News about zlib-1.1.4.

fbf74f2a · Tim Peters · dc8d4071 · fbf74f2a
Commit fbf74f2a authored Mar 14, 2002 by Tim Peters
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+- A security hole ("double free") was found in zlib-1.1.3, a popular
+  third party compression library used by some Python modules.  The
+  hole was quickly plugged in zlib-1.1.4, and the Windows build of
+  Python now ships with zlib-1.1.4.
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 - pwd and grp return enhanced tuples now, with symbolic field names.

 - array.array is now a type object. A new format character