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 Library
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+- Issue #7959: ctypes callback functions are now registered correctly
+  with the cylce garbage collector.
+
 - Issue #5801: removed spurious empty lines in wsgiref.
 
 - Issue #6666: fix bug in trace.py that applied the list of directories