Merge with 3.2: Issue #12841: Fix tarfile extraction of non-existent uids/gids.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b15876b..16e0e40 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -271,6 +271,11 @@
Library
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+- Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
+ and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id
+ of the current user (i.e. root) was used for the file and ownership
+ information was lost.
+
- Issue #12888: Fix a bug in HTMLParser.unescape that prevented it to escape
more than 128 entities. Patch by Peter Otten.