Log Message:
python311 py311-html-docs: updated to 3.11.8

Python 3.11.8 final

Security
gh-113659: Skip .pth files with names starting with a dot or hidden file attribute.
Core and Builtins
gh-114887: Changed socket type validation in create_datagram_endpoint() to \ 
accept all non-stream sockets. This fixes a regression in compatibility with raw \ 
sockets.

gh-114388: Fix a RuntimeWarning emitted when assign an integer-like value that \ 
is not an instance of int to an attribute that corresponds to a C struct member \ 
of type T_UINT and T_ULONG. Fix a double RuntimeWarning emitted when assign a \ 
negative integer value to an attribute that corresponds to a C struct member of \ 
type T_UINT.

gh-89811: Check for a valid tp_version_tag before performing bytecode \ 
specializations that rely on this value being usable.

gh-113602: Fix an error that was causing the parser to try to overwrite existing \ 
errors and crashing in the process. Patch by Pablo Galindo

gh-113566: Fix a 3.11-specific crash when the repr of a Future is requested \ 
after the module has already been garbage-collected.

gh-106905: Use per AST-parser state rather than global state to track recursion \ 
depth within the AST parser to prevent potential race condition due to \ 
simultaneous parsing.

The issue primarily showed up in 3.11 by multithreaded users of ast.parse(). In \ 
3.12 a change to when garbage collection can be triggered prevented the race \ 
condition from occurring.

gh-112716: Fix SystemError in the import statement and in __reduce__() methods \ 
of builtin types when __builtins__ is not a dict.

gh-105967: Workaround a bug in Apple’s macOS platform zlib library where \ 
zlib.crc32() and binascii.crc32() could produce incorrect results on \ 
multi-gigabyte inputs. Including when using zipfile on zips containing large \ 
data.

gh-94606: Fix UnicodeEncodeError when email.message.get_payload() reads a \ 
message with a Unicode surrogate character and the message content is not \ 
well-formed for surrogateescape encoding. Patch by Sidney Markowitz.
Library
gh-114965: Update bundled pip to 24.0
gh-114959: tarfile no longer ignores errors when trying to extract a directory \ 
on top of a file.
gh-109475: Fix support of explicit option value “–” in argparse (e.g. \ 
--option=--).
gh-110190: Fix ctypes structs with array on Windows ARM64 platform by setting \ 
MAX_STRUCT_SIZE to 32 in stgdict. Patch by Diego Russo
gh-113280: Fix a leak of open socket in rare cases when error occurred in \ 
ssl.SSLSocket creation.
gh-77749: email.policy.EmailPolicy.fold() now always encodes non-ASCII \ 
characters in headers if utf8 is false.
gh-114492: Make the result of termios.tcgetattr() reproducible on Alpine Linux. \ 
Previously it could leave a random garbage in some fields.
gh-75128: Ignore an OSError in asyncio.BaseEventLoop.create_server() when IPv6 \ 
is available but the interface cannot actually support it.
gh-114257: Dismiss the FileNotFound error in ctypes.util.find_library() and just \ 
return None on Linux.
gh-101438: Avoid reference cycle in ElementTree.iterparse. The iterator returned \ 
by ElementTree.iterparse may hold on to a file descriptor. The reference cycle \ 
prevented prompt clean-up of the file descriptor if the returned iterator was \ 
not exhausted.
gh-104522: OSError raised when run a subprocess now only has filename attribute \ 
set to cwd if the error was caused by a failed attempt to change the current \ 
directory.
gh-109534: Fix a reference leak in asyncio.selector_events.BaseSelectorEventLoop \ 
when SSL handshakes fail. Patch contributed by Jamie Phan.
gh-114077: Fix possible OverflowError in socket.socket.sendfile() when pass \ 
count larger than 2 GiB on 32-bit platform.
gh-114014: Fixed a bug in fractions.Fraction where an invalid string using d in \ 
the decimals part creates a different error compared to other invalid \ 
letters/characters. Patch by Jeremiah Gabriel Pascual.
gh-113951: Fix the behavior of tag_unbind() methods of tkinter.Text and \ 
tkinter.Canvas classes with three arguments. Previously, widget.tag_unbind(tag, \ 
sequence, funcid) destroyed the current binding for sequence, leaving sequence \ 
unbound, and deleted the funcid command. Now it removes only funcid from the \ 
binding for sequence, keeping other commands, and deletes the funcid command. It \ 
leaves sequence unbound only if funcid was the last bound command.
gh-113877: Fix tkinter method winfo_pathname() on 64-bit Windows.
gh-113781: Silence unraisable AttributeError when warnings are emitted during \ 
Python finalization.
gh-113594: Fix UnicodeEncodeError in email when re-fold lines that contain \ 
unknown-8bit encoded part followed by non-unknown-8bit encoded part.
gh-113538: In asyncio.StreamReaderProtocol.connection_made(), there is callback \ 
that logs an error if the task wrapping the “connected callback” fails. This \ 
callback would itself fail if the task was cancelled. Prevent this by checking \ 
whether the task was cancelled first. If so, close the transport but don’t log \ 
an error.
gh-85567: Fix resource warnings for unclosed files in pickle and pickletools \ 
command line interfaces.
gh-101225: Increase the backlog for multiprocessing.connection.Listener objects \ 
created by multiprocessing.manager and multiprocessing.resource_sharer to \ 
significantly reduce the risk of getting a connection refused error when \ 
creating a multiprocessing.connection.Connection to them.
gh-113543: Make sure that webbrowser.MacOSXOSAScript sends webbrowser.open audit \ 
event.
gh-113028: When a second reference to a string appears in the input to pickle, \ 
and the Python implementation is in use, we are guaranteed that a single copy \ 
gets pickled and a single object is shared when reloaded. Previously, in \ 
protocol 0, when a string contained certain characters (e.g. newline) it \ 
resulted in duplicate objects.
gh-113421: Fix multiprocessing logger for %(filename)s.
gh-113358: Fix rendering tracebacks for exceptions with a broken __getattr__.
gh-113214: Fix an AttributeError during asyncio SSL protocol aborts in \ 
SSL-over-SSL scenarios.
gh-113246: Update bundled pip to 23.3.2.
gh-113199: Make http.client.HTTPResponse.read1 and \ 
http.client.HTTPResponse.readline close IO after reading all data when content \ 
length is known. Patch by Illia Volochii.
gh-113188: Fix shutil.copymode() and shutil.copystat() on Windows. Previously \ 
they worked differenly if dst is a symbolic link: they modified the permission \ 
bits of dst itself rather than the file it points to if follow_symlinks is true \ 
or src is not a symbolic link, and did not modify the permission bits if \ 
follow_symlinks is false and src is a symbolic link.
gh-61648: Detect line numbers of properties in doctests.
gh-112559: signal.signal() and signal.getsignal() no longer call repr on \ 
callable handlers. asyncio.run() and asyncio.Runner.run() no longer call repr on \ 
the task results. Patch by Yilei Yang.
gh-110190: Fix ctypes structs with array on PPC64LE platform by setting \ 
MAX_STRUCT_SIZE to 64 in stgdict. Patch by Diego Russo.
gh-79429: Ignore FileNotFoundError when remove a temporary directory in the \ 
multiprocessing finalizer.
gh-79325: Fix an infinite recursion error in tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() \ 
cleanup on Windows.
gh-110190: Fix ctypes structs with array on Arm platform by setting \ 
MAX_STRUCT_SIZE to 32 in stgdict. Patch by Diego Russo.
gh-81194: Fix a crash in socket.if_indextoname() with specific value (UINT_MAX). \ 
Fix an integer overflow in socket.if_indextoname() on 64-bit non-Windows \ 
platforms.
gh-75666: Fix the behavior of tkinter widget’s unbind() method with two \ 
arguments. Previously, widget.unbind(sequence, funcid) destroyed the current \ 
binding for sequence, leaving sequence unbound, and deleted the funcid command. \ 
Now it removes only funcid from the binding for sequence, keeping other \ 
commands, and deletes the funcid command. It leaves sequence unbound only if \ 
funcid was the last bound command.
gh-110345: Show the Tcl/Tk patchlevel (rather than version) in tkinter._test().
gh-109858: Protect zipfile from “quoted-overlap” zipbomb. It now raises \ 
BadZipFile when try to read an entry that overlaps with other entry or central \ 
directory.
gh-38807: Fix race condition in trace. Instead of checking if a directory exists \ 
and creating it, directly call os.makedirs() with the kwarg exist_ok=True.
gh-75705: Set unixfrom envelope in mailbox.mbox and mailbox.MMDF.
gh-105102: Allow ctypes.Union to be nested in ctypes.Structure when the system \ 
endianness is the opposite of the classes.
gh-104282: Fix null pointer dereference in lzma._decode_filter_properties() due \ 
to improper handling of BCJ filters with properties of zero length. Patch by \ 
Radislav Chugunov.
gh-102512: When os.fork() is called from a foreign thread (aka _DummyThread), \ 
the type of the thread in a child process is changed to _MainThread. Also \ 
changed its name and daemonic status, it can be now joined.
gh-91133: Fix a bug in tempfile.TemporaryDirectory cleanup, which now no longer \ 
dereferences symlinks when working around file system permission errors.
bpo-43153: On Windows, tempfile.TemporaryDirectory previously masked a \ 
PermissionError with NotADirectoryError during directory cleanup. It now \ 
correctly raises PermissionError if errors are not ignored. Patch by Andrei \ 
Kulakov and Ken Jin.
bpo-35332: The shutil.rmtree() function now ignores errors when calling \ 
os.close() when ignore_errors is True, and os.close() no longer retried after \ 
error.
bpo-35928: io.TextIOWrapper now correctly handles the decoding buffer after \ 
read() and write().
bpo-26791: shutil.move() now moves a symlink into a directory when that \ 
directory is the target of the symlink. This provides the same behavior as the \ 
mv shell command. The previous behavior raised an exception. Patch by Jeffrey \ 
Kintscher.
bpo-36959: Fix some error messages for invalid ISO format string combinations in \ 
strptime() that referred to directives not contained in the format string. Patch \ 
by Gordon P. Hemsley.
bpo-18060: Fixed a class inheritance issue that can cause segfaults when \ 
deriving two or more levels of subclasses from a base class of Structure or \ 
Union.
Documentation
gh-110746: Improved markup for valid options/values for methods \ 
ttk.treeview.column and ttk.treeview.heading, and for Layouts.
gh-95649: Document that the asyncio module contains code taken from v0.16.0 of \ 
the uvloop project, as well as the required MIT licensing information.
Tests
gh-109980: Fix test_tarfile_vs_tar in test_shutil for macOS, where system tar \ 
can include more information in the archive than shutil.make_archive.
gh-112769: The tests now correctly compare zlib version when \ 
zlib.ZLIB_RUNTIME_VERSION contains non-integer suffixes. For example zlib-ng \ 
defines the version as 1.3.0.zlib-ng.
gh-105089: Fix \ 
test.test_zipfile.test_core.TestWithDirectory.test_create_directory_with_write \ 
test in AIX by doing a bitwise AND of 0xFFFF on mode , so that it will be in \ 
sync with zinfo.external_attr
bpo-40648: Test modes that file can get with chmod() on Windows.
Build
gh-101778: Fix build error when there’s a dangling symlink in the directory \ 
containing ffi.h.
gh-112305: Fixed the check-clean-src step performed on out of tree builds to \ 
detect errant $(srcdir)/Python/frozen_modules/*.h files and recommend \ 
appropriate source tree cleanup steps to get a working build again.
bpo-11102: The os.major(), os.makedev(), and os.minor() functions are now \ 
available on HP-UX v3.
bpo-36351: Do not set ipv6type when cross-compiling.
Windows
gh-109991: Update Windows build to use OpenSSL 3.0.13.
gh-111239: Update Windows builds to use zlib v1.3.1.
gh-100107: The py.exe launcher will no longer attempt to run the Microsoft Store \ 
redirector when launching a script containing a /usr/bin/env shebang
gh-114096: Process privileges that are activated for creating directory \ 
junctions are now restored afterwards, avoiding behaviour changes in other parts \ 
of the program.
gh-113009: multiprocessing: On Windows, fix a race condition in \ 
Process.terminate(): no longer set the returncode attribute to always call \ 
WaitForSingleObject() in Process.wait(). Previously, sometimes the process was \ 
still running after TerminateProcess() even if GetExitCodeProcess() is not \ 
STILL_ACTIVE. Patch by Victor Stinner.
gh-87868: Correctly sort and remove duplicate environment variables in \ 
_winapi.CreateProcess().
bpo-37308: Fix mojibake in mmap.mmap when using a non-ASCII tagname argument on \ 
Windows.
macOS
gh-115009: Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.45.1.
gh-109991: Update macOS installer to use OpenSSL 3.0.13.
gh-74573: Document that dbm.ndbm can silently corrupt DBM files on updates when \ 
exceeding undocumented platform limits, and can crash (segmentation fault) when \ 
reading such a corrupted file. (FB8919203)
gh-65701: The freeze tool doesn’t work with framework builds of Python. \ 
Document this and bail out early when running the tool with such a build.
gh-102362: Make sure the result of sysconfig.get_plaform() includes at least a \ 
major and minor versions, even if MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is set to only a \ 
major version during build to match the format expected by pip.
gh-110017: Disable a signal handling stress test on macOS due to a bug in macOS \ 
(FB13453490).
gh-109981: Use /dev/fd on macOS to determine the number of open files in \ 
test.support.os_helper.fd_count to avoid a crash with “guarded” file \ 
descriptors when probing for open files.
IDLE
gh-96905: In idlelib code, stop redefining built-ins ‘dict’ and ‘object’.
gh-72284: Improve the lists of features, editor key bindings, and shell key \ 
bingings in the IDLE doc.
gh-113903: Fix rare failure of test.test_idle, in test_configdialog.
gh-113729: Fix the “Help -> IDLE Doc” menu bug in 3.11.7 and 3.12.1.
gh-113269: Fix test_editor hang on macOS Catalina.
gh-112898: Fix processing unsaved files when quitting IDLE on macOS.
gh-103820: Revise IDLE bindings so that events from mouse button 4/5 on non-X11 \ 
windowing systems (i.e. Win32 and Aqua) are not mistaken for scrolling.
bpo-13586: Enter the selected text when opening the “Replace” dialog.
Tools/Demos
gh-109991: Update GitHub CI workflows to use OpenSSL 3.0.13 and multissltests to \ 
use 1.1.1w, 3.0.13, 3.1.5, and 3.2.1.
gh-115015: Fix a bug in Argument Clinic that generated incorrect code for \ 
methods with no parameters that use the METH_METHOD | METH_FASTCALL | \ 
METH_KEYWORDS calling convention. Only the positional parameter count was \ 
checked; any keyword argument passed would be silently accepted.