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  r87834 | antoine.pitrou | 2011-01-07 22:43:59 +0100 (ven., 07 janv. 2011) | 5 lines

  Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
  non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
  Patch by Matt Bandy.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #8020: Avoid a crash where the small objects allocator would read
+  non-Python managed memory while it is being modified by another thread.
+  Patch by Matt Bandy.
+
 - Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
   can now handle dates after 2038.
 
@@ -25,6 +29,13 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #10827: Changed the rules for 2-digit years.  The time.asctime
+  function will now format any year when ``time.accept2dyear`` is
+  false and will accept years >= 1000 otherwise.  The year range
+  accepted by ``time.mktime`` and ``time.strftime`` is still system
+  dependent, but ``time.mktime`` will now accept full range supported
+  by the OS.  Conversion of 2-digit years to 4-digit is deprecated.
+
 - Issue #7858: Raise an error properly when os.utime() fails under Windows
   on an existing file.