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  r84489 | antoine.pitrou | 2010-09-04 19:21:57 +0200 (sam., 04 sept. 2010) | 4 lines

  Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
  in the posix module.  Patch by Marcin Bachry.
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 Extension Modules
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #7736: Release the GIL around calls to opendir() and closedir()
+  in the posix module.  Patch by Marcin Bachry.
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 - As a result of issue #2521, the _weakref module is now compiled into the
   interpreter by default.