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 - Issue #11109 -  New service_action method for BaseServer, used by
   ForkingMixin class for cleanup. Initial Patch by Justin Wark.
+  
+- Issue #12045: Avoid duplicate execution of command in ctypes.util._get_soname().
+  Patch by Sijin Joseph.
 
 - Issue #10818: Remove the Tk GUI and the serve() function of the pydoc module,
   pydoc -g has been deprecated in Python 3.2 and it has a new enhanced web