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+- Issue #12890: cgitb no longer prints spurious <p> tags in text
+  mode when the logdir option is specified.
+
 - Issue #16250: Fix URLError invocation with proper args.
 
 - Issue #16305: Fix a segmentation fault occurring when interrupting