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 Library
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+- Issue #1491: BaseHTTPServer nows send a 100 Continue response before sending
+  a 200 OK for the Expect: 100-continue request header.
+
 - Issue #9360: Cleanup and improvements to the nntplib module.  The API
   now conforms to the philosophy of bytes and unicode separation in Python 3.
   A test suite has also been added.