Commit 87857e67 authored by Nick Coghlan's avatar Nick Coghlan

Update PEP 466 What's New in 2.7 section

parent dafe6168
...@@ -2547,13 +2547,23 @@ with the first of those changes appearing in the Python 2.7.7 release. ...@@ -2547,13 +2547,23 @@ with the first of those changes appearing in the Python 2.7.7 release.
:pep:`466` related features added in Python 2.7.7: :pep:`466` related features added in Python 2.7.7:
* :func:`hmac.compare_digest` was added to make a timing attack resistant * :func:`hmac.compare_digest` was backported from Python 3 to make a timing
comparison operation broadly available to Python 2 applications attack resistant comparison operation broadly available to Python 2
(backported by Alex Gaynor in :issue:`21306`) applications (backported by Alex Gaynor in :issue:`21306`)
* the version of OpenSSL linked with the prebuilt Windows installers * upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1g for the prebuilt Windows installers published
published on python.org was updated to 1.0.1g (contributed by on python.org (contributed by Zachary Ware in :issue:`21462`)
Zachary Ware in :issue:`21462`)
:pep:`466` related features added in Python 2.7.8:
* :func:`hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac` was backported from Python 3 to make a hashing
algorithm suitable for secure password storage broadly available to Python
2 applications (backported by Alex Gaynor in :issue:`21304`)
* upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1h for the prebuilt Windows installers published
on python.org (contributed by Zachary Ware in :issue:`21671` for
CVE-2014-0224)
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