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 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans,
+  negative zero) in ** operator.  The behaviour now conforms to that
+  described in C99 Annex F.
+
 - Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
   true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
   rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in