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  r74087 | r.david.murray | 2009-07-18 22:22:05 -0400 (Sat, 18 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  News item for issue 6070 fix that was omitted from r74058 merge.
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 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #6070: On posix platforms import no longer copies the execute bit
+  from the .py file to the .pyc file if it is set.
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 - Issue #6428: Since Python 3.0, the __bool__ method must return a bool
   object, and not an int.  Fix the corresponding error message, and the
   documentation.