Issue #11489: JSON decoder now accepts lone surrogates.
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+- Issue #11489: JSON decoder now accepts lone surrogates.
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 - Fix test.test_support.bind_port() to not cause an error when Python was
   compiled on a system with SO_REUSEPORT defined in the headers but run on
   a system with an OS kernel that does not support that new socket option.