commit 6091cd61ce9d8343d405bdb3f09e80e8ac9447c8
author Steve Purcell <steve@pythonconsulting.com> Thu Sep 06 16:05:17 2001 +0000
committer Steve Purcell <steve@pythonconsulting.com> Thu Sep 06 16:05:17 2001 +0000
tree 10da70e94ecc04e0cc22157b9e7929b835c75914
parent 4d17b303bbdf1b405657f07428a1547698610ab1

Added note of unittest.py changes that fixed bug 451309

Misc/NEWS

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 52b2a1e..ceb1c06 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@
 - In restricted execution mode (using the rexec module), unmarshalling
   code objects is no longer allowed.  This plugs a security hole.
 
+- unittest.TestResult instances no longer store references to tracebacks
+  generated by test failures. This prevents unexpected dangling references
+  to objects that should be garbage collected between tests.
+
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