diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index 40b75a655ee2d7..19e2aaea638c09 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -18,12 +18,12 @@
 /*--start constants--*/
 #define PY_MAJOR_VERSION        3
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION        9
-#define PY_MICRO_VERSION        5
+#define PY_MICRO_VERSION        6
 #define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL        PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_FINAL
 #define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL       0
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION              "3.9.5+"
+#define PY_VERSION              "3.9.6"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Version as a single 4-byte hex number, e.g. 0x010502B2 == 1.5.2b2.
diff --git a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
index b38d2a18809443..8b8544972e528c 100644
--- a/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc_data/topics.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Mon May  3 16:52:46 2021
+# Autogenerated by Sphinx on Mon Jun 28 10:13:28 2021
 topics = {'assert': 'The "assert" statement\n'
            '**********************\n'
            '\n'
@@ -5321,19 +5321,19 @@
                   'complex\n'
                   'types. For integers, when binary, octal, or hexadecimal '
                   'output is\n'
-                  'used, this option adds the prefix respective "\'0b\'", '
-                  '"\'0o\'", or "\'0x\'"\n'
-                  'to the output value. For float and complex the alternate '
-                  'form causes\n'
-                  'the result of the conversion to always contain a '
-                  'decimal-point\n'
-                  'character, even if no digits follow it. Normally, a '
-                  'decimal-point\n'
-                  'character appears in the result of these conversions only '
-                  'if a digit\n'
-                  'follows it. In addition, for "\'g\'" and "\'G\'" '
-                  'conversions, trailing\n'
-                  'zeros are not removed from the result.\n'
+                  'used, this option adds the respective prefix "\'0b\'", '
+                  '"\'0o\'", "\'0x\'",\n'
+                  'or "\'0X\'" to the output value. For float and complex the '
+                  'alternate\n'
+                  'form causes the result of the conversion to always contain '
+                  'a decimal-\n'
+                  'point character, even if no digits follow it. Normally, a '
+                  'decimal-\n'
+                  'point character appears in the result of these conversions '
+                  'only if a\n'
+                  'digit follows it. In addition, for "\'g\'" and "\'G\'" '
+                  'conversions,\n'
+                  'trailing zeros are not removed from the result.\n'
                   '\n'
                   'The "\',\'" option signals the use of a comma for a '
                   'thousands separator.\n'
@@ -5446,8 +5446,12 @@
                   '+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------+\n'
                   '   | "\'X\'"     | Hex format. Outputs the number in base '
                   '16, using upper-    |\n'
-                  '   |           | case letters for the digits above '
-                  '9.                       |\n'
+                  '   |           | case letters for the digits above 9. In '
+                  'case "\'#\'" is      |\n'
+                  '   |           | specified, the prefix "\'0x\'" will be '
+                  'upper-cased to "\'0X\'" |\n'
+                  '   |           | as '
+                  'well.                                                   |\n'
                   '   '
                   '+-----------+------------------------------------------------------------+\n'
                   '   | "\'n\'"     | Number. This is the same as "\'d\'", '
@@ -6283,7 +6287,7 @@
            '                   | "from" relative_module "import" "(" '
            'identifier ["as" identifier]\n'
            '                   ("," identifier ["as" identifier])* [","] ")"\n'
-           '                   | "from" module "import" "*"\n'
+           '                   | "from" relative_module "import" "*"\n'
            '   module          ::= (identifier ".")* identifier\n'
            '   relative_module ::= "."* module | "."+\n'
            '\n'
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.6.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..357e9096229344
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.9.6.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,557 @@
+.. bpo: 44022
+.. date: 2021-05-05-17-37-04
+.. nonce: bS3XJ9
+.. release date: 2021-06-28
+.. section: Security
+
+mod:`http.client` now avoids infinitely reading potential HTTP headers after
+a ``100 Continue`` status response from the server.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44409
+.. date: 2021-06-13-23-12-18
+.. nonce: eW4LS-
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix error location information for tokenizer errors raised on initialization
+of the tokenizer. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 43667
+.. date: 2021-05-27-17-34-29
+.. nonce: ND9jP3
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Improve Unicode support in non-UTF locales on Oracle Solaris. This issue
+does not affect other Solaris systems.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44168
+.. date: 2021-05-18-11-27-02
+.. nonce: mgB-rt
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix error message in the parser involving keyword arguments with invalid
+expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44114
+.. date: 2021-05-12-14-26-16
+.. nonce: p-WfAE
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix incorrect dictkeys_reversed and dictitems_reversed function signatures
+in C code, which broke webassembly builds.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44070
+.. date: 2021-05-10-22-30-12
+.. nonce: 5bBtKx
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+No longer eagerly makes import filenames absolute, except for extension
+modules, which was introduced in 3.9.5.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28146
+.. date: 2021-01-13-19-34-41
+.. nonce: AZBBkH
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+Fix a confusing error message in :func:`str.format`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 11105
+.. date: 2020-06-02-13-21-14
+.. nonce: wceryW
+.. section: Core and Builtins
+
+When compiling :class:`ast.AST` objects with recursive references through
+:func:`compile`, the interpreter doesn't crash anymore instead it raises a
+:exc:`RecursionError`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44516
+.. date: 2021-06-26-12-27-14
+.. nonce: BVyX_y
+.. section: Library
+
+Update vendored pip to 21.1.3
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44482
+.. date: 2021-06-22-08-43-04
+.. nonce: U9GznK
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix very unlikely resource leak in :mod:`glob` in alternate Python
+implementations.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44439
+.. date: 2021-06-17-15-01-51
+.. nonce: 1S7QhT
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix in :meth:`bz2.BZ2File.write` / :meth:`lzma.LZMAFile.write` methods, when
+the input data is an object that supports the buffer protocol, the file
+length may be wrong.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44434
+.. date: 2021-06-16-16-52-14
+.. nonce: SQS4Pg
+.. section: Library
+
+_thread.start_new_thread() no longer calls PyThread_exit_thread() explicitly
+at the thread exit, the call was redundant. On Linux with the glibc,
+pthread_exit() aborts the whole process if dlopen() fails to open
+libgcc_s.so file (ex: EMFILE error). Patch by Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44422
+.. date: 2021-06-14-23-28-17
+.. nonce: BlWOgv
+.. section: Library
+
+The :func:`threading.enumerate` function now uses a reentrant lock to
+prevent a hang on reentrant call. Patch by Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44395
+.. date: 2021-06-12-10-08-14
+.. nonce: PcW6Sx
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix :meth:`~email.message.MIMEPart.as_string` to pass unixfrom properly.
+Patch by Dong-hee Na.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44342
+.. date: 2021-06-10-21-04-14
+.. nonce: nNH5jA
+.. section: Library
+
+[Enum] Be more robust in searching for pickle support before making an enum
+class unpicklable.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44356
+.. date: 2021-06-10-08-35-38
+.. nonce: 6oDFhO
+.. section: Library
+
+[Enum] Allow multiple data-type mixins if they are all the same.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44254
+.. date: 2021-05-29-01-05-43
+.. nonce: f06xDm
+.. section: Library
+
+On Mac, give turtledemo button text a color that works on both light or dark
+background.  Programmers cannot control the latter.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44145
+.. date: 2021-05-16-00-00-38
+.. nonce: ko5SJ7
+.. section: Library
+
+:mod:`hmac` computations were not releasing the GIL while calling the
+OpenSSL ``HMAC_Update`` C API (a new feature in 3.9).  This unintentionally
+prevented parallel computation as other :mod:`hashlib` algorithms support.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37788
+.. date: 2021-05-13-19-07-28
+.. nonce: adeFcf
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix a reference leak when a Thread object is never joined.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44061
+.. date: 2021-05-07-08-39-23
+.. nonce: MvElG6
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix regression in previous release when calling :func:`pkgutil.iter_modules`
+with a list of :class:`pathlib.Path` objects
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 36515
+.. date: 2021-05-05-11-44-49
+.. nonce: uOSa3q
+.. section: Library
+
+The :mod:`hashlib` module no longer does unaligned memory accesses when
+compiled for ARM platforms.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44018
+.. date: 2021-05-03-10-07-43
+.. nonce: VDyW8f
+.. section: Library
+
+random.seed() no longer mutates bytearray inputs.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38352
+.. date: 2021-05-02-13-54-25
+.. nonce: N9MlhV
+.. section: Library
+
+Add ``IO``, ``BinaryIO``, ``TextIO``, ``Match``, and ``Pattern`` to
+``typing.__all__``. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 43972
+.. date: 2021-04-30-16-58-24
+.. nonce: Y2r9lg
+.. section: Library
+
+When :class:`http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` sends a ``301 (Moved
+Permanently)`` for a directory path not ending with `/`, add a
+``Content-Length: 0`` header. This improves the behavior for certain
+clients.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 28528
+.. date: 2021-04-29-00-48-00
+.. nonce: JLAVWj
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix a bug in :mod:`pdb` where :meth:`~pdb.Pdb.checkline` raises
+:exc:`AttributeError` if it is called after :meth:`~pdb.Pdb.reset`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 43776
+.. date: 2021-04-12-00-00-00
+.. nonce: p14y7a
+.. section: Library
+
+When :class:`subprocess.Popen` args are provided as a string or as
+:class:`pathlib.Path`, the Popen instance repr now shows the right thing.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 43666
+.. date: 2021-03-30-08-39-08
+.. nonce: m72tlH
+.. section: Library
+
+AIX: `Lib/_aix_support.get_platform()` may fail in an AIX WPAR. The fileset
+bos.rte appears to have a builddate in both LPAR and WPAR so this fileset is
+queried rather than bos.mp64. To prevent a similiar situation (no builddate
+in ODM) a value (9988) sufficient for completing a build is provided. Patch
+by M Felt.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 43650
+.. date: 2021-03-29-00-23-30
+.. nonce: v01tic
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix :exc:`MemoryError` in :func:`shutil.unpack_archive` which fails inside
+:func:`shutil._unpack_zipfile` on large files. Patch by Igor Bolshakov.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 43318
+.. date: 2021-02-25-08-32-06
+.. nonce: bZJw6V
+.. section: Library
+
+Fix a bug where :mod:`pdb` does not always echo cleared breakpoints.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 43295
+.. date: 2021-02-22-22-54-40
+.. nonce: h_ffu7
+.. section: Library
+
+:meth:`datetime.datetime.strptime` now raises ``ValueError`` instead of
+``IndexError`` when matching ``'z'`` with the ``%z`` format specifier.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 37022
+.. date: 2020-01-25-12-58-20
+.. nonce: FUZI25
+.. section: Library
+
+:mod:`pdb` now displays exceptions from ``repr()`` with its ``p`` and ``pp``
+commands.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40620
+.. date: 2021-06-26-17-41-06
+.. nonce: PAYDrB
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Convert examples in tutorial controlflow.rst section 4.3 to be
+interpreter-demo style.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 13814
+.. date: 2021-06-21-15-46-32
+.. nonce: LDcslu
+.. section: Documentation
+
+In the Design FAQ, answer "Why don't generators support the with statement?"
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44392
+.. date: 2021-06-16-18-09-49
+.. nonce: 6RF1Sc
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Added a new section in the C API documentation for types used in type
+hinting.  Documented ``Py_GenericAlias`` and ``Py_GenericAliasType``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 38291
+.. date: 2021-06-14-09-20-37
+.. nonce: VMYa_Q
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Mark ``typing.io`` and ``typing.re`` as deprecated since Python 3.8 in the
+documentation. They were never properly supported by type checkers.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44322
+.. date: 2021-06-06-14-12-00
+.. nonce: K0PHfE
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Document that SyntaxError args have a details tuple and that details are
+adjusted for errors in f-string field replacement expressions.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44195
+.. date: 2021-05-23-09-11-28
+.. nonce: 1bqkOs
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Corrected references to ``TraversableResources`` in docs. There is no
+``TraversableReader``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41963
+.. date: 2021-05-17-20-03-47
+.. nonce: eUz9_o
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Document that ``ConfigParser`` strips off comments when reading
+configuration files.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44072
+.. date: 2021-05-08-09-48-05
+.. nonce: fb2x5I
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Correct where in the numeric ABC hierarchy ``**`` support is added, i.e., in
+numbers.Complex, not numbers.Integral.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 43558
+.. date: 2021-05-07-12-27-09
+.. nonce: UGhA8R
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Add the remark to :mod:`dataclasses` documentation that the :meth:`__init__`
+of any base class has to be called in :meth:`__post_init__`, along with a
+code example.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41621
+.. date: 2020-08-24-13-35-04
+.. nonce: nqaw9G
+.. section: Documentation
+
+Document that :class:`collections.defaultdict` parameter ``default_factory``
+defaults to None and is positional-only.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44287
+.. date: 2021-06-21-17-53-41
+.. nonce: YON57s
+.. section: Tests
+
+Fix asyncio test_popen() of test_windows_utils by using a longer timeout.
+Use military grade battle-tested :data:`test.support.SHORT_TIMEOUT` timeout
+rather than a hardcoded timeout of 10 seconds: it's 30 seconds by default,
+but it is made longer on slow buildbots. Patch by Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44363
+.. date: 2021-06-10-11-19-43
+.. nonce: -K9jD0
+.. section: Tests
+
+Account for address sanitizer in test_capi. test_capi now passes when run
+GCC address sanitizer.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44381
+.. date: 2021-06-10-18-08-44
+.. nonce: Xpc1iX
+.. section: Build
+
+The Windows build now accepts :envvar:`EnableControlFlowGuard` set to
+``guard`` to enable CFG.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41299
+.. date: 2021-06-06-16-36-13
+.. nonce: Rg-vb_
+.. section: Windows
+
+Fix 16ms jitter when using timeouts in :mod:`threading`, such as with
+:meth:`threading.Lock.acquire` or :meth:`threading.Condition.wait`.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 43568
+.. date: 2021-06-02-19-21-13
+.. nonce: viomLm
+.. section: macOS
+
+Relax unnecessarily restrictive MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET check when building
+extension modules for macOS. Patch by Joshua Root.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 43109
+.. date: 2021-05-24-21-15-41
+.. nonce: npKJ9c
+.. section: macOS
+
+Allow --with-lto configure option to work with Apple-supplied Xcode or
+Command Line Tools.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40128
+.. date: 2021-06-11-17-43-39
+.. nonce: 7vDN3U
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Mostly fix completions on macOS when not using tcl/tk 8.6.11 (as with 3.9).
+The added update_idletask call should be harmless and possibly helpful
+otherwise.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 33962
+.. date: 2021-06-10-00-50-02
+.. nonce: ikAUNg
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Move the indent space setting from the Font tab to the new Windows tab.
+Patch by Mark Roseman and Terry Jan Reedy.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 40468
+.. date: 2021-06-08-03-04-51
+.. nonce: tUCGUb
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Split the settings dialog General tab into Windows and Shell/ED tabs. Move
+help sources, which extend the Help menu, to the Extensions tab. Make space
+for new options and shorten the dialog. The latter makes the dialog better
+fit small screens.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41611
+.. date: 2021-05-27-18-22-46
+.. nonce: jOKpfc
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Avoid uncaught exceptions in ``AutoCompleteWindow.winconfig_event()``.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 41611
+.. date: 2021-05-27-13-39-43
+.. nonce: liNQqj
+.. section: IDLE
+
+Fix IDLE sometimes freezing upon tab-completion on macOS.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44074
+.. date: 2021-05-08-13-57-00
+.. nonce: F09kCK
+.. section: Tools/Demos
+
+Make patchcheck automatically detect the correct base branch name
+(previously it was hardcoded to 'master')
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 44441
+.. date: 2021-06-23-12-12-04
+.. nonce: 3p14JB
+.. section: C API
+
+:c:func:`Py_RunMain` now resets :c:data:`PyImport_Inittab` to its initial
+value at exit. It must be possible to call :c:func:`PyImport_AppendInittab`
+or :c:func:`PyImport_ExtendInittab` at each Python initialization. Patch by
+Victor Stinner.
+
+..
+
+.. bpo: 42083
+.. date: 2021-05-04-15-13-31
+.. nonce: ekXnbR
+.. section: C API
+
+Fix crash in :c:func:`PyStructSequence_NewType` when passed ``NULL`` in the
+documentation string slot.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2021-06-10-18-08-44.bpo-44381.Xpc1iX.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2021-06-10-18-08-44.bpo-44381.Xpc1iX.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 002112c4b55674..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2021-06-10-18-08-44.bpo-44381.Xpc1iX.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-The Windows build now accepts :envvar:`EnableControlFlowGuard` set to
-``guard`` to enable CFG.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2021-05-04-15-13-31.bpo-42083.ekXnbR.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2021-05-04-15-13-31.bpo-42083.ekXnbR.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index e83bab9c29599a..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2021-05-04-15-13-31.bpo-42083.ekXnbR.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-Fix crash in :c:func:`PyStructSequence_NewType` when passed ``NULL`` in the
-documentation string slot.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2021-06-23-12-12-04.bpo-44441.3p14JB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2021-06-23-12-12-04.bpo-44441.3p14JB.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 80c4282c18ea64..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/C API/2021-06-23-12-12-04.bpo-44441.3p14JB.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-:c:func:`Py_RunMain` now resets :c:data:`PyImport_Inittab` to its initial value
-at exit. It must be possible to call :c:func:`PyImport_AppendInittab` or
-:c:func:`PyImport_ExtendInittab` at each Python initialization.
-Patch by Victor Stinner.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-02-13-21-14.bpo-11105.wceryW.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-02-13-21-14.bpo-11105.wceryW.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 8891936cd88716..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2020-06-02-13-21-14.bpo-11105.wceryW.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-When compiling :class:`ast.AST` objects with recursive references
-through :func:`compile`, the interpreter doesn't crash anymore instead
-it raises a :exc:`RecursionError`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-01-13-19-34-41.bpo-28146.AZBBkH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-01-13-19-34-41.bpo-28146.AZBBkH.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index e6198819389532..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-01-13-19-34-41.bpo-28146.AZBBkH.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix a confusing error message in :func:`str.format`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-05-10-22-30-12.bpo-44070.5bBtKx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-05-10-22-30-12.bpo-44070.5bBtKx.rst
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index 46bea40031135b..00000000000000
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-05-10-22-30-12.bpo-44070.5bBtKx.rst	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-No longer eagerly makes import filenames absolute, except for extension
-modules, which was introduced in 3.9.5.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-05-12-14-26-16.bpo-44114.p-WfAE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-05-12-14-26-16.bpo-44114.p-WfAE.rst
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-Fix incorrect dictkeys_reversed and dictitems_reversed function signatures in C code, which broke webassembly builds.
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-Fix error message in the parser involving keyword arguments with invalid
-expressions. Patch by Pablo Galindo
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-05-27-17-34-29.bpo-43667.ND9jP3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-05-27-17-34-29.bpo-43667.ND9jP3.rst
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-Improve Unicode support in non-UTF locales on Oracle Solaris. This issue
-does not affect other Solaris systems.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-06-13-23-12-18.bpo-44409.eW4LS-.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-06-13-23-12-18.bpo-44409.eW4LS-.rst
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-Fix error location information for tokenizer errors raised on initialization
-of the tokenizer. Patch by Pablo Galindo.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-08-24-13-35-04.bpo-41621.nqaw9G.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-08-24-13-35-04.bpo-41621.nqaw9G.rst
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-Document that :class:`collections.defaultdict` parameter ``default_factory`` defaults to None and is positional-only.
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-Add the remark to :mod:`dataclasses` documentation that the :meth:`__init__` of any base class
-has to be called in :meth:`__post_init__`, along with a code example.
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-Correct where in the numeric ABC hierarchy ``**`` support is added, i.e., in
-numbers.Complex, not numbers.Integral.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-05-17-20-03-47.bpo-41963.eUz9_o.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-05-17-20-03-47.bpo-41963.eUz9_o.rst
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-Document that ``ConfigParser`` strips off comments when reading configuration files.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-05-23-09-11-28.bpo-44195.1bqkOs.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-05-23-09-11-28.bpo-44195.1bqkOs.rst
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-Corrected references to ``TraversableResources`` in docs. There is no
-``TraversableReader``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-06-14-12-00.bpo-44322.K0PHfE.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-06-14-12-00.bpo-44322.K0PHfE.rst
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-Document that SyntaxError args have a details tuple and that details are
-adjusted for errors in f-string field replacement expressions.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-14-09-20-37.bpo-38291.VMYa_Q.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-14-09-20-37.bpo-38291.VMYa_Q.rst
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-Mark ``typing.io`` and ``typing.re`` as deprecated since Python 3.8 in the
-documentation. They were never properly supported by type checkers.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-16-18-09-49.bpo-44392.6RF1Sc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-16-18-09-49.bpo-44392.6RF1Sc.rst
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-Added a new section in the C API documentation for types used in type
-hinting.  Documented ``Py_GenericAlias`` and ``Py_GenericAliasType``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-21-15-46-32.bpo-13814.LDcslu.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-21-15-46-32.bpo-13814.LDcslu.rst
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-In the Design FAQ, answer "Why don't generators support the with statement?"
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-26-17-41-06.bpo-40620.PAYDrB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-26-17-41-06.bpo-40620.PAYDrB.rst
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-Convert examples in tutorial controlflow.rst section 4.3 to be interpreter-demo
-style.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2021-05-27-13-39-43.bpo-41611.liNQqj.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2021-05-27-13-39-43.bpo-41611.liNQqj.rst
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-Fix IDLE sometimes freezing upon tab-completion on macOS.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2021-05-27-18-22-46.bpo-41611.jOKpfc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2021-05-27-18-22-46.bpo-41611.jOKpfc.rst
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-Avoid uncaught exceptions in ``AutoCompleteWindow.winconfig_event()``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2021-06-08-03-04-51.bpo-40468.tUCGUb.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2021-06-08-03-04-51.bpo-40468.tUCGUb.rst
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-Split the settings dialog General tab into Windows and Shell/ED tabs.
-Move help sources, which extend the Help menu, to the Extensions tab.
-Make space for new options and shorten the dialog.
-The latter makes the dialog better fit small screens.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2021-06-10-00-50-02.bpo-33962.ikAUNg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2021-06-10-00-50-02.bpo-33962.ikAUNg.rst
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-Move the indent space setting from the Font tab to the new Windows tab.
-Patch by Mark Roseman and Terry Jan Reedy.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2021-06-11-17-43-39.bpo-40128.7vDN3U.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2021-06-11-17-43-39.bpo-40128.7vDN3U.rst
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-Mostly fix completions on macOS when not using tcl/tk 8.6.11 (as with 3.9).
-The added update_idletask call should be harmless and possibly helpful
-otherwise.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-25-12-58-20.bpo-37022.FUZI25.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-01-25-12-58-20.bpo-37022.FUZI25.rst
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-:mod:`pdb` now displays exceptions from ``repr()`` with its ``p`` and ``pp`` commands.
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-:meth:`datetime.datetime.strptime` now raises ``ValueError`` instead of
-``IndexError`` when matching ``'z'`` with the ``%z`` format specifier.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-02-25-08-32-06.bpo-43318.bZJw6V.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-02-25-08-32-06.bpo-43318.bZJw6V.rst
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-Fix a bug where :mod:`pdb` does not always echo cleared breakpoints.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-03-29-00-23-30.bpo-43650.v01tic.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-03-29-00-23-30.bpo-43650.v01tic.rst
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-Fix :exc:`MemoryError` in :func:`shutil.unpack_archive` which fails inside
-:func:`shutil._unpack_zipfile` on large files. Patch by Igor Bolshakov.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-03-30-08-39-08.bpo-43666.m72tlH.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-03-30-08-39-08.bpo-43666.m72tlH.rst
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-AIX: `Lib/_aix_support.get_platform()` may fail in an AIX WPAR.
-The fileset bos.rte appears to have a builddate in both LPAR and WPAR
-so this fileset is queried rather than bos.mp64.
-To prevent a similiar situation (no builddate in ODM) a value (9988)
-sufficient for completing a build is provided.
-Patch by M Felt.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-04-12-00-00-00.bpo-43776.p14y7a.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-04-12-00-00-00.bpo-43776.p14y7a.rst
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-When :class:`subprocess.Popen` args are provided as a string or as :class:`pathlib.Path`, the Popen instance repr now shows the right thing.
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-Fix a bug in :mod:`pdb` where :meth:`~pdb.Pdb.checkline` raises
-:exc:`AttributeError` if it is called after :meth:`~pdb.Pdb.reset`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-04-30-16-58-24.bpo-43972.Y2r9lg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-04-30-16-58-24.bpo-43972.Y2r9lg.rst
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-When :class:`http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler` sends a
-``301 (Moved Permanently)`` for a directory path not ending with `/`, add a
-``Content-Length: 0`` header. This improves the behavior for certain clients.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-05-02-13-54-25.bpo-38352.N9MlhV.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-05-02-13-54-25.bpo-38352.N9MlhV.rst
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-Add ``IO``, ``BinaryIO``, ``TextIO``, ``Match``, and ``Pattern`` to
-``typing.__all__``. Patch by Jelle Zijlstra.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-05-03-10-07-43.bpo-44018.VDyW8f.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-05-03-10-07-43.bpo-44018.VDyW8f.rst
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-random.seed() no longer mutates bytearray inputs.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-05-05-11-44-49.bpo-36515.uOSa3q.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-05-05-11-44-49.bpo-36515.uOSa3q.rst
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-The :mod:`hashlib` module no longer does unaligned memory accesses when
-compiled for ARM platforms.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-05-07-08-39-23.bpo-44061.MvElG6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-05-07-08-39-23.bpo-44061.MvElG6.rst
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-Fix regression in previous release when calling :func:`pkgutil.iter_modules`
-with a list of :class:`pathlib.Path` objects
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-05-13-19-07-28.bpo-37788.adeFcf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-05-13-19-07-28.bpo-37788.adeFcf.rst
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-Fix a reference leak when a Thread object is never joined.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-05-16-00-00-38.bpo-44145.ko5SJ7.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-05-16-00-00-38.bpo-44145.ko5SJ7.rst
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-:mod:`hmac` computations were not releasing the GIL while calling the
-OpenSSL ``HMAC_Update`` C API (a new feature in 3.9).  This unintentionally
-prevented parallel computation as other :mod:`hashlib` algorithms support.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-05-29-01-05-43.bpo-44254.f06xDm.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-05-29-01-05-43.bpo-44254.f06xDm.rst
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-On Mac, give turtledemo button text a color that works on both light
-or dark background.  Programmers cannot control the latter.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-06-10-08-35-38.bpo-44356.6oDFhO.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-06-10-08-35-38.bpo-44356.6oDFhO.rst
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-[Enum] Allow multiple data-type mixins if they are all the same.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-06-10-21-04-14.bpo-44342.nNH5jA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-06-10-21-04-14.bpo-44342.nNH5jA.rst
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-[Enum] Be more robust in searching for pickle support before making an enum
-class unpicklable.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-06-12-10-08-14.bpo-44395.PcW6Sx.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-06-12-10-08-14.bpo-44395.PcW6Sx.rst
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+++ /dev/null
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-Fix :meth:`~email.message.MIMEPart.as_string` to pass unixfrom properly.
-Patch by Dong-hee Na.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-06-14-23-28-17.bpo-44422.BlWOgv.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-06-14-23-28-17.bpo-44422.BlWOgv.rst
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-The :func:`threading.enumerate` function now uses a reentrant lock to
-prevent a hang on reentrant call.
-Patch by Victor Stinner.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-06-16-16-52-14.bpo-44434.SQS4Pg.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-06-16-16-52-14.bpo-44434.SQS4Pg.rst
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-_thread.start_new_thread() no longer calls PyThread_exit_thread() explicitly
-at the thread exit, the call was redundant. On Linux with the glibc,
-pthread_exit() aborts the whole process if dlopen() fails to open
-libgcc_s.so file (ex: EMFILE error). Patch by Victor Stinner.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-06-17-15-01-51.bpo-44439.1S7QhT.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-06-17-15-01-51.bpo-44439.1S7QhT.rst
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-Fix in :meth:`bz2.BZ2File.write` / :meth:`lzma.LZMAFile.write` methods, when
-the input data is an object that supports the buffer protocol, the file length
-may be wrong.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-06-22-08-43-04.bpo-44482.U9GznK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-06-22-08-43-04.bpo-44482.U9GznK.rst
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-Fix very unlikely resource leak in :mod:`glob` in alternate Python
-implementations.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-06-26-12-27-14.bpo-44516.BVyX_y.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2021-06-26-12-27-14.bpo-44516.BVyX_y.rst
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-Update vendored pip to 21.1.3
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-05-05-17-37-04.bpo-44022.bS3XJ9.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-05-05-17-37-04.bpo-44022.bS3XJ9.rst
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-mod:`http.client` now avoids infinitely reading potential HTTP headers after a
-``100 Continue`` status response from the server.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2021-06-10-11-19-43.bpo-44363.-K9jD0.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2021-06-10-11-19-43.bpo-44363.-K9jD0.rst
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-Account for address sanitizer in test_capi. test_capi now passes when run
-GCC address sanitizer.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2021-06-21-17-53-41.bpo-44287.YON57s.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tests/2021-06-21-17-53-41.bpo-44287.YON57s.rst
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@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-Fix asyncio test_popen() of test_windows_utils by using a longer timeout.
-Use military grade battle-tested :data:`test.support.SHORT_TIMEOUT` timeout
-rather than a hardcoded timeout of 10 seconds: it's 30 seconds by default, but
-it is made longer on slow buildbots. Patch by Victor Stinner.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2021-05-08-13-57-00.bpo-44074.F09kCK.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Tools-Demos/2021-05-08-13-57-00.bpo-44074.F09kCK.rst
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-Make patchcheck automatically detect the correct base branch name (previously it was hardcoded to 'master')
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2021-06-06-16-36-13.bpo-41299.Rg-vb_.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2021-06-06-16-36-13.bpo-41299.Rg-vb_.rst
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@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Fix 16ms jitter when using timeouts in :mod:`threading`, such as with :meth:`threading.Lock.acquire` or :meth:`threading.Condition.wait`.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2021-05-24-21-15-41.bpo-43109.npKJ9c.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2021-05-24-21-15-41.bpo-43109.npKJ9c.rst
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-Allow --with-lto configure option to work with Apple-supplied Xcode or
-Command Line Tools.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2021-06-02-19-21-13.bpo-43568.viomLm.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/macOS/2021-06-02-19-21-13.bpo-43568.viomLm.rst
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-Relax unnecessarily restrictive MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET check when building
-extension modules for macOS. Patch by Joshua Root.
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index f8e4757a15cd07..cb5bbd2776810e 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is Python version 3.9.5
+This is Python version 3.9.6
 ============================
 
 .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/python/cpython.svg?branch=3.9