: Introduce importlib.util.cache_from_source() and
-  source_from_cache() while documenting the equivalent functions in imp as
-  deprecated.
-
-- Issue #17907: Document imp.new_module() as deprecated in favour of
-  types.ModuleType.
-
-- Issue #18192: Introduce importlib.util.MAGIC_NUMBER and document as deprecated
-  imp.get_magic().
-
-- Issue #18149: Add filecmp.clear_cache() to manually clear the filecmp cache.
-  Patch by Mark Levitt
-
-- Issue #18193: Add importlib.reload().
-
-- Issue #18157: Stop using imp.load_module() in pydoc.
-
-- Issue #16102: Make uuid._netbios_getnode() work again on Python 3.
-
-- Issue #17134: Add ssl.enum_cert_store() as interface to Windows' cert store.
-
-- Issue #18143: Implement ssl.get_default_verify_paths() in order to debug
-  the default locations for cafile and capath.
-
-- Issue #17314: Move multiprocessing.forking over to importlib.
-
-- Issue #11959: SMTPServer and SMTPChannel now take an optional map, use of
-  which avoids affecting global state.
-
-- Issue #18109: os.uname() now decodes fields from the locale encoding, and
-  socket.gethostname() now decodes the hostname from the locale encoding,
-  instead of using the UTF-8 encoding in strict mode.
-
-- Issue #18089: Implement importlib.abc.InspectLoader.load_module.
-
-- Issue #18088: Introduce importlib.abc.Loader.init_module_attrs for setting
-  module attributes. Leads to the pending deprecation of
-  importlib.util.module_for_loader.
-
-- Issue #17403: urllib.parse.robotparser normalizes the urls before adding to
-  ruleline. This helps in handling certain types invalid urls in a conservative
-  manner. Patch contributed by Mher Movsisyan.
-
-- Issue #18070: Have importlib.util.module_for_loader() set attributes
-  unconditionally in order to properly support reloading.
-
-- Added importlib.util.module_to_load to return a context manager to provide the
-  proper module object to load.
-
-- Issue #18025: Fixed a segfault in io.BufferedIOBase.readinto() when raw
-  stream's read() returns more bytes than requested.
-
-- Issue #18011: As was originally intended, base64.b32decode() now raises a
-  binascii.Error if there are non-b32-alphabet characters present in the input
-  string, instead of a TypeError.
-
-- Issue #18072: Implement importlib.abc.InspectLoader.get_code() and
-  importlib.abc.ExecutionLoader.get_code().
-
-- Issue #8240: Set the SSL_MODE_ACCEPT_MOVING_WRITE_BUFFER flag on SSL
-  sockets.
-
-- Issue #17269: Workaround for socket.getaddrinfo crash on MacOS X
-  with port None or "0" and flags AI_NUMERICSERV.
-
-- Issue #16986: ElementTree now correctly works with string input when the
-  internal XML encoding is not UTF-8 or US-ASCII.
-
-- Issue #17996: socket module now exposes AF_LINK constant on BSD and OSX.
-
-- Issue #17900: Allowed pickling of recursive OrderedDicts.  Decreased pickled
-  size and pickling time.
-
-- Issue #17914: Add os.cpu_count(). Patch by Yogesh Chaudhari, based on an
-  initial patch by Trent Nelson.
-
-- Issue #17812: Fixed quadratic complexity of base64.b32encode().
-  Optimize base64.b32encode() and base64.b32decode() (speed up to 3x).
-
-- Issue #17980: Fix possible abuse of ssl.match_hostname() for denial of
-  service using certificates with many wildcards (CVE-2013-2099).
-
-- Issue #15758: Fix FileIO.readall() so it no longer has O(n**2) complexity.
-
-- Issue #14596: The struct.Struct() objects now use a more compact
-  implementation.
-
-- Issue #17981: logging's SysLogHandler now closes the socket when it catches
-  socket OSErrors.
-
-- Issue #17964: Fix os.sysconf(): the return type of the C sysconf() function
-  is long, not int.
-
-- Fix typos in the multiprocessing module.
-
-- Issue #17754: Make ctypes.util.find_library() independent of the locale.
-
-- Issue #17968: Fix memory leak in os.listxattr().
-
-- Issue #17606: Fixed support of encoded byte strings in the XMLGenerator
-  characters() and ignorableWhitespace() methods.  Original patch by Sebastian
-  Ortiz Vasquez.
-
-- Issue #17732: Ignore distutils.cfg options pertaining to install paths if a
-  virtual environment is active.
-
-- Issue #17915: Fix interoperability of xml.sax with file objects returned by
-  codecs.open().
-
-- Issue #16601: Restarting iteration over tarfile really restarts rather
-  than continuing from where it left off.  Patch by Michael Birtwell.
-
-- Issue #17289: The readline module now plays nicer with external modules
-  or applications changing the rl_completer_word_break_characters global
-  variable.  Initial patch by Bradley Froehle.
-
-- Issue #12181: select module: Fix struct kevent definition on OpenBSD 64-bit
-  platforms. Patch by Federico Schwindt.
-
-- Issue #11816: multiple improvements to the dis module: get_instructions
-  generator, ability to redirect output to a file, Bytecode and Instruction
-  abstractions. Patch by Nick Coghlan, Ryan Kelly and Thomas Kluyver.
-
-- Issue #13831: Embed stringification of remote traceback in local
-  traceback raised when pool task raises an exception.
-
-- Issue #15528: Add weakref.finalize to support finalization using
-  weakref callbacks.
-
-- Issue #14173: Avoid crashing when reading a signal handler during
-  interpreter shutdown.
-
-- Issue #15902: Fix imp.load_module() accepting None as a file when loading an
-  extension module.
-
-- Issue #13721: SSLSocket.getpeercert() and SSLSocket.do_handshake() now
-  raise an OSError with ENOTCONN, instead of an AttributeError, when the
-  SSLSocket is not connected.
-
-- Issue #14679: add an __all__ (that contains only HTMLParser) to html.parser.
-
-- Issue #17802: Fix an UnboundLocalError in html.parser.  Initial tests by
-  Thomas Barlow.
-
-- Issue #17358: Modules loaded by imp.load_source() and load_compiled() (and by
-  extension load_module()) now have a better chance of working when reloaded.
-
-- Issue #17804: New function ``struct.iter_unpack`` allows for streaming
-  struct unpacking.
-
-- Issue #17830: When keyword.py is used to update a keyword file, it now
-  preserves the line endings of the original file.
-
-- Issue #17272: Making the urllib.request's Request.full_url a descriptor.
-  Fixes bugs with assignment to full_url. Patch by Demian Brecht.
-
-- Issue #17353: Plistlib emitted empty data tags with deeply nested datastructures
-
-- Issue #11714: Use 'with' statements to assure a Semaphore releases a
-  condition variable.  Original patch by Thomas Rachel.
-
-- Issue #16624: `subprocess.check_output` now accepts an `input` argument,
-  allowing the subprocess's stdin to be provided as a (byte) string.
-  Patch by Zack Weinberg.
-
-- Issue #17795: Reverted backwards-incompatible change in SysLogHandler with
-  Unix domain sockets.
-
-- Issue #16694: Add a pure Python implementation of the operator module.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #11182: remove the unused and undocumented pydoc.Scanner class.
-  Patch by Martin Morrison.
-
-- Issue #17741: Add ElementTree.XMLPullParser, an event-driven parser for
-  non-blocking applications.
-
-- Issue #17555: Fix ForkAwareThreadLock so that size of after fork
-  registry does not grow exponentially with generation of process.
-
-- Issue #17707: fix regression in multiprocessing.Queue's get() method where
-  it did not block for short timeouts.
-
-- Issue #17720: Fix the Python implementation of pickle.Unpickler to correctly
-  process the APPENDS opcode when it is used on non-list objects.
-
-- Issue #17012: shutil.which() no longer falls back to the PATH environment
-  variable if an empty path argument is specified.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #17710: Fix pickle raising a SystemError on bogus input.
-
-- Issue #17341: Include the invalid name in the error messages from re about
-  invalid group names.
-
-- Issue #17702: os.environ now raises KeyError with the original environment
-  variable name (str on UNIX), instead of using the encoded name (bytes on
-  UNIX).
-
-- Issue #16163: Make the importlib based version of pkgutil.iter_importers
-  work for submodules. Initial patch by Berker Peksag.
-
-- Issue #16804: Fix a bug in the 'site' module that caused running
-  'python -S -m site' to incorrectly throw an exception.
-
-- Issue #15480: Remove the deprecated and unused TYPE_INT64 code from marshal.
-  Initial patch by Daniel Riti.
-
-- Issue #2118: SMTPException is now a subclass of OSError.
-
-- Issue #17016: Get rid of possible pointer wraparounds and integer overflows
-  in the re module.  Patch by Nickolai Zeldovich.
-
-- Issue #16658: add missing return to HTTPConnection.send().
-  Patch by Jeff Knupp.
-
-- Issue #9556: the logging package now allows specifying a time-of-day for a
-  TimedRotatingFileHandler to rotate.
-
-- Issue #14971: unittest test discovery no longer gets confused when a function
-  has a different __name__ than its name in the TestCase class dictionary.
-
-- Issue #17487: The wave getparams method now returns a namedtuple rather than
-  a plain tuple.
-
-- Issue #17675: socket repr() provides local and remote addresses (if any).
-  Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'
-
-- Issue #17093: Make the ABCs in importlib.abc provide default values or raise
-  reasonable exceptions for their methods to make them more amenable to super()
-  calls.
-
-- Issue #17566: Make importlib.abc.Loader.module_repr() optional instead of an
-  abstractmethod; now it raises NotImplementedError so as to be ignored by default.
-
-- Issue #17678: Remove the use of deprecated method in http/cookiejar.py by
-  changing the call to get_origin_req_host() to origin_req_host.
-
-- Issue #17666: Fix reading gzip files with an extra field.
-
-- Issue #16475: Support object instancing, recursion and interned strings
-  in marshal
-
-- Issue #17502: Process DEFAULT values in mock side_effect that returns iterator.
-
-- Issue #16795: On the ast.arguments object, unify vararg with varargannotation
-  and kwarg and kwargannotation. Change the column offset of ast.Attribute to be
-  at the attribute name.
-
-- Issue #17434: Properly raise a SyntaxError when a string occurs between future
-  imports.
-
-- Issue #17117: Import and @importlib.util.set_loader now set __loader__ when
-  it has a value of None or the attribute doesn't exist.
-
-- Issue #17032: The "global" in the "NameError: global name 'x' is not defined"
-  error message has been removed.  Patch by Ram Rachum.
-
-- Issue #18080: When building a C extension module on OS X, if the compiler
-  is overridden with the CC environment variable, use the new compiler as
-  the default for linking if LDSHARED is not also overridden.  This restores
-  Distutils behavior introduced in 3.2.3 and inadvertently dropped in 3.3.0.
-
-- Issue #18113: Fixed a refcount leak in the curses.panel module's
-  set_userptr() method.  Reported by Atsuo Ishimoto.
-
-- Implement PEP 443 "Single-dispatch generic functions".
-
-- Implement PEP 435 "Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library".
-
-- Issue #15596: Faster pickling of unicode strings.
-
-- Issue #17572: Avoid chained exceptions when passing bad directives to
-  time.strptime().  Initial patch by Claudiu Popa.
-
-- Issue #17435: threading.Timer's __init__ method no longer uses mutable
-  default values for the args and kwargs parameters.
-
-- Issue #17526: fix an IndexError raised while passing code without filename to
-  inspect.findsource().  Initial patch by Tyler Doyle.
-
-- Issue #17540: Added style parameter to logging formatter configuration by dict.
-
-- Issue #16692: The ssl module now supports TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2.  Initial
-  patch by Michele Orrù.
-
-- Issue #17025: multiprocessing: Reduce Queue and SimpleQueue contention.
-
-- Issue #17536: Add to webbrowser's browser list: www-browser, x-www-browser,
-  iceweasel, iceape.
-
-- Issue #17150: pprint now uses line continuations to wrap long string
-  literals.
-
-- Issue #17488: Change the subprocess.Popen bufsize parameter default value
-  from unbuffered (0) to buffering (-1) to match the behavior existing code
-  expects and match the behavior of the subprocess module in Python 2 to avoid
-  introducing hard to track down bugs.
-
-- Issue #17521: Corrected non-enabling of logger following two calls to
-  fileConfig().
-
-- Issue #17508: Corrected logging MemoryHandler configuration in dictConfig()
-  where the target handler wasn't configured first.
-
-- Issue #17209: curses.window.get_wch() now correctly handles KeyboardInterrupt
-  (CTRL+c).
-
-- Issue #5713: smtplib now handles 421 (closing connection) error codes when
-  sending mail by closing the socket and reporting the 421 error code via the
-  exception appropriate to the command that received the error response.
-
-- Issue #16997: unittest.TestCase now provides a subTest() context manager
-  to procedurally generate, in an easy way, small test instances.
-
-- Issue #17485: Also delete the Request Content-Length header if the data
-  attribute is deleted.  (Follow on to issue Issue #16464).
-
-- Issue #15927: CVS now correctly parses escaped newlines and carriage
-  when parsing with quoting turned off.
-
-- Issue #17467: add readline and readlines support to mock_open in
-  unittest.mock.
-
-- Issue #13248: removed deprecated and undocumented difflib.isbjunk,
-  isbpopular.
-
-- Issue #17192: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.0.13.  This
-  specifically addresses a stack misalignment issue on x86 and issues on
-  some more recent platforms.
-
-- Issue #8862: Fixed curses cleanup when getkey is interrupted by a signal.
-
-- Issue #17443: imaplib.IMAP4_stream was using the default unbuffered IO
-  in subprocess, but the imap code assumes buffered IO.  In Python2 this
-  worked by accident.  IMAP4_stream now explicitly uses buffered IO.
-
-- Issue #17476: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in undocumented pydoc
-  'allmethods'; it was missing unbound methods on the class.
-
-- Issue #17474: Remove the deprecated methods of Request class.
-
-- Issue #16709: unittest discover order is no-longer filesystem specific. Patch
-  by Jeff Ramnani.
-
-- Use the HTTPS PyPI url for upload, overriding any plain HTTP URL in pypirc.
-
-- Issue #5024: sndhdr.whichhdr now returns the frame count for WAV files
-  rather than -1.
-
-- Issue #17460: Remove the strict argument of HTTPConnection and removing the
-  DeprecationWarning being issued from 3.2 onwards.
-
-- Issue #16880: Do not assume _imp.load_dynamic() is defined in the imp module.
-
-- Issue #16389: Fixed a performance regression relative to Python 3.1 in the
-  caching of compiled regular expressions.
-
-- Added missing FeedParser and BytesFeedParser to email.parser.__all__.
-
-- Issue #17431: Fix missing import of BytesFeedParser in email.parser.
-
-- Issue #12921: http.server's send_error takes an explain argument to send more
-  information in response. Patch contributed by Karl.
-
-- Issue #17414: Add timeit, repeat, and default_timer to timeit.__all__.
-
-- Issue #1285086: Get rid of the refcounting hack and speed up
-  urllib.parse.unquote() and urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes().
-
-- Issue #17099: Have importlib.find_loader() raise ValueError when __loader__
-  is not set, harmonizing with what happens when the attribute is set to None.
-
-- Expose the O_PATH constant in the os module if it is available.
-
-- Issue #17368: Fix an off-by-one error in the Python JSON decoder that caused
-  a failure while decoding empty object literals when object_pairs_hook was
-  specified.
-
-- Issue #17385: Fix quadratic behavior in threading.Condition.  The FIFO
-  queue now uses a deque instead of a list.
-
-- Issue #15806: Add contextlib.ignore().  This creates a context manager to
-  ignore specified exceptions, replacing the "except SomeException: pass" idiom.
-
-- Issue #14645: The email generator classes now produce output using the
-  specified linesep throughout.  Previously if the prolog, epilog, or
-  body were stored with a different linesep, that linesep was used.  This
-  fix corrects an RFC non-compliance issue with smtplib.send_message.
-
-- Issue #17278: Fix a crash in heapq.heappush() and heapq.heappop() when
-  the list is being resized concurrently.
-
-- Issue #16962: Use getdents64 instead of the obsolete getdents syscall
-  in the subprocess module on Linux.
-
-- Issue #16935: unittest now counts the module as skipped if it raises SkipTest,
-  instead of counting it as an error.  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #17018: Make Process.join() retry if os.waitpid() fails with EINTR.
-
-- Issue #17223: array module: Fix a crasher when converting an array containing
-  invalid characters (outside range [U+0000; U+10ffff]) to Unicode:
-  repr(array), str(array) and array.tounicode(). Patch written by Manuel Jacob.
-
-- Issue #17197: profile/cProfile modules refactored so that code of run() and
-  runctx() utility functions is not duplicated in both modules.
-
-- Issue #14720: sqlite3: Convert datetime microseconds correctly.
-  Patch by Lowe Thiderman.
-
-- Issue #15132: Allow a list for the defaultTest argument of
-  unittest.TestProgram. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
-
-- Issue #17225: JSON decoder now counts columns in the first line starting
-  with 1, as in other lines.
-
-- Issue #6623: Added explicit DeprecationWarning for ftplib.netrc, which has
-  been deprecated and undocumented for a long time.
-
-- Issue #13700: Fix byte/string handling in imaplib authentication when an
-  authobject is specified.
-
-- Issue #13153: Tkinter functions now raise TclError instead of ValueError when
-  a string argument contains non-BMP character.
-
-- Issue #9669: Protect re against infinite loops on zero-width matching in
-  non-greedy repeat.  Patch by Matthew Barnett.
-
-- Issue #13169: The maximal repetition number in a regular expression has been
-  increased from 65534 to 2147483647 (on 32-bit platform) or 4294967294 (on
-  64-bit).
-
-- Issue #17143: Fix a missing import in the trace module.  Initial patch by
-  Berker Peksag.
-
-- Issue #15220: email.feedparser's line splitting algorithm is now simpler and
-  faster.
-
-- Issue #16743: Fix mmap overflow check on 32 bit Windows.
-
-- Issue #16996: webbrowser module now uses shutil.which() to find a
-  web-browser on the executable search path.
-
-- Issue #16800: tempfile.gettempdir() no longer left temporary files when
-  the disk is full.  Original patch by Amir Szekely.
-
-- Issue #17192: Import libffi-3.0.12.
-
-- Issue #16564: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in the operation of
-  email.encoders.encode_7or8bit when used with binary data.
-
-- Issue #17052: unittest discovery should use self.testLoader.
-
-- Issue #4591: Uid and gid values larger than 2**31 are supported now.
-
-- Issue #17141: random.vonmisesvariate() no longer hangs for large kappas.
-
-- Issue #17149: Fix random.vonmisesvariate to always return results in
-  [0, 2*math.pi].
-
-- Issue #1470548: XMLGenerator now works with binary output streams.
-
-- Issue #6975: os.path.realpath() now correctly resolves multiple nested
-  symlinks on POSIX platforms.
-
-- Issue #13773: sqlite3.connect() gets a new `uri` parameter to pass the
-  filename as a URI, allowing custom options to be passed.
-
-- Issue #16564: Fixed regression relative to Python2 in the operation of
-  email.encoders.encode_noop when used with binary data.
-
-- Issue #10355: The mode, name, encoding and newlines properties now work on
-  SpooledTemporaryFile objects even when they have not yet rolled over.
-  Obsolete method xreadline (which has never worked in Python 3) has been
-  removed.
-
-- Issue #16686: Fixed a lot of bugs in audioop module.  Fixed crashes in
-  avgpp(), maxpp() and ratecv().  Fixed an integer overflow in add(), bias(),
-  and ratecv().  reverse(), lin2lin() and ratecv() no more lose precision for
-  32-bit samples.  max() and rms() no more returns a negative result and
-  various other functions now work correctly with 32-bit sample -0x80000000.
-
-- Issue #17073: Fix some integer overflows in sqlite3 module.
-
-- Issue #16723: httplib.HTTPResponse no longer marked closed when the connection
-  is automatically closed.
-
-- Issue #15359: Add CAN_BCM protocol support to the socket module. Patch by
-  Brian Thorne.
-
-- Issue #16948: Fix quoted printable body encoding for non-latin1 character
-  sets in the email package.
-
-- Issue #16811: Fix folding of headers with no value in the provisional email
-  policies.
-
-- Issue #17132: Update symbol for "yield from" grammar changes.
-
-- Issue #17076: Make copying of xattrs more tolerant of missing FS support.
-  Patch by Thomas Wouters.
-
-- Issue #17089: Expat parser now correctly works with string input when the
-  internal XML encoding is not UTF-8 or US-ASCII.  It also now accepts bytes
-  and strings larger than 2 GiB.
-
-- Issue #6083: Fix multiple segmentation faults occurred when PyArg_ParseTuple
-  parses nested mutating sequence.
-
-- Issue #5289: Fix ctypes.util.find_library on Solaris.
-
-- Issue #17106: Fix a segmentation fault in io.TextIOWrapper when an underlying
-  stream or a decoder produces data of an unexpected type (i.e. when
-  io.TextIOWrapper initialized with text stream or use bytes-to-bytes codec).
-
-- Issue #17015: When it has a spec, a Mock object now inspects its signature
-  when matching calls, so that arguments can be matched positionally or
-  by name.
-
-- Issue #15633: httplib.HTTPResponse is now mark closed when the server
-  sends less than the advertised Content-Length.
-
-- Issue #12268: The io module file object write methods no longer abort early
-  when one of its write system calls is interrupted (EINTR).
-
-- Issue #6972: The zipfile module no longer overwrites files outside of
-  its destination path when extracting malicious zip files.
-
-- Issue #4844: ZipFile now raises BadZipFile when opens a ZIP file with an
-  incomplete "End of Central Directory" record.  Original patch by Guilherme
-  Polo and Alan McIntyre.
-
-- Issue #17071: Signature.bind() now works when one of the keyword arguments
-  is named ``self``.
-
-- Issue #12004: Fix an internal error in PyZipFile when writing an invalid
-  Python file.  Patch by Ben Morgan.
-
-- Have py_compile use importlib as much as possible to avoid code duplication.
-  Code now raises FileExistsError if the file path to be used for the
-  byte-compiled file is a symlink or non-regular file as a warning that import
-  will not keep the file path type if it writes to that path.
-
-- Issue #16972: Have site.addpackage() consider already known paths even when
-  none are explicitly passed in. Bug report and fix by Kirill.
-
-- Issue #1602133: on Mac OS X a shared library build (``--enable-shared``)
-  now fills the ``os.environ`` variable correctly.
-
-- Issue #15505: `unittest.installHandler` no longer assumes SIGINT handler is
-  set to a callable object.
-
-- Issue #13454: Fix a crash when deleting an iterator created by itertools.tee()
-  if all other iterators were very advanced before.
-
-- Issue #12411: Fix to cgi.parse_multipart to correctly use bytes boundaries
-  and bytes data. Patch by Jonas Wagner.
-
-- Issue #16957: shutil.which() no longer searches a bare file name in the
-  current directory on Unix and no longer searches a relative file path with
-  a directory part in PATH directories.  Patch by Thomas Kluyver.
-
-- Issue #1159051: GzipFile now raises EOFError when reading a corrupted file
-  with truncated header or footer.
-
-- Issue #16993: shutil.which() now preserves the case of the path and extension
-  on Windows.
-
-- Issue #16992: On Windows in signal.set_wakeup_fd, validate the file
-  descriptor argument.
-
-- Issue #16422: For compatibility with the Python version, the C version of
-  decimal now uses strings instead of integers for rounding mode constants.
-
-- Issue #15861: tkinter now correctly works with lists and tuples containing
-  strings with whitespaces, backslashes or unbalanced braces.
-
-- Issue #9720: zipfile now writes correct local headers for files larger than
-  4 GiB.
-
-- Issue #16955: Fix the poll() method for multiprocessing's socket
-  connections on Windows.
-
-- SSLContext.load_dh_params() now properly closes the input file.
-
-- Issue #15031: Refactor some .pyc management code to cut down on code
-  duplication. Thanks to Ronan Lamy for the report and taking an initial stab
-  at the problem.
-
-- Issue #16398: Optimize deque.rotate() so that it only moves pointers
-  and doesn't touch the underlying data with increfs and decrefs.
-
-- Issue #16900: Issue a ResourceWarning when an ssl socket is left unclosed.
-
-- Issue #13899: ``\A``, ``\Z``, and ``\B`` now correctly match the A, Z,
-  and B literals when used inside character classes (e.g. ``'[\A]'``).
-  Patch by Matthew Barnett.
-
-- Issue #15545: Fix regression in sqlite3's iterdump method where it was
-  failing if the connection used a row factory (such as sqlite3.Row) that
-  produced unsortable objects. (Regression was introduced by fix for 9750).
-
-- fcntl: add F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC constant, available on Linux 2.6.24+.
-
-- Issue #15972: Fix error messages when os functions expecting a file name or
-  file descriptor receive the incorrect type.
-
-- Issue #8109: The ssl module now has support for server-side SNI, thanks
-  to a :meth:`SSLContext.set_servername_callback` method.  Patch by Daniel
-  Black.
-
-- Issue #16860: In tempfile, use O_CLOEXEC when available to set the
-  close-on-exec flag atomically.
-
-- Issue #16674: random.getrandbits() is now 20-40% faster for small integers.
-
-- Issue #16009: JSON error messages now provide more information.
-
-- Issue #16828: Fix error incorrectly raised by bz2.compress(b'') and
-  bz2.BZ2Compressor.compress(b''). Initial patch by Martin Packman.
-
-- Issue #16833: In http.client.HTTPConnection, do not concatenate the request
-  headers and body when the payload exceeds 16 KB, since it can consume more
-  memory for no benefit.  Patch by Benno Leslie.
-
-- Issue #16541: tk_setPalette() now works with keyword arguments.
-
-- Issue #16820: In configparser, `parser.popitem()` no longer raises ValueError.
-  This makes `parser.clean()` work correctly.
-
-- Issue #16820: In configparser, ``parser['section'] = {}`` now preserves
-  section order within the parser. This makes `parser.update()` preserve section
-  order as well.
-
-- Issue #16820: In configparser, ``parser['DEFAULT'] = {}`` now correctly
-  clears previous values stored in the default section. Same goes for
-  ``parser.update({'DEFAULT': {}})``.
-
-- Issue #9586: Redefine SEM_FAILED on MacOSX to keep compiler happy.
-
-- Issue #16787: Increase asyncore and asynchat default output buffers size, to
-  decrease CPU usage and increase throughput.
-
-- Issue #10527: make multiprocessing use poll() instead of select() if available.
-
-- Issue #16688: Now regexes contained backreferences correctly work with
-  non-ASCII strings.  Patch by Matthew Barnett.
-
-- Issue #16486: Make aifc files act as context managers.
-
-- Issue #16485: Now file descriptors are closed if file header patching failed
-  on closing an aifc file.
-
-- Issue #16640: Run less code under a lock in sched module.
-
-- Issue #16165: sched.scheduler.run() no longer blocks a scheduler for other
-  threads.
-
-- Issue #16641: Default values of sched.scheduler.enter() are no longer
-  modifiable.
-
-- Issue #16618: Make glob.glob match consistently across strings and bytes
-  regarding leading dots.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #16788: Add samestat to Lib/ntpath.py
-
-- Issue #16713: Parsing of 'tel' urls using urlparse separates params from
-  path.
-
-- Issue #16443: Add docstrings to regular expression match objects.
-  Patch by Anton Kasyanov.
-
-- Issue #15701: Fix HTTPError info method call to return the headers information.
-
-- Issue #16752: Add a missing import to modulefinder. Patch by Berker Peksag.
-
-- Issue #16646: ftplib.FTP.makeport() might lose socket error details.
-  (patch by Serhiy Storchaka)
-
-- Issue #16626: Fix infinite recursion in glob.glob() on Windows when the
-  pattern contains a wildcard in the drive or UNC path.  Patch by Serhiy
-  Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15783: Except for the number methods, the C version of decimal now
-  supports all None default values present in decimal.py. These values were
-  largely undocumented.
-
-- Issue #11175: argparse.FileType now accepts encoding and errors
-  arguments. Patch by Lucas Maystre.
-
-- Issue #16488: epoll() objects now support the `with` statement.  Patch
-  by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #16298: In HTTPResponse.read(), close the socket when there is no
-  Content-Length and the incoming stream is finished.  Patch by Eran
-  Rundstein.
-
-- Issue #16049: Add abc.ABC class to enable the use of inheritance to create
-  ABCs, rather than the more cumbersome metaclass=ABCMeta. Patch by Bruno
-  Dupuis.
-
-- Expose the TCP_FASTOPEN and MSG_FASTOPEN flags in socket when they're
-  available.
-
-- Issue #15701: Add a .headers attribute to urllib.error.HTTPError. Patch
-  contributed by Berker Peksag.
-
-- Issue #15872: Fix 3.3 regression introduced by the new fd-based shutil.rmtree
-  that caused it to not ignore certain errors when ignore_errors was set.
-  Patch by Alessandro Moura and Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #16248: Disable code execution from the user's home directory by
-  tkinter when the -E flag is passed to Python.  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #13390: New function :func:`sys.getallocatedblocks()` returns the
-  number of memory blocks currently allocated.
-
-- Issue #16628: Fix a memory leak in ctypes.resize().
-
-- Issue #13614: Fix setup.py register failure with invalid rst in description.
-  Patch by Julien Courteau and Pierre Paul Lefebvre.
-
-- Issue #13512: Create ~/.pypirc securely (CVE-2011-4944).  Initial patch by
-  Philip Jenvey, tested by Mageia and Debian.
-
-- Issue #7719: Make distutils ignore ``.nfs*`` files instead of choking later
-  on.  Initial patch by SilentGhost and Jeff Ramnani.
-
-- Issue #13120: Allow calling pdb.set_trace() from thread.
-  Patch by Ilya Sandler.
-
-- Issue #16585: Make CJK encoders support error handlers that return bytes per
-  PEP 383.
-
-- Issue #10182: The re module doesn't truncate indices to 32 bits anymore.
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #16333: use (",", ": ") as default separator in json when indent is
-  specified, to avoid trailing whitespace.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #16573: In 2to3, treat enumerate() like a consuming call, so superfluous
-  list() calls aren't added to filter(), map(), and zip() which are directly
-  passed enumerate().
-
-- Issue #16464: Reset the Content-Length header when a urllib Request is reused
-  with new data.
-
-- Issue #12848: The pure Python pickle implementation now treats object
-  lengths as unsigned 32-bit integers, like the C implementation does.
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #16423: urllib.request now has support for ``data:`` URLs.  Patch by
-  Mathias Panzenböck.
-
-- Issue #4473: Add a POP3.stls() to switch a clear-text POP3 session into
-  an encrypted POP3 session, on supported servers.  Patch by Lorenzo Catucci.
-
-- Issue #4473: Add a POP3.capa() method to query the capabilities advertised
-  by the POP3 server.  Patch by Lorenzo Catucci.
-
-- Issue #4473: Ensure the socket is shutdown cleanly in POP3.close().
-  Patch by Lorenzo Catucci.
-
-- Issue #16522: added FAIL_FAST flag to doctest.
-
-- Issue #15627: Add the importlib.abc.InspectLoader.source_to_code() method.
-
-- Issue #16408: Fix file descriptors not being closed in error conditions
-  in the zipfile module.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #14631: Add a new :class:`weakref.WeakMethod` to simulate weak
-  references to bound methods.
-
-- Issue #16469: Fix exceptions from float -> Fraction and Decimal -> Fraction
-  conversions for special values to be consistent with those for float -> int
-  and Decimal -> int.  Patch by Alexey Kachayev.
-
-- Issue #16481: multiprocessing no longer leaks process handles on Windows.
-
-- Issue #12428: Add a pure Python implementation of functools.partial().
-  Patch by Brian Thorne.
-
-- Issue #16140: The subprocess module no longer double closes its child
-  subprocess.PIPE parent file descriptors on child error prior to exec().
-
-- Remove a bare print to stdout from the subprocess module that could have
-  happened if the child process wrote garbage to its pre-exec error pipe.
-
-- The subprocess module now raises its own SubprocessError instead of a
-  RuntimeError in various error situations which should not normally happen.
-
-- Issue #16327: The subprocess module no longer leaks file descriptors
-  used for stdin/stdout/stderr pipes to the child when fork() fails.
-
-- Issue #14396: Handle the odd rare case of waitpid returning 0 when not
-  expected in subprocess.Popen.wait().
-
-- Issue #16411: Fix a bug where zlib.decompressobj().flush() might try to access
-  previously-freed memory. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #16357: fix calling accept() on a SSLSocket created through
-  SSLContext.wrap_socket().  Original patch by Jeff McNeil.
-
-- Issue #16409: The reporthook callback made by the legacy
-  urllib.request.urlretrieve API now properly supplies a constant non-zero
-  block_size as it did in Python 3.2 and 2.7.  This matches the behavior of
-  urllib.request.URLopener.retrieve.
-
-- Issue #16431: Use the type information when constructing a Decimal subtype
-  from a Decimal argument.
-
-- Issue #15641: Clean up deprecated classes from importlib.
-  Patch by Taras Lyapun.
-
-- Issue #16350: zlib.decompressobj().decompress() now accumulates data from
-  successive calls after EOF in unused_data, instead of only saving the argument
-  to the last call. decompressobj().flush() now correctly sets unused_data and
-  unconsumed_tail. A bug in the handling of MemoryError when setting the
-  unconsumed_tail attribute has also been fixed. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #12759: sre_parse now raises a proper error when the name of the group
-  is missing.  Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #16152: fix tokenize to ignore whitespace at the end of the code when
-  no newline is found.  Patch by Ned Batchelder.
-
-- Issue #16284: Prevent keeping unnecessary references to worker functions
-  in concurrent.futures ThreadPoolExecutor.
-
-- Issue #16230: Fix a crash in select.select() when one of the lists changes
-  size while iterated on.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #16228: Fix a crash in the json module where a list changes size
-  while it is being encoded.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #16351: New function gc.get_stats() returns per-generation collection
-  statistics.
-
-- Issue #14897: Enhance error messages of struct.pack and
-  struct.pack_into. Patch by Matti Mäki.
-
-- Issue #16316: mimetypes now recognizes the .xz and .txz (.tar.xz) extensions.
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #12890: cgitb no longer prints spurious <p> tags in text
-  mode when the logdir option is specified.
-
-- Issue #16307: Fix multiprocessing.Pool.map_async not calling its callbacks.
-  Patch by Janne Karila.
-
-- Issue #16305: Fix a segmentation fault occurring when interrupting
-  math.factorial.
-
-- Issue #16116: Fix include and library paths to be correct when building C
-  extensions in venvs.
-
-- Issue #16245: Fix the value of a few entities in html.entities.html5.
-
-- Issue #16301: Fix the localhost verification in urllib/request.py for ``file://``
-  urls.
-
-- Issue #16250: Fix the invocations of URLError which had misplaced filename
-  attribute for exception.
-
-- Issue #10836: Fix exception raised when file not found in urlretrieve
-  Initial patch by Ezio Melotti.
-
-- Issue #14398: Fix size truncation and overflow bugs in the bz2 module.
-
-- Issue #12692: Fix resource leak in urllib.request when talking to an HTTP
-  server that does not include a ``Connection: close`` header in its responses.
-
-- Issue #12034: Fix bogus caching of result in check_GetFinalPathNameByHandle.
-  Patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.
-
-- Improve performance of `lzma.LZMAFile` (see also issue #16034).
-
-- Issue #16220: wsgiref now always calls close() on an iterable response.
-  Patch by Brent Tubbs.
-
-- Issue #16270: urllib may hang when used for retrieving files via FTP by using
-  a context manager.  Patch by Giampaolo Rodola'.
-
-- Issue #16461: Wave library should be able to deal with 4GB wav files,
-  and sample rate of 44100 Hz.
-
-- Issue #16176: Properly identify Windows 8 via platform.platform()
-
-- Issue #16088: BaseHTTPRequestHandler's send_error method includes a
-  Content-Length header in its response now. Patch by Antoine Pitrou.
-
-- Issue #16114: The subprocess module no longer provides a misleading error
-  message stating that args[0] did not exist when either the cwd or executable
-  keyword arguments specified a path that did not exist.
-
-- Issue #16169: Fix ctypes.WinError()'s confusion between errno and winerror.
-
-- Issue #16110: logging.fileConfig now accepts a pre-initialised ConfigParser
-  instance.
-
-- Issue #1492704: shutil.copyfile() raises a distinct SameFileError now if
-  source and destination are the same file. Patch by Atsuo Ishimoto.
-
-- Issue #13896: Make shelf instances work with 'with' as context managers.
-  Original patch by Filip Gruszczyński.
-
-- Issue #15417: Add support for csh and fish in venv activation scripts.
-
-- Issue #14377: ElementTree.write and some of the module-level functions have
-  a new parameter - *short_empty_elements*. It controls how elements with no
-  contents are emitted.
-
-- Issue #16089: Allow ElementTree.TreeBuilder to work again with a non-Element
-  element_factory (fixes a regression in SimpleTAL).
-
-- Issue #9650: List commonly used format codes in time.strftime and
-  time.strptime docsttings.  Original patch by Mike Hoy.
-
-- Issue #15452: logging configuration socket listener now has a verify option
-  that allows an application to apply a verification function to the
-  received configuration data before it is acted upon.
-
-- Issue #16034: Fix performance regressions in the new `bz2.BZ2File`
-  implementation.  Initial patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- `pty.spawn()` now returns the child process status returned by `os.waitpid()`.
-
-- Issue #15756: `subprocess.poll()` now properly handles `errno.ECHILD` to
-  return a returncode of 0 when the child has already exited or cannot be waited
-  on.
-
-- Issue #15323: Improve failure message of `Mock.assert_called_once_with()`.
-
-- Issue #16064: ``unittest -m`` claims executable is "python", not "python3".
-
-- Issue #12376: Pass on parameters in `TextTestResult.__init__()` super call.
-
-- Issue #15222: Insert blank line after each message in mbox mailboxes.
-
-- Issue #16013: Fix `csv.Reader` parsing issue with ending quote characters.
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15421: Fix an OverflowError in `Calendar.itermonthdates()` after
-  `datetime.MAXYEAR`.  Patch by Cédric Krier.
-
-- Issue #16112: platform.architecture does not correctly escape argument to
-  /usr/bin/file.  Patch by David Benjamin.
-
-- Issue #15970: `xml.etree.ElementTree` now serializes correctly the empty HTML
-  elements 'meta' and 'param'.
-
-- Issue #15842: The `SocketIO.{readable,writable,seekable}` methods now raise
-  ValueError when the file-like object is closed.  Patch by Alessandro Moura.
-
-- Issue #15876: Fix a refleak in the `curses` module: window.encoding.
-
-- Issue #15881: Fix `atexit` hook in `multiprocessing`.  Original patch by Chris
-  McDonough.
-
-- Issue #15841: The readable(), writable() and seekable() methods of
-  `io.BytesIO` and `io.StringIO` objects now raise ValueError when the object
-  has been closed.  Patch by Alessandro Moura.
-
-- Issue #15447: Use `subprocess.DEVNULL` in webbrowser, instead of opening
-  `os.devnull` explicitly and leaving it open.
-
-- Issue #15509: `webbrowser.UnixBrowser` no longer passes empty arguments to
-  Popen when ``%action`` substitutions produce empty strings.
-
-- Issue #12776, issue #11839: Call `argparse` type function (specified by
-  add_argument) only once. Before, the type function was called twice in the
-  case where the default was specified and the argument was given as well.  This
-  was especially problematic for the FileType type, as a default file would
-  always be opened, even if a file argument was specified on the command line.
-
-- Issue #15906: Fix a regression in argparse caused by the preceding change,
-  when ``action='append'``, ``type='str'`` and ``default=[]``.
-
-- Issue #16113: Added sha3 module based on the Keccak reference implementation
-  3.2. The `hashlib` module has four additional hash algorithms: `sha3_224`,
-  `sha3_256`, `sha3_384` and `sha3_512`. As part of the patch some common
-  code was moved from _hashopenssl.c to hashlib.h.
-
-- ctypes.call_commethod was removed, since its only usage was in the defunct
-  samples directory.
-
-- Issue #16692: Added TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 support for the ssl modules.
-
-- Issue #16832: add abc.get_cache_token() to expose cache validity checking
-  support in ABCMeta.
-
-IDLE
-----
-
-- Issue #18429: Format / Format Paragraph, now works when comment blocks
-  are selected. As with text blocks, this works best when the selection
-  only includes complete lines.
-
-- Issue #18226: Add docstrings and unittests for FormatParagraph.py.
-  Original patches by Todd Rovito and Phil Webster.
-
-- Issue #18279: Format - Strip trailing whitespace no longer marks a file as
-  changed when it has not been changed. This fix followed the addition of a
-  test file originally written by Phil Webster (the issue's main goal).
-
-- Issue #7136: In the Idle File menu, "New Window" is renamed "New File".
-  Patch by Tal Einat, Roget Serwy, and Todd Rovito.
-
-- Remove dead imports of imp.
-
-- Issue #18196: Avoid displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks.
-
-- Issue #5492: Avoid traceback when exiting IDLE caused by a race condition.
-
-- Issue #17511: Keep IDLE find dialog open after clicking "Find Next".
-  Original patch by Sarah K.
-
-- Issue #18055: Move IDLE off of imp and on to importlib.
-
-- Issue #15392: Create a unittest framework for IDLE.
-  Initial patch by Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan.
-  See Lib/idlelib/idle_test/README.txt for how to run Idle tests.
-
-- Issue #14146: Highlight source line while debugging on Windows.
-
-- Issue #17838: Allow sys.stdin to be reassigned.
-
-- Issue #13495: Avoid loading the color delegator twice in IDLE.
-
-- Issue #17798: Allow IDLE to edit new files when specified on command line.
-
-- Issue #14735: Update IDLE docs to omit "Control-z on Windows".
-
-- Issue #17532: Always include Options menu for IDLE on OS X.
-  Patch by Guilherme Simões.
-
-- Issue #17585: Fixed IDLE regression. Now closes when using exit() or quit().
-
-- Issue #17657: Show full Tk version in IDLE's about dialog.
-  Patch by Todd Rovito.
-
-- Issue #17613: Prevent traceback when removing syntax colorizer in IDLE.
-
-- Issue #1207589: Backwards-compatibility patch for right-click menu in IDLE.
-
-- Issue #16887: IDLE now accepts Cancel in tabify/untabify dialog box.
-
-- Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used.
-
-- Issue #14254: IDLE now handles readline correctly across shell restarts.
-
-- Issue #17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file.
-
-- Issue #6698: IDLE now opens just an editor window when configured to do so.
-
-- Issue #8900: Using keyboard shortcuts in IDLE to open a file no longer
-  raises an exception.
-
-- Issue #6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
-
-- Issue #17114: IDLE now uses non-strict config parser.
-
-- Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
-  interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.
-
-- Issue #5066: Update IDLE docs. Patch by Todd Rovito.
-
-- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
-  special characters in the file path.
-
-- Issue #16491: IDLE now prints chained exception tracebacks.
-
-- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for bytes literals.
-
-- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
-  Roger Serwy.
-
-- Issue #16511: Use default IDLE width and height if config param is not valid.
-  Patch Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu.
-  Patch by Todd Rovito.
-
-- Issue #16123: IDLE - deprecate running without a subprocess.
-  Patch by Roger Serwy.
-
-Tests
------
-
-- Issue #1666318: Add a test that shutil.copytree() retains directory
-  permissions.  Patch by Catherine Devlin.
-
-- Issue #18273: move the tests in Lib/test/json_tests to Lib/test/test_json
-  and make them discoverable by unittest.  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Fix a fcntl test case on KFreeBSD, Debian #708653 (Petr Salinger).
-
-- Issue #18396: Fix spurious test failure in test_signal on Windows when
-  faulthandler is enabled (Patch by Jeremy Kloth)
-
-- Issue #17046: Fix broken test_executable_without_cwd in test_subprocess.
-
-- Issue #15415: Add new temp_dir() and change_cwd() context managers to
-  test.support, and refactor temp_cwd() to use them.  Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-
-- Issue #15494: test.support is now a package rather than a module (Initial
-  patch by Indra Talip)
-
-- Issue #17944: test_zipfile now discoverable and uses subclassing to
-  generate tests for different compression types.  Fixed a bug with skipping
-  some tests due to use of exhausted iterators.
-
-- Issue #18266: test_largefile now works with unittest test discovery and
-  supports running only selected tests.  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #17767: test_locale now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Original patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #18375: Assume --randomize when --randseed is used for running the
-  testsuite.
-
-- Issue #11185: Fix test_wait4 under AIX.  Patch by Sébastien Sablé.
-
-- Issue #18207: Fix test_ssl for some versions of OpenSSL that ignore seconds
-  in ASN1_TIME fields.
-
-- Issue #18094: test_uuid no longer reports skipped tests as passed.
-
-- Issue #17992: Add timeouts to asyncore and asynchat tests so that they won't
-  accidentally hang.
-
-- Issue #17833: Fix test_gdb failures seen on machines where debug symbols
-  for glibc are available (seen on PPC64 Linux).
-
-- Issue #7855: Add tests for ctypes/winreg for issues found in IronPython.
-  Initial patch by Dino Viehland.
-
-- Issue #11078: test___all__ now checks for duplicates in __all__.
-  Initial patch by R. David Murray.
-
-- Issue #17712: Fix test_gdb failures on Ubuntu 13.04.
-
-- Issue #17835: Fix test_io when the default OS pipe buffer size is larger
-  than one million bytes.
-
-- Issue #17065: Use process-unique key for winreg tests to avoid failures if
-  test is run multiple times in parallel (eg: on a buildbot host).
-
-- Issue #12820: add tests for the xml.dom.minicompat module.
-  Patch by John Chandler and Phil Connell.
-
-- Issue #17691: test_univnewlines now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #17790: test_set now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #17789: test_random now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #17779: test_osx_env now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #17766: test_iterlen now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #17690: test_time now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #17692: test_sqlite now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #11995: test_pydoc doesn't import all sys.path modules anymore.
-
-- Issue #17448: test_sax now skips if there are no xml parsers available
-  instead of raising an ImportError.
-
-- Issue #11420: make test suite pass with -B/DONTWRITEBYTECODE set.
-  Initial patch by Thomas Wouters.
-
-- Issue #10652: make tcl/tk tests run after __all__ test, patch by
-  Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #11963: remove human verification from test_parser and test_subprocess.
-
-- Issue #11732: add a new suppress_crash_popup() context manager to test.support
-  that disables crash popups on Windows and use it in test_faulthandler and
-  test_capi.
-
-- Issue #13898: test_ssl no longer prints a spurious stack trace on Ubuntu.
-
-- Issue #17283: Share code between `__main__.py` and `regrtest.py` in
-  `Lib/test`.
-
-- Issue #17249: convert a test in test_capi to use unittest and reap threads.
-
-- Issue #17107: Test client-side SNI support in urllib.request thanks to
-  the new server-side SNI support in the ssl module.  Initial patch by
-  Daniel Black.
-
-- Issue #17041: Fix testing when Python is configured with the
-  --without-doc-strings.
-
-- Issue #16923: Fix ResourceWarnings in test_ssl.
-
-- Issue #15539: Added regression tests for Tools/scripts/pindent.py.
-
-- Issue #17479: test_io now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #17066: test_robotparser now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #17334: test_index now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #17333: test_imaplib now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #17082: test_dbm* now work with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #17079: test_ctypes now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #17304: test_hash now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #17303: test_future* now work with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #17163: test_file now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #16925: test_configparser now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #16918: test_codecs now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #16919: test_crypt now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #16910: test_bytes, test_unicode, and test_userstring now work with
-  unittest test discovery.  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #16905: test_warnings now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Initial patch by Berker Peksag.
-
-- Issue #16898: test_bufio now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #16888: test_array now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #16896: test_asyncore now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #16897: test_bisect now works with unittest test discovery.
-  Initial patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #16852: test_genericpath, test_posixpath, test_ntpath, and test_macpath
-  now work with unittest test discovery.  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #16748: test_heapq now works with unittest test discovery.
-
-- Issue #10646: Tests rearranged for os.samefile/samestat to check for not
-  just symlinks but also hard links.
-
-- Issue #15302: Switch regrtest from using getopt to using argparse.
-
-- Issue #15324: Fix regrtest parsing of --fromfile, --match, and --randomize
-  options.
-
-- Issue #16702: test_urllib2_localnet tests now correctly ignores proxies for
-  localhost tests.
-
-- Issue #16664: Add regression tests for glob's behaviour concerning entries
-  starting with a ".".  Patch by Sebastian Kreft.
-
-- Issue #13390: The ``-R`` option to regrtest now also checks for memory
-  allocation leaks, using :func:`sys.getallocatedblocks()`.
-
-- Issue #16559: Add more tests for the json module, including some from the
-  official test suite at json.org.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #16661: Fix the `os.getgrouplist()` test by not assuming that it gives
-  the same output as :command:`id -G`.
-
-- Issue #16115: Add some tests for the executable argument to
-  subprocess.Popen().  Initial patch by Kushal Das.
-
-- Issue #16126: PyErr_Format format mismatch in _testcapimodule.c.
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15304: Fix warning message when `os.chdir()` fails inside
-  `test.support.temp_cwd()`.  Patch by Chris Jerdonek.
-
-- Issue #15802: Fix test logic in `TestMaildir.test_create_tmp()`. Patch by
-  Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #15557: Added a test suite for the webbrowser module, thanks to Anton
-  Barkovsky.
-
-- Issue #16698: Skip posix test_getgroups when built with OS X
-  deployment target prior to 10.6.
-
-Build
------
-
-- Issue #16067: Add description into MSI file to replace installer's
-  temporary name.
-
-- Issue #18257: Fix readlink usage in python-config.  Install the python
-  version again on Darwin.
-
-- Issue #18481: Add C coverage reporting with gcov and lcov. A new make target
-  "coverage-report" creates an instrumented Python build, runs unit tests
-  and creates a HTML. The report can be updated with "make coverage-lcov".
-
-- Issue #17845: Clarified the message printed when some module are not built.
-
-- Issue #18256: Compilation fix for recent AIX releases.  Patch by
-  David Edelsohn.
-
-- Issue #17547: In configure, explicitly pass -Wformat for the benefit for GCC
-  4.8.
-
-- Issue #15172: Document NASM 2.10+ as requirement for building OpenSSL 1.0.1
-  on Windows.
-
-- Issue #17591: Use lowercase filenames when including Windows header files.
-  Patch by Roumen Petrov.
-
-- Issue #17550: Fix the --enable-profiling configure switch.
-
-- Issue #17425: Build with openssl 1.0.1d on Windows.
-
-- Issue #16754: Fix the incorrect shared library extension on linux. Introduce
-  two makefile macros SHLIB_SUFFIX and EXT_SUFFIX. SO now has the value of
-  SHLIB_SUFFIX again (as in 2.x and 3.1). The SO macro is removed in 3.4.
-
-- Issue #5033: Fix building of the sqlite3 extension module when the
-  SQLite library version has "beta" in it. Patch by Andreas Pelme.
-
-- Issue #17228: Fix building without pymalloc.
-
-- Issue #3718: Use AC_ARG_VAR to set MACHDEP in configure.ac.
-
-- Issue #16235: Implement python-config as a shell script.
-
-- Issue #16769: Remove outdated Visual Studio projects.
-
-- Issue #17031: Fix running regen in cross builds.
-
-- Issue #3754: fix typo in pthread AC_CACHE_VAL.
-
-- Issue #15484: Fix _PYTHON_PROJECT_BASE for srcdir != builddir builds;
-  use _PYTHON_PROJECT_BASE in distutils/sysconfig.py.
-
-- Drop support for Windows 2000 (changeset e52df05b496a).
-
-- Issue #17029: Let h2py search the multiarch system include directory.
-
-- Issue #16953: Fix socket module compilation on platforms with
-  HAVE_BROKEN_POLL. Patch by Jeffrey Armstrong.
-
-- Issue #16320: Remove redundant Makefile dependencies for strings and bytes.
-
-- Cross compiling needs host and build settings. configure no longer
-  creates a broken PYTHON_FOR_BUILD variable when --build is missing.
-
-- Fix cross compiling issue in setup.py, ensure that lib_dirs and inc_dirs are
-  defined in cross compiling mode, too.
-
-- Issue #16836: Enable IPv6 support even if IPv6 is disabled on the build host.
-
-- Issue #16593: Have BSD 'make -s' do the right thing, thanks to Daniel Shahaf
-
-- Issue #16262: fix out-of-src-tree builds, if mercurial is not installed.
-
-- Issue #15298: ensure _sysconfigdata is generated in build directory, not
-  source directory.
-
-- Issue #15833: Fix a regression in 3.3 that resulted in exceptions being
-  raised if importlib failed to write byte-compiled files.  This affected
-  attempts to build Python out-of-tree from a read-only source directory.
-
-- Issue #15923: Fix a mistake in ``asdl_c.py`` that resulted in a TypeError
-  after 2801bf875a24 (see #15801).
-
-- Issue #16135: Remove OS/2 support.
-
-- Issue #15819: Make sure we can build Python out-of-tree from a read-only
-  source directory.  (Somewhat related to issue #9860.)
-
-- Issue #15587: Enable Tk high-resolution text rendering on Macs with
-  Retina displays.  Applies to Tkinter apps, such as IDLE, on OS X
-  framework builds linked with Cocoa Tk 8.5.
-
-- Issue #17161: make install now also installs a python3 man page.
-
-C-API
------
-
-- Issue #18351: Fix various issues in a function in importlib provided to help
-  PyImport_ExecCodeModuleWithPathnames() (and thus by extension
-  PyImport_ExecCodeModule() and PyImport_ExecCodeModuleEx()).
-
-- Issue #9369: The types of `char*` arguments of PyObject_CallFunction() and
-  PyObject_CallMethod() now changed to `const char*`.  Based on patches by
-  Jörg Müller and Lars Buitinck.
-
-- Issue #17206: Py_CLEAR(), Py_DECREF(), Py_XINCREF() and Py_XDECREF() now
-  expand their arguments once instead of multiple times.  Patch written by Illia
-  Polosukhin.
-
-- Issue #17522: Add the PyGILState_Check() API.
-
-- Issue #17327: Add PyDict_SetDefault.
-
-- Issue #16881: Fix Py_ARRAY_LENGTH macro for GCC < 3.1.
-
-- Issue #16505: Remove unused Py_TPFLAGS_INT_SUBCLASS.
-
-- Issue #16086: PyTypeObject.tp_flags and PyType_Spec.flags are now unsigned
-  (unsigned long and unsigned int) to avoid an undefined behaviour with
-  Py_TPFLAGS_TYPE_SUBCLASS ((1 << 31). PyType_GetFlags() result type is
-  now unsigned too (unsigned long, instead of long).
-
-- Issue #16166: Add PY_LITTLE_ENDIAN and PY_BIG_ENDIAN macros and unified
-  endianness detection and handling.
-
-Documentation
--------------
-
-- Issue #23006: Improve the documentation and indexing of dict.__missing__.
-  Add an entry in the language datamodel special methods section.
-  Revise and index its discussion in the stdtypes mapping/dict section.
-
-- Issue #17701: Improving strftime documentation.
-
-- Issue #18440: Clarify that `hash()` can truncate the value returned from an
-  object's custom `__hash__()` method.
-
-- Issue #17844: Add links to encoders and decoders for bytes-to-bytes codecs.
-
-- Issue #14097: improve the "introduction" page of the tutorial.
-
-- Issue #17977: The documentation for the cadefault argument's default value
-  in urllib.request.urlopen() is fixed to match the code.
-
-- Issue #6696: add documentation for the Profile objects, and improve
-  profile/cProfile docs.  Patch by Tom Pinckney.
-
-- Issue #15940: Specify effect of locale on time functions.
-
-- Issue #17538: Document XML vulnerabilties
-
-- Issue #16642: sched.scheduler timefunc initial default is time.monotonic.
-  Patch by Ramchandra Apte
-
-- Issue #17047: remove doubled words in docs and docstrings
-  reported by Serhiy Storchaka and Matthew Barnett.
-
-- Issue #15465: Document the versioning macros in the C API docs rather than
-  the standard library docs. Patch by Kushal Das.
-
-- Issue #16406: Combine the pages for uploading and registering to PyPI.
-
-- Issue #16403: Document how distutils uses the maintainer field in
-  PKG-INFO. Patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
-
-- Issue #16695: Document how glob handles filenames starting with a
-  dot. Initial patch by Jyrki Pulliainen.
-
-- Issue #8890: Stop advertising an insecure practice by replacing uses
-  of the /tmp directory with better alternatives in the documentation.
-  Patch by Geoff Wilson.
-
-- Issue #17203: add long option names to unittest discovery docs.
-
-- Issue #13094: add "Why do lambdas defined in a loop with different values
-  all return the same result?" programming FAQ.
-
-- Issue #14901: Update portions of the Windows FAQ.
-  Patch by Ashish Nitin Patil.
-
-- Issue #16267: Better document the 3.3+ approach to combining
-  @abstractmethod with @staticmethod, @classmethod and @property
-
-- Issue #15209: Clarify exception chaining description in exceptions module
-  documentation
-
-- Issue #15990: Improve argument/parameter documentation.
-
-- Issue #16209: Move the documentation for the str built-in function to a new
-  str class entry in the "Text Sequence Type" section.
-
-- Issue #13538: Improve str() and object.__str__() documentation.
-
-- Issue #16489: Make it clearer that importlib.find_loader() needs parent
-  packages to be explicitly imported.
-
-- Issue #16400: Update the description of which versions of a given package
-  PyPI displays.
-
-- Issue #15677: Document that zlib and gzip accept a compression level of 0 to
-  mean 'no compression'. Patch by Brian Brazil.
-
-- Issue #16197: Update winreg docstrings and documentation to match code.
-  Patch by Zachary Ware.
-
-- Issue #8040: added a version switcher to the documentation.  Patch by
-  Yury Selivanov.
-
-- Issue #16241: Document -X faulthandler command line option.
-  Patch by Marek Šuppa.
-
-- Additional comments and some style changes in the concurrent.futures URL
-  retrieval example
-
-- Issue #16115: Improve subprocess.Popen() documentation around args, shell,
-  and executable arguments.
-
-- Issue #13498: Clarify docs of os.makedirs()'s exist_ok argument.  Done with
-  great native-speaker help from R. David Murray.
-
-- Issue #15533: Clarify docs and add tests for `subprocess.Popen()`'s cwd
-  argument.
-
-- Issue #15979: Improve timeit documentation.
-
-- Issue #16036: Improve documentation of built-in `int()`'s signature and
-  arguments.
-
-- Issue #15935: Clarification of `argparse` docs, re: add_argument() type and
-  default arguments.  Patch contributed by Chris Jerdonek.
-
-- Issue #11964: Document a change in v3.2 to the behavior of the indent
-  parameter of json encoding operations.
-
-- Issue #15116: Remove references to appscript as it is no longer being
-  supported.
-
-Tools/Demos
------------
-
-- Issue #18817: Fix a resource warning in Lib/aifc.py demo.  Patch by
-  Vajrasky Kok.
-
-- Issue #18439: Make patchcheck work on Windows for ACKS, NEWS.
-
-- Issue #18448: Fix a typo in Tools/demo/eiffel.py.
-
-- Issue #18457: Fixed saving of formulas and complex numbers in
-  Tools/demo/ss1.py.
-
-- Issue #18449: Make Tools/demo/ss1.py work again on Python 3.  Patch by
-  Févry Thibault.
-
-- Issue #12990: The "Python Launcher" on OSX could not launch python scripts
-  that have paths that include wide characters.
-
-- Issue #15239: Make mkstringprep.py work again on Python 3.
-
-- Issue #17028: Allowed Python arguments to be supplied to the Windows
-  launcher.
-
-- Issue #17156: pygettext.py now detects the encoding of source files and
-  correctly writes and escapes non-ascii characters.
-
-- Issue #15539: Fix a number of bugs in Tools/scripts/pindent.py.  Now
-  pindent.py works with a "with" statement.  pindent.py no longer produces
-  improper indentation.  pindent.py now works with continued lines broken after
-  "class" or "def" keywords and with continuations at the start of line.
-
-- Issue #11797: Add a 2to3 fixer that maps reload() to imp.reload().
-
-- Issue #10966: Remove the concept of unexpected skipped tests.
-
-- Issue #9893: Removed the Misc/Vim directory.
-
-- Removed the Misc/TextMate directory.
-
-- Issue #16245: Add the Tools/scripts/parse_html5_entities.py script to parse
-  the list of HTML5 entities and update the html.entities.html5 dictionary.
-
-- Issue #15378: Fix Tools/unicode/comparecodecs.py.  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #16549: Make json.tool work again on Python 3 and add tests.
-  Initial patch by Berker Peksag and Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-- Issue #13301: use ast.literal_eval() instead of eval() in Tools/i18n/msgfmt.py.
-  Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.
-
-Windows
--------
-
-- Issue #18569: The installer now adds .py to the PATHEXT variable when extensions
-  are registered. Patch by Paul Moore.
-
 **(For information about older versions, consult the HISTORY file.)**
diff --git a/Misc/README.valgrind b/Misc/README.valgrind
index b5a9a32e1d..908f137eff 100644
--- a/Misc/README.valgrind
+++ b/Misc/README.valgrind
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ This document describes some caveats about the use of Valgrind with
 Python.  Valgrind is used periodically by Python developers to try
 to ensure there are no memory leaks or invalid memory reads/writes.
 
+UPDATE: Python 3.6 now supports PYTHONMALLOC=malloc environment variable which
+can be used to force the usage of the malloc() allocator of the C library.
+
 If you don't want to read about the details of using Valgrind, there
 are still two things you must do to suppress the warnings.  First,
 you must use a suppressions file.  One is supplied in
diff --git a/Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt b/Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt
index 3004174bcd..82fa23e1a7 100644
--- a/Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt
+++ b/Misc/SpecialBuilds.txt
@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ sys.getobjects(max[, type])
     simply by virtue of being in the list.
 
 envvar PYTHONDUMPREFS
-    If this envvar exists, Py_Finalize() arranges to print a list of all
+    If this envvar exists, Py_FinalizeEx() arranges to print a list of all
     still-live heap objects.  This is printed twice, in different formats,
-    before and after Py_Finalize has cleaned up everything it can clean up.  The
+    before and after Py_FinalizeEx has cleaned up everything it can clean up.  The
     first output block produces the repr() of each object so is more
     informative; however, a lot of stuff destined to die is still alive then.
     The second output block is much harder to work with (repr() can't be invoked
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ Special gimmicks:
 
 envvar PYTHONMALLOCSTATS
     If this envvar exists, a report of pymalloc summary statistics is printed to
-    stderr whenever a new arena is allocated, and also by Py_Finalize().
+    stderr whenever a new arena is allocated, and also by Py_FinalizeEx().
 
 Changed in 2.5:  The number of extra bytes allocated is 4*sizeof(size_t).
 Before it was 16 on all boxes, reflecting that Python couldn't make use of
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ Each type object grows three new members:
      */
     int tp_maxalloc;
 
-Allocation and deallocation code keeps these counts up to date.  Py_Finalize()
+Allocation and deallocation code keeps these counts up to date.  Py_FinalizeEx()
 displays a summary of the info returned by sys.getcounts() (see below), along
 with assorted other special allocation counts (like the number of tuple
 allocations satisfied by a tuple free-list, the number of 1-character strings
@@ -234,29 +234,3 @@ When this symbol is defined, the ceval mainloop and helper functions count the
 number of function calls made.  It keeps detailed statistics about what kind of
 object was called and whether the call hit any of the special fast paths in the
 code.
-
-
-WITH_TSC
---------
-
-Super-lowlevel profiling of the interpreter.  When enabled, the sys module grows
-a new function:
-
-settscdump(bool)
-    If true, tell the Python interpreter to dump VM measurements to stderr.  If
-    false, turn off dump.  The measurements are based on the processor's
-    time-stamp counter.
-
-This build option requires a small amount of platform specific code.  Currently
-this code is present for linux/x86 and any PowerPC platform that uses GCC
-(i.e. OS X and linux/ppc).
-
-On the PowerPC the rate at which the time base register is incremented is not
-defined by the architecture specification, so you'll need to find the manual for
-your specific processor.  For the 750CX, 750CXe and 750FX (all sold as the G3)
-we find:
-
-    The time base counter is clocked at a frequency that is one-fourth that of
-    the bus clock.
-
-This build is enabled by the --with-tsc flag to configure.
diff --git a/Misc/coverity_model.c b/Misc/coverity_model.c
index 749f2f0d9b..1ae617911c 100644
--- a/Misc/coverity_model.c
+++ b/Misc/coverity_model.c
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 #define assert(op) /* empty */
 typedef int sdigit;
 typedef long Py_ssize_t;
-typedef long long PY_LONG_LONG;
 typedef unsigned short wchar_t;
 typedef struct {} PyObject;
 typedef struct {} grammar;
@@ -63,7 +62,7 @@ PyObject *PyLong_FromLong(long ival)
         return NULL;
 }
 
-PyObject *PyLong_FromLongLong(PY_LONG_LONG ival)
+PyObject *PyLong_FromLongLong(long long ival)
 {
     return PyLong_FromLong((long)ival);
 }
@@ -94,7 +93,7 @@ wchar_t *Py_DecodeLocale(const char* arg, size_t *size)
 }
 
 /* Parser/pgenmain.c */
-grammar *getgrammar(char *filename)
+grammar *getgrammar(const char *filename)
 {
     grammar *g;
     __coverity_tainted_data_sink__(filename);
diff --git a/Misc/python.man b/Misc/python.man
index 28f19b68a7..385b6546c8 100644
--- a/Misc/python.man
+++ b/Misc/python.man
@@ -194,7 +194,8 @@ searching for a module.  Also provides information on module cleanup
 at exit.
 .TP
 .B \-V ", " \-\-version
-Prints the Python version number of the executable and exits.
+Prints the Python version number of the executable and exits.  When given
+twice, print more information about the build.
 .TP
 .BI "\-W " argument
 Warning control.  Python sometimes prints warning message to