3.6.6rc1

Include/patchlevel.h

@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
 /*--start constants--*/
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION	3
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION	6
-#define PY_MICRO_VERSION	5
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	0
+#define PY_MICRO_VERSION	6
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_GAMMA
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	1
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION      	"3.6.5+"
+#define PY_VERSION      	"3.6.6rc1"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-04-30-17-36-46.bpo-33394._Vdi4t.rst

-Enable the verbose build for extension modules, when GNU make is passed
-macros on the command line.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-05-10-21-10-01.bpo-33012.5Zfjac.rst

-Add ``-Wno-cast-function-type`` for gcc 8 for silencing warnings about
-function casts like casting to PyCFunction in method definition lists.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-05-15-12-44-50.bpo-33522.mJoNcA.rst

-Enable CI builds on Visual Studio Team Services at
-https://python.visualstudio.com/cpython

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-05-28-11-40-22.bpo-33614.28e0sE.rst

-Ensures module definition files for the stable ABI on Windows are correctly
-regenerated.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-06-04-21-34-34.bpo-5755.65GmCj.rst

-Move ``-Wstrict-prototypes`` option to ``CFLAGS_NODIST`` from ``OPT``. This
-option emitted annoying warnings when building extension modules written in
-C++.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2018-01-09-17-03-54.bpo-32374.SwwLoz.rst

-Document that m_traverse for multi-phase initialized modules can be called
-with m_state=NULL, and add a sanity check

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-10-02-21-02-14.bpo-21983.UoC319.rst

-Fix a crash in `ctypes.cast()` in case the type argument is a ctypes
-structured data type. Patch by Eryk Sun and Oren Milman.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-12-14-02-28.bpo-32282.xFVMTn.rst

-Fix an unnecessary ifdef in the include of VersionHelpers.h in socketmodule
-on Windows.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-03-18-13-56-14.bpo-33041.XwPhI2.rst

-Fixed jumping when the function contains an ``async for`` loop.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-04-02-09-32-40.bpo-33199.TPnxQu.rst

-Fix ``ma_version_tag`` in dict implementation is uninitialized when copying
-from key-sharing dict.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-04-03-00-30-25.bpo-29922.CdLuMl.rst

-Improved error messages in 'async with' when ``__aenter__()`` or
-``__aexit__()`` return non-awaitable object.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-04-05-22-20-44.bpo-33231.3Jmo0q.rst

-Fix potential memory leak in ``normalizestring()``.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-04-25-20-44-42.bpo-28055.f49kfC.rst

-Fix unaligned accesses in siphash24(). Patch by Rolf Eike Beer.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-05-02-08-36-03.bpo-33391.z4a7rb.rst

-Fix a leak in set_symmetric_difference().

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-05-14-11-00-00.bpo-31849.EmHaH4.rst

-Fix signed/unsigned comparison warning in pyhash.c.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-05-23-20-46-14.bpo-33622.xPucO9.rst

-Fixed a leak when the garbage collector fails to add an object with the
-``__del__`` method or referenced by it into the :data:`gc.garbage` list.
-:c:func:`PyGC_Collect` can now be called when an exception is set and
-preserves it.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-05-28-12-28-53.bpo-30654.9fDJye.rst

-Fixed reset of the SIGINT handler to SIG_DFL on interpreter shutdown even
-when there was a custom handler set previously. Patch by Philipp Kerling.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-06-06-23-24-40.bpo-33786.lBvT8z.rst

-Fix asynchronous generators to handle GeneratorExit in athrow() correctly

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2017-09-13-07-14-59.bpo-31432.yAY4Z3.rst

-Clarify meaning of CERT_NONE, CERT_OPTIONAL, and CERT_REQUIRED flags for
-ssl.SSLContext.verify_mode.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-01-13-20-30-53.bpo-8243.s98r28.rst

-Add a note about curses.addch and curses.addstr exception behavior when
-writing outside a window, or pad.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-03-11-00-16-56.bpo-27428.B7A8FT.rst

-Update documentation to clarify that ``WindowsRegistryFinder`` implements
-``MetaPathFinder``. (Patch by Himanshu Lakhara)

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-03-11-18-53-47.bpo-18802.JhAqH3.rst

-Documentation changes for ipaddress.  Patch by Jon Foster and Berker Peksag.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-03-20-20-11-05.bpo-28247.-V-WS-.rst

-Update :mod:`zipapp` documentation to describe how to make standalone
-applications.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-03-22-19-23-04.bpo-27212.wrE5KR.rst

-Modify documentation for the :func:`islice` recipe to consume initial values
-up to the start index.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-03-28-17-03-17.bpo-33126.5UGkNv.rst

-Document PyBuffer_ToContiguous().

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-04-01-14-30-36.bpo-33195.dRS-XX.rst

-Deprecate ``Py_UNICODE`` usage in ``c-api/arg`` document. ``Py_UNICODE``
-related APIs are deprecated since Python 3.3, but it is missed in the
-document.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-04-01-21-03-41.bpo-33201.aa8Lkl.rst

-Modernize documentation for writing C extension types.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-04-20-14-09-36.bpo-33276.rA1z_3.rst

-Clarify that the ``__path__`` attribute on modules cannot be just any value.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-04-29-04-02-18.bpo-33378.-anAHN.rst

-Add Korean language switcher for https://docs.python.org/3/

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-05-14-15-23-51.bpo-33421.3GU_QO.rst

-Add missing documentation for ``typing.AsyncContextManager``.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-05-14-20-08-58.bpo-33503.Wvt0qg.rst

-Fix broken pypi link

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-02-12-08-08-45.bpo-32831.srDRvU.rst

-Add docstrings and tests for codecontext.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-04-02-00-28-13.bpo-33204.NBsuIv.rst

-IDLE: consistently color invalid string prefixes. A 'u' string prefix cannot
-be paired with either 'r' or 'f'. Consistently color as much of the prefix,
-starting at the right, as is valid. Revise and extend colorizer test.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-04-29-16-13-02.bpo-21474.bglg-F.rst

-Update word/identifier definition from ascii to unicode. In text and entry
-boxes, this affects selection by double-click, movement left/right by
-control-left/right, and deletion left/right by control-BACKSPACE/DEL.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-05-15-17-01-10.bpo-29706.id4H5i.rst

-IDLE now colors async and await as keywords in 3.6. They become full
-keywords in 3.7.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-05-17-19-41-12.bpo-33564.XzHZJe.rst

-IDLE's code context now recognizes async as a block opener.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-05-23-19-51-07.bpo-33628.sLlFLO.rst

-IDLE: Cleanup codecontext.py and its test.
-

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-05-24-20-42-44.bpo-33642.J0VQbS.rst

-Display up to maxlines non-blank lines for Code Context.
-If there is no current context, show a single blank line.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-05-29-07-14-37.bpo-33679.MgX_Ui.rst

-Enable theme-specific color configuration for Code Context.
-Use the Highlights tab to see the setting for built-in themes
-or add settings to custom themes.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-06-03-09-13-28.bpo-33664.PZzQyL.rst

-Scroll IDLE editor text by lines.
-Previously, the mouse wheel and scrollbar slider moved text by a fixed
-number of pixels, resulting in partial lines at the top of the editor
-box.  The change also applies to the shell and grep output windows,
-but not to read-only text views.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-06-03-20-12-57.bpo-33763.URiFlE.rst

-IDLE: Use read-only text widget for code context instead of label widget.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-06-04-19-23-11.bpo-33768.I_2qpV.rst

-Clicking on a context line moves that line to the top of the editor window.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-06-10-17-59-36.bpo-33656.60ZqJS.rst

-On Windows, add API call saying that tk scales for DPI. On Windows
-8.1+ or 10, with DPI compatibility properties of the Python binary
-unchanged, and a monitor resolution greater than 96 DPI, this should
-make text and lines sharper.  It should otherwise have no effect.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-08-21-12-31-53.bpo-31238.Gg0LRH.rst

-pydoc: the stop() method of the private ServerThread class now waits until
-DocServer.serve_until_quit() completes and then explicitly sets its
-docserver attribute to None to break a reference cycle.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-29-16-40-38.bpo-16865.l-f6I_.rst

-Support arrays >=2GiB in :mod:`ctypes`.  Patch by Segev Finer.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-18-19-05-17.bpo-31457.KlE6r8.rst

-If nested log adapters are used, the inner ``process()`` methods are no
-longer omitted.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-31.bpo-31908.g4xh8x.rst

-Fix output of cover files for ``trace`` module command-line tool.
-Previously emitted cover files only when ``--missing`` option was used.
-Patch by Michael Selik.
\ No newline at end of file

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-02-28-13-08-00.bpo-32844.u8tnAe.rst

-Fix wrong redirection of a low descriptor (0 or 1) to stderr in subprocess
-if another low descriptor is closed.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-07-22-28-17.bpo-27683.572Rv4.rst

-Fix a regression in :mod:`ipaddress` that result of :meth:`hosts`
-is empty when the network is constructed by a tuple containing an
-integer mask and only 1 bit left for addresses.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-12-00-27-56.bpo-33021.m19B9T.rst

-Release the GIL during fstat() calls, avoiding hang of all threads when
-calling mmap.mmap(), os.urandom(), and random.seed().  Patch by Nir Soffer.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-24-15-08-24.bpo-33127.olJmHv.rst

-The ssl module now compiles with LibreSSL 2.7.1.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-03-25-13-18-16.bpo-33096.ofdbe7.rst

-Allow ttk.Treeview.insert to insert iid that has a false boolean value.
-Note iid=0 and iid=False would be same.
-Patch by Garvit Khatri.
-

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-02-20-44-54.bpo-32861.HeBjzN.rst

-The urllib.robotparser's ``__str__`` representation now includes wildcard
-entries and the "Crawl-delay" and "Request-rate" fields. Patch by
-Michael Lazar.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-03-10-37-13.bpo-33209.9sGWE_.rst

-End framing at the end of C implementation of :func:`pickle.Pickler.dump`.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-04-23-41-30.bpo-33224.pyR0jB.rst

-Update difflib.mdiff() for PEP 479.  Convert an uncaught StopIteration in a
-generator into a return-statement.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-05-11-09-45.bpo-33203.Hje9Py.rst

-``random.Random.choice()`` now raises ``IndexError`` for empty sequences
-consistently even when called from subclasses without a ``getrandbits()``
-implementation.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-10-20-57-14.bpo-33256.ndHkqu.rst

-Fix display of ``<module>`` call in the html produced by ``cgitb.html()``. Patch by Stéphane Blondon.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-11-20-29-19.bpo-33263.B56Hc1.rst

-Fix FD leak in `_SelectorSocketTransport`  Patch by Vlad Starostin.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-18-19-12-25.bpo-33308.fW75xi.rst

-Fixed a crash in the :mod:`parser` module when converting an ST object to a
-tree of tuples or lists with ``line_info=False`` and ``col_info=True``.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-20-10-43-17.bpo-33131.L2E977.rst

-Upgrade bundled version of pip to 10.0.1.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-21-00-24-08.bpo-991266.h93TP_.rst

-Fix quoting of the ``Comment`` attribute of :class:`http.cookies.SimpleCookie`.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-23-13-21-39.bpo-33329.lQ-Eod.rst

-Fix multiprocessing regression on newer glibcs

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-29-11-15-38.bpo-33383.g32YWn.rst

-Fixed crash in the get() method of the :mod:`dbm.ndbm` database object when
-it is called with a single argument.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-29-23-56-20.bpo-33197.dgRLqr.rst

-Update error message when constructing invalid inspect.Parameters
-Patch by Dong-hee Na.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-05-09-53-05.bpo-33422.4FtQ0q.rst

-Fix trailing quotation marks getting deleted when looking up byte/string
-literals on pydoc. Patch by Andrés Delfino.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-05-18-02-24.bpo-20087.lJrvXL.rst

-Updated alias mapping with glibc 2.27 supported locales.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-10-14-51-19.bpo-28556.y3zK6I.rst

-Minor fixes in typing module: add annotations to ``NamedTuple.__new__``,
-pass ``*args`` and ``**kwds`` in ``Generic.__new__``.  Original PRs by
-Paulius Šarka and Chad Dombrova.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-16-05-24-43.bpo-26819.taxbVT.rst

-Fix race condition with `ReadTransport.resume_reading` in Windows proactor
-event loop.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-16-09-30-27.bpo-33542.idNAcs.rst

-Prevent ``uuid.get_node`` from using a DUID instead of a MAC on Windows.
-Patch by Zvi Effron

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-16-17-05-48.bpo-33548.xWslmx.rst

-tempfile._candidate_tempdir_list should consider common TEMP locations

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-22-13-05-12.bpo-30877.JZEGjI.rst

-Fixed a bug in the Python implementation of the JSON decoder that prevented
-the cache of parsed strings from clearing after finishing the decoding.
-Based on patch by c-fos.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-23-00-26-27.bpo-11874.glK5iP.rst

-Use a better regex when breaking usage into wrappable parts. Avoids bogus
-assertion errors from custom metavar strings.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-28-15-55-12.bpo-33469.hmXBpY.rst

-Fix RuntimeError after closing loop that used run_in_executor

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-28-17-45-06.bpo-33672.GM_Xm_.rst

-Fix Task.__repr__ crash with Cython's bogus coroutines

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-28-18-40-26.bpo-31467.s4Fad3.rst

-Fixed bug where calling write_eof() on a _SelectorSocketTransport after it's
-already closed raises AttributeError.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-28-22-49-59.bpo-33674.6LFFj7.rst

-Fix a race condition in SSLProtocol.connection_made() of asyncio.sslproto:
-start immediately the handshake instead of using call_soon(). Previously,
-data_received() could be called before the handshake started, causing the
-handshake to hang or fail.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-05-29-12-51-18.bpo-32684.ZEIism.rst

-Fix gather to propagate cancellation of itself even with return_exceptions.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-06-03-22-41-59.bpo-33767.2e82g3.rst

-The concatenation (``+``) and repetition (``*``) sequence operations now
-raise :exc:`TypeError` instead of :exc:`SystemError` when performed on
-:class:`mmap.mmap` objects.  Patch by Zackery Spytz.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-06-08-17-34-16.bpo-30805.3qCWa0.rst

-Avoid race condition with debug logging

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-06-10-13-26-02.bpo-33812.frGAOr.rst

-Datetime instance d with non-None tzinfo, but with d.tzinfo.utcoffset(d)
-returning None is now treated as naive by the astimezone() method.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-06-10-19-29-17.bpo-30167.G5EgC5.rst

-Prevent site.main() exception if PYTHONSTARTUP is set. Patch by Steve Weber.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-01-08-13-33-47.bpo-19417.2asoXy.rst

-Add test_bdb.py.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2018-05-26-16-01-40.bpo-33655.Frb4LA.rst

-Ignore test_posix_fallocate failures on BSD platforms that might be due to
-running on ZFS.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2017-09-26-10-11-21.bpo-31583.TM90_H.rst

-Fix 2to3 for using with --add-suffix option but without --output-dir
-option for relative path to files in current directory.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2018-02-20-12-16-47.bpo-32885.dL5x7C.rst

-Add an ``-n`` flag for ``Tools/scripts/pathfix.py`` to disbale automatic
-backup creation (files with ``~`` suffix).

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2018-03-16-17-25-05.bpo-29673.m8QtaW.rst

-Fix pystackv and pystack gdbinit macros.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2018-03-26-18-54-24.bpo-31920.u_WKsT.rst

-Fixed handling directories as arguments in the ``pygettext`` script. Based
-on patch by Oleg Krasnikov.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2018-04-03-18-10-00.bpo-33189.QrXR00.rst

-:program:`pygettext.py` now recognizes only literal strings as docstrings
-and translatable strings, and rejects bytes literals and f-string expressions.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2018-04-13-11-39-28.bpo-33184.aEohx0.rst

-Update Windows installer to OpenSSL 1.0.2o.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2018-04-07-00-58-50.bpo-33184.rMTiqu.rst

-Update macOS installer build to use OpenSSL 1.0.2o.

README.rst

-This is Python version 3.6.5+
-=============================
+This is Python version 3.6.6 candidate 1
+========================================
 
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    :alt: CPython build status on Travis CI