From 4ebcd7e2980d650c711d21b93447af39a8604554 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Victor Stinner Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 04:10:03 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-21536: Update What's New in Python 3.8 entry (GH-13242) Android still links to libpython. --- Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index 6bb03422c6bc3e..58b23211cc67aa 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -138,7 +138,8 @@ environment variable, can be set using the new ``./configure --with-trace-refs`` build option. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`36465`.) -On Unix, C extensions are no longer linked to libpython. It is now possible +On Unix, C extensions are no longer linked to libpython except on Android. +It is now possible for a statically linked Python to load a C extension built using a shared library Python. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`21536`.)