Python 3.8.14
Security
gh-95778: Converting between int and str in bases other than 2 (binary), 4, 8 (octal), 16 (hexadecimal), or 32 such as base 10 (decimal) now raises a ValueError if the number of digits in string form is above a limit to avoid potential denial of service attacks due to the algorithmic complexity. This is a mitigation for CVE-2020-10735.
This new limit can be configured or disabled by environment variable, command line flag, or sys APIs. See the integer string conversion length limitation documentation. The default limit is 4300 digits in string form.
Patch by Gregory P. Smith [Google] and Christian Heimes [Red Hat] with feedback from Victor Stinner, Thomas Wouters, Steve Dower, Ned Deily, and Mark Dickinson.
gh-87389: http.server: Fix an open redirection vulnerability in the HTTP server when an URI path starts with //. Vulnerability discovered, and initial fix proposed, by Hamza Avvan.
Core and Builtins
gh-93065: Fix contextvars HAMT implementation to handle iteration over deep trees.
The bug was discovered and fixed by Eli Libman. See MagicStack/immutables#84 for more details.
Library
bpo-46197: Fix ensurepip environment isolation for subprocess running pip.
bpo-36073: Raise ProgrammingError instead of segfaulting on recursive usage of cursors in sqlite3 converters. Patch by Sergey Fedoseev.
Documentation
gh-91888: Add a new gh role to the documentation to link to GitHub issues.
bpo-47138: Pin Jinja to a version compatible with Sphinx version 2.4.4.
Tests
gh-94208: test_ssl is now checking for supported TLS version and protocols in more tests.
bpo-47016: Create a GitHub Actions workflow for verifying bundled pip and setuptools. Patch by Illia Volochii and Adam Turner.
bpo-46114: Fix test case for OpenSSL 3.0.1 version. OpenSSL 3.0 uses 0xMNN00PP0L.
Windows
bpo-47194: Update zlib to v1.2.12 to resolve CVE-2018-25032.
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