backport r67077 from the trunk: parser module now correctly validates relative imports
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index c3a0942..dddc40d 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
 Steven Bethard
 Stephen Bevan
 Ron Bickers
+David Binger
 Dominic Binks
 Philippe Biondi
 Stuart Bishop
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6e8a25a..c8651c1 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #4048: The parser module now correctly validates relative imports.
+
 - Issue #4176: Fixed a crash when pickling an object which ``__reduce__``
   method does not return iterators for the 4th and 5th items.