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• 2008-12-08 PSF Board Meeting Minutes

  ...security updates. The issue is encrypting sensitive data. But that's solvable. S. Holden: In summary, there are some things we should retain on [the PSF Board server] as a machine directly under an officer's control, but many things can be transferred to a managed infrastructure. RESOLVED, that the Treasurer be empowered to enter into an agreement for computer hosting for PSF Board use at a cost not to exceed $50 per month. Approved, 8-0-0. 9   PyCon Report D. Goodger ...

• Frank Willison Memorial Award

  ...security list; and he has been Python release manager for several versions. Barry has worked for Canonical since 2007, focusing especially on Python support in the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. Anna Martelli Ravenscroft (2013) Anna Martelli Ravenscroft received the Frank Willison Award for her book authorship, volunteer work at PyCon and OSCon, and public speaking. Anna has spoken repeatedly at both PyCons around the world, and at OSCon in previous years, about diversity and outreach eff...

• PSF Grants Program

  PSF Grants Program The PSF Grants Program is currently paused The PSF Grants Program has been temporarily paused after hitting our 2025 funding cap early. It was an extremely difficult but necessary decision to ensure the program and foundation’s near and long term sustainability. Learn more about the pause and how you can support the PSF’s future in our blog post. If you have submitted an application and have yet to receive a decision, you will receive an email from us soon. Thank you ...

• Notes

  Notes (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.) What's New in Python 2.3.5? Release date: 08-FEB-2005 Core and builtins Partially revert the fix for #1074011; don't try to fflush stdin anymore. Library Applied a security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can be exploited in various ways. Bug #1114776. Applied a fix to the copy.py fix in 2.3.5rc1 to deal with types that don't hav...

• PSF Community Service Awards

  ...security (disabling unsupported OpenID) and cutting bandwidth costs by compressing 404 images. June 2018 The Q2 award went to Mario Corchero for his leadership of the organization of PyConES, PyLondinium, and the PyCon Charlas track in 2018. His work has been instrumental in promoting the use of Python and fostering Python communities in Spain, Latin America, and the UK. The Q2 award also went to Chukwudi Nwachukwu for his contribution to spreading the growth of Python to the Nigerian commu...

• 2019 PSF Annual Report

  ...security features for PyPI. Trademark support is also increasing worldwide. The PSF continues to file necessary trademarks for PyCon and PyPI. As the PSF sets up to support the new PyLadies governance plan, we also began filing the PyLadies trademark in many countries at the end of 2019. This work helps strengthen and protect terms that are staples within our community. Another staple in our community is PyCon US, which is produced by the PSF. In 2019, PyCon US generate...

• Python 2.4.1 - Release Notes

  ...security fix to SimpleXMLRPCserver (PSF-2005-001). This disables recursive traversal through instance attributes, which can be exploited in various ways. Bug #1110478: Revert os.environ.update to do putenv again. Bug #1103844: fix distutils.install.dump_dirs() with negated options. Bug #1067732: wininst --install-script doesn't leave residual files anymore. StringIO.truncate() now correctly adjusts the size attribute. (Bug #951915). The decimal module wouldn't run on builds without threads (Bug...

• Notes

  ...security hole ("double free") was found in zlib-1.1.3, a popular third party compression library used by some Python modules. The hole was quickly plugged in zlib-1.1.4, and the Windows build of Python now ships with zlib-1.1.4. Windows The installer now installs Start menu shortcuts under (the local equivalent of) "All Users" when doing an Admin install. If you do what it takes to compile SSL support for Windows, a bug in httplib.py prevented SSL from working correctly. ...

• What's New In Python 3.0

  ...security patches from Apple. Fix crashes on memory allocation failure found with failmalloc. Fix memory leaks found with valgrind and update suppressions file. Fix compiler warnings in opt mode which would lead to invalid memory reads. Fix problem using wrong name in decimal module reported by pychecker. Issue #3650: Fixed a reference leak in bytes.split('x'). bytes(o) now tries to use o.__bytes__() before using fallbacks. Issue #1204: The configure script now tests for additional libraries that...

• Computer Programming for Everybody

  Computer Programming for Everybody Computer Programming for Everybody This is the text of a revised funding proposal that we sent to DARPA in August 1999. In March, we heard that at least an earlier version of the proposal was accepted by DARPA; the work has begun late 1999 and will hopefully last two years, although we've only received funding for the first year (through October 2000). We're keeping our fingers crossed for the rest. Unfortunately, the move of the Python developm...

• PSF Board Resolutions

  ...security work across multiple years. Any further qualifications proposed by the NSF will require further resolution by the Board. Approved; 9-0-0, 2025-04-09 RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation approve the minutes at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/psf-important@python.org/thread/4O3QURCQLIQWQJMHIRYQ7HJYXLWW3QHB/ as representing a true and accurate record of the March 12, 2025 meeting. Approved; 8-0-1, 2025-04-09 RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation Grants Work Gro...

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