- Thanks to Scott David Daniels, a subtle bug in how the zlib
extension implemented flush() was fixed. Scott also rewrite the
zlib test suite using the unittest module. (SF bug #640230 and
patch #678531.)
Backport candidate I think.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f1e0cd2..ece29b6 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@
Extension modules
-----------------
+- Thanks to Scott David Daniels, a subtle bug in how the zlib
+ extension implemented flush() was fixed. Scott also rewrite the
+ zlib test suite using the unittest module. (SF bug #640230 and
+ patch #678531.)
+
- Added an itertools module containing high speed, memory efficient
looping constructs inspired by tools from Haskell and SML.