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  r80125 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-16 17:35:32 -0500 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 13 lines

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    r80123 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-16 17:24:16 -0500 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 1 line

    bytearray -> type2test
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    r80124 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-16 17:25:57 -0500 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 1 line

    fix typo
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  r80128 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-16 17:51:37 -0500 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 9 lines

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    r80126 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-16 17:35:38 -0500 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 1 line

    have a clear error when passing something > sys.maxsize to bytearray
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  r80130 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-16 18:00:53 -0500 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 9 lines

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    r80129 | benjamin.peterson | 2010-04-16 17:52:44 -0500 (Fri, 16 Apr 2010) | 1 line

    tiny simplification
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1ed921c..ab662cb 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
 - Issue #8014: Setting a T_UINT or T_PYSSIZET attribute of an object with
   PyMemberDefs could produce an internal error;  raise TypeError instead.
 
+- Issue #8417: Raise an OverflowError when an integer larger than sys.maxsize is
+  passed to bytes or bytearray.
+
 - Issue #8329: Don't return the same lists from select.select when no fds are
   changed.