the usual

Misc/ACKS

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Without you I would've stopped working on Python long ago!
 	--Guido
 
 Mark Anacker
+Stig Bakken
 Ulf Bartelt
 Anthony Baxter
 Donald Beaudry
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ Stephen Bevan
 Jurjen Bos
 Peter Bosch
 Eric Bouck
+Monty Brandenberg
 Terrence Brannon
 Dave Brennan
 Erik de Bueger
@@ -30,6 +32,7 @@ Steve Clift
 Matt Conway
 Tom Culliton
 John Cugini
+Eric Daniel
 Jonathan Dasteel
 John DeGood
 Roger Dev
@@ -50,6 +53,7 @@ Barry Hantman
 Lynda Hardman
 Rycharde Hawkes
 Ivan Herman
+Kevan Heydon
 David Hobley
 Chris Hoffman
 Philip Homburg
@@ -63,6 +67,7 @@ Lou Kates
 Steve Kirsch
 Bob Kras
 Andrew Kuchling
+Soren Larsen
 William Lewis
 Robert van Liere
 Anne Lord
@@ -87,6 +92,7 @@ Tim Peters
 Adrian Phillips
 Amrit Prem
 John Redford
+Steven Reiz
 Timothy Roscoe
 Jim Roskind
 Kevin Samborn
@@ -104,6 +110,7 @@ Jim St. Pierre
 Quentin Stafford-Fraser
 Richard Stoakley
 Casper Stoel
+Ken Stox
 Tracy Tims
 R Lindsay Todd
 Bennett Todd
@@ -116,4 +123,5 @@ Steve Waterbury
 Bob Watson
 Rickard Westman
 Dik Winter
+hajime@jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
 tim@prl.philips.nl

Misc/NEWS

@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
 ===================================
 
 
-- Most known bugs have been fixed.  For example the pow(2,2,3L) bug on
-Linux has been fixed.  Also the re-entrancy problems with __del__ have
-been fixed.
+- Virtually all known bugs have been fixed.  For example the
+pow(2,2,3L) bug on Linux has been fixed.  Also the re-entrancy
+problems with __del__ have been fixed.
 
 - Most known memory leaks have been fixed.
 
@@ -63,6 +63,52 @@ shortly, plus instructions on how to compile with THINK C 6.0.)
 - Used autoconf 2.0 to generate the configure script.  Adapted
 configure.in to use the new features in autoconf 2.0.
 
+- It should now build on the NeXT without intervention, even on the
+3.3 Sparc pre-release.
+
+- __import__ is now called with 4 arguments:
+(modulename, globals, locals, fromlist)
+
+- Characters passed to isspace() and friends are masked to nonnegative
+values
+
+- Correctly compute pow(-3.0, 3)
+
+- Fix portability problems with getopt (configure now checks for a
+non-GNU getopt)
+
+- Don't add frozenmain.o to libPython.a
+
+- Exceptions can now be classes
+
+- The socket module exports a long list of socket related symbols
+
+- Lots of Mac specific changes (this area of the source is not
+completed!)
+
+- When a module object is deleted, it clears out its own dictionary
+(this fixes a circularity in the references between functions and
+their global dictionary)
+
+- Changed the error handling by [new]getargs() e.g. for "O&"
+
+- Dynamic loading of modules using shared libraries is supported for
+several new platforms
+
+- Support "O&" in mkvalue()
+
+- Extension to findmethod(): findmethodinchain() (where a chain is a
+linked list of methodlist arrays)
+
+- Callable() function is now public
+
+
+Known bugs still remaining:
+---------------------------
+
+- There's still a memory leak in threads; bigger when
+thread.exit_thread() is used
+
 
 --Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>
 URL:  <http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/people/Guido.van.Rossum.html>