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@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #2782: The datetime module's strftime methods now accept
+  unicode format strings just as time.strftime always has.
+
 - The sgmllib and htmllib modules have been deprecated for removal
   in Python 3.0.