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 - PEP 372:  Added collections.OrderedDict().
 
+- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
+
 - Issue #1733986: Fixed mmap crash in accessing elements of second map object
   with same tagname but larger size than first map. (Windows)