[pypy-commit] pypy default: update release note

[mattip]

Author: Matti Picus <matti.picus at gmail.com>
Branch: 
Changeset: r96319:8d40471a2203
Date: 2019-03-15 10:34 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/8d40471a2203/

Log:	update release note

diff --git a/pypy/doc/release-v7.1.0.rst b/pypy/doc/release-v7.1.0.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/release-v7.1.0.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/release-v7.1.0.rst
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
 Until we can work with downstream providers to distribute builds with PyPy, we
 have made packages for some common packages `available as wheels`_.
 
+The `CFFI`_ backend has been updated to version 1.12.2. We reccomend using CFFI
+rather than c-extensions to interact with C, and `cppyy`_ for interacting with
+C++ code.
+
 As always, this release is 100% compatible with the previous one and fixed
 several issues and bugs raised by the growing community of PyPy users.
 We strongly recommend updating.
@@ -31,7 +35,7 @@
 The PyPy3.6 release is still not production quality so your mileage may vary.
 There are open issues with incomplete compatibility and c-extension support.
 
-You can download the v7.0 releases here:
+You can download the v7.1 releases here:
 
     http://pypy.org/download.html
 
@@ -47,7 +51,7 @@
 .. _`PyPy`: index.html
 .. _`RPython`: https://rpython.readthedocs.org
 .. _`help`: project-ideas.html
-.. _`cffi`: http://cffi.readthedocs.io
+.. _`CFFI`: http://cffi.readthedocs.io
 .. _`cppyy`: https://cppyy.readthedocs.io
 .. _`available as wheels`: https://github.com/antocuni/pypy-wheels
 
@@ -61,7 +65,7 @@
 We also welcome developers of other `dynamic languages`_ to see what RPython
 can do for them.
 
-The PyPy release supports:
+This PyPy release supports:
 
   * **x86** machines on most common operating systems
     (Linux 32/64 bits, Mac OS X 64 bits, Windows 32 bits, OpenBSD, FreeBSD)
@@ -71,7 +75,8 @@
   * **s390x** running Linux
 
 Unfortunately at the moment of writing our ARM buildbots are out of service,
-so for now we are **not** releasing any binary for the ARM architecture.
+so for now we are **not** releasing any binary for the ARM architecture,
+although PyPy does support ARM 32 bit processors.
 
 .. _`PyPy and CPython 2.7.x`: http://speed.pypy.org
 .. _`dynamic languages`: http://rpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples.html
@@ -80,5 +85,37 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
-If not specified, the changes are shared across versions
+Changes shared across versions
 
+* Use utf8 internally to represent unicode, with the goal of never using
+  rpython-level unicode
+* Update ``cffi`` to 1.12.2
+* Improve performance of ``long`` operations where one of the operands fits
+  into an ``int``
+* Since _ctypes is implemented in pure python over libffi, add interfaces and
+  methods to support the buffer interface from python. Specifically, add a
+  ``__pypy__.newmemoryview`` function to create a memoryview and extend the use
+  of the PyPy-specific ``__buffer__`` class method. This enables better
+  buffer sharing between ctypes and NumPy.
+* Add copying to zlib
+* Improve register allocation in the JIT by using better heuristics
+* Include ``<sys/sysmacros.h>`` on Gnu/Hurd
+* Mostly for completeness sake: support for ``rlib.jit.promote_unicode``, which
+  behaves like ``promote_string``, but for rpython unicode objects
+* Correctly initialize the ``d_type`` and ``d_name`` members of builtin
+  descriptors to fix a segfault related to classmethods in Cython
+* Expand documentation of ``__pypy_`` module
+
+C-API (cpyext) improvements shared across versions
+
+* Move PyTuple_Type.tp_new to C
+* Call internal methods from ``PyDict_XXXItem()`` instead of going through
+  dunder methods (CPython cpyext compatibility)
+
+Python 3.6 only
+
+* Support for os.PathLike in the posix module
+* Update ``idellib`` for 3.6.1
+* Make ``BUILD_CONST_KEY_MAP`` JIT-friendly
+* Adapt code that optimizes ``sys.exc_info()`` to wordcode
+* Fix annotation bug found by ``attrs``