diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index 253421378be4aa40c75938dda284d3a186dbae2f..ef02372f8b22cacafb9f5da0dbe19391f353a345 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
/*--start constants--*/
#define PY_MAJOR_VERSION 3
#define PY_MINOR_VERSION 9
-#define PY_MICRO_VERSION 1
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL 0
+#define PY_MICRO_VERSION 2
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_GAMMA
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL 1
/* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION "3.9.1+"
+#define PY_VERSION "3.9.2rc1"
/*--end constants--*/
/* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
index d8dd8c536aa708b72aab5e9651e5477800d186b1..acaae371aeb2297a70ce9d8d2640a727cca27403 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Mon Dec 7 15:00:07 2020
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Tue Feb 16 21:03:59 2021
topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
'**********************\n'
'\n'
@@ -459,13 +459,12 @@
'\n'
' async_for_stmt ::= "async" for_stmt\n'
'\n'
- 'An *asynchronous iterable* is able to call asynchronous code in '
- 'its\n'
- '*iter* implementation, and *asynchronous iterator* can call\n'
- 'asynchronous code in its *next* method.\n'
+ 'An *asynchronous iterable* provides an "__aiter__" method that\n'
+ 'directly returns an *asynchronous iterator*, which can call\n'
+ 'asynchronous code in its "__anext__" method.\n'
'\n'
'The "async for" statement allows convenient iteration over\n'
- 'asynchronous iterators.\n'
+ 'asynchronous iterables.\n'
'\n'
'The following code:\n'
'\n'
@@ -2381,8 +2380,9 @@
'compatible\n'
'with an exception if it is the class or a base class of the '
'exception\n'
- 'object or a tuple containing an item compatible with the '
- 'exception.\n'
+ 'object, or a tuple containing an item that is the class or a '
+ 'base\n'
+ 'class of the exception object.\n'
'\n'
'If no except clause matches the exception, the search for an '
'exception\n'
@@ -2991,13 +2991,12 @@
'\n'
' async_for_stmt ::= "async" for_stmt\n'
'\n'
- 'An *asynchronous iterable* is able to call asynchronous code in '
- 'its\n'
- '*iter* implementation, and *asynchronous iterator* can call\n'
- 'asynchronous code in its *next* method.\n'
+ 'An *asynchronous iterable* provides an "__aiter__" method that\n'
+ 'directly returns an *asynchronous iterator*, which can call\n'
+ 'asynchronous code in its "__anext__" method.\n'
'\n'
'The "async for" statement allows convenient iteration over\n'
- 'asynchronous iterators.\n'
+ 'asynchronous iterables.\n'
'\n'
'The following code:\n'
'\n'
@@ -5530,44 +5529,51 @@
' | | formats the result in either fixed-point '
'format or in |\n'
' | | scientific notation, depending on its '
- 'magnitude. The |\n'
- ' | | precise rules are as follows: suppose that '
- 'the result |\n'
+ 'magnitude. A |\n'
+ ' | | precision of "0" is treated as equivalent '
+ 'to a precision |\n'
+ ' | | of "1". The precise rules are as follows: '
+ 'suppose that |\n'
+ ' | | the result formatted with presentation '
+ 'type "\'e\'" and |\n'
+ ' | | precision "p-1" would have exponent '
+ '"exp". Then, if "m <= |\n'
+ ' | | exp < p", where "m" is -4 for floats and '
+ '-6 for |\n'
+ ' | | "Decimals", the number is formatted with '
+ 'presentation type |\n'
+ ' | | "\'f\'" and precision "p-1-exp". '
+ 'Otherwise, the number is |\n'
' | | formatted with presentation type "\'e\'" '
- 'and precision "p-1" |\n'
- ' | | would have exponent "exp". Then, if "m <= '
- 'exp < p", where |\n'
- ' | | "m" is -4 for floats and -6 for '
- '"Decimals", the number is |\n'
- ' | | formatted with presentation type "\'f\'" '
'and precision |\n'
- ' | | "p-1-exp". Otherwise, the number is '
- 'formatted with |\n'
- ' | | presentation type "\'e\'" and precision '
- '"p-1". In both cases |\n'
- ' | | insignificant trailing zeros are removed '
- 'from the |\n'
- ' | | significand, and the decimal point is also '
- 'removed if |\n'
- ' | | there are no remaining digits following '
- 'it, unless the |\n'
- ' | | "\'#\'" option is used. Positive and '
- 'negative infinity, |\n'
- ' | | positive and negative zero, and nans, are '
- 'formatted as |\n'
- ' | | "inf", "-inf", "0", "-0" and "nan" '
- 'respectively, |\n'
- ' | | regardless of the precision. A precision '
- 'of "0" is |\n'
- ' | | treated as equivalent to a precision of '
- '"1". With no |\n'
- ' | | precision given, uses a precision of "6" '
- 'significant |\n'
- ' | | digits for "float", and shows all '
- 'coefficient digits for |\n'
- ' | | '
- '"Decimal". '
- '|\n'
+ ' | | "p-1". In both cases insignificant '
+ 'trailing zeros are |\n'
+ ' | | removed from the significand, and the '
+ 'decimal point is |\n'
+ ' | | also removed if there are no remaining '
+ 'digits following |\n'
+ ' | | it, unless the "\'#\'" option is used. '
+ 'With no precision |\n'
+ ' | | given, uses a precision of "6" significant '
+ 'digits for |\n'
+ ' | | "float". For "Decimal", the coefficient of '
+ 'the result is |\n'
+ ' | | formed from the coefficient digits of the '
+ 'value; |\n'
+ ' | | scientific notation is used for values '
+ 'smaller than "1e-6" |\n'
+ ' | | in absolute value and values where the '
+ 'place value of the |\n'
+ ' | | least significant digit is larger than 1, '
+ 'and fixed-point |\n'
+ ' | | notation is used otherwise. Positive and '
+ 'negative |\n'
+ ' | | infinity, positive and negative zero, and '
+ 'nans, are |\n'
+ ' | | formatted as "inf", "-inf", "0", "-0" and '
+ '"nan" |\n'
+ ' | | respectively, regardless of the '
+ 'precision. |\n'
' '
'+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------+\n'
' | "\'G\'" | General format. Same as "\'g\'" except '
@@ -5592,19 +5598,24 @@
'percent sign. |\n'
' '
'+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------+\n'
- ' | None | Similar to "\'g\'", except that '
- 'fixed-point notation, when |\n'
- ' | | used, has at least one digit past the '
- 'decimal point. The |\n'
- ' | | default precision is as high as needed to '
- 'represent the |\n'
- ' | | particular value. The overall effect is to '
- 'match the |\n'
- ' | | output of "str()" as altered by the other '
- 'format |\n'
- ' | | '
- 'modifiers. '
- '|\n'
+ ' | None | For "float" this is the same as "\'g\'", '
+ 'except that when |\n'
+ ' | | fixed-point notation is used to format the '
+ 'result, it |\n'
+ ' | | always includes at least one digit past '
+ 'the decimal point. |\n'
+ ' | | The precision used is as large as needed '
+ 'to represent the |\n'
+ ' | | given value faithfully. For "Decimal", '
+ 'this is the same |\n'
+ ' | | as either "\'g\'" or "\'G\'" depending on '
+ 'the value of |\n'
+ ' | | "context.capitals" for the current decimal '
+ 'context. The |\n'
+ ' | | overall effect is to match the output of '
+ '"str()" as |\n'
+ ' | | altered by the other format '
+ 'modifiers. |\n'
' '
'+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------+\n'
'\n'
@@ -7950,7 +7961,7 @@
'immediate\n'
' subclasses. This method returns a list of all those '
'references\n'
- ' still alive. Example:\n'
+ ' still alive. The list is in definition order. Example:\n'
'\n'
' >>> int.__subclasses__()\n'
" [<class 'bool'>]\n"
@@ -11259,7 +11270,8 @@
'object is “compatible” with the exception. An object is compatible\n'
'with an exception if it is the class or a base class of the '
'exception\n'
- 'object or a tuple containing an item compatible with the exception.\n'
+ 'object, or a tuple containing an item that is the class or a base\n'
+ 'class of the exception object.\n'
'\n'
'If no except clause matches the exception, the search for an '
'exception\n'
@@ -11480,7 +11492,6 @@
' There are two types of integers:\n'
'\n'
' Integers ("int")\n'
- '\n'
' These represent numbers in an unlimited range, subject to\n'
' available (virtual) memory only. For the purpose of '
'shift\n'
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.2rc1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.2rc1.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ba40d92281a1a4970f395450909c9dfdef94a601
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.2rc1.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,746 @@
+.. bpo: 42967
+.. date: 2021-02-14-15-59-16
+.. nonce: YApqDS
+.. release date: 2021-02-16
+.. section: Security
+
+Fix web cache poisoning vulnerability by defaulting the query args separator
+to ``&``, and allowing the user to choose a custom separator.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42938
+.. date: 2021-01-18-09-27-31
+.. nonce: 4Zn4Mp
+.. section: Security
+
+Avoid static buffers when computing the repr of :class:`ctypes.c_double` and
+:class:`ctypes.c_longdouble` values.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42819
+.. date: 2021-01-04-23-54-34
+.. nonce: 4KO6wU
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+:mod:`readline`: Explicitly disable bracketed paste in the interactive
+interpreter, even if it's set in the inputrc, is enabled by default (eg GNU
+Readline 8.1), or a user calls ``readline.read_init_file()``. The Python
+REPL has not implemented bracketed paste support. Also, bracketed mode
+writes the ``"\x1b[?2004h"`` escape sequence into stdout which causes test
+failures in applications that don't support it. It can still be explicitly
+enabled by calling ``readline.parse_and_bind("set enable-bracketed-paste
+on")``. Patch by Dustin Rodrigues.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42806
+.. date: 2021-01-03-00-20-38
+.. nonce: mLAobJ
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix the column offsets for f-strings :mod:`ast` nodes surrounded by
+parentheses and for nodes that spawn multiple lines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40631
+.. date: 2020-12-31-20-58-22
+.. nonce: deRMCx
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix regression where a single parenthesized starred expression was a valid
+assignment target.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32381
+.. date: 2020-12-04-17-17-44
+.. nonce: NY5t2S
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix encoding name when running a ``.pyc`` file on Windows:
+:c:func:`PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags()` now uses the correct encoding to decode
+the filename.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42536
+.. date: 2020-12-02-20-23-31
+.. nonce: Kx3ZOu
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Several built-in and standard library types now ensure that their internal
+result tuples are always tracked by the :term:`garbage collector <garbage
+collection>`:
+
+- :meth:`collections.OrderedDict.items() <collections.OrderedDict>`
+
+- :meth:`dict.items`
+
+- :func:`enumerate`
+
+- :func:`functools.reduce`
+
+- :func:`itertools.combinations`
+
+- :func:`itertools.combinations_with_replacement`
+
+- :func:`itertools.permutations`
+
+- :func:`itertools.product`
+
+- :func:`itertools.zip_longest`
+
+- :func:`zip`
+
+Previously, they could have become untracked by a prior garbage collection.
+Patch by Brandt Bucher.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42195
+.. date: 2020-11-20-00-57-47
+.. nonce: HeqcpS
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+The ``__args__`` of the parameterized generics for :data:`typing.Callable`
+and :class:`collections.abc.Callable` are now consistent. The ``__args__``
+for :class:`collections.abc.Callable` are now flattened while
+:data:`typing.Callable`'s have not changed. To allow this change,
+:class:`types.GenericAlias` can now be subclassed and
+``collections.abc.Callable``'s ``__class_getitem__`` will now return a
+subclass of ``types.GenericAlias``. Tests for typing were also updated to
+not subclass things like ``Callable[..., T]`` as that is not a valid base
+class. Finally, both types no longer validate their ``argtypes``, in
+``Callable[[argtypes], resulttype]`` to prepare for :pep:`612`. Patch by
+Ken Jin.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 43102
+.. date: 2021-02-03-22-55-27
+.. nonce: TSlZ6J
+.. section: Library
+
+The namedtuple __new__ method had its __builtins__ set to None instead of an
+actual dictionary. This created problems for introspection tools.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 43108
+.. date: 2021-02-02-20-23-31
+.. nonce: lqcCZ6
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed a reference leak in the :mod:`curses` module. Patch by Pablo Galindo
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42944
+.. date: 2021-01-18-10-41-44
+.. nonce: RrONvy
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ``random.Random.sample`` when ``counts`` argument is not ``None``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42931
+.. date: 2021-01-15-00-23-50
+.. nonce: QD6U2B
+.. section: Library
+
+Add :func:`randbytes` to ``random.__all__``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42780
+.. date: 2021-01-08-15-49-20
+.. nonce: rtqi6B
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix os.set_inheritable() for O_PATH file descriptors on Linux.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42851
+.. date: 2021-01-07-11-44-22
+.. nonce: uyQFyd
+.. section: Library
+
+remove __init_subclass__ support for Enum members
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41748
+.. date: 2021-01-05-21-26-29
+.. nonce: KdC0w3
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix HTMLParser parsing rules for element attributes containing commas with
+spaces. Patch by Karl Dubost.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42759
+.. date: 2020-12-27-22-19-26
+.. nonce: lGi_03
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed equality comparison of :class:`tkinter.Variable` and
+:class:`tkinter.font.Font`. Objects which belong to different Tcl
+interpreters are now always different, even if they have the same name.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42756
+.. date: 2020-12-27-21-22-01
+.. nonce: dHMPJ9
+.. section: Library
+
+Configure LMTP Unix-domain socket to use socket global default timeout when
+a timeout is not explicitly provided.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 23328
+.. date: 2020-12-27-18-47-01
+.. nonce: _xqepZ
+.. section: Library
+
+Allow / character in username, password fields on _PROXY envars.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42655
+.. date: 2020-12-25-12-32-47
+.. nonce: W5ytpV
+.. section: Library
+
+:mod:`subprocess` *extra_groups* is now correctly passed into setgroups()
+system call.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42727
+.. date: 2020-12-23-19-43-06
+.. nonce: WH3ODh
+.. section: Library
+
+``EnumMeta.__prepare__`` now accepts ``**kwds`` to properly support
+``__init_subclass__``
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42681
+.. date: 2020-12-20-22-50-15
+.. nonce: lDO6jb
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed range checks for color and pair numbers in :mod:`curses`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37961
+.. date: 2020-12-16-16-16-33
+.. nonce: jrESEq
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix crash in :func:`tracemalloc.Traceback.__repr__` (regressed in Python
+3.9).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42630
+.. date: 2020-12-15-17-51-27
+.. nonce: jf4jBl
+.. section: Library
+
+:mod:`tkinter` functions and constructors which need a default root window
+raise now :exc:`RuntimeError` with descriptive message instead of obscure
+:exc:`AttributeError` or :exc:`NameError` if it is not created yet or cannot
+be created automatically.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42644
+.. date: 2020-12-15-10-00-04
+.. nonce: XgLCNx
+.. section: Library
+
+`logging.disable` will now validate the types and value of its parameter. It
+also now accepts strings representing the levels (as does `loging.setLevel`)
+instead of only the numerical values.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36541
+.. date: 2020-12-14-08-23-57
+.. nonce: qdEtZv
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed lib2to3.pgen2 to be able to parse PEP-570 positional only argument
+syntax.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42517
+.. date: 2020-12-09-10-59-16
+.. nonce: FKEVcZ
+.. section: Library
+
+Enum: private names will raise a DeprecationWarning; in 3.10 they will
+become normal attributes
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42678
+.. date: 2020-12-08-22-43-35
+.. nonce: ba9ktU
+.. section: Library
+
+`Enum`: call `__init_subclass__` after members have been added
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42532
+.. date: 2020-12-02-07-37-59
+.. nonce: ObNep_
+.. section: Library
+
+Remove unexpected call of ``__bool__`` when passing a ``spec_arg`` argument
+to a Mock.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42388
+.. date: 2020-11-22-11-22-28
+.. nonce: LMgM6B
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix subprocess.check_output(..., input=None) behavior when text=True to be
+consistent with that of the documentation and universal_newlines=True.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34463
+.. date: 2020-11-20-19-00-27
+.. nonce: aJcm56
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed discrepancy between :mod:`traceback` and the interpreter in formatting
+of SyntaxError with lineno not set (:mod:`traceback` was changed to match
+interpreter).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42375
+.. date: 2020-11-19-04-13-53
+.. nonce: U8bp4s
+.. section: Library
+
+subprocess module update for DragonFlyBSD support.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42384
+.. date: 2020-11-17-14-32-39
+.. nonce: 1ZnQSn
+.. section: Library
+
+Make pdb populate sys.path[0] exactly the same as regular python execution.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42383
+.. date: 2020-11-17-14-30-12
+.. nonce: ubl0Y_
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix pdb: previously pdb would fail to restart the debugging target if it was
+specified using a relative path and the current directory changed.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42318
+.. date: 2020-11-14-13-46-27
+.. nonce: wYAcBD
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed support of non-BMP characters in :mod:`tkinter` on macOS.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42163
+.. date: 2020-10-29-09-22-56
+.. nonce: O4VcCY
+.. section: Library
+
+Restore compatibility for ``uname_result`` around deepcopy and _replace.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39825
+.. date: 2020-10-20-08-28-26
+.. nonce: n6KnG0
+.. section: Library
+
+Windows: Change ``sysconfig.get_config_var('EXT_SUFFIX')`` to the expected
+full ``platform_tag.extension`` format. Previously it was hard-coded to
+``.pyd``, now it is compatible with ``distutils.sysconfig`` and will result
+in something like ``.cp38-win_amd64.pyd``. This brings windows into
+conformance with the other platforms.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42059
+.. date: 2020-10-17-12-42-08
+.. nonce: ZGMZ3D
+.. section: Library
+
+:class:`typing.TypedDict` types created using the alternative call-style
+syntax now correctly respect the ``total`` keyword argument when setting
+their ``__required_keys__`` and ``__optional_keys__`` class attributes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39101
+.. date: 2020-10-11-21-43-03
+.. nonce: -I49Pm
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed tests using IsolatedAsyncioTestCase from hanging on BaseExceptions.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42005
+.. date: 2020-10-11-13-48-03
+.. nonce: Jq6Az-
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix CLI of :mod:`cProfile` and :mod:`profile` to catch
+:exc:`BrokenPipeError`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41907
+.. date: 2020-10-02-10-19-49
+.. nonce: wiIEsz
+.. section: Library
+
+fix `format()` behavior for `IntFlag`
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41889
+.. date: 2020-10-01-16-17-11
+.. nonce: qLkNh8
+.. section: Library
+
+Enum: fix regression involving inheriting a multiply-inherited enum
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41891
+.. date: 2020-09-30-13-35-29
+.. nonce: pNAeYI
+.. section: Library
+
+Ensure asyncio.wait_for waits for task completion
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41604
+.. date: 2020-08-21-15-24-14
+.. nonce: rTXleO
+.. section: Library
+
+Don't decrement the reference count of the previous user_ptr when
+set_panel_userptr fails.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40219
+.. date: 2020-07-13-19-43-11
+.. nonce: MUoJEP
+.. section: Library
+
+Lowered :class:`tkinter.ttk.LabeledScale` dummy widget to prevent hiding
+part of the content label.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40084
+.. date: 2020-03-29-21-32-00
+.. nonce: MCYwcv
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ``Enum.__dir__``: dir(Enum.member) now includes attributes as well as
+methods.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39068
+.. date: 2019-12-16-17-55-31
+.. nonce: Ti3f9P
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix initialization race condition in :func:`a85encode` and :func:`b85encode`
+in :mod:`base64`. Patch by Brandon Stansbury.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33289
+.. date: 2018-04-23-13-44-10
+.. nonce: anBnUr
+.. section: Library
+
+Correct call to :mod:`tkinter.colorchooser` to return RGB triplet of ints
+instead of floats. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40304
+.. date: 2021-01-20-23-03-49
+.. nonce: -LK7Ps
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Fix doc for type(name, bases, dict). Patch by Boris Verkhovskiy and Éric
+Araujo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42811
+.. date: 2021-01-07-12-08-59
+.. nonce: ePF7EC
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Updated importlib.utils.resolve_name() doc to use __spec__.parent instead of
+__package__. (Thanks Yair Frid.)
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 17140
+.. date: 2020-12-16-21-06-16
+.. nonce: 1leSEg
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Add documentation for the :class:`multiprocessing.pool.ThreadPool` class.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42794
+.. date: 2021-01-01-08-52-36
+.. nonce: -7-XGz
+.. section: Tests
+
+Update test_nntplib to use offical group name of news.aioe.org for testing.
+Patch by Dong-hee Na.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40810
+.. date: 2020-05-30-10-56-38
+.. nonce: LPqDLQ
+.. section: Tests
+
+In :mod:`sqlite3`, fix ``CheckTraceCallbackContent`` for SQLite pre 3.7.15.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 43174
+.. date: 2021-02-10-14-11-53
+.. nonce: F9zwXQ
+.. section: Build
+
+Windows build now uses ``/utf-8`` compiler option.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42692
+.. date: 2021-01-04-05-07-30
+.. nonce: OO11SN
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix __builtin_available check on older compilers. Patch by Joshua Root.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42604
+.. date: 2020-12-20-02-35-28
+.. nonce: gRd89w
+.. section: Build
+
+Now all platforms use a value for the "EXT_SUFFIX" build variable derived
+from SOABI (for instance in freeBSD, "EXT_SUFFIX" is now ".cpython-310d.so"
+instead of ".so"). Previosuly only Linux, Mac and VxWorks were using a value
+for "EXT_SUFFIX" that included "SOABI".
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42598
+.. date: 2020-12-13-14-43-10
+.. nonce: 7ipr5H
+.. section: Build
+
+Fix implicit function declarations in configure which could have resulted in
+incorrect configuration checks. Patch contributed by Joshua Root.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 29076
+.. date: 2020-02-28-14-33-15
+.. nonce: Gtixi5
+.. section: Build
+
+Add fish shell support to macOS installer.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41837
+.. date: 2021-01-05-20-36-40
+.. nonce: bmS7vB
+.. section: Windows
+
+Updated Windows installer to include OpenSSL 1.1.1i
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42584
+.. date: 2020-12-07-11-40-52
+.. nonce: AsYnVX
+.. section: Windows
+
+Upgrade Windows installer to use SQLite 3.34.0.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42504
+.. date: 2021-01-26-14-36-11
+.. nonce: ZxWt71
+.. section: macOS
+
+Ensure that the value of
+sysconfig.get_config_var('MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET') is always a string,
+even in when the value is parsable as an integer.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42361
+.. date: 2021-01-04-01-17-17
+.. nonce: eolZAi
+.. section: macOS
+
+Update macOS installer build to use Tcl/Tk 8.6.11 (rc2, expected to be final
+release).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41837
+.. date: 2021-01-04-00-48-08
+.. nonce: dX-unJ
+.. section: macOS
+
+Update macOS installer build to use OpenSSL 1.1.1i.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42584
+.. date: 2020-12-07-11-37-35
+.. nonce: LygmqQ
+.. section: macOS
+
+Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.34.0.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 43008
+.. date: 2021-01-26-18-12-17
+.. nonce: mbQUc7
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Make IDLE invoke :func:`sys.excepthook` in normal, 2-process mode. Patch by
+Ken Hilton.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33065
+.. date: 2021-01-10-01-25-43
+.. nonce: zmyHYJ
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Fix problem debugging user classes with __repr__ method.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 23544
+.. date: 2019-11-14-23-41-07
+.. nonce: 3etemb
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Disable Debug=>Stack Viewer when user code is running or Debugger is active,
+to prevent hang or crash. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32631
+.. date: 2019-06-30-20-31-09
+.. nonce: e7_4BG
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Finish zzdummy example extension module: make menu entries work; add
+docstrings and tests with 100% coverage.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42726
+.. date: 2020-12-23-19-42-11
+.. nonce: a5EkTv
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+Fixed Python 3 compatibility issue with gdb/libpython.py handling of
+attribute dictionaries.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42613
+.. date: 2020-12-16-09-10-32
+.. nonce: J-jnm5
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+Fix ``freeze.py`` tool to use the prope config and library directories.
+Patch by Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 43030
+.. date: 2021-01-27-10-27-47
+.. nonce: loDcD_
+.. section: C API
+
+Fixed a compiler warning in :c:func:`Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE()` on platforms with
+signed ``wchar_t``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42591
+.. date: 2020-12-10-10-43-03
+.. nonce: CXNY8G
+.. section: C API
+
+Export the :c:func:`Py_FrozenMain` function: fix a Python 3.9.0 regression.
+Python 3.9 uses ``-fvisibility=hidden`` and the function was not exported
+explicitly and so not exported.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40052
+.. date: 2020-03-24-09-27-10
+.. nonce: 27P2KG
+.. section: C API
+
+Fix an alignment build warning/error in function
+``PyVectorcall_Function()``. Patch by Andreas Schneider, Antoine Pitrou and
+Petr Viktorin.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-02-28-14-33-15.bpo-29076.Gtixi5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-02-28-14-33-15.bpo-29076.Gtixi5.rst
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index b38beb0586951c09a5d0b52ceb83c82fe3ff00cf..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-02-28-14-33-15.bpo-29076.Gtixi5.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add fish shell support to macOS installer.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-12-13-14-43-10.bpo-42598.7ipr5H.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-12-13-14-43-10.bpo-42598.7ipr5H.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-12-13-14-43-10.bpo-42598.7ipr5H.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix implicit function declarations in configure which could have resulted in
-incorrect configuration checks. Patch contributed by Joshua Root.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-12-20-02-35-28.bpo-42604.gRd89w.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-12-20-02-35-28.bpo-42604.gRd89w.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index caaada41cf9bad4a34c7593ea11e24b9a64e979a..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-12-20-02-35-28.bpo-42604.gRd89w.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Now all platforms use a value for the "EXT_SUFFIX" build variable derived
-from SOABI (for instance in freeBSD, "EXT_SUFFIX" is now ".cpython-310d.so"
-instead of ".so"). Previosuly only Linux, Mac and VxWorks were using a value
-for "EXT_SUFFIX" that included "SOABI".
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2021-01-04-05-07-30.bpo-42692.OO11SN.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2021-01-04-05-07-30.bpo-42692.OO11SN.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 91582b945b803f7ace5f57f7ad6ac26159f2e66c..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2021-01-04-05-07-30.bpo-42692.OO11SN.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix __builtin_available check on older compilers. Patch by Joshua Root.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2021-02-10-14-11-53.bpo-43174.F9zwXQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2021-02-10-14-11-53.bpo-43174.F9zwXQ.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 64c80188d02f62544fc1ef82e28642a153831c01..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2021-02-10-14-11-53.bpo-43174.F9zwXQ.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Windows build now uses ``/utf-8`` compiler option.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2020-03-24-09-27-10.bpo-40052.27P2KG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2020-03-24-09-27-10.bpo-40052.27P2KG.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 538488e2fbaccdb36cdd530c7ed81e4cdfd4a286..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2020-03-24-09-27-10.bpo-40052.27P2KG.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix an alignment build warning/error in function ``PyVectorcall_Function()``.
-Patch by Andreas Schneider, Antoine Pitrou and Petr Viktorin.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2020-12-10-10-43-03.bpo-42591.CXNY8G.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2020-12-10-10-43-03.bpo-42591.CXNY8G.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 3519859f7be89d398a032c310db3cba07d7a7c84..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2020-12-10-10-43-03.bpo-42591.CXNY8G.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Export the :c:func:`Py_FrozenMain` function: fix a Python 3.9.0 regression.
-Python 3.9 uses ``-fvisibility=hidden`` and the function was not exported
-explicitly and so not exported.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2021-01-27-10-27-47.bpo-43030.loDcD_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2021-01-27-10-27-47.bpo-43030.loDcD_.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 7a432522db8a12ed3e4e18bb6070d1c8b0fb8035..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2021-01-27-10-27-47.bpo-43030.loDcD_.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fixed a compiler warning in :c:func:`Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE()` on platforms with
-signed ``wchar_t``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-20-00-57-47.bpo-42195.HeqcpS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-20-00-57-47.bpo-42195.HeqcpS.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 636d4165a638974b3a0260a3dad56453f392e12a..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-11-20-00-57-47.bpo-42195.HeqcpS.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-The ``__args__`` of the parameterized generics for :data:`typing.Callable`
-and :class:`collections.abc.Callable` are now consistent. The ``__args__``
-for :class:`collections.abc.Callable` are now flattened while
-:data:`typing.Callable`'s have not changed. To allow this change,
-:class:`types.GenericAlias` can now be subclassed and
-``collections.abc.Callable``'s ``__class_getitem__`` will now return a subclass
-of ``types.GenericAlias``. Tests for typing were also updated to not subclass
-things like ``Callable[..., T]`` as that is not a valid base class. Finally,
-both types no longer validate their ``argtypes``, in
-``Callable[[argtypes], resulttype]`` to prepare for :pep:`612`. Patch by Ken Jin.
-
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-12-02-20-23-31.bpo-42536.Kx3ZOu.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-12-02-20-23-31.bpo-42536.Kx3ZOu.rst
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index 6ccacab1f64f68d1726d38a8208d4a79ffeef053..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-12-02-20-23-31.bpo-42536.Kx3ZOu.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-Several built-in and standard library types now ensure that their internal
-result tuples are always tracked by the :term:`garbage collector
-<garbage collection>`:
-
-- :meth:`collections.OrderedDict.items() <collections.OrderedDict>`
-
-- :meth:`dict.items`
-
-- :func:`enumerate`
-
-- :func:`functools.reduce`
-
-- :func:`itertools.combinations`
-
-- :func:`itertools.combinations_with_replacement`
-
-- :func:`itertools.permutations`
-
-- :func:`itertools.product`
-
-- :func:`itertools.zip_longest`
-
-- :func:`zip`
-
-Previously, they could have become untracked by a prior garbage collection.
-Patch by Brandt Bucher.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-12-04-17-17-44.bpo-32381.NY5t2S.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-12-04-17-17-44.bpo-32381.NY5t2S.rst
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index f4d84f9d848d4f904e54015a5c80775966df4123..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-12-04-17-17-44.bpo-32381.NY5t2S.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fix encoding name when running a ``.pyc`` file on Windows:
-:c:func:`PyRun_SimpleFileExFlags()` now uses the correct encoding to decode
-the filename.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-12-31-20-58-22.bpo-40631.deRMCx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-12-31-20-58-22.bpo-40631.deRMCx.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-12-31-20-58-22.bpo-40631.deRMCx.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix regression where a single parenthesized starred expression was a valid
-assignment target.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-01-03-00-20-38.bpo-42806.mLAobJ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-01-03-00-20-38.bpo-42806.mLAobJ.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-01-03-00-20-38.bpo-42806.mLAobJ.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix the column offsets for f-strings :mod:`ast` nodes surrounded by
-parentheses and for nodes that spawn multiple lines. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-01-04-23-54-34.bpo-42819.4KO6wU.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-01-04-23-54-34.bpo-42819.4KO6wU.rst
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index d067f0bfa764482abfe68df03a4a077e89d852a8..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-01-04-23-54-34.bpo-42819.4KO6wU.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-:mod:`readline`: Explicitly disable bracketed paste in the interactive
-interpreter, even if it's set in the inputrc, is enabled by default (eg GNU
-Readline 8.1), or a user calls ``readline.read_init_file()``. The Python REPL
-has not implemented bracketed paste support. Also, bracketed mode writes the
-``"\x1b[?2004h"`` escape sequence into stdout which causes test failures in
-applications that don't support it. It can still be explicitly enabled by
-calling ``readline.parse_and_bind("set enable-bracketed-paste on")``. Patch by
-Dustin Rodrigues.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-12-16-21-06-16.bpo-17140.1leSEg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-12-16-21-06-16.bpo-17140.1leSEg.rst
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index cb1fd23a56e63996053b3eea9e52fbe2fb43229d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-12-16-21-06-16.bpo-17140.1leSEg.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add documentation for the :class:`multiprocessing.pool.ThreadPool` class.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-07-12-08-59.bpo-42811.ePF7EC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-07-12-08-59.bpo-42811.ePF7EC.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-07-12-08-59.bpo-42811.ePF7EC.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Updated importlib.utils.resolve_name() doc to use __spec__.parent instead of
-__package__. (Thanks Yair Frid.)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-20-23-03-49.bpo-40304.-LK7Ps.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-20-23-03-49.bpo-40304.-LK7Ps.rst
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index 3f2f14c2d7b8937812472d78b82a0f4770d27508..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-20-23-03-49.bpo-40304.-LK7Ps.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix doc for type(name, bases, dict). Patch by Boris Verkhovskiy and
-Éric Araujo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-30-20-31-09.bpo-32631.e7_4BG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-30-20-31-09.bpo-32631.e7_4BG.rst
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index c422f43b6d6dd87de769c68948cd617068a15d80..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-06-30-20-31-09.bpo-32631.e7_4BG.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Finish zzdummy example extension module: make menu entries work;
-add docstrings and tests with 100% coverage.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-11-14-23-41-07.bpo-23544.3etemb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-11-14-23-41-07.bpo-23544.3etemb.rst
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index eb4a56bf100b598247aa24c50f21214012424bf5..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-11-14-23-41-07.bpo-23544.3etemb.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Disable Debug=>Stack Viewer when user code is running or Debugger
-is active, to prevent hang or crash. Patch by Zackery Spytz.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2021-01-10-01-25-43.bpo-33065.zmyHYJ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2021-01-10-01-25-43.bpo-33065.zmyHYJ.rst
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index 87948f3cd1baa1bbf9e64e28b52f2ba5c01da021..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2021-01-10-01-25-43.bpo-33065.zmyHYJ.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix problem debugging user classes with __repr__ method.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2021-01-26-18-12-17.bpo-43008.mbQUc7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2021-01-26-18-12-17.bpo-43008.mbQUc7.rst
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index 55ab67ca94959a53fb0c7f5d2969d792498885ab..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2021-01-26-18-12-17.bpo-43008.mbQUc7.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Make IDLE invoke :func:`sys.excepthook` in normal, 2-process mode.
-Patch by Ken Hilton.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-23-13-44-10.bpo-33289.anBnUr.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-23-13-44-10.bpo-33289.anBnUr.rst
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index 52d9ac9dd902cd8783eb639bdc3c71d1d370c49c..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-04-23-13-44-10.bpo-33289.anBnUr.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Correct call to :mod:`tkinter.colorchooser` to return RGB triplet of ints
-instead of floats. Patch by Cheryl Sabella.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-16-17-55-31.bpo-39068.Ti3f9P.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-16-17-55-31.bpo-39068.Ti3f9P.rst
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index fe6503fdce6b631e4a5525f74cbf3ccfcd81a000..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-16-17-55-31.bpo-39068.Ti3f9P.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix initialization race condition in :func:`a85encode` and :func:`b85encode`
-in :mod:`base64`. Patch by Brandon Stansbury.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-03-29-21-32-00.bpo-40084.MCYwcv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-03-29-21-32-00.bpo-40084.MCYwcv.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-03-29-21-32-00.bpo-40084.MCYwcv.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix ``Enum.__dir__``: dir(Enum.member) now includes attributes as well as methods.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-07-13-19-43-11.bpo-40219.MUoJEP.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-07-13-19-43-11.bpo-40219.MUoJEP.rst
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index aedc5c49b4087a9ed39c1d60dbac59c8d03cd70b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-07-13-19-43-11.bpo-40219.MUoJEP.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Lowered :class:`tkinter.ttk.LabeledScale` dummy widget to prevent hiding part of the content label.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-08-21-15-24-14.bpo-41604.rTXleO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-08-21-15-24-14.bpo-41604.rTXleO.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-08-21-15-24-14.bpo-41604.rTXleO.rst
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-Ensure asyncio.wait_for waits for task completion
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-Enum: fix regression involving inheriting a multiply-inherited enum
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-fix `format()` behavior for `IntFlag`
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-Fix CLI of :mod:`cProfile` and :mod:`profile` to catch
-:exc:`BrokenPipeError`.
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-:class:`typing.TypedDict` types created using the alternative call-style syntax now correctly respect the ``total`` keyword argument when setting their ``__required_keys__`` and ``__optional_keys__`` class attributes.
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-full ``platform_tag.extension`` format. Previously it was hard-coded to
-``.pyd``, now it is compatible with ``distutils.sysconfig`` and will result
-in something like ``.cp38-win_amd64.pyd``. This brings windows into
-conformance with the other platforms.
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-Restore compatibility for ``uname_result`` around deepcopy and _replace.
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-Fixed support of non-BMP characters in :mod:`tkinter` on macOS.
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-Fix pdb: previously pdb would fail to restart the debugging target if it was
-specified using a relative path and the current directory changed.
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-Make pdb populate sys.path[0] exactly the same as regular python execution.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-19-04-13-53.bpo-42375.U8bp4s.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-19-04-13-53.bpo-42375.U8bp4s.rst
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-subprocess module update for DragonFlyBSD support.
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-Fixed discrepancy between :mod:`traceback` and the interpreter in formatting of SyntaxError with lineno not set (:mod:`traceback` was changed to match interpreter).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-22-11-22-28.bpo-42388.LMgM6B.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-11-22-11-22-28.bpo-42388.LMgM6B.rst
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-Fix subprocess.check_output(..., input=None) behavior when text=True to be
-consistent with that of the documentation and universal_newlines=True.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-12-02-07-37-59.bpo-42532.ObNep_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-12-02-07-37-59.bpo-42532.ObNep_.rst
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-Remove unexpected call of ``__bool__`` when passing a ``spec_arg`` argument to a Mock.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-12-08-22-43-35.bpo-42678.ba9ktU.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-12-08-22-43-35.bpo-42678.ba9ktU.rst
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-`Enum`: call `__init_subclass__` after members have been added
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-Enum: private names will raise a DeprecationWarning; in 3.10 they will
-become normal attributes
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-Fixed lib2to3.pgen2 to be able to parse PEP-570 positional only argument
-syntax.
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-`logging.disable` will now validate the types and value of its parameter. It
-also now accepts strings representing the levels (as does `loging.setLevel`)
-instead of only the numerical values.
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-:mod:`tkinter` functions and constructors which need a default root window
-raise now :exc:`RuntimeError` with descriptive message instead of obscure
-:exc:`AttributeError` or :exc:`NameError` if it is not created yet or cannot
-be created automatically.
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-Fix crash in :func:`tracemalloc.Traceback.__repr__` (regressed in Python 3.9).
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-Fixed range checks for color and pair numbers in :mod:`curses`.
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-``EnumMeta.__prepare__`` now accepts ``**kwds`` to properly support
-``__init_subclass__``
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-:mod:`subprocess` *extra_groups* is now correctly passed into setgroups()
-system call.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-12-27-18-47-01.bpo-23328._xqepZ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-12-27-18-47-01.bpo-23328._xqepZ.rst
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-Allow / character in username, password fields on _PROXY envars.
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-Configure LMTP Unix-domain socket to use socket global default timeout when
-a timeout is not explicitly provided.
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-Fixed equality comparison of :class:`tkinter.Variable` and
-:class:`tkinter.font.Font`. Objects which belong to different Tcl
-interpreters are now always different, even if they have the same name.
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-Fix HTMLParser parsing rules for element attributes containing
-commas with spaces. Patch by Karl Dubost.
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-remove __init_subclass__ support for Enum members
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-Fix os.set_inheritable() for O_PATH file descriptors on Linux.
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-Add :func:`randbytes` to ``random.__all__``.
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-Fix ``random.Random.sample`` when ``counts`` argument is not ``None``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-02-02-20-23-31.bpo-43108.lqcCZ6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-02-02-20-23-31.bpo-43108.lqcCZ6.rst
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-Fixed a reference leak in the :mod:`curses` module. Patch by Pablo Galindo
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-The namedtuple __new__ method had its __builtins__ set to None instead
-of an actual dictionary. This created problems for introspection tools.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-01-18-09-27-31.bpo-42938.4Zn4Mp.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-01-18-09-27-31.bpo-42938.4Zn4Mp.rst
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-Avoid static buffers when computing the repr of :class:`ctypes.c_double` and
-:class:`ctypes.c_longdouble` values.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-02-14-15-59-16.bpo-42967.YApqDS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-02-14-15-59-16.bpo-42967.YApqDS.rst
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-Fix web cache poisoning vulnerability by defaulting the query args separator to ``&``, and allowing the user to choose a custom separator.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-05-30-10-56-38.bpo-40810.LPqDLQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-05-30-10-56-38.bpo-40810.LPqDLQ.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-In :mod:`sqlite3`, fix ``CheckTraceCallbackContent`` for SQLite pre 3.7.15.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2021-01-01-08-52-36.bpo-42794.-7-XGz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2021-01-01-08-52-36.bpo-42794.-7-XGz.rst
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-Update test_nntplib to use offical group name of news.aioe.org for testing.
-Patch by Dong-hee Na.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2020-12-16-09-10-32.bpo-42613.J-jnm5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2020-12-16-09-10-32.bpo-42613.J-jnm5.rst
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-Fix ``freeze.py`` tool to use the prope config and library directories.
-Patch by Victor Stinner.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2020-12-23-19-42-11.bpo-42726.a5EkTv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2020-12-23-19-42-11.bpo-42726.a5EkTv.rst
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-Fixed Python 3 compatibility issue with gdb/libpython.py handling of attribute
-dictionaries.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-12-07-11-40-52.bpo-42584.AsYnVX.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-12-07-11-40-52.bpo-42584.AsYnVX.rst
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-Upgrade Windows installer to use SQLite 3.34.0.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2021-01-05-20-36-40.bpo-41837.bmS7vB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2021-01-05-20-36-40.bpo-41837.bmS7vB.rst
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-Updated Windows installer to include OpenSSL 1.1.1i
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-12-07-11-37-35.bpo-42584.LygmqQ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2020-12-07-11-37-35.bpo-42584.LygmqQ.rst
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-Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.34.0.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2021-01-04-00-48-08.bpo-41837.dX-unJ.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2021-01-04-00-48-08.bpo-41837.dX-unJ.rst
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-Update macOS installer build to use OpenSSL 1.1.1i.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2021-01-04-01-17-17.bpo-42361.eolZAi.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2021-01-04-01-17-17.bpo-42361.eolZAi.rst
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-Update macOS installer build to use Tcl/Tk 8.6.11 (rc2, expected to be final
-release).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2021-01-26-14-36-11.bpo-42504.ZxWt71.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2021-01-26-14-36-11.bpo-42504.ZxWt71.rst
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-Ensure that the value of
-sysconfig.get_config_var('MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET') is always a string,
-even in when the value is parsable as an integer.
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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-This is Python version 3.9.1
-============================
+This is Python version 3.9.2rc1
+===============================
.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython.svg?branch=3.9
:alt: CPython build status on Travis CI