Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1fa1522..31669cf 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@
Library
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+- Issue #808164: Fixed socket.close to avoid references to globals, to
+ avoid issues when socket.close is called from a __del__ method.
+
- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
falling into recursion.