Author: Matti Picus <matti.pi...@gmail.com>
Branch:
Changeset: r86718:8c6dda3297e5
Date: 2016-08-30 07:09 +1000
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/8c6dda3297e5/
Log: finish release note
diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-pypy2.7-v5.4.0.rst
b/pypy/doc/release-pypy2.7-v5.4.0.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/release-pypy2.7-v5.4.0.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/release-pypy2.7-v5.4.0.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
============
We have released PyPy2.7 v5.4, a little under two months after PyPy2.7 v5.3.
-This new PyPy2.7 release includes further improvements to our C-API
compatability layer (cpyext), enabling us to pass over 99% of the upstream
+This new PyPy2.7 release includes incremental improvements to our C-API
+compatability layer (cpyext), enabling us to pass over 99% of the upstream
numpy `test suite`_. We updated built-in cffi_ support to version 1.8,
which now supports the "limited API" mode for c-extensions on
CPython >=3.2.
@@ -12,9 +13,7 @@
support to OpenBSD and Dragon Fly BSD
As always, this release fixed many issues and bugs raised by the
-growing community of PyPy users.
-
-XXXXX MORE ???
+growing community of PyPy users. We strongly recommend updating.
You can download the PyPy2.7 v5.4 release here:
@@ -110,8 +109,8 @@
* (RPython) add `rposix_scandir` portably, needed for Python 3.5
- * Support for memoryview attributes (format, itemsize, ...) which also
- adds support for `PyMemoryView_FromObject`
+ * Increased but incomplete support for memoryview attributes (format,
+ itemsize, ...) which also adds support for `PyMemoryView_FromObject`
* Bug Fixes
@@ -153,10 +152,6 @@
* Make `hash(-1)` return -2, as CPython does, and fix all the
ancilary places this matters
- * Issues reported with our previous release were resolved_ after
- reports from users on our issue tracker at
- https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/issues or on IRC at #pypy
-
* Fix `PyNumber_Check()` to behave more like CPython
* (VMProf) Try hard to not miss any Python-level frame in the
@@ -169,6 +164,10 @@
* Fix the mapdict cache for subclasses of builtin types that
provide a dict
+ * Issues reported with our previous release were resolved_ after
+ reports from users on our issue tracker at
+ https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/issues or on IRC at #pypy
+
* Performance improvements:
* Add a before_call()-like equivalent before a few operations like
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