1.. bpo: 23573 2.. date: 9263 3.. nonce: HdJPs7 4.. release date: 2015-07-26 5.. section: Core and Builtins 6 7Restored optimization of bytes.rfind() and bytearray.rfind() for single-byte 8argument on Linux. 9 10.. 11 12.. bpo: 24569 13.. date: 9262 14.. nonce: bqh6PQ 15.. section: Core and Builtins 16 17Make PEP 448 dictionary evaluation more consistent. 18 19.. 20 21.. bpo: 24583 22.. date: 9261 23.. nonce: Ooq0Tn 24.. section: Core and Builtins 25 26Fix crash when set is mutated while being updated. 27 28.. 29 30.. bpo: 24407 31.. date: 9260 32.. nonce: GmCBB3 33.. section: Core and Builtins 34 35Fix crash when dict is mutated while being updated. 36 37.. 38 39.. bpo: 24619 40.. date: 9259 41.. nonce: cnfZGo 42.. section: Core and Builtins 43 44New approach for tokenizing async/await. As a consequence, it is now 45possible to have one-line 'async def foo(): await ..' functions. 46 47.. 48 49.. bpo: 24687 50.. date: 9258 51.. nonce: 0UaXFe 52.. section: Core and Builtins 53 54Plug refleak on SyntaxError in function parameters annotations. 55 56.. 57 58.. bpo: 15944 59.. date: 9257 60.. nonce: 4GuwqX 61.. section: Core and Builtins 62 63memoryview: Allow arbitrary formats when casting to bytes. Patch by Martin 64Panter. 65 66.. 67 68.. bpo: 23441 69.. date: 9256 70.. nonce: JXt2Yt 71.. section: Library 72 73rcompleter now prints a tab character instead of displaying possible 74completions for an empty word. Initial patch by Martin Sekera. 75 76.. 77 78.. bpo: 24683 79.. date: 9255 80.. nonce: aJdWEv 81.. section: Library 82 83Fixed crashes in _json functions called with arguments of inappropriate 84type. 85 86.. 87 88.. bpo: 21697 89.. date: 9254 90.. nonce: jpATha 91.. section: Library 92 93shutil.copytree() now correctly handles symbolic links that point to 94directories. Patch by Eduardo Seabra and Thomas Kluyver. 95 96.. 97 98.. bpo: 14373 99.. date: 9253 100.. nonce: Je0yDg 101.. section: Library 102 103Fixed segmentation fault when gc.collect() is called during constructing 104lru_cache (C implementation). 105 106.. 107 108.. bpo: 24695 109.. date: 9252 110.. nonce: QjZzFb 111.. section: Library 112 113Fix a regression in traceback.print_exception(). If exc_traceback is None 114we shouldn't print a traceback header like described in the documentation. 115 116.. 117 118.. bpo: 24620 119.. date: 9251 120.. nonce: rrnxB- 121.. section: Library 122 123Random.setstate() now validates the value of state last element. 124 125.. 126 127.. bpo: 22485 128.. date: 9250 129.. nonce: HvJf6T 130.. section: Library 131 132Fixed an issue that caused `inspect.getsource` to return incorrect results 133on nested functions. 134 135.. 136 137.. bpo: 22153 138.. date: 9249 139.. nonce: 6n6yld 140.. section: Library 141 142Improve unittest docs. Patch from Martin Panter and evilzero. 143 144.. 145 146.. bpo: 24580 147.. date: 9248 148.. nonce: AGi4Gm 149.. section: Library 150 151Symbolic group references to open group in re patterns now are explicitly 152forbidden as well as numeric group references. 153 154.. 155 156.. bpo: 24206 157.. date: 9247 158.. nonce: ffkVHH 159.. section: Library 160 161Fixed __eq__ and __ne__ methods of inspect classes. 162 163.. 164 165.. bpo: 24631 166.. date: 9246 167.. nonce: uljPxM 168.. section: Library 169 170Fixed regression in the timeit module with multiline setup. 171 172.. 173 174.. bpo: 18622 175.. date: 9245 176.. nonce: i6nCCW 177.. section: Library 178 179unittest.mock.mock_open().reset_mock would recurse infinitely. Patch from 180Nicola Palumbo and Laurent De Buyst. 181 182.. 183 184.. bpo: 23661 185.. date: 9244 186.. nonce: 5VHJmh 187.. section: Library 188 189unittest.mock side_effects can now be exceptions again. This was a 190regression vs Python 3.4. Patch from Ignacio Rossi 191 192.. 193 194.. bpo: 24608 195.. date: 9243 196.. nonce: 0TndL0 197.. section: Library 198 199chunk.Chunk.read() now always returns bytes, not str. 200 201.. 202 203.. bpo: 18684 204.. date: 9242 205.. nonce: S2es0F 206.. section: Library 207 208Fixed reading out of the buffer in the re module. 209 210.. 211 212.. bpo: 24259 213.. date: 9241 214.. nonce: vMAi1A 215.. section: Library 216 217tarfile now raises a ReadError if an archive is truncated inside a data 218segment. 219 220.. 221 222.. bpo: 15014 223.. date: 9240 224.. nonce: hwXwCH 225.. section: Library 226 227SMTP.auth() and SMTP.login() now support RFC 4954's optional 228initial-response argument to the SMTP AUTH command. 229 230.. 231 232.. bpo: 24669 233.. date: 9239 234.. nonce: kFThK0 235.. section: Library 236 237Fix inspect.getsource() for 'async def' functions. Patch by Kai Groner. 238 239.. 240 241.. bpo: 24688 242.. date: 9238 243.. nonce: -yWfcO 244.. section: Library 245 246ast.get_docstring() for 'async def' functions. 247 248.. 249 250.. bpo: 24603 251.. date: 9237 252.. nonce: PyHyF5 253.. section: Build 254 255Update Windows builds and OS X 10.5 installer to use OpenSSL 1.0.2d. 256