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Upgrade bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (e.g. for the fix to CVE-2026-72522) #155558
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on Aug 11, 2026 - changed the title
[-][security] Upgrade bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (e.g. for the fix to CVE-2026-72522)[/-][+]Upgrade bundled Expat to 2.8.3 (e.g. for the fix to CVE-2026-72522)[/+]on Aug 11, 2026 @hartwork Thanks for letting us know! JFYI for the future, you don't need to add
[security]to the title here, we have labels to distinguish such things.
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3.10 (EOL)end of lifeend of life3.11only security fixesonly security fixes3.12only security fixesonly security fixes3.13only security fixesonly security fixes3.14bugs and security fixesbugs and security fixes3.15pre-release feature fixes, bugs and security fixespre-release feature fixes, bugs and security fixes3.16new features, bugs and security fixesnew features, bugs and security fixesextension-modulesC modules in the Modules dirC modules in the Modules dirtopic-XMLtype-securityA security issueA security issue
Please see blog post https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/expat-2-8-3-released/ for an overview and the change log at https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_8_3/expat/Changes for details. Affects all alive branches of Python. Thank you!
Related: #152216 (predecessor for Expat 2.8.2)
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