[Python-checkins] [3.6] bpo-34162: Update idlelib NEWS to 2018-12-05 (GH-10964) (GH-10979)

[Terry Jan Reedy]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/af1f977575331623547d53247d99be8953a13b9f
commit: af1f977575331623547d53247d99be8953a13b9f
branch: 3.6
author: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
committer: GitHub <noreply at github.com>
date: 2018-12-06T03:25:57-05:00
summary:

[3.6] bpo-34162: Update idlelib NEWS to 2018-12-05 (GH-10964) (GH-10979)

Cherry-picked from 6ea9d54.

files:
M Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index 8ecd85a9ceb6..0868b1f1a3c3 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,46 @@
-What's New in IDLE 3.6.7
-Released on 2018-09-24?
+What's New in IDLE 3.6.8
+Released on 2018-12-20?
+**This is the final 3.6 bugfix maintenance release**
 ======================================
 
 
+bpo-35213: Where appropriate, use 'macOS' in idlelib.
+
+bpo-34864: Document two IDLE on MacOS issues.  The System Preferences
+Dock "prefer tabs always" setting disables some IDLE features.
+Menus are a bit different than as described for Windows and Linux.
+
+bpo-35202: Remove unused imports in idlelib.
+
+bpo-33000: Document that IDLE's shell has no line limit.
+A program that runs indefinitely can overfill memory.
+
+bpo-23220: Explain how IDLE's Shell displays output.
+Add new subsection "User output in Shell".
+
+bpo-35099: Improve the doc about IDLE running user code.
+"IDLE -- console differences" is renamed "Running user code".
+It mostly covers the implications of using custom sys.stdxxx objects.
+
+bpo-35097: Add IDLE doc subsection explaining editor windows.
+Topics include opening, title and status bars, .py* extension, and running.
+
+Issue 35093: Document the IDLE document viewer in the IDLE doc.
+Add a paragraph in "Help and preferences", "Help sources" subsection.
+
+bpo-1529353: Explain Shell text squeezing in the IDLE doc.
+
+bpo-35088: Update idlelib.help.copy_string docstring.
+We now use git and backporting instead of hg and forward merging.
+
+bpo-35087: Update idlelib help files for the current doc build.
+The main change is the elimination of chapter-section numbers.
+
+
+What's New in IDLE 3.6.7
+Released on 2018-10-20
+======================================
+
 bpo-1529353: Output over N lines (50 by default) is squeezed down to a button.
 N can be changed in the PyShell section of the General page of the
 Settings dialog.  Fewer, but possibly extra long, lines can be squeezed by