bpo-43475: Add what's new entry for NaN hash changes (GH-26725)

mdickinson · web-flow · commit 1d10bf0bb940 · 2021-06-15T19:48:35.000+01:00
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst
@@ -836,6 +836,13 @@ Other Language Changes
   effectless under ``from __future__ import annotations``.
   (Contributed by Batuhan Taskaya in :issue:`42725`.)
 
+* Hashes of NaN values of both :class:`float` type and
+  :class:`decimal.Decimal` type now depend on object identity. Formerly, they
+  always hashed to ``0`` even though NaN values are not equal to one another.
+  This caused potentially quadratic runtime behavior due to excessive hash
+  collisions when creating dictionaries and sets containing multiple NaNs.
+  (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`43475`.)
+
 New Modules
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