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  r75141 | mark.dickinson | 2009-09-29 20:01:06 +0100 (Tue, 29 Sep 2009) | 3 lines

  Issue #7019:  Unmarshalling of bad long data could produce unnormalized
  PyLongs.  Raise ValueError instead.
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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #7019: Raise ValueError when unmarshalling bad long data, instead
+  of producing internally inconsistent Python longs.
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 - Issue #6990: Fix threading.local subclasses leaving old state around
   after a reference cycle GC which could be recycled by new locals.