Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main,
to avoid relying on atexit.
Will backport to 2.5.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4f310d8..972f1e0 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
Core and builtins
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+- Bug #1566280: Explicitly invoke threading._shutdown from Py_Main,
+ to avoid relying on atexit.
+
- Bug #1590891: random.randrange don't return correct value for big number
- Patch #1586791: Better exception messages for some operations on strings,