make NEWS for 2.7.15rc1

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/008.bpo-28768.b9_a6E.rst

-Fix implicit declaration of function _setmode. Patch by Masayuki Yamamoto

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/009.bpo-29572.iZ1XKK.rst

-Update Windows build and OS X installers to use OpenSSL 1.0.2k.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/010.bpo-29643.4DrjEB.rst

-Fix ``--enable-optimization`` configure option didn't work.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/011.bpo-27593.v87xEr.rst

-sys.version and the platform module python_build(), python_branch(), and
-python_revision() functions now use git information rather than hg when
-building from a repo.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/012.bpo-23404.PdYVWg.rst

-Don't regenerate generated files based on file modification time anymore:
-the action is now explicit. Replace ``make touch`` with ``make regen-all``.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/013.bpo-29243.WDK4hT.rst

-Prevent unnecessary rebuilding of Python during ``make test``, ``make
-install`` and some other make targets when configured with ``--enable-
-optimizations``.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2017-09-14-19-38-19.bpo-31474.0s_mpD.rst

-Fix -Wint-in-bool-context warnings in PyMem_MALLOC and PyMem_REALLOC macros

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2017-11-03-15-17-50.bpo-31934.8bUlpv.rst

-Abort the build when building out of a not clean source tree.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-01-23-15-33-40.bpo-32635.qHwIZy.rst

-Fix segfault of the crypt module when libxcrypt is provided instead of
-libcrypt at the system.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-02-07-11-24-38.bpo-32616.o7mFJ3.rst

-Disable computed gotos by default for clang < 5.0. It caused significant
-performance regression.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2018-03-28-04-15-03.bpo-33163.hfpWuU.rst

-Upgrade pip to 9.0.3 and setuptools to v39.0.1.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2017-11-07-11-59-44.bpo-31626.LP-CoD.rst

-When Python is built in debug mode, the memory debug hooks now fail with a
-fatal error if realloc() fails to shrink a memory block, because the debug
-hook just erased freed bytes without keeping a copy of them.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2017-11-30-18-13-45.bpo-20891.wBnMdF.rst

-Fix PyGILState_Ensure(). When PyGILState_Ensure() is called in a non-Python
-thread before PyEval_InitThreads(), only call PyEval_InitThreads() after
-calling PyThreadState_New() to fix a crash.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/063.bpo-28932.QnLx8A.rst

-Do not include <sys/random.h> if it does not exist.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/064.bpo-29145.2x5NOb.rst

-Fix overflow checks in string, bytearray and unicode. Patch by jan matejek
-and Xiang Zhang.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/065.bpo-29028.BxGcd9.rst

-Fixed possible use-after-free bugs in the subscription of the buffer object
-with custom index object.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/066.bpo-14376.xrKNqX.rst

-Allow sys.exit to accept longs as well as ints. Patch by Gareth Rees.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/067.bpo-29347.1RPPGN.rst

-Fixed possibly dereferencing undefined pointers when creating weakref
-objects.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/068.bpo-29602.qyyskC.rst

-Fix incorrect handling of signed zeros in complex constructor for complex
-subclasses and for inputs having a __complex__ method. Patch by Serhiy
-Storchaka.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/069.bpo-28598.QxbzQn.rst

-Support __rmod__ for subclasses of str being called before str.__mod__.
-Patch by Martijn Pieters.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/070.bpo-29935.2ZTSxR.rst

-Fixed error messages in the index() method of tuple and list when pass
-indices of wrong type.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/071.bpo-25794.j0nJ5x.rst

-Fixed type.__setattr__() and type.__delattr__() for non-interned or unicode
-attribute names.  Based on patch by Eryk Sun.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/072.bpo-27945.p29r3O.rst

-Fixed various segfaults with dict when input collections are mutated during
-searching, inserting or comparing.  Based on patches by Duane Griffin and
-Tim Mitchell.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/073.bpo-30657.Q_r7JJ.rst

-Fixed possible integer overflow in PyString_DecodeEscape. Patch by Jay
-Bosamiya.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-08-01-18-48-30.bpo-31095.bXWZDb.rst

-Fix potential crash during GC caused by ``tp_dealloc`` which doesn't call
-``PyObject_GC_UnTrack()``.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-08-29-14-24-34.bpo-31243.tr0E4V.rst

-Fix a crash in some methods of `io.TextIOWrapper`, when the decoder's state
-is invalid. Patch by Oren Milman.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-08-31-17-52-56.bpo-31311.bNE2l-.rst

-Fix a crash in the ``__setstate__()`` method of `ctypes._CData`, in case of
-a bad ``__dict__``. Patch by Oren Milman.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-09-04-14-57-27.bpo-31343.Kl_fS5.rst

-Include sys/sysmacros.h for major(), minor(), and makedev(). GNU C libray
-plans to remove the functions from sys/types.h.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-09-11-08-50-41.bpo-31411.HZz82I.rst

-Raise a TypeError instead of SystemError in case warnings.onceregistry is
-not a dictionary. Patch by Oren Milman.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-09-16-13-32-35.bpo-31490.r7m2sj.rst

-Fix an assertion failure in `ctypes` class definition, in case the class has
-an attribute whose name is specified in ``_anonymous_`` but not in
-``_fields_``. Patch by Oren Milman.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-09-20-18-28-09.bpo-31530.CdLOM7.rst

-Fixed crashes when iterating over a file on multiple threads.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-10-01-18-59-40.bpo-31478.owtqoO.rst

-Prevent unwanted behavior in `_random.Random.seed()` in case the argument
-has a bad ``__abs__()`` method. Patch by Oren Milman.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-10-09-11-03-13.bpo-31692.5-bpdk.rst

-Add a new PYTHONSHOWALLOCCOUNT environment variable. When Python is compiled
-with COUNT_ALLOCS, PYTHONSHOWALLOCCOUNT now has to be set to dump allocation
-counts into stderr on shutdown. Moreover, allocations statistics are now dumped
-into stderr rather than stdout.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-10-09-15-46-37.bpo-31733.pIf17N.rst

-Add a new PYTHONSHOWREFCOUNT environment variable. In debug mode, Python now
-only print the total reference count if PYTHONSHOWREFCOUNT is set.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-10-28-19-11-05.bpo-20047.GuNAto.rst

-Bytearray methods partition() and rpartition() now accept only bytes-like
-objects as separator, as documented.  In particular they now raise TypeError
-rather of returning a bogus result when an integer is passed as a separator.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-11-26-14-36-30.bpo-32137.Stj5nL.rst

-The repr of deeply nested dict now raises a RecursionError instead of
-crashing due to a stack overflow.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-11-27-08-37-34.bpo-10544.07nioT.rst

-Yield expressions are now deprecated in comprehensions and generator
-expressions when checking Python 3 compatibility. They are still
-permitted in the definition of the outermost iterable, as that is
-evaluated directly in the enclosing scope.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2017-12-13-16-46-23.bpo-18533.Dlk8d7.rst

-``repr()`` on a dict containing its own ``viewvalues()`` or
-``viewitems()`` no longer raises ``RuntimeError``.  Instead, use
-``...``, as for other recursive structures.  Patch by Ben North.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-02-27-13-36-21.bpo-17288.Gdj24S.rst

-Prevent jumps from 'return' and 'exception' trace events.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2018-03-08-09-48-38.bpo-33026.QZA3Ba.rst

-Fixed jumping out of "with" block by setting f_lineno.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/014.bpo-12067.8RbyOz.rst

-Rewrite Comparisons section in the Expressions chapter of the language
-reference. Some of the details of comparing mixed types were incorrect or
-ambiguous. Added default behaviour and consistency suggestions for user-
-defined classes. Based on patch from Andy Maier.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/015.bpo-26355.SDq_8Y.rst

-Add canonical header link on each page to corresponding major version of the
-documentation. Patch by Matthias Bussonnier.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/016.bpo-28929.Md7kb0.rst

-Link the documentation to its source file on GitHub.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/017.bpo-30176.VivmCg.rst

-Add missing attribute related constants in curses documentation.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2017-09-06-10-11-57.bpo-21649.EUvqA9.rst

-Add RFC 7525 and Mozilla server side TLS links to SSL documentation.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-01-13-20-30-53.bpo-8243.s98r28.rst

-Add a note about curses.addch and curses.addstr exception behavior when
-writing outside a window, or pad.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-01-22-21-13-46.bpo-17799.rdZ-Vk.rst

-Explain real behaviour of sys.settrace and sys.setprofile and their C-API counterparts
-regarding which type of events are received in each function. Patch by Pablo Galindo Salgado.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-02-10-15-16-04.bpo-32800.FyrqCk.rst

-Update link to w3c doc for xml default namespaces.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2018-03-22-19-23-04.bpo-27212.wrE5KR.rst

-Modify documentation for the :func:`islice` recipe to consume initial values
-up to the start index.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/018.bpo-28925.9zLygi.rst

-cPickle now correctly propagates errors when unpickle instances of old-style
-classes.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/019.bpo-19542.5tCkaK.rst

-Fix bugs in WeakValueDictionary.setdefault() and WeakValueDictionary.pop()
-when a GC collection happens in another thread.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/020.bpo-29019.MO2AeR.rst

-Fix dict.fromkeys(x) overallocates when x is sparce dict. Original patch by
-Rasmus Villemoes.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/021.bpo-28923._hrXiL.rst

-Remove editor artifacts from Tix.py, including encoding not recognized by
-codecs.lookup.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/022.bpo-28998.NfBgmb.rst

-More APIs now support longs as well as ints.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/023.bpo-28427.vUd-va.rst

-old keys should not remove new values from WeakValueDictionary when
-collecting from another thread.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/024.bpo-9770.WJJnwP.rst

-curses.ascii predicates now work correctly with negative integers.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/025.bpo-13051.YzC1Te.rst

-Fixed recursion errors in large or resized curses.textpad.Textbox.  Based on
-patch by Tycho Andersen.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/026.bpo-29142._FTyvm.rst

-In urllib, suffixes in no_proxy environment variable with leading dots could
-match related hostnames again (e.g. .b.c matches a.b.c). Patch by Milan
-Oberkirch.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/027.bpo-29188.RI3v1Q.rst

-Support glibc 2.24 on Linux: don't use getentropy() function but read from
-/dev/urandom to get random bytes, for example in os.urandom(). On Linux,
-getentropy() is implemented which getrandom() is blocking mode, whereas
-os.urandom() should not block.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/028.bpo-29082.D5Xs7F.rst

-Fixed loading libraries in ctypes by unicode names on Windows. Original
-patch by Chi Hsuan Yen.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/029.bpo-29219.kxui7t.rst

-Fixed infinite recursion in the repr of uninitialized ctypes.CDLL instances.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/030.bpo-29335._KC7IK.rst

-Fix subprocess.Popen.wait() when the child process has exited to a stopped
-instead of terminated state (ex: when under ptrace).

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/031.bpo-29354.TH2vMX.rst

-Fixed inspect.getargs() for parameters which are cell variables.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/032.bpo-29110.IBWuZ2.rst

-Fix file object leak in aifc.open() when file is given as a filesystem path
-and is not in valid AIFF format. Original patch by Anthony Zhang.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/033.bpo-27880.elFFAF.rst

-Fixed integer overflow in cPickle when pickle large strings or too many
-objects.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/034.bpo-29861.t2ZoRK.rst

-Release references to tasks, their arguments and their results as soon as
-they are finished in multiprocessing.Pool.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/035.bpo-29942.CsGNuT.rst

-Fix a crash in itertools.chain.from_iterable when encountering long runs of
-empty iterables.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/036.bpo-27863.pPYHHI.rst

-Fixed multiple crashes in ElementTree caused by race conditions and wrong
-types.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/037.bpo-30068.n4q47r.rst

-_io._IOBase.readlines will check if it's closed first when hint is present.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/038.bpo-30011.2MLfQj.rst

-Fixed race condition in HTMLParser.unescape().

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/039.bpo-30061.ilxNPt.rst

-Fixed crashes in IOBase methods next() and readlines() when readline() or
-next() respectively return non-sizeable object. Fixed possible other errors
-caused by not checking results of PyObject_Size(), PySequence_Size(), or
-PyMapping_Size().

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/040.bpo-30070.XM_B41.rst

-Fixed leaks and crashes in errors handling in the parser module.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/041.bpo-26293.wig0YG.rst

-Change resulted because of zipfile breakage. (See also: bpo-29094)

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/042.bpo-30243.RHQt0v.rst

-Removed the __init__ methods of _json's scanner and encoder. Misusing them
-could cause memory leaks or crashes.  Now scanner and encoder objects are
-completely initialized in the __new__ methods.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/043.bpo-29990.HWV6KE.rst

-Fix range checking in GB18030 decoder.  Original patch by Ma Lin.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/044.bpo-30342.87Qgur.rst

-Fix sysconfig.is_python_build() if Python is built with Visual Studio 2008
-(VS 9.0).

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/045.bpo-30329.Yb1MTr.rst

-imaplib now catchs the Windows socket WSAEINVAL error (code 10022) on
-shutdown(SHUT_RDWR): An invalid operation was attempted. This error occurs
-sometimes on SSL connections.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/046.bpo-30365.XVP7_M.rst

-Fixed a deprecation warning about the doctype() method of the
-xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLParser class.  Now it is emitted only when define
-the doctype() method in the subclass of XMLParser.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/047.bpo-30365.eDwdmC.rst

-Running Python with the -3 option now emits deprecation warnings for
-getchildren() and getiterator() methods of the Element class in the
-xml.etree.cElementTree module and when pass the html argument to
-xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLParser().

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/048.bpo-30363.l6J41Y.rst

-Running Python with the -3 option now warns about regular expression syntax
-that is invalid or has different semantic in Python 3 or will change the
-behavior in future Python versions.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/049.bpo-30375.9c8qM7.rst

-Warnings emitted when compile a regular expression now always point to the
-line in the user code.  Previously they could point into inners of the re
-module if emitted from inside of groups or conditionals.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/050.bpo-30003.BOl9HE.rst

-Fix handling escape characters in HZ codec.  Based on patch by Ma Lin.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/051.bpo-30414.jGl1Lb.rst

-multiprocessing.Queue._feed background running thread do not break from main
-loop on exception.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/052.bpo-30310.SAkE6e.rst

-tkFont now supports unicode options (e.g. font family).

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/053.bpo-29960.g0wr3r.rst

-Preserve generator state when _random.Random.setstate() raises an exception.
-Patch by Bryan Olson.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/054.bpo-30378.R_19_5.rst

-Fix the problem that logging.handlers.SysLogHandler cannot handle IPv6
-addresses.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/055.bpo-30418.EwISQm.rst

-On Windows, subprocess.Popen.communicate() now also ignore EINVAL on
-stdin.write() if the child process is still running but closed the pipe.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/056.bpo-28994.9vzun1.rst

-The traceback no longer displayed for SystemExit raised in a callback
-registered by atexit.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/061.bpo-30746.7drQI0.rst

-Prohibited the '=' character in environment variable names in
-``os.putenv()`` and ``os.spawn*()``.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/062.bpo-29169.8ypApm.rst

-Update zlib to 1.2.11.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-07-17-11-35-00.bpo-25684.usELVx.rst

-Change ``ttk.OptionMenu`` radiobuttons to be unique across instances of
-``OptionMenu``.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-07-27-11-33-58.bpo-30502.GJlfU8.rst

-Fix handling of long oids in ssl.  Based on patch by Christian Heimes.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-08-16-21-14-31.bpo-30102.1sPqmc.rst

-The ssl and hashlib modules now call OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms_noconf() on
-OpenSSL < 1.1.0. The function detects CPU features and enables optimizations
-on some CPU architectures such as POWER8. Patch is based on research from
-Gustavo Serra Scalet.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-08-28-13-01-05.bpo-10746.nmAvfu.rst

-Fix ctypes producing wrong PEP 3118 type codes for integer types.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-04-00-22-31.bpo-31334.9WYRfi.rst

-Fix ``poll.poll([timeout])`` in the ``select`` module for arbitrary negative
-timeouts on all OSes where it can only be a non-negative integer or -1.
-Patch by Riccardo Coccioli.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-04-16-39-49.bpo-29136.vSn1oR.rst

-Add TLS 1.3 cipher suites and OP_NO_TLSv1_3.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-04-23-41-35.bpo-31170.QGmJ1t.rst

-expat: Update libexpat from 2.2.3 to 2.2.4. Fix copying of partial
-characters for UTF-8 input (libexpat bug 115):
-https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/issues/115

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-05-10-55-50.bpo-27448.QdAqzZ.rst

-Work around a `gc.disable()` race condition in the `subprocess` module that
-could leave garbage collection disabled when multiple threads are spawning
-subprocesses at once.  Users are *strongly encouraged* to use the
-`subprocess32` module from PyPI on Python 2.7 instead, it is much more
-reliable.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-09-06-19-41-01.bpo-28958.x4-K5F.rst

-ssl.SSLContext() now uses OpenSSL error information when a context cannot be
-instantiated.