Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.5.rst

.. bpo: 41304
.. date: 2020-07-15-20-15-08
.. nonce: vNEeYA
.. release date: 2020-07-20
.. section: Security

Fixes `python3x._pth` being ignored on Windows, caused by the fix for
:issue:`29778` (CVE-2020-15801).

..

.. bpo: 39603
.. date: 2020-02-12-14-17-39
.. nonce: Gt3RSg
.. section: Security

Prevent http header injection by rejecting control characters in
http.client.putrequest(...).

..

.. bpo: 41295
.. date: 2020-07-18-08-15-32
.. nonce: pu8Ezo
.. section: Core and Builtins

Resolve a regression in CPython 3.8.4 where defining "__setattr__" in a
multi-inheritance setup and calling up the hierarchy chain could fail if
builtins/extension types were involved in the base types.

..

.. bpo: 41288
.. date: 2020-07-13-15-06-35
.. nonce: 8mn5P-
.. section: Library

Unpickling invalid NEWOBJ_EX opcode with the C implementation raises now
UnpicklingError instead of crashing.

..

.. bpo: 39017
.. date: 2020-07-12-22-16-58
.. nonce: x3Cg-9
.. section: Library

Avoid infinite loop when reading specially crafted TAR files using the
tarfile module (CVE-2019-20907).

..

.. bpo: 37703
.. date: 2019-08-16-20-25-42
.. nonce: Qm_l_H
.. section: Documentation

Updated Documentation to comprehensively elaborate on the behaviour of
gather.cancel()

..

.. bpo: 41302
.. date: 2020-07-15-17-56-32
.. nonce: S3o-x9
.. section: Build

Enable building Python 3.8 with libmpdec-2.5.0 to ease maintenance for Linux
distributions. Patch by Felix Yan.

..

.. bpo: 40741
.. date: 2020-06-19-14-19-08
.. nonce: L7yTbm
.. section: macOS

Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.32.3.

..

.. bpo: 41300
.. date: 2020-07-16-17-39-06
.. nonce: wRixNb
.. section: IDLE

Save files with non-ascii chars. Fix regression released in 3.9.0b4 and
3.8.4.