Minor edits; add an item
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
index 2744103..16f9a9e 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
@@ -512,9 +512,9 @@
\exception{GeneratorExit} or \exception{StopIteration}; catching the
exception and doing anything else is illegal and will trigger
a \exception{RuntimeError}. \method{close()} will also be called by
- Python's garbage collection when the generator is garbage-collected.
+ Python's garbage collector when the generator is garbage-collected.
- If you need to run cleanup code in case of a \exception{GeneratorExit},
+ If you need to run cleanup code when a \exception{GeneratorExit} occurs,
I suggest using a \code{try: ... finally:} suite instead of
catching \exception{GeneratorExit}.
@@ -1143,6 +1143,13 @@
sprint. Character map decoding was improved by Walter D\"orwald.)
% Patch 1313939
+\item The \function{long(\var{str}, \var{base})} function is now
+faster on long digit strings because fewer intermediate results are
+calculated. The peak is for strings of around 800--1000 digits where
+the function is 6 times faster.
+(Contributed by Alan McIntyre and committed at the NeedForSpeed sprint.)
+% Patch 1442927
+
\item The \module{struct} module now compiles structure format
strings into an internal representation and caches this
representation, yielding a 20\% speedup. (Contributed by Bob Ippolito