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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst index 8d2b52bdca..6c81a2c3a0 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst @@ -686,6 +686,20 @@ CPython bytecode changes (Contributed by Yury Selivanov and INADA Naoki in :issue:`26110`.) +Other CPython implementation changes +------------------------------------ + +* In preparation for potential future changes to the public CPython runtime + initialization API (see :pep:`432` for details), CPython's internal startup + and configuration management logic has been significantly refactored. While + these updates are intended to be entirely transparent to both embedding + applications and users of the regular CPython CLI, they're being mentioned + here as the refactoring changes the internal order of various operations + during interpreter startup, and hence may uncover previously latent defects, + either in embedding applications, or in CPython itself. + (Contributed by Nick Coghlan and Eric Snow as part of :issue:`22257`.) + + Documentation ============= |