#8964: fix platform._sys_version to handle IronPython 2.6+.
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+- Issue #8964: fix platform._sys_version to handle IronPython 2.6+.
+  Patch by Martin Matusiak.
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 - Issue #16038: CVE-2013-1752: ftplib: Limit amount of data read by
   limiting the call to readline().  Original patch by Michał
   Jastrzębski and Giampaolo Rodola.