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 Extension Modules
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #13070: Fix a crash when a TextIOWrapper caught in a reference cycle
+  would be finalized after the reference to its underlying BufferedRWPair's
+  writer got cleared by the GC.
+
 - Issue #12881: ctypes: Fix segfault with large structure field names.
 
 - Issue #13058: ossaudiodev: fix a file descriptor leak on error. Patch by