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 Library
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+- Issue #8438: Remove reference to the missing "surrogateescape" encoding
+  error handler from the new IO library.
+
 - Issue #3817: ftplib.FTP.abort() method now considers 225 a valid response
   code as stated in RFC-959 at chapter 5.4.