Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org Mon Jun 2 01:02:03 CEST 2014 Previous message: [Python-Dev] Should standard library modules optimize for CPython? Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] beginarticle I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Python 2.7.7. Python 2.7.7 is a regularly scheduled bugfix release for the Python 2.7 series. This release includes months of accumulated bugfixes. All the changes in Python 2.7.7 are described in detail in the Misc/NEWS file of the source tarball. You can view it online at http://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/f89216059edf/Misc/NEWS The 2.7.7 release also contains fixes for two severe, if arcane, potential security vulnerabilities. The first was the possibility of reading arbitrary process memory using JSONDecoder.raw_decode. [1] (No other json APIs are affected.) The second security issue is...