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authorKyle Stanley <aeros167@gmail.com>2019-12-16 23:08:49 -0500
committerNed Deily <nad@python.org>2019-12-18 13:38:51 -0500
commit3413f5cab084ae9f44ed6bfd2e02a08a751eb525 (patch)
tree10d0e553327dd0b6e903043b40dd2117fbd9dfd7
parent9af497419540cdb4659927e66c67d861c5ea48c2 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-3413f5cab084ae9f44ed6bfd2e02a08a751eb525.tar.gz
[3.7] Add whatsnew for removal of asyncio.loop.create_datagram_endpoint()'s *reuse_address* parameter (GH-17595). (GH-17631)
(cherry picked from commit f501db2b93a9d3d840b6fb38d6bdda8bcc400d4a) Co-authored-by: Kyle Stanley <aeros167@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst10
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst10
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
index 3f5f5200f1..04c1f7e71d 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
@@ -2433,3 +2433,13 @@ In 3.6.7 the :mod:`tokenize` module now implicitly emits a ``NEWLINE`` token
when provided with input that does not have a trailing new line. This behavior
now matches what the C tokenizer does internally.
(Contributed by Ammar Askar in :issue:`33899`.)
+
+Notable changes in Python 3.6.10
+================================
+
+Due to significant security concerns, the *reuse_address* parameter of
+:meth:`asyncio.loop.create_datagram_endpoint` is no longer supported. This is
+because of the behavior of the socket option ``SO_REUSEADDR`` in UDP. For more
+details, see the documentation for ``loop.create_datagram_endpoint()``.
+(Contributed by Kyle Stanley, Antoine Pitrou, and Yury Selivanov in
+:issue:`37228`.)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
index 12e1d9be2a..c7e3230db2 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
@@ -2557,3 +2557,13 @@ This resolves a long standing issue where all virtual environments would have
to be upgraded or recreated with each Python update. However, note that this
release will still require recreation of virtual environments in order to get
the new scripts.
+
+Notable changes in Python 3.7.6
+===============================
+
+Due to significant security concerns, the *reuse_address* parameter of
+:meth:`asyncio.loop.create_datagram_endpoint` is no longer supported. This is
+because of the behavior of the socket option ``SO_REUSEADDR`` in UDP. For more
+details, see the documentation for ``loop.create_datagram_endpoint()``.
+(Contributed by Kyle Stanley, Antoine Pitrou, and Yury Selivanov in
+:issue:`37228`.)