* Move collections.deque() in from the sandbox
* Add unittests, newsitem, and whatsnew
* Apply to Queue.py mutex.py threading.py pydoc.py and shlex.py
* Docs are forthcoming
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index fa5ef20..71a549e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -121,6 +121,13 @@
Extension modules
-----------------
+- Added a collections module containing a new datatype, deque(),
+ offering high-performance, thread-safe, memory friendly appends
+ and pops on either side of the deque.
+
+- Several modules now take advantage of collections.deque() for
+ improved performance: Queue, mutex, shlex, threading, and pydoc.
+
- The operator module has two new functions, attrgetter() and
itemgetter() which are useful for creating fast data extractor
functions for map(), list.sort(), itertools.groupby(), and