Issue #15061: Don't oversell the capabilities of the new non-shortcircuiting comparison function in hmac
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Library
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+- Issue #15061: The inappropriately named hmac.secure_compare has been
+ renamed to hash.compare_digest, restricted to operating on bytes inputs
+ only and had its documentation updated to more acurrately reflect both its
+ intent and its limitations
+
- Issue #13841: Make child processes exit using sys.exit() on Windows.
- Issue #14936: curses_panel was converted to PEP 3121 and PEP 384 API.