Author: mattip <matti.pi...@gmail.com>
Branch: release-2.5.x
Changeset: r76561:5df58d7d9850
Date: 2015-03-25 20:25 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/5df58d7d9850/
Log: extend the description of stdlib 2.7.9 by quoting cpython's release
notice
diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-2.5.1.rst b/pypy/doc/release-2.5.1.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/release-2.5.1.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/release-2.5.1.rst
@@ -67,7 +67,19 @@
`PyPy documentation`_ and we now have seperate `RPython documentation`_.
Tell us what still isn't clear, or even better help us improve the
documentation.
-* We merged version 2.7.9 of python's stdlib
+* We merged version 2.7.9 of python's stdlib. From the python release notice:
+
+ * The entirety of Python 3.4's `ssl module`_ has been backported.
+ See `PEP 466`_ for justification.
+
+ * HTTPS certificate validation using the system's certificate store is now
+ enabled by default. See `PEP 476`_ for details.
+
+ * SSLv3 has been disabled by default in httplib and its reverse dependencies
+ due to the `POODLE attack`_.
+
+ * The `ensurepip module`_ has been backported, which provides the pip
+ package manager in every Python 2.7 installation. See `PEP 477`_.
* The garbage collector now ignores parts of the stack which did not change
since the last collection, another performance boost
@@ -84,6 +96,12 @@
.. _`PyPy documentation`: http://doc.pypy.org
.. _`RPython documentation`: http://rpython.readthedocs.org
+.. _`ssl module`: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ssl.html
+.. _`PEP 466`: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0466
+.. _`PEP 476`: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0476
+.. _`PEP 477`: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0477
+.. _`POODLE attack`: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/10/14/poodle.html
+.. _`ensurepip module`: https://docs.python.org/2/library/ensurepip.html
.. _resolved: http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/whatsnew-2.5.1.html
Please try it out and let us know what you think. We welcome
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