Issue #7316: the acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait
loop.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 35a405f..e17ceef 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -312,6 +312,11 @@
Library
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+- Issue #7316: the acquire() method of lock objects in the :mod:`threading`
+ module now takes an optional timeout argument in seconds. Timeout support
+ relies on the system threading library, so as to avoid a semi-busy wait
+ loop.
+
- Issue #8383: pickle and pickletools use surrogatepass error handler when
encoding unicode as utf8 to support lone surrogates and stay compatible with
Python 2.x and 3.0