Issue #3476: make BufferedReader and BufferedWriter thread-safe
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5349c55..70a06ff 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@
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+- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
+  thread-safe.
+
 - Silence the DeprecationWarning of rfc822 when it is imported by mimetools
   since mimetools itself is deprecated. Because modules are cached, all
   subsequent imports of rfc822 will not raise a visible DeprecationWarning.