PyPy v7.3.5: bugfix release of python 2.7 and 3.7

PyPy v7.3.5: release of 2.7 and 3.7¶

We are releasing a PyPy 7.3.5 with bugfixes for PyPy 7.3.4, released April 4. PyPy 7.3.4 was the first release that runs on windows 64-bit, so that support is still "beta". We are releasing it in the hopes that we can garner momentum for its continued support, but are already aware of some problems, for instance it errors in the NumPy test suite (issue 3462). Please help out with testing the release and reporting successes and failures, financially supporting our ongoing work, and helping us find the source of these problems.

• The new windows 64-bit builds improperly named c-extension modules with the same extension as the 32-bit build (issue 3443)

• Use the windows-specific PC/pyconfig.h rather than the posix one

• Fix the return type for _Py_HashDouble which impacts 64-bit windows

• A change to the python 3.7 sysconfig.get_config_var('LIBDIR') was wrong, leading to problems finding libpypy3-c.so for embedded PyPy (issue 3442).

• Instantiate distutils.command.install schema for PyPy-specific implementation_lower

• Delay thread-checking logic in greenlets until the thread is actually started (continuation of issue 3441)

• Four upstream (CPython) security patches were applied:

  • BPO 42988 to remove pydoc.getfile

  • BPO 43285 to not trust the PASV response in ftplib.

  • BPO 43075 to remove a possible ReDoS in urllib AbstractBasicAuthHandler

  • BPO 43882 to sanitize urls containing ASCII newline and tabs in urllib.parse

• Fix for json-specialized dicts (issue 3460)

• Specialize ByteBuffer.setslice which speeds up binary file reading by a factor of 3

• When assigning the full slice of a list, evaluate the rhs before clearing the list (issue 3440)

• On Python2, PyUnicode_Contains accepts bytes as well as unicode.

• Finish fixing _sqlite3 - untested _reset() was missing an argument (issue 3432)

• Update the packaged sqlite3 to 3.35.5 on windows. While not a bugfix, this seems like an easy win.

We recommend updating. These fixes are the direct result of end-user bug reports, so please continue reporting issues as they crop up.

You can find links to download the v7.3.5 releases here:

https://pypy.org/download.html

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