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  - 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 #25221: Fix corrupted result from PyLong_FromLong(0) when
 +  Python is compiled with NSMALLPOSINTS = 0.
  
 -- 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 #25758: Prevents zipimport from unnecessarily encoding a filename
 +  (patch by Eryk Sun)
  
 -- Issue #26182: Raise DeprecationWarning when async and await keywords are
 -  used as variable/attribute/class/function name.
 +- Issue #28189: dictitems_contains no longer swallows compare errors.
 +  (Patch by Xiang Zhang)
  
 -- Issue #26182: Fix a refleak in code that raises DeprecationWarning.
 +- Issue #27812: Properly clear out a generator's frame's backreference to the
 +  generator to prevent crashes in frame.clear().
  
 -- Issue #28721: Fix asynchronous generators aclose() and athrow() to
 -  handle StopAsyncIteration propagation properly.
 +- Issue #27811: Fix a crash when a coroutine that has not been awaited is
 +  finalized with warnings-as-errors enabled.
  
 -- Issue #26110: Speed-up method calls: add LOAD_METHOD and CALL_METHOD
 -  opcodes.
 +- Issue #27587: Fix another issue found by PVS-Studio: Null pointer check
 +  after use of 'def' in _PyState_AddModule().
 +  Initial patch by Christian Heimes.
  
 -Extension Modules
 ------------------
 +- Issue #26020: set literal evaluation order did not match documented behaviour.
  
 -- Issue #29169: Update zlib to 1.2.11.
 +- 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.
  
 -Library
 --------
 +- 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.
  
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 +- 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.
++=======
+ - bpo-29861: Release references to tasks, their arguments and their results
+   as soon as they are finished in multiprocessing.Pool.
+ 
+ - bpo-19930: The mode argument of os.makedirs() no longer affects the file
+   permission bits of newly-created intermediate-level directories.
++>>>>>>> 8988945... bpo-29861: release references to multiprocessing Pool tasks (#743)
  
 -- bpo-29884: faulthandler: Restore the old sigaltstack during teardown.
 -  Patch by Christophe Zeitouny.
 +- 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.
  
 -- bpo-25455: Fixed crashes in repr of recursive buffered file-like objects.
 +- 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.
  
 -- bpo-29800: Fix crashes in partial.__repr__ if the keys of partial.keywords
 -  are not strings.  Patch by Michael Seifert.
 +- Issue #27083: Respect the PYTHONCASEOK environment variable under Windows.
  
 -- bpo-8256: Fixed possible failing or crashing input() if attributes "encoding"
 -  or "errors" of sys.stdin or sys.stdout are not set or are not strings.
 +- Issue #27514: Make having too many statically nested blocks a SyntaxError
 +  instead of SystemError.
  
 -- bpo-28692: Using non-integer value for selecting a plural form in gettext is
 -  now deprecated.
 +- Issue #27473: Fixed possible integer overflow in bytes and bytearray
 +  concatenations.  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
  
 -- bpo-26121: Use C library implementation for math functions erf() and erfc().
 +- Issue #27507: Add integer overflow check in bytearray.extend().  Patch by
 +  Xiang Zhang.
  
 -- bpo-29619: os.stat() and os.DirEntry.inode() now convert inode (st_ino) using
 -  unsigned integers.
 +- Issue #27581: Don't rely on wrapping for overflow check in
 +  PySequence_Tuple().  Patch by Xiang Zhang.
  
 -- bpo-28298: Fix a bug that prevented array 'Q', 'L' and 'I' from accepting big
 -  intables (objects that have __int__) as elements.
 +- Issue #27443: __length_hint__() of bytearray iterators no longer return a
 +  negative integer for a resized bytearray.
  
 -- bpo-29645: Speed up importing the webbrowser module.  webbrowser.register()
 -  is now thread-safe.
 +- Issue #27942: Fix memory leak in codeobject.c
  
 -- bpo-28231: The zipfile module now accepts path-like objects for external
 -  paths.
 +Library
 +-------
  
 -- bpo-26915: index() and count() methods of collections.abc.Sequence now
 -  check identity before checking equality when do comparisons.
 +- Issue #15812: inspect.getframeinfo() now correctly shows the first line of
 +  a context.  Patch by Sam Breese.
  
 -- bpo-28682: Added support for bytes paths in os.fwalk().
 +- Issue #29094: Offsets in a ZIP file created with extern file object and modes
 +  "w" and "x" now are relative to the start of the file.
  
 -- bpo-29728: Add new :data:`socket.TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT` (Linux 3.12) constant.
 -  Patch by Nathaniel J. Smith.
 -  
 -- bpo-29623: Allow use of path-like object as a single argument in
 -  ConfigParser.read().  Patch by David Ellis.
 +- Issue #13051: Fixed recursion errors in large or resized
 +  curses.textpad.Textbox.  Based on patch by Tycho Andersen.
  
 -- bpo-9303: Migrate sqlite3 module to _v2 API.  Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
 +- Issue #29119: Fix weakrefs in the pure python version of
 +  collections.OrderedDict move_to_end() method.
 +  Contributed by Andra Bogildea.
  
 -- bpo-28963: Fix out of bound iteration in asyncio.Future.remove_done_callback
 -  implemented in C.
 +- Issue #9770: curses.ascii predicates now work correctly with negative
 +  integers.
  
 -- bpo-29704: asyncio.subprocess.SubprocessStreamProtocol no longer closes before
 -  all pipes are closed.
 +- Issue #28427: old keys should not remove new values from
 +  WeakValueDictionary when collecting from another thread.
  
 -- bpo-29271: Fix Task.current_task and Task.all_tasks implemented in C
 -  to accept None argument as their pure Python implementation.
 +- Issue 28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
  
 -- bpo-29703: Fix asyncio to support instantiation of new event loops
 -  in child processes.
 +- Issue #28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.
  
 -- bpo-29615: SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher no longer chains KeyError (or any other
 -  exception) to exception(s) raised in the dispatched methods.
 -  Patch by Petr Motejlek.
 +- Issue #19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and
 +  WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another
 +  thread.
  
 -- bpo-7769: Method register_function() of xmlrpc.server.SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher
 -  and its subclasses can now be used as a decorator.
 +- Issue #20191: Fixed a crash in resource.prlimit() when pass a sequence that
 +  doesn't own its elements as limits.
  
 -- bpo-29376: Fix assertion error in threading._DummyThread.is_alive().
 +- Issue #28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the
 +  forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some
 +  multiprocessing objects such as locks.
  
 -- bpo-28624: Add a test that checks that cwd parameter of Popen() accepts
 -  PathLike objects.  Patch by Sayan Chowdhury.
 +- Issue #28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer
 +  writes the index file when it is not changed.
  
 -- bpo-28518: Start a transaction implicitly before a DML statement.
 -  Patch by Aviv Palivoda.
 +- Issue #25659: In ctypes, prevent a crash calling the from_buffer() and
 +  from_buffer_copy() methods on abstract classes like Array.
  
 -- bpo-29742: get_extra_info() raises exception if get called on closed ssl transport.
 -  Patch by Nikolay Kim.
 -
 -- Issue #16285: urrlib.parse.quote is now based on RFC 3986 and hence includes
 -  '~' in the set of characters that is not quoted by default. Patch by
 -  Christian Theune and Ratnadeep Debnath.
 -
 -- bpo-29532: Altering a kwarg dictionary passed to functools.partial()
 -  no longer affects a partial object after creation.
 -
 -- bpo-29110: Fix file object leak in aifc.open() when file is given as a
 -  filesystem path and is not in valid AIFF format. Patch by Anthony Zhang.
 -
 -- bpo-22807: Add uuid.SafeUUID and uuid.UUID.is_safe to relay information from
 -  the platform about whether generated UUIDs are generated with a
 -  multiprocessing safe method.
 -
 -- bpo-29576: Improve some deprecations in importlib. Some deprecated methods
 -  now emit DeprecationWarnings and have better descriptive messages.
 -
 -- bpo-29534: Fixed different behaviour of Decimal.from_float()
 -  for _decimal and _pydecimal. Thanks Andrew Nester.
 -
 -- Issue #28556: Various updates to typing module: typing.Counter, typing.ChainMap,
 -  improved ABC caching, etc. Original PRs by Jelle Zijlstra, Ivan Levkivskyi,
 -  Manuel Krebber, and Łukasz Langa.
 -
 -- Issue #29100: Fix datetime.fromtimestamp() regression introduced in Python
 -  3.6.0: check minimum and maximum years.
 -
 -- Issue #29416: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.Path.mkdir
 -
 -- Issue #29444: Fixed out-of-bounds buffer access in the group() method of
 -  the match object.  Based on patch by WGH.
 -
 -- Issue #29377: Add SlotWrapperType, MethodWrapperType, and
 -  MethodDescriptorType built-in types to types module.
 -  Original patch by Manuel Krebber.
 -
 -- Issue #29218: Unused install_misc command is now removed.  It has been
 -  documented as unused since 2000.  Patch by Eric N. Vander Weele.
 -
 -- Issue #29368: The extend() method is now called instead of the append()
 -  method when unpickle collections.deque and other list-like objects.
 -  This can speed up unpickling to 2 times.
 -
 -- Issue #29338: The help of a builtin or extension class now includes the
 -  constructor signature if __text_signature__ is provided for the class.
 -
 -- Issue #29335: Fix subprocess.Popen.wait() when the child process has
 -  exited to a stopped instead of terminated state (ex: when under ptrace).
 -
 -- Issue #29290: Fix a regression in argparse that help messages would wrap at
 -
 -- Issue #29197: Removed deprecated function ntpath.splitunc().
 -
 -- Issue #29210: Removed support of deprecated argument "exclude" in
 -  tarfile.TarFile.add().
 -
 -- Issue #29219: Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of uninitialized
 -  ctypes.CDLL instances.
 -
 -- Issue #29192: Removed deprecated features in the http.cookies module.
 -
 -- Issue #29193: A format string argument for string.Formatter.format()
 -  is now positional-only.
 -
 -- Issue #29195: Removed support of deprecated undocumented keyword arguments
 -  in methods of regular expression objects.
 -
 -- Issue #28969: Fixed race condition in C implementation of functools.lru_cache.
 -  KeyError could be raised when cached function with full cache was
 -  simultaneously called from differen threads with the same uncached arguments.
 -
 -- Issue #20804: The unittest.mock.sentinel attributes now preserve their
 -  identity when they are copied or pickled.
 -
 -- Issue #29142: In urllib.request, suffixes in no_proxy environment variable with
 -  leading dots could match related hostnames again (e.g. .b.c matches a.b.c).
 -  Patch by Milan Oberkirch.
 -
 -- Issue #28961: Fix unittest.mock._Call helper: don't ignore the name parameter
 -  anymore. Patch written by Jiajun Huang.
 -
 -- Issue #15812: inspect.getframeinfo() now correctly shows the first line of
 -  a context.  Patch by Sam Breese.
 -
 -- Issue #28985: Update authorizer constants in sqlite3 module.
 -  Patch by Dingyuan Wang.
 -
 -- Issue #29094: Offsets in a ZIP file created with extern file object and modes
 -  "w" and "x" now are relative to the start of the file.
 -
 -- Issue #29079: Prevent infinite loop in pathlib.resolve() on Windows
 -
 -- Issue #13051: Fixed recursion errors in large or resized
 -  curses.textpad.Textbox.  Based on patch by Tycho Andersen.
 -
 -- Issue #9770: curses.ascii predicates now work correctly with negative
 -  integers.
 -
 -- Issue #28427: old keys should not remove new values from
 -  WeakValueDictionary when collecting from another thread.
 -
 -- Issue 28923: Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py.
 -
 -- Issue #28871: Fixed a crash when deallocate deep ElementTree.
 -
 -- Issue #19542: Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and
 -  WeakValueDictionary.pop() when a GC collection happens in another
 -  thread.
 -
 -- Issue #20191: Fixed a crash in resource.prlimit() when passing a sequence that
 -  doesn't own its elements as limits.
 -
 -- Issue #16255: subprocess.Popen uses /system/bin/sh on Android as the shell,
 -  instead of /bin/sh.
 -
 -- Issue #28779: multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() would crash the
 -  forkserver process if a preloaded module instantiated some
 -  multiprocessing objects such as locks.
 -
 -- 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 #28847: dbm.dumb now supports reading read-only files and no longer
 -  writes the index file when it is not changed.  A deprecation warning is now
 -  emitted if the index file is missed and recreated in the 'r' and 'w' modes
 -  (will be an error in future Python releases).
 -
 -- Issue #27030: Unknown escapes consisting of ``'\'`` and an ASCII letter in
 -  re.sub() replacement templates regular expressions now are errors.
 -
 -- Issue #28835: Fix a regression introduced in warnings.catch_warnings():
 -  call warnings.showwarning() if it was overriden inside the context manager.
 -
 -- 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 #28740: Add sys.getandroidapilevel(): return the build time API version
 -  of Android as an integer. Function only available on Android.
 -
 -- 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: Remove the subprocess.Popen.wait endtime parameter.  It was
 -  deprecated in 3.4 and undocumented prior to that.
 -
 -- Issue #25659: In ctypes, prevent a crash calling the from_buffer() and
 -  from_buffer_copy() methods on abstract classes like Array.
 -
 -- Issue #28548: In the "http.server" module, parse the protocol version if
 -  possible, to avoid using HTTP 0.9 in some error responses.
 -
 -- Issue #19717: Makes Path.resolve() succeed on paths that do not exist.
 -  Patch by Vajrasky Kok
 +- Issue #28732: Fix crash in os.spawnv() with no elements in args
  
 -- 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 #28485: Always raise ValueError for negative
 +  compileall.compile_dir(workers=...) parameter, even when multithreading is
 +  unavailable.
  
  - Issue #28387: Fixed possible crash in _io.TextIOWrapper deallocator when
    the garbage collector is invoked in other thread.  Based on patch by