gh-149202: Highlight PEP 831 in What's New for Python 3.15 (#149390)

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profiling tools <whatsnew315-profiling-package>`
* :pep:`799`: :ref:`Tachyon: High frequency statistical sampling profiler
<whatsnew315-sampling-profiler>`
* :pep:`831`: :ref:`Frame pointers are enabled by default for improved
system-level observability <whatsnew315-pep831>`
* :pep:`798`: :ref:`Unpacking in comprehensions
<whatsnew315-unpacking-in-comprehensions>`
* :pep:`686`: :ref:`Python now uses UTF-8 as the default encoding
@@ -86,7 +88,6 @@ Summary -- Release highlights
* :pep:`782`: :ref:`A new PyBytesWriter C API to create a Python bytes object
<whatsnew315-pybyteswriter>`
* :pep:`803`: :ref:`Stable ABI for Free-Threaded Builds <whatsnew315-abi3t>`
* :pep:`831`: :ref:`Frame pointers everywhere <whatsnew315-frame-pointers>`
* :ref:`The JIT compiler has been significantly upgraded <whatsnew315-jit>`
* :ref:`Improved error messages <whatsnew315-improved-error-messages>`
* :ref:`The official Windows 64-bit binaries now use the tail-calling interpreter
@@ -376,6 +377,39 @@ available output formats, profiling modes, and configuration options.
(Contributed by Pablo Galindo and László Kiss Kollár in :gh:`135953` and :gh:`138122`.)
.. _whatsnew315-pep831:
:pep:`831`: Frame pointers enabled by default
---------------------------------------------
CPython is now built with frame pointers by default on platforms that support
them. This uses the compiler flags ``-fno-omit-frame-pointer`` and
``-mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer``, making native stack unwinding faster and
more reliable for system profilers, debuggers, crash analysis tools, and
eBPF-based observability tools.
The flags are exposed through :mod:`sysconfig`, so extension modules built by
tools that consume Python's build configuration inherit frame pointers by
default. This propagation is intentional: mixed Python/native profiling needs
an unbroken frame-pointer chain through the interpreter, extension modules,
embedding applications, and native libraries.
.. important::
Third-party build backends and native build systems should preserve these
flags when they consume Python's :mod:`sysconfig` values. Build systems
that compile C, C++, Rust, or other native code without inheriting Python's
compiler flags should enable equivalent frame-pointer flags themselves. A
single native component built without frame pointers can break stack
unwinding for the whole Python process.
.. seealso:: :pep:`831` for further details.
(Contributed by Pablo Galindo Salgado and Savannah Ostrowski in
:gh:`149201`; PEP 831 written by Pablo Galindo Salgado, Ken Jin, and
Savannah Ostrowski.)
.. _whatsnew315-unpacking-in-comprehensions:
:pep:`798`: Unpacking in Comprehensions
@@ -2378,16 +2412,6 @@ Build changes
and :option:`-X dev <-X>` is passed to the Python or Python is built in :ref:`debug mode <debug-build>`.
(Contributed by Donghee Na in :gh:`141770`.)
.. _whatsnew315-frame-pointers:
* CPython is now built with frame pointers enabled by default
(:pep:`831`). Pass :option:`--without-frame-pointers` to opt out.
Authors of C extensions and native libraries built with custom build
systems should add ``-fno-omit-frame-pointer`` and
``-mno-omit-leaf-frame-pointer`` to their own ``CFLAGS`` to keep the
unwind chain intact.
(Contributed by Pablo Galindo Salgado and Savannah Ostrowski in :gh:`149201`.)
.. _whatsnew315-windows-tail-calling-interpreter:
* 64-bit builds using Visual Studio 2026 (MSVC 18) may now use the new