* Python 2.7.4 release candidate 1. - Issue #10211: Buffer objects expose the new buffer interface internally. - Issue #10212: cStringIO and struct.unpack support new buffer objects. - Issue #12098: multiprocessing on Windows now starts child processes using the same sys.flags as the current process. - Issue #8862: Fixed curses cleanup when getkey is interrputed by a signal. - Issue #9090: When a socket with a timeout fails with EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN, retry the select() loop instead of bailing out. - Issue #1285086: Get rid of the refcounting hack and speed up urllib.unquote(). - Issue #17368: Fix an off-by-one error in the Python JSON decoder that caused a failure while decoding empty object literals when object_pairs_hook was specified. - Issue #17477: Update the bsddb module to pybsddb 5.3.0, supporting db-5.x, and dropping support for db-4.1 and db-4.2. - Issue #17192: Update the ctypes module's libffi to v3.0.13. This specifically addresses a stack misalignment issue on x86 and issues on some more recent platforms. - Issue #11420: make test suite pass with -B/DONTWRITEBYTECODE set. - Issue #17299: Add test coverage for cPickle with file objects and general IO objects. - Issue #11963: remove human verification from test_parser and test_subprocess. - Issue #16004: Add `make touch`. - Issue #17047: remove doubled words in docs and docstrings * Rework the sysconfigdata patch into something upstreamable.