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+- Issue #7318: multiprocessing now uses a timeout when it fails to establish
+  a connection with another process, rather than looping endlessly. The
+  default timeout is 20 seconds, which should be amply sufficient for
+  local connections.
+
 - Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
   than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
   `_thread.start_new_thread()`).