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 Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Defining a class with empty parentheses is now allowed
+  (e.g., ``class C(): pass`` is no longer a syntax error)
+
 - Patch #1115086: Support PY_LONGLONG in structmember.
 
 - Bug #1155938: new style classes did not check that __init__() was