Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.0b2.rst

.. bpo: 40904
.. date: 2020-06-08-01-08-57
.. nonce: 76qQzo
.. release date: 2020-06-08
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix possible segfault in the new PEG parser when parsing f-string containing
yield statements with no value (:code:`f"{yield}"`). Patch by Pablo Galindo

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.. bpo: 40903
.. date: 2020-06-07-22-50-10
.. nonce: 7dWejS
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fixed a possible segfault in the new PEG parser when producing error
messages for invalid assignments of the form :code:`p=p=`. Patch by Pablo
Galindo

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.. bpo: 40880
.. date: 2020-06-06-00-23-19
.. nonce: fjdzSh
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix invalid memory read in the new parser when checking newlines in string
literals. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

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.. bpo: 40883
.. date: 2020-06-05-23-25-00
.. nonce: M6sQ-Q
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix memory leak in when parsing f-strings in the new parser. Patch by Pablo
Galindo

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.. bpo: 40870
.. date: 2020-06-05-12-48-28
.. nonce: 9cd2sk
.. section: Core and Builtins

Raise :exc:`ValueError` when validating custom AST's where the constants
``True``, ``False`` and ``None`` are used within a :class:`ast.Name` node.

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.. bpo: 40854
.. date: 2020-06-03-13-53-24
.. nonce: O6vfQU
.. section: Core and Builtins

Allow overriding :data:`sys.platlibdir` via a new :envvar:`PYTHONPLATLIBDIR`
environment variable.

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.. bpo: 40826
.. date: 2020-06-01-20-31-07
.. nonce: XCI4M2
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix GIL usage in :c:func:`PyOS_Readline`: lock the GIL to set an exception
and pass the Python thread state when checking if there is a pending signal.

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.. bpo: 40780
.. date: 2020-05-26-17-43-58
.. nonce: 3Ckdgm
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix a corner case where g-style string formatting of a float failed to
remove trailing zeros.

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.. bpo: 38964
.. date: 2020-05-25-21-49-11
.. nonce: lrml90
.. section: Core and Builtins

When there's a :exc:`SyntaxError` in the expression part of an fstring, the
filename attribute of the :exc:`SyntaxError` gets correctly set to the name
of the file the fstring resides in.

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.. bpo: 40750
.. date: 2020-05-24-02-42-26
.. nonce: ZmO9Ev
.. section: Core and Builtins

Support the "-d" debug flag in the new PEG parser. Patch by Pablo Galindo

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.. bpo: 40217
.. date: 2020-05-23-01-15-51
.. nonce: jZsHTc
.. section: Core and Builtins

Instances of types created with :c:func:`PyType_FromSpecWithBases` will no
longer automatically visit their class object when traversing references in
the garbage collector. The user is expected to manually visit the object's
class. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

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.. bpo: 40696
.. date: 2020-05-21-01-54-00
.. nonce: u3n8Wx
.. section: Core and Builtins

Fix a hang that can arise after :meth:`generator.throw` due to a cycle in
the exception context chain.

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.. bpo: 39791
.. date: 2020-06-05-19-29-10
.. nonce: _CcO3d
.. section: Library

Refresh importlib.metadata from importlib_metadata 1.6.1.

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.. bpo: 40807
.. date: 2020-06-04-16-25-15
.. nonce: yYyLWx
.. section: Library

Stop codeop._maybe_compile, used by code.InteractiveInterpreter (and IDLE).
from from emitting each warning three times.

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.. bpo: 39791
.. date: 2020-06-02-02-16-02
.. nonce: StCJlA
.. section: Library

Built-in loaders (SourceFileLoader and ZipImporter) now supply
``TraversableResources`` implementations for ``ResourceReader``, and the
fallback function has been removed.

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.. bpo: 17005
.. date: 2020-05-31-23-32-36
.. nonce: JlRUGB
.. section: Library

The topological sort functionality that was introduced initially in the
:mod:`functools` module has been moved to a new :mod:`graphlib` module to
better accommodate the new tools and keep the original scope of the
:mod:`functools` module. Patch by Pablo Galindo

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.. bpo: 40777
.. date: 2020-05-28-17-32-29
.. nonce: 1kJU6N
.. section: Library

Initialize PyDateTime_IsoCalendarDateType.tp_base at run-time to avoid
errors on some compilers.

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.. bpo: 40767
.. date: 2020-05-27-21-27-01
.. nonce: L5MnVV
.. section: Library

:mod:`webbrowser` now properly finds the default browser in pure Wayland
systems by checking the WAYLAND_DISPLAY environment variable. Patch
contributed by Jérémy Attali.

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.. bpo: 40791
.. date: 2020-05-27-18-04-52
.. nonce: IzpNor
.. section: Library

:func:`hashlib.compare_digest` uses OpenSSL's ``CRYPTO_memcmp()`` function
when OpenSSL is available.

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.. bpo: 40795
.. date: 2020-05-27-17-00-18
.. nonce: eZSnHA
.. section: Library

:mod:`ctypes` module: If ctypes fails to convert the result of a callback or
if a ctypes callback function raises an exception, sys.unraisablehook is now
called with an exception set. Previously, the error was logged into stderr
by :c:func:`PyErr_Print`.

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.. bpo: 30008
.. date: 2020-05-25-22-18-38
.. nonce: CKC3td
.. section: Library

Fix :mod:`ssl` code to be compatible with OpenSSL 1.1.x builds that use
``no-deprecated`` and ``--api=1.1.0``.

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.. bpo: 30064
.. date: 2020-05-25-11-52-23
.. nonce: 6CICsH
.. section: Library

Fix asyncio ``loop.sock_*`` race condition issue

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.. bpo: 40759
.. date: 2020-05-24-23-52-35
.. nonce: DdZdaw
.. section: Library

Deprecate the :mod:`symbol` module.

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.. bpo: 40737
.. date: 2020-05-23-00-22-11
.. nonce: iph-CM
.. section: Library

Fix possible reference leak for :mod:`sqlite3` initialization.

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.. bpo: 40698
.. date: 2020-05-20-14-38-04
.. nonce: zwl5Hc
.. section: Library

:mod:`distutils` upload creates SHA2-256 and Blake2b-256 digests. MD5
digests is skipped if platform blocks MD5.

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.. bpo: 40695
.. date: 2020-05-20-13-03-28
.. nonce: lr4aIS
.. section: Library

:mod:`hashlib` no longer falls back to builtin hash implementations when
OpenSSL provides a hash digest and the algorithm is blocked by security
policy.

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.. bpo: 9216
.. date: 2020-05-20-12-53-20
.. nonce: ps7Yf1
.. section: Library

func:`hashlib.new` passed ``usedforsecurity`` to OpenSSL EVP constructor
``_hashlib.new()``. test_hashlib and test_smtplib handle strict security
policy better.

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.. bpo: 40614
.. date: 2020-05-18-22-41-02
.. nonce: 8j3kmq
.. section: Library

:func:`ast.parse` will not parse self documenting expressions in f-strings
when passed ``feature_version`` is less than ``(3, 8)``.

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.. bpo: 40671
.. date: 2020-05-18-15-26-31
.. nonce: NeZ9Cy
.. section: Library

Prepare ``_hashlib`` for :pep:`489` and use :c:func:`PyModule_AddType`.

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.. bpo: 32309
.. date: 2020-05-17-02-03-09
.. nonce: KM9psl
.. section: Library

Added a new :term:`coroutine` :func:`asyncio.to_thread`. It is mainly used
for running IO-bound functions in a separate thread to avoid blocking the
event loop, and essentially works as a high-level version of
:meth:`~asyncio.loop.run_in_executor` that can directly take keyword
arguments.

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.. bpo: 40630
.. date: 2020-05-15-13-40-15
.. nonce: YXEX_M
.. section: Library

Added :func:`tracemalloc.reset_peak` to set the peak size of traced memory
blocks to the current size, to measure the peak of specific pieces of code.

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.. bpo: 13097
.. date: 2020-05-06-02-01-25
.. nonce: Wh5xSK
.. section: Library

``ctypes`` now raises an ``ArgumentError`` when a callback is invoked with
more than 1024 arguments.

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.. bpo: 23082
.. date: 2020-04-20-22-08-36
.. nonce: iX90Id
.. section: Library

Updated the error message and docs of PurePath.relative_to() to better
reflect the function behaviour.

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.. bpo: 39244
.. date: 2020-02-23-15-09-47
.. nonce: aBK5IM
.. section: Library

Fixed :class:`multiprocessing.context.get_all_start_methods` to properly
return the default method first on macOS.

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.. bpo: 39040
.. date: 2019-12-15-18-47-20
.. nonce: tKa0Qs
.. section: Library

Fix parsing of invalid mime headers parameters by collapsing whitespace
between encoded words in a bare-quote-string.

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.. bpo: 35714
.. date: 2019-10-25-23-45-49
.. nonce: fw3xb7
.. section: Library

:exc:`struct.error` is now raised if there is a null character in a
:mod:`struct` format string.

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.. bpo: 36290
.. date: 2019-03-17-19-01-53
.. nonce: 7VXo_K
.. section: Library

AST nodes are now raising :exc:`TypeError` on conflicting keyword arguments.
Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.

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.. bpo: 17258
.. date: 2020-05-26-07-53-31
.. nonce: X_IKTQ
.. section: Tests

Skip some :mod:`multiprocessing` tests when MD5 hash digest is blocked.

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.. bpo: 40514
.. date: 2020-05-19-17-43-38
.. nonce: gW-66U
.. section: Build

Remove ``--with-experimental-isolated-subinterpreters`` configure option in
Python 3.9: the experiment continues in the master branch, but it's no
longer needed in 3.9.

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.. bpo: 40683
.. date: 2020-05-19-10-54-08
.. nonce: W8JHrr
.. section: Build

Fixed an issue where the :mod:`zoneinfo` module and its tests were not
included when Python is installed with ``make``.

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.. bpo: 39631
.. date: 2020-05-19-14-43-33
.. nonce: Z5yXam
.. section: Windows

Changes the registered MIME type for ``.py`` files on Windows to
``text/x-python`` instead of ``text/plain``.

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.. bpo: 40677
.. date: 2020-05-19-04-11-12
.. nonce: qQbLW8
.. section: Windows

Manually define IO_REPARSE_TAG_APPEXECLINK in case some old Windows SDK
doesn't have it.

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.. bpo: 40741
.. date: 2020-06-07-20-10-56
.. nonce: 80A2BW
.. section: macOS

Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.32.2.

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.. bpo: 39885
.. date: 2020-05-29-18-21-58
.. nonce: zB_-bN
.. section: IDLE

Make context menu Cut and Copy work again when right-clicking within a
selection.

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.. bpo: 40723
.. date: 2020-05-24-06-19-43
.. nonce: AJLd4U
.. section: IDLE

Make test_idle pass when run after import.

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.. bpo: 40910
.. date: 2020-06-08-15-59-06
.. nonce: L56oI0
.. section: C API

Export explicitly the :c:func:`Py_GetArgcArgv` function to the C API and
document the function. Previously, it was exported implicitly which no
longer works since Python is built with ``-fvisibility=hidden``.

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.. bpo: 40724
.. date: 2020-06-04-08-01-23
.. nonce: qIIdSi
.. section: C API

Allow defining buffer slots in type specs.

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.. bpo: 40826
.. date: 2020-06-01-16-12-37
.. nonce: zQzFoK
.. section: C API

:c:func:`PyOS_InterruptOccurred` now fails with a fatal error if it is
called with the GIL released.