diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index 503d3aa..a40ef82 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
 /*--start constants--*/
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION        3
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION        8
-#define PY_MICRO_VERSION        1
-#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       0
+#define PY_MICRO_VERSION        2
+#define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_GAMMA
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       1
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION              "3.8.1+"
+#define PY_VERSION              "3.8.2rc1"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
index 9d779d1..b9e7417 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Wed Dec 18 18:17:58 2019
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Mon Feb 10 19:25:27 2020
 topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
            '\n'
@@ -470,24 +470,25 @@
           'The following code:\n'
           '\n'
           '   async for TARGET in ITER:\n'
-          '       BLOCK\n'
+          '       SUITE\n'
           '   else:\n'
-          '       BLOCK2\n'
+          '       SUITE2\n'
           '\n'
           'Is semantically equivalent to:\n'
           '\n'
           '   iter = (ITER)\n'
           '   iter = type(iter).__aiter__(iter)\n'
           '   running = True\n'
+          '\n'
           '   while running:\n'
           '       try:\n'
           '           TARGET = await type(iter).__anext__(iter)\n'
           '       except StopAsyncIteration:\n'
           '           running = False\n'
           '       else:\n'
-          '           BLOCK\n'
+          '           SUITE\n'
           '   else:\n'
-          '       BLOCK2\n'
+          '       SUITE2\n'
           '\n'
           'See also "__aiter__()" and "__anext__()" for details.\n'
           '\n'
@@ -507,23 +508,27 @@
           '\n'
           'The following code:\n'
           '\n'
-          '   async with EXPR as VAR:\n'
-          '       BLOCK\n'
+          '   async with EXPRESSION as TARGET:\n'
+          '       SUITE\n'
           '\n'
-          'Is semantically equivalent to:\n'
+          'is semantically equivalent to:\n'
           '\n'
-          '   mgr = (EXPR)\n'
-          '   aexit = type(mgr).__aexit__\n'
-          '   aenter = type(mgr).__aenter__(mgr)\n'
+          '   manager = (EXPRESSION)\n'
+          '   aexit = type(manager).__aexit__\n'
+          '   aenter = type(manager).__aenter__\n'
+          '   value = await aenter(manager)\n'
+          '   hit_except = False\n'
           '\n'
-          '   VAR = await aenter\n'
           '   try:\n'
-          '       BLOCK\n'
+          '       TARGET = value\n'
+          '       SUITE\n'
           '   except:\n'
-          '       if not await aexit(mgr, *sys.exc_info()):\n'
+          '       hit_except = True\n'
+          '       if not await aexit(manager, *sys.exc_info()):\n'
           '           raise\n'
-          '   else:\n'
-          '       await aexit(mgr, None, None, None)\n'
+          '   finally:\n'
+          '       if not hit_except:\n'
+          '           await aexit(manager, None, None, None)\n'
           '\n'
           'See also "__aenter__()" and "__aexit__()" for details.\n'
           '\n'
@@ -2518,11 +2523,13 @@
              '"with_item")\n'
              '   is evaluated to obtain a context manager.\n'
              '\n'
-             '2. The context manager’s "__exit__()" is loaded for later use.\n'
+             '2. The context manager’s "__enter__()" is loaded for later use.\n'
              '\n'
-             '3. The context manager’s "__enter__()" method is invoked.\n'
+             '3. The context manager’s "__exit__()" is loaded for later use.\n'
              '\n'
-             '4. If a target was included in the "with" statement, the return\n'
+             '4. The context manager’s "__enter__()" method is invoked.\n'
+             '\n'
+             '5. If a target was included in the "with" statement, the return\n'
              '   value from "__enter__()" is assigned to it.\n'
              '\n'
              '   Note: The "with" statement guarantees that if the '
@@ -2535,9 +2542,9 @@
              'occurring\n'
              '     within the suite would be. See step 6 below.\n'
              '\n'
-             '5. The suite is executed.\n'
+             '6. The suite is executed.\n'
              '\n'
-             '6. The context manager’s "__exit__()" method is invoked.  If an\n'
+             '7. The context manager’s "__exit__()" method is invoked.  If an\n'
              '   exception caused the suite to be exited, its type, value, '
              'and\n'
              '   traceback are passed as arguments to "__exit__()". Otherwise, '
@@ -2559,18 +2566,42 @@
              'proceeds\n'
              '   at the normal location for the kind of exit that was taken.\n'
              '\n'
+             'The following code:\n'
+             '\n'
+             '   with EXPRESSION as TARGET:\n'
+             '       SUITE\n'
+             '\n'
+             'is semantically equivalent to:\n'
+             '\n'
+             '   manager = (EXPRESSION)\n'
+             '   enter = type(manager).__enter__\n'
+             '   exit = type(manager).__exit__\n'
+             '   value = enter(manager)\n'
+             '   hit_except = False\n'
+             '\n'
+             '   try:\n'
+             '       TARGET = value\n'
+             '       SUITE\n'
+             '   except:\n'
+             '       hit_except = True\n'
+             '       if not exit(manager, *sys.exc_info()):\n'
+             '           raise\n'
+             '   finally:\n'
+             '       if not hit_except:\n'
+             '           exit(manager, None, None, None)\n'
+             '\n'
              'With more than one item, the context managers are processed as '
              'if\n'
              'multiple "with" statements were nested:\n'
              '\n'
              '   with A() as a, B() as b:\n'
-             '       suite\n'
+             '       SUITE\n'
              '\n'
-             'is equivalent to\n'
+             'is semantically equivalent to:\n'
              '\n'
              '   with A() as a:\n'
              '       with B() as b:\n'
-             '           suite\n'
+             '           SUITE\n'
              '\n'
              'Changed in version 3.1: Support for multiple context '
              'expressions.\n'
@@ -2934,24 +2965,25 @@
              'The following code:\n'
              '\n'
              '   async for TARGET in ITER:\n'
-             '       BLOCK\n'
+             '       SUITE\n'
              '   else:\n'
-             '       BLOCK2\n'
+             '       SUITE2\n'
              '\n'
              'Is semantically equivalent to:\n'
              '\n'
              '   iter = (ITER)\n'
              '   iter = type(iter).__aiter__(iter)\n'
              '   running = True\n'
+             '\n'
              '   while running:\n'
              '       try:\n'
              '           TARGET = await type(iter).__anext__(iter)\n'
              '       except StopAsyncIteration:\n'
              '           running = False\n'
              '       else:\n'
-             '           BLOCK\n'
+             '           SUITE\n'
              '   else:\n'
-             '       BLOCK2\n'
+             '       SUITE2\n'
              '\n'
              'See also "__aiter__()" and "__anext__()" for details.\n'
              '\n'
@@ -2971,23 +3003,27 @@
              '\n'
              'The following code:\n'
              '\n'
-             '   async with EXPR as VAR:\n'
-             '       BLOCK\n'
+             '   async with EXPRESSION as TARGET:\n'
+             '       SUITE\n'
              '\n'
-             'Is semantically equivalent to:\n'
+             'is semantically equivalent to:\n'
              '\n'
-             '   mgr = (EXPR)\n'
-             '   aexit = type(mgr).__aexit__\n'
-             '   aenter = type(mgr).__aenter__(mgr)\n'
+             '   manager = (EXPRESSION)\n'
+             '   aexit = type(manager).__aexit__\n'
+             '   aenter = type(manager).__aenter__\n'
+             '   value = await aenter(manager)\n'
+             '   hit_except = False\n'
              '\n'
-             '   VAR = await aenter\n'
              '   try:\n'
-             '       BLOCK\n'
+             '       TARGET = value\n'
+             '       SUITE\n'
              '   except:\n'
-             '       if not await aexit(mgr, *sys.exc_info()):\n'
+             '       hit_except = True\n'
+             '       if not await aexit(manager, *sys.exc_info()):\n'
              '           raise\n'
-             '   else:\n'
-             '       await aexit(mgr, None, None, None)\n'
+             '   finally:\n'
+             '       if not hit_except:\n'
+             '           await aexit(manager, None, None, None)\n'
              '\n'
              'See also "__aenter__()" and "__aexit__()" for details.\n'
              '\n'
@@ -6803,7 +6839,7 @@
                   'object.__rfloordiv__(self, other)\n'
                   'object.__rmod__(self, other)\n'
                   'object.__rdivmod__(self, other)\n'
-                  'object.__rpow__(self, other)\n'
+                  'object.__rpow__(self, other[, modulo])\n'
                   'object.__rlshift__(self, other)\n'
                   'object.__rrshift__(self, other)\n'
                   'object.__rand__(self, other)\n'
@@ -8963,7 +8999,9 @@
                  'bases,\n'
                  '**kwds)" (where the additional keyword arguments, if any, '
                  'come from\n'
-                 'the class definition).\n'
+                 'the class definition). The "__prepare__" method should be '
+                 'implemented\n'
+                 'as a "classmethod()".\n'
                  '\n'
                  'If the metaclass has no "__prepare__" attribute, then the '
                  'class\n'
@@ -9477,7 +9515,7 @@
                  'object.__rfloordiv__(self, other)\n'
                  'object.__rmod__(self, other)\n'
                  'object.__rdivmod__(self, other)\n'
-                 'object.__rpow__(self, other)\n'
+                 'object.__rpow__(self, other[, modulo])\n'
                  'object.__rlshift__(self, other)\n'
                  'object.__rrshift__(self, other)\n'
                  'object.__rand__(self, other)\n'
@@ -11918,8 +11956,9 @@
           '      bytecode offsets to line numbers (for details see the source\n'
           '      code of the interpreter); "co_stacksize" is the required '
           'stack\n'
-          '      size (including local variables); "co_flags" is an integer\n'
-          '      encoding a number of flags for the interpreter.\n'
+          '      size; "co_flags" is an integer encoding a number of flags '
+          'for\n'
+          '      the interpreter.\n'
           '\n'
           '      The following flag bits are defined for "co_flags": bit '
           '"0x04"\n'
@@ -12372,6 +12411,8 @@
                  'dictionary. This\n'
                  '      is a shortcut for "reversed(d.keys())".\n'
                  '\n'
+                 '      New in version 3.8.\n'
+                 '\n'
                  '   setdefault(key[, default])\n'
                  '\n'
                  '      If *key* is in the dictionary, return its value.  If '
@@ -13577,11 +13618,13 @@
          '1. The context expression (the expression given in the "with_item")\n'
          '   is evaluated to obtain a context manager.\n'
          '\n'
-         '2. The context manager’s "__exit__()" is loaded for later use.\n'
+         '2. The context manager’s "__enter__()" is loaded for later use.\n'
          '\n'
-         '3. The context manager’s "__enter__()" method is invoked.\n'
+         '3. The context manager’s "__exit__()" is loaded for later use.\n'
          '\n'
-         '4. If a target was included in the "with" statement, the return\n'
+         '4. The context manager’s "__enter__()" method is invoked.\n'
+         '\n'
+         '5. If a target was included in the "with" statement, the return\n'
          '   value from "__enter__()" is assigned to it.\n'
          '\n'
          '   Note: The "with" statement guarantees that if the "__enter__()"\n'
@@ -13591,9 +13634,9 @@
          '     target list, it will be treated the same as an error occurring\n'
          '     within the suite would be. See step 6 below.\n'
          '\n'
-         '5. The suite is executed.\n'
+         '6. The suite is executed.\n'
          '\n'
-         '6. The context manager’s "__exit__()" method is invoked.  If an\n'
+         '7. The context manager’s "__exit__()" method is invoked.  If an\n'
          '   exception caused the suite to be exited, its type, value, and\n'
          '   traceback are passed as arguments to "__exit__()". Otherwise, '
          'three\n'
@@ -13613,17 +13656,41 @@
          'proceeds\n'
          '   at the normal location for the kind of exit that was taken.\n'
          '\n'
+         'The following code:\n'
+         '\n'
+         '   with EXPRESSION as TARGET:\n'
+         '       SUITE\n'
+         '\n'
+         'is semantically equivalent to:\n'
+         '\n'
+         '   manager = (EXPRESSION)\n'
+         '   enter = type(manager).__enter__\n'
+         '   exit = type(manager).__exit__\n'
+         '   value = enter(manager)\n'
+         '   hit_except = False\n'
+         '\n'
+         '   try:\n'
+         '       TARGET = value\n'
+         '       SUITE\n'
+         '   except:\n'
+         '       hit_except = True\n'
+         '       if not exit(manager, *sys.exc_info()):\n'
+         '           raise\n'
+         '   finally:\n'
+         '       if not hit_except:\n'
+         '           exit(manager, None, None, None)\n'
+         '\n'
          'With more than one item, the context managers are processed as if\n'
          'multiple "with" statements were nested:\n'
          '\n'
          '   with A() as a, B() as b:\n'
-         '       suite\n'
+         '       SUITE\n'
          '\n'
-         'is equivalent to\n'
+         'is semantically equivalent to:\n'
          '\n'
          '   with A() as a:\n'
          '       with B() as b:\n'
-         '           suite\n'
+         '           SUITE\n'
          '\n'
          'Changed in version 3.1: Support for multiple context expressions.\n'
          '\n'
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.2rc1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.2rc1.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a4b8a1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.2rc1.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,580 @@
+.. bpo: 39401
+.. date: 2020-01-28-20-54-09
+.. nonce: he7h_A
+.. release date: 2020-02-10
+.. section: Security
+
+Avoid unsafe load of ``api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll`` at startup on
+Windows 7.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39184
+.. date: 2020-01-07-00-42-08
+.. nonce: fe7NgK
+.. section: Security
+
+Add audit events to command execution functions in os and pty modules.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39579
+.. date: 2020-02-07-15-18-35
+.. nonce: itNmC0
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Change the ending column offset of `Attribute` nodes constructed in
+`ast_for_dotted_name` to point at the end of the current node and not at the
+end of the last `NAME` node.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39510
+.. date: 2020-02-04-10-27-41
+.. nonce: PMIh-f
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix segfault in ``readinto()`` method on closed BufferedReader.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39492
+.. date: 2020-01-30-01-14-42
+.. nonce: eTuy0F
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a reference cycle in the C Pickler that was preventing the garbage
+collection of deleted, pickled objects.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39421
+.. date: 2020-01-22-15-53-37
+.. nonce: O3nG7u
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix possible crashes when operating with the functions in the :mod:`heapq`
+module and custom comparison operators.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39386
+.. date: 2020-01-20-21-40-57
+.. nonce: ULqD8t
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Prevent double awaiting of async iterator.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39235
+.. date: 2020-01-09-10-01-18
+.. nonce: RYwjoc
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix AST end location for lone generator expression in function call, e.g.
+f(i for i in a).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39209
+.. date: 2020-01-06-10-29-16
+.. nonce: QHAONe
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Correctly handle multi-line tokens in interactive mode. Patch by Pablo
+Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39216
+.. date: 2020-01-05-06-55-52
+.. nonce: 74jLh9
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix constant folding optimization for positional only arguments - by Anthony
+Sottile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39215
+.. date: 2020-01-04-17-25-34
+.. nonce: xiqiIz
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix ``SystemError`` when nested function has annotation on positional-only
+argument - by Anthony Sottile.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38588
+.. date: 2019-12-29-19-13-54
+.. nonce: pgXnNS
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix possible crashes in dict and list when calling
+:c:func:`PyObject_RichCompareBool`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38610
+.. date: 2019-10-31-14-30-39
+.. nonce: fHdVMS
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix possible crashes in several list methods by holding strong references to
+list elements when calling :c:func:`PyObject_RichCompareBool`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39590
+.. date: 2020-02-09-05-51-05
+.. nonce: rf98GU
+.. section: Library
+
+Collections.deque now holds strong references during deque.__contains__ and
+deque.count, fixing crashes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38149
+.. date: 2020-02-05-11-24-16
+.. nonce: GWsjHE
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`sys.audit` is now called only once per call of :func:`glob.glob` and
+:func:`glob.iglob`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39450
+.. date: 2020-02-02-14-46-34
+.. nonce: 48R274
+.. section: Library
+
+Striped whitespace from docstring before returning it from
+:func:`unittest.case.shortDescription`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39493
+.. date: 2020-01-30-01-13-19
+.. nonce: CbFRi7
+.. section: Library
+
+Mark ``typing.IO.closed`` as a property
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39485
+.. date: 2020-01-29-14-58-27
+.. nonce: Zy3ot6
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix a bug in :func:`unittest.mock.create_autospec` that would complain about
+the wrong number of arguments for custom descriptors defined in an extension
+module returning functions.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39082
+.. date: 2020-01-24-13-24-35
+.. nonce: qKgrq_
+.. section: Library
+
+Allow AsyncMock to correctly patch static/class methods
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39430
+.. date: 2020-01-24-11-05-21
+.. nonce: I0UQzM
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed race condition in lazy imports in :mod:`tarfile`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39390
+.. date: 2020-01-23-21-34-29
+.. nonce: D2tSXk
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed a regression with the `ignore` callback of :func:`shutil.copytree`.
+The argument types are now str and List[str] again.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39389
+.. date: 2020-01-20-00-56-01
+.. nonce: fEirIS
+.. section: Library
+
+Write accurate compression level metadata in :mod:`gzip` archives, rather
+than always signaling maximum compression.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39274
+.. date: 2020-01-15-23-13-03
+.. nonce: lpc0-n
+.. section: Library
+
+``bool(fraction.Fraction)`` now returns a boolean even if (numerator != 0)
+does not return a boolean (ex: numpy number).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39297
+.. date: 2020-01-11-01-15-37
+.. nonce: y98Z6Q
+.. section: Library
+
+Improved performance of importlib.metadata distribution discovery and
+resilients to inaccessible sys.path entries (importlib_metadata v1.4.0).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39242
+.. date: 2020-01-08-23-25-27
+.. nonce: bnL65N
+.. section: Library
+
+Updated the Gmane domain from news.gmane.org to news.gmane.io which is used
+for examples of :class:`~nntplib.NNTP` news reader server and nntplib tests.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38907
+.. date: 2020-01-06-02-14-38
+.. nonce: F1RkCR
+.. section: Library
+
+In http.server script, restore binding to IPv4 on Windows.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39152
+.. date: 2020-01-03-18-02-50
+.. nonce: JgPjCC
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix ttk.Scale.configure([name]) to return configuration tuple for name or
+all options.  Giovanni Lombardo contributed part of the patch.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39198
+.. date: 2020-01-02-20-21-03
+.. nonce: nzwGyG
+.. section: Library
+
+If an exception were to be thrown in `Logger.isEnabledFor` (say, by asyncio
+timeouts or stopit) , the `logging` global lock may not be released
+appropriately, resulting in deadlock.  This change wraps that block of code
+with `try...finally` to ensure the lock is released.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39191
+.. date: 2020-01-02-17-28-03
+.. nonce: ur_scy
+.. section: Library
+
+Perform a check for running loop before starting a new task in
+``loop.run_until_complete()`` to fail fast; it prevents the side effect of
+new task spawning before exception raising.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38871
+.. date: 2020-01-01-18-44-52
+.. nonce: 3EEOLg
+.. section: Library
+
+Correctly parenthesize filter-based statements that contain lambda
+expressions in mod:`lib2to3`. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39142
+.. date: 2019-12-31-19-27-23
+.. nonce: oqU5iD
+.. section: Library
+
+A change was made to logging.config.dictConfig to avoid converting instances
+of named tuples to ConvertingTuple. It's assumed that named tuples are too
+specialised to be treated like ordinary tuples; if a user of named tuples
+requires ConvertingTuple functionality, they will have to implement that
+themselves in their named tuple class.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39129
+.. date: 2019-12-24-10-43-13
+.. nonce: jVx5rW
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix import path for ``asyncio.TimeoutError``
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39057
+.. date: 2019-12-15-21-47-54
+.. nonce: FOxn-w
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`urllib.request.proxy_bypass_environment` now ignores leading dots and
+no longer ignores a trailing newline.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39056
+.. date: 2019-12-15-21-05-16
+.. nonce: nEfUM9
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed handling invalid warning category in the -W option.  No longer import
+the re module if it is not needed.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39055
+.. date: 2019-12-15-19-23-23
+.. nonce: FmN3un
+.. section: Library
+
+:func:`base64.b64decode` with ``validate=True`` raises now a binascii.Error
+if the input ends with a single ``\n``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39033
+.. date: 2019-12-13-18-54-49
+.. nonce: cepuyD
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix :exc:`NameError` in :mod:`zipimport`. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38878
+.. date: 2019-11-22-12-08-52
+.. nonce: EJ0cFf
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed __subclasshook__ of :class:`os.PathLike` to return a correct result
+upon inheritence. Patch by Bar Harel.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 35182
+.. date: 2019-10-31-19-23-25
+.. nonce: hzeNl9
+.. section: Library
+
+Fixed :func:`Popen.communicate` subsequent call crash when the child process
+has already closed any piped standard stream, but still continues to be
+running. Patch by Andriy Maletsky.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38473
+.. date: 2019-10-14-21-14-55
+.. nonce: uXpVld
+.. section: Library
+
+Use signature from inner mock for autospecced methods attached with
+:func:`unittest.mock.attach_mock`. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38293
+.. date: 2019-09-29-08-17-03
+.. nonce: wls5s3
+.. section: Library
+
+Add :func:`copy.copy` and :func:`copy.deepcopy` support to :func:`property`
+objects.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39153
+.. date: 2020-01-27-22-24-51
+.. nonce: Pjl8jV
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Clarify refcounting semantics for the following functions: -
+PyObject_SetItem - PyMapping_SetItemString - PyDict_SetItem -
+PyDict_SetItemString
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39392
+.. date: 2020-01-27-18-18-42
+.. nonce: oiqcLO
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Explain that when filling with turtle, overlap regions may be left unfilled.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39381
+.. date: 2020-01-18-15-37-56
+.. nonce: wTWe8d
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Mention in docs that :func:`asyncio.get_event_loop` implicitly creates new
+event loop only if called from the main thread.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38918
+.. date: 2019-12-15-22-04-41
+.. nonce: 8JnDTS
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Add an entry for ``__module__`` in the "function" & "method" sections of the
+`inspect docs types and members table
+<https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html#types-and-members>`_
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 3530
+.. date: 2019-11-17-11-53-10
+.. nonce: 8zFUMc
+.. section: Documentation
+
+In the :mod:`ast` module documentation, fix a misleading ``NodeTransformer``
+example and add advice on when to use the ``fix_missing_locations``
+function.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39502
+.. date: 2020-01-30-15-04-54
+.. nonce: chbpII
+.. section: Tests
+
+Skip test_zipfile.test_add_file_after_2107() if :func:`time.localtime` fails
+with :exc:`OverflowError`. It is the case on AIX 6.1 for example.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38546
+.. date: 2019-12-18-14-52-08
+.. nonce: 2kxNuM
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix test_ressources_gced_in_workers() of test_concurrent_futures: explicitly
+stop the manager to prevent leaking a child process running in the
+background after the test completes.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39144
+.. date: 2019-12-27-22-18-26
+.. nonce: dwHMlR
+.. section: Build
+
+The ctags and etags build targets both include Modules/_ctypes and Python
+standard library source files.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39439
+.. date: 2020-01-24-03-15-05
+.. nonce: sFxGfR
+.. section: Windows
+
+Honor the Python path when a virtualenv is active on Windows.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39393
+.. date: 2020-01-20-23-42-53
+.. nonce: gWlJDG
+.. section: Windows
+
+Improve the error message when attempting to load a DLL with unresolved
+dependencies.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38883
+.. date: 2020-01-11-22-53-55
+.. nonce: X7FRaN
+.. section: Windows
+
+:meth:`~pathlib.Path.home()` and :meth:`~pathlib.Path.expanduser()` on
+Windows now prefer :envvar:`USERPROFILE` and no longer use :envvar:`HOME`,
+which is not normally set for regular user accounts. This makes them again
+behave like :func:`os.path.expanduser`, which was changed to ignore
+:envvar:`HOME` in 3.8, see :issue:`36264`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39185
+.. date: 2020-01-02-01-11-53
+.. nonce: T4herN
+.. section: Windows
+
+The build.bat script has additional options for very-quiet output (-q) and
+very-verbose output (-vv)
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 30780
+.. date: 2020-01-27-16-44-29
+.. nonce: nR80qu
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Add remaining configdialog tests for buttons and highlights and keys tabs.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39388
+.. date: 2020-01-25-02-26-45
+.. nonce: x4TQNh
+.. section: IDLE
+
+IDLE Settings Cancel button now cancels pending changes
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39050
+.. date: 2020-01-22-22-28-06
+.. nonce: zkn0FO
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Make IDLE Settings dialog Help button work again.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 34118
+.. date: 2019-12-30-16-44-07
+.. nonce: FaNW0a
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Tag memoryview, range, and tuple as classes, the same as list, etcetera, in
+the library manual built-in functions list.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38792
+.. date: 2019-11-13-23-51-39
+.. nonce: xhTC5a
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Close an IDLE shell calltip if a :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt` or shell restart
+occurs.  Patch by Zackery Spytz.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 32989
+.. date: 2018-03-03-12-56-26
+.. nonce: FVhmhH
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Add tests for editor newline_and_indent_event method. Remove dead code from
+pyparse find_good_parse_start method.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-12-27-22-18-26.bpo-39144.dwHMlR.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-12-27-22-18-26.bpo-39144.dwHMlR.rst
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index 8b90da1..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-12-27-22-18-26.bpo-39144.dwHMlR.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-The ctags and etags build targets both include Modules/_ctypes and Python standard library source files.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-31-14-30-39.bpo-38610.fHdVMS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-31-14-30-39.bpo-38610.fHdVMS.rst
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index 0ee63bb..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-10-31-14-30-39.bpo-38610.fHdVMS.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix possible crashes in several list methods by holding strong references to
-list elements when calling :c:func:`PyObject_RichCompareBool`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-12-29-19-13-54.bpo-38588.pgXnNS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-12-29-19-13-54.bpo-38588.pgXnNS.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2019-12-29-19-13-54.bpo-38588.pgXnNS.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix possible crashes in dict and list when calling
-:c:func:`PyObject_RichCompareBool`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-04-17-25-34.bpo-39215.xiqiIz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-04-17-25-34.bpo-39215.xiqiIz.rst
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index 9a3178f..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-04-17-25-34.bpo-39215.xiqiIz.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix ``SystemError`` when nested function has annotation on positional-only
-argument - by Anthony Sottile.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-05-06-55-52.bpo-39216.74jLh9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-05-06-55-52.bpo-39216.74jLh9.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-05-06-55-52.bpo-39216.74jLh9.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix constant folding optimization for positional only arguments - by Anthony
-Sottile.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-06-10-29-16.bpo-39209.QHAONe.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-06-10-29-16.bpo-39209.QHAONe.rst
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index c05b3f8..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-06-10-29-16.bpo-39209.QHAONe.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Correctly handle multi-line tokens in interactive mode. Patch by Pablo
-Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-09-10-01-18.bpo-39235.RYwjoc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-09-10-01-18.bpo-39235.RYwjoc.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-09-10-01-18.bpo-39235.RYwjoc.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix AST end location for lone generator expression in function call, e.g.
-f(i for i in a).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-20-21-40-57.bpo-39386.ULqD8t.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-20-21-40-57.bpo-39386.ULqD8t.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-20-21-40-57.bpo-39386.ULqD8t.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Prevent double awaiting of async iterator.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-22-15-53-37.bpo-39421.O3nG7u.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-22-15-53-37.bpo-39421.O3nG7u.rst
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index bae0081..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-22-15-53-37.bpo-39421.O3nG7u.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix possible crashes when operating with the functions in the :mod:`heapq`
-module and custom comparison operators.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-30-01-14-42.bpo-39492.eTuy0F.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-30-01-14-42.bpo-39492.eTuy0F.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-01-30-01-14-42.bpo-39492.eTuy0F.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix a reference cycle in the C Pickler that was preventing the garbage collection of deleted, pickled objects.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-02-04-10-27-41.bpo-39510.PMIh-f.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-02-04-10-27-41.bpo-39510.PMIh-f.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-02-04-10-27-41.bpo-39510.PMIh-f.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix segfault in ``readinto()`` method on closed BufferedReader.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-02-07-15-18-35.bpo-39579.itNmC0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-02-07-15-18-35.bpo-39579.itNmC0.rst
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index 36d5c42..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-02-07-15-18-35.bpo-39579.itNmC0.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Change the ending column offset of `Attribute` nodes constructed in `ast_for_dotted_name` to point at the end of the current node and not at the end of the last `NAME` node.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-11-17-11-53-10.bpo-3530.8zFUMc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-11-17-11-53-10.bpo-3530.8zFUMc.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 65f1a6d..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-11-17-11-53-10.bpo-3530.8zFUMc.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-In the :mod:`ast` module documentation, fix a misleading ``NodeTransformer`` example and add
-advice on when to use the ``fix_missing_locations`` function.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-12-15-22-04-41.bpo-38918.8JnDTS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-12-15-22-04-41.bpo-38918.8JnDTS.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 5747936..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-12-15-22-04-41.bpo-38918.8JnDTS.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Add an entry for ``__module__`` in the "function" & "method" sections of the
-`inspect docs types and members table
-<https://docs.python.org/3/library/inspect.html#types-and-members>`_
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-18-15-37-56.bpo-39381.wTWe8d.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-18-15-37-56.bpo-39381.wTWe8d.rst
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index 37b66ad..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-18-15-37-56.bpo-39381.wTWe8d.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Mention in docs that :func:`asyncio.get_event_loop` implicitly creates new
-event loop only if called from the main thread.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-27-18-18-42.bpo-39392.oiqcLO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-27-18-18-42.bpo-39392.oiqcLO.rst
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index 7158749..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-27-18-18-42.bpo-39392.oiqcLO.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Explain that when filling with turtle, overlap regions may be left unfilled.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-27-22-24-51.bpo-39153.Pjl8jV.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-27-22-24-51.bpo-39153.Pjl8jV.rst
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index 95be00b..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-27-22-24-51.bpo-39153.Pjl8jV.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Clarify refcounting semantics for the following functions:
-- PyObject_SetItem
-- PyMapping_SetItemString
-- PyDict_SetItem
-- PyDict_SetItemString
\ No newline at end of file
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deleted file mode 100644
index 38f0fb6..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2018-03-03-12-56-26.bpo-32989.FVhmhH.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Add tests for editor newline_and_indent_event method.
-Remove dead code from pyparse find_good_parse_start method.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-11-13-23-51-39.bpo-38792.xhTC5a.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-11-13-23-51-39.bpo-38792.xhTC5a.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-11-13-23-51-39.bpo-38792.xhTC5a.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Close an IDLE shell calltip if a :exc:`KeyboardInterrupt`
-or shell restart occurs.  Patch by Zackery Spytz.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-12-30-16-44-07.bpo-34118.FaNW0a.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-12-30-16-44-07.bpo-34118.FaNW0a.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index ce95eb5..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-12-30-16-44-07.bpo-34118.FaNW0a.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Tag memoryview, range, and tuple as classes, the same as list, etcetera, in
-the library manual built-in functions list.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-01-22-22-28-06.bpo-39050.zkn0FO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-01-22-22-28-06.bpo-39050.zkn0FO.rst
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index e71265c..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-01-22-22-28-06.bpo-39050.zkn0FO.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Make IDLE Settings dialog Help button work again.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-01-25-02-26-45.bpo-39388.x4TQNh.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-01-25-02-26-45.bpo-39388.x4TQNh.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-01-25-02-26-45.bpo-39388.x4TQNh.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-IDLE Settings Cancel button now cancels pending changes
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-01-27-16-44-29.bpo-30780.nR80qu.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-01-27-16-44-29.bpo-30780.nR80qu.rst
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index 2f65a00..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2020-01-27-16-44-29.bpo-30780.nR80qu.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add remaining configdialog tests for buttons and highlights and keys tabs.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-29-08-17-03.bpo-38293.wls5s3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-29-08-17-03.bpo-38293.wls5s3.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-09-29-08-17-03.bpo-38293.wls5s3.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Add :func:`copy.copy` and :func:`copy.deepcopy` support to :func:`property` objects.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-14-21-14-55.bpo-38473.uXpVld.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-14-21-14-55.bpo-38473.uXpVld.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-14-21-14-55.bpo-38473.uXpVld.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Use signature from inner mock for autospecced methods attached with
-:func:`unittest.mock.attach_mock`. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-31-19-23-25.bpo-35182.hzeNl9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-31-19-23-25.bpo-35182.hzeNl9.rst
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index 9438cd8..0000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-10-31-19-23-25.bpo-35182.hzeNl9.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Fixed :func:`Popen.communicate` subsequent call crash when the child process
-has already closed any piped standard stream, but still continues to be
-running. Patch by Andriy Maletsky.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-22-12-08-52.bpo-38878.EJ0cFf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-22-12-08-52.bpo-38878.EJ0cFf.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-11-22-12-08-52.bpo-38878.EJ0cFf.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fixed __subclasshook__ of :class:`os.PathLike` to return a correct result
-upon inheritence. Patch by Bar Harel.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-13-18-54-49.bpo-39033.cepuyD.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-13-18-54-49.bpo-39033.cepuyD.rst
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--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-13-18-54-49.bpo-39033.cepuyD.rst
+++ /dev/null
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-Fix :exc:`NameError` in :mod:`zipimport`. Patch by Karthikeyan Singaravelan.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-15-19-23-23.bpo-39055.FmN3un.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-15-19-23-23.bpo-39055.FmN3un.rst
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+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-:func:`base64.b64decode` with ``validate=True`` raises now a binascii.Error
-if the input ends with a single ``\n``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-15-21-05-16.bpo-39056.nEfUM9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-15-21-05-16.bpo-39056.nEfUM9.rst
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-Fixed handling invalid warning category in the -W option.  No longer import
-the re module if it is not needed.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-15-21-47-54.bpo-39057.FOxn-w.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-12-15-21-47-54.bpo-39057.FOxn-w.rst
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-:func:`urllib.request.proxy_bypass_environment` now ignores leading dots and
-no longer ignores a trailing newline.
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-Fix import path for ``asyncio.TimeoutError``
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-A change was made to logging.config.dictConfig to avoid converting instances
-of named tuples to ConvertingTuple. It's assumed that named tuples are too
-specialised to be treated like ordinary tuples; if a user of named tuples
-requires ConvertingTuple functionality, they will have to implement that
-themselves in their named tuple class.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-01-18-44-52.bpo-38871.3EEOLg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-01-18-44-52.bpo-38871.3EEOLg.rst
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-Correctly parenthesize filter-based statements that contain lambda
-expressions in mod:`lib2to3`. Patch by Dong-hee Na.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-02-17-28-03.bpo-39191.ur_scy.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-02-17-28-03.bpo-39191.ur_scy.rst
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-Perform a check for running loop before starting a new task in
-``loop.run_until_complete()`` to fail fast; it prevents the side effect of
-new task spawning before exception raising.
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-If an exception were to be thrown in `Logger.isEnabledFor` (say, by asyncio timeouts or stopit) , the `logging` global lock may not be released appropriately, resulting in deadlock.  This change wraps that block of code with `try...finally` to ensure the lock is released.
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-Fix ttk.Scale.configure([name]) to return configuration tuple for name
-or all options.  Giovanni Lombardo contributed part of the patch.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-06-02-14-38.bpo-38907.F1RkCR.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-06-02-14-38.bpo-38907.F1RkCR.rst
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-In http.server script, restore binding to IPv4 on Windows.
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-Updated the Gmane domain from news.gmane.org to news.gmane.io 
-which is used for examples of :class:`~nntplib.NNTP` news reader server and
-nntplib tests.
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-Improved performance of importlib.metadata distribution discovery and resilients to inaccessible sys.path entries (importlib_metadata v1.4.0).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-15-23-13-03.bpo-39274.lpc0-n.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-15-23-13-03.bpo-39274.lpc0-n.rst
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-``bool(fraction.Fraction)`` now returns a boolean even if (numerator != 0) does not return a boolean (ex: numpy number).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-20-00-56-01.bpo-39389.fEirIS.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-20-00-56-01.bpo-39389.fEirIS.rst
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-Write accurate compression level metadata in :mod:`gzip` archives, rather
-than always signaling maximum compression.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-23-21-34-29.bpo-39390.D2tSXk.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-23-21-34-29.bpo-39390.D2tSXk.rst
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-Fixed a regression with the `ignore` callback of :func:`shutil.copytree`.
-The argument types are now str and List[str] again.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-24-11-05-21.bpo-39430.I0UQzM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-24-11-05-21.bpo-39430.I0UQzM.rst
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-Fixed race condition in lazy imports in :mod:`tarfile`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-24-13-24-35.bpo-39082.qKgrq_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-24-13-24-35.bpo-39082.qKgrq_.rst
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-Allow AsyncMock to correctly patch static/class methods
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-29-14-58-27.bpo-39485.Zy3ot6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-29-14-58-27.bpo-39485.Zy3ot6.rst
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-Fix a bug in :func:`unittest.mock.create_autospec` that would complain about
-the wrong number of arguments for custom descriptors defined in an extension
-module returning functions.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-30-01-13-19.bpo-39493.CbFRi7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-30-01-13-19.bpo-39493.CbFRi7.rst
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-Mark ``typing.IO.closed`` as a property
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-Striped whitespace from docstring before returning it from
-:func:`unittest.case.shortDescription`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-05-11-24-16.bpo-38149.GWsjHE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-05-11-24-16.bpo-38149.GWsjHE.rst
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-:func:`sys.audit` is now called only once per call of :func:`glob.glob` and
-:func:`glob.iglob`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-09-05-51-05.bpo-39590.rf98GU.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-02-09-05-51-05.bpo-39590.rf98GU.rst
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-Collections.deque now holds strong references during deque.__contains__ and deque.count, fixing crashes.
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-Add audit events to command execution functions in os and pty modules.
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-Avoid unsafe load of ``api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll`` at startup on Windows 7.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-12-18-14-52-08.bpo-38546.2kxNuM.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2019-12-18-14-52-08.bpo-38546.2kxNuM.rst
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-Fix test_ressources_gced_in_workers() of test_concurrent_futures: explicitly
-stop the manager to prevent leaking a child process running in the background
-after the test completes.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-01-30-15-04-54.bpo-39502.chbpII.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2020-01-30-15-04-54.bpo-39502.chbpII.rst
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-Skip test_zipfile.test_add_file_after_2107() if :func:`time.localtime` fails
-with :exc:`OverflowError`. It is the case on AIX 6.1 for example.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-01-02-01-11-53.bpo-39185.T4herN.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-01-02-01-11-53.bpo-39185.T4herN.rst
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-The build.bat script has additional options for very-quiet output (-q) and very-verbose output (-vv)
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-:meth:`~pathlib.Path.home()` and :meth:`~pathlib.Path.expanduser()` on Windows
-now prefer :envvar:`USERPROFILE` and no longer use :envvar:`HOME`, which is not
-normally set for regular user accounts. This makes them again behave like
-:func:`os.path.expanduser`, which was changed to ignore :envvar:`HOME` in 3.8,
-see :issue:`36264`.
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-Improve the error message when attempting to load a DLL with unresolved
-dependencies.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-01-24-03-15-05.bpo-39439.sFxGfR.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-01-24-03-15-05.bpo-39439.sFxGfR.rst
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-Honor the Python path when a virtualenv is active on Windows.
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-This is Python version 3.8.1
-============================
+This is Python version 3.8.2rc1
+===============================
 
 .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython.svg?branch=3.8
    :alt: CPython build status on Travis CI