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 Library
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+- Issue #3196: email header decoding is now forgiving if an RFC2047
+  encoded word encoded in base64 is lacking padding.
+
 - Issue #8447: Make distutils.sysconfig follow symlinks in the path to
   the interpreter executable.  This fixes a failure of test_httpservers
   on OS X.