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 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #5553: The Py_LOCAL_INLINE macro now results in inlining on
+  most platforms.  Previously, it online inlined when using Microsoft
+  Visual C.
+
 - Issue #9712: Fix tokenize on identifiers that start with non-ascii names.
 
 - Issue #9688: __basicsize__ and __itemsize__ must be accessed as Py_ssize_t.