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 Library
 -------
 
+- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
+  which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
+  pointer-like object.
+
 - Added the ast module.
 
 - Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into