Changelog

Python next

Release date: XXXX-XX-XX

Library

  • gh-125096: If the PYTHON_BASIC_REPL environment variable is set, the site module no longer imports the _pyrepl module. Moreover, the site module now respects -E and -I command line options: ignore PYTHON_BASIC_REPL in this case. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-124653: Fix detection of the minimal Queue API needed by the logging module. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.

  • gh-116850: Fix argparse for namespaces with not directly writable dict (e.g. classes).

  • gh-58573: Fix conflicts between abbreviated long options in the parent parser and subparsers in argparse.

  • gh-61181: Fix support of choices with string value in argparse. Substrings of the specified string no longer considered valid values.

  • gh-80259: Fix argparse support of positional arguments with nargs='?', default=argparse.SUPPRESS and specified type.

  • gh-120378: Fix a crash related to an integer overflow in curses.resizeterm() and curses.resize_term().

  • gh-123884: Fixed bug in itertools.tee() handling of other tee inputs (a tee in a tee). The output now has the promised n independent new iterators. Formerly, the first iterator was identical (not independent) to the input iterator. This would sometimes give surprising results.

  • gh-124345: argparse vim supports abbreviated single-dash long options separated by = from its value.

  • gh-104860: Fix disallowing abbreviation of single-dash long options in argparse with allow_abbrev=False.

  • gh-63143: Fix parsing mutually exclusive arguments in argparse. Arguments with the value identical to the default value (e.g. booleans, small integers, empty or 1-character strings) are no longer considered “not present”.

  • gh-72795: Positional arguments with nargs equal to '*' or argparse.REMAINDER are no longer required. This allows to use positional argument with nargs='*' and without default in mutually exclusive group and improves error message about required arguments.

  • gh-59317: Fix parsing positional argument with nargs equal to '?' or '*' if it is preceded by an option and another positional argument.

  • gh-53780: argparse now ignores the first "--" (double dash) between an option and command.

  • gh-124217: Add RFC 9637 reserved IPv6 block 3fff::/20 in ipaddress module.

  • gh-81691: Fix handling of multiple "--" (double dashes) in argparse. Only the first one has now been removed, all subsequent ones are now taken literally.

  • gh-116810: Resolve a memory leak introduced in CPython 3.10’s ssl when the ssl.SSLSocket.session property was accessed. Speeds up read and write access to said property by no longer unnecessarily cloning session objects via serialization.

  • bpo-14074: Fix argparse metavar processing to allow positional arguments to have a tuple metavar.

IDLE

  • gh-122392: Increase currently inadequate vertical spacing for the IDLE browsers (path, module, and stack) on high-resolution monitors.

Documentation

  • gh-125018: The importlib.metadata documentation now includes semantic cross-reference targets for the significant documented APIs. This means intersphinx references like importlib.metadata.version() will now work as expected.

  • gh-70870: Clarified the dual usage of the term “free variable” (both the formal meaning of any reference to names defined outside the local scope, and the narrower pragmatic meaning of nonlocal variables named in co_freevars).

  • bpo-34008: The Py_Main() documentation moved from the “Very High Level API” section to the “Initialization and Finalization” section.

    Also make it explicit that we expect Py_Main to typically be called instead of Py_Initialize rather than after it (since Py_Main makes its own call to Py_Initialize). Document that calling both is supported but is version dependent on which settings will be applied correctly.

Core and Builtins

  • gh-123378: Fix a crash in the __str__() method of UnicodeError objects when the UnicodeError.start and UnicodeError.end values are invalid or out-of-range. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.

  • gh-122878: Use the pager binary, if available (e.g. on Debian and derivatives), to display REPL help().

  • gh-124188: Fix reading and decoding a line from the source file witn non-UTF-8 encoding for syntax errors raised in the compiler.

C API

  • bpo-34008: Added Py_IsInitialized to the list of APIs that are safe to call before the interpreter is initialized, and updated the embedding tests to cover it.

Python 3.13.0 final

Release date: 2024-10-07

Core and Builtins

  • gh-125008: Fix tokenize.untokenize() producing invalid syntax for double braces preceded by certain escape characters.

  • gh-124871: Fix compiler bug (in some versions of 3.13) where an assertion fails during reachability analysis.

Python 3.13.0 release candidate 3

Release date: 2024-10-01

macOS

  • gh-123797: Check for runtime availability of ptsname_r function on macos.

Windows

  • gh-124609: Fix _Py_ThreadId for Windows builds using MinGW. Patch by Tony Roberts.

  • gh-124254: Ensures experimental free-threaded binaries remain installed when updating.

  • gh-123915: Ensure that Tools\msi\buildrelease.bat uses different directories for AMD64 and ARM64 builds.

Tests

  • gh-124378: Updated test_ttk to pass with Tcl/Tk 8.6.15.

Library

IDLE

  • gh-112938: Fix uninteruptable hang when Shell gets rapid continuous output.

  • gh-120104: Fix padding in config and search dialog windows in IDLE.

Documentation

  • gh-124720: Update “Using Python on a Mac” section of the “Python Setup and Usage” document and include information on installing free-threading support.

  • gh-116622: Add an Android platform guide, and flag modules not available on Android.

Core and Builtins

  • gh-124567: Revert the incremental GC (in 3.13), since it’s not clear the benefits outweigh the costs at this point.

  • gh-124642: Fixed scalability issue in free-threaded builds for lock-free reads from dictionaries in multi-threaded scenarios

  • gh-116510: Fix a bug that can cause a crash when sub-interpreters use “basic” single-phase extension modules. Shared objects could refer to PyGC_Head nodes that had been freed as part of interpreter cleanup.

  • gh-124547: When deallocating an object with inline values whose __dict__ is still live: if memory allocation for the inline values fails, clear the dictionary. Prevents an interpreter crash.

  • gh-124513: Fix a crash in FrameLocalsProxy constructor: check the number of arguments. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-124442: Fix nondeterminism in compilation by sorting the value of __static_attributes__. Patch by kp2pml30.

  • gh-123856: Fix PyREPL failure when a keyboard interrupt is triggered after using a history search

  • gh-65961: Document the deprecation of setting and using __package__ and __cached__.

  • gh-124027: Support <page up>, <page down>, and <delete> keys in the Python REPL when $TERM is set to vt100.

  • gh-77894: Fix possible crash in the garbage collector when it tries to break a reference loop containing a memoryview object. Now a memoryview object can only be cleared if there are no buffers that refer it.

  • gh-123339: Setting the __module__ attribute for a class now removes the __firstlineno__ item from the type’s dict, so they will no longer be inconsistent.

C API

  • gh-124160: Fix crash when importing modules containing state and single-phase initialization in a subinterpreter.

  • gh-123880: Fixed a bug that prevented circular imports of extension modules that use single-phase initialization.

Build

  • gh-124487: Windows builds now use Windows 8.1 as their API baseline (installation already required Windows 8.1).

  • gh-124043: Building using --with-trace-refs is (temporarily) disallowed when the GIL is disabled.

Python 3.13.0 release candidate 2

Release date: 2024-09-06

macOS

  • gh-123418: Updated macOS installer build to use OpenSSL 3.0.15.

Windows

  • gh-123418: Updated Windows build to use OpenSSL 3.0.15.

  • gh-122573: The Windows build of CPython now requires 3.10 or newer.

  • gh-100256: mimetypes no longer fails when it encounters an inaccessible registry key.

  • gh-79846: Makes ssl.create_default_context() ignore invalid certificates in the Windows certificate store

Tools/Demos

  • gh-123418: Update GitHub CI workflows to use OpenSSL 3.0.15 and multissltests to use 3.0.15, 3.1.7, and 3.2.3.

Tests

  • gh-119727: Add --single-process command line option to Python test runner (regrtest). Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-101525: Skip test_gdb if the binary is relocated by BOLT. Patch by Donghee Na.

Security

  • gh-123678: Upgrade libexpat to 2.6.3

  • gh-121285: Remove backtracking from tarfile header parsing for hdrcharset, PAX, and GNU sparse headers.

Library

IDLE

  • gh-120083: Add explicit black IDLE Hovertip foreground color needed for recent macOS. Fixes Sonoma showing unreadable white on pale yellow. Patch by John Riggles.

Core and Builtins

  • gh-120221: asyncio REPL is now again properly recognizing KeyboardInterrupts. Display of exceptions raised in secondary threads is fixed.

  • gh-119310: Allow the new interactive shell to read history files written with the editline library that use unicode-escaped entries. Patch by aorcajo and Łukasz Langa.

  • gh-123572: Fix key mappings for various F-keys in Windows for the new REPL. Patch by devdanzin

  • gh-119034: Change <page up> and <page down> keys of the Python REPL to history search forward/backward. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-123545: Fix a double decref in rare cases on experimental JIT builds.

  • gh-123484: Fix _Py_DebugOffsets for long objects to be relative to the start of the object rather than the start of a subobject.

  • gh-123344: Add AST optimizations for type parameter defaults.

  • gh-123321: Prevent Parser/myreadline race condition from segfaulting on multi-threaded use. Patch by Bar Harel and Amit Wienner.

  • gh-123177: Fix a bug causing stray prompts to appear in the middle of wrapped lines in the new REPL.

  • gh-122982: Extend the deprecation period for bool inversion (~) by two years.

  • gh-123275: Support -X gil=1 and PYTHON_GIL=1 on non-free-threaded builds.

  • gh-123177: Deactivate line wrap in the Apple Terminal via a ANSI escape code. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-123229: Fix valgrind warning by initializing the f-string buffers to 0 in the tokenizer. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-122298: Restore printout of GC stats when gc.set_debug(gc.DEBUG_STATS) is called. This featue was accidentally removed when implementing incremental GC.

  • gh-121804: Correctly show error locations when a SyntaxError is raised in the basic REPL. Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.

  • gh-123142: Fix too-wide source location in exception tracebacks coming from broken iterables in comprehensions.

  • gh-123048: Fix a bug where pattern matching code could emit a JUMP_FORWARD with no source location.

  • gh-123123: Fix displaying SyntaxError exceptions covering multiple lines. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-123083: Fix a potential use-after-free in STORE_ATTR_WITH_HINT.

  • gh-123022: Fix crash in free-threaded build when calling Py_Initialize() from a non-main thread.

  • gh-122888: Fix crash on certain calls to str() with positional arguments of the wrong type. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-116622: Fix Android stdout and stderr messages being truncated or lost.

  • gh-122527: Fix a crash that occurred when a PyStructSequence was deallocated after its type’s dictionary was cleared by the GC. The type’s tp_basicsize now accounts for non-sequence fields that aren’t included in the Py_SIZE of the sequence.

  • gh-122445: Add only fields which are modified via self.* to __static_attributes__.

  • gh-98442: Fix too wide source locations of the cleanup instructions of a with statement.

  • gh-93691: Fix source locations of instructions generated for with statements.

  • gh-120097: FrameLocalsProxy now subclasses collections.abc.Mapping and can be matched as a mapping in match statements

C API

Build

  • gh-123418: Updated Android build to use OpenSSL 3.0.15.

  • gh-123297: Propagate the value of LDFLAGS to LDCXXSHARED in sysconfig. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-116622: Rename build variable MODULE_LDFLAGS back to LIBPYTHON, as it’s used by package build systems (e.g. Meson).

  • gh-118943: Fix an issue where the experimental JIT could be built several times by the make regen-all target, leading to possible race conditions on heavily parallelized builds.

  • gh-118943: Fix a possible race condition affecting parallel builds configured with --enable-experimental-jit, in which FileNotFoundError could be caused by another process already moving jit_stencils.h.new to jit_stencils.h.

Python 3.13.0 release candidate 1

Release date: 2024-07-31

Tests

Security

  • gh-122133: Authenticate the socket connection for the socket.socketpair() fallback on platforms where AF_UNIX is not available like Windows.

    Patch by Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org> and Seth Larson <seth@python.org>. Reported by Ellie <el@horse64.org>

  • gh-121957: Fixed missing audit events around interactive use of Python, now also properly firing for python -i, as well as for python -m asyncio. The events in question are cpython.run_stdin and cpython.run_startup.

Library

IDLE

  • gh-122482: Change About IDLE to direct users to discuss.python.org instead of the now unused idle-dev email and mailing list.

Core and Builtins

  • gh-116090: Fix an issue in JIT builds that prevented some for loops from correctly firing RAISE monitoring events.

  • gh-122208: Dictionary watchers now only deliver the PyDict_EVENT_ADDED event when the insertion is in a known good state to succeed.

  • gh-122300: Preserve AST nodes for f-string with single-element format specifiers. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-120906: frame.f_locals now supports arbitrary hashable objects as keys.

  • gh-122029: Emit c_call events in sys.setprofile() when a PyMethodObject pointing to a PyCFunction is called.

  • gh-122026: Fix a bug that caused the tokenizer to not correctly identify mismatched parentheses inside f-strings in some situations. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-118934: Make PyEval_GetLocals return borrowed reference

C API

  • gh-116622: Make PyObject_Print work around a bug in Android and OpenBSD which prevented it from throwing an exception when trying to write to a read-only stream.

  • gh-121489: Export private _PyBytes_Join() again.

Build

Python 3.13.0 beta 4

Release date: 2024-07-18

Tests

  • gh-121084: Fix test_typing random leaks. Clear typing ABC caches when running tests for refleaks (-R option): call _abc_caches_clear() on typing abstract classes and their subclasses. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-121160: Add a test for readline.set_history_length(). Note that this test may fail on readline libraries.

  • gh-121200: Fix test_expanduser_pwd2() of test_posixpath. Call getpwnam() to get pw_dir, since it can be different than getpwall() pw_dir. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-121188: When creating the JUnit XML file, regrtest now escapes characters which are invalid in XML, such as the chr(27) control character used in ANSI escape sequences. Patch by Victor Stinner.

Library

  • gh-57141: The shallow argument to filecmp.dircmp (new in Python 3.13) is now keyword-only.

  • gh-121245: Simplify handling of the history file in site.register_readline() helper. The CAN_USE_PYREPL variable now will be initialized, when imported. Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.

  • gh-121332: Fix constructor of ast nodes with custom _attributes. Previously, passing custom attributes would raise a DeprecationWarning. Passing arguments to the constructor that are not in _fields or _attributes remains deprecated. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-121279: Avoid NameError for the warnings module when accessing the depracated atributes of the importlib.abc module.

  • gh-121245: Fix a bug in the handling of the command history of the new REPL that caused the history file to be wiped at REPL exit.

  • gh-87744: Fix waitpid race while calling send_signal() in asyncio. Patch by Kumar Aditya.

  • gh-121018: Fixed other issues where argparse.ArgumentParser did not honor exit_on_error=False.

  • gh-120678: Fix regression in the new REPL that meant that globals from files passed using the -i argument would not be included in the REPL’s global namespace. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-120782: Fix wrong references of the datetime types after reloading the module.

  • gh-120713: datetime.datetime.strftime() now 0-pads years with less than four digits for the format specifiers %Y and %G on Linux. Patch by Ben Hsing

  • gh-117983: Defer the threading import in importlib.util until lazy loading is used.

  • gh-119189: When using the ** operator or pow() with Fraction as the base and an exponent that is not rational, a float, or a complex, the fraction is no longer converted to a float.

  • gh-118714: Allow restart in post-mortem debugging of pdb. Removed restart message when the user quits pdb from post-mortem mode.

  • gh-105623: Fix performance degradation in logging.handlers.RotatingFileHandler. Patch by Craig Robson.

IDLE

  • gh-78889: Stop Shell freezes by blocking user access to non-method sys.stdout.shell attributes, which are all private.

Documentation

Core and Builtins

  • gh-121860: Fix crash when rematerializing a managed dictionary after it was deleted.

  • gh-121814: Fixed the SegFault when PyEval_SetTrace() is used with no Python frame on stack.

  • gh-121295: Fix PyREPL console getting into a blocked state after interrupting a long paste

  • gh-121794: Fix bug in free-threaded Python where a resurrected object could lead to a negative ref count assertion failure.

  • gh-121657: Improve the SyntaxError message if the user tries to use yield from outside a function.

  • gh-121609: Fix pasting of characters containing unicode character joiners in the new REPL. Patch by Marta Gomez Macias

  • gh-117482: Unexpected slot wrappers are no longer created for builtin static types in subinterpreters.

  • gh-121499: Fix a bug affecting how multi-line history was being rendered in the new REPL after interacting with the new screen cache. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-121497: Fix a bug that was preventing the REPL to correctly respect the history when an input hook was set. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-121012: Tier 2 execution now ensures that list iterators remain exhausted, once they become exhausted.

  • gh-121439: Allow tuples of length 20 in the freelist to be reused.

  • gh-121368: Fix race condition in _PyType_Lookup in the free-threaded build due to a missing memory fence. This could lead to _PyType_Lookup returning incorrect results on arm64.

  • gh-121130: Fix f-strings with debug expressions in format specifiers. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-121115: PyLong_AsNativeBytes() no longer uses __index__() methods by default. The Py_ASNATIVEBYTES_ALLOW_INDEX flag has been added to allow it.

C API

Build

  • gh-120371: Support WASI SDK 22 by explicitly skipping functions that are just stubs in wasi-libc.

  • gh-121731: Fix mimalloc compile error on GNU/Hurd

  • gh-121487: Fix deprecation warning for ATOMIC_VAR_INIT in mimalloc.

  • gh-121467: Fix a Makefile bug that prevented mimalloc header files from being installed.

  • gh-121103: On POSIX systems, excluding macOS framework installs, the lib directory for the free-threaded build now includes a “t” suffix to avoid conflicts with a co-located default build installation.

  • gh-120831: The default minimum iOS version was increased to 13.0.

  • gh-113565: Improve curses and curses.panel dependency checks in configure.

Python 3.13.0 beta 3

Release date: 2024-06-27

Core and Builtins

  • gh-120838: Py_Finalize() and Py_FinalizeEx() now always run with the main interpreter active.

  • gh-113433: Subinterpreters now get cleaned up automatically during runtime finalization.

  • gh-119462: Make sure that invariants of type versioning are maintained: * Superclasses always have their version number assigned before subclasses * The version tag is always zero if the tag is not valid. * The version tag is always non-zero if the tag is valid.

  • gh-120437: Fix _CHECK_STACK_SPACE optimization problems introduced in gh-118322.

  • gh-120722: Correctly set the bytecode position on return instructions within lambdas. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-120367: Fix bug where compiler creates a redundant jump during pseudo-op replacement. Can only happen with a synthetic AST that has a try on the same line as the instruction following the exception handler.

  • gh-113993: Strings interned with sys.intern() are again garbage-collected when no longer used, as per the documentation. Strings interned with the C function PyUnicode_InternInPlace() are still immortal. Internals of the string interning mechanism have been changed. This may affect performance and identities of str objects.

  • gh-120384: Fix an array out of bounds crash in list_ass_subscript, which could be invoked via some specificly tailored input: including concurrent modification of a list object, where one thread assigns a slice and another clears it.

  • gh-120367: Fix crash in compiler on code with redundant NOPs and JUMPs which show up after exception handlers are moved to the end of the code.

  • gh-120380: Fix Python implementation of pickle.Pickler for bytes and bytearray objects when using protocol version 5. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.

  • gh-120400: Support Linux perf profiler to see Python calls on RISC-V architecture.

  • gh-120221: Deliver real signals on Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Z in the new REPL. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-120346: Respect PYTHON_BASIC_REPL when running in interative inspect mode (python -i). Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-93691: Fix source locations of instructions generated for the iterator of a for statement.

  • gh-120198: Fix a crash when multiple threads read and write to the same __class__ of an object concurrently.

  • gh-120298: Fix use-after free in list_richcompare_impl which can be invoked via some specificly tailored evil input.

  • gh-119666: Fix a compiler crash in the case where two comprehensions in class scope both reference __class__.

  • gh-120225: Fix crash in compiler on empty block at end of exception handler.

  • gh-119933: Improve SyntaxError messages for invalid expressions in a type parameters bound, a type parameter constraint tuple or a default type parameter. Patch by Bénédikt Tran.

  • bpo-24766: Fix handling of doc argument to subclasses of property.

Library

Build

  • gh-120671: Fix failing configure tests due to a missing space when appending to CFLAGS.

  • gh-120602: Correctly handle LLVM installs with LLVM_VERSION_SUFFIX when building with --enable-experimental-jit.

  • gh-120326: On Windows, fix build error when --disable-gil and --experimental-jit options are combined.

  • gh-120291: Make the python-config shell script compatible with non-bash shells.

C API

  • gh-120642: Remove the private _Py_CODEUNIT type from the public C API. The internal pycore_code.h header should now be used to get this internal type. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-120858: PyDict_Next() no longer locks the dictionary in the free-threaded build. The locking needs to be done by the caller around the entire iteration loop.

  • gh-120642: Remove the following unstable functions:

    • PyUnstable_Replace_Executor()

    • PyUnstable_SetOptimizer()

    • PyUnstable_GetOptimizer()

    • PyUnstable_GetExecutor()

    • PyUnstable_Optimizer_NewCounter()

    • PyUnstable_Optimizer_NewUOpOptimizer()

    Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-119344: The critical section API is now public as part of the non-limited C API.

  • gh-118789: Add PyUnstable_Object_ClearWeakRefsNoCallbacks(), which clears weakrefs without calling their callbacks.

  • gh-117511: Make the PyMutex public in the non-limited C API.

Python 3.13.0 beta 2

Release date: 2024-06-05

Security

  • gh-118773: Fixes creation of ACLs in os.mkdir() on Windows to work correctly on non-English machines.

  • gh-118486: os.mkdir() on Windows now accepts mode of 0o700 to restrict the new directory to the current user. This fixes CVE-2024-4030 affecting tempfile.mkdtemp() in scenarios where the base temporary directory is more permissive than the default.

Core and Builtins

  • gh-119724: Reverted improvements to error messages for elif/else statements not matching any valid statements, which made in hard to locate the syntax errors inside those elif/else blocks.

  • gh-119842: Honor PyOS_InputHook() in the new REPL. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-119821: Fix execution of annotation scopes within classes when globals is set to a non-dict. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-119548: Add a clear command to the REPL. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-111999: Fix the signature of str.format_map().

  • gh-119560: An invalid assert in beta 1 has been removed. The assert would fail if PyState_FindModule() was used in an extension module’s init function before the module def had been initialized.

  • gh-119369: Fix deadlock during thread deletion in free-threaded build, which could occur when the GIL was enabled at runtime.

  • gh-119525: Fix deadlock involving _PyType_Lookup() cache in the free-threaded build when the GIL is dynamically enabled at runtime.

  • gh-119311: Fix bug where names are unexpectedly mangled in the bases of generic classes.

  • gh-119395: Fix bug where names appearing after a generic class are mangled as if they are in the generic class.

  • gh-119213: Non-builtin modules built with argument clinic were crashing if used in a subinterpreter before the main interpreter. The objects that were causing the problem by leaking between interpreters carelessly have been fixed.

  • gh-119011: Fixes type.__type_params__ to return an empty tuple instead of a descriptor.

  • gh-118692: Avoid creating unnecessary StopIteration instances for monitoring.

  • gh-119049: Fix displaying the source line for warnings created by the C API if the warnings module had not yet been imported.

  • gh-118844: Fix build failures when configuring with both --disable-gil and --enable-experimental-jit.

  • gh-118921: Add copy() method for FrameLocalsProxy which returns a snapshot dict for local variables.

  • gh-117657: Fix data races on the field that stores a pointer to the interpreter’s main thread that occur in free-threaded builds.

  • gh-118561: Fix race condition in free-threaded build where list.extend() could expose uninitialised memory to concurrent readers.

  • gh-117195: Avoid assertion failure for debug builds when calling object.__sizeof__(1)

Library

  • gh-119819: Fix regression to allow logging configuration with multiprocessing queue types.

  • gh-117142: The ctypes module may now be imported in all subinterpreters, including those that have their own GIL.

  • gh-118835: Fix _pyrepl crash when using custom prompt with ANSI escape codes.

  • gh-117398: The _datetime module (C implementation for datetime) now supports being imported in multiple interpreters.

  • gh-89727: Fix issue with shutil.rmtree() where a RecursionError is raised on deep directory trees.

  • gh-89727: Partially fix issue with shutil.rmtree() where a RecursionError is raised on deep directory trees. A recursion error is no longer raised when rmtree.avoids_symlink_attacks is false.

  • gh-119118: Fix performance regression in the tokenize module by caching the line token attribute and calculating the column offset more efficiently.

  • gh-89727: Fix issue with os.fwalk() where a RecursionError was raised on deep directory trees by adjusting the implementation to be iterative instead of recursive.

  • gh-119588: zipfile.Path.is_symlink now assesses if the given path is a symlink.

  • gh-119555: Catch SyntaxError from compile() in the runsource() method of the InteractiveColoredConsole. Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.

  • gh-113892: Now, the method sock_connect of asyncio.ProactorEventLoop raises a ValueError if given socket is not in non-blocking mode, as well as in other loop implementations.

  • gh-119443: The interactive REPL no longer runs with from __future__ import annotations enabled. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-117398: Objects in the datetime C-API are now all statically allocated, which means better memory safety, especially when the module is reloaded. This should be transparent to users.

  • gh-118894: asyncio REPL now has the same capabilities as PyREPL.

  • gh-118911: In PyREPL, updated maybe-accept’s logic so that if the user hits Enter twice, they are able to terminate the block even if there’s trailing whitespace. Also, now when the user hits arrow up, the cursor is on the last functional line. This matches IPython’s behavior. Patch by Aya Elsayed.

  • gh-111201: Remove dependency to readline from the new Python REPL.

  • gh-119174: Fix high DPI causes turtledemo(turtle-graphics examples) windows blurry Patch by Wulian233 and Terry Jan Reedy

  • gh-119121: Fix a NameError happening in asyncio.staggered.staggered_race. This function is now tested.

  • gh-119113: Fix issue where pathlib.PurePath.with_suffix() didn’t raise TypeError when given None as a suffix.

  • gh-118643: Fix an AttributeError in the email module when re-fold a long address list. Also fix more cases of incorrect encoding of the address separator in the address list.

  • gh-58933: Make pdb return to caller frame correctly when f_trace of the caller frame is not set

  • gh-118895: Setting attributes on typing.NoDefault now raises AttributeError instead of TypeError.

  • gh-118868: Fixed issue where kwargs were no longer passed to the logging handler QueueHandler

  • gh-118851: ctx arguments to the constructors of ast node classes now default to ast.Load(). Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-118760: Restore the default value of tkiter.wantobjects to 1.

  • gh-118760: Fix errors in calling Tkinter bindings on Windows.

  • gh-118507: Fix os.path.isfile() on Windows for pipes. Speedup os.path.isjunction() and os.path.lexists() on Windows with a native implementation.

  • gh-118772: Allow typing.TypeVar instances without a default to follow instances without a default in some cases. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-110863: os.path.realpath() now suppresses any OSError from os.readlink() when strict mode is disabled (the default).

  • gh-118263: Speed up os.path.splitroot() & os.path.normpath() with a direct C call.

  • gh-118033: Fix dataclasses.dataclass() not creating a __weakref__ slot when subclassing typing.Generic.

  • gh-106531: In importlib.resources, sync with importlib_resources 6.3.2, including: MultiplexedPath now expects Traversable paths, deprecating string arguments to MultiplexedPath; Enabled support for resources in namespace packages in zip files; Fixed NotADirectoryError when calling files on a subdirectory of a namespace package.

  • gh-113978: Ignore warnings on text completion inside REPL.

  • gh-103956: Fix lack of newline characters in trace module output when line tracing is enabled but source code line for current frame is not available.

  • gh-92081: Fix missing spaces in email headers when the spaces are mixed with encoded 8-bit characters.

  • gh-103194: Prepare Tkinter for C API changes in Tcl 8.7/9.0 to avoid _tkinter.Tcl_Obj being unexpectedly returned instead of bool, str, bytearray, or int.

  • gh-87106: Fixed handling in inspect.Signature.bind() of keyword arguments having the same name as positional-only arguments when a variadic keyword argument (e.g. **kwargs) is present.

  • bpo-45767: Fix integer conversion in os.major(), os.minor(), and os.makedev(). Support device numbers larger than 2**63-1. Support non-existent device number (NODEV).

  • gh-67693: Fix urllib.parse.urlunparse() and urllib.parse.urlunsplit() for URIs with path starting with multiple slashes and no authority. Based on patch by Ashwin Ramaswami.

Tests

  • gh-119050: regrtest test runner: Add XML support to the refleak checker (-R option). Patch by Victor Stinner.

Build

  • gh-119729: On POSIX systems, the pkg-config (.pc) filenames now include the ABI flags, which may include debug (“d”) and free-threaded (“t”). For example: * python-3.14.pc (default, non-debug build) * python-3.14d.pc (default, debug build) * python-3.14t.pc (free-threaded build)

  • gh-115119: Fall back to the bundled libmpdec if a system version cannot be found.

  • gh-119132: Update sys.version to identify whether the build is default build or free-threading build. Patch By Donghee Na.

  • gh-118836: Fix an AssertionError when building with --enable-experimental-jit and the compiler emits a SHT_NOTE section.

  • gh-118943: Fix a possible race condition affecting parallel builds configured with --enable-experimental-jit, in which compilation errors could be caused by an incompletely-generated header file.

Windows

  • gh-119679: Ensures correct import libraries are included in Windows installs.

  • gh-119690: Adds Unicode support and fixes audit events for _winapi.CreateNamedPipe.

  • gh-111201: Add support for new pyrepl on Windows

  • gh-119070: Fixes py.exe handling of shebangs like /usr/bin/env python3.12, which were previously interpreted as python3.exe instead of python3.12.exe.

  • gh-117505: Fixes an issue with the Windows installer not running ensurepip in a fully isolated environment. This could cause unexpected interactions with the user site-packages.

  • gh-118209: Avoid crashing in mmap on Windows when the mapped memory is inaccessible due to file system errors or access violations.

  • gh-116145: Updated bundled Tcl/Tk to 8.6.14.

C API

  • gh-119585: Fix crash when a thread state that was created by PyGILState_Ensure() calls a destructor that during PyThreadState_Clear() that calls back into PyGILState_Ensure() and PyGILState_Release(). This might occur when in the free-threaded build or when using thread-local variables whose destructors call PyGILState_Ensure().

  • gh-119336: Restore the removed _PyLong_NumBits() function. It is used by the pywin32 project. Patch by Ethan Smith

  • gh-119247: Added Py_BEGIN_CRITICAL_SECTION_SEQUENCE_FAST and Py_END_CRITICAL_SECTION_SEQUENCE_FAST macros to make it possible to use PySequence_Fast APIs safely when free-threaded, and update str.join to work without the GIL using them.

  • gh-111389: Add PyHASH_MULTIPLIER constant: prime multiplier used in string and various other hashes. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-116984: Make mimalloc includes relative to the current file to avoid embedders or extensions needing to include Internal/mimalloc if they are already including internal CPython headers.

  • gh-118789: Restore _PyWeakref_ClearRef that was previously removed in Python 3.13 alpha 1.

Python 3.13.0 beta 1

Release date: 2024-05-08

Security

  • gh-116741: Update bundled libexpat to 2.6.2

  • gh-117233: Detect BLAKE2, SHA3, Shake, & truncated SHA512 support in the OpenSSL-ish libcrypto library at build time. This allows hashlib to be used with libraries that do not to support every algorithm that upstream OpenSSL does.

Core and Builtins

  • gh-118414: Add instrumented opcodes to YIELD_VALUE assertion for tracing cases.

  • gh-117953: When a builtin or extension module is imported for the first time, while a subinterpreter is active, the module’s init function is now run by the main interpreter first before import continues in the subinterpreter. Consequently, single-phase init modules now fail in an isolated subinterpreter without the init function running under that interpreter, whereas before it would run under the subinterpreter before failing, potentially leaving behind global state and callbacks and otherwise leaving the module in an inconsistent state.

  • gh-117549: Don’t use designated initializer syntax in inline functions in internal headers. They cause problems for C++ or MSVC users who aren’t yet using the latest C++ standard (C++20). While internal, pycore_backoff.h, is included (indirectly, via pycore_code.h) by some key 3rd party software that does so for speed.

  • gh-95382: Improve performance of json.dumps() and json.dump() when using the argument indent. Depending on the data the encoding using json.dumps() with indent can be up to 2 to 3 times faster.

  • gh-116322: In --disable-gil builds, the GIL will be enabled while loading C extension modules. If the module indicates that it supports running without the GIL, the GIL will be disabled once loading is complete. Otherwise, the GIL will remain enabled for the remainder of the interpreter’s lifetime. This behavior does not apply if the GIL has been explicitly enabled or disabled with PYTHON_GIL or -Xgil.

  • gh-118513: Fix incorrect UnboundLocalError when two comprehensions in the same function both reference the same name, and in one comprehension the name is bound while in the other it’s an implicit global.

  • gh-118518: Allow the Linux perf support to work without frame pointers using perf’s advanced JIT support. The feature is activated when using the PYTHON_PERF_JIT_SUPPORT environment variable or when running Python with -Xperf_jit. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

  • gh-117514: Add sys._is_gil_enabled() function that returns whether the GIL is currently enabled. In the default build it always returns True because the GIL is always enabled. In the free-threaded build, it may return True or False.

  • gh-118164: Break a loop between the Python implementation of the decimal module and the Python code for integer to string conversion. Also optimize integer to string conversion for values in the range from 9_000 to 135_000 decimal digits.

  • gh-118473: Fix sys.set_asyncgen_hooks() not to be partially set when raising TypeError.

  • gh-118465: Compiler populates the new __firstlineno__ field on a class with the line number of the first line of the class definition.

  • gh-118492: Fix an issue where the type cache can expose a previously accessed attribute when a finalizer is run.

  • gh-117714: update async_generator.athrow().close() and async_generator.asend().close() to close their section of the underlying async generator

  • gh-111201: The interactive interpreter is now implemented in Python, which allows for a number of new features like colors, multiline input, history viewing, and paste mode. Contributed by Pablo Galindo, Łukasz Langa and Lysandros Nikolaou based on code from the PyPy project.

  • gh-74929: Implement PEP 667: converted FrameType.f_locals and PyFrame_GetLocals() to return a write-through proxy object when the frame refers to a function or comprehension.

  • gh-116767: Fix crash in compiler on ‘async with’ that has many context managers.

  • gh-118335: Change how to use the tier 2 interpreter. Instead of running Python with -X uops or setting the environment variable PYTHON_UOPS=1, this choice is now made at build time by configuring with --enable-experimental-jit=interpreter.

    Beware! This changes the environment variable to enable or disable micro-ops to PYTHON_JIT. The old PYTHON_UOPS is no longer used.

  • gh-118306: Update JIT compilation to use LLVM 18

  • gh-118160: Annotation scopes within classes can now contain comprehensions. However, such comprehensions are not inlined into their parent scope at runtime. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-118272: Fix bug where generator.close does not free the generator frame’s locals.

  • gh-118216: Don’t consider __future__ imports with dots before the module name.

  • gh-118074: Make sure that the Executor objects in the COLD_EXITS array aren’t assumed to be GC-able (which would access bytes outside the object).

  • gh-107674: Lazy load frame line number to improve performance of tracing

  • gh-118082: Improve SyntaxError message for imports without names, like in from x import and import cases. It now points out to users that import expects at least one name after it.

  • gh-118090: Improve SyntaxError message for empty type param brackets.

  • gh-117958: Added a get_jit_code() method to access JIT compiled machine code from the UOp Executor when the experimental JIT is enabled. Patch by Anthony Shaw.

  • gh-117901: Add option for compiler’s codegen to save nested instruction sequences for introspection.

  • gh-116622: Redirect stdout and stderr to system log when embedded in an Android app.

  • gh-109118: annotation scope within class scopes can now contain lambdas.

  • gh-117894: Prevent agen.aclose() objects being re-used after .throw().

  • gh-117881: prevent concurrent access to an async generator via athrow().throw() or asend().throw()

  • gh-117536: Fix a RuntimeWarning when calling agen.aclose().throw(Exception).

  • gh-117755: Fix mimalloc allocator for huge memory allocation (around 8,589,934,592 GiB) on s390x. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-117750: Fix issue where an object’s dict would get out of sync with the object’s internal values when being cleared. obj.__dict__.clear() now clears the internal values, but leaves the dict attached to the object.

  • gh-117431: Improve the performance of the following bytes and bytearray methods by adapting them to the METH_FASTCALL calling convention:

    • count()

    • find()

    • index()

    • rfind()

    • rindex()

  • gh-117709: Speed up calls to str() with positional-only argument, by using the PEP 590 vectorcall calling convention. Patch by Erlend Aasland.

  • gh-117680: Give _PyInstructionSequence a Python interface and use it in tests.

  • gh-115776: Statically allocated objects are, by definition, immortal so must be marked as such regardless of whether they are in extension modules or not.

  • gh-117385: Remove unhandled PY_MONITORING_EVENT_BRANCH and PY_MONITORING_EVENT_EXCEPTION_HANDLED events from sys.settrace().

  • gh-116322: Extension modules may indicate to the runtime that they can run without the GIL. Multi-phase init modules do so by calling providing Py_MOD_GIL_NOT_USED for the Py_mod_gil slot, while single-phase init modules call PyUnstable_Module_SetGIL(mod, Py_MOD_GIL_NOT_USED) from their init function.

  • gh-116129: Implement PEP 696, adding support for defaults on type parameters. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-93502: Add two new functions to the C-API, PyRefTracer_SetTracer() and PyRefTracer_GetTracer(), that allows to track object creation and destruction the same way the tracemalloc module does. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-107674: Improved the performance of sys.settrace() significantly

  • gh-95754: Improve the error message when a script shadowing a module from the standard library causes AttributeError to be raised. Similarly, improve the error message when a script shadowing a third party module attempts to access an attribute from that third party module while still initialising.

  • gh-99180: Elide uninformative traceback indicators in return and simple assignment statements. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

  • gh-105879: Allow the globals and locals arguments to exec() and eval() to be passed as keywords.

Library

  • gh-118418: A DeprecationWarning is now emitted if you fail to pass a value to the new type_params parameter of typing._eval_type() or typing.ForwardRef._evaluate(). (Using either of these private and undocumented functions is discouraged to begin with, but failing to pass a value to the type_params parameter may lead to incorrect behaviour on Python 3.12 or newer.)

  • gh-118660: Add an optional second type parameter to typing.ContextManager and typing.AsyncContextManager, representing the return types of __exit__() and __aexit__() respectively. This parameter defaults to bool | None.

  • gh-118650: The enum module allows method named _repr_* to be defined on Enum types.

  • gh-118648: Add type parameter defaults to typing.Generator and typing.AsyncGenerator.

  • gh-101137: Mime type text/x-rst is now supported by mimetypes.

  • gh-118164: The Python implementation of the decimal module could appear to hang in relatively small power cases (like 2**117) if context precision was set to a very high value. A different method to check for exactly representable results is used now that doesn’t rely on computing 10**precision (which could be effectively too large to compute).

  • gh-111744: breakpoint() and pdb.set_trace() now enter the debugger immediately after the call rather than before the next line is executed.

  • gh-118500: Add pdb support for zipapps

  • gh-118406: Add signature for sqlite3.Connection objects.

  • gh-101732: Use a Y2038 compatible openssl time function when available.

  • gh-118404: Fix inspect.signature() for non-comparable callables.

  • gh-118402: Fix inspect.signature() for the result of the functools.cmp_to_key() call.

  • gh-116622: On Android, sysconfig.get_platform now returns the format specified by PEP 738.

  • gh-118285: Allow to specify the signature of custom callable instances of extension type by the __text_signature__ attribute. Specify signatures of operator.attrgetter, operator.itemgetter, and operator.methodcaller instances.

  • gh-118314: Fix an edge case in binascii.a2b_base64() strict mode, where excessive padding is not detected when no padding is necessary.

  • gh-118271: Add the PhotoImage methods read() to read an image from a file and data() to get the image data. Add background and grayscale parameters to PhotoImage method write().

  • gh-118225: Add the PhotoImage method copy_replace() to copy a region from one image to other image, possibly with pixel zooming and/or subsampling. Add from_coords parameter to PhotoImage methods copy(), zoom() and subsample(). Add zoom and subsample parameters to PhotoImage method copy().

  • gh-118221: Fix a bug where sqlite3.Connection.iterdump() could fail if a custom row factory was used. Patch by Erlend Aasland.

  • gh-118013: Fix regression introduced in gh-103193 that meant that calling inspect.getattr_static() on an instance would cause a strong reference to that instance’s class to persist in an internal cache in the inspect module. This caused unexpected memory consumption if the class was dynamically created, the class held strong references to other objects which took up a significant amount of memory, and the cache contained the sole strong reference to the class. The fix for the regression leads to a slowdown in getattr_static(), but the function should still be significantly faster than it was in Python 3.11. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-118218: Speed up itertools.pairwise() in the common case by up to 1.8x.

  • gh-117486: Improve the behavior of user-defined subclasses of ast.AST. Such classes will now require no changes in the usual case to conform with the behavior changes of the ast module in Python 3.13. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-90848: Fixed unittest.mock.create_autospec() to configure parent mock with keyword arguments.

  • gh-118168: Fix incorrect argument substitution when typing.Unpack is used with the builtin tuple. typing.Unpack now raises TypeError when used with certain invalid types. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-118131: Add command-line interface for the random module. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.

  • gh-118107: Fix zipimport reading of ZIP64 files with file entries that are too big or offset too far.

  • gh-102511: Fix os.path.normpath() for UNC paths on Windows. Speed up os.path.splitroot() with a native implementation.

  • gh-117535: Change the unknown filename of warnings from sys to <sys> to clarify that it’s not a real filename.

  • gh-114053: Fix erroneous NameError when calling typing.get_type_hints() on a class that made use of PEP 695 type parameters in a module that had from __future__ import annotations at the top of the file. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-116931: Add parameter fileobj check for tarfile.TarFile.addfile()

  • gh-117995: Don’t raise DeprecationWarning when a sequence of parameters is used to bind indexed, nameless placeholders. See also gh-100668.

  • gh-80361: Fix TypeError in email.message.Message.get_payload() when the charset is RFC 2231 encoded.

  • gh-86650: Fix IndexError when parse some emails with invalid Message-ID (including one-off addresses generated by Microsoft Outlook).

  • gh-117691: Improve the error messages emitted by tarfile deprecation warnings relating to PEP 706. If a filter argument is not provided to extract() or extractall, the deprecation warning now points to the line in the user’s code where the relevant function was called. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-115874: Fixed a possible segfault during garbage collection of _asyncio.FutureIter objects. Patch by Savannah Ostrowski.

  • gh-115060: Speed up pathlib.Path.glob() by omitting an initial is_dir() call. As a result of this change, glob() can no longer raise OSError.

  • gh-77102: site module now parses .pth file with UTF-8 first, and locale encoding if UnicodeDecodeError happened. It supported only locale encoding before.

  • gh-76785: We’ve exposed the low-level _interpreters module for the sake of the PyPI implementation of PEP 734. It was sometimes available as the _xxsubinterpreters module and was formerly used only for testing. For the most part, it should be considered an internal module, like _thread and _imp. See https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-734-multiple-interpreters-in-the-stdlib/41147/26.

  • gh-115060: Speed up pathlib.Path.glob() by not scanning directories for non-wildcard pattern segments.

  • gh-117727: Speed up pathlib.Path.iterdir() by using os.scandir() internally.

  • gh-117586: Speed up pathlib.Path.walk() by working with strings internally.

  • gh-117722: Change the new multi-separator support in asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil() to only accept tuples of separators rather than arbitrary iterables.

  • gh-117692: Fixes a bug when doctest.DocTestFinder was failing on wrapped builtin_function_or_method.

  • gh-117348: Largely restored import time performance of configparser by avoiding dataclasses.

  • gh-117641: Speedup os.path.commonpath() on Unix.

  • gh-117663: Fix _simple_enum to detect aliases when multiple arguments are present but only one is the member value.

  • gh-117636: Speedup os.path.join().

  • gh-117618: Support package.module as filename for break command of pdb

  • gh-102247: the status codes enum with constants in http.HTTPStatus are updated to include the names from RFC9110. This RFC includes some HTTP statuses previously only used for WEBDAV and assigns more generic names to them.

    The old constants are preserved for backwards compatibility.

  • gh-117607: Speedup os.path.relpath().

  • gh-117586: Speed up pathlib.Path.glob() by working with strings internally.

  • gh-117225: Add colour to doctest output. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.

  • gh-117566: ipaddress.IPv6Address.is_loopback() will now return True for IPv4-mapped loopback addresses, i.e. addresses in the ::ffff:127.0.0.0/104 address space.

  • gh-117546: Fix issue where os.path.realpath() stopped resolving symlinks after encountering a symlink loop on POSIX.

  • gh-116720: Improved behavior of asyncio.TaskGroup when an external cancellation collides with an internal cancellation. For example, when two task groups are nested and both experience an exception in a child task simultaneously, it was possible that the outer task group would misbehave, because its internal cancellation was swallowed by the inner task group.

    In the case where a task group is cancelled externally and also must raise an ExceptionGroup, it will now call the parent task’s cancel() method. This ensures that a asyncio.CancelledError will be raised at the next await, so the cancellation is not lost.

    An added benefit of these changes is that task groups now preserve the cancellation count (asyncio.Task.cancelling()).

    In order to handle some corner cases, asyncio.Task.uncancel() may now reset the undocumented _must_cancel flag when the cancellation count reaches zero.

  • gh-117516: Add typing.TypeIs, implementing PEP 742. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-117503: Fix support of non-ASCII user names in bytes paths in os.path.expanduser() on Posix.

  • gh-117394: os.path.ismount() is now 2-3 times faster if the user has permissions.

  • gh-117313: Only treat '\n', '\r' and '\r\n' as line separators in re-folding the email messages. Preserve control characters '\v', '\f', '\x1c', '\x1d' and '\x1e' and Unicode line separators '\x85', '\u2028' and '\u2029' as is.

  • gh-117142: Convert _ctypes to multi-phase initialisation (PEP 489).

  • gh-66543: Add the mimetypes.guess_file_type() function which works with file path. Passing file path instead of URL in guess_type() is soft deprecated.

  • gh-68583: webbrowser CLI: replace getopt with argparse, add long options. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.

  • gh-116871: Name suggestions for AttributeError and ImportError now only include underscored names if the original name was underscored.

  • gh-116023: Don’t show empty fields (value None or []) in ast.dump() by default. Add show_empty=False parameter to optionally show them.

  • gh-115961: Added name and mode attributes for compressed and archived file-like objects in modules bz2, lzma, tarfile and zipfile. The value of the mode attribute of gzip.GzipFile was changed from integer (1 or 2) to string ('rb' or 'wb'). The value of the mode attribute of the readable file-like object returned by zipfile.ZipFile.open() was changed from 'r' to 'rb'.

  • gh-82062: Fix inspect.signature() to correctly handle parameter defaults on methods in extension modules that use names defined in the module namespace.

  • gh-83856: Honor atexit for all multiprocessing start methods

  • gh-113081: Print colorized exception just like built-in traceback in pdb

  • gh-112855: Speed up pickling of pathlib.PurePath objects. Patch by Barney Gale.

  • gh-111744: Support opcode events in bdb

  • gh-109617: ncurses: fixed a crash that could occur on macOS 13 or earlier when Python was built with Apple Xcode 15’s SDK.

  • gh-83151: Enabled arbitrary statements and evaluations in pdb shell to access the local variables of the current frame, which made it possible for multi-scope code like generators or nested function to work.

  • gh-110209: Add __class_getitem__() to types.GeneratorType and types.CoroutineType for type hinting purposes. Patch by James Hilton-Balfe.

  • gh-108191: The types.SimpleNamespace now accepts an optional positional argument which specifies initial values of attributes as a dict or an iterable of key-value pairs.

  • gh-62090: Fix assertion errors caused by whitespace in metavars or SUPPRESS-ed groups in argparse by simplifying usage formatting. Patch by Ali Hamdan.

  • gh-102402: Adjust logging.LogRecord to use time.time_ns() and fix minor bug related to floating-point math.

  • gh-100242: Bring pure Python implementation functools.partial.__new__ more in line with the C-implementation by not just always checking for the presence of the attribute 'func' on the first argument of partial. Instead, both the Python version and the C version perform an isinstance(func, partial) check on the first argument of partial.

  • gh-99730: HEAD requests are no longer upgraded to GET request during redirects in urllib.

  • gh-66410: Setting the tkinter module global wantobjects to 2 before creating the Tk object or call the wantobjects() method of the Tk object with argument 2 makes now arguments to callbacks registered in the tkinter module to be passed as various Python objects (int, float, bytes, tuple), depending on their internal representation in Tcl, instead of always str. tkinter.wantobjects is now set to 2 by default.

  • bpo-40943: Fix several IndexError when parse emails with truncated Message-ID, address, routes, etc, e.g. example@.

  • bpo-39324: Add mime type mapping for .md <-> text/markdown

  • bpo-18108: shutil.chown() now supports dir_fd and follow_symlinks keyword arguments.

  • bpo-30988: Fix parsing of emails with invalid address headers having a leading or trailing dot. Patch by tsufeki.

  • bpo-32839: Add the after_info() method for Tkinter widgets.

Documentation

  • gh-117928: The minimum Sphinx version required for the documentation is now 6.2.1.

Build

  • gh-118734: Fixes Windows build when invoked directly (not through the build.bat script) without specifying a value for UseTIER2.

  • gh-115119: The configure option --with-system-libmpdec now defaults to yes. The bundled copy of libmpdecimal will be removed in Python 3.15.

  • gh-117845: Fix building against recent libedit versions by detecting readline hook signatures in configure.

  • gh-116622: A testbed project was added to run the test suite on Android.

  • gh-117645: Increase WASI stack size from 512 KiB to 8 MiB and the initial memory from 10 MiB to 20 MiB. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-115119: configure now uses pkg-config to detect decimal dependencies if the --with-system-libmpdec option is given.

Windows

  • gh-115119: Update Windows installer to use libmpdecimal 4.0.0.

  • gh-118486: os.mkdir() now accepts mode of 0o700 to restrict the new directory to the current user.

  • gh-118347: Fixes launcher updates not being installed.

  • gh-118293: The multiprocessing module now passes the STARTF_FORCEOFFFEEDBACK flag when spawning processes to tell Windows not to change the mouse cursor.

  • gh-115009: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.45.3.

  • gh-90329: Suppress the warning displayed on virtual environment creation when the requested and created paths differ only by a short (8.3 style) name. Warnings will continue to be shown if a junction or symlink in the path caused the venv to be created in a different location than originally requested.

  • gh-117786: Fixes virtual environments not correctly launching when created from a Store install.

macOS

  • gh-115119: Update macOS installer to use libmpdecimal 4.0.0.

  • gh-114099: iOS preprocessor symbol usage was made compatible with older macOS SDKs.

  • gh-115009: Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.45.3.

  • gh-91629: Use ~/.config/fish/conf.d configs and fish_add_path to set PATH when installing for the Fish shell.

IDLE

  • bpo-34774: Use user-selected color theme for Help => IDLE Doc.

C API

Python 3.13.0 alpha 6

Release date: 2024-04-09

Core and Builtins

  • gh-117494: Refactored the instruction sequence data structure out of compile.c into instruction_sequence.c.

  • gh-116968: Introduce a unified 16-bit backoff counter type (_Py_BackoffCounter), shared between the Tier 1 adaptive specializer and the Tier 2 optimizer. The API used for adaptive specialization counters is changed but the behavior is (supposed to be) identical.

    The behavior of the Tier 2 counters is changed:

    • There are no longer dynamic thresholds (we never varied these).

    • All counters now use the same exponential backoff.

    • The counter for JUMP_BACKWARD starts counting down from 16.

    • The temperature in side exits starts counting down from 64.

  • gh-117431: Improve the performance of the following bytes and bytearray methods by adapting them to the METH_FASTCALL calling convention:

    • endswith()

    • startswith()

  • gh-117431: Improve the performance of the following str methods by adapting them to the METH_FASTCALL calling convention:

  • gh-117411: Move PyFutureFeatures to an internal header and make it private.

  • gh-109120: Added handle of incorrect star expressions, e.g f(3, *). Patch by Grigoryev Semyon

  • gh-117266: Fix crashes for certain user-created subclasses of ast.AST. Such classes are now expected to set the _field_types attribute.

  • gh-99108: Updated the hashlib built-in HACL* project C code from upstream that we use for many implementations when they are not present via OpenSSL in a given build. This also avoids the rare potential for a C symbol name one definition rule linking issue.

  • gh-117108: Change the old space bit of objects in the young generation from 0 to gcstate->visited, so that any objects created during GC will have the old bit set correctly if they get moved into the old generation.

  • gh-117108: The cycle GC now chooses the size of increments based on the total heap size, instead of the rate of object creation. This ensures that it can keep up with growing heaps.

  • gh-116735: For INSTRUMENTED_CALL_FUNCTION_EX, set arg0 to sys.monitoring.MISSING instead of None for CALL event.

  • gh-113964: Starting new threads and process creation through os.fork() are now only prevented once all non-daemon threads exit.

  • gh-116626: Ensure INSTRUMENTED_CALL_FUNCTION_EX always emits CALL

  • gh-116554: list.sort() now exploits more cases of partial ordering, particularly those with long descending runs with sub-runs of equal values. Those are recognized as single runs now (previously, each block of repeated values caused a new run to be created).

  • gh-114099: Added a Loader that can discover extension modules in an iOS-style Frameworks folder.

  • gh-115775: Compiler populates the new __static_attributes__ field on a class with the names of attributes of this class which are accessed through self.X from any function in its body.

  • gh-115776: The array of values, the PyDictValues struct is now embedded in the object during allocation. This provides better performance in the common case, and does not degrade as much when the object’s __dict__ is materialized.

  • gh-108362: Implement an incremental cyclic garbage collector. By collecting the old generation in increments, there is no need for a full heap scan. This can hugely reduce maximum pause time for programs with large heaps.

    Reduce the number of generations from three to two. The old generation is split into two spaces, “visited” and “pending”.

    Collection happens in two steps:: * An increment is formed from the young generation and a small part of the pending space. * This increment is scanned and the survivors moved to the end of the visited space.

    When the collecting space becomes empty, the two spaces are swapped.

  • gh-109870: Dataclasses now calls exec() once per dataclass, instead of once per method being added. This can speed up dataclass creation by up to 20%.

  • gh-97901: Mime type text/rtf is now supported by mimetypes.

  • bpo-24612: Improve the SyntaxError that happens when ‘not’ appears after an operator. Patch by Pablo Galindo

Library

  • gh-117648: Improve performance of os.path.join() and os.path.expanduser().

  • gh-117584: Raise TypeError for non-paths in posixpath.relpath().

  • gh-117467: Preserve mailbox ownership when rewriting in mailbox.mbox.flush(). Patch by Tony Mountifield.

  • gh-114848: Raise FileNotFoundError when getcwd() returns ‘(unreachable)’, which can happen on Linux >= 2.6.36 with glibc < 2.27.

  • gh-117459: asyncio.asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe() now keeps the traceback of CancelledError, TimeoutError and InvalidStateError which are raised in the coroutine.

  • gh-117381: Fix error message for ntpath.commonpath().

  • gh-117337: Deprecate undocumented glob.glob0() and glob.glob1() functions. Use glob.glob() and pass a directory to its root_dir argument instead.

  • gh-117349: Optimise several functions in os.path.

  • gh-117348: Refactored configparser.RawConfigParser._read() to reduce cyclometric complexity and improve comprehensibility.

  • gh-117335: Raise TypeError for non-sequences for ntpath.commonpath().

  • gh-66449: configparser.ConfigParser now accepts unnamed sections before named ones, if configured to do so.

  • gh-88014: In documentation of gzip.GzipFile in module gzip, explain data type of optional constructor argument mtime, and recommend mtime = 0 for generating deterministic streams.

  • gh-117310: Fixed an unlikely early & extra Py_DECREF triggered crash in ssl when creating a new _ssl._SSLContext if CPython was built implausibly such that the default cipher list is empty or the SSL library it was linked against reports a failure from its C SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list() API.

  • gh-117294: A DocTestCase now reports as skipped if all examples in the doctest are skipped.

  • gh-98966: In subprocess, raise a more informative message when stdout=STDOUT.

  • gh-117225: doctest: only print “and X failed” when non-zero, don’t pluralise “1 items”. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.

  • gh-117205: Speed up compileall.compile_dir() by 20% when using multiprocessing by increasing chunksize.

  • gh-117178: Fix regression in lazy loading of self-referential modules, introduced in gh-114781.

  • gh-112383: Fix dis module’s handling of ENTER_EXECUTOR instructions.

  • gh-117182: Lazy-loading of modules that modify their own __class__ no longer reverts the __class__ to types.ModuleType.

  • gh-117084: Fix zipfile extraction for directory entries with the name containing backslashes on Windows.

  • gh-117114: Make os.path.isdevdrive() available on all platforms. For those that do not offer Dev Drives, it will always return False.

  • gh-117110: Fix a bug that prevents subclasses of typing.Any to be instantiated with arguments. Patch by Chris Fu.

  • gh-109653: Deferred select imports in importlib.metadata and importlib.resources for a 14% speedup.

  • gh-70647: Start the deprecation period for the current behavior of datetime.datetime.strptime() and time.strptime() which always fails to parse a date string with a ValueError involving a day of month such as strptime("02-29", "%m-%d") when a year is not specified and the date happen to be February 29th. This should help avoid users finding new bugs every four years due to a natural mistaken assumption about the API when parsing partial date values.

  • gh-116987: Fixed inspect.findsource() for class code objects.

  • gh-114099: Modify standard library to allow for iOS platform differences.

  • gh-90872: On Windows, subprocess.Popen.wait() no longer calls WaitForSingleObject() with a negative timeout: pass 0 ms if the timeout is negative. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-116957: configparser: Don’t leave ConfigParser values in an invalid state (stored as a list instead of a str) after an earlier read raised DuplicateSectionError or DuplicateOptionError.

  • gh-115538: _io.WindowsConsoleIO now emit a warning if a boolean value is passed as a filedescriptor argument.

  • gh-90095: Ignore empty lines and comments in .pdbrc

  • gh-106531: Refreshed zipfile._path from zipp 3.18, providing better compatibility for PyPy, better glob performance for deeply nested zipfiles, and providing internal access to CompleteDirs.inject for use in other tests (like importlib.resources).

  • gh-63207: On Windows, time.time() now uses the GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime() clock to have a resolution better than 1 us, instead of the GetSystemTimeAsFileTime() clock which has a resolution of 15.6 ms. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-116764: Restore support of None and other false values in urllib.parse functions parse_qs() and parse_qsl(). Also, they now raise a TypeError for non-zero integers and non-empty sequences.

  • gh-116811: In PathFinder.invalidate_caches, delegate to MetadataPathFinder.invalidate_caches.

  • gh-116647: Fix recursive child in dataclasses

  • gh-113171: Fixed various false positives and false negatives in

    Also in the corresponding ipaddress.IPv4Network and ipaddress.IPv6Network attributes.

  • gh-63283: In encodings.idna, any capitalization of the the ACE prefix (xn--) is now acceptable. Patch by Pepijn de Vos and Zackery Spytz.

  • gh-71042: Add platform.android_ver(), which provides device and OS information on Android.

  • gh-73468: Added new math.fma() function, wrapping C99’s fma() operation: fused multiply-add function. Patch by Mark Dickinson and Victor Stinner.

  • gh-116608: The importlib.resources functions is_resource(), open_binary(), open_text(), path(), read_binary(), and read_text() are un-deprecated, and support subdirectories via multiple positional arguments. The contents() function also allows subdirectories, but remains deprecated.

  • gh-116484: Change automatically generated tkinter.Checkbutton widget names to avoid collisions with automatically generated tkinter.ttk.Checkbutton widget names within the same parent widget.

  • gh-114314: In ctypes, ctype data is now stored in type objects directly rather than in a dict subclass. This is an internal change that should not affect usage.

  • gh-116401: Fix blocking os.fwalk() and shutil.rmtree() on opening named pipe.

  • gh-71052: Implement ctypes.util.find_library() on Android.

  • gh-90535: Fix support of interval values > 1 in logging.TimedRotatingFileHandler for when='MIDNIGHT' and when='Wx'.

  • gh-113308: Remove some internal protected parts from uuid: _has_uuid_generate_time_safe, _netbios_getnode, _ipconfig_getnode, and _load_system_functions. They were unused.

  • gh-115627: Fix the ssl module error handling of connection terminate by peer. It now throws an OSError with the appropriate error code instead of an EOFError.

  • gh-114847: Speed up os.path.realpath() on non-Windows platforms.

  • gh-114271: Fix a race in threading.Thread.join().

    threading._MainThread now always represents the main thread of the main interpreter.

    PyThreadState.on_delete and PyThreadState.on_delete_data have been removed.

  • gh-113538: Add asyncio.Server.close_clients() and asyncio.Server.abort_clients() methods which allow to more forcefully close an asyncio server.

  • gh-85287: Changes Unicode codecs to return UnicodeEncodeError or UnicodeDecodeError, rather than just UnicodeError.

  • gh-113548: pdb now allows CLI arguments to pdb -m.

  • gh-112948: Make completion of pdb similar to Python REPL

  • gh-105866: Fixed _get_slots bug which caused error when defining dataclasses with slots and a weakref_slot.

  • gh-96471: Add asyncio.Queue termination with shutdown() method.

  • gh-89739: The zipimport module can now read ZIP64 files.

  • bpo-33533: asyncio.as_completed() now returns an object that is both an asynchronous iterator and plain iterator. The new asynchronous iteration pattern allows for easier correlation between prior tasks and their completed results. This is a closer match to concurrent.futures.as_completed()’s iteration pattern. Patch by Justin Arthur.

  • bpo-27578: inspect.getsource() (and related functions) work with empty module files, returning '\n' (or reasonable equivalent) instead of raising OSError. Patch by Kernc.

  • bpo-37141: Accept an iterable of separators in asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil(), stopping when one of them is encountered.

  • gh-66543: Make mimetypes.guess_type() properly parsing of URLs with only a host name, URLs containing fragment or query, and filenames with only a UNC sharepoint on Windows. Based on patch by Dong-hee Na.

  • bpo-15010: unittest.TestLoader.discover() now saves the original value of unittest.TestLoader._top_level_dir and restores it at the end of the call.

Documentation

  • gh-115977: Remove compatibility references to Emscripten.

  • gh-114099: Add an iOS platform guide, and flag modules not available on iOS.

  • gh-91565: Changes to documentation files and config outputs to reflect the new location for reporting bugs - i.e. GitHub rather than bugs.python.org.

Tests

  • gh-83434: Disable JUnit XML output (--junit-xml=FILE command line option) in regrtest when hunting for reference leaks (-R option). Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-117187: Fix XML tests for vanilla Expat <2.6.0.

  • gh-116333: Tests of TLS related things (error codes, etc) were updated to be more lenient about specific error message strings and behaviors as seen in the BoringSSL and AWS-LC forks of OpenSSL.

  • gh-117089: Consolidated tests for importlib.metadata in their own metadata package.

  • gh-115979: Update test_importlib so that it passes under WASI SDK 21.

  • gh-112536: Add –tsan to test.regrtest for running TSAN tests in reasonable execution times. Patch by Donghee Na.

  • gh-116307: Added import helper isolated_modules as CleanImport does not remove modules imported during the context. Use it in importlib.resources tests to avoid leaving mod around to impede importlib.metadata tests.

Build

  • gh-114736: Have WASI builds use WASI SDK 21.

  • gh-115983: Skip building test modules that must be built as shared under WASI.

  • gh-71052: Add Android build script and instructions.

Windows

  • gh-117267: Ensure DirEntry.stat().st_ctime behaves consistently with os.stat() during the deprecation period of st_ctime by containing the same value as st_birthtime. After the deprecation period, st_ctime will be the metadata change time (or unavailable through DirEntry), and only st_birthtime will contain the creation time.

  • gh-116195: Improves performance of os.getppid() by using an alternate system API when available. Contributed by vxiiduu.

  • gh-88494: On Windows, time.monotonic() now uses the QueryPerformanceCounter() clock to have a resolution better than 1 us, instead of the GetTickCount64() clock which has a resolution of 15.6 ms. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-116773: Fix instances of <_overlapped.Overlapped object at 0xXXX> still has pending operation at deallocation, the process may crash.

  • gh-91227: Fix the asyncio ProactorEventLoop implementation so that sending a datagram to an address that is not listening does not prevent receiving any more datagrams.

  • gh-115119: Switched from vendored libmpdecimal code to a separately-hosted external package in the cpython-source-deps repository when building the _decimal module.

C API

  • gh-117642: Fix PEP 737 implementation for %#T and %#N.

  • gh-87193: _PyBytes_Resize() can now be called for bytes objects with reference count > 1, including 1-byte bytes objects. It creates a new bytes object and destroys the old one if it has reference count > 1.

  • gh-117021: Fix integer overflow in PyLong_AsPid() on non-Windows 64-bit platforms.

  • gh-115756: PyCode_GetFirstFree() is an ustable API now and has been renamed to PyUnstable_Code_GetFirstFree(). (Contributed by Bogdan Romanyuk in gh-115781)

  • gh-116869: Add test_cext test: build a C extension to check if the Python C API emits C compiler warnings. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-116869: Make the C API compatible with -Werror=declaration-after-statement compiler flag again. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-116936: Add PyType_GetModuleByDef() to the limited C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-116809: Restore removed private _PyErr_ChainExceptions1() function. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-115754: In the limited C API version 3.13, getting Py_None, Py_False, Py_True, Py_Ellipsis and Py_NotImplemented singletons is now implemented as function calls at the stable ABI level to hide implementation details. Getting these constants still return borrowed references. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-115754: Add Py_GetConstant() and Py_GetConstantBorrowed() functions to get constants. For example, Py_GetConstant(Py_CONSTANT_ZERO) returns a strong reference to the constant zero. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-111696: Add support for %T, %T#, %N and %N# formats to PyUnicode_FromFormat(): format the fully qualified name of an object type and of a type: call PyType_GetModuleName(). See PEP 737 for more information. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-111696: Add PyType_GetModuleName() function to get the type’s module name. Equivalent to getting the type.__module__ attribute. Patch by Eric Snow and Victor Stinner.

  • gh-111696: Add PyType_GetFullyQualifiedName() function to get the type’s fully qualified name. Equivalent to f"{type.__module__}.{type.__qualname__}", or type.__qualname__ if type.__module__ is not a string or is equal to "builtins". Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-85283: The fcntl, grp, pwd, termios, _statistics and _testconsole C extensions are now built with the limited C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-111140: Add additional flags to PyLong_AsNativeBytes() and PyLong_FromNativeBytes() to allow the caller to determine how to handle edge cases around values that fill the entire buffer.

  • gh-113024: Add PyObject_GenericHash() function.

Python 3.13.0 alpha 5

Release date: 2024-03-12

Security

Core and Builtins

  • gh-116604: Respect the status of the garbage collector when indirect calls are made via PyErr_CheckSignals() and the evaluation breaker. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-112087: list is now compatible with the implementation of PEP 703.

  • gh-116381: Add specialization for CONTAINS_OP.

  • gh-116296: Fix possible refleak in object.__reduce__() internal error handling.

  • gh-115823: Properly calculate error ranges in the parser when raising SyntaxError exceptions caused by invalid byte sequences. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-115778: Add tierN annotation for instruction definition in interpreter DSL.

  • gh-115733: Fix crash when calling next() on exhausted list iterators.

  • gh-115700: The regen-cases build stage now works on Windows.

  • gh-115347: Fix bug where docstring was replaced by a redundant NOP when Python is run with -OO.

  • gh-115323: Make error message more meaningful for when bytearray.extend() is called with a str object.

  • gh-112175: Every PyThreadState now has its own eval_breaker, allowing specific threads to be interrupted.

  • gh-115154: Fix a bug that was causing the tokenize.untokenize() function to handle unicode named literals incorrectly. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-112433: Add ability to force alignment of ctypes.Structure by way of the new _align_ attribute on the class.

  • gh-104090: The multiprocessing resource tracker now exits with non-zero status code if a resource leak was detected. It still exits with status code 0 otherwise.

  • gh-105858: Improve the constructors for ast nodes. Arguments of list types now default to an empty list if omitted, and optional fields default to None. AST nodes now have an __annotations__ attribute with the expected types of their attributes. Passing unrecognized extra arguments to AST nodes is deprecated and will become an error in Python 3.15. Omitting a required argument to an AST node is deprecated and will become an error in Python 3.15. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-101860: Expose __name__ attribute on property.

  • gh-96497: Fix incorrect resolution of mangled class variables used in assignment expressions in comprehensions.

Library

  • gh-116600: Fix repr() for global Flag members.

  • gh-116349: platform.java_ver() is deprecated and will be removed in 3.15. It was largely untested, had a confusing API, and was only useful for Jython support.

  • gh-116143: Fix a race in pydoc _start_server, eliminating a window in which _start_server can return a thread that is “serving” but without a docserver set.

  • gh-116127: typing: implement PEP 705 which adds typing.ReadOnly support to typing.TypedDict.

  • gh-116325: typing: raise SyntaxError instead of AttributeError on forward references as empty strings.

  • gh-115957: When asyncio.TaskGroup.create_task is called on an inactive asyncio.TaskGroup, the given coroutine will be closed (which prevents a RuntimeWarning).

  • gh-115978: Disable preadv(), readv(), pwritev(), and writev() on WASI.

    Under wasmtime for WASI 0.2, these functions don’t pass test_posix (https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/issues/7830).

  • gh-88352: Fix the computation of the next rollover time in the logging.TimedRotatingFileHandler handler. computeRollover() now always returns a timestamp larger than the specified time and works correctly during the DST change. doRollover() no longer overwrite the already rolled over file, saving from data loss when run at midnight or during repeated time at the DST change.

  • gh-87115: Set __main__.__spec__ to None when running a script with pdb

  • gh-76511: Fix UnicodeEncodeError in email.Message.as_string() that results when a message that claims to be in the ascii character set actually has non-ascii characters. Non-ascii characters are now replaced with the U+FFFD replacement character, like in the replace error handler.

  • gh-89547: Add support for nested typing special forms like Final[ClassVar[int]].

  • gh-65824: Improve the less prompt in pydoc.

  • gh-116040: [Enum] fix by-value calls when second value is falsey; e.g. Cardinal(1, 0)

  • gh-115821: [Enum] Improve error message when calling super().__new__() in custom __new__.

  • gh-85644: Use the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP environment variable in webbrowser to check desktop. Prefer it to the deprecated GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID for GNOME detection.

  • gh-75988: Fixed unittest.mock.create_autospec() to pass the call through to the wrapped object to return the real result.

  • gh-115881: Fix issue where ast.parse() would incorrectly flag conditional context managers (such as with (x() if y else z()): ...) as invalid syntax if feature_version=(3, 8) was passed. This reverts changes to the grammar made as part of gh-94949.

  • gh-115886: Fix silent truncation of the name with an embedded null character in multiprocessing.shared_memory.SharedMemory.

  • gh-115532: Add kernel density estimation to the statistics module.

  • gh-115714: On WASI, the time module no longer get process time using times() or CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, system API is that is unreliable and is likely to be removed from WASI. The affected clock functions fall back to calling clock().

  • gh-115809: Improve algorithm for computing which rolled-over log files to delete in logging.TimedRotatingFileHandler. It is now reliable for handlers without namer and with arbitrary deterministic namer that leaves the datetime part in the file name unmodified.

  • gh-74668: urllib.parse functions parse_qs() and parse_qsl() now support bytes arguments containing raw and percent-encoded non-ASCII data.

  • gh-67044: csv.writer() now always quotes or escapes '\r' and '\n', regardless of lineterminator value.

  • gh-115712: Restore support of space delimiter with skipinitialspace=True in csv. csv.writer() now quotes empty fields if delimiter is a space and skipinitialspace is true and raises exception if quoting is not possible.

  • gh-112364: Fixed ast.unparse() to handle format_spec with ", ' or \\. Patched by Frank Hoffmann.

  • gh-112997: Stop logging potentially sensitive callback arguments in asyncio unless debug mode is active.

  • gh-114914: Fix an issue where an abandoned StreamWriter would not be garbage collected.

  • gh-111358: Fix a bug in asyncio.BaseEventLoop.shutdown_default_executor() to ensure the timeout passed to the coroutine behaves as expected.

  • gh-115618: Fix improper decreasing the reference count for None argument in property methods getter(), setter() and deleter().

  • gh-112720: Refactor dis.ArgResolver to make it possible to subclass and change the way jump args are interpreted.

  • gh-112006: Fix inspect.unwrap() for types with the __wrapper__ data descriptor. Fix inspect.Signature.from_callable() for builtins classmethod() and staticmethod().

  • gh-101293: Support callables with the __call__() method and types with __new__() and __init__() methods set to class methods, static methods, bound methods, partial functions, and other types of methods and descriptors in inspect.Signature.from_callable().

  • gh-103092: Isolate _lsprof (apply PEP 687).

  • gh-113942: pydoc no longer skips global functions implemented as builtin methods, such as MethodDescriptorType and WrapperDescriptorType.

  • gh-115256: Added DeprecationWarning when accessing the tarfile attribute of TarInfo objects. The attribute is never used internally and is only attached to TarInfos when the tarfile is opened in write-mode, not read-mode. The attribute creates an unnecessary reference cycle which may cause corruption when not closing the handle after writing a tarfile.

  • gh-115197: urllib.request no longer resolves the hostname before checking it against the system’s proxy bypass list on macOS and Windows.

  • gh-113812: DatagramTransport.sendto() will now send zero-length datagrams if called with an empty bytes object. The transport flow control also now accounts for the datagram header when calculating the buffer size.

  • gh-114763: Protect modules loaded with importlib.util.LazyLoader from race conditions when multiple threads try to access attributes before the loading is complete.

  • gh-114709: posixpath.commonpath() now raises a ValueError exception when passed an empty iterable. Previously, IndexError was raised.

    posixpath.commonpath() now raises a TypeError exception when passed None. Previously, ValueError was raised.

  • gh-114610: Fix bug where pathlib.PurePath.with_stem() converted a non-empty path suffix to a stem when given an empty stem argument. It now raises ValueError, just like pathlib.PurePath.with_suffix() does when called on a path with an empty stem, given a non-empty suffix argument.

  • gh-107361: Add ssl.VERIFY_X509_PARTIAL_CHAIN and VERIFY_X509_STRICT to the default SSL context created with ssl.create_default_context().

  • gh-112281: Allow creating union of types for typing.Annotated with unhashable metadata.

  • gh-111775: Fix importlib.resources.simple.ResourceHandle.open() for text mode, added missed stream argument.

  • gh-90095: Make .pdbrc and -c work with any valid pdb commands.

  • gh-107625: Raise configparser.ParsingError from read() and read_file() methods of configparser.ConfigParser if a key without a corresponding value is continued (that is, followed by an indented line).

  • gh-107155: Fix incorrect output of help(x) where x is a lambda function, which has an __annotations__ dictionary attribute with a "return" key.

  • gh-57141: Add option for non-shallow comparisons to filecmp.dircmp like filecmp.cmp(). Original patch by Steven Ward. Enhanced by Tobias Rautenkranz

  • gh-69990: Profile.print_stats() has been improved to accept multiple sort arguments. Patched by Chiu-Hsiang Hsu and Furkan Onder.

  • gh-104061: Add socket.SO_BINDTOIFINDEX constant.

  • gh-60346: Fix ArgumentParser inconsistent with parse_known_args.

  • gh-102389: Add windows_31j to aliases for cp932 codec

  • gh-72249: functools.partial`s of :func:`repr() has been improved to include the module name. Patched by Furkan Onder and Anilyka Barry.

  • gh-100985: Update HTTPSConnection to consistently wrap IPv6 Addresses when using a proxy.

  • gh-100884: email: fix misfolding of comma in address-lists over multiple lines in combination with unicode encoding.

  • gh-95782: Fix io.BufferedReader.tell(), io.BufferedReader.seek(), _pyio.BufferedReader.tell(), io.BufferedRandom.tell(), io.BufferedRandom.seek() and _pyio.BufferedRandom.tell() being able to return negative offsets.

  • gh-96310: Fix a traceback in argparse when all options in a mutually exclusive group are suppressed.

  • gh-93205: Fixed a bug in logging.handlers.TimedRotatingFileHandler where multiple rotating handler instances pointing to files with the same name but different extensions would conflict and not delete the correct files.

  • bpo-31116: Add Z85 encoding to base64.

  • bpo-44865: Add missing call to localization function in argparse.

  • bpo-43952: Fix multiprocessing.connection.Listener.accept() to accept empty bytes as authkey. Not accepting empty bytes as key causes it to hang indefinitely.

  • bpo-42125: linecache: get module name from __spec__ if available. This allows getting source code for the __main__ module when a custom loader is used.

  • bpo-41122: Failing to pass arguments properly to functools.singledispatchmethod() now throws a TypeError instead of hitting an index out of bounds internally.

  • bpo-40818: The asyncio REPL now runs sys.__interactivehook__ on startup. The default implementation of sys.__interactivehook__ provides auto-completion to the asyncio REPL. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.

  • bpo-33775: Add ‘default’ and ‘version’ help text for localization in argparse.

Documentation

Tests

  • gh-71052: Add test exclusions to support running the test suite on Android.

  • gh-71052: Enable test_concurrent_futures on platforms that support threading but not multiprocessing.

  • gh-115796: Make ‘_testinternalcapi.assemble_code_object’ construct the exception table for the code object.

  • gh-115720: Leak tests (-R, --huntrleaks) now show a summary of the number of leaks found in each iteration.

  • gh-115122: Add --bisect option to regrtest test runner: run failed tests with test.bisect_cmd to identify failing tests. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-115596: Fix ProgramPriorityTests in test_os permanently changing the process priority.

  • gh-115556: On Windows, commas passed in arguments to Tools\buildbot\test.bat and PCbuild\\rt.bat are now properly handled.

  • gh-115420: Fix translation of exception handler targets by _testinternalcapi.optimize_cfg.

  • gh-115376: Fix segfault in _testinternalcapi.compiler_codegen on bad input.

Build

  • gh-116313: Get WASI builds to work under wasmtime 18 w/ WASI 0.2/preview2 primitives.

  • gh-71052: Change Android’s sys.platform from "linux" to "android".

  • gh-116117: Backport libb2’s PR #42 to fix compiling CPython on 32-bit Windows with clang-cl.

  • gh-71052: Fix several Android build issues

  • gh-114099: A testbed project was added to run the test suite on iOS.

  • gh-115350: Fix building ctypes module with -DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN defined

  • gh-111225: Link extension modules against libpython on Android.

  • gh-115737: The install name for libPython is now correctly set for non-framework macOS builds.

  • gh-114099: Makefile targets were added to support compiling an iOS-compatible framework build.

Windows

  • gh-116012: Ensure the value of GetLastError() is preserved across GIL operations.

  • gh-115582: Building extensions intended for free-threaded builds of CPython now require compiling with /DPy_GIL_DISABLED manually when using a regular install. This is expected to change in future releases.

  • gh-115554: The installer now has more strict rules about updating the Python Launcher for Windows. In general, most users only have a single launcher installed and will see no difference. When multiple launchers have been installed, the option to install the launcher is disabled until all but one have been removed. Downgrading the launcher (which was never allowed) is now more obviously blocked.

  • gh-115543: Python Launcher for Windows can now detect Python 3.13 when installed from the Microsoft Store, and will install Python 3.12 by default when PYLAUNCHER_ALLOW_INSTALL is set.

macOS

  • gh-116145: Update macOS installer to Tcl/Tk 8.6.14.

IDLE

  • gh-88516: On macOS show a proxy icon in the title bar of editor windows to match platform behaviour.

Tools/Demos

  • gh-100176: Remove outdated Tools/{io,cc,string}bench

  • bpo-45101: Add consistency in usage message IO between 2 versions of python-config.

C API

  • gh-114626: Add again _PyCFunctionFastWithKeywords name, removed in Python 3.13 alpha 4 by mistake. Keep the old private _PyCFunctionFastWithKeywords name (Python 3.7) as an alias to the new public name PyCFunctionFastWithKeywords (Python 3.13a4). Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-111418: Add PyHASH_MODULUS, PyHASH_BITS, PyHASH_INF and PyHASH_IMAG C macros. Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.

Python 3.13.0 alpha 4

Release date: 2024-02-15

Security

Core and Builtins

  • gh-112087: For an empty reverse iterator for list will be reduced to reversed(). Patch by Donghee Na

  • gh-114570: Add PythonFinalizationError exception. This exception derived from RuntimeError is raised when an operation is blocked during the Python finalization. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-114695: Add sys._clear_internal_caches(), which clears all internal performance-related caches (and deprecate the less-general sys._clear_type_cache() function).

  • gh-114828: Fix compilation crashes in uncommon code examples using super() inside a comprehension in a class body.

  • gh-112069: Adapt set and frozenset methods to Argument Clinic.

  • gh-115011: Setters for members with an unsigned integer type now support the same range of valid values for objects that has a __index__() method as for int.

  • gh-114887: Changed socket type validation in create_datagram_endpoint() to accept all non-stream sockets. This fixes a regression in compatibility with raw sockets.

  • gh-114944: Fixes a race between PyParkingLot_Park and _PyParkingLot_UnparkAll.

  • gh-113462: Limit the number of versions that a single class can use. Prevents a few wayward classes using up all the version numbers.

  • gh-76763: The chr() builtin function now always raises ValueError for values outside the valid range. Previously it raised OverflowError for very large or small values.

  • gh-114806: No longer specialize calls to classes, if those classes have metaclasses. Fixes bug where the __call__ method of the metaclass was not being called.

  • gh-107944: Improve error message for function calls with bad keyword arguments via getargs

  • gh-112529: The free-threaded build no longer allocates space for the PyGC_Head structure in objects that support cyclic garbage collection. A number of other fields and data structures are used as replacements, including ob_gc_bits, ob_tid, and mimalloc internal data structures.

  • gh-114456: Lower the recursion limit under a debug build of WASI.

  • gh-114083: Compiler applies folding of LOAD_CONST with following instruction in a separate pass before other optimisations. This enables jump threading in certain circumstances.

  • gh-114388: Fix a RuntimeWarning emitted when assign an integer-like value that is not an instance of int to an attribute that corresponds to a C struct member of type T_UINT and T_ULONG. Fix a double RuntimeWarning emitted when assign a negative integer value to an attribute that corresponds to a C struct member of type T_UINT.

  • gh-114265: Compiler propagates line numbers before optimization, leading to more optimization opportunities and removing the need for the guarantee_lineno_for_exits hack.

  • gh-112529: The free-threaded build now has its own thread-safe GC implementation that uses mimalloc to find GC tracked objects. It is non-generational, unlike the existing GC implementation.

  • gh-114050: Fix segmentation fault caused by an incorrect format string in TypeError exception when more than two arguments are passed to int.

  • gh-112354: The END_FOR instruction now pops only one value. This is to better support side exits in loops.

  • gh-113884: Make queue.SimpleQueue thread safe when the GIL is disabled.

  • gh-114058: Implement the foundations of the Tier 2 redundancy eliminator.

  • gh-113939: frame.clear(): Clear frame.f_locals as well, and not only the fast locals. This is relevant once frame.f_locals was accessed, which would contain also references to all the locals.

  • gh-112050: Convert collections.deque to use Argument Clinic.

  • gh-112050: Make methods on collections.deque thread-safe when the GIL is disabled.

  • gh-113464: Add an option (--enable-experimental-jit for configure-based builds or --experimental-jit for PCbuild-based ones) to build an experimental just-in-time compiler, based on copy-and-patch

  • gh-113055: Make interp->obmalloc a pointer. For interpreters that share state with the main interpreter, this points to the same static memory structure. For interpreters with their own obmalloc state, it is heap allocated. Add free_obmalloc_arenas() which will free the obmalloc arenas and radix tree structures for interpreters with their own obmalloc state.

  • gh-55664: Add warning when creating type using a namespace dictionary with non-string keys. Patched by Daniel Urban and Furkan Onder.

  • gh-104530: Use native Win32 condition variables.

Library

  • gh-115392: Fix a bug in doctest where incorrect line numbers would be reported for decorated functions.

  • gh-114563: Fix several format() bugs when using the C implementation of Decimal: * memory leak in some rare cases when using the z format option (coerce negative 0) * incorrect output when applying the z format option to type F (fixed-point with capital NAN / INF) * incorrect output when applying the # format option (alternate form)

  • gh-102840: Fix confused traceback when floordiv, mod, or divmod operations happens between instances of fractions.Fraction and complex.

  • gh-115165: Most exceptions are now ignored when attempting to set the __orig_class__ attribute on objects returned when calling typing generic aliases (including generic aliases created using typing.Annotated). Previously only AttributeError was ignored. Patch by Dave Shawley.

  • gh-112903: Fix “issubclass() arg 1 must be a class” errors in certain cases of multiple inheritance with generic aliases (regression in early 3.13 alpha releases).

  • gh-115133: Fix tests for XMLPullParser with Expat 2.6.0.

  • gh-115059: io.BufferedRandom.read1() now flushes the underlying write buffer.

  • gh-79382: Trailing ** no longer allows to match files and non-existing paths in recursive glob().

  • gh-67837: Avoid race conditions in the creation of directories during concurrent extraction in tarfile and zipfile.

  • gh-115060: Speed up pathlib.Path.glob() by removing redundant regex matching.

  • gh-97928: Partially revert the behavior of tkinter.Text.count(). By default it preserves the behavior of older Python versions, except that setting wantobjects to 0 no longer has effect. Add a new parameter return_ints: specifying return_ints=True makes Text.count() always returning the single count as an integer instead of a 1-tuple or None.

  • gh-114628: When csv.Error is raised when handling TypeError, do not print the TypeError traceback.

  • gh-85984: Added _POSIX_VDISABLE from C’s <unistd.h> to termios.

  • gh-114965: Update bundled pip to 24.0

  • gh-114959: tarfile no longer ignores errors when trying to extract a directory on top of a file.

  • gh-114894: Add array.array.clear().

  • gh-114071: Support tuple subclasses using auto() for enum member value.

  • gh-109475: Fix support of explicit option value “–” in argparse (e.g. --option=--).

  • gh-49766: Fix date-datetime comparison. Now the special comparison methods like __eq__ and __lt__ return NotImplemented if one of comparands is date and other is datetime instead of ignoring the time part and the time zone or forcefully return “not equal” or raise TypeError. It makes comparison of date and datetime subclasses more symmetric and allows to change the default behavior by overriding the special comparison methods in subclasses.

  • gh-110190: Fix ctypes structs with array on Windows ARM64 platform by setting MAX_STRUCT_SIZE to 32 in stgdict. Patch by Diego Russo

  • gh-114678: Ensure that deprecation warning for ‘N’ specifier in Decimal format is not raised for cases where ‘N’ appears in other places in the format specifier. Based on patch by Stefan Krah.

  • gh-70303: Return both files and directories from pathlib.Path.glob() if a pattern ends with “**”. Previously only directories were returned.

  • gh-109653: Improve import time of importlib.metadata and email.utils.

  • gh-113280: Fix a leak of open socket in rare cases when error occurred in ssl.SSLSocket creation.

  • gh-77749: email.policy.EmailPolicy.fold() now always encodes non-ASCII characters in headers if utf8 is false.

  • gh-83383: Synchronization of the dbm.dumb database is now no-op if there was no modification since opening or last synchronization. The directory file for a newly created empty dbm.dumb database is now created immediately after opening instead of deferring this until synchronizing or closing.

  • gh-91602: Add filter keyword-only parameter to sqlite3.Connection.iterdump() for filtering database objects to dump. Patch by Mariusz Felisiak.

  • gh-112451: Prohibit subclassing pure-Python datetime.timezone. This is consistent with C-extension implementation. Patch by Mariusz Felisiak.

  • gh-69893: Add the close() method for the iterator returned by xml.etree.ElementTree.iterparse().

  • gh-109653: Reduce the import time of threading module by ~50%. Patch by Daniel Hollas.

  • gh-114492: Make the result of termios.tcgetattr() reproducible on Alpine Linux. Previously it could leave a random garbage in some fields.

  • gh-114315: Make threading.Lock a real class, not a factory function. Add __new__ to _thread.lock type.

  • gh-100414: Add dbm.sqlite3 as a backend to dbm, and make it the new default dbm backend. Patch by Raymond Hettinger and Erlend E. Aasland.

  • gh-113267: Revert changes in gh-106584 which made calls of TestResult methods startTest() and stopTest() unbalanced.

  • gh-75128: Ignore an OSError in asyncio.BaseEventLoop.create_server() when IPv6 is available but the interface cannot actually support it.

  • gh-114423: _DummyThread entries in threading._active are now automatically removed when the related thread dies.

  • gh-114257: Dismiss the FileNotFound error in ctypes.util.find_library() and just return None on Linux.

  • gh-114321: Expose more platform specific constants in the fcntl module on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and NetBSD.

  • gh-114328: The tty.setcbreak() and new tty.cfmakecbreak() no longer clears the terminal input ICRLF flag. This fixes a regression introduced in 3.12 that no longer matched how OSes define cbreak mode in their stty(1) manual pages.

  • gh-114281: Remove type hints from Lib/asyncio/staggered.py. The annotations in the typeshed project should be used instead.

  • gh-101438: Avoid reference cycle in ElementTree.iterparse. The iterator returned by ElementTree.iterparse may hold on to a file descriptor. The reference cycle prevented prompt clean-up of the file descriptor if the returned iterator was not exhausted.

  • gh-114198: The signature for the __replace__ method on dataclasses now has the first argument named self, rather than obj.

  • gh-104522: OSError raised when run a subprocess now only has filename attribute set to cwd if the error was caused by a failed attempt to change the current directory.

  • gh-114149: Enum: correctly handle tuple subclasses in custom __new__.

  • gh-83648: Support deprecation of options, positional arguments and subcommands in argparse.

  • gh-114087: Speed up dataclasses.asdict up to 1.35x.

  • gh-109534: Fix a reference leak in asyncio.selector_events.BaseSelectorEventLoop when SSL handshakes fail. Patch contributed by Jamie Phan.

  • gh-79634: Accept path-like objects as patterns in pathlib.Path.glob() and rglob().

  • gh-112202: Ensure that a asyncio.Condition.notify() call does not get lost if the awakened Task is simultaneously cancelled or encounters any other error.

  • gh-113951: Fix the behavior of tag_unbind() methods of tkinter.Text and tkinter.Canvas classes with three arguments. Previously, widget.tag_unbind(tag, sequence, funcid) destroyed the current binding for sequence, leaving sequence unbound, and deleted the funcid command. Now it removes only funcid from the binding for sequence, keeping other commands, and deletes the funcid command. It leaves sequence unbound only if funcid was the last bound command.

  • gh-97959: Fix rendering class methods, bound methods, method and function aliases in pydoc. Class methods no longer have “method of builtins.type instance” note. Corresponding notes are now added for class and unbound methods. Method and function aliases now have references to the module or the class where the origin was defined if it differs from the current. Bound methods are now listed in the static methods section. Methods of builtin classes are now supported as well as methods of Python classes.

  • gh-113796: Add more validation checks in the csv.Dialect constructor. ValueError is now raised if the same character is used in different roles.

  • gh-113732: Fix support of QUOTE_NOTNULL and QUOTE_STRINGS in csv.reader().

  • gh-113225: Speed up pathlib.Path.walk() by using os.DirEntry.path where possible.

  • gh-89039: When replace() method is called on a subclass of datetime, date or time, properly call derived constructor. Previously, only the base class’s constructor was called.

    Also, make sure to pass non-zero fold values when creating subclasses in various methods. Previously, fold was silently ignored.

  • gh-112919: Speed-up datetime.datetime.replace(), datetime.date.replace() and datetime.time.replace().

  • gh-59013: Set breakpoint on the first executable line of the function, instead of the line of function definition when the user do break func using pdb

  • gh-112343: Improve handling of pdb convenience variables to avoid replacing string contents.

  • gh-112240: Add option to calendar module CLI to specify the weekday to start each week. Patch by Steven Ward.

  • gh-111741: Recognise image/webp as a standard format in the mimetypes module.

  • gh-43457: Fix the tkinter widget method wm_attributes(). It now accepts the attribute name without the minus prefix to get window attributes and allows to specify attributes and values to set as keyword arguments. Add new optional keyword argument return_python_dict: calling w.wm_attributes(return_python_dict=True) returns the attributes as a dict instead of a tuple. Calling w.wm_attributes() now returns a tuple instead of string if wantobjects was set to 0.

  • gh-82626: Many functions now emit a warning if a boolean value is passed as a file descriptor argument.

  • gh-111051: Added check for file modification during debugging with pdb

  • gh-110345: Show the Tcl/Tk patchlevel (rather than version) in tkinter._test().

  • gh-38807: Fix race condition in trace. Instead of checking if a directory exists and creating it, directly call os.makedirs() with the kwarg exist_ok=True.

  • gh-75705: Set unixfrom envelope in mailbox.mbox and mailbox.MMDF.

  • gh-106233: Fix stacklevel in InvalidTZPathWarning during zoneinfo module import.

  • gh-105102: Allow ctypes.Union to be nested in ctypes.Structure when the system endianness is the opposite of the classes.

  • gh-104282: Fix null pointer dereference in lzma._decode_filter_properties() due to improper handling of BCJ filters with properties of zero length. Patch by Radislav Chugunov.

  • gh-96471: Add queue.Queue termination with shutdown().

  • gh-101599: Changed argparse flag options formatting to remove redundancy.

  • gh-85984: Add POSIX pseudo-terminal functions os.posix_openpt(), os.grantpt(), os.unlockpt(), and os.ptsname().

  • gh-102512: When os.fork() is called from a foreign thread (aka _DummyThread), the type of the thread in a child process is changed to _MainThread. Also changed its name and daemonic status, it can be now joined.

  • gh-88569: Add os.path.isreserved(), which identifies reserved pathnames such as “NUL”, “AUX” and “CON”. This function is only available on Windows.

    Deprecate pathlib.PurePath.is_reserved().

  • bpo-38364: The inspect functions isgeneratorfunction, iscoroutinefunction, isasyncgenfunction now support functools.partialmethod wrapped functions the same way they support functools.partial.

Documentation

  • gh-115233: Fix an example for LoggerAdapter in the Logging Cookbook.

  • gh-114123: Move the csv module docstring to the csv module instead of reexporting it from the internal _csv module, and remove __doc__ from csv.__all__.

    Move csv.__version__ to the csv module instead of reexporting it from the internal _csv module, and remove __version__ from csv.__all__.

Tests

  • gh-114099: Added test exclusions required to run the test suite on iOS.

  • gh-105089: Fix test.test_zipfile.test_core.TestWithDirectory.test_create_directory_with_write test in AIX by doing a bitwise AND of 0xFFFF on mode , so that it will be in sync with zinfo.external_attr

Build

  • gh-115167: Avoid vendoring vcruntime140_threads.dll when building with Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8.

  • gh-113632: Promote WASI to a tier 2 platform and drop Emscripten from tier 3 in configure.ac.

  • gh-114099: configure and Makefile were refactored to accommodate framework builds on Apple platforms other than macOS.

  • gh-114875: Add getgrent() as a prerequisite for building the grp module.

Windows

  • gh-115049: Fixes py.exe launcher failing when run as users without user profiles.

  • gh-115009: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.45.1.

  • gh-109991: Update Windows build to use OpenSSL 3.0.13.

  • gh-111239: Update Windows builds to use zlib v1.3.1.

  • gh-100107: The py.exe launcher will no longer attempt to run the Microsoft Store redirector when launching a script containing a /usr/bin/env shebang

  • gh-112984: Adds free-threaded binaries to Windows installer as an optional component.

  • gh-89240: Allows multiprocessing to create pools of greater than 62 processes.

macOS

  • gh-115009: Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.45.1.

  • gh-109991: Update macOS installer to use OpenSSL 3.0.13.

  • gh-114490: Add Mach-O linkage support for platform.architecture().

  • gh-87804: On macOS the result of os.statvfs and os.fstatvfs now correctly report the size of very large disks, in previous versions the reported number of blocks was wrong for disks with at least 2**32 blocks.

IDLE

  • gh-96905: In idlelib code, stop redefining built-ins ‘dict’ and ‘object’.

  • gh-103820: Revise IDLE bindings so that events from mouse button 4/5 on non-X11 windowing systems (i.e. Win32 and Aqua) are not mistaken for scrolling.

Tools/Demos

  • gh-113516: Don’t set LDSHARED when building for WASI.

  • gh-109991: Update GitHub CI workflows to use OpenSSL 3.0.13 and multissltests to use 1.1.1w, 3.0.13, 3.1.5, and 3.2.1.

  • gh-115015: Fix a bug in Argument Clinic that generated incorrect code for methods with no parameters that use the METH_METHOD | METH_FASTCALL | METH_KEYWORDS calling convention. Only the positional parameter count was checked; any keyword argument passed would be silently accepted.

C API

Python 3.13.0 alpha 3

Release date: 2024-01-17

Security

  • gh-113659: Skip .pth files with names starting with a dot or hidden file attribute.

  • gh-112302: Created a Software Bill-of-Materials document and tooling for tracking dependencies.

Core and Builtins

  • gh-107901: Compiler duplicates basic blocks that have an eval breaker check, no line number, and multiple predecessors.

  • gh-107901: A jump leaving an exception handler back to normal code no longer checks the eval breaker.

  • gh-113655: Set the C recursion limit to 4000 on Windows, and 10000 on Linux/OSX. This seems to be near the sweet spot to maintain safety, but not compromise backwards compatibility.

  • gh-113710: Add typed stack effects to the interpreter DSL, along with various instruction annotations.

  • gh-77046: On Windows, file descriptors wrapping Windows handles are now created non inheritable by default (PEP 446). Patch by Zackery Spytz and Victor Stinner.

  • gh-113853: Guarantee that all executors make progress. This then guarantees that tier 2 execution always makes progress.

  • gh-113753: Fix an issue where the finalizer of PyAsyncGenASend objects might not be called if they were allocated from a free list.

  • gh-107901: Compiler changed so that synthetic jumps which are not at loop end no longer check the eval breaker.

  • gh-113703: Fix a regression in the codeop module that was causing it to incorrectly identify incomplete f-strings. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-89811: Check for a valid tp_version_tag before performing bytecode specializations that rely on this value being usable.

  • gh-111488: Changed error message in case of no ‘in’ keyword after ‘for’ in list comprehensions

  • gh-113657: Fix an issue that caused important instruction pointer updates to be optimized out of tier two traces.

  • gh-113603: Fixed bug where a redundant NOP is not removed, causing an assertion to fail in the compiler in debug mode.

  • gh-113602: Fix an error that was causing the parser to try to overwrite existing errors and crashing in the process. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-113486: No longer issue spurious PY_UNWIND events for optimized calls to classes.

  • gh-113297: Fix segfault in the compiler on with statement with 19 context managers.

  • gh-113212: Improve super error messages.

  • gh-111375: Only use NULL in the exception stack to indicate an exception was handled. Patch by Carey Metcalfe.

  • gh-112215: Increase the C recursion limit by a factor of 3 for non-debug builds, except for webassembly and s390 platforms which are unchanged. This mitigates some regressions in 3.12 with deep recursion mixing builtin (C) and Python code.

  • gh-113054: Fixed bug where a redundant NOP is not removed, causing an assertion to fail in the compiler in debug mode.

  • gh-106905: Use per AST-parser state rather than global state to track recursion depth within the AST parser to prevent potential race condition due to simultaneous parsing.

    The issue primarily showed up in 3.11 by multithreaded users of ast.parse(). In 3.12 a change to when garbage collection can be triggered prevented the race condition from occurring.

  • gh-108866: Change the API and contract of _PyExecutorObject to return the next_instr pointer, instead of the frame, and to always execute at least one instruction.

  • gh-90350: Optimize builtin functions min() and max().

  • gh-112943: Correctly compute end column offsets for multiline tokens in the tokenize module. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-112125: Fix None.__ne__(None) returning NotImplemented instead of False.

  • gh-74616: input() now raises a ValueError when output on the terminal if the prompt contains embedded null characters instead of silently truncating it.

  • gh-112716: Fix SystemError in the import statement and in __reduce__() methods of builtin types when __builtins__ is not a dict.

  • gh-112730: Use color to highlight error locations in tracebacks. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-112625: Fixes a bug where a bytearray object could be cleared while iterating over an argument in the bytearray.join() method that could result in reading memory after it was freed.

  • gh-112660: Do not clear unexpected errors during formatting error messages for ImportError and AttributeError for modules.

  • gh-105967: Workaround a bug in Apple’s macOS platform zlib library where zlib.crc32() and binascii.crc32() could produce incorrect results on multi-gigabyte inputs. Including when using zipfile on zips containing large data.

  • gh-95754: Provide a better error message when accessing invalid attributes on partially initialized modules. The origin of the module being accessed is now included in the message to help with the common issue of shadowing other modules.

  • gh-112217: Add check for the type of __cause__ returned from calling the type T in raise from T.

  • gh-111058: Change coro.cr_frame/gen.gi_frame to return None after the coroutine/generator has been closed. This fixes a bug where getcoroutinestate() and getgeneratorstate() return the wrong state for a closed coroutine/generator.

  • gh-112388: Fix an error that was causing the parser to try to overwrite tokenizer errors. Patch by pablo Galindo

  • gh-112387: Fix error positions for decoded strings with backwards tokenize errors. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-99606: Make code generated for an empty f-string identical to the code of an empty normal string.

  • gh-112367: Avoid undefined behaviour when using the perf trampolines by not freeing the code arenas until shutdown. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-112320: The Tier 2 translator now tracks the confidence level for staying “on trace” (i.e. not exiting back to the Tier 1 interpreter) for branch instructions based on the number of bits set in the branch “counter”. Trace translation ends when the confidence drops below 1/3rd.

  • gh-109598: PyComplex_RealAsDouble()/PyComplex_ImagAsDouble() now tries to convert an object to a complex instance using its __complex__() method before falling back to the __float__() method. Patch by Sergey B Kirpichev.

  • gh-94606: Fix UnicodeEncodeError when email.message.get_payload() reads a message with a Unicode surrogate character and the message content is not well-formed for surrogateescape encoding. Patch by Sidney Markowitz.

  • bpo-21861: Use the object’s actual class name in _io.FileIO.__repr__(), _io._WindowsConsoleIO() and _io.TextIOWrapper.__repr__(), to make these methods subclass friendly.

  • bpo-45369: Remove LibreSSL workarounds as per PEP 644.

  • bpo-34392: Added sys._is_interned().

Library

  • gh-114077: Fix possible OverflowError in socket.socket.sendfile() when pass count larger than 2 GiB on 32-bit platform.

  • gh-111803: plistlib now supports loading more deeply nested lists in binary format.

  • gh-114014: Fixed a bug in fractions.Fraction where an invalid string using d in the decimals part creates a different error compared to other invalid letters/characters. Patch by Jeremiah Gabriel Pascual.

  • gh-108364: sqlite3.Connection.iterdump() now ensures that foreign key support is disabled before dumping the database schema, if there is any foreign key violation. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland and Mariusz Felisiak.

  • gh-113971: The zipfile.ZipInfo previously protected ._compresslevel attribute has been made public as .compress_level with the old _compresslevel name remaining available as a property to retain compatibility.

  • gh-113877: Fix tkinter method winfo_pathname() on 64-bit Windows.

  • gh-113868: Added mmap.MAP_NORESERVE, mmap.MAP_NOEXTEND, mmap.MAP_HASSEMAPHORE, mmap.MAP_NOCACHE, mmap.MAP_JIT, mmap.MAP_RESILIENT_CODESIGN, mmap.MAP_RESILIENT_MEDIA, mmap.MAP_32BIT, mmap.MAP_TRANSLATED_ALLOW_EXECUTE, mmap.MAP_UNIX03 and mmap.MAP_TPRO. All of them are mmap(2) flags on macOS.

  • gh-113848: asyncio.TaskGroup() and asyncio.timeout() context managers now handle CancelledError subclasses as well as exact CancelledError.

  • gh-113661: unittest runner: Don’t exit 5 if tests were skipped. The intention of exiting 5 was to detect issues where the test suite wasn’t discovered at all. If we skipped tests, it was correctly discovered.

  • gh-96037: Insert TimeoutError in the context of the exception that was raised during exiting an expired asyncio.timeout() block.

  • gh-113781: Silence unraisable AttributeError when warnings are emitted during Python finalization.

  • gh-113238: Add Anchor to importlib.resources (in order for the code to comply with the documentation)

  • gh-111693: asyncio.Condition.wait() now re-raises the same CancelledError instance that may have caused it to be interrupted. Fixed race condition in asyncio.Semaphore.acquire() when interrupted with a CancelledError.

  • gh-113791: Add CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW_APPROX and CLOCK_UPTIME_RAW_APPROX to time on macOS. These are clocks available on macOS 10.12 or later.

  • gh-112932: Restore the ability for zipfile to extractall from zip files with a “/” directory entry in them as is commonly added to zips by some wiki or bug tracker data exporters.

  • gh-113568: Raise deprecation warnings from pathlib.PurePath and not its private base class PurePathBase.

  • gh-113594: Fix UnicodeEncodeError in email when re-fold lines that contain unknown-8bit encoded part followed by non-unknown-8bit encoded part.

  • gh-113538: In asyncio.StreamReaderProtocol.connection_made(), there is callback that logs an error if the task wrapping the “connected callback” fails. This callback would itself fail if the task was cancelled. Prevent this by checking whether the task was cancelled first. If so, close the transport but don’t log an error.

  • gh-113626: Add support for the allow_code argument in the marshal module. Passing allow_code=False prevents serialization and de-serialization of code objects which is incompatible between Python versions.

  • gh-85567: Fix resource warnings for unclosed files in pickle and pickletools command line interfaces.

  • gh-113537: Support loads str in plistlib.loads().

  • gh-89850: Add default implementations of pickle.Pickler.persistent_id() and pickle.Unpickler.persistent_load() methods in the C implementation. Calling super().persistent_id() and super().persistent_load() in subclasses of the C implementation of pickle.Pickler and pickle.Unpickler classes no longer causes infinite recursion.

  • gh-113569: Indicate if there were no actual calls in unittest assert_has_calls() failure.

  • gh-101225: Increase the backlog for multiprocessing.connection.Listener objects created by multiprocessing.manager and multiprocessing.resource_sharer to significantly reduce the risk of getting a connection refused error when creating a multiprocessing.connection.Connection to them.

  • gh-113568: Raise audit events from pathlib.Path and not its private base class PathBase.

  • gh-113543: Make sure that webbrowser.MacOSXOSAScript sends webbrowser.open audit event.

  • gh-113028: When a second reference to a string appears in the input to pickle, and the Python implementation is in use, we are guaranteed that a single copy gets pickled and a single object is shared when reloaded. Previously, in protocol 0, when a string contained certain characters (e.g. newline) it resulted in duplicate objects.

  • gh-113421: Fix multiprocessing logger for %(filename)s.

  • gh-111784: Fix segfaults in the _elementtree module. Fix first segfault during deallocation of _elementtree.XMLParser instances by keeping strong reference to pyexpat module in module state for capsule lifetime. Fix second segfault which happens in the same deallocation process by keeping strong reference to _elementtree module in XMLParser structure for _elementtree module lifetime.

  • gh-113407: Fix import of unittest.mock when CPython is built without docstrings.

  • gh-113320: Fix regression in Python 3.12 where Protocol classes that were not marked as runtime-checkable would be unnecessarily introspected, potentially causing exceptions to be raised if the protocol had problematic members. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-53502: Add a new option aware_datetime in plistlib to loads or dumps aware datetime.

  • gh-113358: Fix rendering tracebacks with exceptions with a broken __getattr__

  • gh-113214: Fix an AttributeError during asyncio SSL protocol aborts in SSL-over-SSL scenarios.

  • gh-113246: Update bundled pip to 23.3.2.

  • gh-87264: Fixed tarfile list() method to show file type.

  • gh-112182: asyncio.futures.Future.set_exception() now transforms StopIteration into RuntimeError instead of hanging or other misbehavior. Patch contributed by Jamie Phan.

  • gh-113225: Speed up pathlib.Path.glob() by using os.DirEntry.path where possible.

  • gh-113149: Improve error message when a JSON array or object contains a trailing comma. Patch by Carson Radtke.

  • gh-113117: The subprocess module can now use the os.posix_spawn() function with close_fds=True on platforms where posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np is available. Patch by Jakub Kulik.

  • gh-113199: Make http.client.HTTPResponse.read1 and http.client.HTTPResponse.readline close IO after reading all data when content length is known. Patch by Illia Volochii.

  • gh-113191: Add support of os.fchmod() and a file descriptor in os.chmod() on Windows.

  • gh-113188: Fix shutil.copymode() and shutil.copystat() on Windows. Previously they worked differently if dst is a symbolic link: they modified the permission bits of dst itself rather than the file it points to if follow_symlinks is true or src is not a symbolic link, and did not modify the permission bits if follow_symlinks is false and src is a symbolic link.

  • gh-113119: os.posix_spawn() now accepts env=None, which makes the newly spawned process use the current process environment. Patch by Jakub Kulik.

  • gh-113202: Add a strict option to batched() in the itertools module.

  • gh-61648: Detect line numbers of properties in doctests.

  • gh-113175: Sync with importlib_metadata 7.0, including improved type annotations, fixed issue with symlinked packages in package_distributions, added EntryPoints.__repr__, introduced the diagnose script, added Distribution.origin property, and removed deprecated EntryPoint access by numeric index (tuple behavior).

  • gh-59616: Add support of os.lchmod() and the follow_symlinks argument in os.chmod() on Windows. Note that the default value of follow_symlinks in os.lchmod() is False on Windows.

  • gh-112559: signal.signal() and signal.getsignal() no longer call repr on callable handlers. asyncio.run() and asyncio.Runner.run() no longer call repr on the task results. Patch by Yilei Yang.

  • gh-112962: dis module functions add cache information to the Instruction instance rather than creating fake Instruction instances to represent the cache entries.

  • gh-112989: Reduce overhead to connect sockets with asyncio SelectorEventLoop.

  • gh-112970: Use closefrom() on Linux where available (e.g. glibc-2.34), rather than only FreeBSD.

  • gh-110190: Fix ctypes structs with array on PPC64LE platform by setting MAX_STRUCT_SIZE to 64 in stgdict. Patch by Diego Russo.

  • gh-112540: The statistics.geometric_mean() function now returns zero for datasets containing a zero. Formerly, it would raise an exception.

  • gh-87286: Added LOG_FTP, LOG_NETINFO, LOG_REMOTEAUTH, LOG_INSTALL, LOG_RAS, and LOG_LAUNCHD tot the syslog module, all of them constants on used on macOS.

  • gh-112800: Fix asyncio SubprocessTransport.close() not to throw PermissionError when used with setuid executables.

  • gh-51944: Add the following constants to the termios module. These values are present in macOS system headers: ALTWERASE, B14400, B28800, B7200, B76800, CCAR_OFLOW, CCTS_OFLOW, CDSR_OFLOW, CDTR_IFLOW, CIGNORE, CRTS_IFLOW, EXTPROC, IUTF8, MDMBUF, NL2, NL3, NOKERNINFO, ONOEOT, OXTABS, VDSUSP, VSTATUS.

  • gh-79325: Fix an infinite recursion error in tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() cleanup on Windows.

  • gh-94692: shutil.rmtree() now only catches OSError exceptions. Previously a symlink attack resistant version of shutil.rmtree() could ignore or pass to the error handler arbitrary exception when invalid arguments were provided.

  • gh-112736: The use of del-safe symbols in subprocess was refactored to allow for use in cross-platform build environments.

  • gh-112727: Speed up pathlib.Path.absolute(). Patch by Barney Gale.

  • gh-74690: Speedup issubclass() checks against simple runtime-checkable protocols by around 6%. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-74690: Speedup isinstance() checks by roughly 20% for runtime-checkable protocols that only have one callable member. Speedup issubclass() checks for these protocols by roughly 10%. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-112645: Remove deprecation error on passing onerror to shutil.rmtree().

  • gh-112640: Add kwdefaults parameter to types.FunctionType to set default keyword argument values.

  • gh-112622: Ensure name parameter is passed to event loop in asyncio.create_task().

  • gh-112618: Fix a caching bug relating to typing.Annotated. Annotated[str, True] is no longer identical to Annotated[str, 1].

  • gh-112334: Fixed a performance regression in 3.12’s subprocess on Linux where it would no longer use the fast-path vfork() system call when it could have due to a logic bug, instead falling back to the safe but slower fork().

    Also fixed a second 3.12.0 potential security bug. If a value of extra_groups=[] was passed to subprocess.Popen or related APIs, the underlying setgroups(0, NULL) system call to clear the groups list would not be made in the child process prior to exec().

    This was identified via code inspection in the process of fixing the first bug.

  • gh-110190: Fix ctypes structs with array on Arm platform by setting MAX_STRUCT_SIZE to 32 in stgdict. Patch by Diego Russo.

  • gh-81194: Fix a crash in socket.if_indextoname() with specific value (UINT_MAX). Fix an integer overflow in socket.if_indextoname() on 64-bit non-Windows platforms.

  • gh-112578: Fix a spurious RuntimeWarning when executing the zipfile module.

  • gh-112516: Update the bundled copy of pip to version 23.3.1.

  • gh-112510: Add readline.backend for the backend readline uses (editline or readline)

  • gh-112328: [Enum] Make EnumDict, EnumDict.member_names, EnumType._add_alias_ and EnumType._add_value_alias_ public.

  • gh-112509: Fix edge cases that could cause a key to be present in both the __required_keys__ and __optional_keys__ attributes of a typing.TypedDict. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-101336: Add keep_alive keyword parameter for AbstractEventLoop.create_server() and BaseEventLoop.create_server().

  • gh-63284: Added support for TLS-PSK (pre-shared key) mode to the ssl module.

  • gh-112414: Fix regression in Python 3.12 where calling repr() on a module that had been imported using a custom loader could fail with AttributeError. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-112358: Revert change to struct.Struct initialization that broke some cases of subclassing.

  • gh-112405: Optimize pathlib.PurePath.relative_to(). Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-94722: Fix bug where comparison between instances of DocTest fails if one of them has None as its lineno.

  • gh-112361: Speed up a small handful of pathlib methods by removing some temporary objects.

  • gh-112345: Improve error message when trying to call issubclass() against a typing.Protocol that has non-method members. Patch by Randolf Scholz.

  • gh-112137: Change dis output to display no-lineno as “–” instead of “None”.

  • gh-112332: Deprecate the exc_type field of traceback.TracebackException. Add exc_type_str to replace it.

  • gh-81620: Add extra tests for random.binomialvariate()

  • gh-112292: Fix a crash in readline when imported from a sub interpreter. Patch by Anthony Shaw

  • gh-77621: Slightly improve the import time of the pathlib module by deferring some imports. Patch by Barney Gale.

  • gh-112137: Change dis output to display logical labels for jump targets instead of offsets.

  • gh-112139: Add Signature.format() to format signatures to string with extra options. And use it in pydoc to render more readable signatures that have new lines between parameters.

  • gh-112105: Make readline.set_completer_delims() work with libedit

  • gh-106922: Display multiple lines with traceback when errors span multiple lines.

  • gh-111874: When creating a typing.NamedTuple class, ensure __set_name__() is called on all objects that define __set_name__ and exist in the values of the NamedTuple class’s class dictionary. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-68166: Add support of the “vsapi” element type in tkinter.ttk.Style.element_create().

  • gh-110275: Named tuple’s methods _replace() and __replace__() now raise TypeError instead of ValueError for invalid keyword arguments.

  • gh-99367: Do not mangle sys.path[0] in pdb if safe_path is set

  • gh-111615: Fix a regression caused by a fix to gh-93162 whereby you couldn’t configure a QueueHandler without specifying handlers.

  • gh-75666: Fix the behavior of tkinter widget’s unbind() method with two arguments. Previously, widget.unbind(sequence, funcid) destroyed the current binding for sequence, leaving sequence unbound, and deleted the funcid command. Now it removes only funcid from the binding for sequence, keeping other commands, and deletes the funcid command. It leaves sequence unbound only if funcid was the last bound command.

  • gh-67790: Implement basic formatting support (minimum width, alignment, fill) for fractions.Fraction.

  • gh-111049: Fix crash during garbage collection of the io.BytesIO buffer object.

  • gh-102980: Redirect the output of interact command of pdb to the same channel as the debugger. Add tests and improve docs.

  • gh-102988: email.utils.getaddresses() and email.utils.parseaddr() now return ('', '') 2-tuples in more situations where invalid email addresses are encountered instead of potentially inaccurate values. Add optional strict parameter to these two functions: use strict=False to get the old behavior, accept malformed inputs. getattr(email.utils, 'supports_strict_parsing', False) can be use to check if the strict parameter is available. Patch by Thomas Dwyer and Victor Stinner to improve the CVE-2023-27043 fix.

  • gh-52161: cmd.Cmd.do_help() now cleans docstrings with inspect.cleandoc() before writing them. Patch by Filip Łapkiewicz.

  • gh-82300: Add track parameter to multiprocessing.shared_memory.SharedMemory that allows using shared memory blocks without having to register with the POSIX resource tracker that automatically releases them upon process exit.

  • gh-110109: Add private pathlib._PurePathBase class: a base class for pathlib.PurePath that omits certain magic methods. It may be made public (along with _PathBase) in future.

  • gh-109858: Protect zipfile from “quoted-overlap” zipbomb. It now raises BadZipFile when try to read an entry that overlaps with other entry or central directory.

  • gh-109786: Fix possible reference leaks and crash when re-enter the __next__() method of itertools.pairwise.

  • gh-91539: Small (10 - 20%) and trivial performance improvement of urllib.request.getproxies_environment(), typically useful when there are many environment variables to go over.

  • gh-103363: Add follow_symlinks keyword-only argument to pathlib.Path.owner() and group(), defaulting to True.

  • gh-102130: Support tab completion in cmd for editline.

  • gh-99437: runpy.run_path() now decodes path-like objects, making sure __file__ and sys.argv[0] of the module being run are always strings.

  • gh-104003: Add warnings.deprecated(), a decorator to mark deprecated functions to static type checkers and to warn on usage of deprecated classes and functions. See PEP 702. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-103708: Make hardcoded python name, a configurable parameter so that different implementations of python can override it instead of making huge diffs in sysconfig.py

  • gh-66515: mailbox.MH now supports folders that do not contain a .mh_sequences file (e.g. Claws Mail IMAP-cache folders). Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

  • gh-83162: Renamed re.error to PatternError for clarity, and kept re.error for backward compatibility. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier and Adam Chhina.

  • gh-91133: Fix a bug in tempfile.TemporaryDirectory cleanup, which now no longer dereferences symlinks when working around file system permission errors.

  • bpo-43153: On Windows, tempfile.TemporaryDirectory previously masked a PermissionError with NotADirectoryError during directory cleanup. It now correctly raises PermissionError if errors are not ignored. Patch by Andrei Kulakov and Ken Jin.

  • bpo-32731: getpass.getuser() now raises OSError for all failures rather than ImportError on systems lacking the pwd module or KeyError if the password database is empty.

  • bpo-34321: mmap.mmap now has a trackfd parameter on Unix; if it is False, the file descriptor specified by fileno will not be duplicated.

  • bpo-35332: The shutil.rmtree() function now ignores errors when calling os.close() when ignore_errors is True, and os.close() no longer retried after error.

  • bpo-35928: io.TextIOWrapper now correctly handles the decoding buffer after read() and write().

  • bpo-26791: shutil.move() now moves a symlink into a directory when that directory is the target of the symlink. This provides the same behavior as the mv shell command. The previous behavior raised an exception. Patch by Jeffrey Kintscher.

  • bpo-41422: Fixed memory leaks of pickle.Pickler and pickle.Unpickler involving cyclic references via the internal memo mapping.

  • bpo-19821: The pydoc.ispackage() function has been deprecated.

  • bpo-40262: The ssl.SSLSocket.recv_into() method no longer requires the buffer argument to implement __len__ and supports buffers with arbitrary item size.

  • bpo-39912: warnings.filterwarnings() and warnings.simplefilter() now raise appropriate exceptions instead of AssertionError. Patch contributed by Rémi Lapeyre.

  • bpo-37260: Fixed a race condition in shutil.rmtree() in which directory entries removed by another process or thread while shutil.rmtree() is running can cause it to raise FileNotFoundError. Patch by Jeffrey Kintscher.

  • bpo-36959: Fix some error messages for invalid ISO format string combinations in strptime() that referred to directives not contained in the format string. Patch by Gordon P. Hemsley.

  • bpo-18060: Fixed a class inheritance issue that can cause segfaults when deriving two or more levels of subclasses from a base class of Structure or Union.

  • bpo-29779: Add a new PYTHON_HISTORY environment variable to set the location of a .python_history file.

  • bpo-21360: mailbox.Maildir now ignores files with a leading dot.

Documentation

  • gh-111699: Relocate smtpd deprecation notice to its own section rather than under locale in What’s New in Python 3.12 document

  • gh-110746: Improved markup for valid options/values for methods ttk.treeview.column and ttk.treeview.heading, and for Layouts.

  • gh-95649: Document that the asyncio module contains code taken from v0.16.0 of the uvloop project, as well as the required MIT licensing information.

Tests

  • gh-111798: Disable test_super_deep() from test_call under pydebug builds on WASI; the stack depth is too small to make the test useful.

  • gh-111801: Lower the recursion limit in test_isinstance for test_infinitely_many_bases(). This prevents a stack overflow on a pydebug build of WASI.

  • gh-111802: Specify a low recursion depth for test_bad_getattr() in test.pickletester to avoid exhausting the stack under a pydebug build for WASI.

  • gh-44626: Fix os.path.isabs() incorrectly returning True when given a path that starts with exactly one (back)slash on Windows.

    Fix pathlib.PureWindowsPath.is_absolute() incorrectly returning False for some paths beginning with two (back)slashes.

  • gh-113633: Use module state for the _testcapi extension module.

  • gh-109980: Fix test_tarfile_vs_tar in test_shutil for macOS, where system tar can include more information in the archive than shutil.make_archive.

  • gh-112769: The tests now correctly compare zlib version when zlib.ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION contains non-integer suffixes. For example zlib-ng defines the version as 1.3.0.zlib-ng.

  • gh-112334: Adds a regression test to verify that vfork() is used when expected by subprocess on vfork enabled POSIX systems (Linux).

  • gh-108927: Fixed order dependence in running tests in the same process when a test that has submodules (e.g. test_importlib) follows a test that imports its submodule (e.g. test_importlib.util) and precedes a test (e.g. test_unittest or test_compileall) that uses that submodule.

  • bpo-40648: Test modes that file can get with chmod() on Windows.

Build

  • gh-114013: Fix Tools/wasm/wasi.py to not include the path to python.wasm as part of HOSTRUNNER. The environment variable is meant to specify how to run the WASI host only, having python.wasm and relevant flags appended to the HOSTRUNNER. This fixes make test work.

  • gh-113258: Changed the Windows build to write out generated frozen modules into the build tree instead of the source tree.

  • gh-112305: Fixed the check-clean-src step performed on out of tree builds to detect errant $(srcdir)/Python/frozen_modules/*.h files and recommend appropriate source tree cleanup steps to get a working build again.

  • gh-112536: Add support for thread sanitizer (TSAN)

  • gh-112867: Fix the build for the case that WITH_PYMALLOC_RADIX_TREE=0 set.

  • gh-103065: Introduce Tools/wasm/wasi.py to simplify doing a WASI build.

  • bpo-11102: The os.major(), os.makedev(), and os.minor() functions are now available on HP-UX v3.

  • bpo-36351: Do not set ipv6type when cross-compiling.

Windows

  • gh-114096: Process privileges that are activated for creating directory junctions are now restored afterwards, avoiding behaviour changes in other parts of the program.

  • gh-111877: os.stat() calls were returning incorrect time values for files that could not be accessed directly.

  • gh-111973: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.44.2.

  • gh-113009: multiprocessing: On Windows, fix a race condition in Process.terminate(): no longer set the returncode attribute to always call WaitForSingleObject() in Process.wait(). Previously, sometimes the process was still running after TerminateProcess() even if GetExitCodeProcess() is not STILL_ACTIVE. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-86179: Fixes path calculations when launching Python on Windows through a symlink.

  • gh-71383: Update Tcl/Tk in Windows installer to 8.6.13 with a patch to suppress incorrect ThemeChanged warnings.

  • gh-111650: Ensures the Py_GIL_DISABLED preprocessor variable is defined in pyconfig.h so that extension modules written in C are able to use it.

  • gh-112278: Reduce the time cost for some functions in platform on Windows if current user has no permission to the WMI.

  • gh-73427: Deprecate sys._enablelegacywindowsfsencoding(). Use PYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSFSENCODING instead. Patch by Inada Naoki.

  • gh-87868: Correctly sort and remove duplicate environment variables in _winapi.CreateProcess().

  • bpo-37308: Fix mojibake in mmap.mmap when using a non-ASCII tagname argument on Windows.

macOS

  • gh-113666: Add the following constants to module stat: UF_SETTABLE, UF_TRACKED, UF_DATAVAULT, SF_SUPPORTED, SF_SETTABLE, SF_SYNTHETIC, SF_RESTRICTED, SF_FIRMLINK and SF_DATALESS. The values UF_SETTABLE, SF_SUPPORTED, SF_SETTABLE and SF_SYNTHETIC are only available on macOS.

  • gh-113536: os.waitid() is now available on macOS

  • gh-110459: Running configure ... --with-openssl-rpath=X/Y/Z no longer fails to detect OpenSSL on macOS.

  • gh-74573: Document that dbm.ndbm can silently corrupt DBM files on updates when exceeding undocumented platform limits, and can crash (segmentation fault) when reading such a corrupted file. (FB8919203)

  • gh-65701: The freeze tool doesn’t work with framework builds of Python. Document this and bail out early when running the tool with such a build.

  • gh-87277: webbrowser: Don’t look for X11 browsers on macOS. Those are generally not used and probing for them can result in starting XQuartz even if it isn’t used otherwise.

  • gh-111973: Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.44.2.

  • gh-108269: Set CFBundleAllowMixedLocalizations to true in the Info.plist for the framework, embedded Python.app and IDLE.app with framework installs on macOS. This allows applications to pick up the user’s preferred locale when that’s different from english.

  • gh-102362: Make sure the result of sysconfig.get_plaform() includes at least a major and minor versions, even if MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is set to only a major version during build to match the format expected by pip.

  • gh-110017: Disable a signal handling stress test on macOS due to a bug in macOS (FB13453490).

  • gh-110820: Make sure the preprocessor definitions for ALIGNOF_MAX_ALIGN_T, SIZEOF_LONG_DOUBLE and HAVE_GCC_ASM_FOR_X64 are correct for Universal 2 builds on macOS.

  • gh-109981: Use /dev/fd on macOS to determine the number of open files in test.support.os_helper.fd_count to avoid a crash with “guarded” file descriptors when probing for open files.

IDLE

  • gh-72284: Improve the lists of features, editor key bindings, and shell key bingings in the IDLE doc.

  • gh-113903: Fix rare failure of test.test_idle, in test_configdialog.

  • gh-113729: Fix the “Help -> IDLE Doc” menu bug in 3.11.7 and 3.12.1.

  • gh-113269: Fix test_editor hang on macOS Catalina.

  • gh-112898: Fix processing unsaved files when quitting IDLE on macOS.

  • bpo-13586: Enter the selected text when opening the “Replace” dialog.

C API

Python 3.13.0 alpha 2

Release date: 2023-11-22

Core and Builtins

  • gh-112243: Don’t include comments in f-string debug expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-112287: Slightly optimize the Tier 2 (uop) interpreter by only loading oparg and operand when needed. Also double the trace size limit again, to 512 this time.

  • gh-112266: Change docstrings of __dict__ and __weakref__.

  • gh-111807: Lower the max parser stack depth to 1000 under WASI debug builds.

  • gh-111798: When Python is built in debug mode, set the C recursion limit to 500 instead of 1500. A debug build is likely built with low optimization level which implies higher stack memory usage than a release build. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-106529: Enable translating unspecialized FOR_ITER to Tier 2.

  • gh-111916: Make hashlib related modules thread-safe without the GIL

  • gh-81137: Deprecate assignment to a function’s __code__ field when the new code object is of a mismatched type (e.g., from a generator to a plain function).

  • gh-79932: Raise exception if frame.clear() is called on a suspended frame.

  • gh-81925: Implement native thread ids for GNU KFreeBSD.

  • gh-111843: Use exponential backoff to reduce the number of failed tier 2 optimization attempts by over 99%.

  • gh-110829: Joining a thread now ensures the underlying OS thread has exited. This is required for safer fork() in multi-threaded processes.

  • gh-109369: Make sure that tier 2 traces are de-optimized if the code is instrumented

  • gh-111772: Specialize slot loads and stores for _Py_T_OBJECT as well as Py_T_OBJECT_EX

  • gh-111666: Speed up BaseExceptionGroup.derive(), BaseExceptionGroup.subgroup(), and BaseExceptionGroup.split() by changing how they parse passed arguments.

  • gh-111654: Fix runtime crash when some error happens in opcode LOAD_FROM_DICT_OR_DEREF.

  • gh-111623: Add support for sharing tuples between interpreters using the cross-interpreter API. Patch by Anthony Shaw.

  • gh-111354: The oparg of YIELD_VALUE is now 1 if the instruction is part of a yield-from or await, and 0 otherwise.

    The SUSPENDED frame state is now split into SUSPENDED and SUSPENDED_YIELD_FROM. This simplifies the code in _PyGen_yf.

  • gh-111520: Merge the Tier 1 (bytecode) and Tier 2 (micro-ops) interpreters together, moving the Tier 2 interpreter loop and switch into _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault() in Python/ceval.c. The Python/executor.c file is gone. Also the TIER_ONE and TIER_TWO macros are now handled by the code generator.

    Beware! This changes the environment variables to enable micro-ops and their debugging to PYTHON_UOPS and PYTHON_LLTRACE.

  • gh-109181: Speed up Traceback object creation by lazily compute the line number. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-111420: Allow type comments in parenthesized with statements

  • gh-111438: Add support for sharing floats between interpreters using the cross-interpreter API. Patch by Anthony Shaw.

  • gh-111435: Add support for sharing of True and False between interpreters using the cross-interpreter API. Patch by Anthony Shaw.

  • gh-102388: Fix a bug where iso2022_jp_3 and iso2022_jp_2004 codecs read out of bounds

  • gh-111366: Fix an issue in the codeop that was causing SyntaxError exceptions raised in the presence of invalid syntax to not contain precise error messages. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-111380: Fix a bug that was causing SyntaxWarning to appear twice when parsing if invalid syntax is encountered later. Patch by Pablo galindo

  • gh-111374: Added a new environment variable PYTHON_FROZEN_MODULES. It determines whether or not frozen modules are ignored by the import machinery, equivalent of the -X frozen_modules command-line option.

  • gh-111354: Remove oparg from YIELD_VALUE. Change oparg of RESUME to include information about the except-depth. These changes make it possible to simplify the code in generator close.

  • gh-94438: Fix a regression that prevented jumping across is None and is not None when debugging. Patch by Savannah Ostrowski.

  • gh-67224: Show source lines in tracebacks when using the -c option when running Python. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-111123: Fix a bug where a global declaration in an except block is rejected when the global is used in the else block.

  • gh-110938: Fix error messages for indented blocks with functions and classes with generic type parameters. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-109214: Remove unnecessary instruction pointer updates before returning from frames.

  • gh-110912: Correctly display the traceback for MemoryError exceptions using the traceback module. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-109894: Fixed crash due to improperly initialized static MemoryError in subinterpreter.

  • gh-110892: Return NULL for PyTrace_RETURN events caused by an exception

  • gh-110864: Fix argument parsing by _PyArg_UnpackKeywordsWithVararg for functions defining pos-or-keyword, vararg, and kw-only parameters.

  • gh-109094: Replace prev_instr on the interpreter frame by instr_ptr which points to the beginning of the instruction that is currently executing (or will execute once the frame resumes).

  • gh-110805: Allow the repl to show source code and complete tracebacks. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-110722: Add PYTHON_PRESITE=package.module to import a module early in the interpreter lifecycle before site.py is executed. Python needs to be built in debug mode for this option to exist.

  • gh-110481: Implement biased reference counting in --disable-gil builds.

  • gh-110543: Fix regression in Python 3.12 where types.CodeType.replace() would produce a broken code object if called on a module or class code object that contains a comprehension. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-89519: Removed chained classmethod descriptors (introduced in bpo-19072). This can no longer be used to wrap other descriptors such as property. The core design of this feature was flawed and caused a number of downstream problems. To “pass-through” a classmethod, consider using the __wrapped__ attribute that was added in Python 3.10.

  • gh-103615: Use local events for opcode tracing

  • bpo-46657: Add mimalloc memory allocator support.

  • gh-106718: When PyConfig.stdlib_dir is explicitly set, it’s now respected and won’t be overridden by PyConfig.home.

  • gh-106905: Fix incorrect SystemError about AST constructor recursion depth mismatch.

  • gh-100445: Improve error message for unterminated strings with escapes.

  • bpo-45759: Improved error messages for elif/else statements not matching any valid statements. Patch by Jeremiah Vivian.

Library

Tests

  • gh-111808: Make the default value of test.support.infinite_recursion() to be conditional based on whether optimizations were used when compiling the interpreter. This helps with platforms like WASI whose stack size is greatly restricted in debug builds.

  • gh-110722: Gathering line coverage of standard libraries within the regression test suite is now precise, as well as much faster. Patch by Łukasz Langa.

  • gh-110367: Make regrtest --verbose3 option compatible with --huntrleaks -jN options. The ./python -m test -j1 -R 3:3 --verbose3 command now works as expected. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-111165: Remove no longer used functions run_unittest() and run_doctest() from the test.support module.

  • gh-110932: Fix regrtest if the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is defined: use the variable value as the random seed. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-110995: test_gdb: Fix detection of gdb built without Python scripting support. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-110918: Test case matching patterns specified by options --match, --ignore, --matchfile and --ignorefile are now tested in the order of specification, and the last match determines whether the test case be run or ignored.

  • gh-108747: Add unit test for usercustomize and sitecustomize hooks from site.

Build

  • gh-96954: Make make regen-unicodedata work for out-of-tree builds of CPython.

  • gh-112088: Add Tools/build/regen-configure.sh script to regenerate the configure with an Ubuntu container image. The quay.io/tiran/cpython_autoconf:271 container image (tiran/cpython_autoconf) is no longer used. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-111046: For wasi-threads, memory is now exported to fix compatibility issues with some wasm runtimes.

  • gh-110828: AIX 32bit needs -latomic to build the _testcapi extension module.

  • gh-85283: The errno, md5, resource, winsound, _ctypes_test, _multiprocessing.posixshmem, _scproxy, _stat, _testimportmultiple and _uuid C extensions are now built with the limited C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.

Windows

  • gh-111856: Fixes fstat() on file systems that do not support file ID requests. This includes FAT32 and exFAT.

  • gh-111293: Fix os.DirEntry.inode dropping higher 64 bits of a file id on some filesystems on Windows.

  • gh-110913: WindowsConsoleIO now correctly chunks large buffers without splitting up UTF-8 sequences.

macOS

  • gh-59703: For macOS framework builds, in getpath.c use the system dladdr function to find the path to the shared library rather than depending on deprecated macOS APIs.

  • gh-110950: Update macOS installer to include an upstream Tcl/Tk fix for the Secure coding is not enabled for restorable state! warning encountered in Tkinter on macOS 14 Sonoma.

  • gh-111015: Ensure that IDLE.app and Python Launcher.app are installed with appropriate permissions on macOS builds.

  • gh-71383: Update macOS installer to include an upstream Tcl/Tk fix for the ttk::ThemeChanged error encountered in Tkinter.

  • gh-92603: Update macOS installer to include a fix accepted by upstream Tcl/Tk for a crash encountered after the first tkinter.Tk() instance is destroyed.

IDLE

  • bpo-35668: Add docstrings to the IDLE debugger module. Fix two bugs: initialize Idb.botframe (should be in Bdb); in Idb.in_rpc_code, check whether prev_frame is None before trying to use it. Greatly expand test_debugger.

Tools/Demos

  • gh-111903: Argument Clinic now supports the @critical_section directive that instructs Argument Clinic to generate a critical section around the function call, which locks the self object in --disable-gil builds. Patch by Sam Gross.

C API

  • gh-112026: Add again the private _PyThreadState_UncheckedGet() function as an alias to the new public PyThreadState_GetUnchecked() function. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-112026: Restore the removed _PyDict_GetItemStringWithError() function. It is used by numpy. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-112026: Restore removed private C API functions, macros and structures which have no simple replacement for now:

    • _PyDict_GetItem_KnownHash()

    • _PyDict_NewPresized()

    • _PyHASH_BITS

    • _PyHASH_IMAG

    • _PyHASH_INF

    • _PyHASH_MODULUS

    • _PyHASH_MULTIPLIER

    • _PyLong_Copy()

    • _PyLong_FromDigits()

    • _PyLong_New()

    • _PyLong_Sign()

    • _PyObject_CallMethodId()

    • _PyObject_CallMethodNoArgs()

    • _PyObject_CallMethodOneArg()

    • _PyObject_CallOneArg()

    • _PyObject_EXTRA_INIT

    • _PyObject_FastCallDict()

    • _PyObject_GetAttrId()

    • _PyObject_Vectorcall()

    • _PyObject_VectorcallMethod()

    • _PyStack_AsDict()

    • _PyThread_CurrentFrames()

    • _PyUnicodeWriter structure

    • _PyUnicodeWriter_Dealloc()

    • _PyUnicodeWriter_Finish()

    • _PyUnicodeWriter_Init()

    • _PyUnicodeWriter_Prepare()

    • _PyUnicodeWriter_PrepareKind()

    • _PyUnicodeWriter_WriteASCIIString()

    • _PyUnicodeWriter_WriteChar()

    • _PyUnicodeWriter_WriteLatin1String()

    • _PyUnicodeWriter_WriteStr()

    • _PyUnicodeWriter_WriteSubstring()

    • _PyUnicode_AsString()

    • _PyUnicode_FromId()

    • _PyVectorcall_Function()

    • _Py_IDENTIFIER()

    • _Py_c_abs()

    • _Py_c_diff()

    • _Py_c_neg()

    • _Py_c_pow()

    • _Py_c_prod()

    • _Py_c_quot()

    • _Py_c_sum()

    • _Py_static_string()

    • _Py_static_string_init()

    Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-112026: Add again <ctype.h> and <unistd.h> includes in Python.h, but don’t include them in the limited C API version 3.13 and newer. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-111956: Add internal-only one-time initialization API: _PyOnceFlag and _PyOnceFlag_CallOnce.

  • gh-111262: Add PyDict_Pop() and PyDict_PopString() functions: remove a key from a dictionary and optionally return the removed value. This is similar to dict.pop(), but without the default value and not raising KeyError if the key missing. Patch by Stefan Behnel and Victor Stinner.

  • gh-111863: Rename Py_NOGIL to Py_GIL_DISABLED. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.

  • gh-111138: Add PyList_Extend() and PyList_Clear() functions: similar to Python list.extend() and list.clear() methods. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-108765: On Windows, Python.h no longer includes the <stddef.h> standard header file. If needed, it should now be included explicitly. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-111569: Implement “Python Critical Sections” from PEP 703. These are macros to help replace the GIL with per-object locks in the --disable-gil build of CPython. The macros are no-ops in the default build.

  • gh-111506: In the limited C API version 3.13, Py_SET_REFCNT() function is now implemented as an opaque function call. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-108082: Add PyErr_FormatUnraisable() function.

  • gh-110964: Move the undocumented private _PyArg functions and _PyArg_Parser structure to internal C API (pycore_modsupport.h). Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-110815: Support non-ASCII keyword names in PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords().

  • gh-109587: Introduced PyUnstable_PerfTrampoline_CompileCode(), PyUnstable_PerfTrampoline_SetPersistAfterFork() and PyUnstable_CopyPerfMapFile(). These functions allow extension modules to initialize trampolines eagerly, after the application is “warmed up”. This makes it possible to have perf-trampolines running in an always-enabled fashion.

  • gh-85283: Add the PySys_Audit() function to the limited C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-85283: Add PyMem_RawMalloc(), PyMem_RawCalloc(), PyMem_RawRealloc() and PyMem_RawFree() to the limited C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-106672: Functions PyDict_GetItem(), PyDict_GetItemString(), PyMapping_HasKey(), PyMapping_HasKeyString(), PyObject_HasAttr(), PyObject_HasAttrString(), and PySys_GetObject(), which clear all errors occurred during calling the function, report now them using sys.unraisablehook().

  • gh-67565: Remove redundant C-contiguity check in getargs.c, binascii, ssl and Argument Clinic. Patched by Stefan Krah and Furkan Onder

Python 3.13.0 alpha 1

Release date: 2023-10-13

Security

  • gh-108310: Fixed an issue where instances of ssl.SSLSocket were vulnerable to a bypass of the TLS handshake and included protections (like certificate verification) and treating sent unencrypted data as if it were post-handshake TLS encrypted data. Security issue reported as CVE-2023-40217 by Aapo Oksman. Patch by Gregory P. Smith.

  • gh-107774: PEP 669 specifies that sys.monitoring.register_callback will generate an audit event. Pre-releases of Python 3.12 did not generate the audit event. This is now fixed.

  • gh-102988: Reverted the email.utils security improvement change released in 3.12beta4 that unintentionally caused email.utils.getaddresses to fail to parse email addresses with a comma in the quoted name field. See gh-106669.

  • gh-99108: Refresh our new HACL* built-in hashlib code from upstream. Built-in SHA2 should be faster and an issue with SHA3 on 32-bit platforms is fixed.

  • gh-102509: Start initializing ob_digit during creation of PyLongObject objects. Patch by Illia Volochii.

Core and Builtins

  • gh-110782: Fix crash when typing.TypeVar is constructed with a keyword argument. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-110752: Reset ceval.eval_breaker in interpreter_clear()

  • gh-110721: Use the traceback implementation for the default PyErr_Display() functionality. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-110696: Fix incorrect error message for invalid argument unpacking. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-104169: Split the tokenizer into two separate directories: - One part includes the actual lexeme producing logic and lives in Parser/lexer. - The second part wraps the lexer according to the different tokenization modes we have (string, utf-8, file, interactive, readline) and lives in Parser/tokenizer.

  • gh-110688: Remove undocumented test_c_api method from set, which was only defined for testing purposes under Py_DEBUG. Now we have proper CAPI tests.

  • gh-104584: Fix a reference leak when running with PYTHONUOPS or -X uops enabled.

  • gh-110514: Add PY_THROW to sys.setprofile() events

  • gh-110489: Optimise math.ceil() when the input is exactly a float, resulting in about a 10% improvement.

  • gh-110455: Guard assert(tstate->thread_id > 0) with #ifndef HAVE_PTHREAD_STUBS. This allows for for pydebug builds to work under WASI which (currently) lacks thread support.

  • gh-110309: Remove unnecessary empty constant nodes in the ast of f-string specs.

  • gh-110259: Correctly identify the format spec in f-strings (with single or triple quotes) that have multiple lines in the expression part and include a formatting spec. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-110237: Fix missing error checks for calls to PyList_Append in _PyEval_MatchClass.

  • gh-110164: regrtest: If the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is defined, regrtest now disables tests randomization. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109889: Fix the compiler’s redundant NOP detection algorithm to skip over NOPs with no line number when looking for the next instruction’s lineno.

  • gh-109853: sys.path[0] is now set correctly for subinterpreters.

  • gh-109923: Set line number on the POP_TOP that follows a RETURN_GENERATOR.

  • gh-105716: Subinterpreters now correctly handle the case where they have threads running in the background. Before, such threads would interfere with cleaning up and destroying them, as well as prevent running another script.

  • gh-109369: The internal eval_breaker and supporting flags, plus the monitoring version have been merged into a single atomic integer to speed up checks.

  • gh-109823: Fix bug where compiler does not adjust labels when removing an empty basic block which is a jump target.

  • gh-109793: The main thread no longer exits prematurely when a subinterpreter is cleaned up during runtime finalization. The bug was a problem particularly because, when triggered, the Python process would always return with a 0 exitcode, even if it failed.

  • gh-109719: Fix missing jump target labels when compiler reorders cold/warm blocks.

  • gh-109595: Add -X cpu_count command line option to override return results of os.cpu_count() and os.process_cpu_count(). This option is useful for users who need to limit CPU resources of a container system without having to modify the container (application code). Patch by Donghee Na.

  • gh-109627: Fix bug where the compiler does not assign a new jump target label to a duplicated small exit block.

  • gh-109596: Fix some tokens in the grammar that were incorrectly marked as soft keywords. Also fix some repeated rule names and ensure that repeated rules are not allowed. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-109496: On a Python built in debug mode, Py_DECREF() now calls _Py_NegativeRefcount() if the object is a dangling pointer to deallocated memory: memory filled with 0xDD “dead byte” by the debug hook on memory allocators. The fix is to check the reference count before checking for _Py_IsImmortal(). Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-107265: Deopt opcodes hidden by the executor when base opcode is needed

  • gh-109371: Deopted instructions correctly for tool initialization and modified the incorrect assertion in instrumentation, when a previous tool already sets INSTRUCTION events

  • gh-105658: Fix bug where the line trace of an except block ending with a conditional includes an excess event with the line of the conditional expression.

  • gh-109219: Fix compiling type param scopes that use a name which is also free in an inner scope.

  • gh-109351: Fix crash when compiling an invalid AST involving a named (walrus) expression.

  • gh-109341: Fix crash when compiling an invalid AST involving a ast.TypeAlias.

  • gh-109195: Fix source location for the LOAD_* instruction preceding a LOAD_SUPER_ATTR to load the super global (or shadowing variable) so that it encompasses only the name super and not the following parentheses.

  • gh-109256: Opcode IDs for specialized opcodes are allocated in their own range to improve stability of the IDs for the ‘real’ opcodes.

  • gh-109216: Fix possible memory leak in BUILD_MAP.

  • gh-109207: Fix a SystemError in __repr__ of symtable entry object.

  • gh-109179: Fix bug where the C traceback display drops notes from SyntaxError.

  • gh-109118: Disallow nested scopes (lambdas, generator expressions, and comprehensions) within PEP 695 annotation scopes that are nested within classes.

  • gh-109156: Add tests for de-instrumenting instructions while keeping the instrumentation for lines

  • gh-109114: Relax the detection of the error message for invalid lambdas inside f-strings to not search for arbitrary replacement fields to avoid false positives. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-105848: Add a new CALL_KW opcode, used for calls containing keyword arguments. Also, fix a possible crash when jumping over method calls in a debugger.

  • gh-109052: Use the base opcode when comparing code objects to avoid interference from instrumentation

  • gh-109118: Fix interpreter crash when a NameError is raised inside the type parameters of a generic class.

  • gh-88943: Improve syntax error for non-ASCII character that follows a numerical literal. It now points on the invalid non-ASCII character, not on the valid numerical literal.

  • gh-108976: Fix crash that occurs after de-instrumenting a code object in a monitoring callback.

  • gh-108732: Make iteration variables of module- and class-scoped comprehensions visible to pdb and other tools that use frame.f_locals again.

  • gh-108959: Fix caret placement for error locations for subscript and binary operations that involve non-semantic parentheses and spaces. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-104584: Fix a crash when running with PYTHONUOPS or -X uops enabled and an error occurs during optimization.

  • gh-108727: Define tp_dealloc for CounterOptimizer_Type. This fixes a segfault on deallocation.

  • gh-108520: Fix multiprocessing.synchronize.SemLock.__setstate__() to properly initialize multiprocessing.synchronize.SemLock._is_fork_ctx. This fixes a regression when passing a SemLock across nested processes.

    Rename multiprocessing.synchronize.SemLock.is_fork_ctx to multiprocessing.synchronize.SemLock._is_fork_ctx to avoid exposing it as public API.

  • gh-108654: Restore locals shadowed by an inlined comprehension if the comprehension raises an exception.

  • gh-108488: Change the initialization of inline cache entries so that the cache entry for JUMP_BACKWARD is initialized to zero, instead of the adaptive_counter_warmup() value used for all other instructions. This counter, unique among instructions, counts up from zero.

  • gh-108716: Turn off deep-freezing of code objects. Modules are still frozen, so that a file system search is not needed for common modules.

  • gh-108614: Add RESUME_CHECK instruction, to avoid having to handle instrumentation, signals, and contexts switches in the tier 2 execution engine.

  • gh-108487: Move an assert that would cause a spurious crash in a devious case that should only trigger deoptimization.

  • gh-106176: Use a WeakValueDictionary to track the lists containing the modules each thread is currently importing. This helps avoid a reference leak from keeping the list around longer than necessary. Weakrefs are used as GC can’t interrupt the cleanup.

  • gh-105481: The regen-opcode build stage was removed and its work is now done in regen-cases.

  • gh-107901: Fix missing line number on JUMP_BACKWARD at the end of a for loop.

  • gh-108113: The compile() built-in can now accept a new flag, ast.PyCF_OPTIMIZED_AST, which is similar to ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST except that the returned AST is optimized according to the value of the optimize argument.

    ast.parse() now accepts an optional argument optimize which is passed on to the compile() built-in. This makes it possible to obtain an optimized AST.

  • gh-107971: Opcode IDs are generated from bytecodes.c instead of being hard coded in opcode.py.

  • gh-107944: Improve error message for function calls with bad keyword arguments. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-108390: Raise an exception when setting a non-local event (RAISE, EXCEPTION_HANDLED, etc.) in sys.monitoring.set_local_events.

    Fixes crash when tracing in recursive calls to Python classes.

  • gh-108035: Remove the _PyCFrame struct, moving the pointer to the current interpreter frame back to the threadstate, as it was for 3.10 and earlier. The _PyCFrame existed as a performance optimization for tracing. Since PEP 669 has been implemented, this optimization no longer applies.

  • gh-91051: Fix abort / segfault when using all eight type watcher slots, on platforms where char is signed by default.

  • gh-106581: Fix possible assertion failures and missing instrumentation events when PYTHONUOPS or -X uops is enabled.

  • gh-107526: Revert converting vars, dir, next, getattr, and iter to argument clinic.

  • gh-84805: Autogenerate signature for METH_NOARGS and METH_O extension functions.

  • gh-107758: Make the dump_stack() routine used by the lltrace feature (low-level interpreter debugging) robust against recursion by ensuring that it never calls a __repr__ method implemented in Python. Also make the similar output for Tier-2 uops appear on stdout (instead of stderr), to match the lltrace code in ceval.c.

  • gh-107659: Add docstrings for ctypes.pointer() and ctypes.POINTER().

  • gh-105848: Modify the bytecode so that the actual callable for a CALL is at a consistent position on the stack (regardless of whether or not bound-method-calling optimizations are active).

  • gh-107674: Fixed performance regression in sys.settrace.

  • gh-107724: In pre-release versions of 3.12, up to rc1, the sys.monitoring callback function for the PY_THROW event was missing the third, exception argument. That is now fixed.

  • gh-84436: Skip reference count modifications for many known immortal objects.

  • gh-107596: Specialize subscripting str objects by int indexes.

  • gh-107080: Trace refs builds (--with-trace-refs) were crashing when used with isolated subinterpreters. The problematic global state has been isolated to each interpreter. Other fixing the crashes, this change does not affect users.

  • gh-107557: Generate the cases needed for the barebones tier 2 abstract interpreter for optimization passes in CPython.

  • gh-106608: Make _PyUOpExecutorObject variable length.

  • gh-100964: Clear generators’ exception state after return to break reference cycles.

  • gh-107455: Improve error messages when converting an incompatible type to ctypes.c_char_p, ctypes.c_wchar_p and ctypes.c_void_p.

  • gh-107263: Increase C recursion limit for functions other than the main interpreter from 800 to 1500. This should allow functions like list.__repr__ and json.dumps to handle all the inputs that they could prior to 3.12

  • gh-104584: Fix an issue which caused incorrect inline caches to be read when running with PYTHONUOPS or -X uops enabled.

  • gh-104432: Fix potential unaligned memory access on C APIs involving returned sequences of char * pointers within the grp and socket modules. These were revealed using a -fsaniziter=alignment build on ARM macOS. Patch by Christopher Chavez.

  • gh-106078: Isolate _decimal (apply PEP 687). Patch by Charlie Zhao.

  • gh-106898: Add the exception as the third argument to PY_UNIND callbacks in sys.monitoring. This makes the PY_UNWIND callback consistent with the other exception handling callbacks.

  • gh-106895: Raise a ValueError when a monitoring callback function returns DISABLE for events that cannot be disabled locally.

  • gh-106897: Add a RERAISE event to sys.monitoring, which occurs when an exception is reraise, either explicitly by a plain raise statement, or implicitly in an except or finally block.

  • gh-77377: Ensure that multiprocessing synchronization objects created in a fork context are not sent to a different process created in a spawn context. This changes a segfault into an actionable RuntimeError in the parent process.

  • gh-106931: Statically allocated string objects are now interned globally instead of per-interpreter. This fixes a situation where such a string would only be interned in a single interpreter. Normal string objects are unaffected.

  • gh-104621: Unsupported modules now always fail to be imported.

  • gh-107122: Add dbm.ndbm.ndbm.clear() to dbm.ndbm. Patch By Donghee Na.

  • gh-107122: Add dbm.gnu.gdbm.clear() to dbm.gnu. Patch By Donghee Na.

  • gh-107015: The ASYNC and AWAIT tokens are removed from the Grammar, which removes the possibility of making async and await soft keywords when using feature_version<7 in ast.parse().

  • gh-106917: Fix classmethod-style super() method calls (i.e., where the second argument to super(), or the implied second argument drawn from self/cls in the case of zero-arg super, is a type) when the target of the call is not a classmethod.

  • gh-105699: Python no longer crashes due an infrequent race when initializing per-interpreter interned strings. The crash would manifest when the interpreter was finalized.

  • gh-105699: Python no longer crashes due to an infrequent race in setting Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding and Py_FileSystemDefaultEncodeErrors (both deprecated), when simultaneously initializing two isolated subinterpreters. Now they are only set during runtime initialization.

  • gh-106908: Fix various hangs, reference leaks, test failures, and tracing/introspection bugs when running with PYTHONUOPS or -X uops enabled.

  • gh-106092: Fix a segmentation fault caused by a use-after-free bug in frame_dealloc when the trashcan delays the deallocation of a PyFrameObject.

  • gh-106485: Reduce the number of materialized instances dictionaries by dematerializing them when possible.

  • gh-106719: No longer suppress arbitrary errors in the __annotations__ getter and setter in the type and module types.

  • gh-106723: Propagate frozen_modules to multiprocessing spawned process interpreters.

  • gh-104909: Split LOAD_ATTR_INSTANCE_VALUE into micro-ops.

  • gh-104909: Split LOAD_GLOBAL specializations into micro-ops.

  • gh-106597: A new debug structure of offsets has been added to the _PyRuntimeState that will help out-of-process debuggers and profilers to obtain the offsets to relevant interpreter structures in a way that is agnostic of how Python was compiled and that doesn’t require copying the headers. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-106487: Allow the count argument of str.replace() to be a keyword. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.

  • gh-96844: Improve error message of list.remove(). Patch by Donghee Na.

  • gh-81283: Compiler now strips indents from docstrings. It reduces pyc file size 5% when the module is heavily documented. This change affects to __doc__ so tools like doctest will be affected.

  • gh-106396: When the format specification of an f-string expression is empty, the parser now generates an empty ast.JoinedStr node for it instead of an one-element ast.JoinedStr with an empty string ast.Constant.

  • gh-100288: Specialize LOAD_ATTR for non-descriptors on the class. Adds LOAD_ATTR_NONDESCRIPTOR_WITH_VALUES and LOAD_ATTR_NONDESCRIPTOR_NO_DICT.

  • gh-106008: Fix possible reference leaks when failing to optimize comparisons with None in the bytecode compiler.

  • gh-106145: Make end_lineno and end_col_offset required on type_param ast nodes.

  • gh-106213: Changed the way that Emscripten call trampolines work for compatibility with Wasm/JS Promise integration.

  • gh-106182: sys.getfilesystemencoding() and sys.getfilesystemencodeerrors now return interned Unicode object.

  • gh-106210: Removed Emscripten import trampoline as it was no longer necessary for Pyodide.

  • gh-104584: Added a new, experimental, tracing optimizer and interpreter (a.k.a. “tier 2”). This currently pessimizes, so don’t use yet – this is infrastructure so we can experiment with optimizing passes. To enable it, pass -Xuops or set PYTHONUOPS=1. To get debug output, set PYTHONUOPSDEBUG=N where N is a debug level (0-4, where 0 is no debug output and 4 is excessively verbose).

  • gh-105775: LOAD_CLOSURE is now a pseudo-op.

  • gh-105730: Allow any callable other than type objects as the condition predicate in BaseExceptionGroup.split() and BaseExceptionGroup.subgroup().

  • gh-105979: Fix crash in _imp.get_frozen_object() due to improper exception handling.

  • gh-106003: Add a new TO_BOOL instruction, which performs boolean conversions for POP_JUMP_IF_TRUE, POP_JUMP_IF_FALSE, and UNARY_NOT (which all expect exact bool values now). Also, modify the oparg of COMPARE_OP to include an optional “boolean conversion” flag.

  • gh-98931: Ensure custom SyntaxError error messages are raised for invalid imports with multiple targets. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-105724: Improve assert error messages by providing exact error range.

  • gh-105908: Fixed bug where gh-99111 breaks future import barry_as_FLUFL in the Python REPL.

  • gh-105840: Fix possible crashes when specializing function calls with too many __defaults__.

  • gh-105831: Fix an f-string bug, where using a debug expression (the = sign) that appears in the last line of a file results to the debug buffer that holds the expression text being one character too small.

  • gh-105800: Correctly issue SyntaxWarning in f-strings if invalid sequences are used. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-105340: Include the comprehension iteration variable in locals() inside a module- or class-scope comprehension.

  • gh-105331: Raise ValueError if the delay argument to asyncio.sleep() is a NaN (matching time.sleep()).

  • gh-105587: The runtime can’t guarantee that immortal objects will not be mutated by Extensions. Thus, this modifies _PyStaticObject_CheckRefcnt to warn instead of asserting.

  • gh-105564: Don’t include artificil newlines in the line attribute of tokens in the APIs of the tokenize module. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-105549: Tokenize separately NUMBER and NAME tokens that are not ambiguous. Patch by Pablo Galindo.

  • gh-105588: Fix an issue that could result in crashes when compiling malformed ast nodes.

  • gh-100987: Allow objects other than code objects as the “executable” in internal frames. In the long term, this can help tools like Cython and PySpy interact more efficiently. In the shorter term, it allows us to perform some optimizations more simply.

  • gh-105375: Fix bugs in the builtins module where exceptions could end up being overwritten.

  • gh-105375: Fix bug in the compiler where an exception could end up being overwritten.

  • gh-105375: Improve error handling in PyUnicode_BuildEncodingMap() where an exception could end up being overwritten.

  • gh-105486: Change the repr of ParamSpec list of args in types.GenericAlias.

  • gh-105678: Break the MAKE_FUNCTION instruction into two parts, MAKE_FUNCTION which makes the function and SET_FUNCTION_ATTRIBUTE which sets the attributes on the function. This makes the stack effect of MAKE_FUNCTION regular to ease optimization and code generation.

  • gh-105435: Fix spurious newline character if file ends on a comment without a newline. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-105390: Correctly raise tokenize.TokenError exceptions instead of SyntaxError for tokenize errors such as incomplete input. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-105259: Don’t include newline character for trailing NEWLINE tokens emitted in the tokenize module. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-104635: Eliminate redundant STORE_FAST instructions in the compiler. Patch by Donghee Na and Carl Meyer.

  • gh-105324: Fix the main function of the tokenize module when reading from sys.stdin. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-33092: Simplify and speed up interpreter for f-strings. Removes FORMAT_VALUE opcode. Add CONVERT_VALUE, FORMAT_SIMPLE and FORMAT_WITH_SPEC opcode. Compiler emits more efficient sequence for each format expression.

  • gh-105229: Remove remaining two-codeunit superinstructions. All remaining superinstructions only take a single codeunit, simplifying instrumentation and quickening.

  • gh-105235: Prevent out-of-bounds memory access during mmap.find() calls.

  • gh-98963: Restore the ability for a subclass of property to define __slots__ or otherwise be dict-less by ignoring failures to set a docstring on such a class. This behavior had regressed in 3.12beta1. An AttributeError where there had not previously been one was disruptive to existing code.

  • gh-104812: The “pending call” machinery now works for all interpreters, not just the main interpreter, and runs in all threads, not just the main thread. Some calls are still only done in the main thread, ergo in the main interpreter. This change does not affect signal handling nor the existing public C-API (Py_AddPendingCall()), which both still only target the main thread. The new functionality is meant strictly for internal use for now, since consequences of its use are not well understood yet outside some very restricted cases. This change brings the capability in line with the intention when the state was made per-interpreter several years ago.

  • gh-105194: Do not escape with backslashes f-string format specifiers. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-105229: Replace some dynamic superinstructions with single instruction equivalents.

  • gh-105162: Fixed bug in generator.close()/throw() where an inner iterator would be ignored when the outer iterator was instrumented.

  • gh-105164: Ensure annotations are set up correctly if the only annotation in a block is within a match block. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-105148: Make _PyASTOptimizeState internal to ast_opt.c. Make _PyAST_Optimize take two integers instead of a pointer to this struct. This avoids the need to include pycore_compile.h in ast_opt.c.

  • gh-104799: Attributes of ast nodes that are lists now default to the empty list if omitted. This means that some code that previously raised TypeError when the AST node was used will now proceed with the empty list instead. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-105111: Remove the old trashcan macros Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_BEGIN and Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_END. They should be replaced by the new macros Py_TRASHCAN_BEGIN and Py_TRASHCAN_END.

  • gh-105035: Fix super() calls on types with custom tp_getattro implementation (e.g. meta-types.)

  • gh-105017: Show CRLF lines in the tokenize string attribute in both NL and NEWLINE tokens. Patch by Marta Gómez.

  • gh-105013: Fix handling of multiline parenthesized lambdas in inspect.getsource(). Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-105017: Do not include an additional final NL token when parsing files having CRLF lines. Patch by Marta Gómez.

  • gh-104976: Ensure that trailing DEDENT tokenize.TokenInfo objects emitted by the tokenize module are reported as in Python 3.11. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-104972: Ensure that the line attribute in tokenize.TokenInfo objects in the tokenize module are always correct. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-104955: Fix signature for the new __release_buffer__() slot. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-104690: Starting new threads and process creation through os.fork() during interpreter shutdown (such as from atexit handlers) is no longer supported. It can lead to race condition between the main Python runtime thread freeing thread states while internal threading routines are trying to allocate and use the state of just created threads. Or forked children trying to use the mid-shutdown runtime and thread state in the child process.

  • gh-104879: Fix crash when accessing the __module__ attribute of type aliases defined outside a module. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-104825: Tokens emitted by the tokenize module do not include an implicit \n character in the line attribute anymore. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-104770: If a generator returns a value upon being closed, the value is now returned by generator.close().

  • gh-89091: Raise RuntimeWarning for unawaited async generator methods like asend(), athrow() and aclose(). Patch by Kumar Aditya.

  • gh-96663: Add a better, more introspect-able error message when setting attributes on classes without a __dict__ and no slot member for the attribute.

  • gh-93627: Update the Python pickle module implementation to match the C implementation of the pickle module. For objects setting reduction methods like __reduce_ex__() or __reduce__() to None, pickling will result in a TypeError.

  • gh-101006: Improve error handling when read marshal data.

  • gh-91095: Specializes calls to most Python classes. Specifically, any class that inherits from object, or another Python class, and does not override __new__.

    The specialized instruction does the following:

    1. Creates the object (by calling object.__new__)

    2. Pushes a shim frame to the frame stack (to cleanup after __init__)

    3. Pushes the frame for __init__ to the frame stack

    Speeds up the instantiation of most Python classes.

Library

  • gh-110786: sysconfig’s CLI now ignores BrokenPipeError, making it exit normally if its output is being piped and the pipe closes.

  • gh-103480: The sysconfig module is now a package, instead of a single-file module.

  • gh-110733: Micro-optimization: Avoid calling min(), max() in BaseEventLoop._run_once().

  • gh-94597: Added asyncio.EventLoop for use with the asyncio.run() loop_factory kwarg to avoid calling the asyncio policy system.

  • gh-110682: runtime-checkable protocols used to consider __match_args__ a protocol member in __instancecheck__ if it was present on the protocol. Now, this attribute is ignored if it is present.

  • gh-110488: Fix a couple of issues in pathlib.PurePath.with_name(): a single dot was incorrectly considered a valid name, and in PureWindowsPath, a name with an NTFS alternate data stream, like a:b, was incorrectly considered invalid.

  • gh-110590: Fix a bug in _sre.compile() where TypeError would be overwritten by OverflowError when the code argument was a list of non-ints.

  • gh-65052: Prevent pdb from crashing when trying to display undisplayable objects

  • gh-110519: Deprecation warning about non-integer number in gettext now always refers to the line in the user code where gettext function or method is used. Previously it could refer to a line in gettext code.

  • gh-89902: Deprecate non-standard format specifier “N” for decimal.Decimal. It was not documented and only supported in the C implementation.

  • gh-110378: contextmanager() and asynccontextmanager() context managers now close an invalid underlying generator object that yields more then one value.

  • gh-106670: In pdb, set convenience variable $_exception for post mortem debugging.

  • gh-110365: Fix termios.tcsetattr() bug that was overwriting existing errors during parsing integers from term list.

  • gh-109653: Slightly improve the import time of several standard-library modules by deferring imports of warnings within those modules. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-110273: dataclasses.replace() now raises TypeError instead of ValueError if specify keyword argument for a field declared with init=False or miss keyword argument for required InitVar field.

  • gh-110249: Add --inline-caches flag to dis command line.

  • gh-109653: Fix a Python 3.12 regression in the import time of random. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-110222: Add support of struct sequence objects in copy.replace(). Patched by Xuehai Pan.

  • gh-109649: multiprocessing, concurrent.futures, compileall: Replace os.cpu_count() with os.process_cpu_count() to select the default number of worker threads and processes. Get the CPU affinity if supported. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-110150: Fix base case handling in statistics.quantiles. Now allows a single data point.

  • gh-110036: On Windows, multiprocessing Popen.terminate() now catches PermissionError and get the process exit code. If the process is still running, raise again the PermissionError. Otherwise, the process terminated as expected: store its exit code. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-110038: Fixed an issue that caused KqueueSelector.select() to not return all the ready events in some cases when a file descriptor is registered for both read and write.

  • gh-110045: Update the symtable module to support the new scopes introduced by PEP 695.

  • gh-88402: Add new variables to sysconfig.get_config_vars() on Windows: LIBRARY, LDLIBRARY, LIBDIR, SOABI, and Py_NOGIL.

  • gh-109631: re functions such as re.findall(), re.split(), re.search() and re.sub() which perform short repeated matches can now be interrupted by user.

  • gh-109653: Reduce the import time of email.utils by around 43%. This results in the import time of email.message falling by around 18%, which in turn reduces the import time of importlib.metadata by around 6%. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-109818: Fix reprlib.recursive_repr() not copying __type_params__ from decorated function.

  • gh-109047: concurrent.futures: The executor manager thread now catches exceptions when adding an item to the call queue. During Python finalization, creating a new thread can now raise RuntimeError. Catch the exception and call terminate_broken() in this case. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109782: Ensure the signature of os.path.isdir() is identical on all platforms. Patch by Amin Alaee.

  • gh-109653: Improve import time of functools by around 13%. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-109590: shutil.which() will prefer files with an extension in PATHEXT if the given mode includes os.X_OK on win32. If no PATHEXT match is found, a file without an extension in PATHEXT can be returned. This change will have shutil.which() act more similarly to previous behavior in Python 3.11.

  • gh-109653: Reduce the import time of enum by over 50%. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-109593: Avoid deadlocking on a reentrant call to the multiprocessing resource tracker. Such a reentrant call, though unlikely, can happen if a GC pass invokes the finalizer for a multiprocessing object such as SemLock.

  • gh-109653: Reduce the import time of typing by around a third. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-109649: Add os.process_cpu_count() function to get the number of logical CPUs usable by the calling thread of the current process. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-74481: Add set_error_mode related constants in msvcrt module in Python debug build.

  • gh-109613: Fix os.stat() and os.DirEntry.stat(): check for exceptions. Previously, on Python built in debug mode, these functions could trigger a fatal Python error (and abort the process) when a function succeeded with an exception set. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109599: Expose the type of PyCapsule objects as types.CapsuleType.

  • gh-109109: You can now get the raw TLS certificate chains from TLS connections via ssl.SSLSocket.get_verified_chain() and ssl.SSLSocket.get_unverified_chain() methods.

    Contributed by Mateusz Nowak.

  • gh-109559: Update unicodedata database to Unicode 15.1.0.

  • gh-109543: Remove unnecessary hasattr() check during typing.TypedDict creation.

  • gh-109495: Remove unnecessary extra __slots__ in datetime's pure python implementation to reduce memory size, as they are defined in the superclass. Patch by James Hilton-Balfe

  • gh-109461: logging: Use a context manager for lock acquisition.

  • gh-109096: http.server.CGIHTTPRequestHandler has been deprecated for removal in 3.15. Its design is old and the web world has long since moved beyond CGI.

  • gh-109409: Fix error when it was possible to inherit a frozen dataclass from multiple parents some of which were possibly not frozen.

  • gh-109375: The pdb alias command now prevents registering aliases without arguments.

  • gh-109319: Deprecate the dis.HAVE_ARGUMENT field in favour of dis.hasarg.

  • gh-107219: Fix a race condition in concurrent.futures. When a process in the process pool was terminated abruptly (while the future was running or pending), close the connection write end. If the call queue is blocked on sending bytes to a worker process, closing the connection write end interrupts the send, so the queue can be closed. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-66143: The codecs.CodecInfo object has been made copyable and pickleable. Patched by Robert Lehmann and Furkan Onder.

  • gh-109187: pathlib.Path.resolve() now treats symlink loops like other errors: in strict mode, OSError is raised, and in non-strict mode, no exception is raised.

  • gh-50644: Attempts to pickle or create a shallow or deep copy of codecs streams now raise a TypeError. Previously, copying failed with a RecursionError, while pickling produced wrong results that eventually caused unpickling to fail with a RecursionError.

  • gh-109174: Add support of types.SimpleNamespace in copy.replace().

  • gh-109164: pdb: Replace getopt with argparse for parsing command line arguments.

  • gh-109151: Enable readline editing features in the sqlite3 command-line interface (python -m sqlite3).

  • gh-108987: Fix _thread.start_new_thread() race condition. If a thread is created during Python finalization, the newly spawned thread now exits immediately instead of trying to access freed memory and lead to a crash. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-108682: Enum: require names=() or type=... to create an empty enum using the functional syntax.

  • gh-109033: Exceptions raised by os.utime builtin function now include the related filename

  • gh-108843: Fix an issue in ast.unparse() when unparsing f-strings containing many quote types.

  • gh-108469: ast.unparse() now supports new f-string syntax introduced in Python 3.12. Note that the f-string quotes are reselected for simplicity under the new syntax. (Patch by Steven Sun)

  • gh-108751: Add copy.replace() function which allows to create a modified copy of an object. It supports named tuples, dataclasses, and many other objects.

  • gh-108682: Enum: raise TypeError if super().__new__() is called from a custom __new__.

  • gh-108278: Deprecate passing the callback callable by keyword for the following sqlite3.Connection APIs:

    The affected parameters will become positional-only in Python 3.15.

    Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.

  • gh-105829: Fix concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor deadlock

  • gh-108295: Fix crashes related to use of weakrefs on typing.TypeVar.

  • gh-108463: Make expressions/statements work as expected in pdb

  • gh-108277: Add os.timerfd_create(), os.timerfd_settime(), os.timerfd_gettime(), os.timerfd_settime_ns(), and os.timerfd_gettime_ns() to provide a low level interface for Linux’s timer notification file descriptor.

  • gh-107811: tarfile: extraction of members with overly large UID or GID (e.g. on an OS with 32-bit id_t) now fails in the same way as failing to set the ID.

  • gh-64662: Fix support for virtual tables in sqlite3.Connection.iterdump(). Patch by Aviv Palivoda.

  • gh-108111: Fix a regression introduced in gh-101251 for 3.12, resulting in an incorrect offset calculation in gzip.GzipFile.seek().

  • gh-108294: time.sleep() now raises an auditing event.

  • gh-108278: Deprecate passing name, number of arguments, and the callable as keyword arguments, for the following sqlite3.Connection APIs:

    The affected parameters will become positional-only in Python 3.15.

    Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.

  • gh-108322: Speed-up NormalDist.samples() by using the inverse CDF method instead of calling random.gauss().

  • gh-83417: Add the ability for venv to create a .gitignore file which causes the created environment to be ignored by Git. It is on by default when venv is called via its CLI.

  • gh-105736: Harmonized the pure Python version of OrderedDict with the C version. Now, both versions set up their internal state in __new__. Formerly, the pure Python version did the set up in __init__.

  • gh-108083: Fix bugs in the constructor of sqlite3.Connection and sqlite3.Connection.close() where exceptions could be leaked. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.

  • gh-107932: Fix dis module to properly report and display bytecode that do not have source lines.

  • gh-105539: sqlite3 now emits an ResourceWarning if a sqlite3.Connection object is not closed explicitly. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.

  • gh-107995: The __module__ attribute on instances of functools.cached_property is now set to the name of the module in which the cached_property is defined, rather than “functools”. This means that doctests in cached_property docstrings are now properly collected by the doctest module. Patch by Tyler Smart.

  • gh-107963: Fix multiprocessing.set_forkserver_preload() to check the given list of modules names. Patch by Donghee Na.

  • gh-106242: Fixes os.path.normpath() to handle embedded null characters without truncating the path.

  • gh-81555: xml.dom.minidom now only quotes " in attributes.

  • gh-50002: xml.dom.minidom now preserves whitespaces in attributes.

  • gh-93057: Passing more than one positional argument to sqlite3.connect() and the sqlite3.Connection constructor is deprecated. The remaining parameters will become keyword-only in Python 3.15. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.

  • gh-76913: Add merge_extra parameter/feature to logging.LoggerAdapter

  • gh-107913: Fix possible losses of errno and winerror values in OSError exceptions if they were cleared or modified by the cleanup code before creating the exception object.

  • gh-107845: tarfile.data_filter() now takes the location of symlinks into account when determining their target, so it will no longer reject some valid tarballs with LinkOutsideDestinationError.

  • gh-107812: Extend socket’s netlink support to the FreeBSD platform.

  • gh-107805: Fix signatures of module-level generated functions in turtle.

  • gh-107782: pydoc is now able to show signatures which are not representable in Python, e.g. for getattr and dict.pop.

  • gh-56166: Deprecate passing optional arguments maxsplit, count and flags in module-level functions re.split(), re.sub() and re.subn() as positional. They should only be passed by keyword.

  • gh-107710: Speed up logging.getHandlerNames().

  • gh-107715: Fix doctest.DocTestFinder.find() in presence of class names with special characters. Patch by Gertjan van Zwieten.

  • gh-100814: Passing a callable object as an option value to a Tkinter image now raises the expected TclError instead of an AttributeError.

  • gh-72684: Add tkinter widget methods: tk_busy_hold(), tk_busy_configure(), tk_busy_cget(), tk_busy_forget(), tk_busy_current(), and tk_busy_status().

  • gh-106684: Raise ResourceWarning when asyncio.StreamWriter is not closed leading to memory leaks. Patch by Kumar Aditya.

  • gh-107465: Add pathlib.Path.from_uri() classmethod.

  • gh-107077: Seems that in some conditions, OpenSSL will return SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL instead of SSL_ERROR_SSL when a certification verification has failed, but the error parameters will still contain ERR_LIB_SSL and SSL_R_CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED. We are now detecting this situation and raising the appropriate ssl.SSLCertVerificationError. Patch by Pablo Galindo

  • gh-107576: Fix types.get_original_bases() to only return __orig_bases__ if it is present on cls directly. Patch by James Hilton-Balfe.

  • gh-105481: Remove opcode.is_pseudo, opcode.MIN_PSEUDO_OPCODE and opcode.MAX_PSEUDO_OPCODE, which were added in 3.12, were never documented and were not intended to be used externally.

  • gh-105481: opcode.ENABLE_SPECIALIZATION (which was added in 3.12 but never documented or intended for external usage) is moved to _opcode.ENABLE_SPECIALIZATION where tests can access it.

  • gh-107396: tarfiles; Fixed use before assignment of self.exception for gzip decompression

  • gh-107409: Set __wrapped__ attribute in reprlib.recursive_repr().

  • gh-107406: Implement new __repr__() method for struct.Struct. Now it returns Struct(<format repr>).

  • gh-107369: Optimize textwrap.indent(). It is ~30% faster for large input. Patch by Inada Naoki.

  • gh-78722: Fix issue where pathlib.Path.iterdir() did not raise OSError until iterated.

  • gh-105578: Deprecate typing.AnyStr in favor of the new Type Parameter syntax. See PEP 695.

  • gh-62519: Make gettext.pgettext() search plural definitions when translation is not found.

  • gh-107089: Shelves opened with shelve.open() have a much faster clear() method. Patch by James Cave.

  • gh-82500: Fix overflow on 32-bit systems with asyncio os.sendfile() implementation.

  • gh-83006: Document behavior of shutil.disk_usage() for non-mounted filesystems on Unix.

  • gh-65495: Use lowercase mail from and rcpt to in smptlib.SMTP.

  • gh-106186: Do not report MultipartInvariantViolationDefect defect when the email.parser.Parser class is used to parse emails with headersonly=True.

  • gh-105002: Fix invalid result from PurePath.relative_to() method when attempting to walk a “..” segment in other with walk_up enabled. A ValueError exception is now raised in this case.

  • gh-106739: Add the rtype_cache to the warning message (as an addition to the type of leaked objects and the number of leaked objects already included in the message) to make debugging leaked objects easier when the multiprocessing resource tracker process finds leaked objects at shutdown. This helps more quickly identify what was leaked and/or why the leaked object was not properly cleaned up.

  • gh-106751: Optimize SelectSelector.select() for many iteration case. Patch By Donghee Na.

  • gh-106751: Optimize _PollLikeSelector.select() for many iteration case.

  • gh-106751: Optimize KqueueSelector.select() for many iteration case. Patch By Donghee Na.

  • gh-106831: Fix potential missing NULL check of d2i_SSL_SESSION result in _ssl.c.

  • gh-105481: The various opcode lists in the dis module are now generated from bytecodes.c instead of explicitly constructed in opcode.py.

  • gh-106727: Make inspect.getsource() smarter for class for same name definitions

  • gh-106789: Remove import of pprint from sysconfig.

  • gh-105726: Added __slots__ to contextlib.AbstractContextManager and contextlib.AbstractAsyncContextManager so that child classes can use __slots__.

  • gh-106774: Update the bundled copy of pip to version 23.2.1.

  • gh-106751: selectors: Optimize EpollSelector.select() code by moving some code outside of the loop.

  • gh-106752: Fixed several bugs in zipfile.Path, including: in zipfile.Path.match(), Windows separators are no longer honored (and never were meant to be); Fixed name/suffix/suffixes/stem operations when no filename is present and the Path is not at the root of the zipfile; Reworked glob for performance and more correct matching behavior.

  • gh-105293: Remove call to SSL_CTX_set_session_id_context during client side context creation in the ssl module.

  • gh-106734: Disable tab completion in multiline mode of pdb

  • gh-105481: Expose opcode metadata through _opcode.

  • gh-106670: Add the new exceptions command to the Pdb debugger. It makes it possible to move between chained exceptions when using post mortem debugging.

  • gh-106602: Add __copy__ and __deepcopy__ in enum

  • gh-106664: selectors: Add _SelectorMapping.get() method and optimize _SelectorMapping.__getitem__().

  • gh-106628: Speed up parsing of emails by about 20% by not compiling a new regular expression for every single email.

  • gh-89427: Set the environment variable VIRTUAL_ENV_PROMPT at venv activation, even when VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT is set.

  • gh-106530: Revert a change to colorsys.rgb_to_hls() that caused division by zero for certain almost-white inputs. Patch by Terry Jan Reedy.

  • gh-106584: Fix exit code for unittest if all tests are skipped. Patch by Egor Eliseev.

  • gh-106566: Optimize (?!) (pattern which always fails) in regular expressions.

  • gh-106554: selectors: Reduce Selector overhead by using a dict.get() to lookup file descriptors.

  • gh-106558: Remove ref cycle in callers of convert_to_error() by deleting result from scope in a finally block.

  • gh-100502: Add pathlib.PurePath.pathmod class attribute that stores the implementation of os.path used for low-level path operations: either posixpath or ntpath.

  • gh-106527: Reduce overhead to add and remove asyncio readers and writers.

  • gh-106524: Fix crash in _sre.template() with templates containing invalid group indices.

  • gh-106531: Removed _legacy and the names it provided from importlib.resources: Resource, contents, is_resource, open_binary, open_text, path, read_binary, and read_text.

  • gh-106052: re module: fix the matching of possessive quantifiers in the case of a subpattern containing backtracking.

  • gh-106510: Improve debug output for atomic groups in regular expressions.

  • gh-106503: Fix ref cycle in asyncio._SelectorSocketTransport by removing _write_ready in close.

  • gh-105497: Fix flag mask inversion when unnamed flags exist.

  • gh-90876: Prevent multiprocessing.spawn from failing to import in environments where sys.executable is None. This regressed in 3.11 with the addition of support for path-like objects in multiprocessing.

  • gh-106403: Instances of typing.TypeVar, typing.ParamSpec, typing.ParamSpecArgs, typing.ParamSpecKwargs, and typing.TypeVarTuple once again support weak references, fixing a regression introduced in Python 3.12.0 beta 1. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-89812: Add private pathlib._PathBase class, which provides experimental support for virtual filesystems, and may be made public in a future version of Python.

  • gh-106292: Check for an instance-dict cached value in the __get__() method of functools.cached_property(). This better matches the pre-3.12 behavior and improves compatibility for users subclassing functools.cached_property() and adding a __set__() method.

  • gh-106350: Detect possible memory allocation failure in the libtommath function mp_init() used by the _tkinter module.

  • gh-106330: Fix incorrect matching of empty paths in pathlib.PurePath.match(). This bug was introduced in Python 3.12.0 beta 1.

  • gh-106309: Deprecate typing.no_type_check_decorator(). No major type checker ever added support for this decorator. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-102541: Make pydoc.doc() catch bad module ImportError when output stream is not None.

  • gh-106263: Fix crash when calling repr with a manually constructed SignalDict object. Patch by Charlie Zhao.

  • gh-106236: Replace assert statements with raise RuntimeError in threading, so that _DummyThread cannot be joined even with -OO.

  • gh-106238: Fix rare concurrency bug in lock acquisition by the logging package.

  • gh-106152: Added PY_THROW event hook for cProfile for generators

  • gh-106075: Added asyncio.taskgroups.__all__ to asyncio.__all__ for export in star imports.

  • gh-104527: Zipapp will now skip over appending an archive to itself.

  • gh-106046: Improve the error message from os.fspath() if called on an object where __fspath__ is set to None. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-105987: Fix crash due to improper reference counting in asyncio eager task factory internal routines.

  • gh-105974: Fix bug where a typing.Protocol class that had one or more non-callable members would raise TypeError when issubclass() was called against it, even if it defined a custom __subclasshook__ method. The behaviour in Python 3.11 and lower – which has now been restored – was not to raise TypeError in these situations if a custom __subclasshook__ method was defined. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-96145: Reverted addition of json.AttrDict.

  • gh-89812: Add pathlib.UnsupportedOperation, which is raised instead of NotImplementedError when a path operation isn’t supported.

  • gh-105808: Fix a regression introduced in gh-101251 for 3.12, causing gzip.GzipFile.flush() to not flush the compressor (nor pass along the zip_mode argument).

  • gh-105481: stack_effect() no longer raises an exception if an oparg is provided for an opcode that doesn’t use its arg, or when it is not provided for an opcode that does use it. In the latter case, the stack effect is returned for oparg=0.

  • gh-104799: Enable ast.unparse() to unparse function and class definitions created without the new type_params field from PEP 695. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-105793: Add follow_symlinks keyword-only argument to pathlib.Path.is_dir() and is_file(), defaulting to True.

  • gh-105570: Deprecate two methods of creating typing.TypedDict classes with 0 fields using the functional syntax: TD = TypedDict("TD") and TD = TypedDict("TD", None). Both will be disallowed in Python 3.15. To create a TypedDict class with 0 fields, either use class TD(TypedDict): pass or TD = TypedDict("TD", {}).

  • gh-105745: Fix webbrowser.Konqueror.open method.

  • gh-105733: ctypes: Deprecate undocumented ctypes.SetPointerType() and ctypes.ARRAY() functions. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-105687: Remove deprecated re.template, re.T, re.TEMPLATE, sre_constans.SRE_FLAG_TEMPLATE.

  • gh-105684: Supporting asyncio.Task.set_name() is now mandatory for third party task implementations. The undocumented _set_task_name() function (deprecated since 3.8) has been removed. Patch by Kumar Aditya.

  • gh-105375: Fix a bug in _Unpickler_SetInputStream() where an exception could end up being overwritten in case of failure.

  • gh-105626: Change the default return value of http.client.HTTPConnection.get_proxy_response_headers() to be None and not {}.

  • gh-105375: Fix bugs in sys where exceptions could end up being overwritten because of deferred error handling.

  • gh-105605: Harden pyexpat error handling during module initialisation to prevent exceptions from possibly being overwritten, and objects from being dereferenced twice.

  • gh-105375: Fix bug in decimal where an exception could end up being overwritten.

  • gh-105375: Fix bugs in _datetime where exceptions could be overwritten in case of module initialisation failure.

  • gh-105375: Fix bugs in _ssl initialisation which could lead to leaked references and overwritten exceptions.

  • gh-105375: Fix a bug in array.array where an exception could end up being overwritten.

  • gh-105375: Fix bugs in _ctypes where exceptions could end up being overwritten.

  • gh-105375: Fix a bug in the posix module where an exception could be overwritten.

  • gh-105375: Fix bugs in _elementtree where exceptions could be overwritten.

  • gh-105375: Fix bugs in zoneinfo where exceptions could be overwritten.

  • gh-105375: Fix bugs in errno where exceptions could be overwritten.

  • gh-105566: Deprecate creating a typing.NamedTuple class using keyword arguments to denote the fields (NT = NamedTuple("NT", x=int, y=str)). This will be disallowed in Python 3.15. Use the class-based syntax or the functional syntax instead.

    Two methods of creating NamedTuple classes with 0 fields using the functional syntax are also deprecated, and will be disallowed in Python 3.15: NT = NamedTuple("NT") and NT = NamedTuple("NT", None). To create a NamedTuple class with 0 fields, either use class NT(NamedTuple): pass or NT = NamedTuple("NT", []).

  • gh-105545: Remove deprecated in 3.11 webbrowser.MacOSXOSAScript._name attribute.

  • gh-105497: Fix flag inversion when alias/mask members exist.

  • gh-105509: typing.Annotated is now implemented as an instance of typing._SpecialForm rather than a class. This should have no user-facing impact for users of the typing module public API.

  • gh-105375: Fix bugs in pickle where exceptions could be overwritten.

  • gh-70303: Emit FutureWarning from pathlib.Path.glob() and rglob() if the given pattern ends with “**”. In a future Python release, patterns with this ending will match both files and directories. Add a trailing slash to only match directories.

  • gh-105375: Fix a bug in sqlite3 where an exception could be overwritten in the collation callback.

  • gh-105382: Remove cafile, capath and cadefault parameters of the urllib.request.urlopen() function, deprecated in Python 3.6. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-105376: logging: Remove undocumented and untested Logger.warn() and LoggerAdapter.warn() methods and logging.warn() function. Deprecated since Python 3.3, they were aliases to the logging.Logger.warning() method, logging.LoggerAdapter.warning() method and logging.warning() function. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-105332: Revert pickling method from by-name back to by-value.

  • gh-104554: Add RTSPS scheme support in urllib.parse

  • gh-105292: Add option to traceback.format_exception_only() to recurse into the nested exception of a BaseExceptionGroup.

  • gh-105280: Fix bug where isinstance([], collections.abc.Mapping) could evaluate to True if garbage collection happened at the wrong time. The bug was caused by changes to the implementation of typing.Protocol in Python 3.12.

  • gh-80480: array: Add 'w' typecode that represents Py_UCS4.

  • gh-105239: Fix longstanding bug where issubclass(object, typing.Protocol) would evaluate to True in some edge cases. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-104310: In the beta 1 release we added a utility function for extension module authors, to use when testing their module for support in multiple interpreters or under a per-interpreter GIL. The name of that function has changed from allowing_all_extensions to _incompatible_extension_module_restrictions. The default for the “disable_check” argument has change from True to False, to better match the new function name.

  • gh-105080: Fixed inconsistent signature on derived classes for inspect.signature()

  • gh-105144: Fix a recent regression in the typing module. The regression meant that doing class Foo(X, typing.Protocol), where X was a class that had abc.ABCMeta as its metaclass, would then cause subsequent isinstance(1, X) calls to erroneously raise TypeError. Patch by Alex Waygood.

  • gh-62948: The io.IOBase finalizer now logs the close() method errors with sys.unraisablehook. Previously, errors were ignored silently by default, and only logged in Python Development Mode or on Python built on debug mode. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-105096: wave: Deprecate the getmark(), setmark() and getmarkers() methods of the wave.Wave_read and wave.Wave_write classes. They will be removed in Python 3.15. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104992: Remove the untested and undocumented unittest.TestProgram.usageExit() method, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.

  • gh-104996: Improve performance of pathlib.PurePath initialisation by deferring joining of paths when multiple arguments are given.

  • gh-101588: Deprecate undocumented copy/deepcopy/pickle support for itertools.

  • gh-103631: Fix pathlib.PurePosixPath(pathlib.PureWindowsPath(...)) not converting path separators to restore 3.11 compatible behavior.

  • gh-104947: Make comparisons between pathlib.PureWindowsPath objects consistent across Windows and Posix to match 3.11 behavior.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the audioop module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the aifc module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the uu module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104935: Fix bugs with the interaction between typing.runtime_checkable() and typing.Generic that were introduced by the PEP 695 implementation. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the crypt module and its private _crypt extension, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the nis module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104898: Add missing __slots__ to os.PathLike.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the xdrlib module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the nntplib module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104886: Remove the undocumented configparser.LegacyInterpolation class, deprecated in the docstring since Python 3.2, and with a deprecation warning since Python 3.11. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.

  • gh-104786: Remove kwargs-based typing.TypedDict creation

  • gh-104876: Remove the turtle.RawTurtle.settiltangle() method, deprecated in docs since Python 3.1 and with a deprecation warning since Python 3.11. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Removed the msilib package, deprecated in Python 3.11.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the spwd module, deprecated in Python 3.11: the python-pam project can be used instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-75552: Removed the tkinter.tix module, deprecated since Python 3.6.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the chunk module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the mailcap module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the sunau module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104780: PEP 594: Remove the ossaudiodev module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the pipes module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104873: Add typing.get_protocol_members() to return the set of members defining a typing.Protocol. Add typing.is_protocol() to check whether a class is a typing.Protocol. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-104874: Document the __name__ and __supertype__ attributes of typing.NewType. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-104835: Removed the following unittest functions, deprecated in Python 3.11:

    • unittest.findTestCases()

    • unittest.makeSuite()

    • unittest.getTestCaseNames()

    Use TestLoader methods instead:

    Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.

  • gh-104804: Remove the untested and undocumented webbrowser MacOSX class, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Hugo van Kemenade.

  • gh-83863: Support for using pathlib.Path objects as context managers has been removed. Before Python 3.9, exiting the context manager marked a path as “closed”, which caused some (but not all!) methods to raise when called. Since Python 3.9, using a path as a context manager does nothing.

  • gh-104799: Adjust the location of the (see PEP 695) type_params field on ast.ClassDef, ast.AsyncFunctionDef, and ast.FunctionDef to better preserve backward compatibility. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra

  • gh-104797: Allow typing.Protocol classes to inherit from collections.abc.Buffer. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.

  • gh-104783: Remove locale.resetlocale() function deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104780: Remove the 2to3 program and the lib2to3 module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the telnetlib module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the imghdr module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the cgi and cgitb modules, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the sndhdr module, deprecated in Python 3.11. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104372: On Linux where subprocess can use the vfork() syscall for faster spawning, prevent the parent process from blocking other threads by dropping the GIL while it waits for the vfork’ed child process exec() outcome. This prevents spawning a binary from a slow filesystem from blocking the rest of the application.

  • gh-99108: We now release the GIL around built-in hashlib computations of reasonable size for the SHA families and MD5 hash functions, matching what our OpenSSL backed hash computations already does.

  • gh-102613: Improve performance of pathlib.Path.glob() when expanding a pattern with a non-terminal “**” component by filtering walked paths through a regular expression, rather than calling os.scandir() more than once on each directory.

  • gh-104399: Prepare the _tkinter module for building with Tcl 9.0 and future libtommath by replacing usage of deprecated functions mp_to_unsigned_bin_n() and mp_unsigned_bin_size() when necessary.

  • gh-102676: Add fields start_offset, cache_offset, end_offset, baseopname, baseopcode, jump_target and oparg to dis.Instruction.

  • gh-103558: Fixed parent argument validation mechanism of argparse. Improved test coverage.

  • gh-103464: Provide helpful usage messages when parsing incorrect pdb commands.

  • gh-103384: Generalize the regex pattern BaseConfigurator.INDEX_PATTERN to allow spaces and non-alphanumeric characters in keys.

  • gh-103124: Added multiline statement support for pdb

  • gh-101162: Forbid using builtins.issubclass() with types.GenericAlias as the first argument.

  • gh-103200: Fix cache repopulation semantics of zipimport.invalidate_caches(). The cache is now repopulated upon retrieving files with an invalid cache, not when the cache is invalidated.

  • gh-100061: Fix a bug that causes wrong matches for regular expressions with possessive qualifier.

  • gh-77609: Add follow_symlinks argument to pathlib.Path.glob() and rglob(), defaulting to false.

  • gh-102541: Hide traceback in help() prompt, when import failed.

  • gh-102120: Added a stream mode to tarfile that allows for reading archives without caching info about the inner files.

  • gh-102029: Deprecate passing any arguments to threading.RLock().

  • gh-88233: Refactored zipfile._strip_extra to use higher level abstractions for extras instead of a heavy-state loop.

  • gh-102024: Reduce calls of _idle_semaphore.release() in concurrent.futures.thread._worker().

  • gh-73435: Add support for recursive wildcards in pathlib.PurePath.match().

  • gh-84867: unittest.TestLoader no longer loads test cases from exact unittest.TestCase and unittest.FunctionTestCase classes.

  • gh-99203: Restore following CPython <= 3.10.5 behavior of shutil.make_archive(): do not create an empty archive if root_dir is not a directory, and, in that case, raise FileNotFoundError or NotADirectoryError regardless of format choice. Beyond the brought-back behavior, the function may now also raise these exceptions in dry_run mode.

  • gh-80480: Emit DeprecationWarning for array’s 'u' type code, deprecated in docs since Python 3.3.

  • gh-94924: unittest.mock.create_autospec() now properly returns coroutine functions compatible with inspect.iscoroutinefunction()

  • gh-94777: Fix hanging multiprocessing ProcessPoolExecutor when a child process crashes while data is being written in the call queue.

  • gh-92871: Remove the typing.io and typing.re namespaces, deprecated since Python 3.8. All items are still available from the main typing module.

  • bpo-43633: Improve the textual representation of IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses (RFC 4291 Sections 2.2, 2.5.5.2) in ipaddress. Patch by Oleksandr Pavliuk.

  • bpo-44850: Improve performance of operator.methodcaller() using the PEP 590 vectorcall convention. Patch by Anthony Lee and Pieter Eendebak.

  • bpo-44185: unittest.mock.mock_open() will call the close() method of the file handle mock when it is exiting from the context manager. Patch by Samet Yaslan.

  • bpo-40988: Improve performance of functools.singledispatchmethod by caching the generated dispatch wrapper. Optimization suggested by frederico. Patch by @mental32, Alex Waygood and Pieter Eendebak.

  • bpo-41768: unittest.mock speccing no longer calls class properties. Patch by Melanie Witt.

  • bpo-18319: Ensure gettext(msg) retrieve translations even if a plural form exists. In other words: gettext(msg) == ngettext(msg, '', 1).

  • bpo-17013: Add ThreadingMock to unittest.mock that can be used to create Mock objects that can wait until they are called. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan and Mario Corchero.

Documentation

Tests

  • gh-110647: Fix test_stress_modifying_handlers() of test_signal. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-103053: Fix test_tools.test_freeze on FreeBSD: run “make distclean” instead of “make clean” in the copied source directory to remove also the “python” program. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-110167: Fix a deadlock in test_socket when server fails with a timeout but the client is still running in its thread. Don’t hold a lock to call cleanup functions in doCleanups(). One of the cleanup function waits until the client completes, whereas the client could deadlock if it called addCleanup() in such situation. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-110388: Add tests for tty.

  • gh-81002: Add tests for termios.

  • gh-110367: regrtest: When using worker processes (-jN) with –verbose3 option, regrtest can now display the worker output even if a worker process does crash. Previously, sys.stdout and sys.stderr were replaced and so the worker output was lost on a crash. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-110267: Add tests for pickling and copying PyStructSequence objects. Patched by Xuehai Pan.

  • gh-110171: libregrtest now always sets and shows random.seed, so tests are more reproducible. Use --randseed flag to pass the explicit random seed for tests.

  • gh-110152: Remove Tools/scripts/run_tests.py and make hostrunnertest. Just run ./python -m test --slow-ci, make buildbottest or make test instead. Python test runner (regrtest) now handles cross-compilation and HOSTRUNNER. It also adds options to Python such fast -u -E -W default -bb when --fast-ci or --slow-ci option is used. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-110031: Skip test_threading tests using thread+fork if Python is built with Address Sanitizer (ASAN). Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-110088: Fix test_asyncio timeouts: don’t measure the maximum duration, a test should not measure a CI performance. Only measure the minimum duration when a task has a timeout or delay. Add CLOCK_RES to test_asyncio.utils. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109974: Fix race conditions in test_threading lock tests. Wait until a condition is met rather than using time.sleep() with a hardcoded number of seconds. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-110033: Fix test_interprocess_signal() of test_signal. Make sure that the subprocess.Popen object is deleted before the test raising an exception in a signal handler. Otherwise, Popen.__del__() can get the exception which is logged as Exception ignored in: ... and the test fails. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109594: Fix test_timeout() of test_concurrent_futures.test_wait. Remove the future which may or may not complete depending if it takes longer than the timeout or not. Keep the second future which does not complete before wait() timeout. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109972: Split test_gdb.py file into a test_gdb package made of multiple tests, so tests can now be run in parallel. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109566: regrtest: When --fast-ci or --slow-ci option is used, regrtest now replaces the current process with a new process to add -u -W default -bb -E options to Python. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109748: Fix test_zippath_from_non_installed_posix() of test_venv: don’t copy __pycache__/ sub-directories, because they can be modified by other Python tests running in parallel. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109739: regrtest: Fix reference leak check on Windows. Disable the load tracker on Windows in the reference leak check mode (-R option). Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109276: regrtest: When a test fails with “env changed” and the –rerun option is used, the test is now re-run in verbose mode in a fresh process. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-103053: Skip test_freeze_simple_script() of test_tools.test_freeze if Python is built with ./configure --enable-optimizations, which means with Profile Guided Optimization (PGO): it just makes the test too slow. The freeze tool is tested by many other CIs with other (faster) compiler flags. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109580: Skip test_perf_profiler if Python is built with ASAN, MSAN or UBSAN sanitizer. Python does crash randomly in this test on such build. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109566: regrtest: Add --fast-ci and --slow-ci options. --fast-ci uses a default timeout of 10 minutes and -u all,-cpu (skip slowest tests). --slow-ci uses a default timeout of 20 minutes and -u all (run all tests). Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109425: libregrtest now decodes stdout of test worker processes with the “backslashreplace” error handler to log corrupted stdout, instead of failing with an error and not logging the stdout. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109396: Fix test_socket.test_hmac_sha1() in FIPS mode. Use a longer key: FIPS mode requires at least of at least 112 bits. The previous key was only 32 bits. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104736: Fix test_gdb on Python built with LLVM clang 16 on Linux ppc64le (ex: Fedora 38). Search patterns in gdb “bt” command output to detect when gdb fails to retrieve the traceback. For example, skip a test if Backtrace stopped: frame did not save the PC is found. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109276: libregrtest now calls random.seed() before running each test file when -r/--randomize command line option is used. Moreover, it’s also called in worker processes. It should help to make tests more deterministic. Previously, it was only called once in the main process before running all test files and it was not called in worker processes. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109276: libregrtest now uses a separated file descriptor to write test result as JSON. Previously, if a test wrote debug messages late around the JSON, the main test process failed to parse JSON. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-108996: Fix and enable test_msvcrt.

  • gh-109237: Fix test_site.test_underpth_basic() when the working directory contains at least one non-ASCII character: encode the ._pth file to UTF-8 and enable the UTF-8 Mode to use UTF-8 for the child process stdout. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109230: Fix test_pyexpat.test_exception(): it can now be run from a directory different than Python source code directory. Before, the test failed in this case. Skip the test if Modules/pyexpat.c source is not available. Skip also the test on Python implementations other than CPython. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-108996: Add tests for msvcrt.

  • gh-109015: Fix test_asyncio, test_imaplib and test_socket tests on FreeBSD if the TCP blackhole is enabled (sysctl net.inet.tcp.blackhole). Skip the few tests which failed with ETIMEDOUT which such non standard configuration. Currently, the FreeBSD GCP image enables TCP and UDP blackhole (sysctl net.inet.tcp.blackhole=2 and sysctl net.inet.udp.blackhole=1). Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-91960: Skip test_gdb if gdb is unable to retrieve Python frame objects: if a frame is <optimized out>. When Python is built with “clang -Og”, gdb can fail to retrieve the frame parameter of _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault(). In this case, tests like py_bt() are likely to fail. Without getting access to Python frames, python-gdb.py is mostly clueless on retrieving the Python traceback. Moreover, test_gdb is no longer skipped on macOS if Python is built with Clang. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-108962: Skip test_tempfile.test_flags() if chflags() fails with “OSError: [Errno 45] Operation not supported” (ex: on FreeBSD 13). Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-91960: FreeBSD 13.2 CI coverage for pull requests is now provided by Cirrus-CI (a hosted CI service that supports Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD).

  • gh-89392: Removed support of test_main() function in tests. They now always use normal unittest test runner.

  • gh-108851: Fix test_tomllib recursion tests for WASI buildbots: reduce the recursion limit and compute the maximum nested array/dict depending on the current available recursion limit. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-108851: Add get_recursion_available() and get_recursion_depth() functions to the test.support module. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-108834: Add --fail-rerun option option to regrtest: if a test failed when then passed when rerun in verbose mode, exit the process with exit code 2 (error), instead of exit code 0 (success). Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-108834: Rename regrtest --verbose2 option (-w) to --rerun. Keep --verbose2 as a deprecated alias. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-108834: When regrtest reruns failed tests in verbose mode (./python -m test --rerun), tests are now rerun in fresh worker processes rather than being executed in the main process. If a test does crash or is killed by a timeout, the main process can detect and handle the killed worker process. Tests are rerun in parallel if the -jN option is used to run tests in parallel. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-108822: regrtest now computes statistics on all tests: successes, failures and skipped. test_netrc, test_pep646_syntax and test_xml_etree now return results in their test_main() function. Patch by Victor Stinner and Alex Waygood.

  • gh-108794: The doctest.DocTestRunner.run() method now counts the number of skipped tests. Add doctest.DocTestRunner.skips and doctest.TestResults.skipped attributes. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-108388: Convert test_concurrent_futures to a package of 7 sub-tests. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-108388: Split test_multiprocessing_fork, test_multiprocessing_forkserver and test_multiprocessing_spawn into test packages. Each package is made of 4 sub-tests: processes, threads, manager and misc. It allows running more tests in parallel and so reduce the total test duration. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-105776: Fix test_cppext when the C compiler command -std=c11 option: remove -std= options from the compiler command. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-107652: Set up CIFuzz to run fuzz targets in GitHub Actions. Patch by Illia Volochii.

  • gh-107237: test_logging: Fix test_udp_reconnection() by increasing the timeout from 100 ms to 5 minutes (LONG_TIMEOUT). Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-107178: Add the C API test for functions in the Mapping Protocol, the Sequence Protocol and some functions in the Object Protocol.

  • gh-106714: test_capi: Fix test_no_FatalError_infinite_loop() to no longer write a coredump, by using test.support.SuppressCrashReport. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-104090: Avoid creating a reference to the test object in collectedDurations().

  • gh-106752: Moved tests for zipfile.Path into Lib/test/test_zipfile/_path. Made zipfile._path a package.

  • gh-106690: Add .coveragerc to cpython repository for use with coverage package.

  • gh-101634: When running the Python test suite with -jN option, if a worker stdout cannot be decoded from the locale encoding report a failed testn so the exitcode is non-zero. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-105084: When the Python build is configured --with-wheel-pkg-dir, tests requiring the setuptools and wheel wheels will search for the wheels in WHEEL_PKG_DIR.

  • gh-81005: String tests are modified to reflect that str and unicode are merged in Python 3. Patch by Daniel Fortunov.

  • gh-103186: Suppress and assert expected RuntimeWarnings in test_sys_settrace.py

  • gh-69714: Add additional tests to calendar to achieve full test coverage.

Build

  • gh-103053: “make check-clean-src” now also checks if the “python” program is found in the source directory: fail with an error if it does exist. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109191: Fix compile error when building with recent versions of libedit.

  • gh-110276: No longer ignore PROFILE_TASK failure silently: command used by Profile Guided Optimization (PGO). Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109566: Remove make testall target: use make buildbottest instead. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-109740: The experimental --disable-gil configure flag now includes “t” (for “threaded”) in extension ABI tags.

  • gh-109054: Fix building the _testcapi extension on Linux AArch64 which requires linking to libatomic when <cpython/pyatomic.h> is used: the _Py_atomic_or_uint64() function requires libatomic __atomic_fetch_or_8() on this platform. The configure script now checks if linking to libatomic is needed and generates a new LIBATOMIC variable used to build the _testcapi extension. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-63760: Fix Solaris build: no longer redefine the gethostname() function. Solaris defines the function since 2005. Patch by Victor Stinner, original patch by Jakub Kulík.

  • gh-108740: Fix a race condition in make regen-all. The deepfreeze.c source and files generated by Argument Clinic are now generated or updated before generating “global objects”. Previously, some identifiers may miss depending on the order in which these files were generated. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-108634: Python built with configure --with-trace-refs (tracing references) is now ABI compatible with Python release build and debug build. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-85283: The _stat C extension is now built with the limited C API. Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-108447: Fix x86_64 GNU/Hurd build

  • gh-107814: When calling find_python.bat with -q it did not properly silence the output of nuget. That is now fixed.

  • gh-105481: Remove the make target regen-opcode-targets, merge its work into regen-opcode which repeats most of the calculation. This simplifies the code for the build and reduces code duplication.

  • gh-106881: Check for linux/limits.h before including it in Modules/posixmodule.c.

  • gh-95855: Refactor platform triplet detection code and add detection for MIPS soft float and musl libc.

  • gh-106962: Detect MPI compilers in configure.

  • gh-106118: Fix compilation for platforms without O_CLOEXEC. The issue was introduced with Python 3.12b1 in gh-103295. Patch by Erlend Aasland.

  • gh-105875: SQLite 3.15.2 or newer is required to build the sqlite3 extension module. Patch by Erlend Aasland.

  • gh-90005: Fix a regression in configure where we could end up unintentionally linking with libbsd.

  • gh-102404: Document how to perform a WASI build on Linux. Also add Tools/wasm/build_wasi.sh as a reference implementation of the docs.

  • gh-89886: Autoconf 2.71 and aclocal 1.16.4 is now required to regenerate !configure.

  • gh-104692: Include commoninstall as a prerequisite for bininstall

    This ensures that commoninstall is completed before bininstall is started when parallel builds are used (make -j install), and so the python3 symlink is only installed after all standard library modules are installed.

  • gh-101538: Add experimental wasi-threads support. Patch by Takashi Yamamoto.

Windows

  • gh-110437: Allows overriding the source of VC redistributables so that releases can be guaranteed to never downgrade between updates.

  • gh-109286: Update Windows installer to use SQLite 3.43.1.

  • gh-82367: os.path.realpath() now resolves MS-DOS style file names even if the file is not accessible. Patch by Moonsik Park.

  • gh-109991: Update Windows build to use OpenSSL 3.0.11.

  • gh-106242: Fixes realpath() to behave consistently when passed a path containing an embedded null character on Windows. In strict mode, it now raises OSError instead of the unexpected ValueError, and in non-strict mode will make the path absolute.

  • gh-83180: Changes the Python Launcher for Windows to prefer an active virtual environment when the launched script has a shebang line using a Unix-like virtual command, even if the command requests a specific version of Python.

  • gh-106844: Fix integer overflow and truncating by the null character in _winapi.LCMapStringEx() which affects ntpath.normcase().

  • gh-105436: Ensure that an empty environment block is terminated by two null characters, as is required by Windows.

  • gh-105146: Updated the links at the end of the installer to point to Discourse rather than the mailing lists.

  • gh-103646: When installed from the Microsoft Store, pip no longer defaults to per-user installs. However, as the install directory is unwritable, it should automatically decide to do a per-user install anyway. This should resolve issues when pip is passed an option that conflicts with --user.

  • gh-88745: Improve performance of shutil.copy2() by using the operating system’s CopyFile2 function. This may result in subtle changes to metadata copied along with some files, bringing them in line with normal OS behavior.

  • gh-104820: Fixes stat() and related functions on file systems that do not support file ID requests. This includes FAT32 and exFAT.

  • gh-104803: Add os.path.isdevdrive() to detect whether a path is on a Windows Dev Drive. Returns False on platforms that do not support Dev Drive, and is absent on non-Windows platforms.

macOS

  • gh-109286: Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.43.1.

  • gh-109991: Update macOS installer to use OpenSSL 3.0.11.

  • gh-99079: Update macOS installer to use OpenSSL 3.0.9.

IDLE

  • gh-104719: Remove IDLE’s modification of tokenize.tabsize and test other uses of tokenize data and methods.

Tools/Demos

  • gh-109991: Update GitHub CI workflows to use OpenSSL 3.0.11 and multissltests to use 1.1.1w, 3.0.11, and 3.1.3.

  • gh-108494: Argument Clinic now has a partial support of the Limited API: see documentation in the Python Developer’s Guide Patch by Victor Stinner.

  • gh-107704: It is now possible to deprecate passing keyword arguments for keyword-or-positional parameters with Argument Clinic, using the new / [from X.Y] syntax. (To be read as “positional-only from Python version X.Y”.) See documentation in the Python Developer’s Guide for more information.

  • gh-107880: Argument Clinic can now clone __init__() and __new__() methods.

  • gh-104683: Add --exclude option to Argument Clinic CLI.

  • gh-95065: Argument Clinic now supports overriding automatically generated signature by using directive @text_signature. See documentation in the Python Developer’s Guide

  • gh-107609: Fix duplicate module check in Argument Clinic. Previously, a duplicate definition would incorrectly be silently accepted. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.

  • gh-107467: The Argument Clinic command-line tool now prints to stderr instead of stdout on failure.

  • gh-106970: Fix bugs in the Argument Clinic destination <name> clear command; the destination buffers would never be cleared, and the destination directive parser would simply continue to the fault handler after processing the command. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland.

  • gh-106706: Change bytecode syntax for families to remove redundant name matching pseudo syntax.

  • gh-106359: Argument Clinic now explicitly forbids “kwarg splats” in function calls used as annotations.

  • gh-103186: freeze now fetches CONFIG_ARGS from the original CPython instance the Makefile uses to call utility scripts. Patch by Ijtaba Hussain.

  • gh-95065: It is now possible to deprecate passing parameters positionally with Argument Clinic, using the new * [from X.Y] syntax. (To be read as “keyword-only from Python version X.Y”.) See documentation in the Python Developer’s Guide for more information. Patch by Erlend E. Aasland with help from Alex Waygood, Nikita Sobolev, and Serhiy Storchaka.

C API

Python 3.12.0 beta 1

Release date: 2023-05-22

Security

  • gh-99889: Fixed a security in flaw in uu.decode() that could allow for directory traversal based on the input if no out_file was specified.

  • gh-104049: Do not expose the local on-disk location in directory indexes produced by http.client.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.

  • gh-99108: Upgrade built-in hashlib SHA3 implementation to a verified implementation from the HACL* project. Used when OpenSSL is not present or lacks SHA3.

  • gh-102153: urllib.parse.urlsplit() now strips leading C0 control and space characters following the specification for URLs defined by WHATWG in response to CVE-2023-24329. Patch by Illia Volochii.

Core and Builtins

  • gh-102856: Implement PEP 701 changes in the tokenize module. Patch by Marta Gómez Macías and Pablo Galindo Salgado

  • gh-104615: Fix wrong ordering of assignments in code like a, a = x, y. Contributed by Carl Meyer.

  • gh-104572: Improve syntax error message for invalid constructs in PEP 695 contexts and in annotations when from __future__ import annotations is active.

  • gh-104482: Fix three error handling bugs in ast.c’s validation of pattern matching statements.

  • gh-102818: Do not add a frame to the traceback in the sys.setprofile and sys.settrace trampoline functions. This ensures that frames are not duplicated if an exception is raised in the callback function, and ensures that frames are not omitted if a C callback is used and that does not add the frame.

  • gh-104405: Fix an issue where some bytecode instructions could ignore PEP 523 when “inlining” calls.

  • gh-103082: Change behavior of sys.monitoring.events.LINE events in sys.monitoring: Line events now occur when a new line is reached dynamically, instead of using a static approximation, as before. This makes the behavior very similar to that of “line” events in sys.settrace. This should ease porting of tools from 3.11 to 3.12.

  • gh-104263: Fix float("nan") to produce a quiet NaN on platforms (like MIPS) where the meaning of the signalling / quiet bit is inverted from its usual meaning. Also introduce a new macro Py_INFINITY matching C99’s INFINITY, and refactor internals to rely on C99’s NAN and INFINITY macros instead of hard-coding bit patterns for infinities and NaNs. Thanks Sebastian Berg.

  • gh-99113: Multi-phase init extension modules may now indicate that they support running in subinterpreters that have their own GIL. This is done by using Py_MOD_PER_INTERPRETER_GIL_SUPPORTED as the value for the Py_mod_multiple_interpreters module def slot. Otherwise the module, by default, cannot be imported in such subinterpreters. (This does not affect the main interpreter or subinterpreters that do not have their own GIL.) In addition to the isolation that multi-phase init already normally requires, support for per-interpreter GIL involves one additional constraint: thread-safety. If the module has external (linked) dependencies and those libraries have any state that isn’t thread-safe then the module must do the additional work to add thread-safety. This should be an uncommon case.

  • gh-99113: The GIL is now (optionally) per-interpreter. This is the fundamental change for PEP 684. This is all made possible by virtue of the isolated state of each interpreter in the process. The behavior of the main interpreter remains unchanged. Likewise, interpreters created using Py_NewInterpreter() are not affected. To get an interpreter with its own GIL, call Py_NewInterpreterFromConfig().

  • gh-104108: Multi-phase init extension modules may now indicate whether or not they actually support multiple interpreters. By default such modules are expected to support use in multiple interpreters. In the uncommon case that one does not, it may use the new Py_mod_multiple_interpreters module def slot. A value of 0 means the module does not support them. 1 means it does. The default is 1.

  • gh-104142: Fix an issue where list or tuple repetition could fail to respect PEP 683.

  • gh-104078: Improve the performance of PyObject_HasAttrString()

  • gh-104066: Improve the performance of hasattr() for module objects with a missing attribute.

  • gh-104028: Reduce object creation while calling callback function from gc. Patch by Donghee Na.