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 Library
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+- Issue #6856: Add a filter keyword argument to TarFile.add().
+
 - Issue #6163: Fixed HP-UX runtime library dir options in
   distutils.unixcompiler. Initial patch by Sridhar Ratnakumar and
   Michael Haubenwallner.