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48 changes: 47 additions & 1 deletion Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst
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* :ref:`PEP 761: Discontinuation of PGP signatures <whatsnew314-pep761>`
* :ref:`PEP 765: Disallow return/break/continue that exit a finally block <whatsnew314-pep765>`
* :ref:`PEP 768: Safe external debugger interface for CPython <whatsnew314-pep768>`
* :ref:`PEP 784: Adding Zstandard to the standard library <whatsnew314-pep784>`
* :ref:`A new type of interpreter <whatsnew314-tail-call>`
* :ref:`Syntax highlighting in PyREPL <whatsnew314-pyrepl-highlighting>`,
and color output in :ref:`unittest <whatsnew314-color-unittest>`,
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(Contributed by Pablo Galindo Salgado, Matt Wozniski, and Ivona Stojanovic in :gh:`131591`.)

.. _whatsnew314-pep784:

PEP 784: Adding Zstandard to the standard library
-------------------------------------------------

The new ``compression`` package contains modules :mod:`!compression.lzma`,
:mod:`!compression.bz2`, :mod:`!compression.gzip` and :mod:`!compression.zlib`
which re-export the :mod:`lzma`, :mod:`bz2`, :mod:`gzip` and :mod:`zlib`
modules respectively. The new import names under ``compression`` are the
canonical names for importing these compression modules going forward. However,
the existing modules names have not been deprecated. Any deprecation or removal
of the existing compression modules will occur no sooner than five years after
the release of 3.14.

The new :mod:`!compression.zstd` module provides compression and decompression
APIs for the Zstandard format via bindings to `Meta's zstd library
<https://facebook.github.io/zstd/>`__. Zstandard is a widely adopted, highly
efficient, and fast compression format. In addition to the APIs introduced in
:mod:`!compression.zstd`, support for reading and writing Zstandard compressed
archives has been added to the :mod:`tarfile`, :mod:`zipfile`, and
:mod:`shutil` modules.

Here's an example of using the new module to compress some data:

.. code-block:: python

from compression import zstd
import math

data = str(math.pi).encode() * 20

compressed = zstd.compress(data)

ratio = len(compressed) / len(data)
print(f"Achieved compression ratio of {ratio}")

As can be seen, the API is similar to the APIs of the :mod:`!lzma` and
:mod:`!bz2` modules.

(Contributed by Emma Harper Smith, Adam Turner, Gregory P. Smith, Tomas Roun,
Victor Stinner, and Rogdham in :gh:`132983`)

.. seealso::
:pep:`768`.


.. _whatsnew314-remote-pdb:

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(Contributed by Irit Katriel in :gh:`123958`.)

* The ``repr()`` output for AST nodes now includes more information.
(Contributed by Tomas R in :gh:`116022`.)
(Contributed by Tomas Roun in :gh:`116022`.)

* :func:`ast.parse`, when called with an AST as input, now always verifies
that the root node type is appropriate.
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