merge 3.1 (#12221)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3703ac5..baf235c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -52,6 +52,11 @@
 - Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
   when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
 
+Extension Modules
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+
+- Issue #12221: Replace pyexpat.__version__ with the Python version.
+
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