Python 3.8.5

Contains security fixes for CVE-2019-20907, CVE-2020-15801, and BPO-39603.

Author: ambv

Include/patchlevel.h

@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
 /*--start constants--*/
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION        3
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION        8
-#define PY_MICRO_VERSION        4
+#define PY_MICRO_VERSION        5
 #define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
 #define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       0
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION              "3.8.4+"
+#define PY_VERSION              "3.8.5"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.

Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Mon Jul 13 13:47:56 2020
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Mon Jul 20 14:14:54 2020
 topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
            '\n'

Misc/NEWS.d/3.8.5.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+.. bpo: 41304
+.. date: 2020-07-15-20-15-08
+.. nonce: vNEeYA
+.. release date: 2020-07-20
+.. section: Security
+
+Fixes `python3x._pth` being ignored on Windows, caused by the fix for
+:issue:`29778` (CVE-2020-15801).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39603
+.. date: 2020-02-12-14-17-39
+.. nonce: Gt3RSg
+.. section: Security
+
+Prevent http header injection by rejecting control characters in
+http.client.putrequest(...).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41295
+.. date: 2020-07-18-08-15-32
+.. nonce: pu8Ezo
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Resolve a regression in CPython 3.8.4 where defining "__setattr__" in a
+multi-inheritance setup and calling up the hierarchy chain could fail if
+builtins/extension types were involved in the base types.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41288
+.. date: 2020-07-13-15-06-35
+.. nonce: 8mn5P-
+.. section: Library
+
+Unpickling invalid NEWOBJ_EX opcode with the C implementation raises now
+UnpicklingError instead of crashing.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 39017
+.. date: 2020-07-12-22-16-58
+.. nonce: x3Cg-9
+.. section: Library
+
+Avoid infinite loop when reading specially crafted TAR files using the
+tarfile module (CVE-2019-20907).
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37703
+.. date: 2019-08-16-20-25-42
+.. nonce: Qm_l_H
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Updated Documentation to comprehensively elaborate on the behaviour of
+gather.cancel()
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41302
+.. date: 2020-07-15-17-56-32
+.. nonce: S3o-x9
+.. section: Build
+
+Enable building Python 3.8 with libmpdec-2.5.0 to ease maintenance for Linux
+distributions. Patch by Felix Yan.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40741
+.. date: 2020-06-19-14-19-08
+.. nonce: L7yTbm
+.. section: macOS
+
+Update macOS installer to use SQLite 3.32.3.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41300
+.. date: 2020-07-16-17-39-06
+.. nonce: wRixNb
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Save files with non-ascii chars. Fix regression released in 3.9.0b4 and
+3.8.4.

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2020-07-15-17-56-32.bpo-41302.S3o-x9.rst

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is Python version 3.8.4
+This is Python version 3.8.5
 ============================
 
 .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython.svg?branch=3.8