* Python 3.1.3 release candidate 1. - Issue #10221: dict.pop(k) now has a key error message that includes the missing key (same message d[k] returns for missing keys). - Issue #5437: A preallocated MemoryError instance should not hold traceback data (including local variables caught in the stack trace) alive infinitely. - Issue #10077: Fix logging of site module errors at startup. - Issue #10186: Fix the SyntaxError caret when the offset is equal to the length of the offending line. - Issue #9713, #10114: Parser functions (eg. PyParser_ASTFromFile) expects filenames encoded to the filesystem encoding with surrogateescape error handler (to support undecodable bytes), instead of UTF-8 in strict mode. - Issue #9997: Don't let the name "top" have special significance in scope resolution. - Issue #10068: Global objects which have reference cycles with their module's dict are now cleared again. - Issue #4471: Properly shutdown socket in IMAP.shutdown(). - Fix IMAP.login() to work properly. - Issue #10126: Fix distutils' test_build when Python was built with --enable-shared. - Fix typo in one sdist option (medata-check). - Issue #9199: Fix incorrect use of distutils.cmd.Command.announce. - Issue #1718574: Fix options that were supposed to accept arguments but did not in build_clib. - Issue #9281: Prevent race condition with mkdir in distutils. - Issue #10229: Fix caching error in gettext. - Issue #10252: Close file objects in a timely manner in distutils code and tests. - Issue #10311: The signal module now restores errno before returning from its low-level signal handler. - The keyword only restriction for the places argument in unittest.TestCase.assert[Not]AlmostEqual methods has been removed. - Issue 6706: asyncore accept() method no longer raises EWOULDBLOCK/ECONNABORTED on incomplete connection attempt but returns None instead. - Issue #10266: uu.decode didn't close in_file explicitly when it was given as a filename. - Issue #10246: uu.encode didn't close file objects explicitly when filenames were given to it. - Issue #10253: FileIO leaks a file descriptor when trying to open a file for append that isn't seekable. - Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. - Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). And fixed root directory issue on posixpath.relpath(). (Ported working fixes from ntpath) - Issue #10041: The signature of optional arguments in socket.makefile() didn't match that of io.open(), and they also didn't get forwarded properly to TextIOWrapper in text mode. - Issue #6612: Fix site and sysconfig to catch os.getcwd() error, eg. if the current directory was deleted. - Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module with expat version 2.0.1. * Move the Makefile into the -min package, required by sysconfig. Addresses: #603237.