diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index 3d22616..2c3b5dd 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION	2
 #define PY_MICRO_VERSION	0
 #define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_ALPHA
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	1
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	2
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION		"2.2a1+"
+#define PY_VERSION		"2.2a2+"
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
    Use this for numeric comparisons, e.g. #if PY_VERSION_HEX >= ... */
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_os.py b/Lib/test/test_os.py
index 0ea9f78..9cddb5f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_os.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_os.py
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 import unittest
 import warnings
 
+warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "tempnam", RuntimeWarning, __name__)
+warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "tmpnam", RuntimeWarning, __name__)
+
 from test_support import TESTFN, run_unittest
 
 
diff --git a/Modules/Setup.dist b/Modules/Setup.dist
index e9c2a94..61afe8c 100644
--- a/Modules/Setup.dist
+++ b/Modules/Setup.dist
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@
 
 posix posixmodule.c		# posix (UNIX) system calls
 _sre _sre.c			# Fredrik Lundh's new regular expressions
+new newmodule.c			# Tommy Burnette's 'new' module
 
 # The rest of the modules listed in this file are all commented out by
 # default.  Usually they can be detected and built as dynamically
@@ -347,11 +348,6 @@
 #_curses_panel _curses_panel.c -lpanel -lncurses 
 
 
-# Tommy Burnette's 'new' module (creates new empty objects of certain kinds):
-
-#new newmodule.c
-
-
 # Generic (SunOS / SVR4) dynamic loading module.
 # This is not needed for dynamic loading of Python modules --
 # it is a highly experimental and dangerous device for calling
diff --git a/Objects/typeobject.c b/Objects/typeobject.c
index f2e6f4d..b64e10b 100644
--- a/Objects/typeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/typeobject.c
@@ -2091,29 +2091,52 @@
 static PyObject *
 tp_new_wrapper(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
 {
-	PyTypeObject *type, *subtype;
+	PyTypeObject *type, *subtype, *staticbase;
 	PyObject *arg0, *res;
 
 	if (self == NULL || !PyType_Check(self))
 		Py_FatalError("__new__() called with non-type 'self'");
 	type = (PyTypeObject *)self;
 	if (!PyTuple_Check(args) || PyTuple_GET_SIZE(args) < 1) {
-		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
-				"T.__new__(): not enough arguments");
+		PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
+			     "%s.__new__(): not enough arguments",
+			     type->tp_name);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 	arg0 = PyTuple_GET_ITEM(args, 0);
 	if (!PyType_Check(arg0)) {
-		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
-				"T.__new__(S): S is not a type object");
+		PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
+			     "%s.__new__(X): X is not a type object (%s)",
+			     type->tp_name,
+			     arg0->ob_type->tp_name);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 	subtype = (PyTypeObject *)arg0;
 	if (!PyType_IsSubtype(subtype, type)) {
-		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
-				"T.__new__(S): S is not a subtype of T");
+		PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
+			     "%s.__new__(%s): %s is not a subtype of %s",
+			     type->tp_name,
+			     subtype->tp_name,
+			     subtype->tp_name,
+			     type->tp_name);
 		return NULL;
 	}
+
+	/* Check that the use doesn't do something silly and unsafe like
+	   object.__new__(dictionary).  To do this, we check that the
+	   most derived base that's not a heap type is this type. */
+	staticbase = subtype;
+	while (staticbase && (staticbase->tp_flags & Py_TPFLAGS_HEAPTYPE))
+		staticbase = staticbase->tp_base;
+	if (staticbase != type) {
+		PyErr_Format(PyExc_TypeError,
+			     "%s.__new__(%s) is not safe, use %s.__new__()",
+			     type->tp_name,
+			     subtype->tp_name,
+			     staticbase == NULL ? "?" : staticbase->tp_name);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
 	args = PyTuple_GetSlice(args, 1, PyTuple_GET_SIZE(args));
 	if (args == NULL)
 		return NULL;
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b60b35e..88a70d3 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -269,10 +269,6 @@
         # (NIST's Secure Hash Algorithm.)
         exts.append( Extension('sha', ['shamodule.c']) )
 
-        # Tommy Burnette's 'new' module (creates new empty objects of certain
-        # kinds):
-        exts.append( Extension('new', ['newmodule.c']) )
-
         # Helper module for various ascii-encoders
         exts.append( Extension('binascii', ['binascii.c']) )