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  r78130 | michael.foord | 2010-02-10 14:25:12 +0000 (Wed, 10 Feb 2010) | 1 line

  Issue 7893 and Issue 7588
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   unpickled. This fixes crashes under Windows when trying to run
   test_multiprocessing in verbose mode.
 
+- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
+  argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
+  class to be used without having to subclass.
+  
+- Issue 7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
+  name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
+
 - Issue #3001: Add a C implementation of recursive locks which is used by
   default when instantiating a `threading.RLock` object. This makes 
   recursive locks as fast as regular non-recursive locks (previously,