Some notable items not yet covered here:

* :pep:`574` - Pickle protocol 5 with out-of-band data buffer support

* :pep:`578` - Runtime audit hooks for potentially sensitive operations

* ``python -m asyncio`` runs a natively async REPL

* ...

(Contributed by Jeroen Demeyer and Mark Shannon in :issue:`36974`.)

Pickle protocol 5 with out-of-band data buffers

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When :mod:`pickle` is used to transfer large data between Python processes

in order to take advantage of multi-core or multi-machine processing,

it is important to optimize the transfer by reducing memory copies, and

possibly by applying custom techniques such as data-dependent compression.

The :mod:`pickle` protocol 5 introduces support for out-of-band buffers

where :pep:`3118`-compatible data can be transmitted separately from the

main pickle stream, at the discretion of the communication layer.

See :pep:`574` for a full description.

(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`36785`.)

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