[New-bugs-announce] [issue39547] hmac.new() default parameter change not mentioned in changelog

[Will Bond]

New submission from Will Bond <will at wbond.net>:

When running code on Python 3.8 that previous was running 3.3, I ran into the issue that the default value for the digestmod parameter of hmac.new() has been changed to backwards-incompatible value.

I generally would have expected such a break to show up in https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.8.html#api-and-feature-removals. If not there, somewhere on the 3.8 changelog page.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 361329
nosy: docs at python, wbond
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: hmac.new() default parameter change not mentioned in changelog
versions: Python 3.8

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